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special shoutouts to the woman who just called me ugly to her daughter in Spanish because she thought I couldn’t understand her. When I raised my eyebrow she turned to me and said “I was just telling my daughter you look like someone we know”. Okay, ma’am.
Sunday, 02-Feb-20 02:29:46 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@mrmattimation "El que lo dice lo es"
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O Lord, the Girl Scout cookies...
Saturday, 01-Feb-20 08:29:42 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@scribus But but but what if the Girl Scouts are using the cookie selling as a front for drug delivery?!?!
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@adiwan CIA, Girl Scouts division.
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the whole experience did sort of underscore everything i believe about that sort of thing though, there was a guy with an AR-15 in the booth next to me and a guy with eight(!!!!!) magazines on his belt in the other booth, and it made me SUPREMELY uncomfortable
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@mrmattimation That's about 250 rounds downrange assuming they're 30 round mags loaded to 28, it's not a lot for proper practice. Most people who take it seriously will do 200-300 once in a while. It doesn't cost too much if reloading the cases. Semi-auto rifles eat through ammo really fast so going to the range with only a mag or two means you'll run out of fun in minutes.
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@nerthos Nah the guy with the mag belt wasn’t using a rifle, it was a handgun, and by my count each magazine had between 15 and 18 shots.
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@mrmattimation Still normal amounts, this guy just put down the money to buy all the magazines instead of the usual two or three mags + a cardboard ammo box to reload. 1000 9mm rounds are like $150 over the counter, so the guy probably spent like 15 bucks in bullets if reloading.
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I'm not sure what digital magic my cousins' tv is doing to The Simpsons but man is it ever uncanny
Monday, 27-Jan-20 22:05:43 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan The high frame rate video debate is scheduled to be the next big generational tech gap, according to one headline I skimmed once online. "Gemini Man" will remain dumb, regardless.
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@scribus High frame rate video is one thing but another thing to interpolate frames of lower frame rate to a higher and smooth out "choppiness", especially with non-contiguous motion like in animation with few feature points in the picture. High frame rate video will be the norm some day. Right now the amount of data is mostly not feasible or the technology is not good enough to simulate. Current films are exported in 2k because all of the rendering time and visual effects. Also visual flaws get more obvious with a higher temporal resolutions. I heard that "acting" is more apparent at higher frame rates, meaning that the acted motions and emotions are perceived as not genuine.
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@adiwan I can vouch for the last bit, a perfect example is the marvel cape movies. They look just fine on tv or a cinema screen, but look at scenes in >1080 60fps on a high DPI cellphone screen and the actors look awkward, movement looks cartoony and poorly acted, you can notice the weird physics from cable pulls and all that.
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Space Force is actually happening? Space Force is actually gorram happening!? I always wanted to live in a cartoon, but not this one!!
Wednesday, 15-Jan-20 02:25:44 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@scribus Too old to join space force? No worries, you can still fight space ISIS from the home front.
I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill 'em all http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875417
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@nerthos I never said I was too old!! . . . I mean, I *am* but I never said it before. :p
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Happy new year, to those that remain, and would still be called friends.
May time never erode what was built, the chapter of our lives that we spent together.
In perpetuity you will find a brother in me if that is what you desire.Tuesday, 31-Dec-19 11:24:27 UTC from web- awlxaĺan and Jonathan Chouinard like this.
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@awl Same to you awl! though I suppose in your case, we still keep in contact.
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I do actually miss you guys pretty often. I just very rarely find I have anything to say anymore?
Friday, 27-Dec-19 00:16:09 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Same, we've all drifted apart over the near decade that passed. My contact info remains the same as always though, if you or anyone ever wants to hang out.
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But I do have something today: I bought a house!
Friday, 27-Dec-19 00:16:28 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark congratulations on having a house! Still in UK I presume?
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@ceruleanspark Wow, congrats! I'm severely envious, not gonna lie, but still - gratz!
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@ceruleanspark Congratulations Adam, I sincerely hope that turns out well for you, homeownership is the threshold to genuine independence and the biggest milestone in the construction of a life of your own.
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Saturday, 02-Nov-19 05:52:58 UTC from web -
And So I viewed everyone on this site, and thus I declared it good.
Saturday, 19-Oct-19 16:35:49 UTC from web-
@cabal WOO ! I am no longer the only one who thinks that I am good. [ cracks open a case of emergency celebration booze ]
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honestly im not sure if i expected to be still coming here ten years later.
The site has kinda lost it's relevance. Maybe we should rebrand.
