Someone please help explain this to me.
I love Madagascar but… 
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I think it’s telling you to escape to Africa, for this year at least. Considering what’s happening in most of the nations of western “civilization,” with all these right-wing leaders and administrations coming to power, getting out and going to a place that is relatively sparsely populated with white people might be a good idea (and I’m white, so I can say that).
Everyone without electricity, phone signal / internet and grocery stores
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Every country in the world has those things, aside from those secluded ones in the Indian Ocean that have been protected by law from interacting with the outside world. Assuming that post means what I think it means; excuse me if I am mistaken.
I’m so drunk right now, I can barely see straight, I have no idea how I’m typing this out correctly, I can barely feel my hands.
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Go straight edge. Alcohol bad
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Your body betrays your degeneracy. You have succumbed to Al Gul. You reek of it. An invisible sword of Al Gul emerges from your throat. You cannot see it, but others can. It is making the users on this forum sick.
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I met John McClane*
Except he’s from the UK.
Also he’s an actor.
(You can’t see it but I’m wearing my Nakatomi Plaza Christmas shirt 
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Just saw “Yippee Ki Yay, a Parody Celebration of Die Hard”. It’s a really creative one-man-show from this die hard super-fan, where he humorously acts out the movie of Die Hard, intertwining it with a personal(fictional?) love story of meeting another die hard super-fan and his future wife. 
It was all told in verse and rhyme, was very very creative and unexpected. His impressions of Hans Gruber, KARL (with flowing blonde hair) John himself and many other characters were really well-done and funny!
This is written by and starring Richard Marsh, a UK comedian/actor/poet, who yeah definitely loves Die Hard and apparently wrote this rhyming epic during lockdowns.
IDK if it’s coming back to the UK or if Canada is his last stop on the 2024 tour, but if ya find it, go see it!
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@MrOchoa Time to send ya to the past.
The ol’ Hitman homepage
Behind the Scenes
Story
Screens
Downloads
Demo - sadly couldn’t download 'em 
The ol’ IO-Interactive homepage
Extra, just for you MrOchoa
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What a nostalgia trip, thank you 
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Don’t mention it
If anyone wants to experience the old web just use these proxy settings for your browser
Protocol Address Port
HTTP wayback.protoweb.org 7851
FTP wayback.protoweb.org 7851
When you want to return to the normal net, just disable / delete the proxy 
You can learn more about the protoweb here
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My grandfather died this morning. Haven’t been close with my family for a while and haven’t been back to see them in nine years, but I wasn’t on bad terms with my grandparents. He’s had diabetes for decades and his health had been going all over the place the last few years, and apparently this morning he had failure of several organs and signed a DNR. My mother was pretty distraught when I spoke to her, so I’m not sure, but I think she said she got to speak to him before the end.
Was hoping to go and see them this year before this happened, but hadn’t worked out the logistics of it because I don’t want to get on airplanes anymore. Missed the opportunity. Don’t know what’s next, as my mother said they weren’t planning on having a service for him or anything, but I do want to visit my grandmother at least once more before she goes, so I think I may.
It’s weird, I feel detached from it right now, despite feeling sorrowful for my mother and grandmother, and knowing that he is the closest person to me to have died so far. I don’t know if it’ll hit me harder later, or if the time and distance has simply dulled me to caring as much as I would have before leaving home almost 17 years ago. Guess I’ll see in the days ahead.
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Oh Mano. Sorry for your loss.
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My condolences man. Try to see your grandma if you can…
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Job related stuff. Not bumping that one topic.
Anyway. For my work I’m required to take an online virtual “class”. If you cancel late or are a “no-show” your (or my) employer is fined $100. On the website where you can register for the class it says that on the 1st day it’s at (for example) 9:00 AM, and for the 2nd day the time is at 10:30 AM.
So, day 1 I’m in the class… Mostly listening and following along with what’s being said and shown. I learn better when things are hands-on. It ended at 10:30. Now, the instructor said “be here again tomorrow at the same time.” Which seemed strange to me. The page said the 2nd day started at 10:30. So I’m thinking maybe the same exact time it is at that moment. One would think it was at 9 when saying “same time”. So maybe he misspoke. 
