At under 18 months I drew on my grandma’s new fancy wallpaper….the getting dragged into the other room and the spanking I got is my first memory.
My second memory was while our house was being built, so I was under 2, and I climbed out on the exposed beams above the atrium, about 35 ft up and 30ft out on 10” wide beams…my mom held it together until I toddler walked back to solid ground then lost her shit. I was trouble.

The tire that never got tired.

I've always wondered... why nobody that got in the pileup honks and create a loud cascading effect to alert the incoming ones and slow down to minimize the carnage?

Is that a thing? Does it help? Is it realistic (understand people are in shock and/or physically hurt, so it's not as easy as what coming out of my mouth)? I'm not sure.

I'm thinking she got everything she wanted for Christmas and more.

Since HL2 will be/is 20 yrs. old and we're all getting nostalgia! Let's talk about those days!

IIRC during the first week of its release, I bought its retail from a local Best Buy with a $10/10% sale or something back then. According to my detailed https://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html history, I recently upgraded my Windows gaming PC with these parts: "... ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card, an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.2GHz 512KB Socket 754 single core CPU, ASUS K8V SE Deluxe (VIA K8T800 Socket 754 ATX; VIA VT8237 South Bridge; Revision 2; onboard sound disabled; onboard NIC not used/connected (using 3COM NIC for network) and can't be disabled or else Promise Raid won't be activate), a 3 fan HDD Peeze cooler, 1 GB of PC3200 Kingston RAM (CAS 3), and Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS." I think I also got Windows XP OS too.

Anyways, I remember playing this game over my long Thanksgiving weekend. It was amazing! Very smooth, pretty, and fun! I don't remember how long it took me to finish it. It was a great sequel. Of course years later, episodes 1 and 2 (The Orange Box -- will talk about that in three years). I don't have and want a VR to play Alyx.

What about the rest of you? Also, remember PlanetHalfLife.com web site? RIP, & GameSpy's web sites.

When he tried to excuse the Tesla’s declining performance (declining from a 3+ second per lap deficit) by saying the tires got warm and LOST GRIP I knew for sure he was just making excuses to be a Tesla fan boy. Warm tires have more grip, cold tires have less grip.

I have a good story for that comment.
My wife and I went to Iceland (I went to a formula offroad event while there!) a while back, and one B&B host told us that for years they sent videos of Formula Offroad to SkyTV (the European version of ESPN) with no response. Eventually they got through to someone to ask why, and were told “SkyTV doesn’t broadcast remote control cars”….yes, for over a decade they assumed no human would drive like that and it must be RC cars! When they proved it was real full size cars with real live drivers, it was immediately put on air and has been popular ever since.
Good stuff.

Side note…these events are one main way Iceland funds most of its rescue teams that save stupid tourists that go off trail and get lost.

From Zero hedge article.


"They Just Got Handed Fraudulent Books" - Ed Dowd Confirms Our Warning That Trump Is 'Inheriting A Turd Of An Economy'

Former Wall Street money manager Ed Dowd is a skillful financial analyst who said in May the economy was skidding. Now, Dowd predicts the economy is poised to “roll over” and soon.

"I have never seen such blatant manipulation of government statistics.

There is government spending and government hiring to paper over what is truly a bad economy for the average man. When I was asked prior to the election who do you think will win the election, I said Trump has already won, according to the economic statistics. That’s why he won. Bobby Kennedy helped along with Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, lots of people switching and what have you. What really got Trump in was the economy, the real economy, not the stock market.

It was not the ‘everything is hunky-dory’ pablum from the mainstream media.

The real economy has been rolling over, and we are just waiting for the financial markets to figure this out.

When they do, Trump is going to inherit a turd of a financial market crisis.

Government statistics will be updated, and it will show we started a recession sometime this year...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/they-just-got-handed-fraudulent-books-ed-dowd-warns-trump-inheriting-turd-economy

AGAIN!

