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"No, I do not really think that walking around with a red trucker hat with the inscription Make Anthem Great Again is a good idea"about 8 hours ago from web-
@drinkingpony Let EA Die
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i think it’s impossible to be happy with my work because the guy I’m trying to impress with it died seven years ago
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If humanity was truly made in God's image, we can reverse engineer some really unflattering deductions about Him....
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@scribus Look up "eigenfaces". It's an application of "eigenimages" that use principal component analysis to pictures of human faces. In the process it generates an image that is an "average" image when each image of the set contributes the same amount to the final image. That can be used to recognize faces or morph faces.
The quality depends solely on the image set. The more faces are not aligned the "blurrier" it is and the more nightmarish it becomes.
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@adiwan This reminds me of an X-Files episode where the guy kept seeing flashes of this face that was found in atmospheric noise and it slowly drove him insane.
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TL;DR Disney are weiners, long live Looney Tunes! https://www.cracked.com/article_26340_disneys-streaming-service-to-cut-out-some-racism.html
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Today I was informed that the Adventure Time comic series of its "11th season" was cancelled and the 6th issue is its last. I was hoping that it would last at least 2 years. I hope that the series changes from single issues to straight to tradepaperbacks like Avatar the Last Airbender did straight away.
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November 4th, 2020: President... Carter gets re-elected.
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kiwiing god damn useless piece of mango soft keyboards!!
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@scribus I never quite trusted soft hardware. It is an abomination, I mean what is next ? hard software ?
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@drinkingpony God forbid! I'm still coming to terms with wetware.
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@scribus Wetware ? Is that the thingie somewhere between shovel-ware and innate-shower-thoughts ?
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Jobs was wrong then and he's dead now, give me back a keyboard that works!
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Holy chrome, I want it. http://morphcat.de/micromages/ !vgp I love new release retro games.
about 3 days ago from web-
@scribus My grandparents have a NES, and I have a SNES from Dad, so I feel strongly that it wouldn't be quite the same.
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@thismightbeauser Yeaj
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@thismightbeauser ahem. Yeah, genuine hardware is its own experience.
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(Being fair, there is considerable overlap)
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Bernie Sanders supporters are worse than Trump supporters, change my mind
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Me: Let's shove in a game disc into that console!
Modern consoles: Wait a minute! I have an update!
Me: OK. Just this update.
Modern consoles: Update finished!
Me: Yeah!
Modern consoles: Wait! I have another update!about 3 days ago from web-
@drinkingpony Well... I have my PS3, XBox360, and Wii U in my network. I like to have my updates but I like them fast and done once, unlike a typical Windows update that shows more Updates after installing the currently installed (especially when setting up a new Windows installation).
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@adiwan Ah, yeah, me too. I probably have a PS2, N64, NES hiding around somewhere. Also a PSP, 3DS and for some reason an OG GameBoy within reach-length if I can remember what pile they rest in.
But what I really hate are updates, maybe especially so on Windows 10. If I want my system to go into hibernation at the end of the day ( because face it, sometimes I do not want to restart all of the stuff I was busy with ) and see there is an update queued, I might as well do a cointoss on whether or not the system will restart itself in the middle of the night and once done actually reboot untill the last YouTube thing I was busy with starts blaring though my speakers in the darkest hours of the night.
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@drinkingpony Haha. Once at work I wanted to compute the shadow maps and ambient occlusion of a larger scene in Unity at the end of my work day. But then Windows decided to install an update and restart it during the process. So I had to do it again the next day.
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Yay, 100 degree fever instead of a 12-hour night shift . . . ?
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Happy Easter everypony! Hmm... I've been wondering. What would the Pony version of this holiday be called and how do you suppose it would be celebrated? http://rainbowdash.net/url/874308
about 3 days ago from web-
@sweetpalette Samhain! No, wait.... <_<
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hot take: Americans need to chill the FrankerZ out for like five seconds. Shut up, sit down, and spend, like, a day watching The Simpsons on Hulu. The Resistance and/or Silent Majority will be there tomorrow, I promise.
about 3 days ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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@mrmattimation National Calm Your Teats Day!
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just get baked and look at memes
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there's a highway running through my hometown named after a white supremacist, which looking back is probably why white moms think they run the damn place.
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@drinkingpony It's the profanity filter that changes the explicit form of poo to apple
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@adiwan Ohh, well do I feel foolish. Quick ! Here is a comic I read about this subject many many moons ago http://rainbowdash.net/url/874307
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@drinkingpony Pretty much.
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Finally eating this 3-day-old PB&J
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@scribus Had to tripple take on that... I thought it was "3-year-old".
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What do you do about a small group of loud talking people at 03:00 near an apartment complex in a very sleepy town ? Well my neighbour thought it would be a good idea to throw paper airplanes at them since he could not sleep thanks to them.
Paper airplanes EVERYWHERE !about 4 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony Did it work?
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@scribus Well, they did eventually leave, but I REALLY doubt it was because of the paper planes
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I need to redouble my efforts to not get into internet fights. Getting better at not rising to bait, but still making overtly aggressive snarky comments.
about 5 days ago from web-
@scribus Oh but I love the snark. Especially the kind of snark that people like Totalbiscuit, Tyrion Lannister, Dr House & Jon Stewart do/could/should provide.
