He’s a brilliant character. My wife and I regularly refer to him in real life (e.g. she will call me Jackson Lamb when I’m eating sloppily).

I will watch it and curse you twice

I rewatch The Hobbit trilogy and LOTR (both extended) every year with my wife. I would prefer just watching a fan cut of the hobbit as I don’t think those are very good, but my wife likes them and a happy wife is a happy life.

So I think I have seen LOTR at least 8 or 9 times and hobbit maybe 4 times.

That still doesn’t come close to a Swanlake cartoon movie that I obsessively watched 4 times a day when I was around 5 or 6. My parents insist I must have watched it well over 100 times.

Wait, there is a Wing Commander movie?!? How did I not know that…

I have had to contact the vmware enterprise support several times and while it was tedious to do so, they always managed to help us out, including when we had datastore locked vhd’s after a storage crash.

The president or prime minister said that if China is serious about reclaiming Taiwan, it should also reclaim land that is currently Russian, as that land was also lost during the same time period.

I live in an area in central Europe with a lot of deer and while I don’t particularly like hunting, it is absolutely necessary to keep the deer population at bay here. With no natural predators, their population would explode without hunting and they are already numerous. I can walk out of the door here and within a matter of minutes I can spot a deer or two.

Wild boars are also quite a nuisance.

Nightjet.com. It’s weird, for some destinations it works fine, but for others not at all, even though it states there are trains going

I wouldn’t mind travelling by night train, but every time I check I’m unable to buy tickets. Last trip my wife and I did we really tried doing it by train, but it was just impossible to order. Maybe I just don’t understand how to do it, but ordering a plane ticket is fast and easy. Ordering a long distance train ticket should have the same experience.

Edit: ok I checked again and looks like it’s possible now. Maybe they got their shit together in the meantime

That’s what they are aiming for in any case.

Napster? It’s 2024, not 2000…

NewPipe stopped working for me some time ago, switched over to rvx which seems to work fine.

Reddit was just a crappy website that a 10 year old could string to

The first gout attack I had was the worst. I had been limping for two weeks thinking it would just go away, but it got steadily worse until it became unbearable and I went to the doctor. The diagnosis was almost instantaneous. She looked at my foot and went “Yep, gout”. It got worse for another couple of days until it slowly started ebbing away. I was basically a cripple for at least two weeks though.

I have it better under control now, but it still plays up sometimes. Gout sucks, but also there are worse things I suppose.

Who doesn’t have a flathead screwdriver at home? That’s like a “Living 101” level tool

After 150 turns it’s only fun when you go to war a lot.

This redirects me to a porn post…

Edit: in the sync client it redirects me to some porn post. When I copy the link through the menu, it copies the correct link.

This only goes for the movies. In the books they have arranged a house for Frodo on the eastern border of the Shire, where he will go lay low for several months before going to Rivendell. Merry, Pippin and Fatty Bolger have figured out the plan months in advance and made their own plans, in such a way that when the black riders arrive in the region, they leave within 5 minutes and have a route planned out already.

Also, it’s tobacco as clearly mentioned in the books. They are probably quite drunk in this scene though.

Edit: and of course Samwise was also involved in the plans, he was the one who told them. Frodo was being played by all his close friends.

Those 'taters ain’t gonna count themselves!

Man, I read those books ages ago. Tbh can’t remember much. Did that series get finished?