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Tyres are expensive.
Friday, 08-Oct-21 07:48:12 UTC from web-
@scribus All-season car tyres with aluminium rims what I have ordered. I didn't want to cheap out on something that will last a while and is essential for safety. Also a little bit for the looks doesn't hurt in the whole scheme of things. Steel rims are half as expensive but are also adding unnecessary weight and look like ass.
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@adiwan And isn't steel at risk if you live anywhere with weather? Salt for snow, or even just beach-salt...
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@scribus Yeah... My old (and stolen) car had steel rims. They had quite the rusty spots but they were covered by a plastic cap that gave the illusion they were nicer.
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i dont know if im sane or not
Friday, 08-Oct-21 17:46:33 UTC from web-
@michaelthemoron Nobody is
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@michaelthemoron Aim for "not," it's so much more fun, despite the trials and travails and tribulations and . . . trash trends trampling thought?
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i wish tht this was more active i swear its the EXACT 3 pl over …andover again
Wednesday, 06-Oct-21 14:30:33 UTC from web-
@kirumin It's hard to change the situation when there are only 3 regulars left who are posting stuff.
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I made this Star Wars crate as a gift https://i.imgur.com/vK6Ma3F.jpg
Wednesday, 29-Sep-21 16:49:20 UTC from web-
@scribus Thanks. I was really lucky mixing the base color to get the gray with the blue-ish tint I was aiming for. Because of the size I bought a cheap acrylic paint set and mixed white and black in a 1:1 ratio and then added about 1/3 of that amount with navy blue, and added a bunch of drops of silver metallic paint. Depending on the time of day it looks more blue or gray. On the other hand I had troubles getting rid of the layer lines using filler primer, sandpaper and files, especially the sides towards the center.
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I'm baffled by the number of battery-operated (internal rechargeable via USB or conventionally insertable AA or AAA) lights for bikes that are being sold. There is a thing called dynamo. No hassle recharging, always attached at the bike, reliable. There are hub dynamos that have almost no resistance (only the induced electrical field has some resistance) and are silent. It makes me somewhat annoyed and mad that people buy this crap. Additional lights... fine. But they are mostly advertised as main front and rear lights.
Friday, 24-Sep-21 08:56:14 UTC from web-
@adiwan I always kind of wanted one on my bike, but I also get ripped off so damn often that I can't bring myself to make a serious investment in it. They stole my seat!! I've had people steal my little speedometer, but not the tire attachment that actually makes it work! I watched a jerk ride off on my bike itself, and was a half-swcond too late in being certain to clothesline them... and my present borderline-cheapo bike is all rusted and sun-damaged.
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lady that used to steal Sudafed at my old store shops at my new one :/
Thursday, 23-Sep-21 03:51:38 UTC from web -
Picked up the first Beastars manga on a whim today. So far, so good.
Wednesday, 08-Sep-21 04:05:32 UTC from web-
@scribus I watched only the animated version. I was intrigued by the first season. The second one was not as good story-wise.
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Man I miss good old game rentals. Like, I want to try New Pokemon Snap, but I don't think I'll get $60 of fun out of it... $20, probably, but I understand this is not a $20 game. So, yeah. I miss rentals. !vgp #OldManYellsAtCloud
Thursday, 02-Sep-21 05:11:21 UTC from web-
@scribus Purchasing it used might be an option. On ebay in Germany the prices are between 30€ and 40€. I guess it won't be cheaper anytime soon. Pokemon Snap for the N64 is cheaper as a cart only offer but complete in box it's still at original retail prices.
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I want to see the new Marvel movie Shang Chi but it feels wrong to go to the cinema.
Tuesday, 31-Aug-21 19:10:08 UTC from web-
@scribus I liked it a lot! Ryan Reynolds kind of carries the film and I think without him it isn’t nearly as funny though. He like, makes the movie.
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@zeldatra @scribus The number of cases are rising here as well and I don't want to risk any contact with strangers that's not necessary, especially when sitting in an enclosed room for hours. I'm vaccinated but still. This time I'll probably go to the sea that is called Internet and become a filthy pirate. I already gave more money than necessary for watching Black Widow at home.
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Great, first time in two years I wake up at 0600 ON PURPOSE (damn jury duty) and I'm shaking and puking and other nastiness....
Monday, 30-Aug-21 13:53:38 UTC from web-
@scribus Looks like some sort of stage fright or your body is doing you a favor so you can be dismissed from doing jury duty.
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I summed up how much I cycled so far in the last 6 months, with the help of the Google Maps Timeline feature. I cycled about 120km. Due to some really annoying data entry of the streets and junctions, and the infrequent and inaccurate GPS sampling, not every trip was correctly recorded. Good for data protection but also bad for this application, so I had to guesstimate.
