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Cake day: May 7th, 2024

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  • Cut to an 80s training montage featuring idiomaddict’s 75 year old father trying to eat raw eggs, and chase a bicycle down the street, and run up a large flight of stairs…except again, he’s 75. So he tries drinking the eggs, and starts coughing/choking. He’s wobbling down the street with one of those rollaiders, and trying to climb some stone steps very slowly.

    And despite zero hints or clues to idiomaddict’s background, I’m imagining their 75 year old dad as an elderly jewish man. So when he’s trying to drink the eggs, he’s like “Bah, who drinks eggs like this? Why not scramble them? They’d make a good omlette! It’s a waste of eggs to drink like this!”

    And when he’s chasing the bicycle, very slowly, he’s like why are you going so fast? You got places to be? Go on! Live your life! You don’t need an old man like me holding me back!" And then idiomaddict walks up like “uh, no, dad. That guy just stole a bike…”

    And then as he’s going up the white stone stairs, there’s a cameo from the school house rock bill. Who’s just singing his song in the background…BUT NOT LOUD ENOUGH TO BE COPYRIGHT STRIKED!!!

    I’m very good at this.


  • When I was a kid, all the adults said “Stay in school kid.” So I graduated.

    Then as a teenager, they said “Don’t take up smoking”. So I didn’t.

    Then as a young adult they said “Don’t become an alcoholic”. So I didn’t.

    I figure if basically every person of a certain age group is all saying the same thing, there must be truth in those words.

    Now they’re all elderly, and I’m 42, and they’re saying “Don’t get old, kid”.

    …what do I do? Am I supposed to commit suicide? Is there some magic fountain of youth I don’t know about? WHAT DO THEY WANT FROM MEEEEEE???



  • George Carlin said it best. We want dumb happy obedient workers. Smart enough to runthe machines, but not smart enough to realize how badly they’re getting fucked by the system. So don’t count on the schools to do much more than basic math, and basic skills. Because what helps the elite class screws over the working class. It’s best to start screwing them in kindergarten. Teach them the pledge of allegence, so they feel endebted to our system, and keep them there for their entire lives.

    Paraphrasing here, but that’s the jist of a routine he had in the 90s. The important thing to note is that Carlin was NOT a time traveler. He didn’t predict the future. It’s just that we as a society have had the same problems for 100 years, and we never fixed our shit.





  • Tina Fey said she would take things her daughter said and work them into the show. The big one was “I want to go to there”

    It’s one of those things where a mother always finds her own kids to be hilarious. It’s just in this case, the mother is a famous comedian who works those lines into a sitcom that she stars in, and is also head writer on.

    For reference, her daughter was 2 when she said these things.

    And I would bet this was another daughter line.




  • No country/regime has ever unconditionally surrendered because of conventional airstrikes and bombardment alone.

    Are you forgetting WWII? Japan was setting up for a big American invasion of their islands, expecting millions dead, and then we dropped a nuke. Japan still refused, so we dropped another nuke. Then they surrendered.

    You’re assuming that we won’t use nukes, simply because it’s immoral and a huge escalation over nothing. Now look who’s giving the orders. An immoral pedophile who hates anyone mentioning how he’s a pedophile. He’ll do ANYTHING to stop people from mentioning he’s a pedophile. I think that includes nukes. This is the same guy who used the phrase “We’re gonna bomb the shit out of them!”






  • Oh, jesus fuck. I’m glad you said that. I’ve been spending the past 2 days trying to figure out how to update the firmware in my Magic NS adapter. It will not recognize it through the VM of Windows 10 I have. So I grabbed an old hard drive, small, and trying to just legit install a copy of Windows 10. Apperently I’m an idiot, and can’t even figure out how to get a USB stick, a legit copy of Windows 10, and figure out how to install it. I’m doing something wrong. I’ve tried Raspberri Pi imager, and Fedora Media Writer. Neither worked.

    I’d have been pissed if I COULD get the program to work in a VM, and it bricked it.


  • Since we’re on this topic anyways, now would be a great time for me to ask this very related question.

    I know exactly how to add games to my SNES/NES mini’s if I’m using Windows. I forget the name of the program I have, and I’d have to look back into the process (it’s been almost 10 years since I did this), but is there a way to do this on linux? If not, it’s no big deal. I can always turn off my pc, switch hard drives, boot into my old Windows 7 drive, and use the program I have set up from years ago.

    Not that I’m in any rush to do this, mind you. My mini consoles are more shelf display than anything I get any usage out of these days. I’ve been playing all my games on the Retroid Flip 2.

    Still though. It’d be nice to have another reason never to boot into Windows 7 again.