I’m going with the flight. I’ve done plenty of long road trips, but I’ve never flown first class. Time is more of a constraint these days so I’d love to fly somewhere new and see something brilliant.

As a 50 year old skater with a broken wrist, you will for sure break something.

Still skate a few times a week, though far more mellow than in my teens and twenties. Mostly just carving the park or some mini ramp.

I always wanted to get into wake boarding, but there was never a boat around etc.

Now with my knee injuries it’s too late to learn something new.

However, I’m pretty sure I could handle surfing.

The electric one wheel boards are a lot of fun, and are easier than a skateboard, but pad up and helmet for sure.

If you are going to limit yourself to what your romantic partner is interested in, I suppose it could work, but feels very confined.

I have many hobbies and interests not shared in full by any romantic partner I’ve ever had, though there have been some notable exceptions.

One woman I dated for many years rode motorcycles and snowboards.

Another shared my interest in Fromsoft video games.

I doubt anyone I would seriously date at 50 is going to share my passion for skateboarding, though I’d love to be proven wrong on that one.

I don’t have many close friends, and only two live within visiting distance. Most have spread across the country. We stay in touch with a phone call every month or two, catching up, sharing stories, discussing common interests. The ones in town I’ll see maybe once a month as well, for dinner, drinks, or a motorcycle ride.

They all bring ideas and experiences into my life I wouldn’t otherwise have, and by maintaining friendships with a wide variety in background and education, it keeps me from becoming too narrow minded or stunted.

Could I live my life without my friends? Sure. Would I want to? Absolutely not.

I’ve been skateboarding since '85 and snowboarding since about '90.

Now that I’m old and broken, I love nothing more than a mellow day at the park teaching people new tricks or helping them improve the ones they know.

My bag of tricks gets smaller with age, but seeing someone land a trick for the first time never gets old.

It was two occasions about eight years apart. One was Mom calling to tell me Dad died, the other was my brother calling me about Mom.

The thing about “The Thing” for me, is that it’s one of the only monster horror movies where the cast pretty much makes the smart, rational decisions the whole time, and still get their asses handed to them.

I really like Phoenix Point, but I don’t start a game on a low enough level to be successful, and then quit part way through in frustration and play something else.

I need to accept that it’s hard, I’m learning, and play on the easiest setting.

He’s the commander in chief and has access to Marine One and the entire Navy. This is not a logistics problem.

I don’t think it’s a can’t, it’s more of a “Ok, I’ve seen the game, this is a slog, I’m moving on to something else.”

Just got a PS5 so I’m absolutely loving Demons Souls, been like 10 years or more since I played it. First time playing magic in a souls game and it feels down right broken. Will likely work my way back through the series on the new hardware.

With all the bingo brawlers seasons I’ve seen all the end bosses, so doing it myself just hasn’t felt like a priority.

Haven’t beat the dual boss at the end of Elden ring, or the final DLC boss.

Think i’ve done most the rest of Soulsborn bosses.

In terms of time, some Demons souls boss I got stuck on, put the game aside for years, then went back to.

In terms of number of tries, I think O&S in Dark Souls one still holds the title. I ran into that brick wall for a long time before getting good.

Can’t think of any game series I had as much difficulty in and didn’t just give up, unless you count the Mun in Kerbal Space Program as a boss, cause that took a long time.

For sure the one with the pickaxe

And the one with the parachute

Saw Emo Philips open for Weird Al in a rather small venue.

I don’t think you really appreciate his talent till you see him live.

The level of knowledge considered “expert” is variable, and is relative to the knowledge possessed by the people they already employ or at least have access to.

20 years of experience in C++ is very much expert if they don’t have anyone with more than 5 years on staff.

I have 20+ years in the primary language I program and I damn well tell an interviewer I’m an expert.

Anything souls, factorio, subnautica, cities skylines 1, humanity, journey, og doom.

This is still sitting in my “to play” bin, I really need to get to it.

I love my work, but I wouldn’t do it for free.

I do things I love for free as hobbies.

Doing work I didn’t love would mean a huge percentage of my time would be spent doing something I don’t love.

Rodney Mullen. One of the greatest athletes of all time, and just a genuinely wonderful person.

If this was true, wouldn’t you see things like AI being forced into every computer and software app, large data centers consuming all the power, chips, and hard drives, blind adoption into the military… Oh, wait a minute, you may be on to something.

So this is why I’m ok with it.

From a high level, this is about supply chain disruption and market confidence. This 20% impacts the entire world, and there is no clear time frame to any resolution.

Oil is used in almost everything, so the gas at your pump is competing against everything from medical plastics, to jet fuel, lubricants, fertilizer, you name it.

Gasoline for vehicles is a very easy place to squeeze out profits in a very uncertain environment.