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Got my second Fauci ouchie, only feeling slightly apocalyptic about gathering, masked, in the husk of the old department store where I used to get my school clothes
Wednesday, 21-Apr-21 19:13:45 UTC from web-
@scribus the relief that I felt when I got mine was so strong, I almost broke down right there in my store.
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In German the word for queue is "Schlange". It's the same word for the word "snake". "In der Schlange stehen" means "standing in the queue". Translating it literally it means "standing in the snake". I'm happy that the snake population in Germany is low enough that this expression doesn't mean anything bad except for wasting time.
Monday, 19-Apr-21 08:15:51 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I guess Florida does something to a human on a deep psychological level that the extraordinary becomes the mundane.
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@zeldatra Blue Oyster Cult claim that Florida is the way it is because of an ancient curse on the conquistadores https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIdntHAhTv0 #theMoreYouKnow
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Not to advocate violence, but wouldn't the world be a better place if more pranks videos ended with a college bro getting beaten to within an inch of his life?
Saturday, 17-Apr-21 00:48:40 UTC from web-
@scribus Only tangentially related, but i was always a big fan of this video by Lyle Wrath & Chris O'Neill which basically subverts YouTube "savior" culture where wealthy YouTubers will make a huge deal about it when they donate to charity or whatever. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875874
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@zeldatra I appreciate the satire, but it was a bit close to the bone for comfortable viewing, lol
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No, but seriously, playing through the entire series again after having (once again) beaten Metal Gear Solid V is making me appreciate the series’ side characters a lot more. It’s not ACTUALLY a series about Big Boss and his sons. It’s a series about Big Boss’s legacy and the people who were affected by it. In Metal Gear Solid, Snake works with Hal “Otacon” Emmerich. Thirty years earlier, in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Naked Snake works with his father, Huey, and they’re largely identical in most ways, so identical that one has to wonder for a minute if Snake was the only subject in the Patriots’ cloning program. But if you played MGS2, you already know they /aren’t/ the same because Huey goes nuts and drowns himself and tries to drown his stepdaughter in a vengeful murder-suicide after he catches his second wife molesting Hal. “Revenge” is explored in MGS5, where we learn that Hal & Huey are pretty much only identical in appearance.
Friday, 16-Apr-21 23:54:02 UTC from web-
In MGS5, Huey has a bad habit of stabbing literally everyone he knows in the back. He tries to put Otacon, two years old at the time, in the cockpit of Metal Gear Sahelanthropus to be a test pilot, which his wife objects to somewhat. Naturally, Huey puts his wife in a Peace Walker AI Pod and batcavein suffocates her. This is AFTER he had already betrayed Naked Snake and MSF by letting XOF come aboard Mother Base while Snake was off on a mission. THEN he betrays XOF to go work for Snake again. Then he bizarrely decides to let a vocal cord parasite loose on Mother Base because I guess betraying people is in his nature? What I’m trying to say is that Huey is an asshole. And we learned already that HUEY’s father was one of the designers of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. But Otacon isn’t really like either of them, to the point that by the end of the series, he’s like the only one of Solid Snake’s allies who hasn’t stabbed him in the back.
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I mean like look if you’re 19 and she’s 17 then neither of you really has your mango together, so who cares, right? But RageNineteen was 28 years old and dating a 16 year old who he’d met when she was 15 while dating her friend who was also 15, and that’s just supposedly normal in the YouTube world?? The hell’s going on????
Thursday, 08-Apr-21 02:54:24 UTC from web -
man is not sleeping with minors really that difficult? I always found it very easy to not do that. It’s very very easy to not do that.
Wednesday, 07-Apr-21 23:20:21 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I mean if you're one of those older seniors in high school, maybe, but that's only for a slim window of time and anyway I was 17 at graduation
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@scribus talking about specifically YouTube stuff. One of the new Eddsworld showrunners just got outed as a serial groomer/abuser and it’s frustrating the hell out of me that there seems to be a new one of these every week.
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@scribus To answer the question I just got via email, the server is a basic digitalocean droplet. The $20 one. Depending on how much traffic you're expecting, you could easily run a couple of instances on there.
Wednesday, 07-Apr-21 22:48:40 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Groovy, thanks. I have a couple $5 ones for some blogs I wanna keep IP isolated, and was eyeballing a $10 for startup. Good to know.
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Binged through the whole series of "My Name Is Earl". I can somewhat understand why they pulled the cord and cancelled the series at the end of season 4. While fun it was kind of repetitive or insane and thus alienating any new watchers. Also it got increasingly serialized despite of its episodic nature at the beginning.
Tuesday, 06-Apr-21 19:43:25 UTC from web-
@adiwan Officially, the cancelation happened because of financial issues over at NBC from the then-recent recession. They had been given the go-ahead to start writing for a fifth season, which is why the fourth one ends on a cliffhanger.
