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Dammit. I got weak and bought a dental vacuum forming machine. I mean I do not intent using it for dental work but I want to use it to vacuform small objects. With it I can copy flat-ish small objects, either as is or I can use that as a mold.
Tuesday, 08-Jun-21 16:15:19 UTC from web-
@adiwan You don't intend to use it for dentistry, but one day you'll have a need and the tool will already be there....
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@scribus Sure! It'll save me a trip to the dentist. I was watching Adam Savage's Tool Tip and couldn't resist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWxCvMzvxlQ I wanted a vacuform for quite some time but I'm too lazy building one myself or it was too expensive. 130 Eurobucks I can spend for an all-in-one device that looks solidly built (better than I could do).
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Yes, the violent, white, male protagonist is treated sympathetically in the film. He’s treated like a victim. Not THE victim. *A* victim. There are a lot of victims in the movie. Arthur. Bruce. Martha. The guys that Arthur killed in the subway. Opposite Joaquin Phoenix is Robert De Niro, who plays Murray. Murray is, like Arthur, a white male. He’s not violent. In fact, he’s (rightly) disgusted by Arthur’s acts of violence. But he’s the antagonist. He’s POWERFUL. And he plays a role in Arthur’s descent into The Joker, as does Thomas Wayne, the film’s secondary antagonist, who is even more powerful and, arguably, responsible for Gotham’s downfall altogether. It’s a film about how the subjugation of the disadvantaged by the rich and powerful can have grave consequences, and it’s dumbfounding that people, living in Obama-Trump-Biden era America where that’s the status quo, can’t see that.
Monday, 07-Jun-21 21:43:10 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I mean, one just cannot depict a cycle without showing somebody involved at the stage of both participant and product, simultaneously
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Tracked down the artist on Newgrounds... they haven't logged in since 2012 and their website is a dead link. Balls
Sunday, 06-Jun-21 06:17:56 UTC from web-
@scribus am currently in the process of a) DMing ALL of her social medias, on the off chance that she still checks any of them, and b) emailing the administrator for the forum we met on, on the off chance that he 1) still reads his emails, and 2) has any of her contact information.
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The high PC component prices make me imagine that these parts may be so expensive that some eccentric rich people want to wear them as jewelry.
Saturday, 05-Jun-21 11:40:19 UTC from web-
@adiwan James Bond expects to break up a SPECTRE supercomputer, stumbles into the worst fashion show
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I think "true" wireless earbuds are a scam with some extra steps. They are expensive, their batteries cannot (easily) be replaced, and they are easily lost, and need a bulky case to charge the earbuds that also adds its failure points and inconveniences to the mix (easy to be lost, battery replacement, hinge, contacts for charging...). A cable isn't perfect either but there are some models with replaceable cables, that don't make it all unusable once it eventually breaks. Tangling of the cable is annoying but it is the less bad than all the wireless earbuds will inflict once they start to misbehave or become obsolete. 3.5mm audio jacks are so "dumb" and simple that it's hard for them to fail.
Thursday, 03-Jun-21 16:27:14 UTC from web-
@scribus Oof. I guess opening the case in order to repair it will probably result in a catastrophy.
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@scribus Yeah. I'm just imagining how a phone/portable musik player with XLR plugs would look like.
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@adiwan I managed to pull it out OK, but it's just too tiny, fragile, and fiddly for my soldering skillz
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Did somebody say “Bus Crash”??
Thursday, 03-Jun-21 14:04:17 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Hey, the only time I "crashed" the bus, I got hit on the broadside by a 90 year old! And nobody was even hurt, okay! Except my schedule... and maybe a couple hundred other people's schedule, down the line....
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Not that I’m emulating a Wii U game or anything, but Wii U emulation is such a pain in the ass I might just fork the money over for a refurbished console.
Wednesday, 02-Jun-21 20:38:53 UTC from web-
@zeldatra And what game would you fork over refurbished console money for? Wii U is a huge blind spot in my Nintento know. My Nintendknow.
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@scribus Nothing, now that I’ve (hypothetically) gotten the emulator working (in Minecraft), but basically I wanna start streaming some older console games like Zelda and such and I was trying to get the most convenient setup going. A Wii U can play Nintendo’s entire library excluding the GameCube and Switch, so it seems like the most convenient option.
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I guess I waited for a PC upgrade so long that it's better to just wait for the next big thing, like when AMD releases a new CPU socket and supports DDR5.
Wednesday, 02-Jun-21 17:40:52 UTC from web -
I know I've said before that Final Fantasy is the only time that 6 > 7, but I think that The Sims is having a similar run with 3 > 4 !vgp
Monday, 31-May-21 22:00:57 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Even after all of the updates and finally putting pools into the base game, I just cannot stand Sims 4. They're too dumb, and they're too bad at listening to the User. The multitasking is cool, and they don't clutter at stairs and doorways as badly as 3, but really.... That's about it, gameplay-wise, for me. Otherwise it's like they traded one graphical step forward for two or three game steps back. I hire a babysitter, I go to the bar with my wife, I come home at 3 AM and the toddler is unfed in the backyard playing around in a dirty diaper and that was about when I decided the game was literally unfinished and in Cimmeria, by Crom, pushing unfinished software to market would cost one's HEAD!! lol
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@scribus I should probably mention that The Sims 2 runs on a pretty much identical game engine to The Sims 3, with the big differences being that create-a-sim is more detailed in 3 and, of course, the interconnected neighborhood with no load screens. If you’re used to 3’s clutter it’s PROBABLY the better game, I’m just not.
