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Well I got a 35 on the Autism Quotient test https://embrace-autism.com/autism-assessments/
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>dude flashes a knife at you while stealing bags of shampoo
>cops take an hour to respond
What is even the point man. Like yeah FrankerZ it take all my Potato Knishes I guess, not like anyone’s gonna stop youabout 7 months ago from web-
@scribus alas, if any of the body products he was stealing were for himself, maybe he’d smell a little better. He actually takes it to the nearby convenience store to resell it (police are also not doing anything about this)
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Pulled the trigger on an Ichiban Kasuga costume for Halloween since work is letting us dress up. Never done a proper cosplay before so let’s see how this goes.
about 7 months ago from web -
At my work they want to push Copilot and ChatGPT on us. All people who are participating need to fill out a questionnaire and answer what's been done with AI and if it were effective or not. I'm hesitant to participate and rate negatively everything.
about 7 months ago from web-
@scribus I have seen articles about that today. I spoke today with a colleague (is a graphic (3D) designer and UX designer) who vibe-codes prototypes. During our talk he showed what he made and was altering things during our call. It was wild how Cursor messes things up and needs constant supervision. I mean it's impressive that someone with no coding experience achieved that but crutches can only go so far until they create other pain points.
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@adiwan I literally today sat down at my work computer to find an article from corporate about using generative AI to increase productivity. I work in a grocery store, man.
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@zeldatra "Chat *G*rand intellectual *P*roperty *T*heft, give me ideas how to get a promotion and screw over the company without them noticing."
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Animation was good, the visuals not my cup of tea. It wasn't thaaat bad technically but it has a lot of what I don't gel with. I get adventure films and mystery but in Flow it is getting me on my nerves as nothing appears to be explained or wanted to be explained and all the characters' motivations and inner thoughts can only be guessed by the actions, because they are animals but with some human-like cognitive abilities. It's frustrating me on a deeper level in regards of story telling.
about 7 months ago from web-
@adiwan I can see where that "immersion" thing might be going too far, if you're immersed in something you don't get then you're just kind of immersed in confusion
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Unpopular opinion: Flow, the animated film sucks. If you're a vibes or animal person, it might be something. It's just some animals roaming the land and escaping rising waters.
about 7 months ago from web-
@adiwan It is the most viewed theatrical film in Latvian history, though! I haven't seen it, but Latvia sure has
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Is 11 the worst Windows since ME?
about 8 months ago from web-
@adiwan Same boat, pretty much. Except screw Mac, too, they kept releasing "updates" that removed functionality from my laptop
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I'm still here
about 8 months ago from web-
@superwoodymatthew A few of us, almost inexplicably, are as well
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@scribus Great
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Whenever the question comes up if the monster that Doctor Frankenstein created can be named "Frankenstein" I think of the more important question: should the monster be named after all the people from which all of all the body parts come from?
about 8 months ago from web- thismightbeauser likes this.
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VERY artificial, not so intelligent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6iHWoS5DXg
about 8 months ago from web-
@scribus LLMs have incredible potential as a learning tool and logistical aid but the world seems content on using them to cheat on essays, skip therapy, and roleplay a meet & cherry scenario with Sticks the Badger.
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@zeldatra They really could be something if we just didn't insist on the nonsense misuse of everything
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Another batch of dried apple slices finished. I made them thin and dried them crispy for 10 hours at 70°C. It's funny to see how much they shrink during the process. From barely fitting on the drying racks to occupying half the area.
about 8 months ago from web-
@scribus I just did another batch and weighted it before and after. A full batch of 540g (peeled and cores removed) resulted in 72g of dehydrated and crispy apple slices.
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My mother's smartphone died today and we had to panic-buy a new one. She has also witnessed the horror of not having backups. All her stored phone numbers are gone.
about 8 months ago from web -
I bought a year ago a fruit dryer to make, for example, dried apple slices. I intended to use it as a filament dryer but didn't go so far to modify it, even if it is simple. However today I used it for its intended use and sliced a hand full of apples to dry them. My thought was to use it at least once the "right" way until I modify it irreversibly. Now my home smells like of warm apples.
about 8 months ago from web-
@scribus In my limited time I learned that it depends on many factors how well the dried apple slices will be. I have some that are crispy as a potato chip and some are more gummy while some are lost a lot of flavor. From the time and temperature to the thickness and position in the food dehydrator and the kind of apple. In general most of the apple pieces that I tasted were good, saying as someone who is not really liking dried fruits, but the mixed results partially enforce my stand towards dried fruits. The taste of fresh apple still beats all of that 100 times. The effort and time and energy in my opinion is a little too much for the results I got.
