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Growing gherkins is probably not the most wise choice. I have about 2kg of them and bought ingredients to pickle them. Right then and there I saw the price for gherkins: 1€ for 1kg. I've spent more on the dirt, the pots and the seeds than it'll ever get a return of investment. Most of it are initial investment cost that amortize each year after upon reuse but still.
about 17 hours ago from web-
@scribus Yeah. It was just a small reality check I got when I was in the shop and me asking why I do "waste" my resources. I already did a similar thing with salad as it is hard to grow a lot and not taste bitter. Same thing with radishes as they are way too stubborn to grow a bulbous root. The effort in that case is wasted in comparison to the results. At least my gherkins grow properly and plentiful.
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Thought for a bit the site was finally dead, glad it isn't.
The land where it all started.about 2 days ago from web -
I don't know what the hell Patreon is doing but I am absolutely ready to quit over it
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"Played" Dispatch. I mean it is more of a watch than a play. I feel I would have been ripped off if I paid full price. Better: I paid nothing and used Amazon's Luna gaming streaming service as a prime user. It's a bad game but a good show.
about 6 days ago from web-
@adiwan I got it as a gift, so I have no cost/value analysis on it, but I really enjoyed Dispatch. Definitely, it's more "interactive fiction" than game, but I did enjoy the actual dispatch parts of it (and would frankly appreciate something like a standalone maybe roguelike kind of side project focusing just on that)
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@scribus Yeah. The actual "game" part is rather basic. It's similarly complex as the cabaret club mini game in Yakuza 0 and Yakuza 2. As a mini game it's fine for what it is, however for the main course it's severely lacking in depth in my opinion. Yeah. I got you. It could be fun as a resource management game to dispatch heroes according their strengths but this ain't it. For that I expect to assemble my own team and recruit more heroes and shuffle my team according to the current villains terrorizing the city. Also the hacking was rather meh. I get why it exists, as Robert sits at the PC with his Mecha Man experience. Hacking mini games were never done right as far as I know.
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If "Backlog" were a game . . . hell I still probably won't have the high score lol
about 13 days ago from web-
@scribus My backlog is so big I would need to go into retirement now in order to play them all before my death.
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"Maniac Mansion" had a better point-and-click interface on the NES, which didn't even have a point-and-click peripheral available!!
about 13 days ago from web-
@scribus I liked the Simon The Sorcerer 2 interface the best for Point & Click adventures. It's slightly sleeker than Monkey Island 2 with icons instead of words. I don't like MI3 or Full Throttle's "coin" nor Sam & Max's where the functions have to be cycled through with the right click. Maniac Mansion 1 is definitely the worst with too many verbs and too much tiny text.
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@adiwan Yeah, "Day of the Tentacle" did a really good job cutting the verbs way down without losing any functionality, and those others I unfortunately have not yet taken the time or had the opportunity to experience.
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I have also watched The Amazing Digital Circus. I mean... It's not amazing... and there was a lot of circus around it... The best grade I can give it is: fine. It was creative. The "mystery box" aspect was the hook and appeal of the show at first. The ending was... something.
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I watched Masters of the Universe 2026. It's a 5/10 movie with a 10/10 soundtrack with 7/10 vibes. Good watch with the right mindset of not expecting too much.
about 24 days ago from web-
@adiwan Was never a real fan of the property, but I did enjoy the Dolph Lundgren movie from the 80s with Courtney Cox-not-yet-Arquette, and while I probably won't see the new one in theaters, maybe if it shows up on Netflix I might throw it on some lazy Sunday afternoon
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@scribus I only know I when I was young I was hooked on the series. The movie was obviously bad. I grabbed a copy from the high Internet seas and watched it. If it comes to streaming it'll be good watch to kill time.
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Played more Mina The Hollower. I went full on AVGN despite the accessibility options. I'm so furious I can't sleep.
about a month ago from web-
@adiwan I've pivoted back to Project Zomboid, at least they outright admit there's no hope of survival
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@scribus I went back to Slay The Spire 2 and unlocked the last bit. After that I have a gaping abyss full of backlog games. I own console games I have never even tried. The biggest road block is that I have to set up the consoles in the first place as all of them are in the boxes from my move into my current home.
