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I continue to find myself surprised by my aim. Today I shot a long gun for the first time and even though my stance was probably awful my spread was tight.
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the king of the hill revival is pretty good
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@zeldatra i binged it across two days. i was dreading it based on the teasers having jokes about masks/vegans/bathrooms but peggy calling herself "female-presenting" got an actual laugh out of me
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@tiff Hank Hill going up against a manosphere incel is something I never thought I’d see and it still felt right
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@zeldatra lost my mind a little seeing an actual beta meme and hearing valorant mentioned
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don't worry do your best!
white boy grapey feel so good!about 11 months ago from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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I have finally a working 3D printer! I bought a used Prusa MK3S for 250€. It's about the current price it goes for but for me it's a bargain, as it is the start of the end of many of my printer problems. I want a work horse, reliable, not super fancy, but it does the work, neither exceptionally but competently. Also it's my first direct-drive extruder which will enable me to print with flexible material like TPU at 95 shore hardness.
about 11 months ago from web-
@scribus Thanks. The previous owner had printed a test print just before I arrived to demonstrate that it works, and I believe him fully that it always was without any problems. However, There is a lingering thought in my head that is slowly getting louder saying that my luck (more misfortune) will make it to an object with the same amount of problems as I had before. Joking aside, I think it will take me a little bit of time to get it to know and know its limitations and quirks. It uses a magnetic spring steel sheet with a PEI layer as the print bed surface, which can be really tricky to print with PETG, that is my preferred material. It tends to destroy the PEI coating of the print surface when not being carefully handled.
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The “America” part of the NRA headquarters’ sign has been flickering for days. You can’t write this.
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Nothing is better than surprising a beholder and killing it in the first turn before it can even react.
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I'm at the end of Act 2 of Baldur's Gate 3. WHO DESIGNED THIS PIECE OF CRAP ENCOUNTER?!?!?! It is impossible.
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan The skeleton thing? I went through that one just fine but I guess that's the advantage of a cleric/pally heavy party
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@scribus Wait until you try Wrath of the Righteous.
Pathfinder in general is number crunching hell since its first edition, but WotR takes it a step further crowning itself as the most number-crappy TTRPG I've played so far.
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@nerthos It was the fight. My party had a Ranger with the teleport moth swarm (my character), a cleric (Shadowheart), a wizard (Gale), and a barbarian (Karlach). My damage output was too low and all of them failed their saving throws more times than statistically possible.
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I see that Tesla calls their front trunk the "frunk," in places that call it the boot is it the "froot?"
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I'm the weirdo blasting orchestral soundtracks out of the rolled down car window next to the guy with the mega subwoofer in the other lane.
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan I have at some point been driving around, windows down and "Phantom of the Opera" up
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@scribus I'm a more simpler man: I had Grasslands de Chocobo from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on slightly than higher volume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN8W9Ng-P4U
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What are the natural forces in video games that reset a room upon exiting and entering it again? Why aren't these forces resetting the puzzle upon entering? Is it related to infinitely spawning enemies and why is the law of conservation of energy and mass violated? Why are some people/creatures fading out of existence upon death and some need to be buried? It'd be interesting if a piece of media told a story that tries to explain odd and common video game stuff.
about a year ago from web-
@scribus Never seen that piece of entertainment but I know its infamy as it was told among the whole nerdom and it was cursed by all its witnesses spew out toxic because of the end.
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In case anyone was in the market to buy a Ruger mini-14, be warned they beat themselves up to the point of buffer breakage in 1 000 rounds give or take.
about a year ago from web-
@scribus do you know if SKS rifles are OK? I imagine not because of the bayonet, and I know Yugoslav modells aren’t because of the grenade launcher apparatus
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@awl Grenade launcher model is a very definite no-no, but I'm not finding anything about the bayonet; it's actually looking like a "maybe" that hinges on whether or not the magazine is detachable
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@scribus I either think of the Russian or Yugo carbines explicitly when thinking or hearing of the SKS, which all had internal magazines
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I could swear on my life 40 was spelled fourty and not forty. I have known English for the majority of my life and for some reason I Mandela-effected myself into believing that it was written with a *u*. It made more sense because of the *u* in fo*u*r. Without the *u* it looks like an adjective to the word "fort", like "Your forty house is well-secured against a horde of zombies."
about a year ago from web-
@awl The way we spell "forty" is stupid. Like it's "Four" and "Fourteen" so it really should be "fourteen"
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@elli It's really so common and obvious that we could probably stand to officially change it, I mean it's not like Webster's is making the rules, nothing but convention and mental inertia behind it
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@elli no we don’t let foreigners dictate how we spell words. English is to never change ever.
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I’m not proud of this but I’ve been playing the Gex Trilogy for most of the night
about a year ago from web-
@zeldatra GEX 3D: Enter The Gecko was awesome. I had to guy a 3DFX Voodoo graphics card to get the game to work back in the day. It was the best Mario 64 replacement a PC gamer could have without owning a N64.
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just voted. Tactically, both of the men I supported are black, which removes the possibility of me having accidentally platformed a guy who did blackface… again…
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I don't like what I was seeing the the Naked Gun trailer.
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan I laughed exactly once at the OJ joke in the first trailer but I have been unimpressed otherwise.
