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It’s Bret Easton Ellis. If you’re only familiar with him through American Psycho, that would explain the confusion. I think twelve people saw Rules of Attraction with James Van Der Beek or Less Than Zero. He pretty much focuses on consumerism, moral bankruptcy, social status, and all the things...

You aren’t wrong. In full disclosure in the middle of typing that post I asked ChatGPT for more examples because those were also the only two immediate ones that came to mind lol. I was also thinking about Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween or someone else not coming to mind. It wasn’t a very well...

As a glass half full type of guy, let me be counter for a second… If this does well then it should (super heavy emphasis there), show that if a talented director actually focuses on making a quality movie the DEI hires and everything shouldn’t (see above emphasis) matter. Kind of what has been...

The three WiiM units came in. Seem to be pretty easy. Set them up in my office for now and just plugged my right speaker into one and left speaker into another. Spotify just uses my local account. Got everything off eBay and appears to be mostly very lightly used, if at all. Two of them came up...

We don’t have one of the lake view lots. That was just a view up by the soccer fields and what-not. All the lake view ones had pretty significant drop offs in the front or back and we wanted something flat for the kids. We have good views driving in but our road is lower elevation and flat. It...

I've been out of town for a week with work, but had a chance to stop by this morning and look at progress. Met the builder out and talked about things for about an hour and a half. They've finished all the blocking, they were getting ready to pour additional material into the CMUs, should start...

This is as stupid as when people begged for a ninja assassin's creed for years and they gave us George Floyd rampage simulator. All you had to do was take the stupid pirate ship stuff and repackage it for 2026 and make money. It isn't that difficult.

Lit Escalates will be offering copies of DCC 1&2 Signed and Personalized by Matt Dinniman with new dust jacket art. Pre-sales go live 7/17 at Noon CST. They've also committed to doing the rest of the series. May be a good opportunity to jump on board a full hardcover set that is consistent. The...

I think both Reolink and Unifi include tracking without a subscription now.

Access control may be a fun tinker project down the road. I'll have ethernet there with the doorbell... Also considering running some drops to to windows along with a low voltage run. We don't have any plans to do automatic shades right now but I can think of a couple of spots where it may be...

Yeah, on the back side that you can't see I have the G6 Entry, I thought I had two but maybe not, one for front door and one for garage door on back of house. I didn't look at the G6 Entry Pro because we aren't doing access control or anything like that and it just seemed like a better camera...

UniFi Design Center thing is pretty cool... uploaded my floorplan and traced the walls. I need to add some attenuation objects like cabinets and maybe other random things. But otherwise seems pretty neat for planning. Showing the rack layout, port assignments, configuration settings. Had no...

This is the most joggerish "excuse me I ordered my stake medium and it was medium well, I'd like a refund, yeah but you ate the whole thing" argument I've read in 2026.

Went ahead and ordered 2x WiiM Amp and 1x. WiiM Ultra. Going to set up a test at the house and see how I like it before committing to a whole home build. Also ordered a pair of KEF ci200QR to see how they sound and if we want to use those as ceiling speakers.

Yeah there was one or two misfires that exploded right on the ground and you could tell a chain reaction or two happened. If you can see from the aerial they were set up decently spread out (note: I have no idea how far decent is for fireworks). Our home builder is actually the guy that sets the...

You know I really don’t have a reference for cost of fireworks and display. It was almost exactly 30 minutes though because we all kept looking at each other wondering if it was ever ending. My only feedback to them would be that 15 minutes is probably enough. Plus we were close enough that...

Multi-Room Audio In our new build I want to toy with the idea of multi-room audio. Not interested in multi-zone or whatever we used back in the 80s and 90s. At most this will be to wirelessly play Spotify while on the porch, maybe put some music on in the garage workshop, and maybe in the...

Not directly home build related but we had a 4th of July celebration out in the new neighborhood where the house is being built. Everyone comes out, kids set up little tables selling lemonade, homemade cookies, bracelets, whatever. Then at 9pm they started the fireworks. $6,600 worth I was told...

