rhacer 8 hours ago • 100%
That would have been a giveaway.
rhacer 9 hours ago • 100%
I'll take that as a compliment! I've had the same job since December 2001. My first marriage lasted over 20 years. My second is at 12 already. Three sons, one daughter, a wife who's a career soldier, means we move a lot.
rhacer 10 hours ago • 100%
This has been a ton of fun. Thank you for taking the time to do it. I was very careful in my answers, hoping not to give too much away. I think I was mostly successful.
I'm pretty impressed at the 49 number though!
You're actually 12 years too young. I just celebrated birthday 61.
rhacer 1 day ago • 100%
We met in 2011
rhacer 1 day ago • 100%
Wow, another interesting question. There are so many. I think the night I meet my wife at the instigation of some friends would be one of those. My life certainly changed significantly then.
rhacer 1 day ago • 100%
Oh I'm working on it. I fiddle around in the shop, learning some really basic skills but getting there.
rhacer 1 day ago • 100%
Oh man, what a question. I really want to change careers. I want to learn to make furniture. It feels more "lasting" than writing code. So yeah, I have more to do.
rhacer 1 day ago • 100%
Yellowstone is fantastic! I'm loving it
Right now I am playing a lot of Balatro, some Satisfactory, some BG3, some No Mans Sky. Minecraft is also regularly in rotation.
rhacer 1 day ago • 100%
Cook dinner, and right now I'm watching Yellowstone Season 2.
If I weren't doing that, I would likely be playing a video game.
rhacer 1 day ago • 100%
Looking forward to it! Do your worst!
rhacer 1 day ago • 100%
I think this is a pretty entertaining game. Good idea
rhacer 2 days ago • 100%
Yes, but what gorgeous country to get fucked in! When my wife PCSd from Long Island to Fort Knox, we drove through that country several times.
She would also spend a lot of time at Fort Lee (now Gregg-Adams) and the drive from Fort Knox to Fort Lee also crossed amazing parts of WV.
rhacer 2 days ago • 100%
My father was an itinerant minister. He traveled all over the country. We made great use of TripTik (I think that's what it was called).
rhacer 2 days ago • 100%
Hey! Thanks so much for the helpful response. I really appreciate it!
rhacer 6 days ago • 100%
Honor Harrington or Safehold by David Weber.
rhacer 1 week ago • 66%
I get a big red banner saying sorry, according to your usage patterns you are not in the same family.
rhacer 1 week ago • 80%
I have three sons, they live in the West Coast, I live in the Midwest. I can't join a family with them. That's a bummer.
rhacer 1 week ago • 100%
My absolute favorite AC game. My wife just got me Sideshow's Edward Animus statue for my birthday. It's stunning.
rhacer 1 week ago • 100%
She was on a team in Kentucky 6th through 8th grades. She's starting her Freshman year in Iowa.
Her response is sadly always the same. "Dad! I'd get in trouble!"
rhacer 1 week ago • 100%
My daughter is an archer. I have asked her this question many times.
rhacer 1 week ago • 100%
I love it. I don't understand your mental health struggles so I'm going to resort to name calling.
rhacer 1 week ago • 98%
Your worth, your value is not determined by what someone else makes.
Also, I'm a bit ignorant of this subject so forgive me if I get it wrong, but did he not go to school significantly longer for his MD than you did for yours?
I believe he also had to go through the hell that is residency, I didn't believe nurses do.
If you're envious of his salary, improve your skills, or your education. If you're happy where you are at In life, then don't let the fact that others make more than you interfere with that happiness.
No matter what you do, there will always be others who make more, one of those sad facts of life.
rhacer 1 week ago • 100%
I'm sorry, which part of "destroys me" don't you understand? Do I need to spell out that on more the one occasion I contemplated a bullet in the head because of those things?
Just because you are unable to relate to such a thing does not mean my mental health is not negatively impacted.
So I ask again, where do you place the limit on what is deserving a trigger warning?
rhacer 1 week ago • 100%
I'm opposed to trigger warnings for the same reason I'm opposed to participation trophies. Part of maturing is learning that uncomfortable things happen in the world, and that you will not always be successful.
If you don't want to see uncomfortable things, perhaps you should not be watching The Sopranos, or Sons of Anarchy, or Yellowstone, or Hill Street Blues, or MASH. Stick with Disney+ (but maybe not, I watched Lion King last night in honor of the passing of James Earl Jones and cried like a baby).
Serious question, where do trigger warnings end? I am triggered by any father showing approval for their son. (Hell I'm choking up just typing that). My wife and daughter will tell you that no matter what: TV, Movie, Audio Book, or even commercial, it will destroy me, sometimes for a few minutes sometimes longer. I have never seen a "Warning! This show contains graphic fatherly approval of their children that may be upsetting to some viewers" I would never think of making an issue of it either. My emotional fragility is my issue to deal with. Not someone else's.
rhacer 1 week ago • 100%
Boy THAT will work! Good idea government!
rhacer 1 week ago • 50%
Isn't that what ratings are for?
rhacer 1 week ago • 88%
I hate to think about what your familial experiences must have been like to believe that couples can't love each other, have kids they love and who love them, and genuinely enjoy being around each other.
rhacer 1 week ago • 100%
We watched The Lion King tonight in his honor.
rhacer 1 week ago • 100%
I've even helped by putting my nose in the air and saying, "that's ok, I'll put it away for you"
rhacer 2 weeks ago • 90%
If someone tells you something, that something does not get repeated without asking for permission first. People don't have to say "can I tell you this in confidence?" Absolutely everything is kept in confidence.
rhacer 2 weeks ago • 100%
Loved it. TMI. It came out when my first wife and I had split after 20 years of marriage. I was living in a dive apartment. Alone for the first time in my life.
