Been playing Bass on Rocksmith 2014 for about 5 years.

I just recently bought my first “real” Bass, and am in top 10 on most easy and medium versions of the songs. #1 on more than a few.

Never play without the game so while I feel like I can jam, I don’t consider myself a musician.

Well, I’ve heard if you spin it backwards you can hear satanic messages

So specific uncommon words like “wordage”

AI bot! We have an AI bot over here!

Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time …

My latest conspiracy theory is that is why so much money is being dumped into AI. They want to make AI video so convincing that when the real videos come out, everyone can claim it’s AI.

Bonfire from Dark Souls, because you don’t want to lose your soul by failing to save progress.

At one of the no kings rallies, I feel something hit me in the back. Turn around to see a small girl running over to get the large Styrofoam sign that the wind had blown out of her hands.

She looks up saying “I’m sorry!”.

“It’s ok, I’m not a space shuttle, I can survive being hit by a foam block”.

Crickets.

Been shaving my head with shortest guard since I joined the military in '96. Haven’t paid for a hair cut since. I’ll let it grow out until it annoys me and / or starts to look too shaggy.

I would not fuck a Tesla.

You don’t quit skating cause you got old, you got old cause you quit skating.

I don’t know about San Andreas, but the GTA III co op mod was something pretty special. It took the other players coordinates and assigned them to your last vehicle, which didn’t despawn.

There were no on foot player characters, but you could drive around together in a game with absolutely no multiplayer or online elements at all.

Just turned 50 and still ride a skateboard.

Landing on the Mun was the first time I’ve ever jumped out of my chair and done a victory dance while gaming.

All of these are great picks. I’ll add:

“It had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong.”

No, not in the sense you mean, it’s a 5 door hatch back. The gold standard was always “Can it fit a sheet of plywood?”, and no not a chance.

With the roof rack it can carry whatever ,including the giant tree that fell on it five years ago that makes me not care if I carry anything on it.

If you have the money, buy the all wheel drive Volvo wagon, it’s what I’m looking at next.

2014 Subaru Impreza sport wagon and I couldn’t be happier.

Had to basically replace the entire tans at 80k miles this year, but otherwise bullet proof.

Well, got back 4 more and you are pre OBD2 and modern emissions sure, but now you’re dealing with a technically ‘classic’ car and the rust, wear and tear, and parts availability issues that come w it.

2014 - 2018 will get you a modern car without a touch screen or Internet connection, which is what I’m really after.

Physical controls I can use with my eyes on the road, and not a subscription to worry about.

After many such threads I’ve come to the conclusion that peak car is between 2014 and 2018.

I’m old enough to believe I’ll never have to drive something with a touch screen.

I design touch screen UI as part of my job and I can see no argument for one in a vehicle other than GPS, and for that I have my phone.

I work in corporate Audio Video, and program in all the main AV languages. I specialize in AMX / Netlinx, but do Crestron, Extron, and various DSP programming as well.

Tie it all back to web applications where I primarily use PHP.

Been learning Python as that looks to be where things are going in the next 5 years.

This shouldn’t work… Why the hell does it work, don’t touch it!!

I write code in a niche industry, in an even more niche language.

With 20 years experience I am finally at the point that much of my stuff works without too much headache.

Unfortunately, now that I’m finally good at it, it’s become a much smaller part of my overall job.

Nothing I look forward to more than being left alone for a few hours with my headphones on banging out a project.