This is so me, find the right gear and feather the clutch, never touch the brakes.

When it’s 30F and sunny I’m on my snowboard in a t shirt. Course, I’m in Chicago, 30C feels like a nice cool day to do shit outside in summer.

Spending time being out of reach. The power button is by far my favorite on my phone.

I have the world’s most expensive PlayStation controller. For the past five years I’ve pretty much only played Rocksmith 2014, and have a few hundred songs downloaded. I’m about to hit 1000 hours played.

On my fourth bass, a brand new Ibenez fretless, and finally have a setup without all the buzzing and crap of a cheap bass.

I like blues, classic rock, but my brain just seems hardwired for 90s grunge as that was my youth.

Greenday, Offspring, Primus (on easy) are my go to. Really enjoy Me and Bobby Mcgee by Joplin and Moonage daydream by Bowie when I’ve been drinking.

Been thinking about taking lessons at a local store, I really want to learn to read tabs and get things setup to play along with YouTube.

I’d love to be able to play some Pink Floyd, Phish, and Grateful Dead. Other than three Dead songs there’s none of that available.

I live in an apartment so it’s all headphones.

My free time is divided between audio books, video games, some TV, mostly YouTube, and learning bass guitar.

I try to skateboard once or twice a week in the summer, and snowboard at least twice a month in the winter.

I have a few motorcycles but those are more cheap transportation these days than a hobby.

The skating, snowboarding, and motorcycles are my “Screaming at the gods”. Dangerous activities that require total focus so everything else in life can be forgotten for a while.

Books and the bass are to keep my mind active and learn new things.

I can’t remember tears of joy, I think I’m just too jaded.

The last thing that brought me happiness was getting to ride a skateboard pump track for the first time this weekend.

Been wanting to try it for years, but there just weren’t any in my area.

Scary and challenging at the limits of my skill, which is just what I had hoped for.

Been a lot of tragedy in my life recently, I’ll take what I can get.

While I’m all for physical media, I get why things are going this way.

I have a large library of PS3 games I can just fire up and enjoy, offline.

With the PS4 and PS5, I can’t think of a single game that works from the purchased disc. Everything requires huge download patches, to the point the disc is nothing more than a license to the game.

I think the bigger issue is game longevity and ownership.

If I buy a game, I expect to be able to play it, today, next year, ten years from now.

I have N64 games I still play on an original system from the 90s, they are mine.

Games, especially single player games, that require online connections to servers that can be taken away at any time is absolute bullshit.

I’ve spent a crazy amount of money on Rocksmith 2014 over the years, and when they pull the servers I’ll lose access to hundreds of DLC songs.

I think that any game you buy, physical or download, should be yours, and if they need server access to run, the company should be required to provide the server source code, or a free patch, that allows you to continue to play the game, when they take the servers offline.

I love my career, which took a very long time to develop.

Over the years I’ve had plenty of jobs I didn’t like, some I’d even say I hated.

Some helped develop my career, others were just solely for the paycheck, though I’d like to think I learned something at each.

Been at my current company for about six years, and I have to say, I love it.

It’s a company I respect, making products I believe in, and my role gives me the freedom to do projects the way I want, with the technology I want.

I like the people I work with, and I can honestly say I’ve not once woken up with that dread of '“Crap, I have to go to work”.

The company, my chain of command, and the people who use my systems, all appreciate the work I do.

Now, would I do it for free? Hell no, those are hobbies.

My only real answer as to why you should like your job, I know love is a stretch for most people, is that a job you enjoy doesn’t leave you as stressed and burned out as one you don’t.

I agree, all my real success has been with technical recruiters.

Temp to perm positions where the head hunter takes a fee until you are either hired on or move to another contract

But it is in and of itself a piece of history.

Changing a story that is thousands of years old is wrong.

Go ahead and make the movie, but be faithful to the original work.

I could talk for hours on how skateboarding has impacted my life, but Rodney Mullen already did the perfect TED talk on that, and how do you improve on the master?

Seriously, even if you aren’t into skateboarding, watch that one.

I guess two topics I could easily spend a half hour off the cuff on could be “Video conference systems design and best practices for Zoom and Teams call”, or “How to survive a permadeath vegetarian run in Subnatica”.

Then let the audience decide which they’d rather be bored to sleep listening to.

