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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
My laptop is pretty top of the line
When I got it two and a half years ago, I suspect it was near the bleeding edge for available PC laptops, to be honest
(The perks of having a wealthy man trying to score points with his girlfriend's adult children, I suppose)
And it was indeed a very kind gift, and a very generous gift, and a life-changing gift, in a lot of ways
But there's one thing
It doesn't have an optical drive.
Which is fine! I've never had the need for one, frankly. And it has USB ports out the wazoo, which can perform the duties of an optical drive and then some, in most cases.
The unfortunate part is that it has a void where an optical drive could hypothetically exist.
It's filled with this plastic structural piece that can be removed in the event that you decide to install an optical drive.
At some early point in its life, there was a clip that held that plastic piece in place. That clip is long gone, so now the plastic piece sort of does its own thing.
I know what you're thinking. Narwhal, this is what tape is for. or, like, sticky-tack, even.
Probably. Those are all great ideas.
Instead, what I've done is nothing, and whenever I pick up my laptop, I make sure to lift it level, or with the other end pointing down.
But every now and then, every once in a while, I forget ... and then it's absolute bedlam, [chat].
Absolute bedlam.
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
Sometimes there's nothing more satisfying than writing a medium-to-long post about as few things as possible.
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Hey Philippe what should we call this desert in the middle of everything?
Eh, mon ami, eet ees how you say, "Isolated Desert"
Philippe needs to sort his shit out.
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I have to share this somewhere. My mother still sends me copies of the Wanderer, "The Nation's oldest Catholic newspaper", even though she's perfectly aware that I think it's full of madness. Usually it goes straight in to recycling or into the shredder for my composter, but every once in a while I read a few lines just to see how mad they've gotten at this point. Today, I read:
A nation’s descent into disaster needn’t begin with the outburst of a horrific war. At least not a conventional war with aerial battles and troops massing on the ground.
Indeed, in a nuclear-missile age, these sorts of confrontations may be bypassed. Think of sudden-death threats from North Korea. But a giant of a nation like the United States can be crippled in other ways, too.
On the non-military front, the removal of checks and balances in a system can dangerously overload its proper functioning.
And lack of social restraints can unleash the forces of mob psychology, inducing people to do what they wouldn’t if held to account for their individual actions. Think of photos of lynchings, with crowd members remorselessly facing cameras while victims hang from limbs in the background.
So far: wow, pretty normal! All good points that everyone can agree on, even this crazy newspaper! Could they be ramping up to a disavowal of neo-Nazis? Not an outright criticism of Trump, of course, that would be a step too far, but still... maybe they can recall that Catholics were not the best treated by the first round of Nazis in power, that we even got a few saints out of Auschwitz like Maximillian Kolbe?
HA HA NOPE. Turns out the real Nazis are people who criticize Trump too hard!
Political lynching has its own mob scenes, with the crowd members and cameramen working as one to destroy a victim who challenges their cozy cliques. It’s ironic if their reputed concern over racism leads them into inexcusable behavior that they might otherwise reject.
Boiling with resentment when outsider Donald Trump defeated the establishment-anointed leftist Hillary Clinton for president last November, neighbors in the dominant-media hood have been tightening their coils on Trump ever since. They escalated any word, any action of his that they disliked into an unlikely outrage.
I'm sure the pope approves
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
I had 2 pints on an empty stomach and it was enough to make me say I'm drunkish I deserve ramen so I'm eating ramen alone at this restraurant's bar and it was a good idea
I get tired of all the complaining and and bitching from people in our neighborhood. Literally, ppl are blessed and privileged in our neighborhood and don't need to complain about stupid shit. Anyways, I finally snapped tonight. First image is lady who posted. Second, is me. Fkn.
*as a side note. The lady who originally posted is a pain in the ass and personifies a privileged, white, female.
*also, I'm waiting to see if I'll now be exiled from our community. I assume the wolves are descending on me as we speak.
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SurfpossumA nonentitytrying to preserve the anonymity he so richly deserves.Registered Userregular
I had 2 pints on an empty stomach and it was enough to make me say I'm drunkish I deserve ramen so I'm eating ramen alone at this restraurant's bar and it was a good idea
Drunkish ramen sounds excellent
If I wasn't sitting here waiting to pick up my pad Thai order it is
One of the korean words for "you" from a elder/superior to younger/inferior is "niga"
Korean hip hop, unsurprisingly, tends to use it a fair bit, since hip hop as a genre loves trash talk and talking to someone like they're a kid is a natural word choice
Of course Korean hip hop also loves throwing in English words, often not pronounced super accurately. Not to mention borrowing ideas from black American artists, often without understanding the context behind it other that they think it is cool.
