January 2024

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[edit]

• fixed the double posting
• you can now put a youtube link AND News Text, not just one or the other

• WEBM AND News Text is still busted, but i think that's fine for now

we laid him to rest this morning.

he liked to joke about it, but richard was the reason my wife and i ever met.

he just so happened to be playing an acoustic set at this restaurant/bar in our hometown.

my wife just so happened to be fast friends with richard.

i just so happened to be moping around feeling sorry for myself and my friend at the time said archestratus was having half-off appetizers, an acoustic set by richard, and i needed to get out of the house.

without him, there would have been no us.

i deeply thank my brother for allowing this for me.

I've been a shut in for a very long time now. Covid confirmed that I was perfectly fine with that and I was about the only one I know who didn't suffer any kind of social problems because of it. If anything, I've become better while everyone else around me has gotten WAY worst.

Maybe I am still just the same and see the world for what it is while many other people are seeing the "ALEX WAS RIGHT" meme is far more than just a meme now and are coping to understand or where to go from here with it.

I can honestly say without a doubt that being a Christian right now has been most likely the single thing that's been keeping my head straight and my mind focused.

it's been brought to my attention that i have become a reclusive shut-in. this is true. i do not deny it.

i don't have the patience for crazy bullshit anymore because i am dealing with a mountain of IRL stuff seemingly every day.

the happy pills fog my brain on purpose so that i can laser focus on shit that does matter: being there for others, allowing others to decompress - there ain't any wild drama going on over here.

i log on to the system at a 8am, fake it all day, then dick off on the internet until it's time for bed. rinse repeat indefinitely.

fairly sure that is not good for my health

richard and i weren't super close, but he treated me no different than anyone else. he loved me and my wife. always the light of the party. dude had real creative talent.

he's not in any more pain.

see you on the flipside, my man

the entire situation is massively fucked up, but my friend, Richard, has been in the hospital for three days with liver and kidney failure. it could have been avoided and all that, but it's too late. the family is pulling the plug because his body is not responsive.

he was the reason my wife and i ever met.

be with peace, brother

[edit - 2:48pm]

he's gone

ARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

i've decided to just keep on posting bullshit.

post on his site.

i've been looking forward to this day for him and his brother for about six years. so much fuckery has happened, but he has persevered. first day of the rest of your life kind of stuff.

godspeed.

I used to work at this very location while I was going to school in Toronto. It really has come full circle from a location that wasn't that horrible 24 years ago to one where you feel like you're in the parking lot of a Wafflehouse in KY.

Tim Hortons Location going to drive thru only because safety of staff is at danger.

all 99 counties. cnn and msn melted down accordingly
lul

whenever [real world life shit] happens that directly affects you and/or people you care about, you find out incredibly quickly who actually cares and who is just waiting for their turn to talk. if you don't know what to say, don't say anything; just being there is enough.

two years ago, my wife was diagnosed with [real shit]. i have a very intimate, personal relationship with [real shit]. it's not my first rodeo and by the miracle of modern medicine, it's largely controllable. you can figure out the diagnosis.

when she told her folks, they asked "should we come down?" in my HUMBLE opinion, that is not a question you tell your first child experiencing harrowing news. you get on the plane and be there, in person, during a time of crisis. they did not get on the plane. none of them did, her folks nor siblings. she's one of five children. they all live 8+ hours away.

she and i have made that trip on more than one occasion. in person, they couldn't give any less of a damn that we were there or not. her father talks all that good shit on facebook. when we're face to face, one on one, it's much easier to ignore everyone and go head-down into his phone or million yard stare into the tv. shits infuriating.

it's not my place to say anything. if i do, it will just come back to her.

i get it, her other siblings have their own lives. bringing kids into the world and new jobs and new houses and new cars and raises and all that normie bullshit. great. golf clap. fuckin proud of you all.

take two seconds from your busy day and message your sibling/daughter. then go back to whatever it is that fills the void. actually give a shit; it's not difficult to treat her like an adult.

that's asking way too much.

i've told wife she is living in a very peculiar time and telling them the off is well within her reach. really giving them a wall of text with all her grievances. what're they gonna do? not talk to her? not interact? they already do that as it is.

her youngest brother (21) got her name for secret santa. xmas rolled around and passed; no package showed up. wife waited until the 10th of jan to say anything. the package showed up today. ordered 10 jan 2024.

slick.

it's incredibly unfortunate that she's figuring it all out now. burns me up.

anyway

here's a picture:

John is officially becoming Ghey.

my irl buddy mojo finally is emerging from all the bullshit like a phoenix

I honestly don't know what I posted for this one, the last two were seething jannies I was fucking with by making ON TOPIC threads, this one is a new one for me.

Don't think I've posted for the last 4 days on the dumpster fire, kek. Might need to be ghey and become a phone poster moving forward.

I'm an original fag to the site and man has the quality of shit posting and flame wars taken a huge nose dive over the last few years in that I can't distinguish it from social media now.

>Anon makes spicy on topic thread
>Anon gets banned

>Anon makes incel thread
>echo chamber ensues
>Anon looking to shit post for you's post in incel thread
>incel thread continues on like bot posting
>Anon continues to shit post and gets no bites

>Anon makes own thread insulting incels
>Anon gets banned

>Anon sees thread on some decent news in the cycle that none of the glowie media are covering
>Several BBC threads pop up
>A good thread 404's into the archive

>Anon sees endless off topic and even incoherent threads posted all the time.
>threads always stay up

It's honestly no different from Social Media almost at this point, think it's time I return to forums and chill.

"following a powerful gang member escaping prison, the foot soldiers captured a state national media station live on air and took hostages."

🇪🇨 | URGENTE: Delincuentes irrumpieron en TC Televisión y secuestran a todos en vivo y directo en Guayaquil, Ecuador. pic.twitter.com/ob1yleusOc
— Alerta Mundial (@AlertaMundoNews) January 9, 2024

"URGENT: Criminals broke into TC Televisión and kidnapped everyone live and direct in Guayaquil, Ecuador."

that doesn't sound good

go to install folder
edit "RA2.INI"

[Video]
ScreenWidth=1920
ScreenHeight=1080
StretchMovies=no
Videobackbuffer=no

the game was originally hardcoded to 800x600 or 1024x768, so menus are super small. the game itself looks fine at 1920. alt-tabbing out breaks everything. save before you do so.

[edit]
TS-DDRAW fixes a lot of issues. place it in the RA2 folder

• https://github.com/CnCNet/ts-ddraw/releases/tag/1.1.4.15

>Notes on Origin
>If you installed Red Alert 2 / Yuri's Revenge from Origin, you need to disable Windows 95 compatibility mode for your game executables, as Origin by default enables this "feature"."

[DOUBLE EDIT]
the above DDRAW version introduces a shitload of screen tearing

will test CNC-DDRAW

[TRIPLE EDIT]
cnc-ddraw works a LOT better. can alt-tab, vsync works.

it sucks massive balls that "the internet" is now considered some social media bullshit because any dumb asshole has it in their pocket.

>bbuh but you could make madass to work on phones

LOL
NO THANKS