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@scribus Scented candles are the worst. Whenever I happen to be in a home decoration store and walk by the candle aisle I have to gag. The natural odor of food is way more pleasant (not including cinnamon, cherries, and strawberries).
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The state of Virginia has sent me a tax rebate fellas, who’s up for two hundred cups of coffee?
about 8 months ago from web -
First through of Silent Hill f done. All but the worst ending is locked behind New Game+ apparently so it looks like I’m going in for at least one more round.
about 8 months ago from web -
Silent Hill f earns the distinction of having the most uncomfortable sequence of scenes I think I have ever witnessed in a video game. I was genuinely dreading continuing on to the next room between each and every one of them. Well done.
about 8 months ago from web-
@scribus With f being the sixth letter of the alphabet, I’m pretty sure that among a few meanings, it’s intended to be read as Silent Hill 6. Origins is called “Zero” in Japan, and Homecoming never got a Japanese release and is straight up omitted from Konami’s website, leaving this game as the sixth SH game not including remakes, spinoffs, and reimagining.
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It’s kinda hard to celebrate being put up for promotion when the context behind it is that the opening was created because the last guy was sexually harassing customers
about 9 months ago from web -
If only I had the pull to make #fakeMontag trend online....
about 9 months ago from web-
@scribus A Tuesday after a long work-free weekend is a fake Monday to me. It's not a Monday but surely feels like one.
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Job had it gorram easy
about 9 months ago from web-
@adiwan Well, yes; and - I briefly thought I'd lost it before even starting, too! We have termites at the house. The job is work-from-home. I cannot leave for a fumigation in my first month! But there's an alternative treatment that can hold them off until work will allow me three days away. And then, that post, I had meant "Job" like the proper-noun Bible Guy because HAHA here I am thinking I got pre-cherryed for no reason other than God likes torturing his Sims. But I guess it's OK. But I also feel like crap because I panicked and got shouty and hit the walls and scared the cat and dog.
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@scribus Congrats and BIG OOF. I know exactly what you're getting through. One good thing happens and 10 bad follow on its heels. Termites on the other hand seem to be like a biblical plague in comparison.
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I'm already missing the indicator light for whenever a new message arrived. So handy when I'm not at my phone and return back to it.
about 9 months ago from web -
Finally my new smartphone arrived, the Xperia 10 VI, for 250€. 100€ less than I tried to order in May. Now I'm transferring all my data. Only hassle is that I can't use my old SD card because it wants to format it. Have a spare one and it is fine.
about 9 months ago from web-
@scribus Now I'm jinxed and will let it fall down and dent it next time I take it into my hands. That's what happened with my Blackberry KeyOne on day 2 of ownership. It has a small dent at the top edge and its black anodized coating got off at the spot of impact.
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Database Error begone!
about 9 months ago from web-
@adiwan Turns out if you don’t set binary log expiration in MySQL and leave it unattended for about 10 years you eventually run out of disk space
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@ceruleanspark Ah... Makes sense. At a project I was working on they had similar issues. They logged EVERYTHING and had space issues in production. So much so that they had to make rotating logs but soon after so much was logged that the rotating logs would only save about 2-3 hours and yet more and more logging was added. My code had also very verbose logging that could be disabled but the client wanted even that output all the time. Coincidentally their DB views got so big that certain joints in some applications suddenly stopped working because it had too many columns. It was quite the ordeal to debug that.
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Woke up seeing a horrible blob of death at my 3d-printer's nozzle that has engulfed a vast amount of the hotend.