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@zeldatra I got a slight chuckle at max out of this. I feel like the stuff in the trailer was off-putting serious in tone while being off-putting outlandish in the next. I don't remember the originals being like that. Also I don't like that he is so trigger happy for a comedy film. I guess, according to the Youtube comments, it will be a moderate success, as I have seen a ton of positive comments. Cinema is dead, I guess.
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The mystery of the mysterious poop in my garden has been solved. A few weeks ago I was cleaning up some poop from behind my grill. Before that I had some poop on my lawn. Today I found the culprit: A hedgehog. Somehow there is a hole somewhere in the fencing and a hedgehog found its way in my garden. I encountered it when I was checking for rain to collect in buckets. While that I found the hedgehog standing absolutely still on my lawn. I grabbed a few sticks and pushed it gently out of my gate since I don't know where it could exit otherwise and I am certain that it wouldn't survive in my garden.
about a year ago from web-
@scribus Words like "go away" and "idiot" were uttered. That stupid stubborn little piece of poop and spiky bristles either didn't move at all or it moved quickly back to under the bush to make the whole process comically on repeat. 10 minutes for a distance of 1.5 meters.
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@adiwan I spent half an hour yesterday chasing a duck around the yard, also on account of poop. I warned it for months that the pool wasn't going to keep me out forever, and yesterday was the point where I finally said "Oh ho, it's Speedo time," stripped down to my underwear, and cannonballed on about a meter away from it.
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in case anyone is wondering how Trump’s military parade is going: there were actively more people in DC when I was there yesterday than there are tonight.
about a year ago from web-
@zeldatra Saw video where you can hear the tank treads squeaking over the complete lack of a crowd
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I gotta say… every time I see an F-150 in DC I gotta ask wtf these dudes are doing
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@zeldatra Compensating and pretending they need the flat bed for the off-chance to transport something big enough to warrant the purchase and ignoring trailers are a thing.
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While ICE slams minorities in the USA, ICE is crashing against a horse with 300km/h (186mi/h). ICE is an Inter City Express train in Germany.
about a year ago from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@adiwan Until now I was cheering for the two MQ9 Reaper drones flying circles over LA, but you have convinced me to cheer for the Inter City Express instead.
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@nerthos Too bad. The train has a delay of 50 minutes and the AC doesn't work. Seriously, the trains here are a joke for decades ever since Deutsche Bahn is run like a normal capitalist company.
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The pharmacist keeps telling me she gave an android device to “the lady with the jihad”. I think she’s trying to say “hijab”.
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It's pride month. For me it's pide month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0%C3%A7li_pide
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan I like the "Bride Month" initiative some people took this year
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navigating the leasing website for my new apartment is more painful than childbirth
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FBI reports that the man who bombed the fertility clinic in Palm Springs had access to bomb-making material, wonder how they figured it out
about a year ago from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@scribus Oh wow! What a surprise! A determined person could brew something simple as gunpowder from the knowledge from Wikipedia.
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What if school classes were RPG classes in a game? Having a party of students that is composed of a physics student, a foreign language student, a history student and a religion student could be for example a fantasy equivalent of a wizard, a bard, a rogue, and a cleric.
about a year ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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@adiwan I had actually just been mentally workshopping something like that, where your character sheet is a report card and instead of numbers it was letter graded, "Oh I've got this puzzle, with my A+ in Ancient Sumerian Math!"
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@scribus Hmmm.... Weirdly compelling. So you have to find books, teachers, information and then to write an exam to level up a skill?
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I own the least profitable company in the entire state (as in it does not profit at all and in fact bleeds money) which is great for taxes but not great for convincing people you know what you’re doing
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Bought 275 rounds of 9mm irl and was so suddenly happy that ammo has no weight in Fallout
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It is bonkers to me that people give so much authority to the catholic church. If they were doing the right thing the child diddling pieces of Fluffle Puff were in jail and excommunicated.
about a year ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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@nerthos Sounds great! I was not very informed or I forgot the news about that. I guess my avoidance of religious news is the culprit.
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@nerthos Plus, the vast majority of said CSA cases happened in the 60s and 70s. At the same time hippies were taking 14 year olds to concerts and giving them drugs to sleep with them, Michel Focault (of marginality theory fame) was leading a political movement to remove age of consent laws in France, and universities worldwide taught that you should do LSD and pedophilia was actually a very good thing for the kid's development.
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@adiwan Yeah it was nice. They excommunicated like 900 priests between 2004 and 2014 when serious investigations took place.
Obviously there will always be incidents like with any crime (there are over 400k active priests plus a whole lot more clergy staff, nuns, monks etc) but the cover up policy is over. Now they try to do an internal investigation first and if they find anything, excommunicate and report to secular law, unless it's within the vatican, which as a sovereign state has the authority to trial.
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I mean, the current Pope was in elementary school in the 60s
about a year ago from web-
@nerthos and what was he doing there then? http://rainbowdash.net/url/876713
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@zeldatra Studying I'd imagine, he was born in late 1955
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I learned recently that I have near identical political views to Daniel Tosh. If I said this fourteen years ago you guys would’ve dog piled me on Skype.
about a year ago from web-
@zeldatra Lucky for you I'm as unaware now as I was 14 years ago about who that is, so no bully
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Also I can verifiably say I was one of the pope’s first six thousand followers on Twitter, this should make me eligible to be a bishop
about a year ago from web
