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It's weird when acronyms have overlapping meaning. For example POS. I read it as Point Of Sales but the Internet abbreviates Piece Of Fluffle Puff that way. When the cashier is an asshole both can be applied.
Wednesday, 10-Jan-24 07:01:47 UTC from web -
For a birthday gift for a friend, and a small pokemaniac, I crafted a Mew stone carving (from the first Pokemon movie) out of polymer clay. I used Adobe Illustrator to trace a screenshot and 3D-printed a cookie cutter and stamped it into the polymer clay and added additional stone texture with a ball of aluminium foil. After baking it at 130°C (266°F) for 40 minutes I used the crappiest acrylic paint I own. It did the job but the paint is darkening so much when dry that they turn almost black. With a liberal amount of white and other brighter paint (yellow, orange, red) I got to the end eventually. https://i.imgur.com/D7Nsjy5.jpg
Sunday, 07-Jan-24 13:29:02 UTC from web -
Gods, I didn't even know this site still existed. Just logged in to change my password.
Wednesday, 03-Jan-24 15:50:32 UTC from web-
@epiclper I have a similar problem to some websites that have ridiculous password requirements, where I have to create a new password whenever I want to log in as I just forget what the password was.
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finally starting Judgement
Saturday, 30-Dec-23 06:45:37 UTC from web-
@zeldatra You'll going to have a good time. The cast and the story is great. The substories are as wacky as usual.
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AI image generation is dangerously addicting. It's like a loot box where one hope to get a good image or the perfect image. I've spent too much time yesterday generating portrait images for preparing to my D&D adventure. Also Bing's Dall-E has a content filter that makes it a little bit more tricky to make grotesque images. For example I wanted to create a fleshy and bloody amalgam of unicorn body parts that assemble into one giant and colossal unicorn. The background is that the heroes have defeated the wizard that used unicorns and their blood to fuse animals together. However the remnants of that magic and unicorn blood and the disposed bodies were tossed into the sewers and spread through the rivers. Now they have to "clean up" the whole mess and be some kind of Ghostbusters but with bloody unicorn blobs with veiny tendrils instead of ghosts.
Friday, 29-Dec-23 10:27:39 UTC from web-
@scribus Of course. The sewers will have gelatinous cubes with unicorn giblets and ordinary slimes. I also take a monster called "Malleable" from Tome of Beasts 2 from Kobold Press. This monster is somewhat a slime but it can merge from smaller parts to a bigger and more powerful monster. The smaller ones will foreshadow the gigantic one. It is also psychic has the urge to grow bigger and merge with other flesh. It'll be a good challenge for my hyper-efficient D&D group.
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@adiwan Oh heck, you always see the slime that divides when attacked; not sure how often I've seen slimes combine!
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@scribus Yeah. That's why I immediately gravitated towards that. I wanted to use them in my last adventure but my players avoided getting into the sewers. The Malleables can also be split voluntarily or upon receiving 20hp of damage from a single attack. https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/malleable-moderate/ https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/malleable-major/ https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/malleable-minor/
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Oh boy petsitting gets exciting when the cats decide to start a fight ON YOUR LAP O_O
Thursday, 28-Dec-23 06:06:17 UTC from web -
Also Unreal Engine 4 irks me a lot, especially loading scenes. There is so much texture loading delay that I'm not used to with the Dragon Engine. Also animations on load behave weirdly: A sitting person stands for a frame and snaps into a sitting position with physics-driven secondary animation wiggling wildly. In rarer occasions distant scenery also flash white.
Wednesday, 20-Dec-23 20:59:24 UTC from web-
@adiwan It seems to actually be the Yakuza 5/0/Kiwami engine with an Unreal Engine wrapper over top which i think is part of why the game is so jank. Not sure what the game played like in Japan originally, but I imagine it wasn't very different.
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@zeldatra Makes sense that it is based on 5, as I found out that quite a few characters were in the original Japanese version. In the Unreal Engine remaster they were replaced by from 7. It's strange but I get it that Zhao is more popular than Baba.
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I think I unwrapped my blood donation bandage at least an hour too soon O_O
Saturday, 09-Dec-23 01:47:43 UTC from web-
@adiwan Maybe you could organize a blood drive at work? I've had a couple of jobs where they had them fairly regularly.
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@scribus There is no need to. There are basically weekly blood donations all around town. The thing is that I'm always too tired to get to them.
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@adiwan Yeah, that's why I was thinking of integrating it into the regular day like that.
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GTA 6... I wonder if there are realistic effects like someone's pee-pee and balls shrinking in the cold.
