Octopus Overlords

go fast...must go fast.

But really its because I have a super gaming funk and Im installing and deleting game after game after games all the time trying to make something stick for a while. This way I can do it faster. My friend calls me a serial deleter.

porn..I kid.

To download Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare in less than an hour, I presume.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 5:40 pm Enjoying the fact that we don't live in New Jersey.

Hey, I'm at 100 Mbps now. It's not quite the cosmopolitan speeds that RM9 enjoys, but it's like I'm living in the future now. Going from 5 Mbps to 40 to now 100, I can't even fathom 200 or 400. Games that took me *days* to download now take a few hours (at most). I can live with that.

I'm glad that you're on a more modern circuit.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 5:41 pm But really its because I have a super gaming funk and Im installing and deleting game after game after games all the time trying to make something stick for a while. This way I can do it faster. My friend calls me a serial deleter.

you still have a pile in your backlog that have _never been played_. like, how could you have never tried Valkyria Chronicles? Serious Sam 3? that copy of House Party i gifted to you last OOwishmaslist? at least put five minutes into them


(and if anyone sees anything in my inventory that i have never tried that i Really Should, feel free to harangue me about it)

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 5:56 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 5:40 pm Enjoying the fact that we don't live in New Jersey.

Hey, I'm at 100 Mbps now. It's not quite the cosmopolitan speeds that RM9 enjoys, but it's like I'm living in the future now. Going from 5 Mbps to 40 to now 100, I can't even fathom 200 or 400. Games that took me *days* to download now take a few hours (at most). I can live with that.

Hours? How can you survive? If a game takes more than 10-15 minutes to download I get annoyed. It's the worst thing about GamePass. Steam is so much faster. I often get 800Mbps throughput on steam.

Buying a house closer to civilization will do that.

40 was life-changing (quite frankly) and the fact that I had to live with 5 up until like 2017 is bananas.

I thought the wet string technique was pretty spiffy though.

I was reading an article of like the 50 most hated cities in the US. The majority of them were in New Jersey. A lot were in Ohio and Indiana too.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 6:21 pm I was reading an article of like the 50 most hated cities in the US. The majority of them were in New Jersey. A lot were in Ohio and Indiana too.

Haven't you seen our state flag?

How do you know when a roach motel is full?

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 7:36 pm How do you know when a roach motel is full?

When there's no parking spaces.

Don't be silly. They check in on foot.

I don't have anything close to that fast, and I can have two people streaming HD video and two others gaming online simultaneously with zero lag. You'll never download at those speeds, as you can't download faster than Steam (or whatever) can upload.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 5:37 pm Honest question - what do you need to have speeds that high for?

To be fair, you also didn’t think any of us needed horseless carriages at one point.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:03 pm You'll never download at those speeds, as you can't download faster than Steam (or whatever) can upload.

As I mentioned, I get 800Mbps on Steam downloads pretty consistently. Steam is an outlier though. Regardless I have the superfast plan because it doesn't have data caps. 100Mbps would cost me MORE than 1Gbps due to overages.

These are good. Bit hot for me but tasty.

Damnit Walmart! I ordered an item and its shipping from Jackson MS...thats a 6 hour drive from me and it wont be here until Nov 16. Really? 12 days to drive 6 hours. Damnit. It shipped today too. They going to take it to an amusement park or camping or something while on the truck?

coopasonic wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 4:14 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:03 pm You'll never download at those speeds, as you can't download faster than Steam (or whatever) can upload.

As I mentioned, I get 800Mbps on Steam downloads pretty consistently. Steam is an outlier though. Regardless I have the superfast plan because it doesn't have data caps. 100Mbps would cost me MORE than 1Gbps due to overages.

I've got gigabit fiber because it was less than $100 a month and I wanted it with all the streaming and working from home and school. But yeah, Steam will absolutely keep up with it. Game downloads are much faster than when I only had 100mb.

Took a look at the pole saw....still haven't gotten the lock washer. It says it has one in the owners manual but I dont see it. I probably lost it the first time I took it apart. Ill get another soon I hope. Tired of taking ti apart..did it 2 times in two uses again. I fixed it 15 min ago and the chain is loose already. I found it does have a tension screw but its right under the saw blade so it is packed with oil and saw dust. ive tried and tried to clear it to use the tiny little tool they gave me with the saw but its a no go in the extreme. Stupid placement.

i've been trying to find a seat cushion replacement for this Jorng Well Industrial Task Mesh Chair and ... i can find replacement parts for everything _except_ the seat cushion. hope i don't have to re-foam and re-upholster it myself.

Why is it always 6pm news and getting dark when I hear its some special day with free food items? Today it was national donut day. Its always something. Why cant you tell me at least one day before so Ill know ahead of time you silly tv people.

For the past twelve years, I've picked the kids up from school most days and she's taken them, and before that they weren't in school. For much of that I'd take them twice a week, but it wasn't enough to define my schedule (I'd get home and go back to sleep.) For the past two and a half years, it's been 100% her taking them, me picking them up. So for the last 19 years I've been able to set my sleep schedule according to my natural rhythms. Bed around 2, up around 9:30. I am at my most productive at night, especially once everyone has gone to bed.

Michelle starts her new job on Monday (at the local hospital *fear*.) Her schedule is such that I'll be taking and picking Caiden up (Ian graduated.) That means that I've had to crank my schedule back by three hours for the first time in almost 20 years. I'm up before the sun. My brain is not used to this. The hardest part is that I'm used to getting my free time in after everyone goes to bed. My day started after dinner. Now it's almost over after dinner. That's really throwing me off, as my first thought in the evening is, "What do I want to do now?" The only time the house was ever quiet was after everyone else went to bed. Now I'll be around people, TVs, noise, and talking whenever I'm awake. As a person who thrives in isolation, this has been a particularly stressful point for me.