On the next day, I log-in to the site at 9:55… Figured I’d get in early because one other time last year I got on with 5 minutes to spare and it said I was a “No Show”. Needless to say I was furious! Then learned or heard from someone that it was recommended to start the class 15 minutes early. That’s why I was trying to connect to the session a little before 10 so I’d be locked in long enough before 10:30.
Deja’Vu! It said I had missed the class!
Long story short, I sent an email to one of the instructors asking why the registration page said the 2nd day started at 10:30, but I was a “No Show”… and I said I didn’t feel it was fair to be charged a fine. She said they’d waive the No-Show charge, said that both classes start at the same time both days… Then asked if she could get a screenshot of where it (gave the incorrect info) to which I did.
Now, I know nothing about webpage design, or what goes into it, but I can only imagine there was a table that was (probably) cut and pasted… Something like
Display: Start Date and Start Time… (and) End Date and End Time
When it should’ve been…
Display: Start Date and Start Time… (and) End Date and Start Time. 
Anyway, that had me in a bad mood for the almost the whole day. I’ve registered again for the next class in 7 days (it will be the same exact thing). This time I’ll get in on the 2nd day same as the previous.
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I have posted chapter 2! The story continues
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Got a case for my Steam Deck. Though despite all my research I encountered a critical design flaw that kinda screwed me last night. All good now though. 
TL;DR: Skull&Co. Case. Goes overtop of the Power Button and very sensitive to pressing in. It turned on my Deck into BIOS boot, and in trying to get out of it, I accidentally forced a factory/OS refresh, removing all my games and add-ons installed to the main SD device.
I’ve done a lot of research on what the popular cases are, what needs the fewest accessories, what can also fit in the Valve Deck Carrying Case by default.
So I recently got the Skull & Co. GripCase for the SD, which seemed to get the most praise for use/price/ease of access.
It fits nicely over the device, adds nice grip, feels sturdy to protect against bumps and small drops, but, the case covers the power + volume buttons with protruding tabs, since otherwise there’d be a small recess to have to dig your finger in there.
Well last night, while trying the Grip case and Valve Case combo, Yes it does fit, snugly, maybe a little too perfectly. But the power button on the SD is flush against the machine, and the Case button that sits on-top has a quite deep nub that can poke the button very easily. (The volume buttons have a smaller button-cover and are less prone to accidental pressing.)
Just putting the Deck in the Carrying case can rub against the Grip Case enough to press in the power button, waking it from sleep, or potentially forcing it off/on
Well last night, as I was using the Grip Case in the Carrying Case, I wanted to see if the Thumbsticks were in danger of having too much pressure on them. The case felt too snug, and I thought they were the culprit.
So I pressed on the case from the outside, listening for a click, which there wasn’t one. Good.
And once I opened the case back up, I found the Deck had turned On into the BIOS menu. (Hold Volume+ (…) and Power when turning on.) I’m guessing my pressing on the case pushed the … Button, and the constant pressure the case puts on the power/volume buttons caused that boot sequence.
apparently what you’re supposed to do is select your OS boot, or power the device off to get out of that menu safely. But if you hit the B Button while in this menu, it acts as essentially the “Esc” button, triggering the Deck to do a factory reset?? So it then prompted me to select language, region, account, and updates again, before greeting me with a blank menu of no installed games…
Thankfully I found out it’s just a reset/refresh of the Gaming Mode on the device. The Desktop still had the old game shortcuts and installed linux programs I had that added non-steam-launcher support among others. I just needed to run their exe files again for it to install/update on the Gaming Mode side of the device.
Also re-install the handful of games I’d had on there, thankfully not many.
So that took some of last night and some of today to get re-sorted.
I have since cut out the Power nub from the case, and already it feels a lot less likely to interfere with the power state, though maybe a little more difficult to reach, but nothing serious. The last thing I want is for it to turn on while in the Valve case, baking itself…
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Its been more than two years since I last did this, here we go again. Not getting stoned (or drinking) for the next week, at least until the launch of KCD2. Time to prepare for a week of insomnia, nausea, headaches and boredom.
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