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This season of Close Enough felt more like Regular Show with its wackiness than the first season did. It got insanely crazy.
Monday, 01-Mar-21 14:53:14 UTC from web-
@scribus Chaotic wacky. The whole situation goes out of control crazy. In Regular Show the main characters put up chairs in the park and then next the world is spiraling down a path to total world destruction wacky.
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I think we need to have a public discussion about The Doctor’s proclivity for picking up 19 year old girls, you’re over 2000, you can’t keep doing that
Wednesday, 24-Feb-21 09:20:10 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation So what I hear is, Dame Judi Dench for next companion?
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@scribus Or maybe someone who doesn’t look like they could be a student at Ridgemont High, yeah
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@mrmattimation The Dame has my vote, if she wants the gig
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I’ve started wearing nasal strips while acting and god what a difference it’s made, I think I might have a slightly deviated septum or something because my nose used to get so congested so fast whenever I tried to speak at length and it made things uncomfortable
Tuesday, 23-Feb-21 08:54:51 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I've worn them for exercise stuff, they're pretty handy, but harder to keep on while sweaty
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Great, one of my favorite metal acts were dropped from their label and broke up . . . because one of the main members was arrested for the DC riot.
Monday, 22-Feb-21 16:34:30 UTC from web-
@scribus Sort of sad that it happened but it's good that those riot idiots face consequences one way or another.
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@adiwan Yeah, I'm more hoping the four members who left over it re-form or at least go on to more success than I am worrying for the one jackboot, lol. And I'm not super-surprised, because after 9/11 they took a hard Right, anyway. It's more just surreal to see happening. And I can't help thinking of Alice Cooper's take on rock in politics: "Why would you listen to US? We can't even hold down a real job!"
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Well I just learned that I have a scar (somewhere on one of my knuckles) from the location of the first-ever episode of Bar Rescue. Which was closed after a stabbing murder. And then burned down. And is still a pile of fenced-off rubble 3 years later.
Sunday, 21-Feb-21 02:49:19 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Oof.
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@adiwan It's even less than that! It may play out like something something seedy joint, blablabla bar brawl, but I was just too damn drunk to play pool and hit the damn table with my hand :-/ haha
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@mrmattimation Yeah, that's haunted
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Watched "Kill la Kill" and it was awful. Despite positive reviews my experience was not good. It contains huge and obvious plot holes. I can stretch my suspension of disbelief so far. It had some good characters in there but the plot weighted all down like an elephant on a cardboard box.
Wednesday, 17-Feb-21 17:38:15 UTC from web-
@adiwan Yeah, that one's much more about antics and story than plot. And fanservice. Like, to such a core extent one wonders if it's even "service" anymore, lol.
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@scribus The fanservice was the least of my problems with it. The plot is so convoluted it hurts my intelligence. Sentient alien thread accelerates the evolution of humans so they can wear clothes, Then the thread is used to make super-powered magic clothes. Then the bad guys use the thread in normal clothing to enslave/transform humanity while the good guys have also thread on their bodies. Then the master plan is to engulf the earth with the magic thread so to make it pop and burst more thread into the universe. And then the whole school thing and trying to conquer other schools is also the dumbest thing in the series. Where is the military? Where are state officials? It's certainly concerning when there are huge military-grade fights all over the country without any consequences. My suspension of disbelief can handle only a limited amount of BS before it turns against the piece of fiction.
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Crushed two linear bearings until the balls popped out. I should have used less force and made the hole a teeny tiny bit bigger.
Saturday, 13-Feb-21 18:10:10 UTC from web-
@ndogmario I just printed a holder for a Dremel rotary tool for my CNC machine. It needs some linear bearings (with steel balls to glide on) and there are holes that fit them. Due to inaccuracies the hole is too small for a pressure fit. I used a drill to carve it a little bit bigger, however I missed some spots. While forcing the bearings with a vise the bearing was compressed within the hole. The tolerances within the bearing are soo tight that this little bit of difference in the radius made a ball pop out.
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Saturday, 13-Feb-21 17:28:07 UTC from web
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Can somebody please point out to the Republicans saying Trump’s actions implicitly disqualify him with voters from winning another election that they said the exact same thing about his “grab her by the Potato Knishesy” comments in 2016
Friday, 12-Feb-21 19:28:37 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation "You cannot wake one who is pretending to be asleep"
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I'm afraid that "Coming 2 America" will suck. The first film is my all-time classic feel good movie. The trailers don't bode well.
Thursday, 11-Feb-21 10:10:37 UTC from web-
@adiwan But Eddie Murphy is playing four characters, that never means schlock and broad slapstick!!
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The only thing stopping me from doing a George Lucas re-release to keep that comic up to date is that I don’t know how to draw Joe Biden, I’ve tried so hard and I just can’t do it
Tuesday, 09-Feb-21 03:15:53 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Try drawing Jim Carrey, but older?
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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