Also whatever this is, http://rainbowdash.net/url/874300 , I mean that is not really snark is it ?Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony It's less the snark I worry about, and more the level of aggression beneath it.
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@scribus So it is either "Worry and be safe from agression" or "don't sweat and rest assured there is violence of some caliber lying in your future" ?
Well, if you want to know what I would say. "Living in fear that something will happen is almost always worse than the thing happening". Especially when it gets in the way of you doing things you would like to do.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Super Mario Maker: All community levels are apple
about 3 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan Pretty sure Apple had their own version of Mario Maker ripoff, I can not remember the name of that. But I could find the Steam ripper-offer of Mario Maker. http://rainbowdash.net/url/874306
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Model sheet to be given to other animators. I sort of despise the idea of being “on model” so these are more than likely just gonna be general guidelines rather than strict rules. http://rainbowdash.net/url/874303
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I finished The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. Good game with some questionable design decisions. However I enjoyed the game as a whole. Exploring was kind of fun, mostly because of the environmental puzzles. The side quests I ignored for the most part because they ended up being fetch quests for the most part. Building up a village was somewhat unfulfilling because grinding for wood and finding persons was annoying. I liked the shrine puzzles, except for the battle ones. But I kind of get it why they exist: to prepare for the final battle and the Blight fights. I wished the slow-down upon perfect dodging was not so prominent. Speaking of dodging: A slightly bigger window would have been nice because it was hard to hit it even when I knew when to react. Due to a lot of preparation (tons of potions and food) I beat Gannon on my first try. Thunderblight Gannon was my hardest fight in the whole game where I struggled the most.
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According to one of my friends. "This will never stop being funny". Then why does it make me cry on the inside ? http://rainbowdash.net/url/874279
Maybe he cries on the inside manifest themselves as laughter ?about 8 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@nerthos I do not think that doing good in video games is in any way a requirement for survival skills.
However making an ass out of yourself does not bode well in any situation, least of all when in a group when you need to fall back on basic human survival skills. ( like most of the stuff you do when at boy scout or marine camp, or pretty much any apocalypse-like game )
But jumping onto a box and then dashing onto another platform ? Nah. Unless if the 3th dimension dies or something.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony I wasn't talking so much about videogames but rather the mental process behind that one bit. The guy fails at combination of basic concepts, hence not figuring out he can do both at once for quite a while.
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@nerthos Ohh. Yeah that makes sense.
We are probably going to disagree on what is exactly basic though. I mean do we lump in the ability to bake bread from nothing but nature into the same camp as baking bricks ? Or in the same camp as being able to make a steel forge ?Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I think it's really, really funny that the bottom line of the Mueller Report is "The President tried really, really hard to obstruct justice, but nobody at the White House listens to him so none of his orders were ever carried out".
about 6 days ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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@scribus IMO impeachment would be a bad move for Dems politically. You need two thirds in the Senate, and Democrats don’t even have fifty percent. Bill Clinton (being fair, he IS our only modern example, since Nixon resigned before impeachment) only got more popular with swing voters during the impeachment proceedings, and his popularity soared after the Senate voted to acquit him—same would likely happen to Trump.
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@mrmattimation Oh yeah, all of that boring, practical, reality crap.... SIGH lol
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@mrmattimation The only time when it would have been good for the Democrats to get rid of Trump would be January of 2016.
Each month after that it would be exponentially harder for them to get rid of Trump while saving face to the party.
But I am sure there are more than enough people who would tell you in your face that the short-goal immediate solutions outweigh the long-term ramifications.
It are those sorts of people who did not have to endure being around R.R.Martin long enough.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I just remembered For Honor. The video game where you could live out your fantasy of being a knight and play with a sword. Alternatively a Viking or ?Samurai? if you were one of 'those' people.
I would really like a game like that on the Nintendo Switch, but focused on couch-play instead of whatever For Honor's main aim was.about 7 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony I just stumbled across a documentary (?) on Netflix about that game! Have yet to watch it, and never played, but the concept sounds neat. !vgp !movies
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@scribus It was a great concept, but the lack of dedicated servers (Meaning P2P networking, with the game selecting the fastest 'node' as host, like with CoD on the XboX360, a thing that everypony and everyhuman hated) lack of balance, and dishonourable killings in a game called 'For Honor' ultimately brought nothing but toxicity. There even was a day-of-infamy, orchestrated by Reddit, to have a day of NOT playing the game trying to make the dev's aware that the game had huge problems.
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Kind of want to see a "Langoliers" remake. Or, re-adaptation. Cool story, iffy miniseries. Could stand a do-over. !movies
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Bid a fond farewell to little semen loads, frail climaxes, and spilling discharges
about 7 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@thelastgherkin No Maing November?
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Damn Korok seeds. I cannot find them and I NEED more item storage for weapons.
about 7 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@scribus I'm powering through the main quests and I don't find many of those Korok seeds to increase my inventory space. Since I don't find any (because I'm not exploring much) it's a struggle to keep a good stock of good weapons. I haven't any problems that I didn't have any but it's a small struggle.
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