Wow, that's a steal.

I'm exaggerating here, I only have about 200 laserdiscs. That's just a portion of my physical media collection. But I do really enjoy them. My toddler calls them "big movies" and we've watched Bambi I don't know how many times. And hell yeah, Jaws and Aliens! I have the Criterion release of Silence of the Lambs, and that has also gotten a lot of play time.

I don't know if I can pick a favorite artist, my tastes are too varied. There's a ton of good suggestions in this thread, so a couple album recommendations I have that I don't see are:

Mannheim Steamroller - Fresh Aire II

Rheostatics - Melville

We used to have huge crowds, I've been there. I've campaigned with them. Huge crowds. We filled the National Mall. Millions of people. You should have seen them. I've spoken to them. Now, they're all gone. Where are they, I don't know. They were huge. Now they're so small. You should see them now. Wow. What a small crowd.

They had those keyboards in my college labs, too. And those monitors. It's not bad for a membrane kb. And I like how they look, which is the big reason I did a Dell build. Well, other than the fact that I got the tower at a flea market for like, $20.

Oh, you can't do shit on the internet these days. Lol. I don't know of a single browser for it that supports https. I tried installing Steam on it, but the last client supported for it can't connect anymore. I could probably still play some LAN games with it, but it's really just for me solo.

I just got a Switch 1, I'm not ready for change!

I'd say anything college or later is modern to me. Probably why I still have a Windows XP gaming PC. XD

After a quick image search, yes. I love it.

That looks really cool. I like whatever style of architecture this is.

I could conceded that my wife and I may be a little uptight, but most of our group is atheist or at least agnostic. So, just an internal uptightness. Lol.

Man, I also miss having a group of board game buddies too. Most of us have toddlers or kindergarteners now, and free time is extremely limited. Later this month we do have a kid free game night I'm really looking forward to. I have some weird old ones nobody has ever played I bust out from time to time to break up the long-form modern games we would normally do, like Arkham Horror.

I mostly grew up with 2D platformers and racing games, but I don't play them hardly at all anymore. I think part of the appeal of RTS and survival games for me is the freedom. There's no path to follow, you just wander anywhere and do whatever you want. Games like The Forest, and Fallout 3, and Seven Days to Die are among my faves currently. And for RTS, I like Battlezone II and I've dabbled in some Red Alert. I prefer open world freedom in my shooters, too. My favorites are Battlefield 1942 and all of its fantastic mods, and Star Wars Battlefront 2 (the original, not the EA one). But I pretty much play everything solo, with bots. I don't want to play with internet strangers, and it's rare I get people over for a LAN party.

If you want to try any old board games that don't get enough love, I recommend Score Four, Twixt, and Touché.

Well, I guess it depends on your definition of fun. Concerts? Board games? Survival or RTS games? Work? We do those. I use edibles sometimes. My wife isn't a huge fan. Nobody I know approves of smoking.

In my sphere, very few people use it. And it is mostly frowned upon. Primarily, if it's smoked. It's regarded as crude, and gross. I'd say edibles are more accepted, but you don't talk really talk about it.

I didn't get into blacksmithing until after we got married, so I guess I don't know what she saw in me. I guess the fact that I'm not involved with anything in the lower chart probably has helps. Could also be my cooking.

Wow, that brings back memories. Discontinued in 2003? I guess we were among the last classes to enjoy its sugary goodness at lunch.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Just this week I got my XP machine out for the first time in months and months. There's just no time anymore.

Getting my disc drives working was a bit of an adventure. I have a Dell E510 that survived the capacitor plague. But for some reason, the IDE controller is shot. Luckily it had two sata ports for the HDDs, but I ended up getting a pcie sata card and then two IDE to sata adapters for my disc drives. I'm totally surprised that it worked.

When my Crohn's is flaring up I've probably hit those numbers.

Beautiful. That's exactly what I wanted to see. Thank you. That's a very cool video.

