Let’s get started with some music, and get going with the links.
Some good news to start with. I have watched all of them except for the latest Venom and Kraven. They are terrible. Venom 2 was gayer than I Saw the TV Glow (while being much more entertaining).
In local news, the Ohio Supreme Court says to chew your damned food.
A sci-fi show that I’ve enjoyed so far managed to get a surprising fourth season. This did make me realize something though, while there are lots of good (and well regarded) sci-fi shows (Fringe, Babylon 5, Mr. Robot, etc.) I struggle to think of a solid high fantasy show. The closest I can come is either urban fantasy/horror (Buffy, Evil, the Magicians, etc.). But I can’t think of a single big high fantasy show that’s considered good (closest is Game of Thrones, but those last several seasons…) Really, this is all because I’m watching Dune: Prophecy and struggling to figure out who the hell the show is for.
An argument that the Democrats didn’t leave behind the center-left groups, but instead purged it of their anti-authoritarian wing.
JFC, no. You did not “recover the rules”, you made up rules using pieces. There’s dozens of games that can be played with a chess board and checkers. Hell, you don’t even know if you’ve got a full set of pieces.
Why do people distrust the legacy media? When you can get dunked on by Polygon, that may be a reason.
For those who watched the Pac-Man Secret Level episode. Eat or be eaten.
Do NOT order the chicken fingers.
Yes, I’ve shared this recipe back when I had the cocktail series, but it doesn’t mean you lot remember it, read it, or ever made it. So you get it again, albeit with a more complicated batter recipe.
Hot Buttered Rum
- 2 ounces rum
- 1 tablespoon hot buttered rum batter
- boiling water
Look, this is pretty simple. The hard part is making the batter yourself (although this one is much easier than Tom and Jerry batter).
Hot Buttered Rum Batter
- 1 pound softened butter
- 1 pound brown sugar
- 1 pound white sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground clove
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 quart of vanilla ice cream, softened slightly
Here’s a rich and full recipe for the batter you can use. Add everything but the ice cream to a bowl, and stir to combine. Add the ice cream, and stir again. Put it back in the freezer and you’re done. The batter I use is much simpler, and is just a compound butter with much less sugar (equal parts brown sugar and butter, with some spices mixed in). Adjust these recipes as much as you want. Make the drinks you want to drink in the world.
Let’s hope no one here has to suffer from a lonely Christmas this year.
“But I can’t think of a single big high fantasy show that’s considered good (closest is Game of Thrones, but those last several seasons…)”
I’m not clear on why lasting several seasons disqualifies GoT.
No… the last several seasons of GoT were gods awful.
Ah. Got it.
Carry on.
House of Dragons has been pretty good so far.
Same.
Noting that the last several seasons sucked. Not that the show lasted several seasons.
I wonder if it’s due to the physicality required? There were plenty of good historical dramas. Phaser battlers are easier than fight choreography and require a lot less from the actors.
But you’d have the same type of issues with historical dramas, wouldn’t you? Or go the animation route, I mean Rick and Morty and Venture Bros. would both qualify as a long running sci-fi animation show that’s well regarded, as would (nearly) the entire DCAU (DC Animated Universe; Batman through Justice League Unlimited).
Most historical dramas that I’m remembering don’t have all that much action in them.
Movies, sure. But miniseries, not really.
This is a short, sincere reminder to reporters unfamiliar with gaming to learn about the medium before they report on it — the same way they would attempt to research the particulars of their subject before publishing a story, whether that’s a foreign war, a scientific breakthrough, or the behind-the-scenes drama of city hall.
Your average reporter knows fuck-all about anything other than how to write a snappy lede.
That whole article was so badly written I just couldn’t even by about halfway through.
is there a German word for the condition of being outraged by journalistic misrepresentations of a topic with which one is familiar…..and then realizing that every expert you know has had the same experience regarding reporting on their topic?
Gellherramnesiaeffeckt.
Gellmannerkentnisseffekt?
Exactly. The way they pretend to get around is select an expert who agrees with whatever view the author wants to push.
To pretend to add “balance” find the craziest or most bigoted alternative expert on an opposing view.
