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The first computer I used was a Commodore Plus/4 and the first I owned was a 286 Compaq Portable III.
Monday, 08-Feb-21 19:29:19 UTC from web-
@scribus I was too small to remember but my parents said that it was sold soon very soon as it was mostly incompatible with the C64 software library.
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Borderlands 2 is fun right up until I either run up against the usual "What am I stuck on, why am I not running, why can't I even jump, if I'm not supposed to be here how did I even get in and why can't I get out again" antics of every FPS ever... That, or the keyboard-as-controller issues of "I wanted my knife, not to throw a grenade at my own feet..." !vgp
Monday, 08-Feb-21 06:59:37 UTC from web-
@scribus True story: I grew up pretty much entirely on PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360, so when I finally got a PC that could properly handle video games I was immediately put off by the keyboard controls and plugged in an Xbox One controller instead. To this day it's really hard for me to play shooters the "real" way.
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@mrmattimation I had had an NES, GameBoy, SNES, Atari XE, and Sega Genesis before we got our first "real" family computer, a 486 running Windows 3.11. My parents declared that the computer was therefore not for games, unless they were educational. I believe I would go on to N64, 3DS, and Xbox 360 before trying WASD-anything.
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So this guy watched my video about how we can separate the art from the artist... and saw it as a symptom of cancel culture? LMAO http://rainbowdash.net/url/875785
Saturday, 06-Feb-21 23:43:25 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Any critical thought is just dangerously close I guess
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Great! My car was stolen. A serious medical emergency and I get a BINGO on my Bingo card.
Friday, 05-Feb-21 16:21:03 UTC from web-
@scribus And I bought all the parts for repairing my rear window wipers. The car has a completely full tank. Luckily there aren`t any expensive or personal objects in there. I have contacted my insurance and I was at the police. I hope I get a good cash out for the car to buy a new used one.
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@adiwan oh, I totally misread that, too. I had somehow construed it to mean that both were, collectively, a single square on the card... haha
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@scribus I guess it's an eldrich and cursed Bingo card that slowly merges all squares into one.
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Accidentally making straight people a minority in your cartoon universe because the only straights around got sucked into a different cartoon universe and it’s been too long now to resolve the situation
Thursday, 04-Feb-21 21:42:48 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation The only good straightman was Bob Newhart. Because it sure wasn't Dean Martin, lol https://youtu.be/gfOb8JhDatI
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Valentine's day is again soon. How about we abolish Valentine's day and replace it with the Sonic Movie Anniversary.
Wednesday, 03-Feb-21 09:05:55 UTC from web -
On the night from Thursday to Friday I had to call the police because a drunk person with an empty vodka bottle slept and snored on the staircase about next to my apartment. Probably one of my hate neighbours acquaintances. Then the next two days were extremely noisy and I had to call the police 3 times. In the span of the 3 days I was awake for 44 hours straight.
Sunday, 31-Jan-21 16:44:48 UTC from web-
@adiwan Ugh, that's painful... I think I got 3 hours of sleep in 72+ hours the last time "Sage and Savant" did a live show.
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Gee for some reason it's not easy to find sealing wax in the store, almost as if wax seals are some kind of anachronism or some junk
Thursday, 28-Jan-21 23:06:53 UTC from web -
Maybe I try participating in the lottery. Only 6 numbers out of 49. Only a chance of 1 in 140000000 for winning the jackpot. It's more likely I get killed by a rogue falling coconut or a shark or a lightning bolt.
Tuesday, 26-Jan-21 20:14:06 UTC from web-
@adiwan Maybe we can make you out to be a vague European prince and work something with them...
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@scribus Yeah. A lot of US citizens are very bad about geography (I've heard) so it'll make it quite easy.
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@adiwan I myself tend to peter out around "...Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Guyana and still..." before "Ecuador, Chile, Brazil!" and kind of losing the thread again.
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Hey here's one, how are they gonna keep the animation cell fan industry going when everything is all digital?
