Literally a plot point in Dresden Files. MC is a wizard who lives in Chicago doing private eye work. Regularly carries a blasting rod (wand) and a revolver. One big wizard gets taken out by a sniper rifle fired by a demon. He has semi-regular backup from non magical friends who are just well armed.

A regular human mafioso who is just so good at being a conniving and ruthless piece of shit that he can hold his own with the magic folk is a recurring character. Your spells don’t mean too much if four goons get the drop on you with a metal pipe when you weren’t prepared.

Don’t underestimate the tactical power of humping the air while dressed weird. So many modern leaders ignore the sheer stopping power of “being weird AF bro”

Once in college, armed with assorted mismatched costume equipment, a bunch of bananas hanging from the front of my belt, and socks with sandals, my sensual thrusts nearly caused the enemy supply chain to take out their own forces (a pizza delivery car saw me shakin what the manic episode gave me and almost swerved up onto the opposite busy sidewalk).

My bad, I’ll check again when I get home. Could have sworn it was available by default, but it might be a Pro/Enterprise version thing, or something I had to do through Group Policy (Pro/Enterprise unless there’s an underlying registry entry you can snag to apply to Home installs).

Either way, 100% agree that you should never have to jump through hoops for such a basic piece of functionality. It’s your machine, not Microsoft’s.

EDIT: Yeah, you’re right. Can pause updates for 35 days. You can keep resetting those 35 days indefinitely, but that’s some bullshit.

And it looks like all my fancy ways of disabling auto-restarts for updates are all Group Policy, so restricted to Pro and Enterprise versions. That’s some shit.

Protip: If you need Windows then go with the Pro version for the most config options against the bullshit, but don’t pay for it. Get a super discounted price from a licensed OEM license key seller, or just use MASGrave to spoof the license for free.

It comes from people being unwilling to learn how Windows works or how to configure it, but being 100% on board to tinker to hell and back with Linux. So you get a lot of innaccurate info from people who think their Linux skills confer some amount of knowledge with Windows when they never took the time to learn it as well, or when they haven’t used it outside of corporate controlled work machines (if they even encounter Windows that way) in half a decade.

There’s an argument (which I agree with to a point) that you shouldn’t have to learn how such a big paid product like Windows works in order to avoid frustrations, while it’s understandable in an open source thing like Linux distros. But it ultimately boils down to a combo of “Windows bad!” and learned helplessness when it comes to Windows that people are willing to push through for Linux.

What? You can easily turn updates off entirely during situations where that’s going on. It’s a single switch in the settings.

EDIT: Fucking hell, they changed it to just being able to turn off updates for 35 days. You can reset that countdown back to 35 days indefinitely, but that is some grade A bullshit.

Settings>Windows Update>Advanced Options, Then Pause Updates down at the bottom.

That’s also where you can find some settings for disabling auto-restart as well.

That would likely be the default settings trying to avoid times when you normally use the machine to install the update.

That reminds me that I have a stack of Vista era laptops (and one Win 7) gathering dust. I should find something to do with them.

This is quite possibly the worst thing I’ve seen in weeks. Thank you for creating disturbing content.

Blocking users is free.

Shame that it seems like people don’t realize you’re using a real issue someone opened on github as a copypasta.

I’m a huge fan of Shout Factory, and I’m at a place in my life where I can generally afford to pay for my media, so I do. I’ll have to look up Arrow.

Voting with your wallet works both ways, and while most of the payment will be eaten by corporate interests at least it signals “I want more of this sort of thing”.

My comment was mainly meant as a response to the statement regarding later seasons of Always Sunny simply not being available to purchase physically. In situations like that, I see no reasonable objection to raising the sails.

May I interest you in the [email protected] wiki/megathread? Yo ho yo ho…

I support creators as I can, but when there’s literally no other option to own it in a way it can’t be just taken from you I don’t feel there’s any strong argument against it.

That’s not photoshopped/edited btw. It’s from a song going through all the fingers on our hands. I believe it’s from the first year/season of the show.

Those are simple. SMH: System Managed Heraldry, SMDH: Shaving my dog here!

Any options for wired VR with the Quest 2?

Citation needed. So far there has been one instance, in Tenessee, where a horrendous law was passed recently to allow that.

That law is a state law. As in, only in Tenessee. Not the whole country.

Things are absolutely shit, amd headed for worse, but let’s not spread falsehoods please.

I spent a ton of time playing the nabisco minigolf flash game online as a kid.

Oh, sorry. I’m definitely not trying to argue against the idea that the economy is shit or that the ever widening chasm between the “classes” is a massive fucking problem.

I’m fairly outspoken online about how I feel like the social justice movement (while critically important) that rose out of the ashes of Occupy Wallstreet was a ploy to get everyone below the 1% fighting each other. Won’t go as far to say the only war is class war, but it’s for sure the most inportant one.

I was specifically focused on the headline’s claim of 60% using BNPL for groceries. We shouldn’t need “alternative facts” to make our point.

This comment on the post indicates that it’s a CitizenWatch article, but that article’s own listed sources don’t support the 60% number either (as I call out in my response to that comment).

I swear there’s barely anywhere online anymore where people practice basic skepticism. If it aligns with their existing biases they just slurp it up, no matter how absurd.

I mean this sincerely: Am I missing something in their sources? None of their three sources about BNPL support the “60%” number for groceries.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markfaithfull/2025/04/28/american-consumers-turn-to-buy-now-pay-later-for-groceries-as-high-costs-bite

https://pueblostarjournal.org/news/2025/06/03/shopping-buy-now-pay-later-groceries

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/26/americans-groceries-buy-now-pay-later-loans.html

CNBC mentions 60% of general admission tickets for Coachella being BNPL sales.

It and the other two articles state 41%-43% of generally surveyed people simply stating they used BNPL last year, not for what.

I’m not seeing any source for “60% of Americans using BNPL for groceries”, and anecdotally that doesn’t match anything I’m hearing/seeing in my day to day life. Economy’s shit, but this feels a little “narrative”-y for my tastes.