“This is guy is obviously intelligent and well-informed. He agrees with me, after all.”
They’re also adept at taking care of their knees from all the kneeling they do.
brain rot
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/12/13/we-know-how-nancy-pelosi-landed-in-the-hospital-in-luxembourg-n2649002
That’s a shame.
Fractured hips kill old people.
It’s not the hip it’s the pneumonia or something else in recovery and rehab.
Perhaps we can get AOC to say something sympathetic.
FirstWife told me half of all victims are dead within a year:
my guess was that it’s the covariances that are lethal
From my recollection . . . .
Fractured hips take 6 months or so to recover. Active old people turn into bed-ridden old people, and they suffer great loss of strength and stamina. It is not uncommon for them to die within the next year.
So, indirectly, fractured hips kill old people.
oops, it was one in three, but things are getting better
https://archive.is/BkVZ3/e5c2f14ec763fa035b9afc61fd8a3642e4796ea0.jpg
Three years ago I suffered a broken pelvis, roughly the same as Mrs Pelosi. 16 days in the hospital, no surgery. 5 months of no weight bearing on my right leg, total wheel chair time. Doc said ’cause my bones were such that they were reluctant to open me up and take a chance on infection.
Long story short, I wear a lift in my right shoe, limp badly, get tired easily but… I climbed the ladder into my deer stand last month, drag in a wheelbarrow of wood every day, do the outside chores as required. Still, it’s not a lot of fun.
I gave up the oxycontin after about 7-8 days, went on Tylenol. I couldn’t get oxy on demand after the first day, only every 12 hours. I decided that if I had to wait 12 hours I might as well skip it. I broke the Tylenol habit about a week after I got home. It didn’t seem to do much good.
Damn dood, you’re hardcore.
Speaker emerita? When did that become a title? Anyway, she should probably retire. Broken hips in someone her age are no joke.
Like all of the others she will cling to power until her last breath.
I wonder….Harry Reid retired, why? Someone had something on him.
Her career isn’t over. Feinstein couldn’t even talk and they got her to votes in a wheelchair.
That became a title when Nancy lost the majority and thus the position of Speaker, as I recall.
A broken femur is a boss of the Pain Game you do NOT want to face. I’m pretty proud to say I don’t take happiness in Pelosi’s pain, but then again, there’s no way in hell she is actually *in* any. She’s got the best morphine substitutes flowing through her whenever she wants ’em. Some of us were wheeled out in public with dislocated, sawn off femurs and weren’t given ‘compassionate’ relief for another 15-30 minutes. Fucking Korean hospital.
To everyone, in old age or not: Avoid breaking your legs! I’m quietly confident I can no longer break a hip. *brushes off shoulder*
The type that historically cared about the little guy; believed in social safety nets, equality and Progress (with a capital P); but has become disillusioned with the extremities of the radicals that have taken over their tribe.
If you think that milquetoast lefties are feeling cast aside by the projection-driven drama donkeys and shrill cat ladies of the faculty lounge, you should see how those of us who prefer individual liberty feel these last few decades.
“Question authority”? That’s just stupid.
I thought it was a pretty good JLU episode, actually.
The plastic tips at the ends of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister!
Best line of the series.
I prefer:
Green Lantern: “Hold on, this could just mean she eats too many nachos at night.”
Question: “Peanut butter sandwiches.”
Supergirl: “What? Do you go through my trash?!”
Question: “Please! I go through everyone’s trash.”
Or maybe “Aha! As I suspected. Thirty-two flavors!”
See it’s so unmemorable you forgot it was Green Arrow in that scene.
Is Question a Rorschach homage or does he pre-date Watchmen?
slumbrew:
Excellent question with an interesting (to me) answer. Watchmen was originally going to be a way to introduce the Charlton Comics characters to the DC universe (as DC had just acquired Charlton). Alan Moore’s idea would have been a bit too extreme (and kill the characters they just acquired), so the characters in the Watchmen comics were changed. The Question himself was based on yet another character, Mr. A, an objectivist super-hero.
Thanks, Neph – that is indeed interesting
That recipe makes six pounds of batter so that you can use 1/2oz per cup? 192 servings?
