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New comment by lotrjohn in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

lotrjohn — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:04:21 +0000

20 year Dota player here. I always play support and I’m ok with low wealth/ low xp. High impact tho!

Only thing I’m good at carrying is wards.

New comment by lotrjohn in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

lotrjohn — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:52:53 +0000

I was gonnna click the link, but then I got high.

New comment by lotrjohn in "Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)"

lotrjohn — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:09:18 +0000

Excellent, memorable scene.

But it is Red who suggests it should be filed under ‘education’!

New comment by lotrjohn in "US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year"

lotrjohn — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:08:14 +0000

Genuine question: how did you conduct your job search? What steps did you take during those two years? Do you have a degree?

New comment by lotrjohn in "Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera"

lotrjohn — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:32:37 +0000

They can encrypt data coming out of both ends?!

New comment by lotrjohn in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"

lotrjohn — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 03:39:38 +0000

Completely anecdotal, and mostly unrelated, but my NES from 1990 is still going strong. Two PS3’s that I have owned simply broke.

CRTs from 1994 and 2002 still going strong. LCD tvs from 2012 and 2022 just went kaput for no reason.

Old hardware rocks.

New comment by lotrjohn in "United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet"

lotrjohn — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:26:55 +0000

Hey bossman thanks for pointing this out. Will have to look for it next time I watch. Yam seng.

New comment by lotrjohn in "U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis"

lotrjohn — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:47:47 +0000

User name does not check out. :-)

New comment by lotrjohn in "The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful"

lotrjohn — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:36:48 +0000

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1732/

@13,500 BCE

New comment by lotrjohn in "Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio (Rasdr)"

lotrjohn — Sat, 31 May 2025 00:04:13 +0000

Awesome read. Ty for sharing.

>For nearly a decade he was the world's only radio astronomer.

New comment by lotrjohn in "What is HDR, anyway?"

lotrjohn — Thu, 15 May 2025 03:03:22 +0000

> Outside of that, we have a "retro" corner in our home with a 32" trinitron.

A 32” Trinny. Nice. I have the 32” JVC D-series which I consider my crown jewel. It’s for retro gaming and I have a laserdisc player but a very limited selection of movies. Analog baby.

> Sadly though, as I get ready to take on a mortgage, it's likely most of my CRT's will be sold

Mortgage = space. You won’t believe the nooks and crannies you can fit CRTs into. Attic. Shed. Crawl space. Space under basement stairs. Heck, even the neighbors house. I have no less than 14 CRTs ferreted away in the house. Wife thinks I have only 5. Get creative. Don’t worry about the elements, these puppies were built to survive nuclear blasts. Do I have a sickness? Probably. But analog!!!

New comment by lotrjohn in "What is HDR, anyway?"

lotrjohn — Thu, 15 May 2025 00:38:37 +0000

Hello fellow CRT owner. What is your use case? Retro video games? PC games? Movies?

New comment by lotrjohn in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

lotrjohn — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:26:31 +0000

Can you point me towards these ‘workarounds’ so I can learn more? TY.

New comment by lotrjohn in "Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet"

lotrjohn — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:38:21 +0000

I knew that TAS meant “a computer” but for those, like me, who forgot/ didn’t know, TAS stands for “tool-assisted speedrun”.

New comment by lotrjohn in "The 88x31 GIF Collection"

lotrjohn — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:36:57 +0000

Username checks out…

New comment by lotrjohn in "Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world"

lotrjohn — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:08:16 +0000

Wouldn’t it be Slovak?

New comment by lotrjohn in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

lotrjohn — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:19:13 +0000

Man, this video is giving me some serious Neverhood vibes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neverhood

New comment by lotrjohn in "People who won't give up floppy disks"

lotrjohn — Sat, 11 May 2024 12:33:56 +0000

Perhaps this explains why I have a collection of over 10 CRT television sets squirrelled away in the various corners of my house…yes, I know it’s a sickness.

New comment by lotrjohn in "The Lord of the Rings Family Tree"

lotrjohn — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 02:51:29 +0000

The Balrogs (Sindarin for ‘Demon of Might’; Quenya Valarauko) were Maiar (“Ainur of lesser degree than the Valar”). Other Maiar were Gandalf, Sauron, Melian. Gothmog and “Durin’s Bane” are the only two named.

Basically bad Maiar.

New comment by lotrjohn in "Apple is turning William Gibson's Neuromancer into a TV series"

lotrjohn — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:31:47 +0000

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

For those not in the know.