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Side effect of some uninstalls I have done last week because of the new computer and in the aftermath of its fiasco, is that I maneged to fit it on the disc with only a few more games being uninstalled while still retaining a lot of disc space for any operations.
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The disc space allocation alone is taking forever, though.
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6%
I wonder how fast it would go on the computer that didn't last :(
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Normally, I don't bother with those "play for free until the next xxx" steam options, but between the irrational price of Borderlands 3, my laptops likely inability to run it in adequate manner, and the bad opinions of his and his family relayed by NobodysHome, and the fact that usually they offer a free weekend, and this time they offer six days, I am giving it a try.
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There is a different company doing a landscaping project that is not as exciting as ours down the street.
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The disc space allocation alone is taking forever, though.
that's one large disk.
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A PATTY MELT? I LOVE PATTY MELTS!
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What the heck is patty melt?
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What the heck is patty melt?
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The only game I play anymore is Minecraft. I am a dull, simple man. Still it's half game, half meditation. Also it's on console and I can't seem to network with my buddies over PSN so its, I guess, another form of isolation.
Last night I got out for socially distanced beers with a friend. Realized it had been 2 weeks since I'd been face-to-face with other humans who 1. don't live in my house and 2. weren't behind masks at a store I had to run errands at.
2 beers, a patty melt, pleasant conversation and 68 F with a breeze never felt so good.
I can play Minecraft for about twenty minutes before I have to go outside and build something myself.
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Normally, I don't bother with those "play for free until the next xxx" steam options, but between the irrational price of Borderlands 3, my laptops likely inability to run it in adequate manner, and the bad opinions of his and his family relayed by NobodysHome, and the fact that usually they offer a free weekend, and this time they offer six days, I am giving it a try.
BL3 wasn't as good as 1 or 2, but it was WAY better than the execrable prequel.
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Well, the game installed...
The first issue - atrocious loading times, even before I got to switching settings to very low. Then the intro cinematic unskippable (Marcus's tale, the bus ride thanfully was). Then I got out of the bus and started walking around - at first it seemed okish (for value of 'okish' that involved playing dozens of hours of Far Cry New Dawn in 5 fps). Then I reached first enemies. I died fighting the first group. I died fighting the second group. I somehow survived the first boss and the group of enmies that spawned after Lilith gave me a granade...
Then there was loading time of getting to the second area at which point I quit and uninstalled. Sorry, nope.
Sad part is that if the new computer actually worked out, I could play it decently.
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Finished Gris. Intense and beautifull game.
One of many-many games that I already have and I have yet to play it.
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After finishing Crysis 2 yesterday, I started playing something called Tales Of Berseria...
A dark but cute anime with ok if somewhat boring J-rpg gameplay.
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It's kind of interesting and depressing how the world goes in full circles on everything, and no one ever learns.
I pre-date answering machines in the sense that they existed, but were almost exclusively the domain of businesses; no one I knew had an answering machine when I was a kid. So the phone was of such paramount importance in the house that it interrupted anything. In the middle of dinner and the phone rings? Run and get it! In the bathroom and no one else is in the house? Run and get it! The phone was an immediate, essential, "This must be answered at all costs" device. And salespeople took advantage of that to be very annoying, but not very often.
Along came the answering machine. Suddenly you could finish dinner or your bathroom break, or stay in bed, and your friend could leave a message. Better yet, salespeople were stuck leaving awkward messages. Problem solved!
Except...
...friends and family started resenting the fact that you never answered the phone for them. "You should know it's me! Pick up NOW!" People started refusing to leave messages. The answering machine was rendered useless because no one ever left messages.
Along came Caller ID and similar things happened, especially because people learned they could block their number from showing, and those same people refused to answer the phone if someone else called with a blocked number.
Along came number spoofing and no one answers the phone for any reason any more.
And yet now, in the cell phone era, if someone calls you on your cell it's obviously *SO* important that you should pick up now now NOW no matter what you're doing.
Just like the 1970s.
This tirade brought to you by my dishwasher repair guys. They called the morning they were supposed to do the repair. I didn't answer because I was in a meeting finding out whether or not I'd been laid off. They didn't leave a message. Since they hadn't reached me, they took it as an excuse not to show up.