There’s a reason I linked to my old post. But it’s the holidays, and that looked much more decadent.
I was thinking “holiday goals.”
That Alton Brown eggnog recipe makes an impressive amount. Next year I may make a half recipe. I just barely found a bowl big enough to try to mix it all in.
I had to use two bowls. It was very comical trying to mix and get it into the containers.
If you’ve made it before, should you stir it once its open? I want to decant into smaller bottles but i worry it’s settled.
In my disgusting experience, “boneless wings” are just nuggets in wing sauce.
I felt like suing after eating that atrocity one time.
Here instead of being extruded chicken paste, they’re usually at least chopped up chicken breast.
Turns out Buffalo Wings don’t contain any buffalo. It’s chicken and hot sauce!
Dammit, car’s not going to be ready today. And that means I won’t be able to take Lily to the park in the morning.
*sad dog face*
Better to have a calm tech finish the job and button everything up rather than rush to finish.
But it always sucks.
No loaner? Or is she not “allowed” in a loaner?
The latter.
And since we had a snow melt, it would not be easy to remove traces of her presence.
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Fuck me sideways, did ChatGPT just demonstrate a sense of humor?
Well, that’s it. Farewell fellow meat-bags, it’s just a matter of time now until we’re obsoleted…
I wonder what the average cost of each commutation was. One cocaine dusted and jizz-splattered Hunter painting?
I think the going rate is: letting hunter fuck their daughters in the ass after numbing the anus with cocaine.
Then painting a picture of it.
Never saw The Orville. What’s his name is huge turn-off – I could only expect Democrat Talking Points In Space!!
MacFarlane? Yeah, I can see the fear of that. In my opinion, it’s about at the same level as ST:TNG (post-scarcity, no money, peaceful exploration) for that level of stuff. Values dissonance between different cultures is a plot point through several episodes. If you like ST:TNG, give it an episode or two, don’t like them? Tap out, and feel no shame.
It sounds like Disney has its mitts on the property so there is no likelihood of that ever happening.
The first 2 seasons were good — and MacFarlane didn’t get preachy that I could tell. Season 3 just didn’t click for me (I started it… stopped for some reason and just haven’t come back to it — so that’s a sign to me that it isn’t calling to me).
Same here. First two seasons were great. Then he started getting preachy.
Yeah, pretty much anything he is involved with is a HARD NO.
Ugly Christmas sweater Part Uno
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Oh come on. That whopper is unleashed in the first fucking paragraph? GTFO.
A little something for everyone in today’s Friday Funbags.
https://archive.is/QF756
OFFS!! That’s like asking me how insurance culture influences my political beliefs because I code for an insurance company.
The closest I can come is either urban fantasy/horror (Buffy, Evil, the Magicians, etc.).
I’m not sure if it even qualifies, but I thought GvsE (Good vs Evil) was pretty good.
IIRC, Legend of the Seeker wasn’t bad for the first season — but I think it got crappy in Season 2.
If you like Disney tie in “Kill it with Fire it has gone on too long” there would be Once. It didn’t suck initially… (but boy did it after a while, at least in my opinion).
Shut your dirty whore mouth.
At least it’s not roguelike. Or worse, multiplayer.
*googles metroidvania*
Huh.
It’s a style of game design going back to the NES days. I’m surprised you haven’t heard it before.
Ya considering that is the style my boys and me are attempting
?
Anyway they are my jam.
Attention NJ residents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t Approach Downed Drones, Call Bomb Squad, NJ Says
Stay away so the Feds can drive up in vans, jump out dressed in hazmat suits, and cart away the wreckage so Top. Men. can study it.
If I was there, I would already have a net cannon ready to go. Fuckers are going down of they fly over my property.
Didn’t War of the Worlds take place in New Jersey?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grovers_Mill,_New_Jersey
Federal law prohibits shooting them down.
Whatever….I am not going to fly a helicopter at night.
*CD Projekt Red Annoucned Witcher 4*
*ears perk up*
*it’s Ciri Centric*
*Depression sets in*
Why focus on the worst part of Witcher 3?
I’m never making back my investment in that company.
