Asking the real questions.

A truly brutal experience I’ll never revisit.

Skateboarding.

What a huge disappointment after the masterpiece that was Hyper Light Drifter.

I’m genuinely sad about this one.

I hear this all the time in business meetings.

Any kind of business lingo and buzzwords trigger the fuck out of me.

The fact is is that like it or not it does speed us up

This is not a fact at all.

I’m in a similar boat. Can confirm that this is the way.

I’ve had the most injuries in my life this year. Its just been one after another, but I think I’ve learned a lot about how to deal with them; especially the running injuries.

I’m just very stubborn and I tend to overdo it and that backfires every time it seems.

We’re 100% on the same page.

A fancy ceremony doesn’t change how people feel about the other person, nor the level of obligations they actually have

You literally take an oath at the ceremony vowing to uphold an extremely high level of obligations to another person.

If you’re making vows at a wedding ceremony that you feel you can just nope out on if shit hits the fan, why are you getting married? What is the point?

I agree. The wedding shouldn’t change how you feel about the other person because you should already be 100% dedicated if you’re thinking of getting married.

I made a vow to my wife when we got married to care for her in sickness and in health. I do not care what happens in life, I would never abandon her. Period. That is the burden of the vow I made. In my mind my personal integrity is foundationally attached to it.

If you’re comfortable with abandoning a spouse over health issues, the marriage was a sham from the get go. Like, what are you doing at the ceremony? Making vows with your fingers crossed behind your back? 🤞🤞🤞

Dunno, man. Its hard to say. When you marry you take vows. Breaking those vows is a massive no-no in my eyes.

Unmarried couples have never vowed to take care of each other in sickness and in health. On those grounds, I think its fair to say that leaving is not unethical. Doesn’t change the fact that its absolutely devastating and worthy of scrutiny regardless.

Sorry you had to go through that.

Yeah, that video about catalytic converters was excellent.

It could be something as simple as your gas cap not properly sealing anymore.

You can buy bluetooth OBD II readers on Amazon for like $20 that can scan the check engine codes and tell you exactly what the problem is.

I still use this site almost every day.

How would the united -stans be bigger than Russia, or even China?

100k CAD to be fair. And yeah, I don’t know exactly what they paid, but it’s the dually Super Dutys, the Denalis, the Longhorns, etc…

Maybe they’re a few years old too. I don’t give two shits about trucks so take my words with a grain of salt I suppose.

Pavement princesses. The North American Man®'s gender affirming vehicle.

I lnow multiple dudes that work as box throwers in Walmart warehouses that drive $100k trucks, trucks that will never see any kind of work that’s appropriate for their size. Might haul a few 2x4s from home depot every once in a while.

They want to own a home, but they’re making massive payments on a huge truck instead. 🤙

A good gaming monitor with something like the Framemeister, RetroTINK, or OSSC can give properly unnoticeable amounts of input lag.

Ok, so wait a second here. You’re suggesting that buying a “good” gaming monitor (hundreds to thousands of dollars) and an upscaler (the cheapest of the options you mentioned I found for $369 USD is a better option than buying a CRT?

I found a perfectly good 28" Panasonic CRT on Kijiji for $200 CAD.

It makes the retro noises, it displays the games the way they were meant to be displayed, and there’s no perceptible input lag. It also just fits the visual aesthetic if you have a retro gaming area/room in your house. There’s no way I’m paying anywhere near 5-600 USD (up to 1k CAD, basically) to play retro games on a modern monitor when I can have a setup faithful to the experiences I had as a kid in the 90s for $200 CAD.

It’s not wrong. You can feel it.

My wife is not a gamer and even she can feel it. She hated playing on our living room TV. Said she felt like she got really bad at Mario Bros over the years or something and was disappointed.

Bought a CRT; she loves the game again and is still quite good at it actually.

Reacting to stimulus is completely different than timing inputs in a video game. A few ms of delay isn’t really going to register in a reaction test, but if you’re using constant time sensitive information on screen to accurately time your movements in a game, you can easily feel lag in the sub 5ms range.

As a guitarist, I can feel latency down to 2ms if I’m playing through a modeling amp on my PC, especially if I’m playing at high tempos. The faster you play, the greater the percentage of time between notes that latency becomes. The effect is the same in high speed video games.

A modern TV is a really bad example.

Not when it comes to console gaming.

The look of CRT is important to retro gaming but do you know what the most important characteristic of CRTs for retro gaming is?

No input lag.

Play OG Super Mario Bros on a modern TV and let me know how long it is before you wanna smash the controller in frustration. The game just feels incredibly sloppy.