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Wednesday, 19-Aug-20 17:37:42 UTC from web
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@scribus Not sure if I get the first version of them but it's a relief that keyboards on smartphones aren't dead yet.
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@adiwan Yeah, I try not to be a bleeding-edge first-adopter, but I may want to get one while the getting's good (and I can make the "market" look "healthy" or whatever stock-talk is behind decisions like these)
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On paper I know better than to engage Twitter but in execution some things just cannot be borne in silence
Monday, 17-Aug-20 15:43:33 UTC from web-
@adiwan Been pretty much my luck with apartments. I think maybe apartments just suck...
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Summer Games Done Quick starts today,
Sunday, 16-Aug-20 13:19:53 UTC from web-
@adiwan So naturally I spend the day on the streams of friends with nothing to do with SGDQ, lol
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I knew this was coming but i didn’t quite realize how weird it would be to see the word “Fox” dropped from the Fox assets that Disney acquired. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875597
Friday, 14-Aug-20 07:51:23 UTC from web-
@adiwan Not that I know of. It was the pre-installation agreement that mentioned Disney.
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Not sure how, six months in, I’m still having to turn around and go back to my house after forgetting my mask, but here we are.
Thursday, 13-Aug-20 20:10:41 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I'm not sure how, six months in, we're still in it
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@mrmattimation I hang my mask on my door handle when I'm home. Also I have a lanyard that attaches my keys my jeans when I'm going out of the house. The few things I do for not to cherry up at life.
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Oh that wasn't new-news.
Tuesday, 11-Aug-20 16:12:22 UTC from web -
Wanted to buy a cheap AC from my local listings but... they were gone. All sellers said that another *just* before me already got the deal.
Monday, 10-Aug-20 19:34:00 UTC from web -
All that effort is for nought. As I have woken up the temperature is as it was before.
Sunday, 09-Aug-20 07:40:13 UTC from web-
@adiwan Is a small portable or window mounted air conditioner not an option for you?
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@oracle I need to save some money for a portable AC. The window mounted kind is out of the option because we have here no sliding windows. Last year it was bearable but the streak of hot days recently is killing me right now.
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I always did best identify with bitter alcoholic fanfic Twilight Sparkle, heh
Saturday, 08-Aug-20 15:03:58 UTC from web- Griffin likes this.
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@scribus Ah. Season 1 Episode 1 Twilight Sparkle you mean. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875592
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I guess it's not much different than how Japanese glosses the U off of Desu, maybe language is just dumb. Who needs a backwards R, anyway!? Upside-down question marks? Bah! lol
Thursday, 06-Aug-20 14:34:03 UTC from web-
@scribus The world needs a mark at the end of the sentence to signify an sarcastic intent more than ever. I propose the ↓ because everything goes down at the moment.
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@adiwan Definitely agree on the sarcasm mark being needed. And I actually really like Spanish's leading punctuation, it always seemed weird how English has it at the end to tell you what you should have been doing instead of telling you ahead what to do.
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Evidently schools that haven't even had their first day are already reporting cases? We're just gonna... heads down, march dick-first through the razor pit? Not even look for a ladder? Nobody's even asking why we're dick-deep in a pit of razors??
Wednesday, 05-Aug-20 18:39:53 UTC from web-
@scribus One Bundesland (State) here in Germany has opened their schools this week under some terms like wearing masks in the hallways and segregating the school building into manageable sections for contact tracing and spreading out the school day as much as possible to reduce the amount of people. The number of active infections there is low but I sense it'll backfire nonetheless in a week or two.
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More than a second time doing a multiple choice episode isn't worth it. Hitting all the bad endings the second time around is easy enough.
Wednesday, 05-Aug-20 16:50:31 UTC from web-
@scribus DVDs support different camera angles for scenes but this feature was poorly used if at all.
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@adiwan I always remember seeing the button and never having it do anything, lol. I hear the porn industry used it some, but cannot confirm or deny.
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@scribus I have The Matrix and I believe it had a few scenes with alternative camera angles. But that's all I believe to know about that feature. It's cool and all but to be honest it's a papayaty feature.
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There was one congressperson or senator or whomever who said "A mask covers the face, made in the image of God," but I think even the nuts thought he was crazy.