Needless to say, I'll give them ONE chance to make amends, then I'll just fix the thing myself now that they've already diagnosed the problem for me. (Bad intake valve.)
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It's kind of interesting and depressing how the world goes in full circles on everything, and no one ever learns.
I pre-date answering machines in the sense that they existed, but were almost exclusively the domain of businesses; no one I knew had an answering machine when I was a kid. So the phone was of such paramount importance in the house that it interrupted anything. In the middle of dinner and the phone rings? Run and get it! In the bathroom and no one else is in the house? Run and get it! The phone was an immediate, essential, "This must be answered at all costs" device. And salespeople took advantage of that to be very annoying, but not very often.
Along came the answering machine. Suddenly you could finish dinner or your bathroom break, or stay in bed, and your friend could leave a message. Better yet, salespeople were stuck leaving awkward messages. Problem solved!
Except...
...friends and family started resenting the fact that you never answered the phone for them. "You should know it's me! Pick up NOW!" People started refusing to leave messages. The answering machine was rendered useless because no one ever left messages.Along came Caller ID and similar things happened, especially because people learned they could block their number from showing, and those same people refused to answer the phone if someone else called with a blocked number.
Along came number spoofing and no one answers the phone for any reason any more.
And yet now, in the cell phone era, if someone calls you on your cell it's obviously *SO* important that you should pick up now now NOW no matter what you're doing.
Just like the 1970s.
This tirade brought to you by my dishwasher repair guys. They called the morning they were supposed to do the repair. I didn't answer because I was in a meeting finding out whether or not I'd been laid off. They didn't leave a message. Since they hadn't reached me, they took it as an excuse not to show up.
Needless to say, I'll give them ONE...
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Speaking of things that infuriate me, as a long-time Linux/Unix/Windows/MacOS user, people who don't know which way the slashes go and act like it doesn't matter drive me NUTS.
NO! It is NOT C:/LabData/MyFile, no matter how much you want it to be!
There are instances where the slash gets reversed to support certain languages (I want to say Java, but I'm too lazy to double-check), but when you're telling me, "In Windows Explorer, navigate to C:/LabData/MyFile" I just want to slap you.
Yes, it matters THAT much. Because it HAS mattered for 40+ years now...
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Another Spotify ad that keeps coming up is one that's really knocked my socks off, let me tell you, and it's for a well-known chain cafe's plant-based coffee! Can you imagine such a thing?! At last, a vegan alternative to everyone's favourite morning meatspresso!
Thankyou, Stabrukcs, from the bottom of our hearts.
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Another Spotify ad that keeps coming up is one that's really knocked my socks off, let me tell you, and it's for a well-known chain cafe's plant-based coffee! Can you imagine such a thing?! At last, a vegan alternative to everyone's favourite morning meatspresso!
Thankyou, Stabrukcs, from the bottom of our hearts.
I really didn't want to believe you. "People aren't that stupid, are they?"
Actual quote: "Starbucks continues to introduce new drinks and food to menus globally while innovating with plant-based ingredients across key platforms like espresso, cold brew, refreshment, food and more."
Curse it! No more meaty espresso for me!
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Holy f~$+ing shit!! Coffee has plants in it?!!!
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Another Spotify ad that keeps coming up is one that's really knocked my socks off, let me tell you, and it's for a well-known chain cafe's plant-based coffee! Can you imagine such a thing?! At last, a vegan alternative to everyone's favourite morning meatspresso!
Thankyou, Stabrukcs, from the bottom of our hearts.
I really didn't want to believe you. "People aren't that stupid, are they?"
Actual quote: "Starbucks continues to introduce new drinks and food to menus globally while innovating with plant-based ingredients across key platforms like espresso, cold brew, refreshment, food and more."
Curse it! No more meaty espresso for me!
I think they're just pushing impossible sandwiches.
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I think they're just pushing impossible sandwiches.Another Spotify ad that keeps coming up is one that's really knocked my socks off, let me tell you, and it's for a well-known chain cafe's plant-based coffee! Can you imagine such a thing?! At last, a vegan alternative to everyone's favourite morning meatspresso!
Thankyou, Stabrukcs, from the bottom of our hearts.
I really didn't want to believe you. "People aren't that stupid, are they?"
