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Guys who are here hate this one trick!

Personal trainer and stylist would make most of us unrecognizable.

Just like my weekly jogs are approaching the speed of light.

12-25 seconds is what it takes to reach terminal velocity. 1500 feet/450 meters is a conservative data point.

80-ish feet from this isn't approaching terminal velocity.

Their rates are growing though, so there is that.

In Portland, Portland General Electric has raised rates 22, 14, 12% in the last 3 years. They have proposed a 10(up from initial 7%) increase for Jan 2025. If 2022 was a baseline(which it realistically isn't for ratepayers), even then it would represent a 71% increase in 4 years.

Having a place for things. Never having to look for "x". Keys, wallet, which type of utensil goes in which slot in the silverware holder. I have saved so much time, avoided problems and given myself mental breaks by simply putting things where they're needed and being consistent.

Fucking pagers were going to end teen life, shortly after Beavis and Butthead were going to ruin America's youth. Then actual horrific data from teen phone use shows up and nothing happens because the Christian right is too busy focusing on people's junk and banning books to raise hell about phones

Yep been seeing more of that. Will just refuse to use it on my phone.

It's been clear for at least 10 years that apps are about data harvesting not making something more useful or easier to use or more universal than a mobile website.

DOS

• Commander Keen - Goodbye galaxy. Completely different but it's right up there with Zelda for SNES.
• Museum Madness - insanely creative and supremely educational game with an abssssurd amount of content for the time that must have taken ages to build. It's the basics of major educational subjects so most would (hopefully) be review but it's well done and the path to learn each piece and sub-ppieces requires constantly rejiggering your mind. Also a great way to teach modern kids how damn persistent you had to be to figure something out.
• Oregon Trail
• Where in the ______ is Carmen San Diego
• Scorched Earth

SNES- super Street fighter 2 turbo, NBA jam TE, Ken Gruffy baseball, Zelda link to the past, supermarioworld, Earthworm Jim

N64- Mario kart 64, Mario golf, Goldeneye, 1080 snowboarding, blitz NFL, Gretsky 3d hockey, DK Country GTA2 - top down view and sound effects were fantastic.

Worms Armageddon. Like comparing Doom to Pong, this for me was the ultimate level of what started with Pong/cannon fodder/scorched earth. It took all that and made it hilarious and graphic and incredibly memorable. Easy to learn, difficult to master, top 5 party game ever.

Warcraft 2 is hard to go back to because of some of the QOL improvements war3 introduced but the sound board from war 2 may never be outdone.

Tribes online was one of the first mostly open world team based team fps I played. Some of the vehicle mechanics were clunky but many games never even bothered to try to implement such features before or since.

Diablo II - years of my life. Obligatory fuck Duriel

Unreal Tournament 2004 - weapon selection, play style and map variety options with bots that weren't great but much better than what had preceded them. Graphics were incredible at the time and for me still look good on some levels.

Max Payne - the time slowing feature, consistent and well done noir theme and feel and an enjoyable narrative make it one that even though I only played through twice I remember 20 years later.

That's a snowball.

Burial is the single family detached house of death. Needs to go the way of adding freeway lanes.

“Anybody that can cheat on elections like they cheat on elections, these are not stupid people,” Mr. Trump said of Democrats, even though there is no evidence to support his claims."

As a progressive incredibly frustrated with Dems since Obama's misplaced moderation against extremists, I think that was inadvertently funny from NYT.