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dan1101, 3 months ago

We made up a few that were fun.

First was cowboy and Indian block fortress wars. I had a big set of wooden blocks, like leftover 2x4 and 2x2 actual lumber pieces among other pieces, and a set of plastic cowboys and indians. We would split the blocks up and each build a fort, then place our cowboys or indians at various spots on the fort. Then we would take turns throwing a block at the other person’s fort to make it fall apart and the plastic guys fall. Once you knocked all your opponent’s pieces off their fort you win.

I also had a big set of cheap Lego knock-offs, they weren’t hard like Lego, they had a bit of flex. We would build cars with them and we each got a certain number of wheels we could use. Then we would crash our cars together head-on, parts would go flying but they didn’t break like Lego would. After each crash we’d check to see that each car could still sit on the floor without any part of the body touching the floor, the wheels had to keep the car off the floor. If both were good we kept crashing them together until someone’s car lost enough wheels or parts that it was dragging the floor, then they lost.

And finally my friend’s house had a big carport with a flat metal roof on it, probably 20x40 feet. Over the carport was a gum tree, they drop pointy ball seeds a little smaller than a golf ball but not as hard, and the spiky points aren’t particularly sharp. There were thousands of them on the ground and roof. One of us would get up on the carport roof and the other would run around on the ground. We threw gumballs at each other and if the person on the ground hit the person on the roof we would switch places. Can’t believe neither of us fell off the edge of the roof. At one point we made a sort of hand-held catapult by nailing a plastic container to a ~3’ piece of 2x4 lumber, we’d fill the container with gumballs and fling them at the other person all at once. The person on the roof usually got that since they had less maneuver room up there.

Good times.

dan1101, 3 months ago

Younger kids still do if you get them to spend time away from screens.

dan1101, 9 months ago

Moisture is the biggest enemy, and a lot of moisture will come from the bare ground. I had a “Cycle Shell” that worked great, it was a hard and thick rubber/plastic floor and a thick clamshell tent that folded to make a complete roof over the motorcycle.

I had my bike under that for 3-4 years when it was new and it still looks new years later. It’s in a garage now.

dan1101, 9 months ago

To be fair scanning people’s eyeballs and giving them digital currency in return is rather suspicious.

dan1101, 9 months ago

We are all Virginia on this glorious day

dan1101, 9 months ago

Special election operation

dan1101, 9 months ago

Didn’t watch the video but my 2006 carb Honda Shadow 750 likes to run about 2 min before going.

dan1101, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Derry Girls on Netflix

Vice Principals on (HBO) Max

The Righteous Gemstones on (HBO) Max

dan1101, 9 months ago

I recently witnessed one of these fry himself by somehow bridging 2 high voltage power lines. Big roaring ball of white plasma that lasted 3 or 4 seconds.

dan1101, 9 months ago

This sort of thing seems to happen far too often since Microsoft took over.

dan1101, 9 months ago

I’d give away about half and keep half.

dan1101, 9 months ago

Prepare for more pointless traffic backups.

dan1101, 9 months ago

I thought this was going to be the thing where they use cheap power to raise big weights and then generate power from gravity lowering them.

dan1101, 9 months ago

I know, we used to be able to afford cars, video cards, housing, food.

dan1101, 9 months ago

It’s always amusing to me when a game has a huge download size but is also an overhead view game and you probably can’t even get the camera close enough to the world objects to see the full texture detail.

dan1101, 9 months ago

Yeah looks similar to Divinity Original Sin 2. I installed a camera mod on that so I could get lower and closer, but that of course caused some weirdness in the skybox.

dan1101, 9 months ago

Ads as a general concept are ok to me, otherwise a lot of the Internet that is free will either go away or cost money. It’s just how many ads and what type. Pop-up ads are bad, too many ads are bad, ads that are deceptive are bad. They need to be small, curated, non-intrusive, and non-deceptive.

dan1101, 9 months ago

Press F to restart the drill. I don’t miss that lol.

dan1101, 9 months ago

Interesting. David Zaslav, also the guy who pulled programming from HBO Max and renamed it Max.

dan1101, 9 months ago

That would be a good penalty for them. Their phone number(s) must always be public so anyone can call them whenever they want.

dan1101, 9 months ago

No killing them is too extreme. Put them in a room with 1,000 different types of ringing telephones for a week.

dan1101, 9 months ago

suspended based on his inability to pay

If only he had some way to make money fast.

dan1101, 9 months ago

The lips around the d-pad and buttons look terrible.

dan1101, 9 months ago

A rotunda is a round building, usually with a dome ceiling. This particular one is the University of Virginia rotunda.

dan1101, 9 months ago

First thing, pull out any unneeded cables. The old red/white/yellow set from your VCR that you don’t use any more? Yank it out.