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Californians, if you all get yourself into the position where you have to say “Governor Jenner” for the next two years I will be very disappointed in all of you.
Tuesday, 04-May-21 02:10:08 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Look, contrary to willfully ignorant opinion, I only get one vote, it can only do so much!!
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Finally got around to "Sonic the Hedgehog." I bet that isolation montage at the beginning hit a little different fourteen months ago.
Friday, 30-Apr-21 06:53:58 UTC from web-
@scribus The plot of a small-town cop trying to move to a city with more crime so that he gets to shoot people hits different today too!
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Is this a bit? You don’t even have to get very far into it. There’s a 1970s Shake & Bake ad two minutes in.
Thursday, 29-Apr-21 08:00:20 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I remember VHS tracking bars in the DVD of "Meet the Feebles," and my "Mothra" DVD only fills half the screen and looks like an 18 FPS framerate, but that is something else, lol
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@scribus with such a massive library of stuff, a good 70% of which was super obscure and hard to come by to begin with, it's understandable that you have to use some weird sources since the original print is, in a lot of cases, not available, and they did do a really good job in a lot of areas - like managing to produce HD copies of things that were made decades ago - but it's insane to me that they didn't cut any of the commercials, especially since they DID cut contemporary movie trailers and multiple references to the NBC network, where it aired, from the same program. What was the editing standard?
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Actual chimpanzees stack these grocery pallets, there is no other explanation for why they’re consistently so bad
Thursday, 29-Apr-21 00:03:06 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I hear Jeff Bezos is working on training the really good climbers so that he can make his warehouses taller
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I don't imagine there's anybody still here who knows A from B on MUSH softcode? Just trying to pay the taxi driver, man....
Tuesday, 27-Apr-21 19:41:25 UTC from web -
Sup bois.
Tuesday, 27-Apr-21 01:22:35 UTC from web-
@tenebarius Angst levels. Et tu?
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I've cut into my fingernail of my index finger and have split the damn thing in half. No major injury. Only the fingernail itself is affected. The lack of structural integrity there feels soo odd and annoying. Even with nail polish holding it together (borrowed a transparent nail polish from my mother) it turns out to be an annoyance. At least I'm not afraid anymore of the split going any further.
Saturday, 24-Apr-21 09:39:15 UTC from web-
@scribus It's half as bad as it sounds. It's only a 5mm (1/5th inch) cut. I tried a new transparent matte nail polish and it looks almost as good as new, except for a little blood under the nail and a little bit of white around the cut. I applied 4 thick coats and the finger nail is usable for light work like scratching the nose.
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Got my second Fauci ouchie, only feeling slightly apocalyptic about gathering, masked, in the husk of the old department store where I used to get my school clothes
Wednesday, 21-Apr-21 19:13:45 UTC from web-
@scribus the relief that I felt when I got mine was so strong, I almost broke down right there in my store.
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In German the word for queue is "Schlange". It's the same word for the word "snake". "In der Schlange stehen" means "standing in the queue". Translating it literally it means "standing in the snake". I'm happy that the snake population in Germany is low enough that this expression doesn't mean anything bad except for wasting time.
Monday, 19-Apr-21 08:15:51 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I guess Florida does something to a human on a deep psychological level that the extraordinary becomes the mundane.
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adiwan likes this.
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@zeldatra Blue Oyster Cult claim that Florida is the way it is because of an ancient curse on the conquistadores https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIdntHAhTv0 #theMoreYouKnow
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Not to advocate violence, but wouldn't the world be a better place if more pranks videos ended with a college bro getting beaten to within an inch of his life?
Saturday, 17-Apr-21 00:48:40 UTC from web-
@scribus Only tangentially related, but i was always a big fan of this video by Lyle Wrath & Chris O'Neill which basically subverts YouTube "savior" culture where wealthy YouTubers will make a huge deal about it when they donate to charity or whatever. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875874
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@zeldatra I appreciate the satire, but it was a bit close to the bone for comfortable viewing, lol
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Looking into getting a security job at the local old folks’ home. Twelve hour days but only 3/4 days a week, and I’d mostly just be filling out paperwork.