Because they are remasters. If you are on PC, with graphics and performance mods, this is likely meaningless to you.

As someone who has only played these games on PS3, I really look forward to a good remake.

Unless of course they are Xbox exclusives, which is entirely possible.

It’s what I’ve heard it called. The closer to the center of mass, and the smaller the black hole, the greater the change in gravity as you get closer.

The pull at your feet and the pull at your head when standing on Earth is so close to identical that it makes no difference.

Picture it like the lines on a topographical map of an open plain, they’re all spread out, almost no change over a long distance.

The more you fall, the closer the lines get together, so that the gravity up top isn’t the same as at your feet anymore, and that difference only continues to grow.

When the change in the gravity rate is high enough, the pull on your feet is so much stronger than at your head you get pulled apart like taffy.

As was already stated, they’d been theorized for a long time, the first one discovered was very much specifically looked for, not stumbled upon.

As far as destroying everything it ingests, and why it’s not a funnel, that’s all to do with gravity.

Gravity is by far the weakest force, but in a black hole, it simply wins.

The density of matter is so great, all the other forces are for lack of a better term, over powered. The forces that hold atoms together to form molecules, the forces that hold particles together to form atoms, particles that make up light, all fail to the might of gravity, all get pulled into what is called a singularity.

What is a singularity? Well, no one knows. It’s what is at the heart of a black hole, it’s whatever is left when everything is smashed into a point that not even light can escape. There is very complex math describing singularities, which I don’t pretend to understand, but in all practical sense, we don’t know what it’s like in there because we have no way of reproducing those conditions or look inside one.

The point of no return in this gravity well is called the event horizon, and it’s just about the only meaningful way to judge the size of a black hole. That and its mass.

It is theorized that energy/mass can radiate from a black hole, when spontaneous particle pairs form along the events horizon in a energy into matter solution to E=MC2, where one has enough momentum to escape, and it’s pair does not. Under lab conditions these virtual and opposite particle pairs usually just destroy each other and return to being energy.

Not sure where the debate is at now, but the information loss caused by the destruction of this matter over here, and the formation of new unrelated matter over there, was a big deal in physics.

A back hole was the answer to the question, what happens when stuff gets so packed together gravity just wins? Discovering one in nature proves that that can actually happen.

It’s also the spot where much of known physics and math just breaks down. We study them, but they really are a true mystery to science.

As to why it’s not a funnel, well, in theory it sort of can be.

If the black hole is large enough, the tidal gravity forces increase gradually enough that a person could survive crossing the event horizon, though it would be a one way trip.

The time dilation caused by the high gravity means that time would slow down, functionally stop, from point of view of an outside observer watching this jump.

From the point of view of the spacewalker looking outward, time would speed up, and in principle they could watch the entire rest of the history of the universe play out.

Unfortunately, from their point of view in relation to falling into a black hole, time would just go on ticking, until the tidal forces grew strong enough to turn them into spaghetti.

Sure, but the question was, who is more hated? I do not think that globally at the moment the population thinks about, let alone actively hates, Bush Jr these days.

Yes Trump has his core base, but man, it really feels like if you don’t love him, you hate him.

It’s hard to keep perspective over the decades. I was more passionate back then, and he really did some horrible things, but I don’t remember feeling like he was so, I don’t know, disgusting of a human being as Trump.

Time will tell I guess

It’s hard to remember how much we hated Bush II back in the day. The fact that he is now just lumped in with the other surviving presidents today for me is the real demonstration of just how much worse Trump is.

I played them both a lot when they came out, and still have it installed on my PS4.

For 30 years I’ve almost always had some form of Doom and or Doom II available to play, and you are 100% right, the gameplay and feel, there just isn’t anything else like it.

Of course not, and Henry Ford for some reason doesn’t run Ford anymore. It’s still the company that invented the assembly line, and id software created the FPS.

There is institutional knowledge that makes id software unique, and MS is making a big mistake firing so many.

I watched a few videos about this situation last night and have a better idea what’s going on.

The shift in focus to the core IPs, which at this point appear to be Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Wolfenstein, could be a great idea, if it means we get one of them every 18 months or so, as vs the decades between main releases the current model is heading towards.

What I really hope is that all this talent being released into the wild gather together to form some new developers.

My word, Fallout 4 was eleven years ago.