They’re right that I grabbed a screen of the map from Halo 2 though, tbf! I was in a haze of nostalgia and got wreckless. 😂

Jesus, I forgot how simple it looked in CE! 2001 wasn’t THAT long ago, right?

…right? 😅

Aww, my bad. I haven’t played CE in ages, and just recognized the layout of the map.

Dude I was just thinking that if there was an OldNeopets (a la Runescape and 2007Scape) I would be all over that shit, possibly to my own detriment.

There was definitely some well-founded speculation for a while that Disenchantment would get the axe because Netflix was canning so many other series, but apparently it survived! So now we get more Futurama AND more Disenchantment!

Making my shop and pet pages taught me HTML, no cap. Then I grew up to become a web developer.

Oh man, the feeling of grinding those games for weeks to save up for my first paintbrush and then FINALLY BUYING THE PAINTBRUSH… just… euphoric.

Oh man, I bet that was the shit. I couldn’t ever get ANYTHING from that goddamn money tree!

I was all about Tiki Tombola.

Yes!

“KAAAAAAAARL, WHAT DID YOU DO?”

I’m posting here enough now (lol, twice, but I intend to keep em coming as a certified child of the aughts) that I should probably volunteer to mod, if you need another. 😁

This is a great tip!

I’ve never dealt with it on my own home, fortunately, but I used to work in real estate purchase/sale/title litigation and the amount of fly-by-night “inspectors” that would plague my clients with this garbage is truly shocking. I always recommend that home buyers hire a structural engineer, a plumber, and an electrician, plus other experts on a case-by-case basis, not a home inspector (or other types of rando inspectors), for their pre-purchase due diligence. Yes, it is absolutely more expensive up front than a home inspector, but it’s also WAY cheaper than buying a house with serious, possibly irreparable, structural issues that you don’t find out about until 2 years after closing.

The worst, though, were the tree removal “experts.” A huge number of them didn’t seem to care whether the house was still standing after they removed the tree that fell on it, and I ran across more than a few that had some truly questionable billing practices, if not outright fraudulent. I’m sure there are plenty of good ones out there, but boy it didn’t feel like it.

Good on you, OP, for doing the right thing for you and your home! I hope you have many happy and structurally sound years in it!

Honest question from someone ignorant on this topic – what do you recommend for a search engine other than Google?

Sometimes I wish my Orange would do this. He doesn’t accept a lack of attention; just fundamentally refuses it. No, no. He creates the attention he desires by yelling at me and waving his silly little ginger paw in my face (I once taught him how to high five and now that’s his protocol for getting what he wants). And I’m a fucking simp for this ridiculous orange so it works and I carry him around like a baby, just like he wants.

Their tadpoles are low key kinda adorable, ngl.

My husband is diagnosed autistic and he told me “babe, I think you might be on the spectrum.” Then just a week later, totally unprompted, my therapist ALSO told me she thinks I’m probably on the spectrum. That’s when I took the hint. 😅

What do you think so far? I’ve been loving Strange New Worlds!

I’m imagining Fry refusing a vaccine for egg salad sandwich parasite infections et violà, Parasites Regained.

Oh, that’s a good point. I love all the Mars-related episodes, especially with Amy’s family and the native Martians. Hopefully How the West Was Won gives us some good new Martian content!

Came back to this thread to say I LOVE Strange New Worlds so far! I liked Picard well enough, but just couldn’t get into Discovery after a couple tries, though I can’t articulate why (???). SNW seems to hit just right.

Listen, you! I was born here. I raised a cloud of children here. My ancestors came over here on the sandwich!