Monday, 30-Aug-21 09:33:17 UTC from web-
@adiwan If cycling is as important to you as it is to me, I would recommend purchasing an odometer. They are quite cheap
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@oracle I have a bicycle computer that has the feature but it is cumbersome to access in the menu. I have it only to display the current velocity / average velocity. It was just in the spur of the moment that this question came up as my father jokingly said to me that I barely drive my new car that just passed 600km.
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Although I have a bike I'm interested in having a second bike more geared towards comfortable rides in the city: a ladies' dutch bicycle. I don't see a reason for having that ball-crushing crossbar between the legs that makes it hard to get into the saddle.
Thursday, 26-Aug-21 06:41:54 UTC from web -
I have no way of knowing if the fact that I've done nothing but play BOTW for a week is, like, an ADHD hyperfocus, or Autism obsession, or just the perfectly rational realization that there is nothing of greater value in the society we have built up around ourselves
Monday, 23-Aug-21 18:13:33 UTC from web-
@scribus I had a somewhat similar experience playing BOTW. But to be fair: I had a vacation and could spend all week playing it. I tried to complete as much as it was feasible to get the good ending and solve as many shrines as I could for the much needed health and stamina upgrades.
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@adiwan And what a terrible choice to have to make early in the game, health or stamina... lol
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New glasses, and I feel just like Tina Belcher O_O
Tuesday, 17-Aug-21 01:14:12 UTC from web-
@scribus Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.
Glasses. Check.
Horse fan. Check.
(Friend-)Fiction writer. Check.
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Just noticed there’s cat food in the department managers’ office and now I’m trying to figure out a) who in the store is feeding cats, and b) what cats are hanging out on the highway far from any of the nearby suburbs
Sunday, 08-Aug-21 14:11:20 UTC from web -
So there's a petition for an HD release of the Super Mario Bros movie http://chng.it/h2GyMhJT7F
Wednesday, 04-Aug-21 21:44:35 UTC from web -
See how terribly my reflexes have decayed over 25 years, haha #mortality #thecoldembraceofdeath
Wednesday, 04-Aug-21 17:47:19 UTC from web-
@scribus I was playing a round of Beat Saber a few days ago and I half-way sucked. Last time I played it was about 3 months ago. The fast songs I was good at were a tragedy (like Darude Sandstorm on Expert).
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So do people still talk about mlp here?
Sunday, 01-Aug-21 05:43:38 UTC from web-
@mariomario4156 It's gotten a little bit more general than that, but it comes up now and again. Welcome!
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@mariomario4156 We can try damn it! http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875971
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@firestormdangerdash Heck yeah mate! :D
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I need to decide on where all these new patches are going on my Levi's jacket, and also whether to get a NERV or SEELE one, and which (up to) 6 Pokemon I want and a place for all of that, and then what the hell I'm even supposed to do with a JACKET in the face of global warming and life in Southern California. Also eBay doesn't seem to even have a Ninetales patch so
Wednesday, 28-Jul-21 19:28:12 UTC from web-
@scribus I found one Ninetails patch on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/listing/977438366/
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@scribus Well I found a seller who had spelled the NERV credo right, so I bought one. Eight on, two ready, three more coming in the mail.
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I'm intrigued cycling around a bicycle track around the center of my city but it's about 19km (11.5mi) long. But it's maybe a bit too long for my endurance. I could take breaks but I want to avoid that.
Monday, 26-Jul-21 13:49:08 UTC from web-
@adiwan I cancel my plans doing this. I've done a quarter of that track and it is not very good. The track is almost exclusively made of hard dirt and quite narrow. It is not a very comfortable ride. The idea was nice from the city to create such track but it is hardly used by me as it leads no almost no place I want to go, or there is a more efficient route, at least for me. At this point I'll wait until it get asphalt.
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I've just read a news article about Poland that they also have a problem with people not taking the vaccine. Especially the people in very rural places and in the mountains are stubborn. In the article they reported that those people said that they live so far away from other people and cannot be infected, they had strong immune systems, and that the vaccine was unsafe. The social pressure is so big in those small communities that the vaccine enemies made talking about the vaccine a taboo subject in order not to be alienated.
Monday, 26-Jul-21 07:14:54 UTC from web-
@scribus Polio has the "advantage" that it has horrific looking results like misshapen limbs on children. Covid has death or long-term respiratory deficiencies and they are not horrible enough. A friend of my father's has a car paint shop and cannot work there anymore because covid made it impossible for him to breathe there (already had issues breathing because he did not a lot care for mask protection while painting and he is a heavy smoker).
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I'm not big into LEGO but somehow I want a Star Wars Clone Wars Gunship set.
Thursday, 15-Jul-21 19:19:37 UTC from web-
@adiwan I hope they've revised the design since I tried to build Gherkins old one. That build is an unfun nightmare and produces the flimsiest model.
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@ceruleanspark From what I've seen is big and sturdy. But I can only say that as an opinion without much insight and experience with big LEGO builds. I want it but I am aware that these sets are luxuriously expensive. I rather buy new Winter tyres for that kind of money.
