ericbomb 3h ago • 100%
Sadly, plenty do now days.
We need more riots.
ericbomb 3h ago • 100%
I adore deck games, so will have to look at ascension!
ericbomb 1d ago • 100%
I am ready to dedicate my life to adding reviews to that site and getting more people to contribute. I want an app store that automatically filters out things below like a 2.
I am in love.
ericbomb 1d ago • 100%
That site is sick! TYVM!
ericbomb 1d ago • 100%
Ooh my favorite genre of games! Very cool, ty!
ericbomb 1d ago • 100%
Oh Android, but those are all great suggestions and appear to be on android as well! I haven't played all of those, but I've heard wonderful things about all of those on PC. Didn't realize all of those have pc.
ericbomb 1d ago • 100%
... What is mc pocket edition even trying to sell?
ericbomb 1d ago • 100%
Ooh yeah pc games that have good mobile ports are a good shout!
I do like having games on my phone, but it's always a struggle looking for games with 0 microtransactions. So would like a game I can out right pay for, or one with ads. The ability to disable ads for $5 is chill though. I've played a lot of games that you can "have fun being f2p" but some days I just get really sick and tired of games I play trying to sell me things every 30 seconds. So do you guys have any? If not I may go back to playing GBA games on my phone XD EDIT: Oh selling like expansions is probably fine if it's legit like a full other game. I'm on android
ericbomb 2d ago • 100%
Yeah over simplifying it a bit, and that's funny that the stupid thing I found wasn't even stupid enough.
But was mostly trying to impart that we should be happy for modern languages, because for every line you write in a modern language, it'll do a dozen things on the back end for you that in assembly you'd need to do by hand.
ericbomb 3d ago • 90%
To send the point home even more, this is how in python you make a line of text display:
print("Hello World")
This is the same thing, in assembly (According to a blog I found. I can't read this. I am not build better.)
org 0x100 ; .com files always start 256 bytes into the segment
; int 21h is going to want...
mov dx, msg ; the address of or message in dx
mov ah, 9 ; ah=9 - "print string" sub-function
int 0x21 ; call dos services
mov ah, 0x4c ; "terminate program" sub-function
int 0x21 ; call dos services
msg db 'Hello, World!', 0x0d, 0x0a, '$' ; $-terminated message
But python turns that cute little line up top, into that mess at the bottom.
I like python. Python is cute. Anyone can read python.
ericbomb 4d ago • 100%
What I am learning is that I am not in the correct tax bracket to pay for contractors unless messing up means the house burning down. So probably gonna be DIY this one.
ericbomb 4d ago • 100%
Oof yeah if it is coming out to 4k+ then I probably am gonna be a DIYer.
New home owner who has never had to hire a contractor before. Want to have chain link fence replaced and want to have put in white vinyl fence to match connected town home. It is just a 40 foot length I need replaced and will need to have one gate. As I get quotes, what kind of price should I expect to pay? What's considered fair and what's considered a rip off? EDIT: Thanks for all the feedback! I think I'm not in the right tax bracket to hire people to do this, so probably going to try to do it myself.
ericbomb 6d ago • 100%
How dare you post it exactly when I know I should go to sleep but don't wanna.
Work is after sleep. If I delay sleep, I delay work!
ericbomb 6d ago • 100%
Hahaha yeah it felt a bit on the nose.
I'll let you guess how often I completely forget to do an important task.
ericbomb 6d ago • 100%
Probably depends on state or whatever what requirements are.
They had me do a test using a VR headset, and I was like "Oh this will be fun!"
No, it wasn't. I had to stare at a VR aquarium and press a button based on instructions for 20 minutes like
"If you see a clown fish, then a blue fish, press the button" or
"If you hear me say Sturgeon, or you see a clown fish, press the button"
"Press the button if you hear the name of any fish that isn't a clown fish, or see any fish that isn't a sturgeon"
Apparently I did VERY poorly on instruction switching, with it taking several minutes between tasks for me to get the instructions down where they like bleed together. Also like little kids would walk in front of me, or a phone would ring, or TVS would flash.