As expected I was not impressed by anything in the trailer, especially when the release date will be in 2025. It's a nothing burger.Tuesday, 05-Dec-23 11:30:07 UTC from web-
@adiwan as somebody who spent the first several years of my life in Florida, my big takeaway is that it’s really cool that Rockstar is depicting what seems to be a fully realized version of South and Central Florida instead of just showing us pictures of Miami they got off of Google Images like they did with Los Santos and Liberty City. I’m excited for it.
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My morning cashier would’ve been real popular in the Miami clubbing scene in the 80s if you catch my drift
Monday, 04-Dec-23 15:40:58 UTC from web -
I think this website has actually been one of very few places that I actually felt any real sense of engagement
Thursday, 30-Nov-23 07:57:36 UTC from web -
My final boss in Lost Judgment is Poker. I'm in a chain of side missions that need me to win in Poker (Texas Holdem). Sad thing is that I get always the worst cards and have not even got a dumb pair in 20 games.
Saturday, 25-Nov-23 22:00:16 UTC from web-
@adiwan good that I had only to win once. Poker sucks so much. I swear I will throw the towel if I have to play a game of Shogi or Mahjong in a side story.
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@scribus AFAIK there is no Go in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series. There are other equally unappealing games like Koi-Koi, Oicho-Kabu, and Hanafuda.
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I’ve been carrying foreign currency in my wallet for a bit too long but you have to actually go to the airport to exchange it so it stays with me
Sunday, 19-Nov-23 23:23:40 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I see currency exchange booths at the mall, but it is the mall right by the international airport so it's really not that much less hassle :-/
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@scribus I will simply wait to get mugged in DC on Friday and it will be off my hands then
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@adiwan don’t think the British pound is going away any time soon so I can’t even say it’s a cool keepsake
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Today was the day of the bomb disarming. They found a second bomb nearby and disarmed it as well. Nothing happened except for stupid people who were entering the evacuation zone. It happened a few times and delayed the whole operation. People who are caught in the evacuation zone (also in their apartments hiding) get a fine of up to 5000€.
Sunday, 12-Nov-23 20:16:06 UTC from web-
@adiwan Looks like you've had more practice cleaning up your post-war cities. Or maybe it's just the legendary German efficiency.
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@scribus It took about 4 hours to evacuate about 5000 people out of the area. Then it took another 3 hours to get rid of the bombs including interruptions.
The legendary German efficiency is more a legend now. Living here you'll see that there is a lot left on the table when it comes to efficiency. The biggest and most visible joke are the trains that are always late or don't work when there is any kind of weather.
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still only on chapter 2. I got distracted.
Sunday, 12-Nov-23 00:04:47 UTC from web -
I really, really wish I could just never have to drive again
Friday, 10-Nov-23 23:16:21 UTC from web-
@scribus i just had to spend $1500 to fix my car so same
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I couldn't resist and bought LAD Gaiden yesterday. I'm almost like a fanboy at this point towards any game RGG Studio releases. I'm 12 hours in at the moment and it feels like a Kiryu Best Of.
Friday, 10-Nov-23 15:14:03 UTC from web -
I'll probably buy Lost Judgment (+ DLC) as soon as there is a major discount. I ain't gonna pay almost 100€ for a game no matter how amazing it is.
Friday, 03-Nov-23 22:25:46 UTC from web-
@adiwan @adiwan That neither Judgement game is on Xbox GamePass is why I haven’t played them yet. I’ll buy Judgement, but $60 for Lost Judgement is a bit insane considering as of next week there will have been two further games in the series out since LJ’s release (and one of them isn’t even full price!)
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@zeldatra Yeah. It's somewhat unfortunate. Last time I saw Lost Judgment on sale on Steam was about 60€ with the Kaito Files DLC. That price also stings. I don't know if I buy LAD Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name on release. I would like to but 50€ make me think twice, especially when I don't get it on a physical disc.
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Knew I was in for a fun time with this new transfer when I asked which store she came from and she replied “that’s personal information I’m not answering that”
Monday, 23-Oct-23 20:16:02 UTC from web-
@scribus update on this: apparently she had somewhat successfully lied her way into the position she was in. She’d been hired as a deli clerk and was transferred to my store after basically becoming to much for the previous store to handle (thanks for that, guys!). Then when she got here she concocted this plan to basically act like she’d been promoted with the hopes that we’d give her the pay of an assistant manager for at least a while before we found out. Her refusal to answer most of my questions was because she didn’t want me finding holes in the story, like her refusal to tell me what store she came from was to stop me from contacting her previous manager and finding out that she was just a deli clerk - before the whole thing went down I had already figured out what store she was from because… it was listed under her file, which I genuinely can’t believe she didn’t think I would check. Before I was able to ask the manager there about her though, she’d already been fired.
