I can see how the oxygen thing gets frustrating in some early points in the game, but at some point it really doesn’t matter much anymore. You’d either never die from it anyway or ride a Stingray everywhere.

In 4 they did the same flying mechanics but without the oxygen which is kind of cool.

Considering the raging success of Borderlands 2, I feel like TPS was more than serviceable. It was received quite badly, even though the gameplay was the same as 2 and the story was at least 65% as good as 2. Maybe the playable characters were not as great. But the world was very well crafted and I actually loved the way the Eridian arc was so much more present, even though there is no Siren character.

I’m currently doing 4. It feels like a soft hommage to the first game, but it also has some references to TPS. But it also feels like it was made for people who don’t even know there are previous games. Of course, the ones who played the original are maybe outside the target demographic, which was already the case with 3 going by the villains of that game.

In short: I still love all Borderlands games equally and The PreSequel is definitely up there!

I sort of promised myself I could have a couple of our home brewed beers at my wife’s birthday party. So I had a few but quickly realised I just really don’t have the ability to apply the brakes. It got very late. I was super hung over the next morning.

All in all, I think I’m ‘cured’ for the time being, I don’t feel like having drinks on weekdays anymore and I’m not busy thinking about the next time I’ll allow myself to have a drink.

After a full month of not drinking, I think I see what it’s doing my body and I’m just curious to see scar happens if I apply the same to February. So my rule will be that I can have a drink at a special occasion and it’s still okay to go a little overboard, but other than that I’ll drink tea or lemonade or whatever.

One of those matches that could’ve gone either way. Also can’t really underestimate the effect the crowd has on the underdogs, I feel Alcaraz and also Sinner have a slight advantage here, sometimes during points or between serves having some annoying dude making sounds to break focus.

Key to infinite life unlocked

26 days in and I think this is where some of the actual recovery is starting. I feel horrible, like I had one too many last night. But usually in these cases my eczema would also be flaring up but my skin, especially in the face, feels better than it has in a while.

I still feel like I won’t stop drinking altogether but if I feel a lot better in a week or two I have some serious thinking to do.

King Jeremy the wicked rules his world

If I lived by this I’d only be feeding my cats moth/butterfly flavored food

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. Seems a pretty simple rule to live by and the world would be a far better place if everyone lived by it. The irony of this is, to me, that this is a statement found in religious scripture, religion being pretty much the main cause of violence.

There was a time when a law was in place which loosely translates to ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’. It means that whatever crime you committed, if you were found guilty, the same would be applied to you. I wonder how long it will take for Minnesotans to start asking ICE agents for weapon permits, training certificates or even their citizenship papers (ie prove you’re Minnesotan).

I support violence against nobody. That said, I suppose these guys won’t stop harassing people by asking them nicely. It’s just sad to see these people are clearly bullying Walz because he at some point had an influence in the elections. It’s straight out of the fascist handbook: disable your political opponents. Next up is deporting not only those with a different skin colour than Trump’s (meaning white, not orange), but also anyone with a known affiliation to the Democratic Party.

After that they’ll start threatening Republicans who are now in the ‘Leopards ate my face’ stage. Once nobody is around to stand up to him anymore, he’ll start systemically executing people, maybe invade some islands or Larin American countries (even more).

I never ‘dated’ in the traditional sense of the word. When I started college, I was about 19 and met someone when I went on a trip with my study association and was in a relationship with her for 8 months. It was sort of love at first sight.

After that I would meet people through my study association which was all fine but never really turned up anything serious.

The day I met my wife, I just got out of the relationship I mentioned before. It still took well over a year for us to start anything romantic. We were just okay friends, although at some point she started hanging out at my house more and more so that also kind of just happened.

I don’t regret not having to go through all the dating things. It might have been nice to meet some more new people, but I’ve always lacked confidence in these situations so I’m not sure I’d be at all comfortable with it either. If there is no click right away, might as well call it a day and stop wasting time.

I assume the edges are still sharp as fuark. The little nubs aren’t the issue. They might even be kinda nice

Know that feeling of stepping on a LEGO brick? How about you do that all the time in the stylings of Crocs? It’s a lose-lose!

I’m actually from 93. Also no not really.

Any blurb that sounds like sound psychological advice people on the Internet can use to self-diagnose will do

I’ve sort of promised myself to at least finish the month without a drink and now it feels like I have something to prove to myself. Although I must say the health improvements are minor at best. Today I don’t have to work and I’ll spend all day at home alone. This would normally be the kind of day where I’d have had a couple of glasses before 3PM. Not because I wanted to spend my evenings in a daze, but because I’d probably be bored most of the time and drinking makes it tolerable.

So today, I will be committed to taking it easy, try to find stuff to do, maybe take a nap if I’m not feeling up to it. A self-care day without alcohol, I’ll be fine.

Calling it a multi billion dollar project is factually correct but quite the understatement

It’s not. If you mean an extension cord with built-in ground and surge protection, that is.

If your amp had a ground in its power plug, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. If there is a surge in the actual power to the outlet, the surge protector might catch it. But since this is about surges inside the device itself, it means you should no longer actually touch the amp because you might get a shock. You can imagine that the higher the amperage flowing through the amplifier, the more dangerous this is.

I have only a very basic knowledge of electricity and an even smaller knowledge of amps but I have heard about certain amps that would be susceptible to immense power surges which would short out some circuits and that power needs to go somewhere. If it’s not grounded properly it might release its current into the air where it’ll find you, or maybe catch fire.

The specifics of this and why or how this happens should be findable online.

Most likely it’ll also have something to do with the higher voltage direct current being transformed into a lower voltage alternating current. But why and how you’d need to be properly grounded for that is beyond me.

The dangers are limited unless you hit an edge case which you’ll want to avoid. In other words, you’d have to be really unlucky. Surges can happen with audio equipment easily though.

The principle of grounding is actually simple enough: when something goes wrong with the current, for instance if it can’t move through the wires it should move through, it’ll try to escape. Grounding makes sure that it moves through a dedicated wire to somewhere it can no longer do harm. Cars, for instance, use their frame as a ground, which will conduct the current into the tires and into the ground (ie Earth) if necessary.

This is probably 25% accurate so I’ll invite any electrician to correct me but I am fairly confident this will do as a basic answer.

You hook up the GND contacts to anything that is not connected to anything electrical, preferably something non-conductive at the end of it, you’ll be fine.