@adiwan
Germany
http://adiwan.deviantart.comMaking some pony art.
Computer science student.
Retro gamer.
Linux user.
Loves epic soundtracks.
Just a typical Geek/Nerd who loves new things.
Mod of http://askthevetpony.tumblr.com
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adiwan (adiwan)
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I bit the bullet and ordered a Sony Xperia 10 VI. I am annoyed that 1) didn't get any cheaper and 2) the successor wasn't released/announced this month and 3) my battery of my Blackberry KeyOne only lasts barely half a day at idle and shuts down when any higher strain on the CPU is below 40% charge. The successor comes probably out at the end of Fall but it is too long to wait any longer.
about 3 days ago from web -
I'm digging through the campaign book. It is a slog for a slow reader like me. Additionally there are a lot of parts that make me think hard to solve the riddle on how to implement the written plot in practice as the instructions are very vague at times. Not an insurmountable problem but annoying. Also there are a few parts that could be incompatible with my group.
about 4 days ago from web -
I have decided to run "Hoard of the Dragon Queen" as my first campaign. I heard that it's not so good however none of my players have played that. It is definitely easier to DM than to make a campaign from scratch as a beginner. Also the other "good" campaigns some of the players have already played. I wanted to try a campaign in the MTG Theros setting, however my ability to create a large campaign from scratch is a little bit too low for the time I can spare. Also finding appropriate (battle) maps is impossible. I thought people would create more maps with white pillars and Roman/Greek architecture.
about 6 days ago from web -
Sad that Andor finished. Glad that it ended well.
about 8 days ago from web -
This weekend I bought 400kg (50 tiles at 8kg per tile) worth of concrete tiles and put my greenhouse tent on top of this. My arms are a little bit sore, as well as my back. This tent has place for 7 of my patented bucket solution that holds two tomato plants each with plenty of spare room to walk in the middle. Maybe I put something small there, like for herbs or my jalapenos.
about 10 days ago from web -
Bought myself a box again. This time it is a medium-sized wooden box that once contained a slide projector, according to the seller. The lid has a small crack but it has its charm. I have still some tools store. I am not determined yet but I guess it is quite fitting for my rasps and chisels and maybe some of my smaller saws, woodworking stuff in general.
about 11 days ago from web -
@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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@scribus Ah yes! What about paying for small pieces of paper to be forgiven? Skips the step to have a person that forgives.
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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.
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I miss the old web in way. Everything nowadays is so filled with unnecessary JavaScript bloat and animations and endless scrolling and overlaying popups that it sucks out all the usefulness of the website while being laggy as it can be.
about 14 days ago from web -
@nerthos Thanks. I'll try it with an old bush next to my terrace that will be a cherry to remove. I have a bottle of Hydrochloric Acid and some Citric Acid powder.
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Yet again a fantastic round of Andor episodes.
about 22 days ago from web -
Digging out tree stumps is hard. Stupid roots. I had to buy a new saw with large teeth to make it rip better through the very wet wood of the roots. The previous owner had cut off three trees and let the stumps behind some bushes and I created some of my own. I really want a greenhouse there some day and these idiots needed to go.
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I've disposed of my jalapeno plants. They were not in good health, floppy leaves and all-around yellowed and had a silvery layer (mildew?) on the leaves. Despite having flowers in bloom and some growing fruit I went to the decision to get rid of them in case they spread mildew to nearby plants.
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Ooof. I'm exhausted after another D&D session being the DM. I had to reshuffle and rework my prepared stuff to make sense with all the content my players have skipped. This time I really tried not to hinder the players with stuff that makes only sense to only me at the time. I tried to avoid hidden mechanics. Anything that only makes sense when knowing all the machinations in the background. If it is not presented to the players or convincingly told to the players it robs them to make an informed decision and thus agency. On the other hand it makes me do more work before the start of the adventure and also between the sessions. Practically I threw out half of what I did months before.
about a month ago from web -
@nerthos Braindead and yet able to speak and move. A miracle.
