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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 8 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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Animating a teenage girl snorting coke got me very motivated to make stupid little cartoons again. I can’t fight it folks, I think I gotta embrace the edge
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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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My D&D group is getting old. We talk more than we play and the time between sessions are getting long. The last three sessions were HALF A DAY in game.
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I gave in and bought DELTARUNE. The Spampton Neo fight in chapter 2 is impossibly hard.
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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 12 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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Brewing up another gallon of wine, this time just blended store brand grape juices. Red + White = still Red, not Pink, it turns out.
about 20 days ago from web-
@scribus Slowly becoming mediterranean
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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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Hello everypony! I'm new here, not really sure how active I'll be, but I'm here!
about a month ago from web-
@rustystringspony also, welcome!
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@scribus thanks! I've looked at this site a few times, but only just now decided to make an account and stuff
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OK maybe I'm finally, finally, actually, really getting rid of Windows. Bazzite has been treating my Steam catalogue well enough thus far, fingers crossed!
about a month ago from web-
@scribus Bazzite is great for gaming! it also has extra patches for proton, and Proton Plus built in if you need it!
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@rustystringspony Yeah, I needed to turn power save off for the wifi but other than that, so far pretty good
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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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Yooooooooo! Everypony, how are ya?!
about a month ago from web-
@cupcakinator I am . . . too large to comfortably be a plumber, lol
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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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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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about 2 months ago from web
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@derpylover2234 and how
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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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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 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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The Simpsons editing Maya (Moe’s onetime girlfriend/eventual fiancée with dwarfism) out of the streaming cuts of episodes because they don’t want viewers to think he’s dating a child feels… a tad offensive.
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Well I thought the Super Mario Galaxy movie was fun but alas, it will now forever be remembered as the movie I saw right before I got pulled over for the first time
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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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Living in Virginia is:
-blue state cost of living (bad)
-red state taxes (good)
-red state infrastructure (bad)
-blue state weed laws (good)
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it is time to discuss the butt
about 7 months ago from web-
@liquidusmira The butt joint is a fine way to attach two pieces of wood for low stress applications.
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@liquidusmira Is it ever not?
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@liquidusmira Let us convene the council
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Today in “real apple I saw today” at work: black dude flashing white power signs and confronting brown dudes saying they look like the DC shooter. There’s something in the water in this FrankerZin town man I swear to god, everybody has a screw loose
about 7 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Maybe some of them are ok
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Stranger Things Season 5 part 1 was quite good. A lot happened but it didn't meander as much as some other season. It had a tight direction and the editing cuts were at time creative, maybe a little too much in a short time. 8/10
about 8 months ago from web-
@scribus No. I can see past that. It's unfair to point that out as the actors can't do anything against that. I bet CGI doctoring would look worse. It's less aggregious
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@adiwan I'm kinda mixed on it, like I'm used to seeing high school freshmen who shave three times a day from all those 80s movies with 25 year olds playing teenagers, but at the same time I've seen them be middle schoolers before, it's not like they were introduced in this age category. They really need to do something about these screwed up production schedules, it had been so long between seasons I didn't even know if I'd seen the last one or not, lol.
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@scribus I get you. I had a similar reaction at the first episode but I got quickly used to. Production schedules are always a mess. Many cogs in the system with any points of failure with as many compromises. I don't believe they did it on purpose stretching the release as they did. I think there are most likely scheduling conflicts and creative differences in the way.
My mother regularly asks me when new Outlander episodes will be released and I have to console here that's taking a long time to film. On top of that I have to wait for the German synchro to be released for download.
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If I hadn't this Humble Bundle Image Comics bundle is fire https://www.humblebundle.com/books/image-comics-in-10s-books About 17€ for bangers like Saga, I Hate Fairyland, Papergirls, and Curse Words. Moonstruck is neat, as well as Plutonia. Ice Cream Man I read only an issue and it's also intriguing as it's an anthology. Sex Criminals got me annoyed and stopped at Volume 3. Maybe it gets better but the characters were grating. mango Planet is a trash fire in my opinion despite the intriguing premise. I can't say anything about the other comics except most have fairly good reviews.
about 8 months ago from web-
@adiwan I read some "I Hate Fairyland" back in the beginning and was enjoying it up until the main title I was actually going to the store for stopped releasing regularly
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@scribus Yeah. It sucks when the series updates very irregularly. I am still waiting for new Saga issues, however they keep on waiting. What's worse is buying into a series and shortly after it being cancelled. Happened to me a few times. I also bought the first issue and all future issues got cancelled like "Trust Fall" https://www.amazon.com/TRUST-FALL-English-Christopher-Sebela-ebook/dp/B07RF2YMCV Looked amazing. Synopsis amazing. Cancellation not so. In a weird way I trusted the series and they let me fall. In hindsight wonderfully meta.
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