The last I had heard was that it was a time consuming, very manual process. That the cells of the batteries had to be removed, opened, and unrolled all by hand. I don't see in the article anywhere that mentions the ease of disassembly, or if any of it can be automated. The 95% recovery is great, for sure. I wonder how scalable the project is though if it isn't automated.

That's damn impressive, I wasn't aware of that. Thank you for sharing!

No doubt batteries are getting better all the time. But they're still hard to recycle, and and lithium mining isn't exactly environmentally friendly itself. I'm still hoping for either a different electrolyte or some new design method that makes them easier to disassemble and recycle. I'll be looking for a new car in probably 5 years, I really hope I'll feel good about EV's by then.

Whoa, that Philips CD-RW drive just unlocked some core memories for me. That was my first CD burner. It was in a Dell Dimension XPS 233. How has your build been treating you the last 5 months? It's awesome. Bet it didn't run HL2. I tried installing the orange box on my XP build recently and couldn't get Steam to connect.

I play this every December. I brush off the Sega Saturn and relive Christmas of 1998.

Terminator: ReGenisys

Written and Produced by John Travolta

Directed by John Woo

Starring Adam Baldwin and Samantha Mathis

I think the worst way to sum up his channel is that he reviews MP3 players and bad headphones. You'd really just have to see it, he's very funny.

I just finished Michael Crichton's Prey again. The last time I read it was when it came out. It's still good. Don't know what to start next.

That's pretty slick. I have a couple of those kicking around, I might have to give it a try.

You definitely shouldn't do this, but you can get gelatin horse pill capsules off Amazon that are over an inch long that could delay it. But don't do it.

Yeah, she definitely crossed the line that time. It was probably the most mad I have ever seen her. I can't remember if that was also when she slapped me, or if that was something else. But really, those were the worst instances and the other 98% of my childhood was very good. And we really do have a very good relationship today. I don't think I deserved it, or any child would deserve that. My schooling was just a hotbutton issue for her, and I pushed it really hard that time.

My mom was very strict with me as a child, but I don't think it was narcissistic. She was very focused on my education. I had to do well and get a good job. But it was because she wanted me to have good health insurance as I have had chronic health issues from birth. I have a good job now, my student loans are paid off, and she was right about me needing good health insurance. Our relationship is lovely now. But I'll probably always remember the time that I skipped a homework assignment and she spit in my face.

I would love a brain implant. I want to live in the Matrix, I want to have the Feed. Just not from him. Never from him.

It's probably about the Vienna concert that was canceled due to a terrorist threat.

Shingles. That was just awful.

I hope so. 3 was awful, I didn't even finish it.

That's pretty fitting, considering dying on the toilet is a risk at his age.

How could I forget? Thank you. All his videos are good, I especially liked the El Faro and the K13 ones.

I've been really into maritime disasters lately, mostly Great Lakes freighters. This is a good channel.

https://youtu.be/zz2T4UWf9X4

https://youtu.be/5GJ7P3hh6Aw

This channel is also very good.

https://youtu.be/UEGseRuJ4Xw

This guy focuses on oceanliners mostly, and has a lot of videos on the Titanic. This is not one of those.

https://youtu.be/6uV6Eg0Ndn0

This channel focuses on what I can only summarize as negligence. Very good.

https://youtu.be/0yG5C94qM2Y

I love this. It is certainly odd.

Facebook is for my family. LinkedIn is for work. Lemmy is for me. That's all my social media.

I remember working both day and night shifts on an assembly line. Day shift was pretty good. The line was fully staffed, we had a full compliment of maintenance guys to fix the line when it went down. Good music.

Night shift was crazy different, way better. No management. Understaffed, and no maintenance people. So, some stations were always slower and you could sit down for a bit. Nobody was in the drive-thru at Taco Bell at 3am. And, it was seriously 15 degrees cooler in the plant. We never hit our quotas, and management was pissed. But we never had to see them.