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@zeldatra Sure. I have also read that. But when I look at the viewership numbers they were decreasing rapidly towards the end. I don't know what happened in April of 2009 but they might have spooked some people in the upper management in addition to the financial crisis. They could have at least resolve the cliffhanger and do a somewhat proper ending to the series.
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@adiwan TV Tropes mentions an official "What if" ending, per the creator. I like knowing that, even if they didn't get to film it.
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Bout to tell my boss to shove it. If I’m gonna go out like everyone thinks I am, I DON’T want it to be because of this stupid grocery store.
Sunday, 04-Apr-21 00:54:11 UTC from web-
@scribus I’m just fed up with the new management. These guys are total pricks. One’s a delegatory blowhard who wants me to do most of his job, and the other one is a crazy apple who acts like a crackhead.
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@zeldatra Wish I had better advice than "Try not to get caught screaming in the parking lot about how you'd applaud the news that the manager killed themself." Bad management is the worst, man.
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I’M NOT BEING MEAN, he’s legitimately inbred. It runs in the family apparently.
Wednesday, 31-Mar-21 22:12:10 UTC from web-
@scribus I’m always afraid I’ve done something to anger him, because on top of the fact that he’s like always glaring at me, one of the effects of his, uh, condition is that his fuse is shorter than the average bear’s. I always feel like he’s one misstep away from going apebanana on somebody
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State secessionist movements are really funny to me, a Virginian, for no particular reason...
Friday, 26-Mar-21 00:02:17 UTC from web-
@scribus the California split movement confuses the hell out of me, because you got Los Angeles/San Diego in the south, San Francisco/Sacramento in the north, and a loooootta Biden counties in between... you would need to create a really weirdly shaped state to change any kind of electoral momentum over there. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875860
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@zeldatra Yeah, I don't get it, either. I think it depends on the plan, too. Some call for North/South, others up to five (5). Mostly I just riff because I doubt it'll happen. :p
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i logged out for like 8 months and now email notifs are working again
Sunday, 21-Mar-21 23:40:46 UTC from web-
@tiff It's probably because I stopped paying the company who does it for me, so they fixed it so they could hassle me to pay them again
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@ceruleanspark don't give in
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@tiff They're like "our free offering only lets you send 10000 messages a month though!"
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so maybe a weird question, but is there a term for people who... kind of don't care about their gender identity? like, not gender neutral. i've always been comfortable being a man, and I still am, but as i get older my gender (and to a certain extent my sexual orientation, though my tastes are still pretty geared towards feminine-looking people - but not necessarily exclusively women) is something that matters to me less and less, to the point where, if I weren't so obviously male, i could see myself being pretty tolerant of just about any pronoun anyone wants to call me. gender agnostic?
Tuesday, 23-Mar-21 19:37:12 UTC from web-
@zeldatra there's always agender i guess, i know people who use that term with that kind of sentiment. i feel pretty similarly wrt myself but at the same time changing anything about my identity would just insinuate that i care about it more than i do
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Playing Metal Gear Solid again... I bodyslammed Meryl while she was disguised because I recognized her walk cycle and I wanted to see what would happen. Nothing happens, she just sprints into her next cutscene to prevent you from impeding her any further. And then she still claims to have gotten the jump on you.
Tuesday, 23-Mar-21 08:21:12 UTC from web-
@scribus This is why I always enjoyed the mostly-unscripted nature of the later Fallouts & Elder Scrolls. New Vegas particularly introduces you to a major antagonist (or ally, if you choose to go that route...) fairly early on, while you’re on your way to a story quest, and you can just let him do his thing, or, if you have the firepower, you can just FrankerZin shoot him and he won’t appear again for the rest of the game. (And then you can shoot his replacement later, too!)
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I was today years old when I learned that Twin Shadow is black.
Monday, 22-Mar-21 21:11:24 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Waitaminute, how the hell are YOU today years old when I'M today years old and I know I'm older than you are??
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here we...
Sunday, 21-Mar-21 22:32:19 UTC from web -
So it seems to me that if Kyubey's goal in Madoka is then
Friday, 19-Mar-21 06:48:30 UTC from web-
@scribus yeah but she saved the universe despite the kyubey's intention
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@princelypublictimeline And yet, I feel like there has to be a solid Taoist reading to this show... lol
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You there
Friday, 19-Mar-21 01:22:36 UTC from web -
glad to see this is still around
Tuesday, 16-Mar-21 01:50:47 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@scribus if anything I am the forgotten one lol
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@princelypublictimeline Don't feel too bad, I'm always forgetting crap. Yesterday, I found out that I forgot I had Yelp installed!
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@scribus no one remembers yelp lol
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Good morning everyone
Saturday, 13-Mar-21 13:00:10 UTC from web -
Why does Apple have to get interesting right when I'm gorram fed up with them???
Saturday, 13-Mar-21 01:22:18 UTC from web- Matt likes this.
