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I've been looking into 3d modeling the "companion cube"-style wider crates from Star Wars. There are tons of small and subtle differences between series. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875956
Tuesday, 13-Jul-21 12:15:40 UTC from web-
@scribus Interesting. The dimensions of that crate is about the shape of two cubes stuck together. The shape doesn't lend that much for comics. I can imagine having 3 rows of comics in that box that are side-by-side that would approximately fill the crate's shape without major alterations. However I think that it might be too much. I think that producing these crates would be expensive as it needs a lot of manual labor. Also I have not the tools to make the crates efficiently and with quality that justifies the costs.
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@scribus Yeah. I would need a big CNC router and/or a medium-size laser cutter to cut down in labor time and to provide decent and repeatable quality. It could be done without those but it would be not economical.
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I should probably stop saying things like “I’m 23, it’s too late for a midlife crisis” before somebody has me sent to a psychiatric hospital
Sunday, 11-Jul-21 17:44:38 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Man I got sent to the hospital just for screaming the F-word at the top of my lungs while I kicked the walls in the abandoned downstairs locker room
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Insomnia SSSSUUUUCCCCKSSSS
Saturday, 10-Jul-21 08:54:41 UTC from web-
@scribus Little bit the heat but mostly my neighbours. In the last two weeks they have woken me up 10 times in the night (about 2-3 AM) thus I could not go to sleep again. My body is so f-ed up that I can only go to sleep between 10 and 11 PM.
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on the other other hand, the house has a proper yard and is not attached to the neighbor's house, which is not only a foreign concept in Virginia, but means that I could reasonably just sit on my deck and toke it up without anyone bothering me about it
Thursday, 08-Jul-21 03:19:39 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Which sounds, on paper, like the world the conservatives claim to want, and in practice they police the hell out of your garden
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I live in a town where, for legal reasons relating to some billionaire literally buying the rights to independence day, we celebrate the fourth of July on the fifth of July. It's pretty weird.
Monday, 05-Jul-21 18:50:14 UTC from web-
@zeldatra That seems like one of those "America in a nutshell" moments that political cartoons are made of
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Just got an original inked sketch from my favorite web comic artist. The paper dimensions are somewhat odd: 33cm x 30cm. Finding a fitting picture frame is impossible without ordering a custom one. I settled with a 40cm x 40cm frame. Not ideal but the best thing that is affordable.
Sunday, 04-Jul-21 06:55:59 UTC from web-
@adiwan I think a lot of frames intend for you to use a mat to fill in the space, I have a hard enough time finding frames to accommodate (US) standard stuff like 8x10's or 8.5x11 (also, why two standards so close?!)
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@scribus I'll use a piece of black cardboard as a backing material like in the attached picture. I did the same with all my framed comics. The picture I want to frame is still being flattened. It has been shipped rolled up, so it'll take some time to straighten. I could make a passepartout but I don't like them as they need to overlap with the picture. I could buy a custom made frame but it costs 2.5 times as much as the closest off-the-shelf model. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875948
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The M3 screws I ordered arrived. Of course the assortment box got jumbled up during transport and the screws were all in a state of chaos. I had to sort them. During sorting I found a M4 nut, oddly enough. To prevent that entropy find its way to randomize the screw positions I put all types of screws in small zip-lock bags. I don't want to count if there are 1110 screws, washers and nuts but I suspect I got duped by some missing ones but I value my time more than the screws are worth. I already wasted time sorting them.
Saturday, 03-Jul-21 19:04:12 UTC from web -
I am almost astounded at how well I managed to translate the Maniac Mansion home to Sims 3, so far !vgp
Friday, 02-Jul-21 07:23:24 UTC from web-
@adiwan Sadly, I was not able to get a nuclear reactor in the swimming pool, but I did put a "dungeon" of sorts in the basement (mostly just a bedroom with a barred window looking in, lol)
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One more strike away from cancelling my Dollar Shave Club; I ain't into businesses that use "errors" as an excuse to make it physically impossible to cancel a subscription. This is some AOL-tier crap, here.
Monday, 28-Jun-21 17:47:08 UTC from web-
@adiwan I've tried, but then I forget to rotate in a new one for like twice as long. Maybe I should just set a reminder in my calendar app...
