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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • I had a cat that used to push things off the coffee table. Anything that rolled, like pens or batteries, would eventually find their way under the couch… to the point where I would look there first if I couldn’t find something.

    I remember once stacking spare coins into a pile on the table. He sat there, patiently watching me do it and looked me directly in the eye while his paw pushed them onto the floor again.

    It was that moment that made me question his motives. Did he enjoy it the way that a toddler enjoys peek-a-boo? Was it about watching things fall or was the fun in knowing that I would have to clean it up again?

    The way he looked at my face while he did made it seem like he enjoyed pissing me off more than anything.
















  • I have Tyrian 2000 on GOG as well and was feeling nostalgic. I could replicate the issues and here’s what I did to fix it.

    • Installed the game with Heroic and added it (automatically) to Steam.
    • Applied a community control layout named “Tyrian” to fix the mapping issue.
    • Launched the game from Steam and used the onscreen keyboard to press 3 to go to “Game DOS settings”. I had to run it twice before the controls worked for some reason. Change the music device to “FM Sound” (I think the default was “Midi 330h”) and saved.
    • Returned to the launch menu and pressed 1 to launch Tyrian 2000.

    I usually like running DOS games in EmuDeck/Retroarch though.



  • “At the conclusion of the party, Mrs. Paxson took her daughters home while Mr. Paxson stayed to help clean up after the party. After Mr. Paxson assisted in the party cleanup, he drove his Jeep Gladiator towards his home in Hickory.”

    Philip Paxson wasn’t familiar with the area and didn’t know the bridge was collapsed, the lawsuit said. “Google Maps directed Mr. Paxson to travel home over the Snow Creek Bridge. Unbeknownst to Mr. Paxson, a very large section of the Snow Creek Bridge had collapsed in 2013 and was never repaired,” the lawsuit said.

    There was no artificial lighting, “and the area was pitch black at 11:00 p.m.,”

    Seems pretty simple to me. I have put complete faith in Google maps in poor lighting before and it’s literally never occurred to me that it may direct me over a bridge that doesn’t exist.