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Frank wrote:

Whoever unanimously sent me some subtime, you are awesome and very much appreciated

I wish salt had some color to it. I want it to be easier to tell how much salt is coming out of my shaker when I'm salting my eggs in the morning.

I just found out Pepsi killed Sierra Mist and launched a new lemon-lime soda with one of the worst possible names... Starry. Sierra Mist was a solid brand name, arguably better than the mainstay Sprite. Starry is the stripper brand of lemon-lime soda. Oh well, only guarantees Sprite's continued dominance.

Hamilton the play, lived up to the hype ... it was quite fantastic.

MrBean wrote:

The lady and I have watched it a million times, including last night haha

We have tickets to the touring show in February. Oughta be fun stuff.

theJaw wrote:

I plan on watching it on TV now after seeing the play, with subtitles! I suck at hearing words through song, always have. I know I missed a fair amount of the dialogue but the story was very easy to follow.

KCPenguins wrote:

I'll have to give that a try.

Curious

Wondering if listing what I have preordered as available is okay. I usually trade my games into a certain store that will remain unnamed but would prefer trading it. For example, I have Dead Space PS5 preordered but know I will beat and trade that in fairly quickly. Alongside Resident Evil 4 and Kirby.

Also thinking if I should I toss out junk in my house to clear space or try to sell it or keep it. Doesn't really hurt to keep it but all it does it take up space.

List whatever you want but I would recommend not pending a trade until it is in hand.

Foxhack wrote:
Maybe try to find out if your local town/city has clothing organizations that you can donate clothes to. We've done that a couple of times here. Perfectly good clothing that people can use.

nonamesleft wrote:

I got a message from another very obvious reseller last night, heh. I'm probably going with the churchy lady. There are no organizations like the one you suggest down here, most of this stuff is handled by churches. The one big organization I know of mostly deals with deported people and the lead guy is a corrupt SOB so I'd prefer to not mess with him.

The LAPD needs to get its fudging crap together.

Let's see how this story unfolds as it's not looking good for the gentleman that unfortunately passed away.

-alleged to have caused the accident
-tried to flee at least twice
-not complying with officer multiple times even with the officer being flexible on where he sat down.
-testing positive for cocaine

A loss of life is always tragic, but law and order is important for everyone's safety and this, at first blush, looks like it could have been avoided.

Caused the accident, maybe. That doesn?t usually result in loss of life, especially considering HE flagged down the cops for help in the first place and got on his knees pleading ?I didn?t mean to?. He then attempted to flee to a more populated area after being detained for 7 minutes that the police body cam footage coincidentally stopped recording for, yelling that he wanted people to see him.He was an English teacher with a reputation of being a good, helpful dude. There was absolutely no reason to tase him for over a minute and a half straight, especially right after a car accident where one is prone to shock.

I?d say ?at first blush?, this comes off as a murder. Law and order IS important, but it seems it?s the LAPD (who have already killed 2 other people in 2023 alone) who need to start realizing that.

BUT I suppose this isn?t the place for this sort of discourse. I was just salty about it last night and won?t be dragging it out here, my bad.

I understand and your POV is exactly why I'd like to see everything. In these instances, I find that knee jerk reactions are often not good. I watched two different things of coverage on it and both were different (and neither mentioned that HE flagged down police which I think is an important part of the story).

I'm interested in the truth and not pushing agendas. Honestly, I feel that GTZ is the most likely place that would happen over other places that are just echo chambers.

Yah, I went down a rabbit hole last night looking into the whole situation and can't say this looked justified whatsoever.

On a lighter note: why the heck do my apostrophes suddenly turn to question marks when I post on the GTZ from my phone?

My phone's keyboard is often changing were to we're

If I wanted to write we're, I would write that.

And of course when I write something that's not what I want to write, the keyboard lets it go through.

My phone is doing that too. It also seems to like to change is to I'd. Protip - if the word I type is correct English, do not adjust it!

theJaw wrote:

I was about to ask the same, thought it was something weird on my end

Maybe it's just me, but I get extremely nostalgic when I think about the past, and it hurts. It hurts even if it's a good thing I'm thinking about, for example like going to Toys R Us as a kid. Or going to an amusement park. Or the blanket in my grandparent's house that was so staticky that it made green sparks (it really did that). There was nothing fun about that blanket, but thinking about it hurts. I don't know why. Maybe that's what nostalgia is.

