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Today in The Sims 4: Cloned myself. Twice. First clone was evil (ie a bit of a prick) so I abandoned him on the street. Second clone was a perfect copy, but he died in a freak accident literal hours after being created. I think I shouldn’t clone myself anymore.
Thursday, 18-Aug-22 07:42:53 UTC from web-
@scribus meant, then forgot, to do some research on whether or not clones have hidden flags that make them more susceptible to deadly game events, because he died an emotion-related death which i was fairly certain up until that point was nearly impossible unless you were intentionally trying to cause it.
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@zeldatra I had the mom in one of my families die of laughter out of the blue. But I guess it was only *once* so
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oh please oh please oh please don’t let this jury summons be the Chris Chan trial
Tuesday, 16-Aug-22 00:32:54 UTC from web-
@scribus I was talking with a friend last night, like, there’s no way this person gets a fair trial from anyone under the age of 40, right? Jury selection’s gonna be rough.
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this is taking a very long time
Sunday, 14-Aug-22 04:30:41 UTC from web -
I am so Potato Knishesing glad Trump supporters are so goddamn dumb. Guy attacks an FBI field office in Ohio, and his grand master plan to get through the bullet proof glass is to use… a nail gun. I mean hey, it says “bullet proof”, not “nail proof”.
Friday, 12-Aug-22 15:42:46 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Hahaha. Oh wow. The same logic can be applied to this: A bullet-proof vest is not knife-proof. Good old chain mail is https://i.redd.it/wniq0txjswg91.jpg
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@zeldatra I'm quite fond of the supporters who rile up the internet and call for violence, and then denounce it as "no true Trump supporter" when it happens
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@scribus nothing better than a guy calling for actual violence in the streets, then when someone goes and does it he’s like “that’s an FBI plant bro”
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I am a very punctual moderator
Friday, 12-Aug-22 08:51:38 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Which is better than a moderately punctual very
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The best play is to have neither a real nor a fake girlfriend. More money for comics and action figures!
Thursday, 11-Aug-22 19:02:10 UTC from web-
@scribus This is true, I did have to pay my girlfriend at first. I mean, this was before we dated, and also she ran a cash register in my store at the time, but like, that’s just a couple of degrees away.
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I download things multiple times by accident because I forget I had it in the Downloads folder or I had a copy in the more appropriate folder, which I also forget I had.
Wednesday, 10-Aug-22 08:56:28 UTC from web -
Federal officials are reporting that over 300 pirated copies of the Disney-Pixar film Cars 2 were found on President Trump’s personal computer. The password was “EricDonIvanka123”.
Tuesday, 09-Aug-22 18:25:12 UTC from web -
Nixon’s had worse days, I’m sure.
Tuesday, 09-Aug-22 13:08:19 UTC from web -
All those MTV cartoons in the late 90s/early 2000s had the right idea, animating with thick outlines is way easier than thin ones. Daria should be the gold standard.
Wednesday, 03-Aug-22 15:19:39 UTC from web-
@scribus I’m sure it’s eyeroll-inducing when I talk about how I think The Simpsons looked better before the switch to HD but this is basically exactly why. The new studio is better about it than Film Roman was but the crispness of the art drew a lot of attention to the crudeness of the character designs and made the whole product look a lot worse. The brighter colors are headache inducing. The improved readability of small movements means characters aren’t moving much at all. And now that things are going into 4K that’s all probably gonna get a lot worse. There are gonna be a thousand individually animated objects in a single frame just to prove it can be done. It’s gonna be visual overstimulation like you wouldn’t believe.
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@zeldatra Overstimulation... That's what I sometimes feel watching anime. Some try to fill a frame with so much detail and end up distracting at best and unreadable at worst.
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@adiwan Kind of how I felt with Bless the Harts. It's like amateur movies, where they used cheap cameras and full-focus lenses, and everything is clear but nothing clearly stands out. Sort of a soap opera effect.
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Linda Ellerbee once said that in television you’re not supposed to sound like you’re from anywhere, but I think that’s BS, so next time I’m doing a Cajun accent.