Thursday, 28-Jan-21 03:59:36 UTC from web-
@scribus Three answers: The first is that The Simpsons didn't switch to digital animation until the mid-2000s, so there's always about fifteen years of that to go through (and Disney not-withstanding (they've been doing digital since The Rescuers Down Under in 1990), the rest of the industry was also pretty late on that train), the second is that a 22-minute program averages around ten thousand unique drawings (more than that if it's a Simpsons, less than that if it's a Flintstones or Jetsons) so there's a LOT to go through, and the third is, and you didn't hear this from me, a lot of those animation cels you see on eBay are actually reproductions or pieces of promotional artwork which have been created expressly to be sold, so they quite literally will be able to send you Itchy's arm for decades.
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@mrmattimation I keep threatening to spend my tax return on a Bakshi cell some time, but something else always ends up seeming more fun
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(That is, I work my “real job” in six hours, not my equally-hard-but-not-profitable job)
Thursday, 28-Jan-21 06:34:39 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Real jobs blow
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“It’s not a story the (((Jedi))) would tell you...”
Wednesday, 27-Jan-21 04:45:57 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Whaaaat, why not? Is there boobs in it??
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Starting watching Brooklyn Nine Nine. It's the better The Office just for the fact it is not pure cringe and it has Terry Crews.
Tuesday, 26-Jan-21 17:13:06 UTC from web -
Well I just got to see falling snow for the first time in my life, and in my own back yard at that! It did not stick around, nor was it even enough to show up on my phone camera. But it sure was cold and wet!
Monday, 25-Jan-21 23:51:41 UTC from web-
@scribus Coincidentally it snowed here too but the snow remained and left a 1cm thick layer on my car. And today I had to use the car. Luckily it was already starting to melt so removing it was quick. I'd like to see how you react when 3mm diameter hail falls down from the sky.
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@adiwan We get little hail a couple times every few years or so. It tends to stop offices and empty classrooms as everyone stops to gawk and frolic, lol.
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@scribus Haha. It's not often that it hails at my place. But every time my father tells me to drive the car under a bridge because he fears of hail damage. And I tell him that when it starts to hail heavily it's already too late.
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Realized today that in a little over a month it will have been a year since my friend died. I’ve still got her last paycheck sitting in my drawer at work, nobody ever came to collect it.
Sunday, 24-Jan-21 18:06:19 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Yesterday was my mom's birthday. I know the feel.
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Also the general inevitability of is pretty off-putting. Less terrifying on a bus than a train, easier to stop, able to swerve... like that time I almost ran over a doofus on a skateboard in all black with the hoodie up at night - WHEN THERE WAS A BIKE LANE they coulda been in!! ugh, people sometimes....
Sunday, 24-Jan-21 17:49:54 UTC from web-
@scribus It's also not fun being almost a victim of being run over. I can count about a dozen of events when I or the driver weren't paying attention. 3 were last year from suffering neighbour-induced insomnia.
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@adiwan The roads systems have become a frightful failure on just about every front. I used to enjoy driving, heh
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16 hours until my on call duty ends and thus my week long paranoia. Literally I couldn't poop without having the fear someone calls. At least the paranoia gives me a modest extra more to my bank account.
Sunday, 24-Jan-21 16:53:33 UTC from web-
@scribus Due to the lack of projects that I want to make, and a lack of projects in general that involves my interests and expertise, I had to take this to keep me billable to clients. I shudder to the thought as well but it pays even when I get no call.
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Now I need a table saw and a scroll saw and a belt sander and a lathe and a drill press and a mill and a .... I'm becoming a man one power tool at a time.
Friday, 22-Jan-21 19:17:57 UTC from web-
@adiwan More! Power!! https://youtu.be/kBNPAJLhKZ4
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Seems a nearby city council has declared *all* businesses as "essential"
Thursday, 21-Jan-21 16:50:59 UTC from web -
What's happening bros just taking care of my traditional three year checkup. Wild to think this account is going to turn a decade old soon. Nice to see people still use the site.
Wednesday, 20-Jan-21 23:32:06 UTC from web-
@twilight miss u bb
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Putting the German Chancellor into office is less pompous and less ceremonial.
Wednesday, 20-Jan-21 19:31:39 UTC from web -
I'm too much of a pacifist to rampage. But oh boy I do feel I'm about to rampage.
Wednesday, 20-Jan-21 07:01:36 UTC from web-
@scribus Carb Coma makes me angry with myself. Also my stomach will do the rampaging.
