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If me not wearing a mask increases the likelihood of someone who choose not to get vaccinated to get COVID, I see that as a good thing. I'm sorry for the immunocompromised who get caught in the crossfire.
Tuesday, 27-Jul-21 23:59:22 UTC from web -
i put "Jon Lovitz" in the cast list so here's the plot for the darker and edgier Krusty the Clown spinoff that I just made up right now: Krusty's show is taken off the air and in an attempt to revitalize his career, he hires a new publicist, who happens to be none other than Artie Ziff. Meanwhile, due to good behavior, Sideshow Bob is paroled, and Krusty reluctantly lets him live in his mansion because he has nowhere else to go.
Also, Milhouse's parents adopted him out, so he's there too.Tuesday, 27-Jul-21 05:38:17 UTC from web -
showing an exit wound with freshly exposed brain matter in the foreground is totally okay if it’s a cartoon, right? that’s not gonna scar an audience that would probably be watching Rick & Morty?
Tuesday, 27-Jul-21 00:24:44 UTC from web -
I'm always excited for a new Tuca & Bertie episode but the subject matter is always a downer (because of the theme of the subject). All those broken personalities and relationships.
Monday, 26-Jul-21 19:08:29 UTC from web -
I've just read a news article about Poland that they also have a problem with people not taking the vaccine. Especially the people in very rural places and in the mountains are stubborn. In the article they reported that those people said that they live so far away from other people and cannot be infected, they had strong immune systems, and that the vaccine was unsafe. The social pressure is so big in those small communities that the vaccine enemies made talking about the vaccine a taboo subject in order not to be alienated.
Monday, 26-Jul-21 07:14:54 UTC from web-
@scribus Polio has the "advantage" that it has horrific looking results like misshapen limbs on children. Covid has death or long-term respiratory deficiencies and they are not horrible enough. A friend of my father's has a car paint shop and cannot work there anymore because covid made it impossible for him to breathe there (already had issues breathing because he did not a lot care for mask protection while painting and he is a heavy smoker).
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jeff bezos
Saturday, 24-Jul-21 20:57:11 UTC from web-
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I’m sure Biden will, like, die of old age the day before I finish my cartoon about him.
Friday, 23-Jul-21 21:09:02 UTC from web -
I haven’t been on this site for a long time now.
Thursday, 22-Jul-21 22:49:45 UTC from web-
@lyokotravels It's still here. What's been up?
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Incidentally, it's my official policy that whenever I need a name to enter into an offensive joke, it be a billionaire.
Saturday, 17-Jul-21 11:17:57 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark That's a pretty good policy, I might just adopt it myself
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now they're showing something i remember, but apparently these days this show is heavily edited to remove "offensive jokes" (jokes about gluten-free diets)
Wednesday, 14-Jul-21 05:02:26 UTC from web-
@scribus i dunno but personally i think making fun of gluten allergies is much, much lower on the list of things i'd object to than, say, paying a random generic black guy to pretend to be Barack Obama, which disney channel also loved doing at the time.
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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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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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