" the microblogging service formerly known as rainbow dash network "Friday, 11-Oct-19 06:17:03 UTC from web-
@scribus Yeah but ironically MLP ended up being pretty much the only series to endure out of the ones we were all thinking of at the time. Littlest Pet Shop: Cancelled. Over the Garden Wall: Over. Gravity Falls: Over. Steven Universe: Who even knows. Rick and Morty: anathema to thinking people. Adventure Time: Over.
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@ceruleanspark Funny you mention Over The Garden Wall. It's very recently become my favorite cartoon of all time.
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@ceruleanspark Long live the Princesses, I guess.
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That said, I'm pretty sure we *are* a gay speed dating service? How many people came to terms with having the big gay just through this website alone? At least two of them.
Friday, 11-Oct-19 23:14:19 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark I was going to say, can we please be a gay speed dating service?
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I swear, I'm about to start walking down the street with a hammer in hand for the next halfwit who can't be bothered to lok where they're driving. It's self-defense.
Friday, 11-Oct-19 17:25:49 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Well, I was on foot at the time.
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@scribus i read a story about a cyclist in NY that went apePotato Knishes on some Uber driver with a U-lock. Hell, gotta do what you gotta do
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Today marks is the day I clock in 8 years in the fediverse thanks to this site
Also it's Czech independence day
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ice ice baby
Thursday, 19-Sep-19 23:41:30 UTC from web-
@cabal Just as long as I don't have to go back to Dance Dance Revolution. My cardio is shot these days.
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Saturday, 07-Sep-19 02:00:23 UTC from web -
Just how many more guns are we gonna need to stop shootings if even Texas keeps getting shot up?
Sunday, 01-Sep-19 01:34:24 UTC from web-
@scribus ALL of them. But also a patriotism test when handing out the guns.
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@nerthos the el paso shooter would have passed a patriotism test with flying colors
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@mrmattimation Hence being in el paso and not in el rebote
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https://twitter.com/HackedOffHugh/status/1166740030947287040 Guys I think Hugh Grant is mad about something
Wednesday, 28-Aug-19 22:13:09 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark My guess is that they could not decide between the hard cheese and the soft cheese.
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I share the sentiment really. One less is good, but several less would be even better.
Sunday, 11-Aug-19 00:17:04 UTC from web -
if only we were still notorious within the federation so that someone on sealion or smugloli could call me an opponent of freedom for laughing at a dead child rapist
Saturday, 10-Aug-19 14:03:05 UTC from web-
@scribus Funny this conversation should be happening since we're two days away from celebrating the fifth anniversary of the incident in question
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@thelastgherkin Whoa, spooky....
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Wednesday, 07-Aug-19 19:49:08 UTC from web
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@nerthos I was *sure* I was about to watch a bunch of people die in a fire, but instead it turned out pretty rad.
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@ceruleanspark You know me, cerulean. Were it a bunch of people dying in a fire, I would have sent it anyway, but privately :)
The video just reminded me of you, and stuff that old is rare.
How have you been? we haven't talked in forever, I kinda miss it.
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After several encounters with my most recent enemy (electricity-eating fungi) I've decided to study the damn things and figure out how to eradicate them.
They're not actively harmful, but colonies form in low-current circuits, and cause devices to stop working. Phone lines and tv remotes are the two places I most often find them in, and even though I fully clean the devices, after a while the fungi shows up again.Thursday, 18-Jul-19 08:18:40 UTC from web-
@scribus @drinkingpony Sub-zero doesn't kill them, considering they made a colony on the phone line box thing outside despite a week of antartic wind consistently dropping the temperature below 0ºC
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@nerthos Here is a stupid idea... Try hairspray.
Nono, not on them, remove them first and then see if hairsprayed components inhitbit their growth.
Also, have you considered that it is not fungus you are dealing with but some form of oxydation ?Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony I'm 100% sure it's not oxydation, copper is intact and copper oxyde isn't gooey and transparent
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I cannot stress it enough: Watch "Amphibia"! The first season ended today so there is no excuse.
Thursday, 18-Jul-19 19:46:47 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan The abundance of frogs makes it extremely tempting, but the art style is offputting.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wednesday, 03-Jul-19 05:11:27 UTC from web-
@darkw00d 2D>3D with the sole exception of heterosexual marriage blessed by both church and state, that removes the PD from 3DPD
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@nerthos with full admission that I have absolutely no clue what you mean I'll just reconstruct my point this way: having relationships with people is more fascinating than infatuations with animations. this opinion is brought to you by a user of rainbow pony website
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@darkw00d 3DPD means "three dimensional pig disgusting", however marriage purifies the 3D and it is no longer disgusting or pig-like, 3D becomes pure and handholding is no longer sinful.
