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Do not be sober 

I saw it in the theater though BITD (Not Director's Cut of course),...And ...Well...Yeah,  first time I ever took a nap in a theater at age 11  🙂  

New one has some lengthened scenes, tightened audio, new CGI (?)..HMMmmm...Better bring a pillow!

Seriously though,  have fun!

I definitely need to see it sometime...

Feel free to count your hours and post in either of the two weekly trackers, depending on if it is a pre-Y2K or post-Y2K system.

Good dog

I said sit, not sh- UGH... Not on the carpet.

Ha, I haven't heard that in a while. 

Do you keep bottles hidden around the house?

I'm a bottle half full kind of guy.  Either way it still gets added to the shopping list!😉

Apparently we do... to be honest, I keep my rum in there because I don't want to have it "out" anywhere my kid would find it. Seemed like a safe enough place.  It probably takes me 6 months to get through a bottle, I don't drink it that often. Every once in a while I do enjoy dark rum, though. Caribbean Reef is my current favorite.

I wish it had been GoG. Epic are pretty bad about DRM, no?

The DRM'd mp3 ship has long-since sailed in music business... I can't imagine bandcamp making that much money. They're very good and successful at what they do, but I'd have assume they pretty much a niche part of the music business. Interesting to see what they do with it. Would Epic use bandcamp for more than music? It's not like there aren't already a million other indie game sites out there...

Luckily, I mostly upload to BandLab. Here's my account: https://www.bandlab.com/fighting_zenith/tracks

Brother makes the best printers.

I have a Brother MFC 7420 that I know I used for the retail store I had that opened in 2004 that is still going.  I have had to replace the laser toner cartridges maybe THRICE in its entire life, just absolutely incredible.  Brother / Laser all the way.  I remember in college having to shell out $35 or more (which is like $65 today) seemingly every 6 weeks for deskjet cartridges just to print off papers.  I think one week I nearly had to go without eating for a few days just to afford it (minimum wage was $3.35 / hour, ack!).  Screw you, HP. 

Brother represent.  Mine is a HL-3180.  I'll never use an inkjet again.

Damn, you can still see me?

Not signatures and mentions, but I wouldn't expect those to update status posts... either way, checking those boxes doesn't seem to fix this.  Not a big deal, but worth reporting in case it is a bug. Maybe changes to ignore preference take time to populate, that might be it too.

Pretty sure I've seen this mentioned before,  that you will still see Status Updates for people you have set to Ignore. 

Next will be Sony and Amazon (Apple? Netflix?) competing for who buys EA

They can have them, lol!

Before you click on it...MS to buy Activision/Blizzard for nearly $70

Go Pack Go!

I was hopeful as a life-long Dallas fan, but sadly, I knew better. lol

Yeah I'm not getting my hopes up for the Packers. They're good, but I have no faith in their defense, and the special teams is pretty bad.  I've been let down too many times.

Wow!  Look a that guitar collection behind ya!   (heh)

I guess the video could have used some editing! Truth be told, I only cropped it vertically, I didn't really even watch it other than briefly on my phone to see if it came through at all.  I need to redo it, it's very hard to see and hear. Oh well, it gets the idea across.

We get the idea...I just wanted to be the wise guy who noticed the reflection

I have always been an Atari 'fanboy', but the C64 was and still is an admirable rival to the 8-bits.

Yes, and possibly the first magazine mention about the C64 was in InfoWorld on February 1. For being a weekly newspaper, that still is three weeks after CES ended before they had a report ready. Most other magazines with longer lead times took between March and August (!) to fully report from CES in January, though the ones that waited could also add more details that leaked out over time. Apparently Commodore didn't want to give out very much information in advance which some magazine editors reflected on.

The first comparison advertisement, i.e. where Commodore lined up the C64 against the Atari 800, Apple II, TRS-80 etc was in June 1982 from what I could tell. The machine went on sale in the US in July or August, I think. Second half of September in the UK, though the original plan was to not release the C64 in Europe until early 1983.

Perhaps the most interesting part of information I found yesterday was two magazines writing about the ZX Spectrum which was launched in April 1982, and how that more or less had taken Commodore by surprise. As you may know, the Max Machine a.k.a. Ultimax a.k.a. VIC-10 was planned to be a cut-down version of the C64 but supposedly the Spectrum launch made Commodore consider dropping the Ultimax in advance and try to cut the C64 price as much as possible. Now the Ultimax briefly made it to Japan but not elsewhere so in practice the magazines were right, but perhaps for other reasons than ZX Spectrum competition. It is possible though that the TED project was initiated around the summer of 1982 (developer prototypes were ready by August 1983), as a result of the Spectrum launch.

Lights stay on until Epiphany!

I was late to put mine up - around December 22 - so likely I'll have them shining until March to compensate.

Also tonight when I went shopping, the grocery store had a sale on Pippi Longstocking (!!) gingerbread houses but I didn't buy any. Perhaps they'll still have some by next week in case I changed my mind.

Besides, Orthodox Christmas isn't even until January 7.

Yep!  But I find a certain quality satisfaction comes with it, too...Is it another one of yours?

I'm using Logic, but it's not the tool. It's hearing, understanding and balancing EQ across a dozen tracks and different instruments, using compression well, etc. Listening, tweaking, listening again, tweaking again... and so it goes.  I get pretty close to a broad-brush mix quickly, but getting something final that sounds good across a bunch of mediums (CD, mp3, car stereo, iphone, home stereo, etc) that's the trick. FWIW It's one of my songs.

Truth be told, the real issue is that I do final mixing and master so rarely I'm just not that experienced.  I have a lot to learn. The last album I did this for was 3 years ago.

Dangerfield was awesome, too bad that he would never be allowed to do stand-up today. (Ditto for George Carlin, Mel Blanc, Sam Kinnison, Richard Jeni, Richard Pryor, Lorenzo Music, Lenny Bruce, and Bill Hicks.)

Respect.  How'd you play them?  DosBox?

Yep, via GOG.com. I bought them when first released.  I think I liked Pool of Radiance the best, but Secret of the Silver Blades was really good. Very big, very epic, lots of memorable locations and characters and a few good quality of life improvements since PoR.  It was a bit too big perhaps. It took me 36 hours and I was Cheaty McCheatingpants. I had my original clue book from the c64, and pretty much followed that the entire way. it took away some of the fun, but it would have taken me twice as long without it and I doubt I ever would have finished.