I can deal with Ciri. Just cutting and pasting Gods for Men in the basic theme is lazy.
I really didn’t like Ciri. The game was best when I forgot about the main plot. Or after visiting France.
It just happened- nobody knows how or why
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty on Friday mourned the death of Brian Thompson, who led the company’s insurance arm, and acknowledged that the U.S. health-care system is “flawed” and in need of reform.
“We know the health system does not work as well as it should, and we understand people’s frustrations with it,” Witty wrote in a New York Times opinion piece. “No one would design a system like the one we have. And no one did. It’s a patchwork built over decades.”
Health care should be free and unlimited.
Just have the government do it! That always fixes things!
Where is my Obamacare repeal? Worthless fucking republicans. I want my goddamned Obamacare repeal. I am never going to shut up about it.
I’m pretty sure you can find a guy who’s into this.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/32236295/bladder-troubles-stop-me-from-dating/
Meine leibe!
Just learn to speak German honey.
You have more than one body?
German has to be language of choice for pendants.
Pedants, dammit.
The Among Us game scare was the most retarded thing the media has done in a while, and the media is ultra-mega retarded.
It’s like none of the journalists even bothered to look at the game’s graphics. I’d never heard of it, looked it up, and started laughing at the idea that it’s some kind of assassination training sim.
My daughter used to play it
And your daughter is an assassin now, isn’t she?
I got me a gigantic 84″ projection screen (since my 26″ TV broke). Projector, stand, and speaker to come on Monday. Now I can finally watch hoofball and Bob Ross marathons again!
I worry at that size, it’s got pixels the size of dinner plates.
Bob Ross’ brush strokes are a foot across!
The happy trees are not so little anymore.
On the plus side, everything looks like Lego!
The projector says it will look good on a 100″ screen, and it got good reviews, so we shall see.
The kiddin is just fer fun.
There are awesome inflato-screens for those if it turns out well.
I got me a gigantic 84″ projection screen (since my 26″ TV broke).
Why not just get a vr headset and really be in the middle of the action.
THat’s a thought, but I like to do chores and play on the computer when I’m watching the boob toob.
Stay away so the Feds can drive up in vans, jump out dressed in hazmat suits, and cart away the wreckage
“It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes.”
Wasn’t that a Night Stalker episode?
Repo man.
+5 Spinal Tap drummers
Alphabet-owned YouTube is hiking the price of its popular TV streaming service, which has more than 8 million subscribers. Beginning in January, the cost of the platform will jump to $82.99 per month, up from $72.99.
Per month? WTF, over.
Woah! Pluto, take me away!
I know very little about streaming, but YouTube ranked second in the listing I saw. I think a comparable cable service could be twice as much; I don’t even want to think about what we pay for entertainment/data.
It’s easy to pull the plug in DFW. There are at least 30 over the air channels. Combine that with roku/pluto/tubi streaming, and I have no need for any additional subscriptions.
I’m surprised it’s only 8MM subscribers. That’s not really all that many.
There aren’t too many suckers willing to pay that…
Yeah, WTF?
That’s more than I pay for internet & cable together.
Really? Damn.
Building deal.
Repo Man
When you’ve lost both CNN and Gov Shapiro.
Of course Joe just signs what they put in front of him.
Just wait. It will get worse.
But Trump’s pardons will be the downfall of the republic!
Yeah yeah. Everything they accuse Trump of, they do. It’s like an abusive spouse that projects.
Also, Autopian did a write up of the new Chargers today. (Unrelated but to your interest)
The new guy is gonna quietly kill that retarded thing.
Who is “they?” Why doesn’t a “journalist” ask Karine “who put this name on the pardon list and why did they think it was warranted?”
[Not that I would expect her to answer.] Who are the people pulling Joe’s strings? Inquiring reporters want to know.
“Inquiring reporters want to know.”
There is no evidence of that.
A Whitehouse prankster working in a postmortem pardon for Charles Manson would be pretty sweet.
multiplayer gaming’s notoriously unmonitored communication tools
Because everything said between two people has to be recorded and analyzed?
The sooner people realize we are not becoming but are a security police state…the better
I’m sure the drink is amazing, but Sweet Baby Jesus is that a lot of sugar!
