The Blackangel

5 dogs 9 rats 2 birds 2 dragons 18 kids in total, but my niece claimed one of the dragons, and I’m trying to find a good home for the other one. So it will be 16 soon.

Mine is a bit smaller than yours. It’s a Celestron NexStar 5se. I have no issues with it, and can see nebulae in detail, as well as our solar system. I can track exoplanets well with it. I’ve watched a couple minor asteroid collisions. They weren’t anything big or uncommon. It was in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. So it was just a days work in the belt. I’m looking for a good solar filter to study the sun, but I’m not in any kind of rush. My favorite nebula is The Pillars Of Creation. If you can’t tell, I love astronomy. I always have. When I was a kid, there were often meteor showers in the summer. Most were roughly around 3:00AM, so I would set my alarm to wake me up to watch and then I would fall asleep in the yard watching the shower. Something related to astronomy that is number one on my bucket list is a trip to the arctic circle, (north Alaska most likely) so I can see the northern lights.

I have a Celestron Power Tank, but I only have it to run my telescope. It can power several things and even be used to jump a vehicle, but I don't use it for any of that. Just my telescope. It's technically not a generator, but it does provide power when it's charged.

I would like to have an RV and be able to travel in it, but I wouldn't want it as my permanent home. I need a house that doesn't have a steering wheel. I have lived in a trailer before, and I love them. They can be a little cramped depending on size, but they're great homes, and the bills of living in one are super cheap. If I wasn't in a wheelchair, I would be looking for one now. I don't have the money to have a ramp built so I could get in and out. So I'm kinda screwed there. Either way, I want a place that isn't going to go anywhere and doesn't have an engine and transmission.

We have the same. We record a lot of shows through our DirecTV DVR. We don't always remember to change the channel at the right time to catch the show, so we set it to record and watch it later. Also I'm always watching hockey, so that kinda blocks Love After Lockup.

There's someone, or something in a mountain in RDR2 that talks to you when you're in the right spot. You can never see it, but it's friendly. It talks about being alone because it's different, if I remember correctly. You can only talk to it a few times, and I don't think it's until chapter 4 that you meet it. The fact that if the mountain itself isn't sentient, this thing not showing itself irks me, because I what to know what the hell I'm talking to. I've looked all over that damn mountain, and found nothing.😠

I have Hispanic family, and they were scared to death to vote in the election. The Hispanic and black community here had been getting threats to not even show their faces on election day. So I drove them to their polling place, and went in with them, armed. Afterwards, I drove around town taking twists and turns to make sure no one was following us, and then took them home. I stayed with them for the majority of the day, and nothing happened. The sight of a gun on my hip and the pentagram on my back window was possibly what scared them off.

I know this is late, but I found it interesting.

There will be a lot of their nazi soldiers going around and making vague but clear threats to all the Democrats they can find, warning them not to vote. "Bad things can happen." And their nazi tactics will unfortunately work on a lot of them. They will be too scared to vote, so they stay home. The ones that tell the nazis to fuck off, will have to deal with things that can't be traced to anyone specific, so they will be shit out of luck. Security systems are useless, because since everyone is wearing a mask, you can't really se much of the face. And spray paint over a camera will stop that shit. Kill them. I want the entire republiKKKlan party dead.

Racist, criminal, bigoted, entitled, fraudulent, prejudice, should I keep going? They are making it so they can throw ballots in the trash if they don't agree. The only ballots that will be cast in Georgia now will be the ones for republiKKKlans. All Democrat votes will be thrown away, run through a shredder, and/or simply burned in a barrel except for a few so they can make the claim that it was a "fair" election. Democrats are under attack. We need a strong alliance to fight back, and we fucking need it now.

In this post @StaceyPowers asked what everyone thought were the most philosophical video games. My answer to that question got me thinking. Do you ever see things in games that aren't blatantly obvious, but have to take a special perception to notice? Something like a character in pain, but who hides it extremely well. Things that most would never see or notice. There is a running question about whether Bill in RDR2 is gay. He was given a dishonorable discharge from the Army for deviancy, and I think attempted murder. Homosexuality was considered deviant and a disease back then. It wasn't removed from the mental disease list until 1973. Then there are his actions in camp and interactions with characters that add more fuel to the fire. This video goes into it. Warning there are possible spoilers. So do any of you notice things that aren't spoken?

I would say there's a lot of philosophy in RDR2. The constant struggle between right and wrong that Arthur feels leads to an intense inner turmoil within him. He's leading the only life he has ever known, and loyal to a fault. But he questions it within himself as to whether he's doing the right thing or not. He knows he's surviving by committing crimes. But he wonders if there's another life. And if he could live that life while remaining loyal. Or even live that life at all. He wonders where he would be if Dutch hadn't found him as a child. He wonders where he would be if Mary's family had accepted him. Basically, he just wonders where he would be if things were different. And it tears him up inside, because that's something he can never know.

That would depend on the type of save system a game has. If it's something like Zelda OoT and previous Zelda games where you only have 3 files to choose from, then it doesn't really happen. You cant overwrite a save file in that style. If it's like RDR2 where there is a list of files that you can play, then it happens too often. Often enough that I now keep 1 and on a rare occasion maybe 2 save files. I turn off that autosave bullshit. All it does is interfere with game play and usually either gets me killed, or costs me the animal I'm hunting. Depending on the animal, sometimes it's both. But that's related to needing perfect hides for crafting. So unless I'm at a point that I don't have interest in a certain file, then it happens too much and sends me to PissedLand. Where the drinks are triple price, and the fights are every 30 minutes with assholes you don't even fucking know.

How so? I don't feel like I'm repeating anything. So I don't see how in any way they could be similar.

Do glitches count? If so I can relay MANY such situations.

Age Of Empires II and Diablo II. That would be pretty sweet. Of course the cheat codes for AOE would most likely not be available, and I wouldn't be able to script and create my own items for Diablo II. But it would still be awesome to play them again without having to dig out the computer I was using 20+ years ago.

The Hatfields & McCoys meets Romeo & Juliet feud in RDR2. Out of game it's obviously about land, money, and power. In game, not even the two families involved can remember what started the feud, how long it's been going, and why it's still going. In the middle of it, Romeo from one family, and Juliet from the other are in love and carrying on a secret affair with each other. From what I gather, if their families found out, their lives would be forfeit. That has never been directly stated at any point that I can recall, but from the atmosphere between both families, it wouldn't surprise me.

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I don't think common sense leads to idiocy. Common sense is things like not taking a hot pan out of the oven with your bare hands. Not trying to pet a rattlesnake. Not buying a brand new Ferrari when you only have the means to own 20 year old Mazda. That's why it's called common sense. Uncommon sense would be a more appropriate term for flat earthers, and anti-vaxxers and the like. But there's no sense there, just a desire for attention, an a will to do whatever it takes. Even when you're proven stupid. A 2 inch globular object (eyeball) cannot accurately judge a 7,917.5 mile (earth) globular object from standing at one spot. That is impossible. In order to do so, you would have to leave the larger object and get a look at the entire thing from a large distance. That is like putting a grain of sand next to NYC. The sand isn't going to see all of NYC from where it's standing. But that doesn't mean it's not there.