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@scribus Carcino sends his regards, says he misses you.
Wednesday, 26-Jun-19 08:29:38 UTC from web-
@nerthos (python is bdfl) Mastodon's column layout is pretty bizarre though.
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@thismightbeauser Yeah, I'm not sure what they were going for exactly. It can work in an ultrawide screen, but you'd likely have to mess with it with stylish or some other browser extension to make it really good. I think pleroma does it right with a wide main timeline centered on the screen, and a smaller notifications timeline on the side.
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@mushi https://shigusegubu.club/media/d0286a49127d78f3849e518652957010582646fd3ad0dbd859b88ee1e1be5ecb.webm?name=1562489339032.webm
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ITT: post things about USA, but only ones you like #4ofjuly http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/874822
Thursday, 04-Jul-19 19:57:58 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Celebrate fireworks day in front of whatever residence he sleeps at throughout the entire night.
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@mrmattimation ... Goldsboro, North Carolina, 1961, two KM39-ers, those are about 190 Fat Man a piece ... History is fun :D
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@mrmattimation wut
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Hmm, Well, Extra Credits did it again. This time they tried to jam the idea of "Nazi's are bad people !" into their talk about video games so hard that they are now about receiving 20 thumbs down for every 6 thumbs up.
Meanwhile, yeah I agree with the general message behind what they are saying. We must stop trying to normalize the idealisms of Nazi's. However to blame Video Gamers is Jack Thompson levels of insane to me, especially if you see how the arguements are formed.
Heck I am sure that the fact that there is a president in the U.S.A. who is being called a Nazi like clockwork is doing harm to 'normalize the Nazi's' than a game called "The life of Erwin Rommel, the VR experience"
No use looking that up either, I just had to think of a stupid game title and I had a brain fart about Fennec Foxes earlier...Wednesday, 03-Jul-19 23:23:30 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony Honestly all they can achieve with this is getting nazis to be seen positively in the long run. Think jews for example, they were universally disliked up until wwii, the nazis screwed up so badly with it than they became a group you can't criticize in most of the western world.
More so since what they call "nazis" have nothing to do with what an actual nazi is. Trump is a good example, he might have not delivered on most of the stuff he promised, but anyone else would be laureate after as US president being one of three main actors in the end of the korean war and restart of diplomatic relationships between the DPRK and the USA. Give it a few decades, and once the groups that screech about Trump cease to exist, he'll be seen in an overwhelmingly positive way in historical retrospectives. If these idiots conflate the words "nazi" and "trump", the logical conclussion is that he's a nazi, and therefore nazis are a boogeyman, okish people that are hated by fanatical groups. -
@nerthos You know, I agree with you. But you should probably go watch the video. Heck go with the straight up reply video of this guy https://youtu.be/KngleLumR_U .
I guess the biggest problem is that EC thinks that we should stop to normalize the Nazi's. Those being ACTUAL Nazi's and their ideology, by being extremely patronising to the point of nausea in Multiplayer Games.
Also to tinker with the matchmaking system to do the opposite of rewarding Nazi's. Which is just a system so insane that the moment you write it down you realize that you punish ALL players because your game has Nazi's in them.
Also it was stated that because 'safeguards are being eroded', you might not go off of a website like stormfront because you do not mind playing as Hanz Mit Der Flammenwerfer in some game.
But the birth of a meme, the absolute beginning. "There you are, playing a game, and all of a sudden bam you're a Nazi, you did not ask for this" is golden. I mean, you did buy the game.
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It feels so weird to be on SPC with some of the people from here, but half a decade after, all of us old and wise now. But I'm thankful for those connections, and for this place's uncanny ability to bring to light the most interesting people.
Who could have predicted that we'd go from bronies to shamans and wizards.Wednesday, 26-Jun-19 19:21:32 UTC from web- awlxaĺan likes this.
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@drinkingpony I don't really even get the big problem with drag. It's loud and over the top, sure, but it doesn't have to be sexy or kinky.
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@thismightbeauser Doesn't matter. There is shock and awe. Does not matter if they even raise concerns you agree with or not. I am just annoyed that it makes a large enough stink that I hear the screeching harpies on both sides of the arguement and it makes me sigh.
"Please just let me enjoy my Pizza without both Gordon Ramsay and Massimiliano Alajmo screaming at me about the existance of Pineapple." is what I am essentially saying.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony Gossip generally sucks.
