The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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In most cases, yes you are born with Type1 - in my case it was an auto-immune issue that destroyed the insulin producing cells in my pancreas. My body does not make insulin.. been like this for a very long time (decades). still alive, though!
Mind you as others have said, I still have to count carbs and watch what I eat. (I tend to follow the typical TYpe II diet)
Colonel Mustard with the Murder Bread in the Yellow Bag.
Do I win?
Amazements in English continue.
Non-complaint: A little farther along in "Firmament". Still avoiding all walkthroughs, spoilers and reviews. I don't care what anybody thinks about it, good or bad, I'm having fun.
'Nother non-complaint: Eyeball healing nicely. It's now almost half full of fluid and I get sea-sick watching the water level dance directly in my field of vision.
But I can see forms in all parts of my visual field for that eye. A major win.
Not focused properly, but at least recognizable enough that when I use both eyes, the wonky one now follows the good eye, and is not staring at the ceiling anymore. Wheee...
I thought I heard someone say they were in De Nile in the past. Can someone swim in de Nile?
The only one with 5 grams of fiber in each slice is the 21 Whole Grains and Seeds. I don' tthink the yellow one is even close. The thin sliced version of this, I can't remember if it also has green on the bag, but a lighter green maybe? Don't remember. But this one is green. Murder bread? Oh, because it's Dave's Killer Bread?
Dana
Non-complaint;
I miss Studio 2.x Pro
Can we have a moment of silence for the dead squirrel I found on the sidewalk near my home? I hid the dead squirrel's body into the house's trash bin which was by the curb since tomorrow is trash day,
Now I. Hoping hand sanitizer that I got in my purse is really worth it?
Alas poor Scratch. I knew him well, Horatio.
But now he's in squrirel heaven. (or IS he?)
Edited to add: And the music in that clip is the Adagio of Spartacus and Phrigia by Aram Khachaturian. (relevant part at 5:40)
I dunno... you may have tampered with a crime scene... Haven't you ever seen CSI?
Whenever you find dead bodies laying on the sidewalk, you should really leave them undisturbed and not drag them over to the trash and hide them inside so the garbage truck will take them away.
Don't you remember that little kindergarten jingle they used to teach kids... "Don't Move The Corpse"?
"If you find someone dead, even if it's just their head.
Dont play around, with what you found.
It's not a toy for you to enjoy.
To drag around across the ground.
To poke with a stick or dare to lick.
Don't count it's warts, don't move the corpse..."
Something like that... I forget the rest, but it was right up there with all the top rhymes and such when I was little... well, in NYC anyway...
You should never tamper with grizzly crime scenes... especially if the Grizzly Bear is still there...
Moving anything around, looting the corpse, collecting detached parts... it's generally considered "tampering"... even something like innocently placing one of those red foam rubber clown noses on the corpse changes the whole nature and interpretation of the scene for the investigators...
Sure you may think it brightens up the mood and makes the deceased look more friendly or less scary to little kids, but now when the detectives show up, that one with the sunglasses will have to think about some clown based pun to say while putting them on... (That might only happen in Miami, but I'm sure that's probably standard training for most forensic specialists now)... Now they'll start looking for a clown killer instead of say koala smuggler killer or someone who exclusively murders people without foam rubber clown noses...
Look, I get it if it's been laying around for months and it's getting all squishy and you have to keep stepping over it on the way to the bus or something... at that point if nobody is doing anything about it, then it's just a issue of public safety... someone is going to slip in the goo or trip over it in the dark, so then it's just a matter of civic duty... then you are free to loot whatever or take the skull for your collection...
But as a rule of index finger, it's not a good idea to put dead bodies in the trash.
EDITED TO NOTE: Oh... it was a Squirrel.
Ok... I missed that part... my bad.
Well, still... you shouldn't just dump him in the garbage... what if his family was waiting for the squirrel funeral director or squirrel coroner to pick him up... You may have just robbed them of a proper funeral... granted, the hell with them, they are just foul tree rats, but if it was a Disney cartoon, that would be messed up...
Plus, they might be thinking he's risen from the dead and now you may have created a whole squirrel religion... or urban legend that will terrify little squirrels who hear about his rotting corpse stalking the night.
I mean they are squirrels and deserve every nightmare you can bestow upon them, but it could have all sorts of unintended and unpleasant consequences...
Not all of them amusing either... what if there is a squirrel serial killer going around murdering other squirrels and they move up to larger victims like hippopotamuses or humans... hippopotamuses are pretty big and how many probably live in your neighborhood?... it's not going to be long before they run out of hippopotamuses to murder and move on to water buffalos and then to humans...
