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I haven’t watched much of John Carpenter’s work, so I can’t comment on this sentiment particularly, but I have always liked a psychological trick Terry Pratchett used to describe the machinations of Granny Weatherwax and her approach to stealth. (Yeesh, I need to read those books again, it’s been years.)

I can’t remember the exact quote and won’t do it justice, but the message is something like “over time you noticed a familiar shape in the darkness, something like a coat, then you noticed what might have been a boot, then suddenly you realized she has always been there.”

Sir Pterry doesn’t use it in the context of horror, at least not for the reader, but I feel like it would fit that well.

I’m unclear on the benefit either has one just an NFS server.

So where do I go for my free mp3 sex now?

Well, I have to respect his commitment and discretion.

I don’t disagree that it was insane!

But no, the reason is that I live in a decently sized old house in a cold area. We’ve dual zone climate control and I’m not sure either heat pump stopped running the whole month. I do run some servers but that’s true year round and most months my power bill is in various parts of triple digits.

… My power bill for February was $1900 …

I was always told that using a sharpie on burned CD’s - and eventually DVD’s - would ruin them.

I used sharpie on every one I ever burned. Not once did it cause an issue.

Very much the same.

So, almost dozen?

This is a better-put way of expressing an opinion I’ve long held.

I’m pretty sure it was Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. I don’t actually remember buying it and might have played Warcraft 2 beforehand, but I spent many … Many happy hours on DF2. One of those two was my introduction to multiplayer gaming, but for sure I spent a lot more time on DF2.

As for whether it was worth it, it arguably shaped a lot of my life to date. Also I met at least one friend whom I still talk to (though rarely) to this day. I would say yes.

I had the same experience recently … The doctor was clearly annoyed.

And I understand why. It was a dental surgery. Probably performing one of those is challenging while your patient is nervously blabbing.

The last thing I remember before waking up is the doctor saying “okay, you get one more question” and me saying something irrelevant.

For my first surgery I had been told something like the above. I was twelve and didn’t have much to be embarrassed about, other than the things that might worry every twelve year old boy, but I was still concerned. When I was in recovery I asked the surgeon “what did I say while I was under?”

He responded “I’m sworn to silence.” I worried about that for months if not years, especially because I had to have two more surgeries under his care.

Nothing embarrassing was ever publicized AFAIK.

I can feel the liquid spreading through my veins - specifically my chest - but it doesn’t feel painful. Rather it feels pleasantly cold like drinking a fresh glass of water. I’m sorry your experience was less pleasant.

The first time I ever had surgery, I was anxious in advance. My mom told me “don’t worry, usually what happens if that they ask you to count down from ten and by the time you get to nine you’re asleep.” She was right.

I’m approaching my ninth or possibly tenth surgery and I’m pretty sure I haven’t been asked to count down since. The most recent time I had surgery, when I woke up, I asked when we were going to start.

I feel that if I were an astronaut I’d be extremely subject to the yips.

Couldn’t say - I’ve never had the chance to use it. In fact, I’m not sure I ever had the SysRq key on a keyboard I’ve used.

I have had a Pause/Break key and used to think they were the same thing, but now I’m not so sure.

You just reminded me … Before I really got into IT in my career I was at a job that still had a messenger for the internal staff. I set my status message in it to “Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring.”

I got chastised and made to change it, because the message might offend … Skinny elephants, I guess? I never got clarification on that.

(The manager had no clue what it meant.)

Almost everything in lemmy is formatted in markdown, so for most tasks you can just look up “how to x in markdown.” For example, “how to embed an image in markdown” returns (among other things) this guide. That page also includes other guides if you care to browse.

If you’re uncertain whether you’re using correct syntax, there are many editors - both locally and remotely - where you can test before posting. I like this one. Obviously only do that with non sensitive information.

I’m not exactly sure how I’d trap someone in a wall hole without injuring them, personally.