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I am playing Mina The Hollower and I'm infuriated by the controls. The "sticky" direction controls are causing so many problems that made me run into enemies and fall into pits and losing all my currency within minutes. I want to like the game more but it's fighting me as a player. The flying enemies and the high HP enemies aren't helping either.
about a month ago from web-
@adiwan Yeah, I turned on like 12 or 15 of the built-in options, it's a very fun game but that difficulty makes me wonder if they gave up on balancing it and said "Here, you do it" (or maybe they're saying "Yes, we did this on purpose, and if you don't like it, here")
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@scribus It's a dick move then that achievements (feats) are disabled when those, frankly speaking, accessibility options are enabled. I really liked Shovel Knight and it was a properly tough game. Not too hard but challenging, and the mechanics are not unfair. I don't have the same quality experience with Mina the Hollower.
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Tupac in Stranger Than Heaven is turning out to be Yakuza fans’ blue-armed Sonic moment.
about a month ago from web-
@zeldatra To me I don't have any emotional relationship to Tupac and his music and his real life person. I don't have any clue to what's the point of that. Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One was in a way essential to the universe of the film and can be in a way excused to be resurrected (tough uncannily). In this case it's a completely new story that is not even in the same decade in which Tupac even lived.
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@adiwan imo it’s not any sillier than using Bunta Sugawara’s face, he’s been dead for 10 years and nobody seems that bothered by his inclusion.
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Never had Ben & Jerry's ice cream. If I had it I don't remember. Either way: when I see it in the store I think about trying one tiny pack but the price is high enough to lose my interest and curiosity.
about a month ago from web-
@adiwan It is fairly premium amongst ice creams, if you like mix-ins especially. I don't feel ripped off at all when I do buy it, but it's also not my regular ice cream
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@scribus Ah. I'm generally more disappointed that "sorbet" ice cream is not more common and flavors like orange, pineapple, and sweet woodruff are not more common. I'm sick seeing chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and cherry.
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apple yeah. My raise of my yearly wage is effectively 150€. The economy is Potato Knishesed.
about a month ago from web-
@adiwan I don't suppose the bosses would be swayed by the old point that a raise which fails to outpace inflation is a pay cut?
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@scribus I know! It's like a kick in the groin into my bank account. The leadership in Canada has stupid high demands in profit and we haven't reached them 7 years in a row. Also a ton of people here don't have a billable project, which is also not a good standpoint to ask for more.
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Woah. New Regular Show episodes.
about a month ago from web-
@scribus One of the episodes was a backstory episode that shows how Benson got the position of the manager of the park. So your remark checks out to some extend.
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OK looks like it's actually an apartment complex next to the university
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Well, DnD got cancelled on account of a potentially explosive chemical leak and associated evacuation orders
about 2 months ago from web-
@scribus Sounds quite the reason to cancel the session. My last week's session was cancelled because one of our group is a teacher and had to correct this year's final exams in computer science and mathematics and had to do twice the load because a teacher is ill for almost half a year.
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@adiwan My dad's girlfriend is evacuated, too, so she's been over at the house and her two macaws are unhappy with having their habits upset
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So I've just suffered the epiphany that, in "The Prisoner," Number Six drives a Lotus Seven :-/
about 2 months ago from web-
@scribus Six seven!!!
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@thelastgherkin A friend of mine is a teacher at a school. She is very much annoyed of the originality and repetitiveness to the point that she is actively avoiding these digits and trying hard not to sigh in exasperation (especially in light of the poor performance of her pupils). She told me once that any time it happens the children of one class practically flip out. Not even Pavlov could predict this kind of reflex.
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@adiwan It gives me yet another reason to be pleased that I'm not another three inches taller
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I also stuck my hand into a ceiling fan running on high but that's entirely unrelated
about 2 months ago from web-
@scribus I walked multiple times into the low-hanging ceiling lamp from the previous owner in my current home. I cannot fathom having anything than low profile ceiling lamps. A ceiling fan is for me a death sentence that would lead to my decapitation or to severe brain damage.
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Watched "Hoppers". A criminally under-advertised film. It's good but it lays a little bit heavy on the preachy side but it's fine. Fun movie. If "Turning Red" is your jam it'll probably too.
about 2 months ago from web-
@adiwan All I saw for advertising on that one was one (frankly creepy looking) poster with no exposition, and then an Honest Trailers short on YouTube that actually made it look pretty enjoyable
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@scribus I watched the trailer afterwards on Youtube and it was quite the opposite reaction. I was more leaning towards that the trailer was doing a misfavor to the movie.
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being a Hispanic guy in the south is kinda like being a German guy in the 50s cause I gotta clarify that I didn’t condone what the other ones did a couple of years ago
about 2 months ago from web-
@zeldatra There was an informal document for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persilschein People gave other a signature to vouch that they didn't commit any crimes or weren't part of the Nazi regime. It was not perfect but it was a part of building trust in that broken society.
