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DarkRoast posted...

Oh dude Sony and Xperia is a decade of blown chances.

The Xperia Z3 was the literal perfect phone. It had everything. The best camera. The best build quality. Unbelievably good battery life. It was literally waterproof in an era when no phone had waterproofing (they even showed people filming underwater with it). It also had a unique PS4 Remote Play functionality (before any other phone did) and native DualShock support.

The copper color was beautiful, too.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/8/2/AAeEwGAADSLS.jpg

::sigh::

Yeah, Sony & their infinite stupidity on being either too early or too late.

Now they're playing catch-up to the rest of the market.

They have a good product, but they need to make good "Mass Market" phones

DarkRoast posted...

I know that guy was joking about the flintlock pistol but that would be cool as hell to own. Maybe a musket or blunderbuss, too.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/8/5/AAeEwGAADSLV.jpg

YARR matey

You think you would enjoy that, but cleaning Black Powder out of the bore of your Flint Lock isn't fun.

The oldest tech I would go with are "Single-Shot Remington Rolling Blocks".

At least they use Smoke-less Powder and it's still enough fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNv8hpxDDkU

Tropicalwood posted...

The repeating crossbow has been around since at least 4th century BC.

But they aren't loaded via single packet Clips!

Those are manual loaders where you have to load each bolt 1-by-1

Loading a single Clip is MUCH FASTER =D

DarkRoast posted...

lmfao @ that semi-automatic loading bow. I need that.

Honestly if they made a semi-automatic crossbow that shit would be pretty deadly. Arrows are no joke, especially metal crossbow bolts.

They already did that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drQnaLXkifo

Joerg Sprave already made it, it's a commercial product now.

Limit to 7 round Clips with 2-fins only for your Crossbow Bolts and more limited tip selection.

But that's the limitation for having a Built in Magazine for Crossbow Bolts.

It doesn't take that much to exceed the minimum deadly force level.
In the old US Army manual, it requires 59 ft-lbs piercing through 1/2" pine board to be considered lethal amounts of Kinetic energy.

Even .22LR could do that at maximum effective range.

.25 ACP meets that requirement at close range
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.25_ACP

And .25 ACP is considered a "Wimpy Cartridge" by most folks.

The Sony Xperia 1 Mk.IV is what currently interests me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUU0BjJjAvk

First Camera would really good Optical Zoom

It meets nearly all the criteria I want, except for price.

It's on the "Pricey Side", but hits nearly every other check box.

DarkRoast posted...

As a side note, I was actually in archery club during summer camp as a kid, and I think archery is a hell of a lot of fun. I wouldn't necessarily say it takes a lot more skill than being a good sharpshooter with a gun, especially with practice, but the problem with archery is how long it takes to nock another arrow and it's also kind of expensive if you constantly break arrows.

You haven't seen Joerg Sprave's "Instant Legolas" invention?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy_bJQaD3Uc
It makes Archery even more fun

Many of the "Ex-WWE" folks were once Indie Wrestlers as well.

At the end of the day, they're Wrestlers who want a job, if they can bring recognition to AEW, I don't see what's so bad bout it.

Who doesn't like Ember Moon AKA Athena the "Fallen Goddess"?

Who doesn't like Malcom Bivens AKA Stokely Hathaway?

Use your LapTop to take screen shots please =D

Questionmarktarius posted...

Or just... LibreOffice and export to pdf.

That works too.

The Corridor Cast has a good rant on Adobe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeopaTW16kA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVNCgmAsI8c

Questionmarktarius posted...

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html
$15 a month for just fucking Acrobat, when everything has "export to PDF" now.

Try Foxit PDF editor.

They have a Pay Once model

Corel still sells their Graphics Suite as a Pay Once, own forever option.

They have a "Subscription Option". But Keyword = Optional.

You can still buy to own.

Don't forget that if you buy Corel, you're supporting a good ole Canadian company.

Corel still has Word Perfect Office Suite along with the Graphics Suite.

Supernatural posted...

but he isn't wearing any fancy clothes

Coming into the Prime Universe without any Rich Financial Support from his dad, I'm sure his apparel had to be "Downgraded".

Heartomaton posted...

I loved that show from beginning to end. Everyone gives season seven shit, but it's my favorite.

While Season 7 might be the "Weakest" by many Supernatural fans PoV.