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They say one of the best way to make yourself miserable is to compare yourself to others. I get that, I get that, however, it also hold true that one of the best ways to make yourself happy is to do the same.
Monday, 31-May-21 23:26:27 UTC from web-
I was around a group of about ten average people yesterday. I had forgotten just how pitiful and dull our species is.
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I’m one of those psychopaths who played Red Dead Redemption 2 at 30fps because I wanted to play on the highest settings.
Sunday, 30-May-21 22:37:02 UTC from web-
@zeldatra As long as it's over 24, man. I'm starting to get over it, but the ultra-high framerate thing puts me off. I've started seeing good uses of it, like sports, but I can pretty well usually do without.
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@scribus I think it really varies on what kind of game it is too. Shooters you obviously need the fluidity a higher frame rate can offer, but more cinematic, story-driven games like Red Dead Redemption 2 or Uncharted 4 or The Last Of Us or really anything that was on the PS4 in the last five or so years, I don’t really care if my rate is a little lower if that’s the trade off for getting the most crisp, detailed-looking image. But of course, I dedicated my life to studying a craft that involves working in 12 FPS environments, so maybe I’m a little biased.
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the cyborg ninja from Metal Gear Solid is played by the same guy who played the Grim Reaper in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, which is just a little goofy if you ask me.
Wednesday, 26-May-21 07:17:29 UTC from web-
@scribus He does not, but that actor, Greg Eagles, ALSO voices the DARPA Chief in that same game, and another character in the sequel, and both of them basically sound like what I imagine Grim would sound like without the accent.
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...my car didn’t have very many miles on it when I bought it. I think I figured out why the cab company had to sell it.
Wednesday, 26-May-21 02:07:10 UTC from web -
annoyingly, for Swole Foods I have to design a new police car 3D model from scratch instead of using the one I've already got for The Twin Souls, for geographic accuracy. Over in Denver, they use (or at least did, in 2016) Crown Victorias and mountain-ready SUVs, so I modeled a Crown Victoria expy. Here in Virginia, most localities use Dodge Chargers, which I will tbf have to model eventually, AND the state troopers use these weird, ugly-looking Ford Taurus-type cars, AND in Northern Virginia occasionally you'll see Capitol Police around because congressmen live here and apparently that means that they have jurisdiction here??? Those guys use Crown Vics. So I can at least just texture-swap that. But I'm gonna have to model the other two from scratch.
Tuesday, 25-May-21 08:03:46 UTC from web-
@scribus Wouldn’t be unheard of tbf, one of the recurring characters is a Congressman so I imagine the caps would make their way out there fairly often. Still.
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here’s the thing about making a comic about anthros while being completely removed from the furry fandom: you don’t know if something you’re about to upload is gonna awaken something in someone. Like, this? I’m sure somebody’s into this. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875909
Sunday, 23-May-21 06:39:10 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Oh yeah, and there'll be like four different subsets of how/why they're into it, to boot
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Just washed some pro-Trump graffiti off of a bathroom stall and tbh I’m more mad at the brand of sponge I used (“EraserDaddy”).
Sunday, 23-May-21 00:38:56 UTC from web -
Anyway, on a brighter (and finally pony-relevant!) note, saw new MLP toys at the store. I was under the impression there had been some sort of reboot or relaunch, I think isn't it Pinkie-focused now? Anyway, was kinda surprised to see Twilight still as a princess, is all.
Saturday, 22-May-21 18:05:33 UTC from web-
@scribus There is a MLP series currently running called "Pony Life". It's the mane six in an Equestria with modern technology. The episodes are all 5 minutes long and the series' style is Teen-Titans-Go-ish. The story substance is very shallow as a result of this. Not horrifyingly bad, mostly meh.
BTW: There is a G5 movie announced that will be released on Netflix. There are some character designs and screen shots released.
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they caught these two teenagers that have been going around robbing stores around town... somehow mine was the only one that didn’t get hit......... not that I had anything to do with it or anything, but let’s not ask too many questions now, alright?