So it's a bit of a relief that in this case, nope, just a wacky language thing, Korean rappers aren't constantly dropping n-bombs.
Thank you for sharing this because I too had been a bit concerned.
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
people complain about budget airlines but I'm flying round trip from Baltimore to LA and back for <$200
I get tired of all the complaining and and bitching from people in our neighborhood. Literally, ppl are blessed and privileged in our neighborhood and don't need to complain about stupid shit. Anyways, I finally snapped tonight. First image is lady who posted. Second, is me. Fkn.
*as a side note. The lady who originally posted is a pain in the ass and personifies a privileged, white, female.
*also, I'm waiting to see if I'll now be exiled from our community. I assume the wolves are descending on me as we speak.
Is the "trash" she's talking about actually like the personal belongings of the evicted people?
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TraceGNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam WeRegistered Userregular
I get tired of all the complaining and and bitching from people in our neighborhood. Literally, ppl are blessed and privileged in our neighborhood and don't need to complain about stupid shit. Anyways, I finally snapped tonight. First image is lady who posted. Second, is me. Fkn.
*as a side note. The lady who originally posted is a pain in the ass and personifies a privileged, white, female.
*also, I'm waiting to see if I'll now be exiled from our community. I assume the wolves are descending on me as we speak.
If this is the new standard, I really hope I can find a Confederate soldier named Joe Buck
ESPN deciding to remove a broadcaster because he's named Robert Lee rather than just asking if he'd be okay having "Bob Lee" or NOT REMOVING HIM is pretty fucking silly.
Having said that, it probably has nothing to do with him being named Robert Lee and everything to do with ESPN using any excuse to cut as many people as possible because they're bleeding money.
I think I own and have never played Tropical Freeze. What cruel fate
do you love donkey kong country or did you just buy it on a whim? it's great but I love that series... dkc:r was good but there was a control issue I had with it (their button choices were off from old dkc) but they fixed it in tropical freeze. and it's beautiful, so good, so 2d.
If this is the new standard, I really hope I can find a Confederate soldier named Joe Buck
ESPN deciding to remove a broadcaster because he's named Robert Lee rather than just asking if he'd be okay having "Bob Lee" or NOT REMOVING HIM is pretty fucking silly.
Having said that, it probably has nothing to do with him being named Robert Lee and everything to do with ESPN using any excuse to cut as many people as possible because they're bleeding money.
they moved him to a pennsylvania school though
so it's not even in line with them cutting staff, it's just stupid
If this is the new standard, I really hope I can find a Confederate soldier named Joe Buck
ESPN deciding to remove a broadcaster because he's named Robert Lee rather than just asking if he'd be okay having "Bob Lee" or NOT REMOVING HIM is pretty fucking silly.
Having said that, it probably has nothing to do with him being named Robert Lee and everything to do with ESPN using any excuse to cut as many people as possible because they're bleeding money.
they moved him to a pennsylvania school though
so it's not even in line with them cutting staff, it's just stupid
I didn't know they moved him. Yeah that's just dumb.
Like I'd get it if he just wasn't a face that pulled ratings so they cut him because ESPN has been taking a cleaver to staff this past year.
ESPN denied that avoiding offense was a motivation.
ESPN’s president, John Skipper, reiterated that point on Wednesday in a statement posted on the company’s internal website and provided to The New York Times.
“There was never any concern — by anyone, at any level — that Robert Lee’s name would offend anyone watching the Charlottesville game,” Skipper said in the statement. “Among our Charlotte production staff there was a question as to whether — in these divisive times — Robert’s assignment might create a distraction, or even worse, expose him to social hectoring and trolling.”
ESPN being worried about dumbass trolls is different than ESPN being a dumbass troll themselves
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I think I own and have never played Tropical Freeze. What cruel fate
do you love donkey kong country or did you just buy it on a whim? it's great but I love that series... dkc:r was good but there was a control issue I had with it (their button choices were off from old dkc) but they fixed it in tropical freeze. and it's beautiful, so good, so 2d.