I think it was alright, the most important aspect was that it broke ALOT of Supernatural conventions, tropes, storyline structure.

For that, I'm appreciative. It had a completely different/unique vibe then any other Supernatural season.

The upcoming spin-off looks like garbage, though.

I'm willing to give it a chance as long as it follows the story of a different Multiverse Dean Winchester and his parents.

Yeah, I loved Supernatural.

I'm willing to give the new "The Winchesters" Prequel Spin-off a chance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCL_vwl4XUw

They're going to have ALOT of explaining to do with how this show fits in with the established lore in Supernatural since there are SOO many things that contradict what was stated in the show.

But I think they might have some loop holes.

Hayame Zero posted...

And pulled their merch from the store as well

I can understand the "Indefinite Suspension"

But to pull their merch is just "REALLY PETTY" IMO.

ffmasterjose posted...

Funny enough all of these "established" tag teams were thrown together pairings. They're gonna need to make up more tag teams to host this tourey lol

You have 3x established Tag Teams:

• Carmella & Zelina Vega
• Natalya & Shayna Baszler
• Nikki A.S.H. & Doudrop

What Tag Team pairings do you want to see from the remaining list:

Alexa Bliss
Aliyah
Asuka
Becky Lynch
Bianca Belair
Charlotte Flair
Dana Brooke
Lacey Evans
Liv Morgan
Raquel Rodriguez
Rhea Ripley
Ronda Rousey
Shotzi
Sonya Deville
Tamina
Xia Li

I love the ergonomics of it, visually it's kind of awkward; but in practice, it's great.

I have original & PowerA's officially licensed versions of the GameCube controller.

They work great.

The PowerA version has a larger D-Pad to fix the old issue of tiny D-Pad and Dual Shoulder Z-buttons on both sides.

The only thing they're missing is "Rumble" & NFC communication with Amiibos.

Both are features I don't care about.

chukklez17dc posted...

Just get rid of the titles they obviously don't give a shit about them

Watch, Vince McMahon spites Sasha & Naomi by starting to give a damn about the Women's Tag Team Division

I think they can form enough Women's Tag Team's from RAW & SD!

Alexa Bliss
Asuka
Becky Lynch
Bianca Belair
Carmella
Dana Brooke
Doudrop
Lacey Evans
Liv Morgan
Nikki A.S.H.
Queen Zelina
Rhea Ripley
Sonya Deville
Tamina

Aliyah
Charlotte Flair
Natalya
Raquel Rodriguez
Ronda Rousey
Shayna Baszler
Shotzi
Xia Li

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaX1BodDGUI

What if this is the backstory to the Alternate Universe versions of Sam & Dean's parents that we met near the end of the final season?

DarthAragorn posted...

That could have been undone at least, I guess.

Also Mary is pretty hot at least so the show isn't a complete loss?

Every actress that has portrayed Mary was pretty Hot.

Regardless of the characters age & actresses age.

I do like the new hippie hunter named Carlos with his "Holy Water" squirt gun.

This show better be set in one of the Multi-verse with a different set of Winchester families.

DarthAragorn posted...

This shit doesn't even make sense. John wasn't a hunter til Mary died in the first scene.

Exactly!

This Prequel is contradicting existing lore by re-writing it.

Easy to Remember & Understand:
PlayStation
PlayStation 2
PlayStation 3
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5

Difficult to Remember & Understand:
Xbox
Xbox 360
Xbox 1X
Xbox Series X

Is Protection from ___ color OP or is it because of the more recent interpretation of the rules that make it OP?

Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

I mean, AEW could use some legit women's stars.

Also, yeah... fucking make the tag belts mean something story wise.

Honestly, since Roman has unified the two Main Titles @ Wrestlemania 38:
UWU (Undisputed WWE Universal) Championship = WWE Championship + WWE Universal Championship

They should go and Unify the Tag Team Belts and let the Champions bounce between the two brands.

The US Championship can stay on RAW

The IC Championship can stay on SmackDown.

The Women's titles need to be Unified.

The Women's Tag Titles needs to be more prominent and a regular staple of the show.

Their needs to be a Women's Mid-card belt.

Call it the "Trans-Continental" title and have it be the new "Women's Mid-card" belt.

Shouldn't the Tanks just move foreward and run over all the Zombies?

Calwings posted...

