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Maybe my sense of humor is just broken but I dont really think the new circus show is really all that funny
Saturday, 21-Oct-23 17:56:21 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I think it would be funny if I actually got a job at this GameStop and then showed up two hours late on my first day because the godrotten morons couldn't accurately advertise the hours of their job faire
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So is it just me, or does the word "ret*rd" seem to be coming back around on the ol' euphemism/dysphemism treadmill?
Wednesday, 18-Oct-23 15:47:13 UTC from web-
@scribus i noticed not only this but also the usage (or implied/cut off usage) of offensive words for shock comedy has also been back on the rise since wound 2021 or 2022, and very little complaints about it unlike before. Not certain what the cause of he change in attitudes was.
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Cool. Cool. Another bomb from WW2 has been found in my city and the planned defusing of that bomb is in a few weeks. Need to prepare for an evacuation, mostly for my mother as she lives in the evacuation zone. At the edge of it but everyone has to leave that zone for the whole time (about 6 hours).
Wednesday, 18-Oct-23 09:18:23 UTC from web -
Oh boy I hope the Thai place doesn’t racially profile me again
Monday, 16-Oct-23 22:05:13 UTC from web -
Man I haven’t seen Beetlejuice since I was like 12 and back then the whole “Beetlejuice is a pedophile” aspect of the movie kind of flew over my head
Monday, 16-Oct-23 00:47:01 UTC from web -
In Yakuza 7, there’s a particular endgame boss with a one-hit KO move that you need to prep for in advance by using one of Ichiban’s defense moves to tank the hit. I did not know this until after the fight was over, because he attempted it once on my healer, missed, and then apparently got embarrassed because he never tried to use it again after that.
Sunday, 15-Oct-23 00:42:07 UTC from web-
@zeldatra You were so lucky. I had to fight that boss probably a dozen times. I had to switch up my whole party because of him. Without I couldn't get over that difficulty spike.
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@adiwan with that longass dungeon just before the fight, if I had to go back and change ANYTHING about my party I’d have probably just rage quit and not come back to the game for a couple of days.
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A longtime cashier at my new store just gifted me a hand-crafted Dominican cigar to welcome me to the store. Is this normal? Is that a thing old people do?
Thursday, 12-Oct-23 16:24:46 UTC from web-
@zeldatra People were always handing out cigars on TV back in the 80s, but it was usually for a new baby or some kind of class warfare power play thing.
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“Don’t look away” nah man, that batcave’s horrifying, I’m gonna look away just a bit
Wednesday, 11-Oct-23 23:54:35 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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Read a story on CNN about how they’ve nearly doubled the price of Japanese rail tickets for foreigners, up to ¥50,000 from ¥29,000. Is it bananaed up that my first thought was “well, the yen is falling in value so quickly that by next week it’ll be like nothing even changed?”
Sunday, 08-Oct-23 15:38:52 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Not any more bananaed up than that King of the Hill where Peggy mentioned going down to Mexico "every time they de-valued the Peso," and Hank says "It got old quick," I suppose
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aww damn Dick Butkus died
Friday, 06-Oct-23 00:58:58 UTC from web-
@scribus I know it's disrespectful to laugh about other people's names and dead ones but I've read that as "Dick Buttkiss".
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@adiwan Yeah; I'm sure it had nothing to do with his reputation as a "mean" player on the field....
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@scribus not that I really followed his career, but “probably deserved it” is one of my all time favorite replies to any angry tweet ever
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Somebody at Sega is going to hell for designing UFO Catcher
Tuesday, 03-Oct-23 04:57:38 UTC from web -
this site needs to get about 20% cooler
Sunday, 01-Oct-23 03:51:09 UTC from web-
@liquidusmira ah, that should be fine then, i guess
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@scribus scriiiiiibusssss
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Silksong Never
Monday, 25-Sep-23 01:07:20 UTC from web-
@scribus boo
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@liquidusmira the real silk song is the friends we made along the way
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@mushi that's the FAKE silksong
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just got accused of racism at the store because “you look like a Hispanic”, which I’m pretty sure is the most racist way you can accuse somebody of being racist
Tuesday, 26-Sep-23 15:05:50 UTC from web -
Whoa, activity!!
Sunday, 24-Sep-23 01:22:40 UTC from web-
@scribus We are simple mare enjoyers! http://rainbowdash.net/url/876445
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@maresandsnowpity It has been some time since I've partook in poni proper, but I did recently start putting Friendship is Witchcraft songs on ye olde playliste
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@scribus Pony Music is so good. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876446
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Soo... how 'bout that Unity blowup? !vgp
Sunday, 17-Sep-23 00:44:43 UTC from web-
@scribus Unity is in the red for years and buying Weta wasn't cheap so they were grasping for the most stupid decision to gain (repeatable) revenue by choosing to get paid by the amount of installs of the games. The problem is that indie game developers have very little profit and it can cost more in the long run than it gained profit. Also the way to determine the amount of installs is not clear. The last information I heard was that Unity wanted to use a heuristic to guess the amount of installs. Also Unity did that decision out of nowhere and tried to cover their tracks by sneakily removing paragraphs in their license that would hinder that license change. Unity had image problems (being used for asset-flip games, taking a lot of time for updates and being behind on the technical side) before but that was a huge kick in the balls to devs and all people who bought games made with Unity.
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@adiwan their president also sold 2000 shares just before the install thing was announced, adding up to about 50k in the preceding year. seems bad
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@zeldatra Him being at EA before that goes great with that... I read that that amount of stocks was only a very small percentage of his stock holdings. Still looks scummy.