Saturday, 01-Aug-20 18:08:41 UTC from web-
@scribus I saw that on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah and The Late Show With Steven Colbert. I had to instantly laugh when I saw that each time. Make-up, firemen breathing masks, masks in hospitals, masks at mask balls, face paint at sports events and Carnival (Mardigras) and Halloween.... ALL SINNERS!
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@adiwan Well, more than zero of them have previously railed against makeup, Halloween, Madri Gras, and fun in general...
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I admit that I was lenient towards this at the beginning and didn't take the whole thing very serious, however I did my usual things like proper hygiene and my natural behaviour of avoiding people, but very soon I did everything right with wearing masks and such. I had underestimated the outcome and spread before. But after all of the evidence I cannot fathom why people can be still so stubborn.
Saturday, 01-Aug-20 15:23:59 UTC from web-
@adiwan I've usually been a bit cavalier about new diseases, too, aside from standard flu-season hygiene. I was on team "don't wear a mask if you aren't sick, we need them for front line workers" until the new science came out. And I, too, do not understand people who take the advice of a group of uneducated desert monks who've been dead for two thousand years and their demigod fanfiction over modern science and medicine.
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@scribus As far as I could seen in the videos nobody has used religion as an excuse. I've seen more messages about being fed up by the government and being told what to do, and being inconvenienced, as well as skepticism of the whole pandemic and the virus itself.
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@adiwan I guess I don't really know that a major amount have been using religion specifically, but it just seems common in a lot of science denial.
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HAHAHA. My caffeine resistance is remarkable. I drank 6 cups of medium-strong black tea and a lemonade with about twice the caffeine concentration of Coca-cola and I was still tired all the time.
Wednesday, 29-Jul-20 20:15:50 UTC from web-
@scribus An Atari Magazine? Mate tea lemonades are here en masse. There are at least 7 different brands. Club-Mate, Mio Mio Mate, Mate Mate, Lamate, Maya Mate.... (a few others i forgot the name of).
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I'm somewhat annoyed that anytime the number 69 is mentioned someone says "nice".
Thursday, 30-Jul-20 08:17:41 UTC from web -
Yesterday i was at my favorite coiffeur because I couldn't stand the long hair anymore that constantly fell into my face and was heating up my back neck. Now my hair is short again such that I do not need my hair drier for a while because it dries quickly on its own. I also gave a bigger tip.
Wednesday, 29-Jul-20 14:21:53 UTC from web-
@adiwan Curious, do you have establishments that might be more of a "barber shop" situation? Like, in the USA, there's sort of a "barber for men, salon for women" thing going on. I kind of like the idea of just a neutral "haircut place."
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@scribus Most places I know in Germany and Poland offer cutting hair both for men and women but they are sectioned off in a way, men front, women back (with or without a wall in between). Smaller places with less traffic do not have that.
There are only very few places that are highly specialized on either gender, like for men and offering more services for beard grooming.
My favorite place has men in the front and women in the back. It's a Turkish lead establishment that has some fancy services like pulling eye brow hair with string for both genders, often used by people with monobrow tendencies and the pulling of the hair creates a very clean look without stubbles.
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Haha I didn't realize I was even buying a curved monitor, this is w e i r d
Tuesday, 28-Jul-20 05:00:21 UTC from web-
@scribus I saw a curved monitor at a store recently. I get why some people want them but I am on the side that who wants the screen flat, except for retro games (NES, SNES) the screen can bulge out a little bit.
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@adiwan It's not especially pronounced. I've seen some that were gnarly, like you need peripheral engaged to see anything, but this isn't too bad. I think I'm more tripped out by how wide it is, coming off of the laptop life. :p
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@scribus I can feel that. When I had my 50'' 4k TV in front of me it was slightly overwhelming. Before that my 24'' 1920x1200 PC display was huge when I upgraded from a 15'' CRT. On the laptop side I highly prefer the 13'' size.
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Well, the line for my online order is so long that I may not be getting a new computer after all
Monday, 27-Jul-20 18:32:00 UTC from web-
@adiwan Eh, I wanted a hassle-free shopping experience, resulting in me owning a future-expandable desktop computer. Indifferent as to pre-built or DIY, except for reasons I need a Windows license so
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Both series are tons better than Pony Life.