“My faith votes” leader and pro-Trump “evangelical” pastor Jason C. Yates just got caught red-handed with a hard-drive full of child porn, AGAIN…hundreds of photos and videos of children as young as 5 year olds in sexual situations, because you are in a child rape cult.
BEFORE YOU TRY TO DENY ANYTHING, HE ADMITS THEY ARE HIS.
It begs the question, why is he only charged with 8 when there are hundreds of photos, and he’s already a convicted sex crime convict?

YES, YOU READ THAT CORRECT, HE HAD BEEN CONVICTED FOR CHILD PORN 10 YEARS BEFORE AND STILL LED THE CHRISTIAN PRO TRUMP ORGANIZATION RIGHT UP UNTIL HIS LATEST CHARGES.



These are your best, your moral leadership.
Why can’t you notice how often and how many self righteous REPUBLICANS are CONVICTED of hypocritically committing the worst, most disgusting and immoral crimes imaginable over and over and over and over and over and over and over…and how few Democrats?
Or is it you don’t care, you only use pedophilia as a weapon against your enemies but in fact don’t care one whit about raping 5 year old girls, you just need a weapon against your enemies? It’s one or the other.

That's got to be fake. No way it's coming out of the nozzle at that rate, and I'd say that angle would stop it too.

They're rubbing it in saying it's "for educational purposes." It's that kind of education that could get you killed if you try it (but only in America, obviously).

Yep. Getting old sucks.
I don’t recommend it.

I tried it for a decade.
I gave it up, got high energy dogs I have to walk 3-5 miles a day, lost 45 lbs, and I’m in better shape than high school now. I recommend dogs.

The economy is doing excellent thanks to Bidenomics. He inherited a failing economy with a negative gdp and record unemployment and record numbers of businesses failing thanks to Trumpenomics. Even inflation is the best in the free world and has been for a long time, and it was your one bad metric to pint to….now you’ve got nothing. 😂

The economy reportedly added 12000 jobs in Oct, a disappointment but hardly the loss you claim….liar. It is the worst month under Biden so far, but heaven compared to the Trump negative numbers.

Some other unknown metric is also now temporarily the lowest it’s been since Trump….HAHAHAHA! You are so incredibly stupid. I bet you don’t know how you ended up eating shit there.

These other numbers are just as fantastical and fantasy.

The economy has added over 16.5 million jobs under Biden, more than every single Republican administration combined even if you remove Trumps disastrous record of LOSING 3 million jobs over his administrations tenure. Such a drop in jobs has never been seen outside of war time.

Who lied to you and told you he lost private sector jobs? Why are you so gullible and incapable of typing into google to see if Pravda is telling the truth (as if you need to)?
Trump lost private sector jobs, 3 million of them. Biden added 16.5 million of them…so because you can’t accept he succeeded you pretend they are all crap jobs with zero evidence and only Russian propaganda to regurgitate. 😂

Enjoy Vlad. Daddy Trump isn’t coming to save mother Russia, Momala Kamala is coming to spank you hard and long then give your toys to Ukraine.

FYI. I didn't like the first Empire of the Ants from the same company back in Y2K or so. It was pretty, but boring IMO. I'd rather replay SimAnt! Oh, I did like the Grounded game during its Steam free weekend, but I hate the grinding parts! I ain't got time for that. I grind enough IRL!

Let me tell you all about him,

this maggot intruder and Q fan is on video breaking in and attacking Pelosi, admitted doing it, admitted he intended to kidnap, assault, and likely murder Nancy Pelosi based on misinformation he got from the felon about her, has been convicted on every charge, and just got life in prison on top of his earlier sentences.

Once again, every word you have ever said about this assasination attempt has been false, dismissive, insulting, and shows clearly you wish he succeeded in his murder plans…and then you probably go ape shit at the suggestion that your boy led both attackers, drove both his attackers to it, faked his injury (he absolutely did, or he hurt himself, he was not hit) and deserved the attempts (no politician besides his German hero ever did deserve assassination more than he does, and that guy’s own generals tried 3 times).

I hope you’re at least brushing your teeth after eating all that shit, Mr MEGA.