I forgot the exact episode, but I felt The Expanse was pretty mediocre until one of the last episodes of S1. I stuck with it because I was told prior to starting that it takes a while to get going. I’m glad I stuck with it, as it’s my favorite sci-fi show.

Yep, this was me. I picked it up and put it down a couple times… then got to ep 12.

For me, it was the Big Bang Theory. The first two seasons were great, third season was good, fourth season was kinda meh, and I stopped watching partway through the fifth season. From what I gathered, as the show gained popularity, they changed it from being a show for nerds, to being for “normal” people who know a nerd.

It’s only a model.

SHHH

I would look at your potential career path and go for certs to support that. Cisco certs for networking, Azure/AWS for cloud-based infrastructure, etc. Before starting any course though, I would check with your company to see if they would foot the bill or reimburse you for any of them. They might be looking for something specific and more willing to pay for you to learn it.

Highly dependent on what features I need from the software in question and what the alternatives are. For a business case, I would probably go with 3. I deal with software deployments at my company, so I know how bad some bugs can be to the business. For games, I tend to go with 1. For other software, 3, as I’m not really a power user for things like photo editing, spreadsheets, etc.

They’re simple and appease the monkey brain desire of “number go up”.

Not my cup of tea either, but a lot of people are competitive and like to pit themselves against others. There’s also the aspect of competing against others with friends. The only times I’ve had fun in pvp games/modes was when I was playing with a group of people I knew.

I had one in the late '90s, so sometime around then.

I used to love tinkering with my pc and gaming, but moved away from both in the past few years. With gaming, it had been my primary hobby since I was very young, so I think I just got bored of it. As far as computing, not really sure why, but probably since I’m spending less time on my pc gaming, so I don’t see a need to do too much with it nowadays. It’s a fancy gaming rig that I mostly use to run a web browser, listen to music, and a little light gaming.

I got into plastic models a couple years ago, and that filled a void I didn’t know existed until after I started. I’ve always liked working with my hands and grew up playing with building toys like Lego and K’nex, so this feels like a continuation of that. I also find it kind of amusing that a hobby that revolves around sitting at your desk alone has got me more social and out of the house than anything else has since I graduated college.

Probably Blue Man Group in Las Vegas. Great music, great performance, good comedy sketches. It was a great experience all around.

Apple, hot, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Nothing else comes close. Except cheesecake, but that’s not a pie.

That would just cause the bad actors to move elsewhere, or not be there in the first place, since they initially weren’t allowed to comment. If every site implemented such measures and people just ignored the privacy and security issues, then you would have to trust that the site operators would act in good faith. Look at all the garbage on Facebook. FB keeps trolls and such around because they’re good for engagement, and bad actor advertisers because they pay a lot of money.

I remember that sketch, good stuff.

As long as the internet remains easily accessible, you’re not going to.

I suppose different sects have different beliefs and traditions, but when I was in church (Southern Baptist), I was told that once you are married, you’re free to go nuts with your spouse as far as the Bible was concerned.

FFXIV is one of those games that I liked, but wished I could like more. I wasn’t into progression raiding or crafting, so it was always a matter of time before my interest would fizzle out once the current MSQ was done.

Your character looks nice, btw.

World of Warcraft with over 11k hours. Guild wars 2 is probably 2nd with over 6k. The highest on Steam is Warframe with 2329.

For WoW and GW2, it’s basically the same reason. I loved MMO games and the huge world you can explore. I found guilds in both that I vibed with, and still talk with some of those folks today.

For Warframe, the gameplay is top notch IMO. I didn’t mind the grind (I was a MMO player, after all) and the selection of warframes and loadouts kept things from getting too stale. I mainly played with one of my friends I met through WoW, and we roped some friends into playing with us from time to time.

I still get the itch from time to time to get into a new MMO to try and relive the experiences I had from previous games, but those days are most likely behind me.

I just watched the trailer. How often did you screw over your fellow players as the shaman?

Bosch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMWc4Ol7yCM