Tuesday, 02-Aug-22 18:08:18 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I believe I ended up calling my Sage and Savant narrator voice something like "Euro-American Transatlantic Null" because "A Don LaFontaine impression that misses the mark enough to be so unrecognizable it's considered original" was wordy and too insidery
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I hide my southern accent when acting to avoid having to explain why characters who live on the west coast talk like they have a confederate flag on their Ford pickup and I’ve only just today learned that the generic, region-ambiguous accent I’m doing when I do that is called “broadcast English”. Fitting.
Tuesday, 02-Aug-22 18:02:50 UTC from web-
@zeldatra It's not that weird, my grandma has an Okie accent and she was born in New Mexico, lived mostly in California. There are even pockets of accentedness tucked here and there in back neighborhoods of, like, Norco and stuff
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It should be illegal to put two toll booths on one road a mile apart from each other http://rainbowdash.net/url/876176
Monday, 01-Aug-22 15:44:55 UTC from web-
@scribus It’s those goddamn Australians, I tell ya hwat, they bought the road and put seven million toll booths on it. These are some of the cheaper ones. There’s a variable-rate booth coming out of DC, right near where I went to community college, that has charged me anywhere from just a dollar to $10 depending on the time and day.
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@zeldatra ffffuuuuuuuu hhhoowwww do they a) justify, and b) expect people to pay that N-times per day!?! Ours are just toll lanes, which can go up to 15.85+ afaik for maybe 1/3 or 1/5 of the entire trip
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@scribus I’ve never been a single issue voter but I got real close in 2021 when a Republican (“independent” but only because the word “Republican” is a four-letter word in my district) candidate for local office promised to introduce legislation regulating the amount and cost of toll booths on the greenway, if the rest of his platform wasn’t so cartoonishly evil I might’ve been willing to cross over just for that.
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Big fan of the conspiracy theory that Democrats are only pushing for popular, bipartisan legislation because they know Republicans will reflexively vote against it and make themselves look bad, and that actually they’re the ones who are against it.
Sunday, 31-Jul-22 19:13:37 UTC from web-
@zeldatra If the R's are so r'd that they will knowingly and willfully vote against their own self-interest, and even their own wants and desires, how tf could anyone work with that at all? I mean I know already but jfc man it is really tiring being neck-deep in hell and watching bubble-headed news anchors whine about how thousands dead in an historic heat wave isn't "fun" enough and asking what is wrong with *meteorologists* these days.
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@scribus I dunno what’s more embarrassing: Believing Democrats have concocted an evil scheme to make everyone’s lives worse by using reverse psychology to get Republicans voting against things Republicans want, or watching Republicans fall for the reverse psychology mind games and still deciding to vote for them.
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re:that last bullet, i think the push for inclusivity is broadly good because it's a life simulator and i think the more inclusive games like this are, the better, but it seems like they use inclusivity as an all-encompassing shield to stymy criticism when their updates come out half-baked and even broken. this most recent update breaks the aging system beyond repair, removes most whims in exchange for wants and fears that cover exclusively the base game and the latest expansion pack, and somehow bungled relationship checks so now my sims wanna papaya their brothers. but hey, they've added a sexuality system that probably should've been in there seven years ago eight years after release, so all is forgiven, we can move on to The Sims 4: Need for Speed, which finally adds (a) car (which cannot be used outside of its specialized map)
Saturday, 30-Jul-22 03:32:31 UTC from web-
@scribus I wouldn’t, at least not until they do at least a couple of bug fixes. Sims are currently aging up at random AT BEST, and at worst just straight up dying. It only affects long and short lifespans, and it’s actually an issue that has apparently existed for a few patches now, although I never encountered it before this one and the issue has verifiably been exasperated by something they did to the backend to support new features added by the High School expansion pack. And that’s just ONE of the problems… a lot of the new features are straight up broken and the new wants & fears system is actually less in-depth than the previous whims system, which it replaces, so… I don’t see many reasons to update ATM.