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@scribus I thought the iPad was a Fluffle Puffing lame-ass joke when I was a kid and it was first coming out, it just seemed like a big iPhone, and it seemed even less necessary after iPhones started getting bigger, but now I feel like this is what they should have been marketed for all along.
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my new iPad arrived today and the first thing i drew to test out the pencil was a real blasty from the pasty http://rainbowdash.net/url/875850
Friday, 12-Mar-21 21:05:52 UTC from web-
@scribus honestly kinda surprised how natural it all feels, I don’t like the program I drew that image in but that’s ok because the full desktop version of my usual art program, Clip Studio, apparently works with the newer iPads so I went ahead and installed that, it’s pretty much perfect and I think it’ll make me a whole lot more productive. IMO for what I paid it’s actually a better purchase than an equivalently priced MacBook.
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Learned that the pharmacist at my store got yelled at by my boss because he gave me the covid vaccine that made me so sick I had to call out. Oops?
Monday, 08-Mar-21 20:23:19 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Your boss is just plain stupid. Any vaccine can provoke lessened symptoms of the disease, making one feel sick, although the strength of them can vary much.. For example the annual flu vaccine can do that as well. It's not an unusual or unheard side-effect of vaccines. Also, just from the cost-benefit side, he could have a bigger loss of productivity if you caught the real thing later. Also as an employer he has to be aware that anyone can sick at any time. It sucks but that's the job of an employer or manager to deal with sudden sick days.
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@adiwan I think the issue was more that it was completely unscheduled and out of nowhere so they didn’t have time to replace me when I was suddenly too ill to work the next day. In retrospect it was probably irresponsible of me to have taken it when I knew I had work the next day but like, hey, the vial was gonna go to waste otherwise.
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Need help on this script: BESIDES stuff from Marvel properties, what fictional landmarks would one find in New York City that a tourist would want to visit?
Sunday, 07-Mar-21 21:01:25 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Fry's Dog's Grave!
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@scribus Pannucci’s Pizza’s in now. Seymour’s been encased in dolomite for about a decade now.
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@mrmattimation I try not to dwell on that fact ;_;
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Just called out of work for the first time in like three years. Fever spiked to 102.5. Gonna take it easy today.
Saturday, 06-Mar-21 13:51:49 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation You went the whole-ass pandemic without dipping out? Man, take an extra one after the fever breaks, you deserve it.
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@scribus It’s difficult for me to justify calling out for anything less than an emergency because I’m the store’s closer and it’s hard to find other people willing to do that on such short notice for some reason.
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@mrmattimation I get that. I called out much less at the school cafeteria.
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Hey uh guess who just got a surprise Covid vaccine
Saturday, 06-Mar-21 01:35:40 UTC from web-
@scribus i literally was just walking by the pharmacy in my store and the pharmacist was like "hey Matt... we got one more dose left and i don't have any more appointments... want it?" was pretty much in the exact right place at the exact right time
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@mrmattimation Damn, sweet luck
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@mrmattimation You won the lottery!
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Also damnit I may need to learn Blender. Or some kind of free 3D wireframe making thing.
Wednesday, 03-Mar-21 00:43:41 UTC from web-
@scribus Blender is crazy easy to learn and there’s a lotta tutorials on YouTube, I’d give it a shot. The latest version has a real-time render engine too and most of its features are compatible with the other, slower, raytraced engine so if you have a halfway decent graphics card you can test materials and lighting situations and such fairly quickly.
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@mrmattimation Keen. Right now, I kinda just want to make a logo from my old karate school into 3D. It's been done, but I'd rather not steal someone else's. And I do have other things, like an attempt to create a visual model of the Self as a 4-dimensional being with extensions into the Minds of others like that whole NG:E last two episodes acid trip. I think it'll just end up looking like lightning or a neuron, though...
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I think we need to have a public discussion about The Doctor’s proclivity for picking up 19 year old girls, you’re over 2000, you can’t keep doing that
Wednesday, 24-Feb-21 09:20:10 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation So what I hear is, Dame Judi Dench for next companion?
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@scribus Or maybe someone who doesn’t look like they could be a student at Ridgemont High, yeah
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@mrmattimation The Dame has my vote, if she wants the gig
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Well I just learned that I have a scar (somewhere on one of my knuckles) from the location of the first-ever episode of Bar Rescue. Which was closed after a stabbing murder. And then burned down. And is still a pile of fenced-off rubble 3 years later.
Sunday, 21-Feb-21 02:49:19 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Oof.
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@adiwan It's even less than that! It may play out like something something seedy joint, blablabla bar brawl, but I was just too damn drunk to play pool and hit the damn table with my hand :-/ haha
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@mrmattimation Yeah, that's haunted
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Oh geez. there's an ad in the chat...
Friday, 19-Feb-21 04:45:17 UTC from web