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On the other hand Tigerella (red tomatoes with yellow-ish stripes) are not that bad and they pump out a lot but they are not my preferred taste with their very juicy and sour notes. If I prepared salads they would have been ideal for that. A Polish sort called Malina on the other hand was described as very sweet and juicy but in my garden they turned out to be dull in taste. The same with a sort called Japanese Crab (it's from Russia) that is not much of a shower in the flavor department. Marmande (from France) is still a very solid all-rounder that I don't mind for being mid in everything. Harzfeuer (German) is also mid but the fruits are a little bit too small for me. Roma tomatoes (Italy) are quite hard, almost like a soft bell pepper and have little juice which makes them eating on bread less desirable. Adora tomatoes that I tasted were also not bad but lacked the qualities it is advertised as with its smoky taste. For me it's a watered-down Black Krim atm.
about 9 months ago from web-
@adiwan Roma tomatoes seem to get used a lot in salad out here, I like them for burgers or sandwiches because they're usually firmer and less juicy, easier to cut and they don't soggy things up. Those tiger ones sound interesting.
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@scribus Ah. That's a very good point. This is a good use-case for all the Roma fruits to be used up. Gonna buy beef patties and some buns tomorrow. As for Tigerella I have the UK sort that has small, cherry-sized, fruits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigerella (about 2 - 2.5 fingers wide).
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Metal Gear Solid Delta is very fun and the new control scheme is great, BUT, you invariably run into rooms that were designed for the top down camera that wind up being much harder to navigate with the over the shoulder camera, and unfortunately there isn’t any way to switch cameras without reverting to a checkpoint.
about 9 months ago from web-
@zeldatra That feels like a technical limitation from several console generations ago, wtheck?!
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As a DM I'm struggling hard creating satisfying roleplay moments. So far I used my NPCs to direct the players from place A to B to whack on enemies. I tried to do something, but my players were adamant going the most efficient and direct path. E.g. they skip encounters and don't make prisoners. I threw in moments to gather information but they didn't take the bait. I had to info dump them with a Harper they rescued who was investigating a dragon cult this session because I feared that they don't catch up otherwise. At the end of the session they took finally some prisoners who are leaders of the cult's cell.
about 9 months ago from web-
@adiwan My DM has this deck of campfire conversation prompts he has us pull for RP when we travel or pass time
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my assistants come to me for advice their parents should be giving them. Come on man I know I’m bald but I’m not THAT old
about 9 months ago from web -
"Superman" was really good, "Weapons" also was good, and damn it even the "Tron: Ares" trailer looked good in spite of the Jared Leto-ness of it all
about 10 months ago from web -
Turn-based combat is king. All those attempts to do a hybrid approach are failing in my opinion. I think Diablo has poisoned these games with the fancy real time hack and slash combat. I like D&D for intense strategy combat and not for the real-time hectic confusion. I have a party of 4 people against 5-10 enemies. I am too slow to even judge the situation and make a good decision.
about 10 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Yeah. The companion AI might also do a lot of heavy lifting there too. Imagine how bad it would look like if the other characters were potatoes and did the worst decisions. In BG3 I was peeved off any time (out of combat obviously) whenever a character stepped into a trap or dangerous zone. I had to reload and redo a fight because a NPC character completely out of my control stepped into an AOE effect (Moonbeam spell) that was active when every enemy died. Then due to that dumbness the NPC went hostile against me because he was that dumb.
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@zeldatra Hearing about the new battle system actually piqued my interest in playing the remake, I'd previously been put off by hearing about the plot changes
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Odd dream last night. It was the start of a feature length animated special: a James Bond-type spy infiltrating a heavily guarded freighter containing some kind of device that was the last component needed to power up a North Korean nuclear submarine. The spy stole it but was forced to drop it into the ocean before reaching the rendezvous point. Cut to My Little Pony opening credits! Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie are attending a comic convention somewhere, with Pinkie dressed as an allicorn and Rainbow Dash dressed as the coolest thing she could think of (herself). Genre conventions tell me it was going to be a whodunnit, with one of the unsavoury convention attendees having stolen the plot device: Gilda (dressed as Opal), Sunset Shimmer (dressed as a bunny); but everything was interrupted by a Transformers Animated awards ceremony where Sentinel Prime gave accolades to obscure characters.
Wednesday, 19-Aug-15 09:31:15 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Yay, I'm not the only one who has crazy dreams!
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@scribus I realise at this point there was also some kind of... Majora's Mask themed giant I had to take down while wearing Link cosplay.
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@thelastgherkin 10 year anniversary of this dream lol
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