Or what if it's some kind of squirrel crime syndicate and that squirrel was murdered because he found out about a plot between former KGB squirrels to destroy the infrastructure of your town... he could have had a conscience because some old lady fed him peanuts in the park and he was going to tge authorities to report the plot and they murdered him before he could... now that old lady's life could be in jeopardy... sure she probably had a good run, but does she deserve to be murdered by KGB squirrels?... plus your whole community could suffer if they take out the electrical grid... think of all the ice cream that will melt or how hard it is to use the internet without power.
I feel the same should apply for squirrels as humans... leave the corpse there and if nobody takes it away after a certain point it's yours to throw out or stuff and mount... that last one was more for squirrels, but it you are really bored taxidermying a person is a pretty involving project that could take up a good amount of time and build valuable skills.
Yeah, he could have been a terrible squirrel, even by squirrel standards, in which case he deserved to lay there and rot before being unceremoniously stuffed in the garbage and crushed in the compactor in the sanitation truck, but even if he was a total jerk, you cannot know for sure.
Anyway... that's just my semi expert opinion on dead body removal and corpse looting.
You do you.
Cheers.
If you find a body, squirrel or what have you, on the road or sidewalk or on any flat surface, a good citizen should draw a chalk outline around the body; unless the body is merely asleep and not dead as that would just be silly.
Oh and always carry outline chalk just in case.
Drawing a chalk outline around someone who is asleep can be quite amusing when they wake up, lol.
But it pisses off the person who has to wash the sheets.
Complaint: I was looking through some old family photos and particularly my baby pictures. Then it dawned on me that I'm so old that I was born in black & white.
I don't know when I grew into my color.
Complaint: Arghhh... "can't get there from here" is my mantra for the day.
I'm stuck in "Firmament" at the vaults. I have lots of theories about how to progress but every one of them gets blocked by the puzzle complexities.
Can't get there from here, for all the potential solutions. Arghhh... Wheee... am I having fun yet?
And don't anyone come here and tell me "it's simple".
I'm so old that my brain still works using vacuum tubes, and some of them are burnt out.
I guess I'm gonna hav'ta draw some diagrams, and cutout some paper trolly & carts, and make lists of procedural steps on paper before futzing around in the game graphics again.
Too many gotcha's to keep in my head.
just started that level.. the battery pool in the previous level really threw me for a while... and vacuum tubes.. the old IBM high speed card sorter used them..
Yeah, the battery pool was confusing. I didn't know what connected to what, or what the goal was for a while, but once I'd I made enough useless moves, the only thing left were the useful ones and after another long period of futzing around, all of a sudden it worked. Yay, progress!
I grew up in a vacuum tube world. Then I went to college and learned about discrete transistors, but by time I'd gotten a proper job, the world had moved on to integrated circuits. So I gave up on electrons, and moved my brain to software.
same here - lots of Heathkit stuff, including a nice 6 meter rig.. got to love the tube tester at the local hardware store
I was a KnightKit guy. I lived in their catalog. I built their audio amp, a pre-amp, their vacuum tube volt meter, a pair of cheap ($7
) CB walkie-talkies, and a couple of other small things. But my big build-it project was the HeathKit 25", square tube, color TV kit. (their discrete transistor version, not the original 21", round screen, vacuum tube version) Great when it worked, but I had to cart it down to their Miami store(250 miles) to get it repaired by them, twice.
Wierd problem that I wasn't geared to handle by myself. I just build them, I don't fix them.
I actually don't remember for sure, what happened to that TV. I seem to remember moving it into a cubby hole/attic type place after it broke the 3rd time. I might have forgotten about it and just left it there when I moved out of that apartment.
Good video below. Shows the insides and some of the alignment & convergence operations. Very nostalgic. You young kiddies don't know what you missed. Life was tough in the old days when analog ruled.
Man, keyboardists really had it rough before digital sampling synthesizers came along. I'm watching a Herbie Hancock video from the 70s, and he's playing the bassline on a synthesizer off to his left side while playing the melody and soloing on the electric piano in front of him, and he has a couple other synthesizers to his right. The video for Kansas' People of the South Wind is either taken from a live performance or simply shot like one, and by my count there are at least 10 keyboards on stage, because they don't have a dedicated keyboard player, but the singer and lead guitarist play keyboards at various times. Genesis had to tour with a piano, an organ, and one or more synthesizers (and possibly more, because I believe bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford also played keys sometimes). I wouldn't want to move a piano OR an organ, let alone both of them, nearly every day.
been there done that
the playing multiple not moving
Good Saturday morning.
You think you are stuck...
