It’s funny, I love the DeLorean/Tron style, but to me the CT looks nothing like that. Both of those styles have a certain sleekness to them, while nothing about the CT looks sleek.

My favorite gift is a Steam Gift Card.

Agreed. In my experience, the more processed the original product is, the easier it is to replicate.

Just a game and book come to mind for me right now, plus a music album.

Game: Star Control 2

Book: Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter

Album: Floating World by Anathallo

Going to name a few that I would be happy with:

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity

Mineral - The Power of Failing

Anathallo - Floating World

The Decemberists - Picaresque

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Techreport is another one I used to read all the time, but it got bought out and is a shambling corpse of it’s former self.

I like having a roof over my head and food on the table, therefore I need to work.

This is how I feel too. 1984 for me.

Iceland, followed closely by Finland.

I’m more partial to The Power of Failing, but I’ll take any Mineral. Did you see the two new songs they released for the 25th?

Whatever Commodore 64 ran, back when I was a little kid in the early 90s.

Anathallo

Mineral

Neither together anymore, although Mineral did play some reunion shows in 2019.

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I do feel sorry for the admin staff that have to deal with it, and my ire is 90% directed at insurance. However, when they can’t even read the back of the insurance card to follow the instructions to properly file a claim, it just gets tiring.

Haha exactly! I mean, I know this is how it works, it just feels like it’s gotten way worse in the last few years.

Completely agree. Just had to vent.

I completely agree about it being the providers responsibility. The problem is, they don’t want to do anything to resolve the issue either. Other times, it doesn’t even involve the provider, they did everything right but for some byzantine reason it didn’t go through the insurance system correctly and you have to call them and tell them to process it the same way they have processed every other exact same bill from the exact same provider.

Just wanted to vent. I should clarify I live in the US (as if that wasn’t clear from my post LOL!)

So I WAS on 11 until all of the sudden my computer refused to boot with the special hardware thing enabled. Had to downgrade to Windows 10 and the mobo manufacturer’s response was ‘try replacing every other part in your PC’…sorry I don’t have the money to have spare parts of everything just lying around. 10 works perfectly fine, and it’ll give me an excuse to upgrade my mobo in Oct 2025. :-)

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