Kolanaki

Half-Baked. Happy Gilmore. Billy Madison. Grandma's Boy. Dude, Where's My Car? Where have the movies like this gone? Clerks 3 was, I think, the last good one I've ever seen (and even they got too real and too sad so I don't even know if I ever want to see it again as a comedy). There's gotta be some good, funny shit that's even funnier when stoned out of your mind that's more recent than that, right?

Why not periods? Why doesn't every sentence in Spanish that isn't a question or exclamation start with a period floating in the sky?

Just had this thought while running with my dog and getting fatigued. Why does it feel like that? What is going on in the tissue to make it "burn?"

Just saw a thing about Minnesota's flag contest and some joker suggested using California's flag which I started overthinking about which leads us here. If Minnesota actually changed their state flag to California's state flag, could California sue Minnesota? 🤔

I forgot to get a pic of the entire spread before everyone attacked it, but here's my plate. Turkey, ham, stuffing, Mac n cheese, green beans casserole, yeast roll and cornbread muffin.

Not pictured: candied yams (I have those with dessert 😋)

Driving around on the planets for these things is maddening. They're so far apart, barely drop what I'm looking for, and there's never really any danger to break up the monotony.

Can I obtain these materials for engineering/synthesis from asteroids, or do those only drop the cargo space minerals used for trade?

I have recently played 3 games that have forced a lengthy, unskippable tutorial section that runs for several hours of the game, just to unlock the most basic functions like buying the items, customizing features, multiplayer, and even 2-player split screen modes.

For 2 of these games (Armored Core 6 and Gran Turismo 7), the major draw for me was the MP and I haven't even gotten to check out MP yet because it's locked out until you get passed a certain point in the progression system. Fuckin' why do any developers do this? I just wanted to play with my sister but we have to get through most of the fucking game before we are allowed to do the multiplayer modes. Such bullshit.

The most common star in both the real galaxy, and the game, are red dwarfs. There are about 1 brown dwarfs for every other star type IRL. Yet whenever I am going any long distance, the route is 90% unscoopable brown dwarf stars. The odds are insane. Is it just how the routing system works? Does the damn thing just purposely go out of its way to make every jump to a brown dwarf system or what? 😬

cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/2691040

Sometime between 7th and 9th grade, I saw something that I cannot explain and has freaked me the fuck out ever since. I really didn't expect anyone to believe me then, and I really don't expect anyone to now but I need to get it off my chest to maybe get it off my mind.

I had woken up around 3 in the morning thirsty as hell, so I groggily got up, grabbed my cup off my night stand and went downstairs to get some water. I barely had my eyes open until I was standing in front of the fridge and only opened them to make sure the ice was set to cubed as my mom would always leave it on crushed. I immediately noticed a dull, amber light illuminating the kitchen from the window in front of the sink.

The nearest street lamp on the street behind my house was a few houses down and didn't really reach the kitchen from the angle it was relative to it, so I turned around to see where this light was coming from and as soon as I saw it I reflexively backed into the fridge and slipped falling onto my ass. I just sat there stunned and scared shitless because what I saw was nothing of this world I've seen or read about.

I managed to get the courage to slowly crouch and peer over the island counter I was currently behind to get a better look. In my backyard were two things seemingly looking for something. They had large, lumpy heads (or at least it was a prominent part of the top of the body) that were translucent and emitting the amber light. Stuff was floating around in the head but I couldn't make out more than black silhouettes against the light.

They had no eyes that I could discern, but they had mouths with puffy, puckered, reddish lips that a long, pointed blue or black (hard to tell with the orangish light) tongue would occasionally flick out and lick the air; like a snake "sniffing." I couldn't tell if they had a real body or if from the "neck" of the creature was only tendrils. They had several long appendages that seemed specialized with different "hands," some of which looked like they could have been technological tools as they had somewhat recognizable man-made shapes such as a drill on one and an infrared thermometer on another.

The one further from the window I thought had what looked like a metallic backpack on but before I could really look at any detail I might have gleamed in the amber light, the one closest to the window slapped one of its "arms" against the window with a "hand" of a dozen or more smaller, worm-like fingers all wriggling against the glass, and I'll never forget the sound it made as it probed the window. A light, meaty slapping and streaking sound as they bumped and slithered across it.

That's when I had had enough and slowly crawled on my butt staying as low as I could back out of the kitchen, down the hall and out of sight of the window before standing up and bolting back to my room, locking the door behind me and pushing my dresser in front of the window. I just sat on my bed huddled in the corner of the wall watching the window until I could see the sunlight peeking through behind the dresser before I finally passed out.

When I woke later in the afternoon, before the sun had gone down I went into the backyard to see if anything was out of place and I couldn't find anything weird. Not a mark in the dirt, not any residue on the glass where that thing has rubbed it, nothing. I've searched online for cryptids or even alien encounters that match what I saw and have never come up with anything even remotely close. I don't know what the fuck those things were, and I am not even entirely sure they are a threat but it makes me feel extremely uneasy knowing that they exist.

I can't stand this anymore and I'm wondering if someone has anything that could help.

I play with controllers a lot these days, and I am noticing that with my PC, the range and stability of the BT connection is just absolute fucking garbage. I can be sitting literally only 2 feet from the adapter, and it will still often spaz out and delay my inputs or hold them too long. Like I am turning right, let go of the stick and it continues to turn right for another full second after I am not longer giving any input, or it just doesn't register I'm giving any input when I am pressing keys or moving the stick.

I know it ain't the controller or the distance, and doubtful of it being interference because my PS5 is right next to my PC and I don't even have my controller disconnect going into the furthest room in the apartment away from the console, but when I am connected to the computer, damn thing can disconnect when I set the controller down on top of the desktop.

The adapter I use was recommended to me by over 100 different users on the PC Gaming subreddit Reddit long before the exodus, and it's supposed to have a 30ft range.

My only other idea is that it's Windows itself. I've dealt with similar bullshit back in XP with the wifi polling. It would poll the availability of connections every 30 seconds, which resulted in huge lag spikes every 30 seconds. Used to use a utility to just kill the process in Windows and never again got those horrible lag spikes everyone always associated with wifi. Is this what's going on with the BT? Is there a way to fix this crap?