@peteskerritt.com Got rescued. Not a fun day, for sure.
@peteskerritt.com Got rescued. Not a fun day, for sure.
@peteskerritt.com Anyway, off to do last-minute prep for Snowmageddon. If you’re in the path (or in it as I type this), hang in. Less than 2 months to Spring.
See ya.
@peteskerritt.com It’s the biggest part of forums/message boards I miss— messages and topics didn’t cross streams. You could talk video games in a gaming section and (largely) not be guilted about talking about the latest crisis instead.
On socials? It’s the trending topics or “How can you talk about that?”
@peteskerritt.com I was in Kindergarten during the Blizzard of 1978. No school for days.
I distinctly remember snow days almost every year (because Southern New England) after. The quantity varied, but they happened.
This was nearly half a century ago. It’s not a new concept.
@peteskerritt.com Nobody who whines about snow days ever thinks about the safety of the kids (or the staff) until someone gets hurt or worse. Then they’re all “Well, why didn’t schools cancel?”
And don’t get me started on how sue-happy people are, which forces district superintendents to make unpopular choices.
@peteskerritt.com If you think kids are “soft” because schools are closed, do something about it. Make your kid shovel snow or do housework or chores. Drive that “no days off” mentality that your ilk professes.
Don’t have kids? Again: Shut the fuck up. School closures have less than nothing to do with you.
@peteskerritt.com It’s not just octogenarians whining about this. Self-proclaimed badasses hate it, too.
“These kids are soft.”
The kids don’t make these decisions. Teachers don’t, either. District superintendents do, who make a hell of a lot more money than you (or me). And they consult with elected officials.
@peteskerritt.com Absolutely. Repairing/restoring that kind of damage is easily a multi-day event, and I’m willing to bet crews from non-affected states will be arriving not long after the precip subsides and roads are deemed safe.
@peteskerritt.com A winter storm of this scope and magnitude certainly isn’t common, and it will definitely test infrastructure for many areas that it affects. The snow is bad enough, combined with the Arctic cold. But the ice is going to be so, so much worse for those who get it.
@peteskerritt.com Counties in northwestern Mississippi might get hit incredibly hard with ice. Anything over 3/4” of ice buildup is just horrendous. I don’t want to use “catastrophic” lightly, but if this forecast verifies? I don’t think it’s unfair to use.
Power loss is almost assumed with amounts like that.
@peteskerritt.com This is a decent matrix to consider. Wind and ice accretion are a two-part formula when determining infrastructure damage. Even with 0.25” accretion, quieter winds (less than 15mph) may allow for infrastructure to sustain ice accretion a bit more. Busier winds complicate matters.
@peteskerritt.com The HREF’s FRAM model is one of the better forecasting tools when it comes to ice accretion. Up here in the usual winter-bearing states, where ice is more common, we often see forecasters use this tool.
0.25” is when problems often start, though wind is also a factor in this.
@peteskerritt.com The 12z HREF paints wide swaths of >0.25” ice accretion (buildup) in dark green. with a half-inch or more in localized areas of western Louisiana and the northern border areas of Mississippi and Alabama.
Ice buildup is what causes the damage, as it adds significant weight and pulls things down.
@peteskerritt.com $250/mo during the summer. Much less during the winter. (But gas heat is another story…)
@extremegamer.bsky.social It’s not bad. Runs nicely on Series X. I wasn’t aware of the size when I preordered it. Not happy to have had to delete a lot of stuff, but it is what it is.
@peteskerritt.com If it wasn’t for the first game being so successful, who knows if Activision greenlights another? Maybe Neversoft would’ve gone in a different direction. Maybe the “extreme” renaissance slows or stalls.
But between Tony landing his 900 at the 1999 X-Games, and then having this game hit? TIMING!
@peteskerritt.com While the remake in THPS 1 & 2 is probably my favorite way to play these days, I still enjoy popping in the original 1999 release and soaking in the memories.
I love the focus on high scores, like arcade games of old. I love the soundtrack. I love the “easy to learn, hard to master” gameplay.
@peteskerritt.com Summer’s better from a manual labor standpoint, but the catch is huge utility bills to keep from melting.
@peteskerritt.com It’s like when someone finds a cheat code for a video game. The King found one for the US government. The people who are tasked with moderating that within the frameworks and boundaries set by the country’s founders decided to do nothing. Nobody foresaw that as a possibility, but here we are.
@peteskerritt.com Some of us are on social media for sanity’s sake, talking about video games or sports or whatever. Do you know how much WORSE these empty calls to action via guilt make things? Seriously. Think about it.
We get it. You’re pissed off that the US government wound up a failure. A lot of us are, too.
@peteskerritt.com To be clear, blocking isn’t dogpiling. Blocking sanitizes your space, and I always encourage it. It’s the best way to deal with bait.
That’s the one major advantage this platform has over the others. Limitless blocking is essential for a user’s peace of mind.
@peteskerritt.com If we’re targeting engagement bait as a reason to dogpile, then what are we even doing? Let that shit go. Don’t give shitty posts life. It’s, like, one of the most basic social media rules.
Determining righteousness of dogpiling doesn’t change that dogpiling is an unfortunate symptom around here.
@peteskerritt.com Dogpiling was a 2010s-era Twitter staple. Seeing it executed so often here serves as a reminder that it really isn’t the platform that’s the problem.
It’s the users. It has been for awhile, is now, and probably continues to be until/unless social media regulation & moderation is mandated.
@peteskerritt.com Nope. RetroArch. It’s the NES version (via my computer).
@peteskerritt.com Next week’s AFC title game should be better than a casual observer would think. Throw out the “Stidham hasn’t thrown a pass” surface take. There’s extra motivation there given the “revenge” angle against his former team.
Again, it will (likely) come down to the turnover battle.