TurtleSoup

joined 5 months ago
[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Kinda crazy when they subvert expectations like that sometimes and actually prove themselves as a journalist.

You'd think a journalist for Teen Vogue or Cosmopolitan would be a hack and then all of a sudden they drop some in-depth, well written op-ed that makes you go "what? How?.."

Like I said elsewhere, I've actually got a couple copies of Rolling Stone from the opening weeks/months of the Iraq Invasion (their somewhere in my personal library) and the comparison to issues from before the war is staggering. Their journalists were actually really good and when they weren't being told to write a bunch of gobbledygook about a has-been one hit wonder, they were really capable journalists.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 24 points 5 months ago

Rolling Stone was probably the only source of actual journalism during the Iraq Invasion for a time.

Oh the memories.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Lions mane and chicken of the woods. Grill em, hit em with some garlic butter and lemon pepper. Pretty dang good imo.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I still remember when I met a pilot who majored in geology. I asked him "you know the irony in that right?" He says "yep. But hey at least I can tell you about the mountain we're about to crash into."

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago

Honestly out of all 12 steps it's the first step that actually hits the hardest.

"We admitted we were powerless over alchohol (although you could substitute alcohol for anything really)—that our lives had become unmanageable."

As my shrink used to say "the hardest part of overcoming a problem or mistake is admitting you have a problem/made a mistake."

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

God... Imagine being in the middle of an important call for say discussing family affairs for a dying family member and you just hear "there will be a 30 second advertisement break in 1 minute."... I'd probably pop a blood vessel.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

That said, before multiplayer was centralised, you checked the server pingtime before joining the server.

Scrolling through servers on CS:Source trying to find one that wasn't pinging harder than my anxiety... Those were the days.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There's still a way to do it but it's convoluted compared to if they'd just add a damn resource monitor into the game itself.

If you still care about figuring out your ping: this comment on reddit from a year ago tells you how to find your games server IP, from there you can just fire up command prompt and hit with ping -n 100 <IP/Adress> This should return your ping and packet loss with the server.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Blind definitely helped me understand DF a lot better.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Definitely in the category of "ol' reliable" in terms of watches but I like the Pro-Trek because of some of the added features like the compass, barometer and altimeter.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

I've had mine for a good while now and it's out up with all maner of abuse. Plus mine has a canvas strap that I prefer over metal or silicone.

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