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this frame took five minutes to render and it ain’t even from a finished environment, that’s two hours a second, can you believe it? http://rainbowdash.net/url/875749
Saturday, 16-Jan-21 09:00:41 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Why aren't you overclocking to the point you need buckets of liquid nitrogen noob???
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@scribus The crazy thing is I DO have what one would consider “professional” hardware for this sort of thing, AND I was accelerating the render with a ray tracing-capable graphics card. It’s the METHOD I used to get that painterly look that kinda screwed with things, I’m pretty sure what I did (which I did on accident) was not on the list of things the developers of the program intended designers to do.
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@mrmattimation So long as you're not still overnighting Polaroids of the day's frame back to HQ I guess
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It basically involves generating as noisy an image as possible so that the built-in denoiser will attempt to “correct” it in a certain way that it makes “mistakes” in color value and blending.
Saturday, 16-Jan-21 22:44:26 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Oh yeah, confusing the crap out of the algorithm is hardly ever really optimized, lol
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I have questions for the kind of guy that's afraid that the government's gonna track them through a microchip injected into them via covid vaccine, but then brings their iPhone to an insurrection
Thursday, 14-Jan-21 23:05:56 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Well, if Apple tracks me, that isn't the govertnment! Of course, if Apple bans me, then that IS the government...
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Burning your tongue on hot tea.
Thursday, 14-Jan-21 17:46:59 UTC from web-
@scribus Just happened to me. I poured steaming hot tea into my mug and didn't put a thought into waiting for it to cool down for a short while. But other to the actual case of that happening it's a great idea for using it as a metaphor for various things. Your interpretation fits it well. It can also applied to saying things that are potentially false or need more time to be sure they are not.
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@adiwan It's always pizza and the roof of my mouth for me, but coffee does run a close second.
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@scribus Pizza was also a problem for me. Thankfully I haven't burnt myself with pizza (and its cheese) for a long time. Those burns last for days. Whenever I make or buy pizza I am paying attention to the amount of fat and cheese it has, which are always the culprit. So in the case of making pizza myself I cover the pizza lightly with cheese that that there is not a thick layer that can keep the molten lava hot long after it's out of the oven. I like thin and crispy pizzas anyway. The more cheese and fat the soggier they are and the harder the slices are to handle and eat. I bake my pizzas such that the bread is stiff enough the pizza (slice) can hold up itself.
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Michael Bay’s new movie is about a bizarro alternate universe where the US government is mishandling a pandemic, but I did the math and I’m 95% certain the virus would have died out by killing all of its hosts too fast to find new ones under the conditions portrayed in the film.
Thursday, 14-Jan-21 10:23:44 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Wait, really? Not that he'd botch the math, that I super-believe... But the whole-ass movie??
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@scribus yeah, look up “Songbird” sometime. Written at the very beginning of the pandemic and filmed almost entirely by the cast with cell phones, it takes place in 2024 in a world where COVID mutated into a deadly super virus which kills 50% of the people it infects, anyone who gets it is automatically reported to the government via smartphone tracking, and they’re quarantined in a concentration camp until they either die or get better. I’m no virologist, but I’m pretty sure that under those conditions, the virus would have been dealt with a long time ago.
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@mrmattimation I mean considering what a 3% mortality rate did to us, I must be inclined to agree, one way or another...
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Watched this documentary on "deep time" and human history last night. It was all like, "Columbus set sail because 5 billion years ago a planetoid hit proto-Earth, causing the axial tilt which resulted in the weather patterns which led to spices growing in India. Meanwhile, the Portuguese got rich off of a dying star 7 billion years ago, which resulted in a silver deposit in modern-day Mexico..."
Wednesday, 13-Jan-21 20:41:07 UTC from web-
@scribus And then the Saudis got rich because a bunch of dinosaurs and old plants decided to rot below the earth and turn into a slimey liquid.
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Also Chris Krebs accidentally said “erection” on national television instead of “election” and that’s inspired me to write a cartoon about “erection fraud”
Monday, 11-Jan-21 00:10:59 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I liked the guy who described fences as being "hall" (high+tall)
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Sunday, 10-Jan-21 19:13:32 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Y'know I'm starting to suspect it's less mental gymnastics, and more like mental scoliosis
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@mrmattimation And also, just, everything is on fire, why not
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