Oh, well. I'll adjust. Being autistic means that change is difficult, but we still adjust. It'll just take a while for the new routine to set in.

Any chance you could push the change even further and wake up an hour or two before you need to. Use that as your "Me Time"? That's pretty much what I did to get my runs in - go to sleep at 7:30, but up by 3:30 and don't see the rest of the family until nearly 7.

I watched the war movie Platoon for the first time. It's on Netflix streaming. Great movie. Can't believe it took me this long to see it. I'm ashamed.

Torfish wrote: ↑Fri Nov 06, 2020 2:08 pm I watched the war movie Platoon for the first time. It's on Netflix streaming. Great movie. Can't believe it took me this long to see it. I'm ashamed.

Thanks for the heads up. I've seen it, but after reading Stone's book (see book thread) I definitely want to re-watch.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Fri Nov 06, 2020 12:49 pm
Michelle starts her new job on Monday (at the local hospital *fear*.)

is she making the extra hazard pay?

Oh, well. I'll adjust. Being autistic means that change is difficult, but we still adjust. It'll just take a while for the new routine to set in.

one of my friends made the point that those on the higher-functioning side of the spectrum, on the whole, are well suited to life-long learning - i wonder if that applies to living with change, once it's past the significant block of resistance and buckling down to live with it? (so, actually being _more_ adaptable, in the long run)

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Fri Nov 06, 2020 4:36 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Fri Nov 06, 2020 12:49 pm
Michelle starts her new job on Monday (at the local hospital *fear*.)

is she making the extra hazard pay?

Oh, well. I'll adjust. Being autistic means that change is difficult, but we still adjust. It'll just take a while for the new routine to set in.

one of my friends made the point that those on the higher-functioning side of the spectrum, on the whole, are well suited to life-long learning - i wonder if that applies to living with change, once it's past the significant block of resistance and buckling down to live with it? (so, actually being _more_ adaptable, in the long run)

Maybe. Since we require routine - a system, something organized - we tend to adapt to a new situation... forcefully might be a good word. We create a new routine, and once that's established we thrive and even come to prefer the new to the old. It's just the between times, when the old one has died and the new hasn't kicked in, when we tend to flail. For instance, right now I still haven't adapted my expectations to all of my free time being before the evening processes instead of after. Morning time was always time to get through, and evening was the time to get stuff done. I'm still just getting through the morning, then being surprised when evening hits and I don't have any time.

It isn't intellectual at this point, it's instinctive. I know I get my feeding in the morning now, but the bell's still ringing at night and I still respond to it.

She slept, colorfully.

xwraith wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:37 am She slept, colorfully.

If you're not Smoove, I thoroughly recommend watching the Netflix documentary, My Octopus Teacher. It's utterly fascinating.

Wouldn't that be a huge evolutionary disadvantage? If you blow your camouflage (vividly and repeatedly) while sleeping, you're not only not hiding but actually attracting predators.

Mammals have neural inhibitions that (usually) keep us from actually moving when we dream. You'd think octopi would have developed something similar for this.

It really pisses me off that most of you disappear on the weekend, as if you have real lives.

Sudy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 7:01 pm It really pisses me off that most of you disappear on the weekend, as if you have real lives.

I don't.

Me either. Maybe we can have our own thread for holiday and weekender OOers.

It is funny how many unplug over the weekend. Agree though how some check in habitually.
I’m not OO involved like I used to be but the husband checks in several times during the day. I usually ask, “how are the guys?”

I have a online bud who completely goes off the grid on the weekends. I dont hear from him or see him online from Friday through Sunday night. Around midnight he'll msg me to chat a bit. He has really been working hard on touching up his new board game.

"It's too damned hot out to rake" is not a sentence I would expect to utter in November, but here we are. It got to 77 this afternoon.

Kraken wrote: ↑Sun Nov 08, 2020 4:58 pm "It's too damned hot out to rake" is not a sentence I would expect to utter in November, but here we are. It got to 77 this afternoon.

Raking is so 20th century.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Nov 08, 2020 8:50 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Sun Nov 08, 2020 4:58 pm "It's too damned hot out to rake" is not a sentence I would expect to utter in November, but here we are. It got to 77 this afternoon.

Raking is so 20th century.

In my town, you're not allowed to blow the leaves into the street for pickup. You have to bag them, or if you're most other people in my town, you pay someone else to come clean them for you.

I love my trees, except for October through December when I have to clean up their mess.

Hrdina wrote: ↑Sun Nov 08, 2020 9:06 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Nov 08, 2020 8:50 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Sun Nov 08, 2020 4:58 pm "It's too damned hot out to rake" is not a sentence I would expect to utter in November, but here we are. It got to 77 this afternoon.

Raking is so 20th century.

In my town, you're not allowed to blow the leaves into the street for pickup. You have to bag them, or if you're most other people in my town, you pay someone else to come clean them for you.

I love my trees, except for October through December when I have to clean up their mess.

I wish they'd restrict those obnoxious blowers, although I understand why yard businesses need them. I have a corded electric one that I use to clean up borders after the raking is done, and I don't think it saves much time over raking. The real effort is in the pickup and bagging. I use my mower for that. It reduces their volume by 75%, and the mower bag fits exactly into the top of a leaf bag. Saves me a lot of time, bending, and bags. Before I discovered the chopping strategy I used to fill 40 bags; now I get by with 10-15.

It's still not the kind of work one wants to do in the hot sun, which shouldn't even exist in November. I got half the yard done today, but as most of the leaves are still on the trees it's a Pyrrhic victory. Gonna have to do it again in 2-3 weeks.