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Very cool and normal that you need to limit your game to only use two CPU cores in order to do the fishing minigame, SEGA.
Friday, 15-Sep-23 02:50:56 UTC from web-
@scribus game crashes if it has access to too many resources on this one minigame in this one version of the game so I have to throttle it to keep from going insane while I’m fishing.
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Weird thought I just had: do you think someone who doesn't know sign language would have an easier time understanding ASL or something improvised by another non-ASL-knower?
Thursday, 14-Sep-23 04:43:53 UTC from web-
@scribus Typed an entire response about how ASL would probably be the harder one only to realize that my reasoning applies to braille, not ASL. I found ASL somewhat easy to learn (could not use it today, though) and I’m crazy bad with foreign languages so maybe the answer’s in there somewhere?
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@zeldatra According to 2 people on a discord server I'm on, one of whom has a non-verbal child, improvised is easier (and the ASL sign for "Hallway" and "Focus" are the same except for the eyebrows)
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If you played all the Yakuzas as they were coming out, starting from Yakuza PS2, by the time you get to Yakuza 0 it probably starts to look like Kiryu actually died and the games that followed (in order, a samurai spin-off starring a real life historical figure with Kiryu’s face grafted on where he meets other real life historical figures who look like his friends and enemies, a prequel set in the 80s, and a remake of the first game with stuff that didn’t happen in the original release) are just his brain coming to terms with death
Wednesday, 13-Sep-23 19:54:28 UTC from web -
There are no restrooms in Washington DC metro stations. I had to venture into the city on Saturday to find a bathroom. Found a Macy’s. It was close enough. What I’m mad about is that in DC you get charged your fare when you leave the station rather than the way it works in Europe where you pay for a distance up front, so I basically paid $2 to use the bathroom.
Tuesday, 12-Sep-23 13:35:35 UTC from web-
@scribus In my city there are some but you have really look for them, as most of them are hidden. I used google maps today to look up where they are and I'm surprised that there are more than I thought. Even a place I regularly drove by had one and I didn't know until now. There are no big signs or like that. Most of them are near parks and they are hidden behind bushes.
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@scribus Haha. Nah. I think they are there to reduce the eye sore of the out of place looking buildings.
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First time posting on this site, how's it going everyone?
Saturday, 09-Sep-23 04:27:37 UTC from web-
@1033forest i hate my life and wish it was 2011 again.
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@barcom 2011 was a great year of my life. Wish I can go back too.
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@barcom @1033forest Not my best year :-T
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Gardening will be a pain. Everything is mostly overgrown with ivy. There was even a cut dead tree fully overgrown by that stuff. The tree was so decayed it was basically at the strength of cardboard. The ivy gave it the most structural integrity.
Sunday, 10-Sep-23 16:47:26 UTC from web-
@scribus I want the ivy to be exterminated. I don't allow it to have a second chance on my land. The main stem at one spot was as thick as my ring finger.
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"Ghostbusters: Afterlife" what a bad movie. For the most part it's "fine". Very slow pacing but "fine". The last act was the kick into the groin.
Thursday, 07-Sep-23 13:01:08 UTC from web-
@scribus I watched it on Netflix. I don't really give an recommendation to watch it but it's something to waste time on, best for doing something on the side "watching" it.
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I have the keys to the house. If it weren't for the heat, I'd be moving my stuff to the house. 31°C and no clouds. Unbearable.
Wednesday, 06-Sep-23 15:54:50 UTC from web -
The last season of Disenchantment is quite a mess in how the story was told.
Saturday, 02-Sep-23 13:49:39 UTC from web-
@adiwan I think the whole show would have gone a lot better if the first 4 seasons tried to develop the overarching plot during the whole season instead of just the first and last 2 episodes. This latest one was, like, "all plot, all the time!" and it felt so slapped together. Not awful, but I'm glad they didn't try to keep it alive for 40 years, and I'm not hopeful that Comedy Central will pick it up for a revival in 2030.
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@scribus I think the creators had a lot of internal conflict on how to create an epic and make the episodes episodic, like Futurama and Simpsons. I fully agree with you. I really liked the characters, some more, some less, but none were truly terrible (even Elfo to some degree). It's just that the plot made all of them brainless and stupid stretching all of the characters to an unrecognizable form. Fast-forwarding a lot of the plot didn't help. In this season, multiple times, there was no reason to stop a chase but it happened despite no reason at all.
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In a week I'll own a house! I'd be happier if the city wouldn't penny-pinch me. I had to pay a bill for something that the city should pay themselves: an investigation if the city has an interest in buying the house (first refusal right).
Saturday, 26-Aug-23 13:58:23 UTC from web-
@scribus Thanks. The bill was 65€ for that. I will certainly suffer for pleasure of owning a home, especially since there was nothing done for over 40 years and has still wallpaper from the late 70s. What has to be done: New switch box (solar power ready), new electric cables, new windows, roof isolation, the wilderness of a garden needs to be tamed. Also when I'm at it I'll lay down network cables everywhere, at least CAT7 and glass fiber.
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Am I lost in the sauce? Or is the sauce lost in me?
Wednesday, 23-Aug-23 05:49:17 UTC from web-
@scribus Belated, but it was sweet and spicy garlic sauce uwu
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Tuesday, 22-Aug-23 08:56:57 UTC from web-
@scribus You made me hesitate with your remark, however as I look up images of giraffes being born, they usually have spots.
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IE about to get hit by a hurricane, what even is anything
Saturday, 19-Aug-23 04:32:55 UTC from web -
I'm not really a big karaoke fan in the Yakuza games but I somewhat miss it in Judgment.
Thursday, 17-Aug-23 09:22:01 UTC from web