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@scribus One thing he did was good: kill off the Adobe Flash plugin. It was a lot of trouble security-wise and performance on PC and especially mobile was atrocious. My HTC Desire Z could run Flash but more on paper than in practical terms. Also this move has eradicated Flash websites. They work now as good as they did back then, not at all.
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@nerthos I am not that bothered with a cable. I throw it over the shoulder and it mostly works out. I rather prefer power tools with cables. I am annoyed by batteries not performing as long as I want and by the need to charge them at the most inconvenient times. The only tool I accept being battery-powered is a drill and even that sucks. I have two batteries and at times I was using one while charging the other and constantly swapping them back and forth.
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I've operated an electric chainsaw today for the first time. It went easier than thought. I wanted to use it weeks earlier but the fuse in the electrical box always triggered because the starting current of the motor was too high. I bought a current limiter for this case and now it triggers only half of the time instead of always. The current limiter is just on the limit of the fuse's limit at 16A. At least I can use the chainsaw. Also I have a miter saw that also is kinda trigger-happy, so the bought current limiter is useful for more than the chainsaw.
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Andor is back. It is stunning that they release the series in batches of three episodes at once. An entire movie so to speak. Peak Star Wars.
about a month ago from web -
I have already used my 4th 1kg spool of PETG filament. I have only two spools of PETG left, one very old and one 1 year old. Already ordered 5 more spools. printing bins for oranization is taking its toll. Still cheaper than buying something off the shelf. I don't have Adam Savage money to buy racks worth of Sortimo cases.
about a month ago from web -
@scribus Me too. I shave once a month and wait until it gets itchy. I only have a simple safety razor and an electric shaver. It is sufficient but I like neither of those because my skin is easily irritable. I'd like to permanently remove my beard with lasers but I fear it'll destroy my skin.
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Who knew that wooden skewers are hard to find. I went to 4 stores and only one had some. I needed a bunch of them for propping up my tomato plants.
about a month ago from web -
@zeldatra They are sponsoring a ton of youtubers I watch. It is insane. I guess they want to spread their net as much as possible. They are still thousand times better than the average scammy mobile game or shady finance service or esotheric crap. In comparison sex toys are more trustworthy than those.
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Delving into smaller youtube channels. The sponsor segments are definitely weirder than the ones of the bigger and more established channels. It surely shows the desperation the creators have. A furniture modification/restoration channel that is sponsored by a LED beauty face mask? Questionable meets desperation.
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Today I was the D&D Dungeon Master and my players were skipping half of my content I prepared. Good that I had had enough to get over that without a lot of juggling around. I pushed the first big encounter I have prepared to the place of the second big encounter where they ended up due to excellent planning and circumventing my obstacles. The problem now is to fill out two more sessions with appropriate content.
about a month ago from web -
@nerthos The whole series is a delusion of Twilight Sparkle. She does not have friends or got any new. She was sent to the Ponyville Asylum after she was hit with a book on the head in the first episode. After that she got extreme into the believe of the Elements of Harmony and that other ponies of the asylum are 1) her friends and 2) that they are representations of those elements including herself. It is obviously a constructed coincidence born of Twilight's deranged mind. All the episodes we have seen are ways to cope with the fact that she cannot and will not have any sense of normalcy which are represented as villains and social problems that her *fictional* friends solve for/with her. This culminates in the deranged belief of becoming a princess and the belief of being able to fly. That is a classic when it comes to insane behavior and mind. Anyone thinking else is plainly wrong and should sent to the moon marked as a lunatic.
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Strongly heating up the remaining red jalapeno made them bearable. Beating heat with heat. I put them on a pizza and they were not so bad. Degenerating capsaicin with heat is the key. The sauce I made a little while ago was never heated so much or long to break down the hot stuff. Fresh and uncooked will never enter my digestive tract ever again.
