[1] A heads-up: for anyone who reads this, I'm mostly shutting things down here and will be on bluesky (https://t.co/edRFHQaHPH) and (to a lesser extent) on that one site named after a prehistoric animal we mustn't name on here--same username
@Colonthreee New Quake2 coming?--that's a bright'ning of the day. Been neglecting Q2 way too much, but did play the original campaign again beginning last New Year's Eve
@pikuma Nice to come here and see a fun post right off, countering all the trash on this site--and the most awesome apparel i've seen in a long time. (I confess to having highly limited understanding of SSE and so forth, but at least am aware of them)
@TwinCityVTG I've had Fanatics on the blacklist since the mid-2010s when they were mainly a reseller on ebay. The reason is for being overly aggressive in dictating who is and isn't allowed to have one thing or another. An opinion piece from a while back:
https://t.co/p4eWxlteif
@PioneerPress#Nalukataq -- all aspects of which are off-the-charts intriguing -- is one of those things that'll have to remain a far-out fantasy. But that's OK
According to this, apparently only "men" can have the one on the left but anybody the one on the right? I don't deal in being "man" or "woman": I am a PERSON. Can I still have the one on the left? And If any mfr thinks I can't have one only "women" can have, two words: Blow Me.
Against my better judgement: it will likely rot out and need fixing. But it's my first @Timberwolves apparel, which is almost impossible to find and access. This will probably rot sooner: I think it might be "new old[er] stock" and was marked down relative to current MSRP
A followup to the rotted out headwear: as expected, it quickly disintegrated further but is now repaired. I'm going to say this again: I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DO THIS. Also I looked at at least three others with liners like this I got in the mid-2010s and they're not rotted
This along with major MSRP hikes, favorite styles almost impossible to find, aggressively dictating who is and isn't allowed to have certain styles and implicit threats of lawsuits on that matter, I'm about done with sports apparel from anyone altogether. Not worth the heartache
This (the #Vikings one--got maybe 2023) is the third consecutive @NewEraCap headwear the stitching has rotted out on--all the ones I've gotten since the late 2010s. Is this planned obsolescence? The other two I later repaired but I shouldn't have to do this
@Colonthreee Also, I've noticed far more behind-the-scenes data transfer going on with Win11 than there was with Win10. Possibly part of it is webpage prefetching (a bandwidth-wasting "feature" useless to me) done at the OS level. Not appreciated on metered connection
@Colonthreee I have update blockers in place but also don't use Edge. What I want to see about is using a cheap unlocked smartphone as a Wi-Fi go-between, with an "uninterested third party" firewall to put the kibosh on software telemetry
@JakeRudh Need to explore this band more. I wonder if the name of that track was inspired by the colloquial name for "Garden Island" in the video game Riven. Probably not; it would be a pretty obscure reference by present-day standards
[2] I want the things I post to be publicly available and not just members-only like here, and with the souring bigger-picture climate in regards to the ownership of this site, I prefer to keep things more detached going forward
[1] A heads-up: for anyone who reads this, I'm mostly shutting things down here and will be on bluesky (https://t.co/edRFHQaHPH) and (to a lesser extent) on that one site named after a prehistoric animal we mustn't name on here--same username