Playing BioShock.
rhacer 3 weeks ago • 92%
Very very aware.
So you had another mail server elsewhere that port forwarded port 25 via port 22 to your internal mail server's port 25.
I take it that outside mail server was secure.
That's an impressive setup.
rhacer 3 weeks ago • 100%
Thanks for reading and engaging in good faith.
The lack of land is a huge problem. It is possible that when underwater habitats or space habitats become a thing there will be room for such an experiment.
rhacer 3 weeks ago • 80%
Did you really only use it when you were home? If you used it outside the firewall then port 25 must have been open also.
I used to run my own server and this was in the early 90s. Then one day, perusing the logs I realized I was not smart enough on the security front to even attempt such a thing. It was quickly shut down and the MX record moved to an outsourced mail provider.
rhacer 3 weeks ago • 33%
I disagree. Voluntary communities are made up of volunteers. There is nothing coercive about it. Voluntary communities provide a way for like-minded people to live in harmony. If your beliefs do not match the beliefs of a voluntary community, you are free to to argue that your beliefs should be included, leave the community, or start a new one and include anyone who believes the same things you do.
Granted within current systems you can do the first, but you are completely unable to do either the second or third.
I live in the USA. But I did not volunteer to live in the USA. I certainly may be able to move to a different country, but I certainly won't be able to find a country with the same beliefs as I have. (The States with our Constitution and Bill of Rights is likely the closest to my beliefs).
rhacer 3 weeks ago • 100%
Probably not the root of what you're looking for, but when I was growing up in the 70s there was a national Christian campaign called the "I Found It* campaign. The church I grew up in participated and I Found It yard signs and buttons and billboards and radio ads and TV ads sprouted every where.
Of course the answer to *what did you find?" Was always Jesus, or eternal life or something like that.
rhacer 3 weeks ago • 50%
That's one of the reasons AnCaps believe in voluntary communities, that way those who didn't advise but whatever the community's rules are they can a) be punished based on the rules of the given community, or expelled.
rhacer 3 weeks ago • 33%
AnCap here. Unfortunately in our world there is no possible way to create an AnCap society, so you live within the bounds of what you have.
rhacer 3 weeks ago • 33%
Dumb? Possibly. Do you think you gain or lose voters by calling much of America deplorable? How about, calling them racist? Nazis? Do any of those things attract people to your side of the fence?
rhacer 3 weeks ago • 20%
And this is why there are so many Trump voters.
I'm trying to learn to be a fan of baseball. This sort of history helps shape that burgeoning fandom.
I've long thought I should be a baseball fan, join me on a quest to become one.
There's a song, I think I only heard one time likely on KGON in Portland, OR and likely in the late 70s. This song has haunted me over the years but I have never been able to locate it again. The one thing I really remember is that there is a spoken-word portion where the vocalist talks about the Boogie Woogie, but pronounces it more like Boozhi Woozhi. I'm laying in bed quarantined with Covid and once again its memory and my inability to determine what song it was is haunting me.
My favorites broke. They were working great but now they don't work at all. I can't favorite anything there icon sits in the middle of the plus sign and I can't move it to any open slot. Things I had already favorites continue to work, but I can't add new things or swap things out. I've tried dropping my entire inventory and then picking things back up but that is not resolving there issue. It's not game-breaking but it is frustrating.
Playing Oakland in injury time we score an ugly goal (likely an own goal). Ref indicates a goal. Oakland's keeper who is a complete wimp rolls around on the ground. Stadium replay guy plays the goal. Ref watches the replay and reversed himself. Appalling.
If you've been waiting to buy on console, now is the time to pull the trigger
I own XCOM 2 on PC. Is it worth getting it on the Series X so I can play while sitting on the couch?
How does XCOM 2 play on the Series X? Is it worth getting even though I already own it on PC? Love the game and would love to be able to play sitting on my couch!
Anyone have any insight into Rapids v. Timbers? Should I stay up later than I was planning (I'm on the East Coast). Or should I go to bed?
Shortly after my previous post about BEX, my merc company folded due to a lack of funds. I took the opportunity to install BTA and give it a try. I love the depth, I love the details, but I'm really struggling with the lack of a cohesive art style. I'm finding it pulling me out of my suspension of disbelief. Has anyone else had that difficulty? Will I outgrow it with time?
If the video game is fair game... I've been playing BEX, and I suck at it mostly. I always play Ironman, so that entails lots of restarts. I finally have a merc company that has lasted a bit. I've moved up to 2 and 2.5 skull missions. Needed some money quickly and took a 1.5 skull mission. Comstar showed up, wiped my lance it was the last mission in my current system, I didn't know what I was going to do to not go bankrupt. Discovered I had Shadowhawk in cold storage sold it, started taking out my "starter" mechs on half-skull and one-skull missions, I'm starting to become a bit more financially solid again and may have survived afterall.