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@scribus I clean my brush thoroughly after brushing my teeth so it lasts quite a while. I change the brush when the bristles are bent enough that they impact the cleaning performance. A tooth brush lasts about 2 to 3 months. Is it too long? I don't know but it seems reasonable.
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So I’ve got kind of a conundrum, I think I may have done something a little inappropriate. After I got transferred out of my store, I left my discord & such for some of the employees who were around my age in case they ever wanted to chat since I wasn’t going to be working it’s any of them anymore and I thought some of them were pretty cool. One of them was about 19, he’s a lot of fun to talk to but I was a bit iffy because he’s just out of high school. I know there’s nothing inherently weird about that given that I’m a pretty young guy, but he was still one of my employees for a long time, he started working here when he was sixteen. Now he wants me to hang out with him and his friends sometime, which, again, not inherently weird, but they’re all fresh out of high school too. I’m starting to feel like a little bit of a creep now, because I am getting invited to outings with all of these people who just graduated a year ago. Am I over thinking this, or did I screw up?
Saturday, 26-Jun-21 00:38:47 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Eh, some "border crossing" is kind of inevitable around that point, just don't buy them booze or smokes and it should be fine (unless they're dweebs)
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@scribus Yeah I didn’t even buy beer for my friends in college after I turned 21 as like a purely moral thing, don’t plan to do it here either
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Has EA done a single gorram thing right this millennium? !vgp
Saturday, 26-Jun-21 06:55:47 UTC from web -
I'm glad I refused to use Facebook, Instagram, Oculus VR headsets, and WhatsApp
Thursday, 24-Jun-21 05:56:31 UTC from web-
@adiwan I had to really ask myself yesterday *why* I still have Instagram; it's intended to be my last point of contact for some people, so I can announce my own website (with blackjack! And hookers!!) when I finally get that done
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@scribus I had the same with ICQ. At some point they have changed the protocol again and my multi-messenger stopped working. Most of the contacts were "dead" and I talked to a few anyway. So I axed it with all the other instant messengers.
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Every god damned (yes - GOD DAMNED) time I have to post something to Instagram, I get literally sick to my stomach from the terrible user experience (and also the knowledge that I haven't quit Instagram yet)
Wednesday, 23-Jun-21 18:48:24 UTC from web-
@scribus Well now I feel bad about having felt bad (and also upgrading my swears) so that's fun
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Cool! New Tuca & Bertie season and the first episode is on the official Adult Swim Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWIhZ0R2H7M
Monday, 21-Jun-21 18:36:27 UTC from web-
@adiwan I heard they're airing it, then putting it online free for a couple of weeks. I hope the rest of the season makes a YT appearance, too.
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@scribus BTW: The first episode of season 5 of Rick & Morty is also there on the channel. I watched the episode elsewhere but it's neat that they put it on Youtube for the exposure. Rick & Morty doesn't need that but Tuca & Bertie needs that as its style can be off-putting very easily.
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I had some fun with my Game Boy Camera today. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875935
Sunday, 20-Jun-21 20:08:21 UTC from web-
@scribus Shooting with a Game Boy Camera is super hard. Because of the 2 bit depth you need to exploit natural strong contrasts. Also the resolution is so bad that you need to have a recognizable big shape in the foreground. Anything in the distance gets fuzzy. In that picture the pond and the trees are unrecognizable.
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am personally of the opinion that if the FCC can't stop Tucker Carlson from spouting conspiracy theories on the most-watched cable news network in the nation, then they're completely useless and should be abolished
Saturday, 19-Jun-21 17:19:17 UTC from web-
@zeldatra And I've long believed that the EPA should take serious issue with planned obsolescence in technology ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I just took the shot.
Friday, 18-Jun-21 15:55:44 UTC from web -
We should really get to work investigating that guy who tazed his own balls and died at the capitol riot this year. He should still be alive today.
Thursday, 17-Jun-21 23:20:26 UTC from web-
Matt likes this.
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My supervisor at corporate came in the other day to discuss me with the store manager. Thought I was getting transferred back to my old store because things went south real fast after I was transferred here. Turns out it’s only half true. I’m going back there for some more training… because my name was submitted for a big promotion and they want me to be ready when a position opens.
Wednesday, 16-Jun-21 22:13:53 UTC from web -
Oh wow. I have my first vaccine appointment on Friday.