So I went to my doctor and was like "yeah my counselor said I should ask about the process to get tested for ADHD because of XYZ"... He then had to gently explain that a year ago he had referred me to a local pysch for testing because I already took the ADHD assessment. Anyway, long story short, after doing testing (which I showed up for on the wrong day the first time) I got an official ADHD diagnosis.
ericbomb 1w ago • 100%
I actually went to a science/nature camp as a kid where a pig part was we would catch pot guts (ground squirrels)!
Almost every animal there had been caught dozens of times. Because they would go in, get peanut butter, be shown to a counselor that would mark that they were caught, then let go. So pretty sure all of them were trap happy since a 100 traps were out in a field 4 months out of the year, every single year.
ericbomb 1w ago • 100%
Wild. With how gnarly residency is you'd THINK most of them would be ground out, but guess some folks just see those dollar bills working as a corporate doctor.
ericbomb 1w ago • 100%
So like did he complete his residency then head straight for insurance field?
ericbomb 2w ago • 100%
The happiest birthday makes me upset.
Because his point is so stupid, but I can't argue at all.
His choice would be a legendary birthday. Your friends would know your birthday before they knew their parents' birthdates.
ericbomb 2w ago • 100%
Yeah usually they'd cut kids off from lunch after like 10ish dollars of lunch debt for my school, like 5 meals behind max.
So a class worth of school lunch debt legit might be like 100$, and prevent a handful from being allowed lunch anymore. The level of petty is absurd.
Stolen from Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1ftmkwt/oc_foods_cost_vs_caloric_density/ But I loved it. Also this has Shrimp removed, because it was on the OG chart due to an error and this is an updated version. EDIT: Here is one for protein! https://www.reddit.com/r/budgetfood/comments/1fp2ytb/foods_cost_per_gram_of_protein_vs_protein_density/#lightbox
After months of reminders in team meetings on how to do this properly, supervisors have sicced me on the department. I have been informed that if the issues continue, supervisors will start pulling people in for chats on why they can't follow directions that were laid out. Pray I am the only monster you meet, for I am the kindest.
Ordered some off amazon and wanted to share cause I was impressed https://www.amazon.com/Tasty-Bite-Indian-Lentils-Microwaveable/dp/B0007R9L4M?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1&psc=1 I do one cup of dried rice worth of rice mixed in with one package, which is either two meals or dinner for two. Wanted to share cause I was impressed for the quality/price. They have a bunch of other flavors slightly more expensive as well.
traumbooks.itch.io
Eating the proper amount is hard. Eating when you have low time, money, mental energy, or education on cooking is even harder. This book assumes nothing. Do you know how to turn on your stove? You are properly prepared to use this cookbook. Just want to share it with more folks!
aombuildorders.com
Game goes into full release in less then a day, so why not learn build orders to be the ultimate try hard??
My two are: Making sourdough. I personally always heard like this weird almost mysticism around making it. But I bought a $7 starter from a bakery store, and using just stuff in my kitchen and cheap bread flour I've been eating fresh sourdough every day and been super happy with it. Some loafs aren't super consistent because I don't have like temperature controlled box or anything. But they've all been tasty. Drawing. I'm by no means an artist, but I always felt like people who were good at drawing were like on a different level. But I buckled down and every day for a month I tried drawing my favorite anime character following an online guide. So just 30 minutes every day. The first one was so bad I almost gave up, but I was in love with the last one and made me realize that like... yeah it really is just practice. Years and years of it to be good at drawing things consistently, quickly, and a variety of things. But I had fun and got something I enjoyed much faster than I expected. So if you want to learn to draw, I would recommend just trying to draw something you really like following a guide and just try it once a day until you are happy with the result.
I just think this little youtuber is cool, his best videos are reviewing free steam games.
I bought a sour dough starter from a special store, and have been on a bread making kick making a loaf every day for the last week. I've mostly been eating it with margarine or dipping in tomato sauce after toasting.... or just tearing off a piece and eating it like a starving peasant child. Any other suggestions for ways to eat my sour dough? (Oh and I am allergic to Soy and corn. Yeah I'm not welcome in most vegan restaurants cause of the soy thing.)
Since gasoline because unusable after awhile, most cars will become obstacles and block up roads. So we of course want something that can zip around the roads! The main advantages I see are: 1. Peddle when out of juice 2. Peddling charges the batteries, so in an emergency you can turn on the battery 3. The batteries can reasonably be charged by solar panels that a lot of houses have. 4. Gets around all the blocked roads. 5. Generally easier to repair. 6. The distance travelled on a full battery is absurd I don't expect any movies to put their heroes on an eBike, but they should! IDK just thought you'd appreciate my dumb thought XD Any other reasons why during an apocalypse you should find an ebike?
