I’ve got an old-ish Acer Predator and thankfully it doesn’t have quite that level of dogshit branding but I did have to go into the bios to disable the boot screen and obnoxiously loud boot up noise. I like the metal and the RGB isn’t that bad, but if I buy another gaming laptop it’s probably not going to be from the Predator line since that seems to be all NVIDIA and I use Linux now, lol. Also who the hell thought Predator was an appropriate name for any commercial product, it’s pretty yikes.

(Also my laptop has always been an RGB space heater but that seems to be a problem with gaming laptops in general).

I went to public school in Florida and John Brown definitely came up in my history class. But that’s probably teacher and/or school district dependent, a friend of mine grew up in Ocoee and did not learn about the Ocoee massacre in school.

What percentage of games are shovelware and asset flips? Some “game developers” have always been pushing slop.

“I don’t know if you saw this study the other day but what this study clearly showed is that when people who have the ability to come downtown to an office don’t—when they stay home, sitting on their couch with their nasty cat blanket, diddling on their laptop—if they do that for a few months, you become a loser.”

He’s not wrong, but I sure hope that quote loses Mayor Frey the election, lol.

I was like 8 or 9 and my family was on a weekend trip up the St John’s River on our neighbor’s cabin cruiser, I got to try a sip of the neighbor’s strawberry daiquiri before she made a virgin one for me.

Seems like I’m the odd one actually enjoying my first taste of alcohol. Fortunately I never became a heavy drinker even if I did develop a wider taste in alcohol as an adult.

Nah, making toast sounds like

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

I really should get a new toaster. Or at least move the smoke detector out of the kitchen.

OP are you in Florida and is that an invasive brown anole?

Weirdest thing I’ve brought on public transit:

I’m still angry about CTR. I was so hyped for that remake but didn’t buy immediately at launch so I’d avoid the launch bugs… and then they added the microtransactions. I will not pay for a game that has microtransactions, so I haven’t played it. The originals are still a blast though.

(It’s a joke, I’m just old lol)

How do you aim for China and land in Wisconsin?

Officially I think it’s called Aldi Finds but unofficially I’ve always seen it as the Aisle of Shame.

Do German Aldis have that aisle?