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I have a “I’m in another country and can’t make it to work on time” dream kind of a lot for some reason.
Friday, 16-Jun-23 02:51:31 UTC from web -
I had a very stressful dream last night where I managed to sell my pilot to [adult swim], but ion the pretense that it was ready to go when it actually wasn’t, so I had two months to get it animated for air at the start of the broadcast season with no budget because the network thought it was finished, and without a budget I had to keep working my retail job at the same time to keep money coming in, AND I was in the UK also to coordinate the actors so I had to fly back to America before the next morning to get to work on time.
Friday, 16-Jun-23 02:50:36 UTC from web -
Futurama’s society has no conception of how, when, and where the moon landing occurred, but they have video of Rudy Giuliani putting a bunch of garbage on a barge and pushing it out to sea. What were the standards for the retention of information?
Thursday, 15-Jun-23 22:10:04 UTC from web-
@scribus a lore tidbit that the show kind of ignores when convenient, which to be fair, is consistently how they like to do things over there
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Overall it’s a fun time that I’d recommend as a co-op stealth game, but if you’re looking for something actually scary to play with your friend you might as well keep looking.
Wednesday, 14-Jun-23 17:49:27 UTC from web -
Another source of scares is “The Skinner Man”, who appears who your sanity is low. After about an hour of playing though I realized he can’t actually cause damage unless your sanity is literally at zero, so with that in mind the incentive to keep my sanity up dropped and the Skinner Man basically became a recurring guest star in my gameplay experience.
Wednesday, 14-Jun-23 17:42:05 UTC from web -
If you liked Rockstar Games’ Manhunt, it’s a pretty similar type of game, just without the combat. Enemies can’t be killed, only stunned, and only if you have the specific ability that lets you stun. It’s just enough for you and your friend to run away. The enemy pathing works well for the most part (I suspect the main hunter in each level teleports frequently when you aren’t looking though) but when it doesn’t work it really doesn’t work, I spent a good five minutes trapped in a locker because the hunter that followed me into the very small room it was in got locked into a patrol path that basically had it circling directly in front of me, and with very little health walking out with him there would have killed me. He eventually finally pathed to a different node after my friend made a bunch of noise in a different room but had he not done that I think my run would have ended there. Not great.
Wednesday, 14-Jun-23 17:37:32 UTC from web -
The Outlast Trials is a very fun co-op game but it falls unfortunately short on actual scares, probably because actual scares are not really that conducive to a fun co-op experience.
Wednesday, 14-Jun-23 02:36:36 UTC from web-
@zeldatra the opening tutorial sequence is pretty unsettling but as far as scares go you see just about everything the game has to offer in that first sequence and the rest of the game afterwards is a co-op extraction stealth game where you drop into a map, achieve a certain number of specific objectives while avoiding enemies, occasionally get jump scared by a body you thought was dead or an enemy hiding in a locker (and these scares become tiresome very quickly as the same animation is SWF every time and they always occur under the same circumstance), then make your way back to the starting area with one or more of the enemies from the level either chasing you or waiting for you by the exit, and then you and your friend leave. It’s fun for what it is but the survival horror aspect from the first two games, which I initially purchased the game for, is almost completely gone and replaced with Jigsaw-level gratuitous gore and shock dialogue the hunters give you when they’re patrolling.
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how was everyone’s weekend????? anyone do anything fun?
Monday, 12-Jun-23 01:58:50 UTC from web-
@chomper The yeasts do perform most of the real work. Not as complex as beer or whiskey, for sure.
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@scribus I guess you could say it takes the....... yeast amount of effort
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@thelastgherkin yyeeesssss! XD
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I don’t care how good your VR technology is, when you’re pricing it at 3.5x the Valve Index, which is already prohibitively expensive for the average consumer, I’m just not gonna ever touch it
Tuesday, 13-Jun-23 13:28:48 UTC from web -
I'm close to buying a house: my current offer is at 225.000€ for a 88m² house with 4 rooms, 163 m² parcel. However I have to do a ton of work there to get it to a state that is up to current standards, like the electric switch box, the bathrooms, windows... The garden is also more a jungle than habitable. I hope I won't regret it.
Monday, 12-Jun-23 09:38:19 UTC from web-
@scribus The garden is full of bushes and other stuff. The owners planted a fir tree relatively in the middle and it has grown so big that there is barely any room left for anything else. The first thing that has to be done in that garden is to fell the tree. Also it is such a kind of fir tree that is not even beautiful and full. It looks more like a skeleton of a tree with more branches than needles.
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Watching back through Futurama it’s a bit distracting that Bill Clinton is the most recent face in the Hall of Presidents, surely they could’ve just made some guy up and been like “yeah he was president in the 23rd century”
Monday, 12-Jun-23 15:38:11 UTC from web -
Starfield is gonna be the thing that keeps me single through the holidays again, it’s definitely gonna be that and not anything to do with me as a person why would you even suggest that Karen doesn’t know what she’s missing out on
Monday, 12-Jun-23 05:50:48 UTC from web -
Half-Life 2 VR is a very fun experience and I think anyone who has the equipment should give it a shot
Sunday, 11-Jun-23 04:56:45 UTC from web -
REALLY CUTE PONY OC I WANNA SEE THIS COLORED SO BAD http://rainbowdash.net/url/876369 http://rainbowdash.net/url/876370
Sunday, 11-Jun-23 00:10:27 UTC from web -
The biggest trap in"adult" animation is that it uses vulgarity and crass situations too often. It's easy to appeal to juvenile adults with "forbidden" stuff like violence and sexuality but the more lasting stuff are the more day-to-day real adult situations the characters have to deal with. These situations can be comical or otherwise but the basis has to be familiar and relatable and somewhat a base adult life experience. The earlier Simpsons seasons are one of the best as they are not flanderized to the extreme. Bob's Burgers is similar as most episodes deal with heightened but not completely unrealistic situations. I'm not against some violence but it can be grating and numbing and boring when it is used too often.