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@scribus the update DOES add sexual orientation and it’s surprisingly in-depth (albeit it is currently very gender binary), but that too is broken and is resulting in Sims rolling incestuous wants because the orientation check happens after the relationship check.
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Judging by those prices, Trump Burger is a massive grift. $11 for an 8oz burger and drinks are SEPARATE?? That’s a scam.
Saturday, 30-Jul-22 23:51:40 UTC from web -
I don't think these blatantly right-leaning survey questions are gonna like my answers
Thursday, 28-Jul-22 04:30:30 UTC from web-
@scribus Would YOU elect Donald Trump to a third term? We NEED your answer for our PATRIOT POLL.
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The Star Wars prequels only structurally make sense if you watch them after Empire but before Jedi, think about it
Sunday, 24-Jul-22 20:34:00 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Yeah, I wouldn't advocate skipping it, either, but I also don't fight too hard for Phantom Menace lol. Curious about the fan-edit that combines the prequel movies together into one, too.
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"Zack Snyder is a good director" is the modern day Lost Cause of the South.
Saturday, 23-Jul-22 18:37:16 UTC from web-
@zeldatra yeah I've only seen like half of his movies, and only liked half of them, and them only halfway
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Opening Disney+ and seeing Deadpool on the front page is making me wonder what exactly the point is of keeping Disney+ and Hulu as separate services anymore.
Friday, 22-Jul-22 22:09:45 UTC from web-
@scribus i briefly thought Hulu's only purpose was to hide the trash, but Fantastic Four is ALSO on Disney+, so...
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Yeah! I got a wage raise! One that's above the inflation rate!
Wednesday, 20-Jul-22 16:59:28 UTC from web -
Shelling out 130 Eurobucks for a used AC with an external condenser was worth every cent. My apartment never was so freezing cold, especially not with 36°C (97°F) outside. I'd die a horrible sweaty death.
Monday, 18-Jul-22 17:59:35 UTC from web-
@adiwan I've been seeing the headlines and the wildfire photos, way too familiar at this point :(
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it is time to discuss the butt
Monday, 18-Jul-22 18:03:49 UTC from web-
@liquidusmira yes, always!
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Wow didnt think this place was still around
Sunday, 17-Jul-22 00:05:08 UTC from web-
@adiwan I always pictured us as the divey little dockside pub that's only still standing because the proprietor owns the building and doesn't need to pay rent so they can get by with the couple regulars just hanging out and playing pool
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You think it’s bad that Bart Simpson’s been ten for thirty-five years? The last season of Rugrats aired alongside the first season of All Grown Up and both shows take place in the early 2000s.
Friday, 15-Jul-22 18:37:04 UTC from web -
Futurama has a baked in start date of December 31st, 2999, and the show takes place roughly in real time (+1000 years), so Fry and Leela should be in their late 40s by now but they both look twenty. Plastic surgery must be really, really good in the future.
Friday, 15-Jul-22 18:39:44 UTC from web -
new D&D concept: a necromancer who only raises aborted fetuses and runs an orphanage where they can be adopted
Thursday, 14-Jul-22 19:12:16 UTC from web- adiwan likes this.
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On a brighter note: Tuca and Bertie Season 3 is out.
Wednesday, 13-Jul-22 10:37:16 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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When things starts to look better the world takes it and smashes it to smithereens. My father committed adultery and wants a divorce and wants to still live in the same apartment as my mother until the end of the year. I will probably have to support my mother financially (emotionally for sure), as she is too old to get a job. Also my father turned his asshole attitude up to 11. I strongly consider to turn my back on my father and never to forgive him for being a lying, conniving, selfish dick. He was always somewhat a dick but it could be glossed over back then. Now my eyes are opened.
Monday, 11-Jul-22 20:21:53 UTC from web -
i think i might be completely out of touch with this generation. when i was a kid, if you got caught stealing beer, that meant you went and tried at a different store. these days kids come into the same store multiple times in one night without even so much as checking to make sure that the manager who caught you last time isn't still there.
Wednesday, 06-Jul-22 19:07:20 UTC from web
