So glad to not be alone on this. It felt unfocused. I think working with Mark Ronson gave Homme a bit too much leeway to make an album that tried to hard to be cool.

It somehow went over the ironic/unironic line that Queens has always danced around.

Like Clockwork has moments that veered towards camp and cheese but never felt insincere or cloying.

Villains by Queens of the Stone Age.

…like clockwork (the previous album) is top 3 for me and may be my all time favorite at any given moment. But the follow-up was just not what I was looking for.

Yes. And don’t let the “no it’s a meta account only now” crowd play that card. It’s the same company sucking the same data in to the same ad drenched glory hole.

This wasn’t the case with the Quest 1 until it was. You could run that completely standalone with SteamVR after the backlash over a required account, then once the blowback subsided, they reintroduced the requirement.

We learned this last year after dusting off the OG Quest and trying to get it running with SteamVR. It straight refused to work without a FB/Meta account. Creating a new one has a bunch of bullshit hoops that failed when attempted behind any type of ad blocking DNS so I gave up and put the paperweight back in the case and moved on.

Fuck Meta. Fuck FB. And Fuck anything else Zuck and co touch.

Sorry for the rant it’s early and I haven’t had caffeine.

If you smoke crack, your partners gotta smoke crack?

Playing a “backup” on my Switch.

I’m doing my part.

Can confirm. Skinny numetal kid in my teens, too many kitchen and bar jobs in my 20’s and now mid 40’s on Zoloft and apparently old goth dads are on the menu.

Cheers man. May the well never run dry.

Just moved down to Oregon from the Seattle area a few years ago and have a Mach-E.

Similar setup to the other poster here. 50a installed at home. We plug in at night and have charging set to 80% and synced with the local utility to prefer off hours. Price wise, we’re spending about $60 a month compared to the $200+ we’d spend on previous ICE vehicles. Combined with solar on the roof, it’s been a pretty good value. Not a net zero for sure but overall good.

If there’s a long trip planned, we over ride settings to 100%. There’s a ton of 300kwh chargers along I5 (0%-90% in 20 or so minutes every 3-4 hours). We’ve driven from Seattle to LA with no trouble a few times. Takes a little bit more planning but not too much of an issue.

It’s a fantastic option at this point. I’ve been a GeForce Now user since 15 or 16 (whenever they launched the ShieldTV beta) and it’s… ok? You can still run it on deck as well of there’s any concern.

Worth considering he could also use GeForce now while saving for a Steam Deck. Used ones go on sale for under $300 pretty frequently.

This is peak gamer. I am in awe.

If we could start deplatforming extremist rhetoric online that would be a huge boon against these types of things.

I haven’t been near anybody Meta’s platforms for a decade at least. Sounds like it is still a shit hole of “content” designer and curated to push consumption down peoples throats. No wonder it’s still called a feed…

Have you tried being more in to US Politics, Linux and Privacy? I’ve found several very vibrant communities for those here.

As a shitter on the shitter I vote the name stays.

I’ll take that to Matrix and my grave. 🤣

I like the idea of pronouncing it hook-ai-rs just for the implications on Ubers becoming u-bears.

“U-bears for hook-ai-rs” makes me chuckle. It’s just the right amount of churches up.

It’s a little irregular but she tours now and again still. I hope you get a chance to see her near you sometime! It would be worth a little drive if needed.

I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Tori live several times throughout the past few decades. This song always hits extra hard in person. What an incredible writer.

Better than the 100% propaganda being spewed by Musk and his fluffers on X.

Fuck corpo social media. Arch, btw

There is also The Crew, Forza Motorsport, Forza Horizon as well as Gran Turismo to mention a few more that I have played. Plus a whole slew of hardcore F1 titles, Nascar titles and the Trackmania series.

There might be something in there that catches your attention. Could just be a case of these not surfacing in your algorithm to get noticed.

How quickly can you write up a proposal? We can have GPT get us a mockup of the ui by tomorrow and be ready for production by Friday…

Did I say all of that correctly?