Actual quote: "Starbucks continues to introduce new drinks and food to menus globally while innovating with plant-based ingredients across key platforms like espresso, cold brew, refreshment, food and more."
Curse it! No more meaty espresso for me!
No, Freehold, that's part of it, sure, but read this part again: "...while innovating with plant-based ingredients across key platforms like espresso..."
The very first thing they mentioned is coffee. The last thing they mentioned before "and more" is "food".
They very much want you to know that they are done selling mutton coffee.
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Scotch is waaaay stronger than I expected....
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I was drinking like it was 20 or 30%.
And having a couple Sam Adams, cause I was SHOCKED to find a beer I didn't hate (Miller, Budweiser, and Coors are f#!@ing donkey piss) with it.
Turns out the scotch was 80 proof.
And you know...unlike Weed...alcohol has a delayed reaction. So I stopped but my digestion didn't.
Am just now sober.
Sober-ish.
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I really didn't want to believe you. "People aren't that stupid, are they?"
It reminds me of the early 90s, when fat was becoming a scary ingredient, and all the bottles of vegetable oil had big starburst "no cholesterol" labels on them, as if that made it less fatty.
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I really didn't want to believe you. "People aren't that stupid, are they?"It reminds me of the early 90s, when fat was becoming a scary ingredient, and all the bottles of vegetable oil had big starburst "no cholesterol" labels on them, as if that made it less fatty.
Impus Major's huge peeve is the number of "gluten-free" meats at the butcher and deli counters.
Sausages? At least worth considering.
Chicken breasts? Are you kidding me?
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Whenever I had a difficult customer at Subway I'd try to get them to order the diarrhea inducing chips.
It worked more often than it should have.
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A lot of beef is lightly dusted in flour before being put out for display. It helps give it that crisp outer skin (and maybe insulate the meat from the high heat of the pan).
So, yes, gluten free beef is a thing.
A friend who is celiac learned this the hard way.
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I was drinking like it was 20 or 30%.
And having a couple Sam Adams, cause I was SHOCKED to find a beer I didn't hate (Miller, Budweiser, and Coors are f@#*ing donkey piss) with it.
Turns out the scotch was 80 proof.
And you know...unlike Weed...alcohol has a delayed reaction. So I stopped but my digestion didn't.
Am just now sober.
Sober-ish.
its hard to find good beer nowadays.
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A lot of beef is lightly dusted in flour before being put out for display. It helps give it that crisp outer skin (and maybe insulate the meat from the high heat of the pan).
So, yes, gluten free beef is a thing.
A friend who is celiac learned this the hard way.
indeed.
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I really didn't want to believe you. "People aren't that stupid, are they?"It reminds me of the early 90s, when fat was becoming a scary ingredient, and all the bottles of vegetable oil had big starburst "no cholesterol" labels on them, as if that made it less fatty.
early 90s? I remember that as a holdover from the CHOLESTEROL AND BACON AND EGGS ESPECIALLY WILL KILL YOUUUUUUUUUUU years.
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As another aside, almost all commercial jerky is made with soy sauce, which typically contains wheat and thus may contain gluten.
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A lot of beef is lightly dusted in flour before being put out for display. It helps give it that crisp outer skin (and maybe insulate the meat from the high heat of the pan).
So, yes, gluten free beef is a thing.
A friend who is celiac learned this the hard way.
Wow. I have learned something today.
Who knew?
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Night John.
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Speaking of things that infuriate me, as a long-time Linux/Unix/Windows/MacOS user, people who don't know which way the slashes go and act like it doesn't matter drive me NUTS.
NO! It is NOT C:/LabData/MyFile, no matter how much you want it to be!
There are instances where the slash gets reversed to support certain languages (I want to say Java, but I'm too lazy to double-check), but when you're telling me, "In Windows Explorer, navigate to C:/LabData/MyFile" I just want to slap you.
Yes, it matters THAT much. Because it HAS mattered for 40+ years now...
That might be either (a) an issue with too much exposure to browser and not enough to viewing hard drive location paths (which is very common now as Windows doesn't show them in the explorer anymore unless you start entering it manually, or (b) symptom of some degree of dysgraphia (likely undiagnosed) as the user's brain has problem with recognizing between mirrored instances of the same symbol.