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The grass doesn't grow very well. My neighbor has replaced his with artificial plastic grass. I seeded some clovers where the grass refuses to get a hold. I prepared the soil with extra potent "cannabis soil", added some fertilizer, and tried to mix it as well as I could. After spreading the clover seed I watered everything thoroughly. I hope the rain the next days will be enough that I don't have to pay for the water keeping the soil wet.
about 2 months ago from web-
@adiwan Clover does a pretty decent job of filling in some of the patches in our backyard, should have a good chance to help
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@scribus Yeah. The soil is pretty compacted due to walking on it and quite clay-y. I spent 10 euro bucks for a bag of this seed. If it won't work due to my own incompetency forgetting to water it in the next weeks it'll be not a huge loss.
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I have no experience with ink erasers, though; have had erasable ink, that rubbed off with a regular pencil style eraser
about 3 months ago from web-
@scribus I used a felt pen like thing that had a liquid that destroyed the ink color (only blue ink) and the other side of the pen had a regular felt pen to write over the part as new ink would be erased on that spot. We called it "Tintenkiller" - "Ink killer" (the normal word is "Tintenlöscher" - "Ink eraser").
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I have managed to own and operate fountain pens for years before I actually had a significant enough splatter to get ink on my face today
about 3 months ago from web-
@scribus I am glad not having to use fountain pens. From grade 3 to 10 I had to use fountain pens with cartridges, just standard Lamy and Pelikan pens. My sweaty hands were always covered with ink because the ink didn't dry fast enough or just pickup by my sweat. Also the ink eraser smells are nasty. At home I have only the cheapest BIC ball pens and Kuru Toga mechanical pencils.
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@adiwan I quite like my Lamy pens, but I got converters for them so I can use fancy colored inks.
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Hey guys I just wanted to talk about FIM so... So far I reached the cutie map part 2 and so far I think season one and two were my fav I feel like season three and four were decent and the rest was mid for me I feel like there's some things that were repeated from previous episodes overall first three seasons 8.1/10,9.8/10 and 9/10 respectfully
about 3 months ago from web-
@derpityhooves It's been years I've seen the series. You have a treasure trove of content to enjoy. Later it gets also pretty mixed but still quite solid. Once you've seen it all (FIM episodes, films, Equestria Girls spin-off, Pony Life), I also highly recommend the comics. They aren't in canon or at least very questionable in that regard because they contradict in some points, however once you get over these details and accept as its own thing there are plenty of good stories to enjoy (and a few atrocious blunders with their own train wreck quality and entertainment value).
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@adiwan yeah I'll be sure to do that and after all of FIM I'll watch G3
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Looks like we got ourselves another Luigi https://abc7news.com/post/new-video-toilet-paper-being-set-fire-reviewed-part-investigation-southern-california-warehouse/18860399/
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I think I can say that if you choose to watch "Something Very Bad Will Happen" then something very bad will, indeed, happen
about 3 months ago from web-
@scribus This title sounds like a title a 8-year-old would choose who has been around teenagers and trying to be edgy and cool, and failing so due to not knowing anything in life and due to strict parents not knowing curse words as well.
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Sometimes I ponder what if I were drinking alcohol and question if it would make the world more bearable. As I am not drinking any I guess I will continue to suffer unnumbered.
about 3 months ago from web-
@scribus No. Never had any romantic relationship. It's most likely the trajectory the world is heading towards to and the general financial problems and life dissatisfaction.
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I'm 40% back, baby!!
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The spirit of RDN (fighting over the sexual orientations of cartoon horses) lives on in the wider network, I shall be the standard bearer for as long as I am able.
about 5 months ago from web -
I'm playing Kiwami 3 in English since I already experienced this story in Japanese. This becomes hilarious exactly ten minutes in if you choose to watch the recaps of Yakuza and Yakuza 2, because those games didn't get dubs and for some reason RGG chose not to dub the flashbacks even though, at least in Yakuza 1's case, everybody featured has an english VA from 0 or Infinite Wealth, so English Kiryu is narrating over Japanese Kiryu's dialogue, for some reason
about 5 months ago from web-
@zeldatra OMG. It feels like RGG was phoning in this release, doing the bare minimum or less. I'm waiting for the inevitable sale in half a year.
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@adiwan a significant chunk of it seems to have been outsourced to other SEGA studios. Methinks this one was more of a corporate mandate since with Stranger Than Heaven presumably launching next year there’d be no Yakuza until 2028 at the earliest. Still I’m having fun.
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