Ben Hur Horse Race

turok was good on the n64.

quake was good in the 90s

to be fair the sort of primitive camera controls took some getting used to

Oh right, not every living person has a room like this in their stable accommodation, thank you, I wouldn’t have known that if it weren’t for you telling me

Right, ok. It just looks like a room that a stable couple or family would have. Thanks

no idea what the hell this is about… is this supposed to be obvious?

cool bro thanks.

he died about a month ago now and we’ve dealt with the little bits and the larger things… the furniture is the biggest shame. dude had custom tables, sideboards, display cases, liquor cabinets made for his place, solid maple, really just beautiful stuff. tens of thousands of euros to make new.

as you know, apartments are meant to be left completely bare and painted white. so, there’s no home for these truly beautiful pieces and they’ll just go to god knows where.

as I said, the furniture was made for the apartment so it fits absolutely perfectly in the space. it makes sense to me that that furniture would stay and the apartment would be rented as furnished, but apparently thats not something that happens all too much. germans accumulate furniture over the years, its a sign that youre all adult or whatever, with the vast majority of germans renting their entire lives. Im aware rent pricing controls makes this possible.

different system than Im used to, and who am I to judge, but I will say with the idea of always renting, your money always goes poof, gone when you pay your rent. paying a mortgage means you pay off that part of the loan, €1,000 a month means 12k a year that you get back when you sell. my wife told me that we had accrued something like €80,000 after a little over 3 years after we switched from renting to paying off our mortgage. for me, nothing changed, I had paid rent every month of my life since we had to move out of the house I grew up in following my father’s death when I was 18 or so.

Not only have we essentially saved 80k through this system where the bank bought the house we live in and we give them €1.05 for every euro they paid for it one euro at a time, the house has also appreciated in value, so its now worth about 20% more than when we bought it.

I don’t agree with the ethics of the system I’m living with, but there isn’t a huge amount I can do to change things other than vote the way I do.

So, anyway, thanks for the link she needed to deal with everything pretty fast mostly on her own, and her dad lived in the second asshole of nowhere, deutchland. quite close to buxtehude, actually.

fair enough- was this close to a city? cause she’s kind of in the back ass of nowhere.

right ok… she’s kinda short on time on account of no longer living there and her dad sorta started hoarding in his final years. a lot of what he had was very valuable in his eyes but probably no one wanted to buy it. little .800 and .925 silver statuettes of planes. they’ll most likely sell the metal at strike price.

my wife is currently in germany (north) as her dad died and she had to get rid of a ton of stuff. she said kleinanzeigen is barely active and she couldnt get rid of a bunch of things (anything from a big tv to collectables). she thinks the culture of buying used just isnt in vogue… here in ireland, adverts.ie is absolutely thriving

yeah it fuckin sucks. you dont need to believe it or not, I swear to you (it also happened to my wife, Im a US citizen and she isn’t) this was in the dublin ireland departures when you go to the states. you actually go through immigration when youre still in ireland. so you go down an escalator to a specific part of the airport thats sectioned off from the rest for this. walking up to the desk, before i had a chance to take my passport out of my bag, while I was still about 10 feet away, he TSA agent said “hello [name]” they did the same thing to my wife. its disarming as youre not expecting it. there’s no knowing where in the line the facial recognition already took place. the idea you can consent/not consent is almost certainly purely theater.

I had a TSA agent say my name as I walked up to the booth. They 100% scanned me before I was in earshot of the agent.

yo you mean the secret book and record store yeah? I think I’ve bought one book and about 10 records from there… actually I bought a copy of a Mountain Goats record before I realized I can’t stand them- does anybody in Dublin wanna buy a copy of a Mountain Goats LP