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Husband, Father, Gamer, Nerd

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  • I know I suck, I know it beyond any shadow of a doubt. I have know. It for over fifty years. Sometimes my brain is mostly silent on that subject, other times it is not.

    I have a friend who heard me make the above statement. She took umbrage that I would say such a thing, and sent me this clip...

    https://youtu.be/ubTJI_UphPk

    I'm not a fan of the show, but to me, that one clip was life-changing.

    I have a Van Gogh action figure on my desk as a constant reminder.

  • I'm not a Warhammer fan, but I might be. My middle son talked me into playing Owl Cat's Rogue Trader and I haven't enjoyed an RPG so much in ages.

    I then decided I needed to read some of the fiction, did some research, and picked up Gaunts Ghosts solely because it's a tribute to Richard Sharpe.

    I haven't got far enough in it yet to pass judgment.

    So I'm nibbling around the edges of fandom, but not quite there yet.

  • I have espoused views in my life I'm not proud of, but I think the same can be said of anyone.

    Part of my journey was a search for intellectual consistency. Their are people of faith who are able to do that, I am not one of them. When it comes to politics, there are two contemporary thinkers (Ken White and Radley Balko) who forced me to re-evaluate my beliefs.

    I believe there are many Conservative thinkers who hold their positions in good faith. Sometimes they are even correct! I believe there are also many Liberal thinkers who hold their positions in good faith, sometimes they are right also.

    So to answer your question, I don't think my values were bad, some of my thinking about how to implement those values definitely was though.

    As with most people we morph over time.

  • I'm an old guy. I started my life as a right-wing Conservative Christian. I'm now. Both an atheist and an anarchist. So yes people change. My journey has been six decades long.

  • Baseball @fanaticus.social
    rhacer @lemmy.world

    A fascinating bit of baseball history

    I'm trying to learn to be a fan of baseball. This sort of history helps shape that burgeoning fandom.

    Baseball @fanaticus.social
    rhacer @lemmy.world

    I'm Writing a new Substack about baseball

    open.substack.com An Old Dog Learns New Tricks

    For as long as I can remember, and that's quite a long time, I have thought I should be a baseball fan, but I have never ever been a baseball fan. Soccer? I've been #RCTID since 1976. Football? I've been a Seahawks fan since I learned to understand football. Basketball? I can vividly remember celebr...

    An Old Dog Learns New Tricks

    I've long thought I should be a baseball fan, join me on a quest to become one.

    Music @lemmy.world
    rhacer @lemmy.world

    Trying to find a song based on a very tiny fragment of memory

    There's a song, I think I only heard one time likely on KGON in Portland, OR and likely in the late 70s. This song has haunted me over the years but I have never been able to locate it again.

    The one thing I really remember is that there is a spoken-word portion where the vocalist talks about the Boogie Woogie, but pronounces it more like Boozhi Woozhi.

    I'm laying in bed quarantined with Covid and once again its memory and my inability to determine what song it was is haunting me.

    Starfield @lemmy.zip
    rhacer @lemmy.world

    Favorites Broken on Series X

    My favorites broke. They were working great but now they don't work at all. I can't favorite anything there icon sits in the middle of the plus sign and I can't move it to any open slot. Things I had already favorites continue to work, but I can't add new things or swap things out.

    I've tried dropping my entire inventory and then picking things back up but that is not resolving there issue. It's not game-breaking but it is frustrating.

    Xbox @lemmy.world
    rhacer @lemmy.world

    XCOM 2 on Series X

    How does XCOM 2 play on the Series X? Is it worth getting even though I already own it on PC?

    Love the game and would love to be able to play sitting on my couch!