Most of what I remember from TRU was walking thru a toy store where only 30% of it interested me, and I dreamed of doing the TRU toy run and hammering the video game and Lego aisle. Going through them before they closed as an adult I saw overpriced toys and periodic phenomenal sales. With my kids I saw them experience my childhood experience.

I remember going through KB Toys much more fondly. Probably has to do with being stuck in a mall going through Sears, JC Penny's, Kohls, and eating Sabarro before getting to go through a toy store for 15 minutes. Trying on clothes or shoes for what seemed like an eternity back then... getting a little time in a toy store was amazing even if I didn't get anything.

I'm extremely nostalgic. It does really hurt but I'm glad I was there to experience it and look forward to making more good times

theJaw wrote:

Just FYI for everyone, this is a current issue that Bill is looking into. There is a thread in Site_Feedback about it.

rayzor6 wrote:
Yeah, for sure.

Just had a zoom call with a relative who lives far away. The lack of eye contact in zoom is tiring. Imagine having a 25 minute conversation with someone but neither of you are making eye contact.

The issue is that if you look at the camera, then the image of the person is in your peripheral vision, but on the other hand if you look at the person, then to them you're looking away from their eyes. I have to play around with the image and see if it's possible to move the image to below the camera. (This is on the mobile app)

This was actually a bit mentally exhausting.

Tried Starry for the first time. Flavor was ok, but why not just change Sierra Mist? Starry is a terrible brand name, a generic food store knock off. They ain't catching Sprite, but Sierra Mist is a great brand name. Starry screams trailer park.

@nonamesleft Yeah I hate Zoom calls, and that's one of the biggest reasons why. I've gotten to where I just leave my camera off for them most of the time.

It’d be cool if the camera was kinda built into the middle of the screen (and invisible of course)

My tonsils are swol as fudge... so much pain.

DrizzDrizzDrizz wrote:
Had a similar thought today.

nonamesleft wrote:

Well, then you might enjoy this...

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It's Nvidia Eye Contact live adjustment. Just announced a few days ago (and I don't think released yet), but it basically fixes this problem. It fakes your eye position in a live feed. Pretty crazy.

John wrote:
Live streaming eye placement adjustment? Wow. Cool.

John wrote:

That's pretty awesome technology.

There's another video where the guy really looks around quite a bit -- and it still is almost always appears to be looking at the camera. So, it would be nice not just for when you're looking at the screen to see the other person -- but also when, like me, you might be in a Zoom meeting, but working on other things on multiple monitors -- but want to look like you're still paying attention...

It seems difficult to get trades given how I do things and was wondering if anyone had logical tips. I get a ton of PSN, Eshop credit each month and can usually sell them here or elsewhere. I don't buy many older games as I buy and keep what I love. Example, Sonic 3 and Knuckles on Genesis or Kirby Dream Land 3 SNES. I preordered a ton of new games each year but I buy a lot of it digitally. To me it seems easier just buying the games I want and trying to sell them then trade them with other people hoping I can find a match.

ued222 wrote:
You could try offering to buy someone a digital game of their choice in exchange for a trade.

This isn't so relevant at the moment for me, with my gaming backlog full, but it's very possible I would have been willing to trade you a game in exchange for you getting me Golf Story from the eShop. (Wanted to play that one for awhile - still do. But backlog)

There could be others who would do something similar.

John wrote:

I downloaded it and gave it a try myself. It actually works really really well! I'm not a streamer, but if I can figure out a way to run an external camera through this software, it would make some video recordings a lot easier!

Anyways

https://youtu.be/X5UMd4sFJwM

Frank wrote:

Cool. I didn't even know it was available yet for actual end-user use. Nifty.

@Feeb - finished Ys 8 over the weekend. Have the post game stuff to do, but not sure If I'm gonna bother. I got like 80% of the trophies. I need the accessories one (just have to buy them) + the exploration per character. Didn't realize this was needed and it takes like ~5 hours playing per character, so yeah, that's not gonna happen now that I'm done.

Also, this showed up today, way smaller than expected, but quite awesome!

Thank you so much for introducing me to this, really enjoyed it, looking forward to IX.

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For size comparison:

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