We talk a lot about enshittification of technology, so tell me about technology that is getting better! I personally love the progress of electric scooters. I've been zooming around on a 400$ escooter for a year and it works so well. It has a range of around 20 miles and top speed of 15 mph, so it works just super well for my uses, and 10 years ago scooters with that range/speed/price were no where near a thing.
Would love to see what niche/under appreciated creators are out there! Also what your favorite videos are of theirs! Mine is this guy who creates songs based on Age of Empires 2 SFX and content creators/pros. So he's SUPER niche and will probably never become big, but I still adore him. Catchy song made with AOE2 sfx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywT_qsTPfwM A totally legit love song about how much a pro named MBL loves another player called Hoang. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPWPTnnIZ2U A content creator named T90 told a story about how he got absolutely rinsed in a game, and it was memorialized as a banger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suXZqC3VrUw So yeah! Show me your tiny content creators that you adore!
I just think it's so cool that anyone can just make custom toys now and sell them. Yes a lot of stalls just sell the same thing, but yesterday I went to a fair and the 3 big stalls were so unique. 1st stall was all about high precision toys. Like I can't explain how smooth the toys were. Talking to him he was all about making them as dialed in as possible with these tiny super delicate gears and moving wings on toys, or puzzles that glide like they are oiled off each other. I'm too lazy to go find the thing I bought as I was walking around the house playing with it. 2nd stall was all about large cartoony ones using a printer that can do up to 5 colors! I ended up getting a little dino!  Then the last one was a guy who only printed things he personally designed! With all his pieces being toys that are giant version of lego things like his giant lego light sabers that are straight out of lego star wars  (off his website as I didn't buy anything from him) It's just so cool that these people can build their own little toy factories and make a variety of toys either in special ways, or make their own unique toys. I know it's not star treck replicators, but it's still just exciting to me. I actually owned 3d printers in the past, but the effort to dial them in just wasn't super worth it to me, since it felt like an all day activity to get my cheap printer to print my little $2 toy. Would much rather spend $5 to get a much better version off of someone else who spends all day working to make the print quality ace and put their own spin on the toys.
Is the idea of having people compete for life changing/saving amounts of money, then have it crash down on their head for our amusement, something that should end for you? Mr. Beast of course does things like "Stay in this room for 100 days to win a million dollars" but he is mostly just turning an old format into internet. Biggest Loser of course made dozens of people drastically change their bodies in irreversible ways, just to give one of them money. Survivor once again has people compete for months in brutal fashion with only one walking away with a prize. Mr. Beast is more or less just stealing Big Brother whole sale for most of his contest videos, but making them click bait. Then of course we have things like Deal or No deal, which is mostly just offering people a hope of a life changing amount of money, then the chance for a better life vanish before them case by case. It still seems a lot less brutal than the other three, but still rather dark when you realize we are watching someone be given the hope to get out of debt and buy a house have it taken from them case by case. Try not to focus on Mr. Beast too much since everyone is talking about him, he's just the latest example of giant game show so felt like I need to mention him. I'm mostly curious how you all feel about large cash prize game shows in general! (I do love game shows with bs prizes. Bring on Task Master! Win that golden head so you can put it in your garage to be stolen by another contestant! Also Game Changer, go watch game changer. They all get paid regardless of if they win or not and every episode is super creative.)
One side of my back yard is 6 foot vinyl fence post, then the other side and back are chest high chain link fence that are older than me and have concrete blocks under the ground, so would be a giant pain to remove. Also I looked up and wires were laid right next to the concrete bases. So I "really" do not want to have to remove them. The fence was installed before I was born, and the wires laid when I was in elementary school. So don't blame me for the silliness of it please. Would it work if I just removed the panels from between the chain link posts, then slipped the hollow vinyl posts over them, and connected them with the vinyl panels? I would have to buy different distance panels to make it work, but that seems easier than tearing them out, then digging new holes for the new posts. Or any other suggestions to make it look nice and not have to try and dig large concrete bases that are next to wires out of the ground?