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@adiwan Gherkins was one of the first-gen models from the AOTC era, so it's entirely possible they've made the design slightly less likely to just explode on contact with a stiff breeze.
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I've been looking into 3d modeling the "companion cube"-style wider crates from Star Wars. There are tons of small and subtle differences between series. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875956
Tuesday, 13-Jul-21 12:15:40 UTC from web-
@scribus Interesting. The dimensions of that crate is about the shape of two cubes stuck together. The shape doesn't lend that much for comics. I can imagine having 3 rows of comics in that box that are side-by-side that would approximately fill the crate's shape without major alterations. However I think that it might be too much. I think that producing these crates would be expensive as it needs a lot of manual labor. Also I have not the tools to make the crates efficiently and with quality that justifies the costs.
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@scribus Yeah. I would need a big CNC router and/or a medium-size laser cutter to cut down in labor time and to provide decent and repeatable quality. It could be done without those but it would be not economical.
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Insomnia SSSSUUUUCCCCKSSSS
Saturday, 10-Jul-21 08:54:41 UTC from web-
@scribus Little bit the heat but mostly my neighbours. In the last two weeks they have woken me up 10 times in the night (about 2-3 AM) thus I could not go to sleep again. My body is so f-ed up that I can only go to sleep between 10 and 11 PM.
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Just got an original inked sketch from my favorite web comic artist. The paper dimensions are somewhat odd: 33cm x 30cm. Finding a fitting picture frame is impossible without ordering a custom one. I settled with a 40cm x 40cm frame. Not ideal but the best thing that is affordable.
Sunday, 04-Jul-21 06:55:59 UTC from web-
@adiwan I think a lot of frames intend for you to use a mat to fill in the space, I have a hard enough time finding frames to accommodate (US) standard stuff like 8x10's or 8.5x11 (also, why two standards so close?!)
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@scribus I'll use a piece of black cardboard as a backing material like in the attached picture. I did the same with all my framed comics. The picture I want to frame is still being flattened. It has been shipped rolled up, so it'll take some time to straighten. I could make a passepartout but I don't like them as they need to overlap with the picture. I could buy a custom made frame but it costs 2.5 times as much as the closest off-the-shelf model. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875948
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The M3 screws I ordered arrived. Of course the assortment box got jumbled up during transport and the screws were all in a state of chaos. I had to sort them. During sorting I found a M4 nut, oddly enough. To prevent that entropy find its way to randomize the screw positions I put all types of screws in small zip-lock bags. I don't want to count if there are 1110 screws, washers and nuts but I suspect I got duped by some missing ones but I value my time more than the screws are worth. I already wasted time sorting them.
Saturday, 03-Jul-21 19:04:12 UTC from web -
I am almost astounded at how well I managed to translate the Maniac Mansion home to Sims 3, so far !vgp
Friday, 02-Jul-21 07:23:24 UTC from web-
@adiwan Sadly, I was not able to get a nuclear reactor in the swimming pool, but I did put a "dungeon" of sorts in the basement (mostly just a bedroom with a barred window looking in, lol)
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One more strike away from cancelling my Dollar Shave Club; I ain't into businesses that use "errors" as an excuse to make it physically impossible to cancel a subscription. This is some AOL-tier crap, here.
Monday, 28-Jun-21 17:47:08 UTC from web-
@adiwan I've tried, but then I forget to rotate in a new one for like twice as long. Maybe I should just set a reminder in my calendar app...
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@scribus I clean my brush thoroughly after brushing my teeth so it lasts quite a while. I change the brush when the bristles are bent enough that they impact the cleaning performance. A tooth brush lasts about 2 to 3 months. Is it too long? I don't know but it seems reasonable.
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I'm glad I refused to use Facebook, Instagram, Oculus VR headsets, and WhatsApp
Thursday, 24-Jun-21 05:56:31 UTC from web-
@adiwan I had to really ask myself yesterday *why* I still have Instagram; it's intended to be my last point of contact for some people, so I can announce my own website (with blackjack! And hookers!!) when I finally get that done
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@scribus I had the same with ICQ. At some point they have changed the protocol again and my multi-messenger stopped working. Most of the contacts were "dead" and I talked to a few anyway. So I axed it with all the other instant messengers.
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Cool! New Tuca & Bertie season and the first episode is on the official Adult Swim Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWIhZ0R2H7M
Monday, 21-Jun-21 18:36:27 UTC from web-
@adiwan I heard they're airing it, then putting it online free for a couple of weeks. I hope the rest of the season makes a YT appearance, too.
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@scribus BTW: The first episode of season 5 of Rick & Morty is also there on the channel. I watched the episode elsewhere but it's neat that they put it on Youtube for the exposure. Rick & Morty doesn't need that but Tuca & Bertie needs that as its style can be off-putting very easily.
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