rickbeckman.org
Somewhere between belief and unbelief. Runs on Star Trek, Borderlands, comic book movies, and being part of an amazing family.
He/him.
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I keep hearing that I’m about at that age where aging really kicks in though, so that’s fun.
I’ve never guessed anyone’s ages well. Everyone’s running entirely different races, for sure!
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For $700, the differences ought to smack me in the face, not be something I’ve gotta squint for.
We would be better off if they made PlayStations upgradable. The N64 kinda was, and we can do it again! New graphics card? Neat! Pop it in!
Or… game on PC, I guess?
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There’s always a bigger sniff!
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Spot on! I turned 🙂↔️ earlier this year!
My coworkers routinely guess least 15 years younger than my actual age.
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Braveness aside, that sounds like a good treat. I can’t remember the last time I had a loaded hot dog.
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I love this game! Guess my age. 😂
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She really gave in to her basil instincts, eh?
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The difference is like watching a 4K movie on streaming vs by way of a Blu-ray.
For most, that’s 🤷♂️. Few of us take the time to calibrate our displays—the finer bits of visual fidelity are the realm of the connoisseur not the casual.
They don’t see the diff ‘cause they don’t care about the diff.
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As a nearly lifelong Trekkie, I couldn't imagine it without politics!
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"Death of the author" covers many sins.
I have really no idea what the personal politics of the members of my favorite bands — Metallica and Nickel Creek — are, and frankly, I don't care.
Their art is amazing.
I admit I've never thought about how moral this position actually is, though…
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Instead, too many are getting wrapped up in supporting the most Antichrist politician America's ever had while exercising hate and fear toward their fellow humans (immigrants, LGBTQ+ folks, etc.).
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… not only investing in God's kingdom but in standing up for the oppressed, standing up for justice, feeding the hungry, and all those things Jesus said to do.
A Christian who truly believes the end is near ought to be a positive game-changer for any community.
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I feel like in the realization that "the end is near" — which Jesus' followers have believed since, well, Jesus' day — ought to spur believers into two things:
1) Preaching the gospel without wasting time on those who don't want to hear it, and
2) Exercising radical charity in the name of ...
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Either way, I very likely won't be grabbing the Pro, as much as I'd like to have one.
I'm already a sucker for Apple; I can't afford to indulge more than one luxury brand!
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When I put a 2TB SSD in my PS5 two years ago, it cost about $170.
The built-in drive is supposedly a more specialized SSD for optimized load times, and the PS5 Pro comes with a 2TB one.
That's gotta add at least some to the price, I guess? You'd think everything would be cheaper to make by now..
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Absolutely loved that movie and was so disappointed that it was a separate canon than the series. MMPR was my first big fandom, and good grief, I got way too into it.
Then completely lost interest with Turbo. It felt so lame that their zords were… cars. Woo.
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It doesn't even have an expandable RAM slot!
Probably explains why we aren't getting Dreams 2…
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That's life for my brother for as long as I can remember!
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Oh, and thanks for reposting my comment — I think that's my first Bsky repost!
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Ha! Not audibly yet, but I can feel the popping.
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Here are some of my favs from across the horror spectrum:
Hellraiser (original [maybe nudity? I forget] or remake)
Silent Hill (extremely brief nudity)
Cube
The Invisible Man (new one is really good)
Terminator
Prey
Aaah! Zombies!!
Children of the Corn
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Nightmare on Elm Street!
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I had a Tripod, Geocities, and Angelfire page. I've desperately tried to remember the URLs to them so that I could find them on the Internet Archive, but to no avail. I found my old Expage, though, and a site from the mid-90s made on my dad's dial-up ISP account. 28.8 Kbps, baby!
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My daughter would love these. Ever do anything stingray-inspired?
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Hear me out: A TMNT movie that fleshes out more of Splinter's life between exposure to the ooze and the turtles being teens. "Splinter: A TMNT Pre-Squeakquel."
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I've not seen it myself. It's right up my alley, so I dunno why. Someday!
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"Too Many Cooks"!!
That takes me back.
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I screenshot this and shared it with one of my best friends, who in our friend group is definitely a robot, and his response was "Her wasn't a bot."
It's like talking with to a large language model with that one, I tell ya…
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You're closer to a flan than he is to a plan!
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I didn't grow up with the originals so have no nostalgia bias toward them, but I loved the prequels and had fun with the sequels… But yes, Rogue One was the best of all of them. The whole climax of that thing was edge-of-my-seat amazing.
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The enshittification of everything marches on.
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If we know how far he is from the rocket, we can use the timing of the video to figure out just how quickly the magical ability to trigger a rocket's ignition travels through our atmosphere.
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For most of my life I pictured the solar system model, with the electrons orbiting the nucleus like planets around a star. That was pretty ubiquitous growing up in the 80s and 90s.
At some point in the 00s I started picturing a cloud of electrons surrounding that nucleus.
Electrons are weird.
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Brought tears to my eye. Eyes. A cheek… I love the hope.
Are they perfect? Nah, none of us are. But they care, and they're willing to do something about it.
That's streets ahead of Trump and his GOP.
#HarrisWalz #VoteBlue #DumpTrump
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Far out!
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Trump found out recently that hot dogs are a thing, got confused, and here we are.
As for cats, well, maybe he found out something else exists and it’s just one more thing to feel sorry for his wives (+Stormy) about.
Otherwise, it’s all the product of his syphilis-addled brain with no precursor!
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Unless the PS6 or future shiny new thing offers something truly revolutionary — full backwards compat with all past PSes and boatloads of storage being the dream — maybe my PS5 could be my last console for a long time, if not ever. And I kinda feel okay with that.
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RESPECT THE POUCH! RESPECT IT!
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He has the best verbs, everyone’s saying so! …
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*Alex Mack-ing intensifies*
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“Pro-meme” is an odd policy position, but at least it’s *something.”
Even if it’s asinine.
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If I were a bot… how would I know?? 🤔 🤖