I have a PC hooked up through ethernet and a laptop that connects via wifi. Whatever is causing the jitter is limited to the wifi--the PC has perfect latency during these ridiculous events.
I don't think it's congestion, because it's so absurdly regular when it's happening. I'll use WiFiAnalyzer to check, though. Thanks for the help.
I have a very big issue with the casting choice.
Nynaeve.
That girl is too damn tall to be Nynaeve. Zoe is 5'8. Harris is 6'0.
Nynaeve is short in the books. Like, WoD wolf-blooded girl short. She barely came up to Mat's shoulder.
...I've read the series three times and I was convinced that Nynaeve was really tall until this post. Is it just that she always gets angry and seems like she's looming?
It's becoming increasingly likely that I'm going to read these books.
I love Avasarala. Then I remember that our introduction to her is her literally torturing a person, and it reminds me why this show is incredible. It's rare to see any scifi/fantasy that does such an amazing job of showing how people can be terrible and good at the same time.
Example: "You're not that guy. . . . I'm that guy."
Well, I just binge-finished season 3, and now I have to decide whether I'm going to read the books and spoil some of the best scifi I've ever seen on TV, or wait and risk having it spoiled.
...having seen that it's an ongoing series, I think I'm going to be making the switch to the books.
Coke. It's coke. All of it is coke.
I'm getting more and more excited about Picard.
I think we're getting Romulans, too. I'm assuming that the amazing thing that Picard is referenced as having done in the trailers has to do with helping evacuate Romulus or something related to the supernova disaster of Star Trek reboot movie fame/infamy.
@Wretched I'm going to peck out your eyes
My favorite bird is the shoebill stork. It's enormous, it looks like God's joke on creation, and it abandons its weak offspring to starve after watching the stronger hatchlings bully them out of the nest.
@dvoraen This has been my steam icon for the greater part of a decade:
Things I expect to be doing when I come into work on Mondays as a criminal defense attorney:
Things I do not expect to be doing:
This is like being an ornithologist who gets called in to study marine phytoplankton because "you're a biologist so you can figure this out."
tl;dr LADY I DON'T WORK HERE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNr6Lkm54A0
Normally I'd do a .gif but the sound is just perfect.
I didn't eat today until around 830 PM. I ordered two sandwiches from Jimmy John's.
I ate the second sandwich around midnight. I started getting very thirsty. I drank water. Still thirsty.
Out of curiosity, I looked up the nutrition facts for the sandwiches I ate.
One of them has 2100 mg of sodium. The other has 2800.
I ate roughly 5 grams of sodium in four hours.
I have been drinking so much water. I am still so thirsty. This is what hypernatremia is like. I am going to turn into a shriveled Rinel and be mummified from the inside out
So I'm sure part of it is that I generally know what's coming, but man--I enjoyed The Expanse as a TV series way more than I am enjoying it as a book one. I guess I need to get ahead of the TV show to accurately assess how I feel.
Did you learn nothing from Battlestar Galactica
@Auspice said in RL things I love:
He's not really social at all, but he texts with me sometimes. Either about the family cats (he'll send me photos of them <3) or about whatever games he's playing (he sent me clips from Untitled Goose Game the other day).
On the contrary, I think my life would be vastly improved if my communications with most people consisted largely of catpix and Untitled Goose Game.
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
...is that really that terrible a wait??
I have SSDs for a reason.
@Auspice said in Arty stuff and Writey stuff:
Anyway, I'm not joining this year because I'm under massive deadlines at work where they, well, y'know, pay me to write. So it's hard to add NaNo on top of that I'm afraid.
Yeah, what with the whole "having to write briefs, motions, and memoranda while at work" thing, I'm very doubtful of my ability to come home and write ~1700 words per day.
I may very well cheat and start before November 1st!
