CatZoomies

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

That’s awesome - well done! Reminded me of something else, story below.

For anyone that watched MythBusters, you’re probably aware the two main hosts, Adam and Jaimie, didn’t like each other because they were two different clashing personalities and tough to work with. There was a pirate myths episode, and Adam went all out dressing as a pirate and using a very heavy faux-pirate accent. Jaimie was laughing so hard during that scene that his whole head was red! One of the most endearing moments of the show, and something I treasure because this show was so influential for me growing up.

Props to anyone like @Vanth that makes the normally serious person laugh!

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

The indomitability of the human spirit. Good for you!

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

Hell yeah! Proud of you, internet stranger. Quitting, I hear, is one of the most difficult things.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

Owner Class: “LOL screw that! Hey, Mushroom!”

Mushroom: “Yeah? What’s up?”

Owner Class: “Watch out! That White Tree is trying to steal your nutrients.”

Mushroom: “…”

Mushroom: (•ˋ _ ˊ•)

White Tree: “Whoa hang on there, fun guy. I’m not trying to steal your nutrients. I worked hard for these, I deserve my share.”

Mushroom: “Let’s fight, bitch!”

White Tree: “Them’s fighting words! You’re on!”

Scuffle Intensifies

Emperor Palpatine Owner Class: “Good. Good! Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.” Sticks a straw in the nutrients and starts sucking all of it.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Owner Class: “Hey everybody. We’ve had an excellent season this year, so we wanted to pay our success forward. Hold out your hands, we’re gonna share our harvest!”

Mushroom and White Trees hold out their “hands”.

Owner Class trickles a pittance of nutrients on Mushroom only.

White Trees: “… Wait, what?! How come Mushroom got this?”

Mushroom: “Yeah that’s weird. Let’s go ask Owner Class what happened!”

Owner Class: “WTF? That’s so weird! Hey, Mushroom! What happened here? Why did you get some nutrients and White Trees didn’t get any?!”

Mushroom: “Hey, I deserve this! I worked so hard this season, I have to eat, too!”

White Trees: “Give us some!”

Mushroom: “Make me!”

Scuffle Intensifies

Emperor Palpatine Owner Class: Laughs in Reaganomics

Sticks more straws into the nutrients and starts sucking.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

This definitely made me ROFL. God I wish this was a thing in real life that you can put over your eyes.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

Here’s the Nitter link, a privacy-respecting frontend for Twitter:

nitter.net/ashbeauchamp/…/1748034519104450874

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

I haven’t read the first run of the Amazing Spider Man comics (1960s) in over a decade, but I remember that Peter gained the knowledge to create webbing from the spider bite, and then applied science to create web shooters and cartridges. There’s so many comics out there I haven’t read any other Spidey comic, and probably got halfway through Amazing Spider-Man v1.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

Chatty Coworker: “Sounds great - I’ll join you! That coffee we had together this morning has loosened me up, and I’m always down for a game of Battleshits.”

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

The Simpson family goes on a long trip, but Grandpa Simpson has to go to the bathroom. Homer doesn’t pull the car over, and eventually when they get back to Springfield, Grandpa Simpson’s kidneys explode.

Homer decided to donate his kidney, but kept getting scared and would run away from the hospital. Then a bad accident later and he’s in the hospital sans kidney - they took it out of him. At the end Bart hugs him and Homer is squeezing him checking for kidneys to harvest from his son.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

This is me, but my unpopular opinion is Revenge of the Sith is my favorite movie out of the nine mainline ones. Empire’s great, but I loved Anakin’s fall the most even though there were several glaring problems with that movie.

Because the Sequels were so bad, I have no desire to watch those again any time soon and thus ignore their existence. For now, I’m finally checking out the side shows - I’m currently on Season 2 of the Clone Wars and haven’t watched any other Star Wars show. I know nothing about Baby Yoda except that he exists.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I used to think a slightly different way when I was younger. That these bad drivers needed to be taught a lesson. I would always catch up to them at a red light and shake my head no in disapproval and do a thumbs down.

Then one day a driver I did that to stuck his hand out the window and waved a handgun in my direction. Looks like he had something to prove and wanted to teach me a lesson, too.

Lesson learned: no matter what, you never, ever try to shame, scold, escalate, or “teach a lesson” to another driver. Ever. You have no idea what that person may do, and how quickly they can end your life. Would be a shame for you to wind up on the news as a dead person and your family to learn you were killed due to road rage.

Over a decade since that incident, I’m married and would never do such a thing. If I had children, especially when in my car, I’d hate for them to see negative/retaliation behavior come from me - or worse, for them to see me exhibit any kind of road rage. I’m now older, wiser, and a much safer driver and better human being all around.

Granted if someone tried a hit and run, I’d be on the phones with the cops and would follow them from a distance enough to get a good description and tag numbers.

