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[-] DuffmanOfTheCosmos@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

Yes it is, if you have the means to do so. Embrace that inner child

[-] DuffmanOfTheCosmos@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hurricane Harvey was a bastard of a storm.

I was up all hours of the night for days on end keeping tabs on the flood control reservoir at the end of my street only a few houses away, it got dangerously close to overflowing but fortunately never did.

Craziest thing, I remember being inside my house in the middle of the day all dark no power, and I hear the unmistakable sound of a military helicopter getting closer and closer and suddenly the house was starting to shake. I ran outside and looked up and there was a Blackhawk hovering no higher than 50 meters directly above my house and a soldier poking their head out the side looking straight down, I swear we made eye contact it was so close. Fucking wild.

[-] DuffmanOfTheCosmos@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

Playing Descent II online was one of the highlights of my childhood back in the early days of internet gaming. The community was excellent too, with a lot of custom maps created using the D2 Level Builder, which I got pretty good with myself haha.

[-] DuffmanOfTheCosmos@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

Perfect example of this is the movie Dogma. Kevin Smith has stated he would love to do a follow up on it, but he as the creator can't because the IP is owned personally by Harvey Weinstein, and he refuses to give money to Harvey to license or buy it because obvious reasons. So, his own creation is locked away from him because a monster put up the money for the original before Kevin or most people knew they were a monster.

[-] DuffmanOfTheCosmos@beehaw.org 5 points 6 months ago

Fueling our cars with tacos would indeed be a lot cheaper than gasoline, but unfortunately the emissions from low Taco-Bell-grade fuel would accelerate global warming

[-] DuffmanOfTheCosmos@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago

Huh, interesting landing profile. I was looking at the artists render thinking "where are the landing legs?" but turns out it belly flops down on one side for touchdown. Neat!

[-] DuffmanOfTheCosmos@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago

That's because it probably was

[-] DuffmanOfTheCosmos@beehaw.org 18 points 9 months ago

I tried this with my son, who is now 17 and not nearly as computer literate as I was by his age, let alone Linux literate at all. I think it's a generational thing, as a kid growing up in the 90s I HAD to learn how to administer our PC at a higher level to do the things I wanted to do. Now with easy apps and tablets and auto-installation of all-the-things you just don't need to be an advanced user to do what you want to do. This is just my experience, YEMV

[-] DuffmanOfTheCosmos@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago

Kerbal Space Program 1. I bought it in early beta for like $14, have received all subsequent updates for free because I bought it so early, sunk literally thousands of hours of enjoyment into it and come out with a solid basic understanding of orbital mechanics.

I cant think of a better return on investment I've ever made.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DuffmanOfTheCosmos@beehaw.org to c/guitars@lemmy.world

My 1966 Fender Mustang, 100% original and worn in in all the right places. What do all y'all have that someone would have to pry from your cold dead hands?

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