To be honest, if you asked me at a random moment, I'd be baffled to discern them until I could get a moment while looking at a keyboard or a computer.
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Whenever I had a difficult customer at Subway I'd try to get them to order the diarrhea inducing chips.
It worked more often than it should have.
Sweet corn flavored lays? or just any of the stuff with that artificial sweetener?
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Sweet corn flavored lays? or just any of the stuff with that artificial sweetener?Whenever I had a difficult customer at Subway I'd try to get them to order the diarrhea inducing chips.
It worked more often than it should have.
Well the fat-free Pringles with Olestra cerainly were. But they didn't sell them at Subway.
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~feels the bump on my head from hitting the corner a few days ago~ Nope. Still no sense knocked into my head. Perhaps I should try again.It's a lost cause.
Are you sure? ~bangs my head a few more times~ Yep... You might be right.
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Also, I just checked: google accepts "\" in place of "/" simply correcting them to the right kind of slash to make working website address, which isn't helping in learning the difference now.
...
And so does Explorer when I manually types an access path with "/" instead of "\" so the distinction is moot for a casual user these days.
No idea if Mac and its standard browsers will do the same, but I assume they will, taking their supposed user interface friendliness.
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Another Spotify ad that keeps coming up is one that's really knocked my socks off, let me tell you, and it's for a well-known chain cafe's plant-based coffee! Can you imagine such a thing?! At last, a vegan alternative to everyone's favourite morning meatspresso!
Thankyou, Stabrukcs, from the bottom of our hearts.
I really didn't want to believe you. "People aren't that stupid, are they?"
Actual quote: "Starbucks continues to introduce new drinks and food to menus globally while innovating with plant-based ingredients across key platforms like espresso, cold brew, refreshment, food and more."
Curse it! No more meaty espresso for me!
Ahem. You forget milk and cream being ubiquotions non-vegan additions to coffee.
I am no coffee drinker so I had to check, but while basic espresso is coffee grounds + hot pressurised water - making it vegan product by default, many servings use addition of milk (e.g. cappuccino, latte), so search for milk-substitutes that will give desired effects when prepared in certain way (and announcing it to attract vegans to products they would normally would consider non-viable) makes sense.
No idea how well the results match the desired product but it's completely another matter.
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I really didn't want to believe you. "People aren't that stupid, are they?"It reminds me of the early 90s, when fat was becoming a scary ingredient, and all the bottles of vegetable oil had big starburst "no cholesterol" labels on them, as if that made it less fatty.Impus Major's huge peeve is the number of "gluten-free" meats at the butcher and deli counters.
Sausages? At least worth considering.
Chicken breasts? Are you kidding me?
A lot of meats are fixed with wheat byproducts (and milk-derivatives), though it should not be the case with chicken breasts and other pieces of raw meat. Should not is the keyword, however.
Still it doesn't beat "GMO Free!"... Salt (or was that a mineral water, one of those two popular, non-organic products anyway).
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A lot of beef is lightly dusted in flour before being put out for display. It helps give it that crisp outer skin (and maybe insulate the meat from the high heat of the pan).
So, yes, gluten free beef is a thing.
A friend who is celiac learned this the hard way.
Lactose-intolerant friend (though he might have some more expansive intolerance of milk-based proteins as sometimes he reacted to products that should no longer contain lactose) learned it similar way when it comes to hams, sausages, and milk-derivatives.
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A lot of beef is lightly dusted in flour before being put out for display. It helps give it that crisp outer skin (and maybe insulate the meat from the high heat of the pan).
So, yes, gluten free beef is a thing.
A friend who is celiac learned this the hard way.
Wow. I have learned something today.
Who knew?
A day during which you learn something is a good day.
It's even better if the newly learned knowledge actually stays with you without getting lost across the neural pathways later.
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Well the fat-free Pringles with Olestra cerainly were. But they didn't sell them at Subway.Sweet corn flavored lays? or just any of the stuff with that artificial sweetener?Whenever I had a difficult customer at Subway I'd try to get them to order the diarrhea inducing chips.
It worked more often than it should have.
Yuck I tried some of the ones with Olestra once. Tasted awful so I only had a handful and it still messed up my stomach.