Steam Names
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Lunchtime doubly so.
My stomach begs to differ.
Dirk Gently was far better. Why doesn't anyone quote that.
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Dirk Gently was far better. Why doesn't anyone quote that.
agreed better story, alas far less quoteable.
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There's that one about if you get lost in a car you should just pick some other car at random and follow it and it won't ever take you where you were going, but you frequently end up where you needed to be...
Ugh, yeah not quotable at all.
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I got married at 19
Jelly. I wanted to get married at 19 but my husband wasn't ready until a few years ago. To be fair, I was immature as all fuck at 19, but seeing as how we stayed together....
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There's that one about if you get lost in a car you should just pick some other car at random and follow it and it won't ever take you where you were going, but you frequently end up where you needed to be...
well there is a real life trick you can use if you're out of state, trying to get home, and lost.
find a semi running bobtail (that's without a trailer for anyone who isn't up on trucker lingo) with a registration in your home state (or one state over if you're more than one state away from home) and follow it.
he'll (or she'll as the case may be) be heading home and if you follow them so will you.
works every time, because if the trucker isn't heading home for a vacation they'll have picked up a job to make money on the way home, but if they're going home for vacation or some other emergency they'll just finish their current job and go.
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Or, I click the "voice command" button on my steering wheel and say, "Navigation ... go home" and then follow the directions.
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God help you man! What if you're lost in the forest!
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works every time
Even if this was true (and it's almost definitely not) the best you can hope for is the right state. That's not that useful in, say, Texas.
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Or, I click the "voice command" button on my steering wheel and say, "Navigation ... go home" and then follow the directions.
/shrug
that works, assuming your car has stanav, and that it is currently functional.
Even if this was true (and it's almost definitely not) the best you can hope for is the right state. That's not that useful in, say, Texas.
It works often enough.
okay, yes about half the time you'll end up at a local jobsite, but truckers are amiable people by and large and will often give you directions if you ask nice.
and in the case of texas... well at least you'll be lost in your own state.
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This would be a perfect opportunity, then, to get rid of a Model M, if you were using one.
Lies. Everyone knows Model Ms are impervious to beverages.
and in the case of texas... well at least you'll be lost in your own state.
...but possibly still 10 hours from home.
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It works often enough.
But not every time.
It'd be easier to just drive to the first service station and buy a map.
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...but possibly still 10 hours from home.
well, if you're living in a state that big I, personally would say that you are
But not every time.
you've heard of a thing called hyperbole, or possibly creative license.
It's a pretty good trick to know. particularly if all you really need is to get to the nearest interstate to find your way from there.
yes, satnav works if your phone is charged and has a good fix, yes there are maps, and yes asking locals also works.
the trick is to have a variety of resources at your disposal, because you might not have your phone charged, and you might not be close to somewhere with a map, and it might be 2AM and all the locals are asleep.
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you've heard of a thing called hyperbole, or possibly creative license.
satnav works if your phone is charged and has a good fix
Or the sat nav is fitted to the car.
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Or the sat nav is fitted to the car.
assuming it's working at all, and has a good fix then.
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Lies. Everyone knows Model Ms are impervious to beverages.
Look, I was offering her an excuse to trash that relic. Why you gotta be hatin' on my hatin'?
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It'd be easier to just drive to the first service station and buy a map.
Or realize that if you're on a highway you probably have cellular coverage and can use your magic elf box to get directions.
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because you might not have your phone charged
Do people actually not have car chargers in this day and age? Even if you don't have one, you can get one for $10 at any roadside convenience store.
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Or that. Or lots of things that aren't "follow a random truck".
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God help you man! What if you're lost in the forest!
You find a hiker whose backpack looks kind of empty and is wearing your State's flag on the ass of his jeans.
Reminds me of:
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I was immature as all fuck at 19
All 19 year-olds are, but they're too immature to recognize their immaturity.
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phone
has the future gone so far that you don't have these?
anyway. plan your trip, and at least, have a map of the zone you're travelling.
or, do as i do, and drive until you find something cool
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Congratu... lations?
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Who is bluewizard5119?
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How do trading cards make Steam worst?
I don't think that trading cards make Steam the worst game client out there. That's a little extreme.
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It was who I thought it might be. If the person wants to self-out, the person can.
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If the person wants to self-out, the person can.
if you get a friend request from a wizard wearing a blue robe, that's me.
I haven't come right out and explicitly identified myself by name here, because I'm one of those crazy people who likes to keep my gaming identity, TDWTF identity, professional/RL identity, etc., at least a little bit separate. I thought the hint above was enough for anybody to make the connection, but I guess not everybody read that post.
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I guess not everybody read that post.
I did...an entire day ago when you posted it. Things like "this the busiest end of year since I've been at of my company because half the staff at my office has quit, including both the other programmers" and, well, something a bit more personal, but significantly more traumatic, has kind of messed with my concentration recently.
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Things ... kind of messed with my concentration
No problem. Those things are a heck of a lot more important than remembering the mapping between TDWTF names and Steam names. Also, I don't remember what I post, much less what anyone else posts, so I hardly have grounds to be upset with somebody else's memory lapse.
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Also, I don't remember what I post
Sometimes I get notifications for posts I made a year ago and I'm like "wow, I used to actually be slightly funny".
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Sometimes I get notifications for posts I made a year ago and I'm like "wow, I used to actually be slightly funny".
Discourse must be broken, accidentally assigning my posts to your username.
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Of course he is, he added an extra word "slightly" and messed up the tense of "still are" to "used to be".
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What else is there to do when you're stuck in a hotel room with shitty wifi for almost a week. It was installed and mildly hilarious. :-)
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What else is there to do
LARP?
Play Slaves to Armok: God of Blood: Chapter II?
Dwarf Fortress-themed LARP?
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Were you under arrest? Why couldn't you leave the room for a week?
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@arantor injured his knee. Couldn't get up and about on his own really. I guess I could have left him to it, but I'm not that much of a cow.
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They don't have crutches in Thailand?
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The doctor wanted to try a massage - at which point my faith in his understanding my English hit rock bottom - as massaging swollen tissue can lead to internal bleeding and more swelling.
We didn't get that far as to get something more useful than some ibuprofen.
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... you need a prescription to get a crutch?
Question 2: there's only one doctor in Thailand?
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You need somewhere to buy it from which if you don't speak Thai is pretty hard to accomplish. The infrastructure is interesting. And sure there are more clinics - but dragging someone with a bad knee out in the heat on bumpy roads is not the brightest idea either.
Even with crutches the first few days after a fall like that are rest, elevation, ice, compression - so we got by.
He's happily clutching about now.
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Well I assume someone at the hotel spoke pretty good English since you booked there. Next time lean on the hotel front desk more to arrange shit like this for you.
But yeah.