Thursday, 20-May-21 08:26:55 UTC from web-
@scribus Nope, shoplifters just use the regular exits regardless. Nah, these kids were like showing up overnight, smashing the windows, and grabbing whatever cash they could before dipping (which, at my store, would have been about $900)
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@zeldatra Oh, damn dude! That's pretty outright. I just knew a guy who's crew used to target a specific store because the liquor was right by the fire door; their solution was simpler than reorganizing the store, but otherwise problematic, lol
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welp, i weigh 215 now... i was like 160 two years ago
Saturday, 15-May-21 19:32:56 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I'm pretty sure every pound I've ever lost found its way home with five friends ;_;
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That's how I remember it http://rainbowdash.net/url/875905
Saturday, 15-May-21 11:54:36 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@thelastgherkin Pretty much how it looked from the peanut gallery, too
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First thing I did when I got into work today was field a phone call from an angry customer about the CDC’s recent call that vaccinated individuals don’t need to wear masks anymore..... thanks for that one, guys
Thursday, 13-May-21 20:32:21 UTC from web -
Aaannd I now own an 8mm camera from 1962. Just $70 for 3 minutes of black-and-white footage!
Thursday, 13-May-21 16:37:48 UTC from web -
Boy am I glad that I drive a Toyota, morons have emptied all the gas stations around here because they’re afraid that gas is going to go extinct
Wednesday, 12-May-21 01:01:17 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Back in the 70s my Grandpa filled his F-150 up, then siphoned from it into his motorcycle.
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I was going through my local listings browsing for comics. About 60% is Manga, 20% Disney, 10% Marvel/DC, the rest mostly Astérix, Lucky Luke, and then random others. And everything almost exclusively in German. I found only a couple offers with comics that are in English. Somehow I prefer reading fiction in English.
Monday, 10-May-21 13:13:36 UTC from web -
i'm having a bit of a suicidal episode (unrelated to my pervious post) and i'm pretty sure it's an adverse after-effect of an over-the-counter mood relaxer I took earlier today, which is nice that i know what's causing it and how to avoid that in the future, but it doesn't help me RIGHT NOW, so that's fun
Sunday, 09-May-21 07:24:01 UTC from web -
App / Website Idea
A friend finder???
Step 1: Log in with Google, Facebook or Apple.
Step 2: Select your privacy settings.
Step 3: Add your personality defining likes. Interests, hobbies, ect.
Step 4: Add things you explicitly don't like to do or talk about.
Step 5: Get a list of people sorted by how a like they are to you and how close they are to you.Friday, 07-May-21 23:43:27 UTC from web-
@scribus Location would only show City. Privacy options would include display controls for name, social media links, city and few other. Most would be set to private by default.
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My All Dogs Go to Heaven animation cels got here today. First time I’ve ever bought one. Hoping to get some Bakshi originals next.
Friday, 07-May-21 22:03:46 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Nice! I keep threatening to spend my tax return on a cel from the Fritz scene in Wizards one year
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It's shocking how hard it is to find a decent and respectable portrait image of a Lizardfolk person with a female appearance without huge mammaries (or chestbumps), and in a realistic art style, and sufficiently clothed. I don't mind a little wider breast but it gets out of hand in a lot of images.
Wednesday, 05-May-21 21:12:46 UTC from web-
@scribus I get what you mean. I just wanted a slightly female-coded (to my monkey brain) lizard-woman that doesn't scream "look at my bewbs" or appears to be sexualized. The attached image is the one I will use as it is currently the closest to what I'm imagining for a female lizardfolk druid potion brewer. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875898
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@scribus Yeah. I took the image from https://www.artstation.com/artwork/361zm , removed the bottom half of the picture, AI upscaled it with http://waifu2x.udp.jp/ and enhanced the colors to match the other portraits of the other players that are used for the character tokens in Roll20.
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Tiger Queen launching a cryptocurrency, inb4 the next Fallout launches with "bottlEcaps" crypto tie-in
Wednesday, 05-May-21 15:15:37 UTC from web-
@scribus Todd Howard announces at E3 that it directly ties into the flow of bottle caps in-game through an online server, which sounds cool in theory, but in practice everyone loses money because somebody figured out you could duplicate them by making your companion pick the world object up while you’re pressing the button at the same time.
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I’ve always subscribed to John K’s character design philosophy that more expressive > more consistent and that keeping a character exactly on-model all the time isn’t very fun to look at, so imagine my surprise when I learn that cartoon watchers these days not only want characters to be drawn the exact same way in every frame because if it’s not on-model it’s “lazy”, but they ALSO want those exact same faces to be redrawn every time because if you reuse a drawing that’s also lazy. What, exactly, is the point in redrawing things if you’re going to want it looking exactly the same as it did in the last shot, scene, or episode? We should all just use Flash puppets at that point and go back to 2008-era Newgrounds.
Monday, 03-May-21 23:47:03 UTC from web-
@scribus They don’t. I saw somebody claiming the other day that pre-digital stock footage was ok because you can’t reuse cels so they had to redraw the sequence it every time which is obviously 100% untrue. It’s based entirely on whether you personally like the show in question or not because subjectivity is out of style, there has to be an objective reason now why you don’t like it (“it’s lazy” being the most common one).
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@zeldatra OK now I can't grok how cels aren't supposed to be reusable, if anything it seems obviously and imminently reusable
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@scribus You’d think so, right? Ultimately the people who make those arguments have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about. Or they heard that Disney used to wash cels in the 60s when they were on the verge of bankruptcy and assumed that EVERYONE did that.
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