I have tried to out-crazy them, but crazy has gone beyond my ability in the last few years.

8 was a tragedy of Titanic proportions.

You can pick. I haven’t seen a single modern system without a sound mode option.

Have you never enjoyed a movie at the movie theater? They use top-tier surround sound systems and it’s amazing! You can recreate a lot of that at home with a 5.1 surround sound system. The more channels you add, the more immersive the experience. Like in the beginning of Saving Private Ryan, the sounds are coming from all around. You can feel the bass from the boats churning below you, hear the bullets go whizzing past you and hit the boats & people behind you, hear the guns firing in front of you and people screaming to advance. It completely changes the viewing experience. Idk why you wouldn’t want that if you’re into movies. But you can’t really re-create that with a sound bar. Sure, it’s usually better than the TV speakers, but it’s not true surround sound.

I don’t want to change anyone’s mind anymore. I’m so tired of trying. I just want them to STFU and believe their wacko shit in private like the good old days.

Leather needs to be maintained (oiled or polished), even if you’re not wearing them.

Wow, I can’t believe I never put that together before.

Right, with modern context we can figure it out pretty quickly, after we learn that the term torch is used for flashlight. The first time I saw it i thought they were talking about a cigarette lighter

Because we have actual torches too. You guys don’t have actual soccers to get confused by. Given the right context we can figure out when you mean flashlight, but said torch.

That’s too bad. Apparently their holo lens was really good. But pricing it at $4000 meant most people weren’t interested.

I just use a hand held padded velvet brush type thing, with some cleaning spray. You can actually wash them with soapy water and a rag if they’re really bad, just make sure to rinse all the soap off. They sell special spinner things that wash with a solution along the bottom, so you don’t accidentally get the labels wet, but those are more money than I wanted to spend. For records that I purchased new, I use the padded thing. For old vintage records I get at the thrift store, I rinse them with water and wipe them down along the grooves with a dusting rag, then just use the padded thing. I clean them every time I pull them out, before playing them. Some old records still pop every now and then, which I attribute to record damage, not anything wrong with my system. I kind of dig it, since it adds to the charm.

I bought her the best macha I could find. I’m just not a fan of the way it tastes. She drinks it, so she seems to like it just fine.

It’s hard to get someone to understand that which they’re paid to not understand. Seems there’s all kinds of Facebook shills up in this thread.

Edit: oh, and would you look at that? Right out of the gate with the exploit stage in full effect .“Threads” has been an internet term for these forum discussions for as long as the internet has been around, but now zuckerfuck wants it all to himself. Now a billion upon billion different forum posts are going to inadvertently mention his stupid-ass platform.

Right… because Facebook has never bought out or destroyed competitive platforms.

Meta can’t even keep Facebook or Instagram functional. They get worse with literally every single update. New things are broken every time I visit. They need to take care of what they have, not go looking for other things to fucking ruin. Stupid-ass anti-trust pig dogs.

Have you cleaned the records? That’s where you will see the biggest improvement. Beyond that I can recommend a rubber record mat. You can pick one up on Amazon for $10-$20.

My wife makes macha tea with just water. It’s not very tasty.

Nor do you want them. Windows 10 was pretty amazing when it was released, but now it’s essentially just adware and spyware. They’ve added no new features for the benefit of the consumer, and have added thousands of changes for their snooping and ad-serving.

Why are you using Windows for BG3? I’ve been using Pop!_OS and it runs perfectly.

“It is not enough for me to succeed, others must fail.”

–some Senior yearbook entry I saw on the Internet 10 years ago