Sloppy Seconds is an inspired choice. I cannot believe how many years ago that was!
As I said, adjust any and all cocktail recipes to taste.
I figure I’ve got one more week to find some more obscure Christmas covers.
I’m just gonna have the rum. I’m too fat as it is!
There’s a surprising number of punk Christmas songs. I’ll look forward to what you discover!
MASTA
If the Trump admin pull this off that alone will make him Rushmore worthy.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/13/us-news/trump-pledges-gop-effort-to-eliminate-daylight-saving-time-very-costly-to-our-nation/
Shouldn’t we just adjust the time zones to maximize daylight? It’s 2024, ffs!
I’m good however it is done, as long as there is no more back and forth with the clock bullshit. I really hate it. DST or Standard year round. And yes, adjusting the time zones would be a cherry on top, but living on the edge of the Pacific that won’t affect me much while at home.
I hate it too. May it die in 2024, at last!
DST year round. More people can use the daylight after dinner than way early in the morning.
And I say this as someone who works 6-2:30.
Christ, just pick one!
I just came a little in my pants.
KEXP (highly recommended radio station that you can stream online too) had a bunch of these on this morning. Unlike Kurt Cobain, I am easily amused so I love them. Too many great ones to pick, but this one funks up the hair metal.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OewLpY6gVd4
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once pursued a career in video game development. This raises many genuine questions, like what Discord communities he frequented, how gaming culture may have influenced his political beliefs, and whether or not he used multiplayer gaming’s notoriously unmonitored communication tools to share his plans with others.
Everything old is new again.
I tapped out here.
Nah, it was Ozzy Osbourne.
Has Tipper commented?
Judas Priest, he was playing the records backwards obviously.
I remember having my character eat critters in Rogue-like games.
Pac-Man came to The Game Awards tonight, but it’s not quite the cheery little yellow fellow I recall from my youth. Shadow Labyrinth is a grim metroidvania that sees the world’s most famous globular ghost-gobbler “consume darkness” as he and his wielder struggle to survive and escape a grim labyrinth of evil.
I watched the trailer. Another “everything old is new again” bit. Some of the scenes reminded me of Pitfall.
I wish I could get back all the young person hours I pissed away playing Pitfall. At the time it was an awesome game though.
I enjoyed the show, and look forward to the next season.
One of my proud moments was beating Pitfall once on the Atari 2600. You beat it by wrapping the world around (going either left or right). After beating it, you got to see the character jump up and down three times.
Back in the (937) to sup on Diet Beast and wings from Rooster’s!
Can a sitting president un-pardon what their predecessor did? Just wondering….
Pull my finger. I’ll show you a pardon.
Anyway, nice to see you! I feel like you have been scarce.
Because everything said between two people has to be recorded and analyzed?
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
I don’t want to fight tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIhIBFPtnoc
Hey, where’s Mojo?
I forgot. I am in a different time zone! Idiot!
she was on X all day
Am here. I love X.
I do as well
we all get the X and FB we deserve
I’ve pretty much ditched FB. I like being able to say what I think without getting put in FB Jail (or the Twitter gulag).
Oh, did you mean Friday night post? Another 1/2 hour.
Key for suzuki won’t turn. I know how to take the cylinder apart and just get rid of the guts so can turn with any key, but can’t remove cylinder without turning key to acc. Tempted to just break it, but worried about repercussions. Sigh. Guess I’m tearing apart the dashboard tomorrow, probably try to cut out the part hiding the release button that would be revealed by turning lock to acc. Anybody have any thoughts about using a screwdriver and vice grips to just force it?
Before doing that spray the shit out of the cylinder (while holding open dust cover) with some Tri Flow or silicone spray. Could just be a jammed wafer in there. Then put key in and out a few times and then try turning it.
Oh yeah I’ve done all that. Happened last year and I tapped the key with a hammer and it broke free. I should’ve disabled it then, but I poofed the graphite in and it worked perfectly so I just forgot about it. Well, I fix things, it’s what I do. I’ll figure it out like I always do. Sigh.
Don’t ever use graphite on locks, it will capture moisture and gum up the works.