Tuesday, 06-Jun-23 08:45:36 UTC from web-
@chomper These days you can throw a stone and always hit one. The last one I saw was "Inside Job" on Netflix, mostly because it was produced by Alex Hirsch (Gravity Falls) but it was sadly right in the valley of mediocrity because it went "adult" route and used unnecessary vulgarity.
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@chomper Hey, I love "Helluva Boss!" I don't deny any of the accusations, lol. Just saying that uuhhhh..... I guess it's lazy *if* you're doing it for fauz gravitas, but it can still be fun. I wouldn't say that's *all* HB has going for it or going on; there's a lot of interpersonal relationship and character development under the bloodbath and pottymouth.
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@scribus I like most of helluva actually! I just find the edgy humor to be boring and uncreative lol. But I genuinely like a few of the characters and the worldbuilding/lore.
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who would have ever thought that the last bastion of healthy social media would be a brony-made website lmfao
Friday, 09-Jun-23 15:17:14 UTC from web-
@adiwan oh apple wait does this still work?? all the 3rd party apps I was using got locked out earlier this year and I've been stuck using a hacked version of the main app that fixes most of my issues but is really buggy lol.
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@chomper It works for now. I was also surprised it wasn't blocked. I guess the user base is so low (and open source) that it doesn't make any difference.
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@chomper And thank the Users that we can't be bothered by the rest of the Fediverse anymore!
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Friday, 09-Jun-23 03:45:10 UTC from web -
Supreme Court rules that Alabama’s congressional maps are a racial gerrymander, it’s a bit wild that only just now are they saying “yeah there might be some things wrong with Alabama”
Thursday, 08-Jun-23 17:27:36 UTC from web -
Gavin Newsom is still a prick though I’m not apologizing for that
Wednesday, 07-Jun-23 21:05:45 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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I would like to apologize to California for all the times I made fun of you for having so many forest fires, now I know what it’s like to live under the smokey skies
Wednesday, 07-Jun-23 20:46:22 UTC from web -
stuck between going for thick lines and looking different, or going for thin lines and looking neater (but also more like everyone else) http://rainbowdash.net/url/876362
Tuesday, 06-Jun-23 22:40:53 UTC from web -
the marvelous misadventures of flapjack is the most recent common ancestor of 90% of tv animation today
Monday, 05-Jun-23 21:36:09 UTC from web -
Trying to hit a balance on content is frustrating to me because I don’t want to be vulgar for the sake of it but I also don’t want to be made to tone the adult themes down because the show’s not vulgar enough to appeal to adults. It just seems like there isn’t a market anymore for The Simpsons-level adult content that’s adult on a more conceptual level instead of just relying on vulgarity to appear adult, and that frustrates me.
Monday, 05-Jun-23 05:33:25 UTC from web -
I mean hell if this script gets picked up it’s probably getting slapped with a TV-MA rating but most of the language is stuff you end up hearing in the MCU anyway and it’s seen as perfectly acceptable to take your kids to see that
Monday, 05-Jun-23 05:26:37 UTC from web -
the MPAA invented a new rating after Raiders of the Lost Ark showed a guy getting blended but we still haven’t figured out how to handle it when a cartoon character says “god damn”
Monday, 05-Jun-23 05:18:26 UTC from web -
The difference in rating standards between television and movies is staggering to me. A lot of swears that are ok for a PG-13 movie usually guarantee you a Mature Audiences rating on TV, although this is changing with time. Meanwhile, Groundskeeper Willie getting lit on fire and running around screaming is perfectly okay for the PG-rated Simpsons, but the same action had to be cut from Deadpool 2 for the PG-13 version. Nudity keeps your show from airing before 10 o’clock; but you can gather the kids to watch Tom Hanks stare at a chick’s bare ass in Splasj
Monday, 05-Jun-23 05:12:42 UTC from web -
Konami, now that you’re making video games again, can we please get Fox Engine remakes of Metal Gear 1 & 2 so I can play them without wanting to kill myself because of the obtuseness of 80s game design
Monday, 05-Jun-23 04:46:37 UTC from web -
Plane crashed in the area after flying over the White House no-fly zone and the owner is an NRA spokeswoman? Thoughts and prayers.
Sunday, 04-Jun-23 22:13:21 UTC from web -
The teenagers working for me seemed to be under the impression they could just show up to work on their own schedule because I couldn’t possibly fire ALL of them, so today I fired all of them and now they’re super confused about it.
Sunday, 04-Jun-23 03:59:04 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Tell them to go start their own store. With blackjack! And... well, tell them to open a casino!
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Yakuza: The Anime, but it’s an anthology series and each episode is Kiryu in a different dramatic genre. Western, sci-fi, horror, isekai…
Sunday, 04-Jun-23 01:46:00 UTC from web