I do love Donkey Kong Country, and I enjoyed DKCR on 3DS! I think I got Tropical Freeze for free when the old Club Nintendo thing shut down or something, or maybe as part of a buy one get one sale. I should play it.
granted I think they Streisand Effect'd themselves
but iono it doesn't seem like a scandal to me
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
ESPN released the following statement: "We collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name. In that moment it felt right to all parties. It's a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play by play for a football game has become an issue."
Take from that what you will, but I think it's just a thing that blew up because free speech was a mistake.
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yeah you read into it a little and it's basically
ESPN: Yo, Robert. Want the chance to become a potentially racist meme?
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When I got it two and a half years ago, I suspect it was near the bleeding edge for available PC laptops, to be honest
(The perks of having a wealthy man trying to score points with his girlfriend's adult children, I suppose)
And it was indeed a very kind gift, and a very generous gift, and a life-changing gift, in a lot of ways
But there's one thing
It doesn't have an optical drive.
Which is fine! I've never had the need for one, frankly. And it has USB ports out the wazoo, which can perform the duties of an optical drive and then some, in most cases.
The unfortunate part is that it has a void where an optical drive could hypothetically exist.
It's filled with this plastic structural piece that can be removed in the event that you decide to install an optical drive.
At some early point in its life, there was a clip that held that plastic piece in place. That clip is long gone, so now the plastic piece sort of does its own thing.
I know what you're thinking. Narwhal, this is what tape is for. or, like, sticky-tack, even.
Probably. Those are all great ideas.
Instead, what I've done is nothing, and whenever I pick up my laptop, I make sure to lift it level, or with the other end pointing down.
But every now and then, every once in a while, I forget ... and then it's absolute bedlam, [chat].
Absolute bedlam.
Philippe needs to sort his shit out.
Celeste [Switch] - She'll be wrestling with inner demons when she comes...
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age [Switch] - Sit down and watch our game play itself
I'm sure the pope approves
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Oh my god
With our powers combined, we're a genius, knitdan!
Drunkish ramen sounds excellent
I get tired of all the complaining and and bitching from people in our neighborhood. Literally, ppl are blessed and privileged in our neighborhood and don't need to complain about stupid shit. Anyways, I finally snapped tonight. First image is lady who posted. Second, is me. Fkn.
*as a side note. The lady who originally posted is a pain in the ass and personifies a privileged, white, female.
*also, I'm waiting to see if I'll now be exiled from our community. I assume the wolves are descending on me as we speak.
edit: emojis ate my post.
Thank you for sharing this because I too had been a bit concerned.
this modern world!
Is the "trash" she's talking about actually like the personal belongings of the evicted people?
eh, that's a community that eats its own anyways
that really is such a good game
destroys dkc:r
dickr?
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
anyone else think is hardcore missing the point and only makes our side look bad?
lol what
That really happened?
ESPN deciding to remove a broadcaster because he's named Robert Lee rather than just asking if he'd be okay having "Bob Lee" or NOT REMOVING HIM is pretty fucking silly.
Having said that, it probably has nothing to do with him being named Robert Lee and everything to do with ESPN using any excuse to cut as many people as possible because they're bleeding money.
do you love donkey kong country or did you just buy it on a whim? it's great but I love that series... dkc:r was good but there was a control issue I had with it (their button choices were off from old dkc) but they fixed it in tropical freeze. and it's beautiful, so good, so 2d.
that was actual ageless vampire Robert E Lee
I was actually just thinking about it and realizing I may have been duped but I saw it earlier and was told it with no irony...
omg was he sealed in the statue?!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/sports/ncaafootball/espn-robert-lee-virginia.html
they moved him to a pennsylvania school though
so it's not even in line with them cutting staff, it's just stupid
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I didn't know they moved him. Yeah that's just dumb.
Like I'd get it if he just wasn't a face that pulled ratings so they cut him because ESPN has been taking a cleaver to staff this past year.
This is indeed just dumb
Yes
The cherry on top is that the broadcaster is asian.
ESPN being worried about dumbass trolls is different than ESPN being a dumbass troll themselves
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I do love Donkey Kong Country, and I enjoyed DKCR on 3DS! I think I got Tropical Freeze for free when the old Club Nintendo thing shut down or something, or maybe as part of a buy one get one sale. I should play it.
The failing NY times? Fake news my friend.
but iono it doesn't seem like a scandal to me
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Take from that what you will, but I think it's just a thing that blew up because free speech was a mistake.
ESPN: Yo, Robert. Want the chance to become a potentially racist meme?
Robert: Hell no.