Friday, 16-Apr-21 00:40:36 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Twelve on your feet sucks, but twelve on your butt is mostly boring (or good writing time!)
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I have “superior intelligence” but I still don’t 100% understand what makes Pickle Rick funny
Wednesday, 14-Apr-21 07:29:13 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Nothing. I enjoy anti-humor, and it isn't even that. It's like Musashi wrote, nothing IS a thing - a concept, or an awareness of absence. No-thing would be true nothingness, void, not even thought. Pickle Rick is no-humor.
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I feel like I'm one of the last ones reading/watching pony content.
Sunday, 11-Apr-21 13:39:00 UTC from web-
@adiwan I think my friends' 8-year-old might still? It may be on his Plex, maybe I could finally finish FiM...
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Watching "Way of the House Husband". Its animation is as minimal as it gets. It's more motion comic than usual animation. I guess they are fixed on recreating the manga panels. There are a ton of static images with pans and simple mouth animations. Sometimes there is a ton of shaking implying intense action but it looks odd when everything shakes but nothing moves. It's fine I guess but I had different expectations. Also an episode is divided into several smaller episodes that also recreate each manga chapter as closely as it can get. The pacing feels a tad off as the story starts and stops every 3 minutes.
Thursday, 08-Apr-21 19:12:47 UTC from web-
@scribus I've never seen any movie he created (directed or produced). The closest would have been the Toxic Avenger cartoon. Maybe I've seen the first Toxic Avenger but I have seen so many clips of the movie my memory isn't sure about watching it at all. All assimilated by popculture osmosis.
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@adiwan But Troma have managed to make feature films for a half-million dollar budget pretty reliably all the while, not inflation adjusted - $500,000 in 80s money for 80s movies, and still $500k in 2010s money for 2010s movies. And that has included some endearing jank, like a car flip/explosion they've used constantly since 1991 or so.
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As I am catching up with Bob's Burgers I noticed that I somehow skipped Season 5 when it aired.
Friday, 09-Apr-21 09:41:27 UTC from web -
Planning to leave my job on May 1st. No idea what comes after that but I can’t work in this environment anymore. Probably gonna focus on YouTube for a bit while door dashing on the side so that I still have some money coming in
Thursday, 08-Apr-21 21:02:32 UTC from web -
It's half your age, plus seven, people! I know it's math, but it isn't hard math.
Thursday, 08-Apr-21 16:48:11 UTC from web-
@adiwan And a 7 year old can only date a 10 year old, but the 10 year old could only date 12+
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I mean like look if you’re 19 and she’s 17 then neither of you really has your mango together, so who cares, right? But RageNineteen was 28 years old and dating a 16 year old who he’d met when she was 15 while dating her friend who was also 15, and that’s just supposedly normal in the YouTube world?? The hell’s going on????
Thursday, 08-Apr-21 02:54:24 UTC from web -
man is not sleeping with minors really that difficult? I always found it very easy to not do that. It’s very very easy to not do that.
Wednesday, 07-Apr-21 23:20:21 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I mean if you're one of those older seniors in high school, maybe, but that's only for a slim window of time and anyway I was 17 at graduation
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@scribus talking about specifically YouTube stuff. One of the new Eddsworld showrunners just got outed as a serial groomer/abuser and it’s frustrating the hell out of me that there seems to be a new one of these every week.
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@scribus To answer the question I just got via email, the server is a basic digitalocean droplet. The $20 one. Depending on how much traffic you're expecting, you could easily run a couple of instances on there.
Wednesday, 07-Apr-21 22:48:40 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Groovy, thanks. I have a couple $5 ones for some blogs I wanna keep IP isolated, and was eyeballing a $10 for startup. Good to know.
