Because Canada is more of a suburb of the United States than you’d like to admit. While Canada claims more square footage, the US has the better slice of the continent. The US is the richest nation on earth, home to 340 million people to Canada’s 40 million, most of whom live within 100 miles of our border. To all those American businesses you listed, Canada is a sidequest. We might as well also sell shit to you while we’re at it. We do the same to most of the rest of the world, compared to them you’re small potatoes but you’re a closer drive. Hell, more than half of you live south of Seattle.

On a human, we have shoulders, upper back, middle back, lower back and ass. On a cow, these are called Chuck, Rib, Top Loin, Loin and Round.

Both critters have muscles that run parallel to the spine. Ribeyes come from the rib primal, and are more tender and have a richer more buttery flavor. Go assward past the top loin primal where T-bones come from and you arrive at the Loin primal where we get among other things sirloin steaks, which compared to ribeyes are chewier but bring a more meaty, beefy flavor.

Fun Fact: DS9 was a ripoff of Babylon 5. Literally and directly. JMS pitched Babylon 5 to Paramount, who rejected it, so he went and pitched it to TNN about the time Paramount started up a new Star Trek show about a space station nominally run by humans from Earth that’s involved in conflict and diplomatic intrigue with a wormhole nearby.

If I understand it correctly, the ship’s built-in systems run a Linux-based RTOS, the dumbfuckery is happening on an off the shelf Surface tablet.

They’re still making Microsoft look like a million monkeys fucking a million footballs.

The AGC had 2048 words of erasable core storage, what we’d now call RAM, and 36,864 words of read only core rope memory. So a total of 38,912 words. Each word is 15 bits plus a parity bit, so that’d work out to 75,776 bytes or 72,168 bytes depending on whether you count parity or not, and then kilobytes, kibibytes…it’s closer to 64k than 32 or 128.

Humanity’s first chance to test the effects of the Van Allen belts on a Canadian.

“Let’s get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!”

You slander me, stranger. I am not just a hater. I am many things in addition to a hater.

1,2,3 and some of 6

Star Wars is responsible for 2 5/8 good movies.

The contests we’ve done in the past were for the community picture, like the cutting board currently there. I’d be down for prizes though we’d have to figure out some avenue for funding, I don’t personally have a budget for that.

Nice! Could you create a post about it, with a picture or two?

Bereavement Oreos.

Early mods didn’t have the luxury of engine hooks and data separation designed for the purpose of third-party modding.

Yes they did. id Software, Valve and 3D Realms included their SDKs on the disk. All the way back in the 90’s they gave players the same tools they used to build the game. Any game that descends from Doom, all the way into the Source engine, store their assets in .wad files. We were replacing imps with Simpsons characters and titty chicks back when Clinton was president.

Now, the distinction between a game and a mod, I don’t buy the standard to be it’s own game as “started from scratch.”

Valve licensed the Quake engine from id Software. They changed it so much that the GoldSrc engine is considered it’s own thing; anything from skeletal animations to weapon reloading. They hired a novelist to write the story, they generated a ton of their own textures, models, sound effects and music.

Compare that to the original Counter Strike which was a pack of maps and some logic layered over Half-Life’s deathmatch mode.

Standalone product? Buy and run with no other dependencies? Game.

Officially released product from the same developer and/or publisher and/or rights holder that requires owning the original to function? Expansion pack.

Officially released product from the same publisher/developer/rights holder that does not require owning the original to function? Sequel.

Unofficially released product often a fan work that requires a copy of the original game to function? Mod.

I didn’t have to buy Quake to run my copy of Half-Life GOTY edition back in 1999. Though it came with a copy of TFC, which I think is technically an expansion pack as it required Half-Life to function but was officially released as a showcase of those modding tools I talked about in the beginning.

Is it worth it? I think so, I enjoyed it. Does it hold up? Complicated question.

The Clarkson-Hammond-May show ran for a couple decades and went through three major phases: journalism, shenanigan and adventure.

In earlier seasons they were more of a typical car show, they did more journalism relevant to the average driver…in early 2000s Britain. Top Gear isn’t looked back on fondly for Richard Hammond reporting on viewer polls for new car reliability in 2002. They still made an entertaining show, the cool wall and things like that are entertaining, but I would start you out with later episodes and let you watch these later if you like it. Series staples like taking sports cars for a fast lap around their track to compare their times, and doing celebrity interviews complete with a racing lap around the same track in a compact car, the “Star In A Reasonably Priced Car” segment, begin here.

5 or 6 years in they started the shenanigan era, which is probably what peopel mean when they say “This reminds me of Top Gear.” They’d buy three used cars and go do ridiculous things, like turn them into camper vans, or outfit them for racing, or make sports cars into ambulances. In the words of Richard Hammond, “What this was, was fun. And I think we’re quite good at fun.” If I can point to an episode to introduce new viewers to the series, it’d be the British Leyland challenge episode. The show really starts to shine in this era; the three hosts have great chemistry together and the shenanigans give them more opportunity to play off one another.

That gradually transitioned into the adventure era, as “three guys drive some old cars to the other side of London” becomes racing Veyron against a Cessna 182 across the length of Europe, or driving three old four-by-fours across South America or three ordinary RWD cars across Botswana. The show gradually abandoned the studio segments and became just, the three guys go somewhere in the world and drive some cars in interesting or spectacular locations. There’s great stuff here, their Botswana trip is amazing, their Korea trip is amazing, their Nile trip is wonderful, their North Pole trip is NUTS. But I’d watch earlier cheap car challenge episodes first.

No, that’s too much of a stretch. Half-Life is it’s own game, they licensed and then modified Quake’s engine. That’d be like calling Satisfactory a mod of Fortnite.

After about a decade on Mint I ended up on Fedora.

Building PCs.

I’m perfectly capable of it, I built the PC I’m typing this on. It’s just…the world’s gone to hell in a Depends Adult Diaper.

Here’s a picture of my mother’s cat

And here’s one of a little night stand I built, shortly after finishing

Tonoight:

• James trips over a phone cord, “Oh cock!”

• Hammond says the word ‘egalitarian’ “Egalitarian.”

• and I hit a man with a shovel. PANG “oof!” “Sorry.”