douglasg610.bsky.social
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Everyone thinks they've got the requisite hours on "Time Crisis 4: now with more ridiculousness". It's me. I'm the arcade rat.
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Almost three years ago! When I moved house and spent the off-days for a month afterward cataloguing all of them.
Lots went to charity...
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He's like Ross Perot confounded by the world's distaste for being called "You People" in 1992.
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Be realistic: it's been a VERY long time since anyone had the power to tell him "no" and make it stick--and that basically from Jan 6., 2021, when his "Deus Vult" sent 1500 people to do his bidding and the world didn't so much as slap on the steel bracelets. Such power goes to one's head.
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TBH I didn't notice that until now, either.
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"The Reflex!
Is a lonely child that's waiting by the park. /
The Reflex!
IS in charge of finding treasure in the dark /
and watching!
over lucky clover, isn't that bizarre?! /
Every little thing the reflex does
leaves me answered with a question mark!"
--Duran Duran (it's about gambling addiction)
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Thank you! I guess?
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It was the inescapability of it. Like "Macarena" in the 1996-98 years; or the more mediocre Rolling Stones on "Classic Rock" of the 90s and 00s; or how TikTok will run a song into the ground. Repeat anything 500 times and it gets old...
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[I read way too much Field and Stream.]
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While you do that, consider this: can opener technology ranges from the OXO-easy to the "why the hell did we invent Canning before can openers?!" hard, so buy more than one. And oh yeah, LISTEN to that gunsmith--cleaning and maintenance reveal their necessity whether you're ready or not.
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Finally, "Total Recall": GEM, or just pretty good? I don't recall you--the critic--mentioning it. Did you?
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And the US, RIGHT NOW nitpick: --3 BILLION(usd) on the Human Lifter System (HLS) has resulted in a series of spectacular crashes, flameouts, and fireballs. The math on its lift *capacity* says the fuel to REACH Mars can't be lifted on his rocket, let alone habitat and food for people.
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Science nitpicks: --getting a planet, a whole planet, to heat to livable temeprature takes tremendous energy. We could go "Sons of Korhal" on Mars with all the planet-busters we got and make hardly a dent.
--getting a planet, a whole planet, to heat to livable temeprature and not overshoot? impossi.
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8000 EV charge stations at Federal buildings--Tesla, basic, Chademo and all--are powered off. But I take it you want the man and his company to suffer as much as the motorists.
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A) Pills are always to be kept in tight bottles, because some dogs will eat anything.
B ) When she saw what he had done, or vice versa, the pact was fulfilled. Or something like that.
C) Press says they ruled out "foul play".
D) People that food poison each other? Not peaceful oblivion.
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That never works, BTW. Child psych says zero long term improvement in behavior.
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Lot of pills. Like...dose-makes-the-poison numbers of pills.
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I was told:
They need a storm-proof shelter.
You need to be able to reach that shelter and water them in the worst weather.
Stock watering pan needs a heater to keep it from freezing.
The eggs are much better.
IDK if that helps.
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AFAIK, the nod back to the vocalists was "keep going; I'll fill in between the words." He hadn't done a rehearsal WITH them before that point, so there wasn't a sense of what was going to happen, exactly.
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We certainly WILL. Rent sucks.
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IIRC: A shelter that can have all entrances blocked to keep drafts out, a supply of straw, whatever chickens eat, plus nutritional suplements.
And oh yeah: a stock watering tub with a heater to keep the water near their body temperature. No good if they can't drink when it's cold.
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I know, I know: "Why didn't we listen to Freakazoid!?"
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Remember when we got fed the lie, growing up, that the "new generation" would be smarter, 'color-blind', drug free, etc., because we had all these ideas in the air? Turns out racism is an heirloom, as is distrust of science.
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Everyone is going to RedNote, lol.
My theory is, a platform is as viable as the sizer of its community. Even if the theoretically-perfect form of Radio Free TickTock is out there, the tiny playerbase means it's d3ad already.
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Everyone knows the Olympic committee has to agree--and they're more corrupt than HE is.
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Sounds like YOU need a multi-platform, portable emulation device.
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IDK if you remember the Weird Al song "Can't Watch This". In verse 2 he insults a bunch of popular television of the 1980s. He namechecked Lynch by name.
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Historical example? Blockbuster moved their corporate office to Texas, lost all the really smart people, and the rest is history.