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No more "How is babby formed"
Wednesday, 07-Apr-21 12:42:38 UTC from web -
Binged through the whole series of "My Name Is Earl". I can somewhat understand why they pulled the cord and cancelled the series at the end of season 4. While fun it was kind of repetitive or insane and thus alienating any new watchers. Also it got increasingly serialized despite of its episodic nature at the beginning.
Tuesday, 06-Apr-21 19:43:25 UTC from web-
@adiwan Officially, the cancelation happened because of financial issues over at NBC from the then-recent recession. They had been given the go-ahead to start writing for a fifth season, which is why the fourth one ends on a cliffhanger.
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@zeldatra Sure. I have also read that. But when I look at the viewership numbers they were decreasing rapidly towards the end. I don't know what happened in April of 2009 but they might have spooked some people in the upper management in addition to the financial crisis. They could have at least resolve the cliffhanger and do a somewhat proper ending to the series.
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@adiwan TV Tropes mentions an official "What if" ending, per the creator. I like knowing that, even if they didn't get to film it.
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Gonna start collecting covid vaccines to make my body stronger
Tuesday, 06-Apr-21 03:05:40 UTC from web -
Anyway, I was digging through my older cartoons to pull out assets for a newer one, and oh man, teenage Matt organized projects like a troglodyte. Until 2016, every single one of my flash files existed in a single-level folder labeled “Flash”. Zero organization. There was a separate folder called “Audio” which itself was properly organized for some reason.
Monday, 05-Apr-21 20:45:18 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I'm trying to get the best drafts of my various writing projects together to move forward. I am not convinced that present-Me has managed "file organization" yet.
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Aaaand it's snowing on Easter.
Monday, 05-Apr-21 16:35:13 UTC from web-
@scribus A few days ago it was sunnily warm, then it got grey like late autumn, and now it's snowing while daffodils my mother got are growing at an insane pace and opened their flowers today. The whole damn calendar is put into a blender.
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Ten years ago today on Monday, 04-Apr-11 22:37:22 UTC, the rainbowdash domain was registered. The first post was published an hour later on Monday, 04-Apr-11 23:23:56 UTC.
Congratulations RDN on ten years of operations! /)Sunday, 04-Apr-21 22:37:37 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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Bout to tell my boss to shove it. If I’m gonna go out like everyone thinks I am, I DON’T want it to be because of this stupid grocery store.
Sunday, 04-Apr-21 00:54:11 UTC from web-
@scribus I’m just fed up with the new management. These guys are total pricks. One’s a delegatory blowhard who wants me to do most of his job, and the other one is a crazy apple who acts like a crackhead.
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@zeldatra Wish I had better advice than "Try not to get caught screaming in the parking lot about how you'd applaud the news that the manager killed themself." Bad management is the worst, man.
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I think half the reason I won't go to bed is all the crap I tell myself to do "tomorrow"
Sunday, 04-Apr-21 07:53:31 UTC from web -
really wish people would stop treating Hispanic people like we’re a monolith. Even people who think they mean well have a tendency to just group us all together like we’re all just from the same place and that itself is pretty racist.
Friday, 02-Apr-21 22:39:34 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I've been hearing this since high school, especially from my Cuban/PR friend who kept getting asked about life in Mexico
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April Fool's Day is exhausting. I don't even bother clicking on an obvious case from any of my Youtube subscriptions. I know they put a lot of work into but they aren't that funny.
Thursday, 01-Apr-21 20:59:04 UTC from web-
@adiwan Lock Picking Lawyer had a groaningly base one, but his was at least brief and not overly tortured
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@scribus LPL was one of the better ones. Yeah... the puns were groanworthy, but at least he has shown a nice set of locks, and thus in line with his regular content. The briefness is also welcome, although it's somewhat longer than the usual stuff.
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@adiwan Yup. It was stupid but still enlightening, and over by the time I was done laughing at the joke. Nailed it, lol
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