Multiple times in my career the thing I had trained for basically stopped being a thing, or became such an easy thing it wasn’t going to be much of a job.

Being at the wrong point, either too early or too late, in various tech waves almost felt like my super power.

Wasn’t until I turned thirty that I picked the right tech at the right time, and for 20 years have had a great career in an industry that is just as valuable today as when I started.

Programming turned out to be a major component in what I do, and while I’ve seen AI spit out some reasonable code in the more popular languages, I can’t see it replacing what I’m doing before I’m too old to care.

Dominick the Donkey.

Was on a very short holiday CD at a very long job.

I’m 50 and still skate, gonna were what ever the hell I like. Please feel free to judge away.

If you release the clutch slow enough, in most cars you can get moving just with idle engine.

Practice in a parking lot if you can, and just do that over and over until you understand the friction point.

Getting moving from a dead stop in first or reverse is really the only hard part of driving a manual, shifting up through the gears from there is trivial.

Learn to shift based off the sound of the engine, dont stare at the tachometer.

If you already know how to drive, learning manual isnt so hard. You are going to stall it out, you arent hurting anything but your pride when you do.

Computers became fast enough about 20 years ago for everything short of gaming for the average user.

Before that, lots of effort was put into efficiency, specifically in the OS.

Now days, hardware is so fast, and storage has become so large, the only way to force people to buy new hardware is to create total bloatware and planed obsolescence.

I’m forced to use windows for work, and have been on 11 for a while now. Many basic tasks are indeed much slower.

I finally have my own home PC for the first time in decades, and this is one of the many reasons I plan on switching it to linux.

I want all that horse power going into graphics and gaming, not running a shit OS.

So happy to see this, one of my favorite movies.

As someone who’s been skateboarding for 40 years, I’ve almost always had that “This is a bad idea” feeling right before getting a serious injury.

Took longer than I care to admit to start listening to it.

Oh, oh no… you are probably right

Please for the love of all that is holy, stay faithful to the original.

Don’t add any of the loot box, leveled weapon / enemy crap that the newer titles have.

Black Flag is one of my favorite PS4 games, and I’d love to get my GF the remake.

Suicide run, Mass Effect 2.

The question was how to annoy people, a car slowing down while being tailgated without brake lights annoys people.

I can down shift and slow down without activating my brakelights.

This is one of the many reasons I love my manual transmission

City skylines and factorio.

It’s the only platform I have to play it on, and switch doesn’t support the new space age expansion.

It did get many of the 2.0 updates, like the extended belt reader, free circuit wires, and all inserters are filters.

As far as acceptable, I love it. I’m sure I can’t build the crazy 10k science per minute monstrosities I’ve seen on youtube, but I’ve never really run into an lag issues with the bases I’ve built.

When I bought the switch I called it my $500 zelda machine.

I also have factorio now.

If a new mario, zelda, or factorio is available on switch 2, I’ll buy one.

Honestly? I’m lazy. I play on my PS4, and have it all done up for that, the cables, pre amp, audio D-A for the sound bar / headphones, etc. Its what I know, and it works.

Haven’t owned my own PC in like 20 years (I’m a programmer and work always just gives me a beautiful laptop).

I recently bought a gaming PC that was top of the line 5 years ago, and am slowly turning that into a linux gaming PC. It’s going to be a while before I can actually use it, and in the mean time the PS4 still works when I get home and just want a whiskey and jam night.

Even if it’s the sunlight maggot? How you say no to my boy Solaire?

Could never date a religious person either. The nice part is, I’ve never met a seriously religious person who didn’t let you know all about it without having to ask.

I’ve spent well over $2k on guitars, accessories, DLC, etc, for Rocksmith 2014. For five years I’ve been using it to learn bass guitar, and absolutely love it.

One day Ubi is going to turn off the servers, and I am simply going to cry.

There is no alternative I’m aware of, the new version is AI garbage from what I’ve heard, and I enjoy the thing I have and the songs I’ve paid for.

If they are not going to provide an offline mode, or the server code, then I will 100% make it my mission to pirate the game and make it playable offline.