The rumor is that they were going to feed Naomi to Bianca and Sasha to Ronda (essentially using the tag champs as fodder to elevate the singles champs and make the tag titles/champs look like shit by comparison) and that's what they were unhappy about more than anything in tonight's match specifically. That plus a possible breakup storyline right after that for the tag champs... yeah, that's some shitty booking right there.

I'd also walk out too if I was used like that.

I can understand Sasha & Naomi's feelings on elevating the Women's Tag Team division and how Creative is shitting on them.

All the Women in the Roster wants a proper Singles World Title, Singles Mid-Card Title, & Tag Title division. That isn't asking for too much.

It also doesn't help that Vince has never liked Tag Teams to begin with.

It has to be Doudrop for one of them, they've spent the least amount of in-ring time with her and she's a relative unknown when it comes to encounters with Sasha & Naomi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EiEX4tmCfY

Swagnet0 posted...

I don't eat candy for breakfast.

Either do I.

Kellogs Frosted Mini Wheats ain't candy.

Kellogs Frosted Mini Wheats would like to have a conversation with you about who's taking the top spot.

Game Pass isn't long term sustainable for all the studios MS owns.

It's fundamentally dumb to rely on Game Pass as their long term economic strategy to fund game development.

I'd prefer a more realistic loadout of what you can carry on your person and on your backpack or carrying rig.

No Artificial limits, just limits on mass that affects your character.

If it gets too heavy, it should affect your movement speed and stamina.

Faith > Buffy

The future is "JPEG XL"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL

Did the bat drive you batty?

What's your optimum temperature range?

Harpie posted...

I need opinions! Im going to a wedding tomorrow (as a photographer) and the theme is muted colors but mostly purple and green. Should I wear the tulle purple skirt? Or the red wool one with either the turtleneck or t shirt?

Any recommendations are super helpful! Even if its none of these combinations.

If you're going as the Photographer for work, you should keep the long sleeve black turtle neck and wear some form of slacks / trouser.

I hope you're being well compensated for your work.

When you show up, you should look professional, ready to take photos for the event.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

That's why you're able to age like Asian Women, you're following their life style.

In SoCal, you see Asian Women walk out in hot days with Umbrellas to shade against the sun.

That's how much they dislike the sun.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

You're following the secrets to Asian Youthfulness very well.

Most Asians remain Youthful looking by avoiding the Sun for most of their lives when possible.

Intentionally getting only the absolute minimum amount of Sun necessary to produce your daily dose of Vitamin D & minimize stress factors in your life.

That's how you maintain your Youthful looks, by staying out of the Sun like a Vampire.

Implementing that lifestyle to maintain your Youthful looks is FAR HARDER than most people think because it's a practice you got to live by 24/7/365 for as long as possible.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

You're always Cute!
Sunny = Chou Kawaii!

How's the studies going?

I wish you would've went with SunPower based Solar Panels.

https://us.sunpower.com/blog/2020/02/14/which-solar-panels-are-most-efficient

https://sunpower.maxeon.com/int/solar-panel-products/maxeon-solar-panels

They have the highest Efficiency & Durability of all Solar Panel makers.

Their Solar Panels are good enough for NASA
https://us.sunpower.com/blog/2016/03/28/sunpower%E2%80%99s-nasa-projects-prove-our-solar-reliable

masterpug53 posted...

There was a topic a few days ago titled 'when did you first start feeling old?' I didn't quite have an answer at the time, but after thinking about it, I realized that, in spite of the years of aches creeping into my joints and popular trends passing me by, the concept of Crypto, NFTs, and anything involving blockchains are what truly, genuinely make me feel like an old fart. I don't understand them, attempting to understand them just makes me more confused, and I've accepted that I'm perfectly content letting this new-fangled societal trend sail completely over my head.

You aren't missing out on anything of value.

They're scams / grifts. It's best to avoid it all together.

DarkRoast posted...

Speculation is literally the only reason it exists. It sure as hell isn't a viable currency with such volatility.

Crypto money laundering rises 30%, report finds
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60072195

That's why Crypto shouldn't be allowed as a form of currency.

Treat it as the speculative scam that it is.

Don't let legit businesses Buy/Sell/Do Business with any form of Crypto Currency.

You want to go buy Crypto, go withdraw cash and go to your local Crypto Transaction shop.

The moral of the story:

trust what is tangible, cash bonus now is greater than any promise of Stocks that will "Miraculously Rise" because of IPO.

Work Life Balance > any promises.