Edit: Yes, I’m American. How did you know?

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

Shout out to the 3DS. What an amazing portable! I have so many memories with it, and it was the only gaming device I carried with me EVERYWHERE because of street pass and spot pass. I bought all the bundle games for StreetPass because it was so much fun having iterative improvement with visitors to your 3DS. Integration into other mainline games was pretty great too.

Not everything took advantage of the 3D aspect, but the games I played creatively innovated with it and provided new perspectives to solving puzzles.

I freaking love my 3DS. Right now Steam Deck has surpassed it, but man what an era of gaming.

Note: If you’re nostalgic for StreetPass, look up “Street Pass 2”. Despite Nintendo shuttering all the services, you can still work your way around and get StreetPasses to your console, but you’ll have to homebrew it.

Other runner ups: SNES (I was a kid that wasted away on that console), Wii, Wii U. I used to throw Wii Guitar Hero parties with friends. Great times.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

What a fantastic console. I played the hell out of GCN. My favorite games on there: Tales of Symphonia, The Wind Waker, and Smash Bros.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

The first 3-D gaming consoles. What an era. I had the N64 in the late 90s and was lucky enough to get a used PS1 in the early 2000s.

Mario 64 was the best for me. That opening title screen where you could stretch Mario’s face was hysterical. And then the opening cinematic was so breathtaking, just having that 3-D camera navigate around, with a musical crescendo ending with Mario Yahooing out of the warp pipe. I’ve never been so blown away seeing 3-D gaming. Then came Star Fox, and Ocarina of Time - Magical experiences that I’m getting goosebumps just reminiscing about them.

And of course PS1 when I got to play FF7. Wow. While I hated the graphics (apart from cinematic) since I got this console late into the end of the N64 generation, this was a formative game.

Getting all nostalgic here for simpler times. Having the magic of extremely senior and experienced devs bumping out amazing 2D masterpiece games on SNES, only to immediately shift into 3-D was great. Great time for gaming… before the dark times… before Horse Armor, live service, pay to play, “cut-and-paste-apology-letter-we-promise-to-do-better” broken games, and FOMO battle passes.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

Congrats my friend! Happy for your success!

If I can pass along some advice, be careful with your newfound money. Try to live at or below your current means, and get more into saving and investing your extra income. Your future self will be extremely grateful.

Good luck bud!

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

Bluetooth does have latency issues, but setting your TV to Game mode (if available) will provide extremely noticeable improvement.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

Make sure you highlight this in your one on one discussions with your manager and get compensated. You’re doing two jobs- your employer should not be taking advantage of you. Get paid my friend.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I second the G502, although I’m using the older G502 Proteus Spectrum. Using this mouse reliably for 6 years so far and no issues.

Edit: I should add context on how I use my mouse over those years. I use it for both work and gaming. I’ve been playing Overwatch 1 consistently on that, including the sequel remastered version “Battle Pass Simulator: The FOMO Game with guest-star Overwatch 1”. Also various other genres that do require repeated mouse clicking, and this mouse has held up extremely well. Favorite features are weight, ergonomics, infinite scroll wheel, and DPI shift that is a modifier. It’s quite useful when I’m trying to click heads in Battle Pass Simulator: The FOMO Game with guest-star Overwatch 1, although I always miss my shots because I’m getting old and can’t keep up with the younglings.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

Me after inattentively spamming through the tutorial just so I can play the game:

“How the fuck do I play this game?”

CatZoomies, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Owner Class: “Hey - it should trickle down any minute. I know you’ve been waiting 50 years for it, but it’s gonna come this time. Meanwhile, please subscribe to our Cardboard-Box-as-a-Service.”

EDIT: Oops, I just got back from my beating. My owners wanted me to add an additional addendum:

“Cardboard-Box-as-a-Service (CBaaS) has some additional benefits. Our free tier allows you access to the box, along with special promotions from our sponsors that will play inside the box. Parking comes as an extra service in order to comply with the law. We will provide details on what surcharges you can expect, but our partner providers can communicate what rental fees for land for the CBaaS entail.”

“Our Premium Tier will remove ads. And finally our Super Premium Tier includes a bidet. Water service for the bidet is included with up to 10 bidet cycles per user, with additional licensing available for additional fees. Water pressure may be throttled when many concurrent users are using their bidet. We will release new details on additional plans to increase your booty stream priority, once we figure out how much we can get away with.”

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/42b4dd85-c323-40a2-9dad-b8ee6f09dd84.jpeg

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

And if you wanted delicious fries, your best buy was not at Best Buy but rather Five Guys Burgers and Fries.

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

Feels like I’m wearing nothing at all

CatZoomies, 4 months ago

Totally reminded me about this game. I think I played it once when it first came out, but it was pretty forgettable. I’m gonna add this to my queue so I can fit some time in for it this year.