I just finished the first "dungeon" thing and, yeah, it is actually pretty good. Seems like a lot of different systems that can get deep but aren't necessary to just go through the game.

I did go ahead and try to install Bazzite tonight on my gaming PC to dual boot and give it a shot. Took about 10 minutes total between downloading the ISO, writing it with Fedora Disk Writer, Installing, and logging into Steam. Even came with Steam pre-loaded. Haven’t run anything yet, but it...

Jeez, the one kind of interesting Steam Cube thing…

Yes but “omnidirectional” generally refers to radiation in a particular plane, usually azimuth, not equal in all 3D directions. So what they’re lazily arguing is that if you wall mount it you’ve changed the orientation of the radiation pattern to be “omnidirectional” up/down instead of spread...

If you haven’t use the Outlook web app since like 2020 you may still feel like it is completely unusable. These days I forget I’m in it entirely and has some decent features. I do occasionally need to run Outlook Classic bc it has much better drag and drop emails to Explorer folders. I may try...

They did but I think the nuance is that most stuff previously accepted by FCC is still good, they just can’t bring in anything new because they’d never be granted a license. I really looked for something US based and Skydio exists, but really didn’t seem to cater to the consumer/prosumer...

Maybe like…. Psychogoreman and Destroy All Neighbors with a touch of Onyx the Fortuitous?

This is a very special kind of low budget fun movie that works. At times it feels like everyone is in it for $50 and a pat on the back or just chipping in to help out a friend. Okay. Actually most of the movie feels like that. Then other moments are hilarious, so over the top, and just corn...

Feels like we already know how this ends since LIV has pretty much collapsed in real life.

That's going to be the driveway, but they've laid that down to park and pull in heavy equipment, so it doesn't further tear up the lot in the event of rain and such. Daddy @Bandwagon going to make fun of my noob drone shots.

Messed around this morning and took a series of photos at the site and used WebODM to put together a 3D model. Shockingly easy and fast. Pretty cool though! Should be really interesting to see how it looks when framing starts.

We watched about half of it last night and thought it was pretty good. 3 year old (2.75 year) laughed at the sheep. Definitely worth a view!

Bought a DJI Mini 4K to take pictures of our home build. It was "Used - Like New" off Amazon for just under $300 so figured why not. Never had a drone, will be fun to play with and kids might like it. What I wasn't aware of was the whole "binding" process of the drone and controller and user...

This was pretty much exactly what it appears to be. The plane crash scene was pretty intense and well done as far as that goes. Some of the shark stuff was over the top but I don't know how many different ways you can show sharks eating people in different movies. Nothing really happened though...

This week Conversation Tree Press will be opening up pre-orders for Perdido Street Station by China Miéville. The full link goes into detail about some interesting design decisions and techniques they've used to put this printing together...

I mean, in his defense what you named landed pretty close chronologically. He-Man was 83, GI Joe 83, Transformers 84, Gobots 84. Technically that wouldn't disprove anything because they were a simultaneous product of the deregulation that allowed what he is saying. Ads for Slinky existed way...

Oh, Shovel Knight team? That sounds promising. About to wrap up Nine Sols and need something else to mess around with on the side.

Yeah, I have the same feelings. Having just watched Obsession and Backrooms back-to-back and then this last night, it did not leave a great impression. I guess it is fine but by the end I had already checked out and stopped caring, and then especially the very end with the bellboy again and the...

May as well keep up the spam. Footings were trenched and poured last week. I did an overlay with the foundation drawing just to goof around and see what lined up. Obviously, it isn't going to align perfectly. It is just a stationary drone aerial pic not a georeferenced orthomosaic. I would...

No, I just mixed my measurements display when typing it out instead of saying 30" twice. And his detail does literally say 2' - 6" but that is not what I'd say in real life bc 30" is faster. Hah, my bad for swapping in paragraph. I see what you're saying about the downspout. That's interesting...

Jeez between this and Obsession I feel spoiled. This was amazing and right up my alley. People in the thread have referenced a ton of stuff but if you've ever wanted to read a book that has as similar feel give House of Leaves a twirl. It is a frustrating read but that adds to the...