Monday, 27-Jul-20 15:55:37 UTC from web -
I'm so glad that "Amphibia" and "The Owl House" is back.
Monday, 27-Jul-20 07:15:56 UTC from web -
According to my city's website there are only two known COVID cases in care currently. A silver lining.
Wednesday, 22-Jul-20 10:30:34 UTC from web -
The swallows are flying like crazy these days as the flying ants and other bugs are very active right now. I cannot air my apartment without having some bugs in.
Saturday, 18-Jul-20 12:31:35 UTC from web-
@adiwan I just had three little bats in my backyard. Like Addams Family meets Bob Marley... heheh
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@scribus A long time ago there were a few bats. I don't know if there are any now. Even back then they were hard to spot flying in the twilight.
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@adiwan Yeah, they're tiny and quick under bad lighting, lol. I didn't even bother to try a picture or video.
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it’s been brought to my attention that this very embarrassing incident from my past has been made public. words cannot express how sorry I am to anyone I hurt http://rainbowdash.net/url/875557
Wednesday, 01-Jul-20 11:13:16 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Woah.
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People keep telling me there’s actual logic behind The Simpsons’ production codes but I know they’re just as confused as I am. Only a maniac would label the first production season “7G”.
Saturday, 27-Jun-20 20:47:10 UTC from web -
800 pages left and I have finished reading all of the Inu Yasha manga. Roundabout 10300 pages for the whole thing.
Friday, 26-Jun-20 19:51:12 UTC from web-
@adiwan Thank god Tolkien didn't live to work in the medium. Then again, maybe "The Hobbit" would justify three movies...
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@scribus The Hobbit is a short book but it compresses time a lot and a lot and things are not very well told because they come somewhat out of nowhere. 3 movies is a bit much, I can agree that 2 would be very fine.
Reading Inu Yasha to the end was easier than Lord of the Rings. I HATE all those lengthy scenic descriptions in LOTR and my brain fades out too quickly to get past them. LOTR would work a lot better as a comic because those would be held to a brief instance and not minutes and multiple pages. To be frank: Inu Yasha has also big pacing issues. It could have been easily cut in half without losing too much of its substance. Towards the end it got DBZ-like when it comes to stretching the content and delay the inevitable.
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watching all these 1930s Mickey Mouse shorts in HD feels wrong somehow
Wednesday, 24-Jun-20 08:10:40 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Pretend watching them in the cinema in the 1930s. The old film resolution is somewhat close to 2K resolution. You just need a film grain filter and bad speakers, and maybe an old-timey seat.
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With all the crazy stuff happening, maybe this year can be the year of the Linux Desktop!
Thursday, 18-Jun-20 15:56:15 UTC from web -
New Pokémon Snap? I'm gladly waiting for all the reviews. Especially I'm waiting for all the reviewers and people bashing it for being too repetitive, short, and unoriginal. The N64 game can be played through within a few hours, and even then there was barely any varying gameplay beyond gushing over 3-dimensional Pokémon jumping around and abusing them with throwables. I expect the new one being similar in scope feature-wise. The right evolution of the game has to be at least a semi-open world with day-and-night cycles and a focus on stealth and exploration, like a real animal and nature photographer.
Wednesday, 17-Jun-20 20:53:25 UTC from web-
@adiwan The largest amount of gameplay time came from trying to find a Blockbuster with one of those proprietary printing booths. They should integrate it with Pokemon Go, lol. (Hey, I wonder if that Last Blockbuster Standing has one of the printers...?)
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@scribus I saw a video about the last Blockbuster end of last year and I haven't noticed any Pokémon Snap photo printing stations.
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Started binge-watching Community. Before I have never watched more than a few episodes.
Thursday, 11-Jun-20 16:48:56 UTC from web-
@adiwan Community season 2 is one of my fave seasons of anything ever so I'd definitely take it that far at least. The rest ranges from okay to pretty good for me if you pretend the show ended with season 5
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@tiff Finished Season 5 today and it was a stinker. I'm mid-season 6 and it ain't better.
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@adiwan I got like 4 episodes into season 6 and gave up lmao, it is not the same show at all by that point
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