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Got the new Cities Skylines, fun times fun times! Got a weird fixation on a six-sided grid as opposed to the regular right angles and all. It's obsessive, I can't stop. It's like some kind of curse. Or maybe even a hex!
Wednesday, 01-Nov-23 18:47:03 UTC from web-
@scribus I have hundreds of hours in the first one and the second one is driving me absolutely insane because of how much more in-depth it is, I can’t approach things the way I did in the first game because the first game didn’t have apple like air pollution, so now I gotta not put my factories upwind of a suburb. This is a good thing, I get sort of complacent in how I game, it just surprised me how much the game tries to kick old players’ asses in some regards.
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@zeldatra I spent half an hour relocating a water pump and even the road leading up to it, trying to get better than 10% efficiency. Then I found out that it actually needs to be fully staffed to be fully functional :o
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voting on Halloween because adulthood is tedium
Tuesday, 31-Oct-23 18:34:35 UTC from web-
@scribus Virginia. Kentucky. Louisiana. Only three states in the entire country where this is an annual thing. Can you imagine the junk mail volume? It’s a lot.
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the kosher section of the store is expanding into the halal section and it’s causing some problems
Sunday, 29-Oct-23 21:34:30 UTC from web-
@scribus true story: the fact that my store only has a kosher SECTION, rather than a kosher AISLE, resulted in me being called an antisemite by some elderly Jewish lady, like a) I was the one who decided this, and b) the section wasn’t as large or larger than the halal, latino, Italian, Japanese, German, etc sections on the same aisle
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Friday, 20-Oct-23 23:37:51 UTC from web
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It's almost like I'm good at this and not at all that I watched YouTube videos of people winning and ever-so-slightly might've cheesed the strategy just a bit <_<;
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@scribus Is watching a YT video so different from reading up on a strategy guide back in the day? I try to avoid guides but there are times when the game isn't fun and I want to get to the fun again without the road block.
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@adiwan Not quite so different, except maybe the video has a more obnoxious host than the written word, lol
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But I have yet to watch the circus cartoon so that's unrelated
Saturday, 21-Oct-23 19:41:45 UTC from web-
@scribus it sort of feels like if Mondo Media was told they had to keep it PG and not everybody was on board with it
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In Yakuza Dead Souls, one of Majima’s substories involves dressing Tojo Clan Sixth Chairman Daigo Dojima in drag and pretending he’s your girlfriend so that you can lure out three zombies hiding in Kamurocho Hills. He hates this, but is honor bound as the Tojo Clan’s Sixth Chairman because he already said he would help you in any way he can. The entire mission is escorting Daigo around in heels. Why didn’t people like this game?
Friday, 20-Oct-23 10:30:57 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Maybe because first/3rd-person shooter on consoles suck. I'd like to play it for the wackiness but it's a hard sell for me demanding to use the controller for that kind of gameplay. Also it's not very cheap to purchase as ebay prices are way up and higher than original retail price.
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So is it just me, or does the word "ret*rd" seem to be coming back around on the ol' euphemism/dysphemism treadmill?
Wednesday, 18-Oct-23 15:47:13 UTC from web-
@scribus i noticed not only this but also the usage (or implied/cut off usage) of offensive words for shock comedy has also been back on the rise since wound 2021 or 2022, and very little complaints about it unlike before. Not certain what the cause of he change in attitudes was.
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Oh boy I hope the Thai place doesn’t racially profile me again
Monday, 16-Oct-23 22:05:13 UTC from web -
In Yakuza 7, there’s a particular endgame boss with a one-hit KO move that you need to prep for in advance by using one of Ichiban’s defense moves to tank the hit. I did not know this until after the fight was over, because he attempted it once on my healer, missed, and then apparently got embarrassed because he never tried to use it again after that.
Sunday, 15-Oct-23 00:42:07 UTC from web-
@zeldatra You were so lucky. I had to fight that boss probably a dozen times. I had to switch up my whole party because of him. Without I couldn't get over that difficulty spike.
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@adiwan with that longass dungeon just before the fight, if I had to go back and change ANYTHING about my party I’d have probably just rage quit and not come back to the game for a couple of days.
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aww damn Dick Butkus died
Friday, 06-Oct-23 00:58:58 UTC from web-
@scribus I know it's disrespectful to laugh about other people's names and dead ones but I've read that as "Dick Buttkiss".
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@adiwan Yeah; I'm sure it had nothing to do with his reputation as a "mean" player on the field....
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@scribus not that I really followed his career, but “probably deserved it” is one of my all time favorite replies to any angry tweet ever
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Somebody at Sega is going to hell for designing UFO Catcher
Tuesday, 03-Oct-23 04:57:38 UTC from web