I'm probably not even halfway done with Island of Fire... I still can't get off the Lighthouse Island to open the portal back to Earth 439 so I can stop Dubious Pug from seeking revenge and destroying the world... this one... Earth 439...
(That's Dubious Pug in case you forgot what he looks like from "Stellenwerf Manor")
I'm still stuck at the point where you arrive at the boathouse... where you find the first diary page that talks about the lighthouse keeper's obsession with seals and his dream that "The beacon will open the way" and later where he says the thing about "cancer's lever"...
Which I assuming has to do with the crab (zodiac sign "cancer") that has the yellow lever...
Back in the control room with the big power module...
There are a couple of controls with different color handles, there is a yellow slot in one which is missing a handle... presumably thats the yellow handle in the claw's grasp... but I can't get it to release it no matter what... so some other puzzle must be solved...
If you look at the window (blue rectangle over stairs on the right) you can see the lighthouse in the distance and notice it's not lighting up... I'm assuming that's the "beacon" mentioned in the diary...
I noticed that the damaged parchment found in the boat in the dunes...
mentions " ind--- air part--- th-- gear room--- west tower--- turn- our times"... it's all smudged, but that's probably "find repair part... the gear room... west tower... turn four times..." if that's consistent with the wooden sea captain statue puzzle from the ferry level.
Over in the west tower...
there's that contraption with the missing gear... that has a crank lever and no other control and seems broken.
On the north side of the island, just before the concrete blocks, there is that rusty gear set in the sand that might be the repair part...
... But the runes or writing on them...
they sort of match the scratches on whale bones (skull actually) by the boathouse where I found the first diary page...
Which I originally thought had something to do with the section of the shipwreck of the S.S. Savanna...
...on the south beach (but the Savanna wasn't a whaling boat, it was a passenger ship, which is revealed by the painting on the control wall)... the wood knot pattern might tie into the star chart in the boathouse, but that's clearly a later problem because it's likely the coordinates to get back to Earth 439...
So maybe the part about "in the tragedy of the past, find heaven's path forward" links the star chart and the shipwreck...
Problem is, when I moved the iron lever in the boathouse, it opened the panel on the lighthouse (thus covering the small grate which you can jiggle, but not open)...
And when I went outside to look at it, the boathouse door locked... Now the only thing I seem to be able to do is raise and lower the glowing orb in the left hand of the mermaid statue (by rotating the compass symbol on the dock)...
but it doesn't seem to do anything besides raise the glowing orb...
Actually... I think the other orb might have been glowing when I first found it... I probably should have paid attention...
Now I really have to pee (pee meter is almost full) and you can't go inside the lighthouse yet or pee anywhere but a designated pee zone (like the ferry captain's coat closet in the previous level)... (I wasn't being malicious, the game said "The door creaks open... inside it is dark and smells like damp ferry captain socks... would you like to pee here?")
The ferry captain didn't notice and he still took me to the lighthouse island, so hopefully I don't have to go back...
So far nothing is undoable, but it's annoying to trip a puzzle that's out of sequence.
These stupid Jumanji games are so annoying to get stuck in...
...non complaint. Finally actual "spring like" weather finally in the Northwest. Surprisingly the next week will be sunny and in the mid 70s. which for this time of the year in Portland is rare as it's also Rose Festival Week here. Every year during the festival one can expect it to rain, all week, often heavily, which annually turns Tom McCall Waterfront Park (where the main festival takes place) into a quagmire. There would maybe be an occasional day where it was dry and the sun peeked out for a bit but it wasn't enough to dry up the ground.
I personally don't go to the festival itself anymore, save for the opening night fireworks (which can be viewed from the other side of the river for free) as they now charge a 15$ admission (per day) to get into the grounds It used to be free years ago save for the cost of food and rides.
Speaking of the fireworks, it was a lovely evening yesterday with temps still in the 70s, a light breeze, clear sky, and the show was spectacular. Took the street tram across the river to the eat side where there's a really good vantage point along the river to watch, and then home afterwards..
As Leela would say "beeeg bada boom!".
Complaint: Not here on the right coast. It is cold, rainy, and windy. And worse it is forcast to last for days totally ruining Memorial Day weekend.
It's already summer up here in Washington.
Today is clear & sunny, 75F. Then clear & sunny, 78F tomorrow. And by Memorial day here it will be clear & sunny, 82F. Continuing to clear & sunny, 84F on Thursday. With no clear sign of the clearness clearing into next weekend. Clearly, the weather is stuck.
I put two keychains on two of the zippers for my backpack. That way I can find the zipper heads easily.
finally got past that one..