Wednesday, 16-Jun-21 20:29:59 UTC from web -
Apparently they don't ordinarily try to enforce it unless what you're doing makes a lot of money but still????
Wednesday, 16-Jun-21 04:09:18 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Which honestly isn't that supposed to be "failure to defend trademark" or whatever??
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So i just learned that the grapeing Hollywood sign is a trademarked symbol so I can’t put the actual Hollywood sign in the first episode of Swole Foods, which has scenes taking place in Los Angeles. What the papaya California
Wednesday, 16-Jun-21 00:39:44 UTC from web-
@scribus imagine if every disaster movie or something had the President just living in a nondescript mansion between two skyscrapers with a statue of Bill Clinton instead of the Washington Monument, that's what the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is asking me to do.
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I'm going to cycle 4km to a bike repair shop and walk back as the bike doesn't fit into my car. The gears don't work that well as the highest gears don't work at all. I had to wait for the appointment for 3 weeks. All the bicycle repair shops are flooded with repair requests. I asked around and the closest bike repair shop (1km) had a waiting time of almost 2 months.
Sunday, 13-Jun-21 13:34:41 UTC from web-
@adiwan Dang, is it because the shops are shorthanded, or are that many people suddenly tuning their bikes?
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@scribus Right at the beginning of the pandemic bike ownership spiked hugely here. I think that the long wait times are a result of the massive demand that roll over the available personnel. The more people using their (old) bikes the higher the probability something needs to be fixed, as in my case. I haven't used my bike for over 14 years because I had a car or I could use the bus and tram for "free" (paid with tuition costs for the uni).
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she complains about me to corporate anyway because she has an authority problem. I’m not an asshole, or I try not to be. But you gotta do your job right or other store can’t function. She can’t handle any amount of coaching. It’s obnoxious how many times I’ve heard from my bosses in Maryland over bogus complaints she’s filed. One time she got a nail in her tire and she told the police that I slashed her tires.
Sunday, 13-Jun-21 04:06:08 UTC from web -
How are you gonna not know Pride, but still think you have a sufficient bead on the LGBTQIA++ scene to have an opinion at all?
Sunday, 13-Jun-21 03:37:06 UTC from web-
@scribus We live in a liberal area compared to the rest of Virginia outside of Richmond and Newport News, but like, that’s like saying Georgia is liberal compared to the rest of the Deep South if you know what I mean. So she talks about how she voted foe Biden to customers then gets upset with me when they yell at her. I tell her to stop talking politics at work then, and tells me she has a right to free speech. And I tell her “yes you do, but so do they” and she just… can’t grasp that. Then she complains to corporate because I “discriminated” against her over her politics. She’s genuinely incomprehensible.
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A cashier’s been celebrating pride every year for the four years I’ve been here. Today she finally asked me what it means. She was extremely upset.
Saturday, 12-Jun-21 23:46:09 UTC from web-
@scribus i don’t work at this store anymore, I just fill in on the weekends because my replacement “fell” (I think she took a dive because when I worked with her she was always annoyed at having to do any work that I would normally do - now she’s always doing it) so I’ve been thinking about really gaying it up because of how many homophobes I apparently used to work with. Would like to see how they react to their “cool” manager being, like, a bigass gayzilla.
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@zeldatra I still can't get over that one gal; did she at least realize how deeply ignorant she must have been? Is she gonna actually THINK now??
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SUP EVERYNYAN
Friday, 11-Jun-21 18:23:15 UTC from web -
I feel like “Iran is more progressive than the west because they subsidize transitional surgery” really shouldn’t be a real take that somebody as unless that statement is followed with “because being gay is even worse over there”
Friday, 11-Jun-21 17:30:24 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Yeah that is at best half-understood, more likely deliberately half-revealed to make a point it doesn't actually support
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an older cashier audibly grumbled when he saw me wearing pride beads so I’ve been getting progressively gayer over the course of the morning to see if I can provoke a reaction
Friday, 11-Jun-21 14:28:56 UTC from web -
I’m excited to be getting back to living my life and making up for the year and a half that I’ve been stuck inside or at work, but at the same time, I’m kind of dreading having to go back into DC, transit around here is a joke
Friday, 11-Jun-21 05:24:04 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Not to doubt your own transit woes; I just wonder how ours compare, coast-to-coast
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