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Crushed two linear bearings until the balls popped out. I should have used less force and made the hole a teeny tiny bit bigger.
Saturday, 13-Feb-21 18:10:10 UTC from web-
@ndogmario I just printed a holder for a Dremel rotary tool for my CNC machine. It needs some linear bearings (with steel balls to glide on) and there are holes that fit them. Due to inaccuracies the hole is too small for a pressure fit. I used a drill to carve it a little bit bigger, however I missed some spots. While forcing the bearings with a vise the bearing was compressed within the hole. The tolerances within the bearing are soo tight that this little bit of difference in the radius made a ball pop out.
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Saturday, 13-Feb-21 17:28:07 UTC from web
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Borderlands 2 is fun right up until I either run up against the usual "What am I stuck on, why am I not running, why can't I even jump, if I'm not supposed to be here how did I even get in and why can't I get out again" antics of every FPS ever... That, or the keyboard-as-controller issues of "I wanted my knife, not to throw a grenade at my own feet..." !vgp
Monday, 08-Feb-21 06:59:37 UTC from web-
@scribus True story: I grew up pretty much entirely on PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360, so when I finally got a PC that could properly handle video games I was immediately put off by the keyboard controls and plugged in an Xbox One controller instead. To this day it's really hard for me to play shooters the "real" way.
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@mrmattimation I had had an NES, GameBoy, SNES, Atari XE, and Sega Genesis before we got our first "real" family computer, a 486 running Windows 3.11. My parents declared that the computer was therefore not for games, unless they were educational. I believe I would go on to N64, 3DS, and Xbox 360 before trying WASD-anything.
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So this guy watched my video about how we can separate the art from the artist... and saw it as a symptom of cancel culture? LMAO http://rainbowdash.net/url/875785
Saturday, 06-Feb-21 23:43:25 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Any critical thought is just dangerously close I guess
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Hey here's one, how are they gonna keep the animation cell fan industry going when everything is all digital?
Thursday, 28-Jan-21 03:59:36 UTC from web-
@scribus Three answers: The first is that The Simpsons didn't switch to digital animation until the mid-2000s, so there's always about fifteen years of that to go through (and Disney not-withstanding (they've been doing digital since The Rescuers Down Under in 1990), the rest of the industry was also pretty late on that train), the second is that a 22-minute program averages around ten thousand unique drawings (more than that if it's a Simpsons, less than that if it's a Flintstones or Jetsons) so there's a LOT to go through, and the third is, and you didn't hear this from me, a lot of those animation cels you see on eBay are actually reproductions or pieces of promotional artwork which have been created expressly to be sold, so they quite literally will be able to send you Itchy's arm for decades.
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@mrmattimation I keep threatening to spend my tax return on a Bakshi cell some time, but something else always ends up seeming more fun
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this frame took five minutes to render and it ain’t even from a finished environment, that’s two hours a second, can you believe it? http://rainbowdash.net/url/875749
Saturday, 16-Jan-21 09:00:41 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Why aren't you overclocking to the point you need buckets of liquid nitrogen noob???
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@scribus The crazy thing is I DO have what one would consider “professional” hardware for this sort of thing, AND I was accelerating the render with a ray tracing-capable graphics card. It’s the METHOD I used to get that painterly look that kinda screwed with things, I’m pretty sure what I did (which I did on accident) was not on the list of things the developers of the program intended designers to do.
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@mrmattimation So long as you're not still overnighting Polaroids of the day's frame back to HQ I guess
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Michael Bay’s new movie is about a bizarro alternate universe where the US government is mishandling a pandemic, but I did the math and I’m 95% certain the virus would have died out by killing all of its hosts too fast to find new ones under the conditions portrayed in the film.
Thursday, 14-Jan-21 10:23:44 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Wait, really? Not that he'd botch the math, that I super-believe... But the whole-ass movie??
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@scribus yeah, look up “Songbird” sometime. Written at the very beginning of the pandemic and filmed almost entirely by the cast with cell phones, it takes place in 2024 in a world where COVID mutated into a deadly super virus which kills 50% of the people it infects, anyone who gets it is automatically reported to the government via smartphone tracking, and they’re quarantined in a concentration camp until they either die or get better. I’m no virologist, but I’m pretty sure that under those conditions, the virus would have been dealt with a long time ago.
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@mrmattimation I mean considering what a 3% mortality rate did to us, I must be inclined to agree, one way or another...
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Sunday, 10-Jan-21 19:13:32 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Y'know I'm starting to suspect it's less mental gymnastics, and more like mental scoliosis
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@mrmattimation And also, just, everything is on fire, why not
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One day I’ll have to answer for a few of the people I used to associate with and I can’t really think of anything better than “I had bad character judgement skills when I was 19”
Sunday, 10-Jan-21 01:44:52 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I mean, I really don't see (especially after time has passed) why people can't accept "saw what they were, told them to split/split myself." The whole "Crap the uprising failed, uuhhhh Sowwy?" move is obviously weak, but I mean really! 19! NOBODY is good at 19!!
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@scribus The one I’m really worried about does backend stuff now for a certain wildly popular (especially with teenage American girls????) animated web series and I don’t wanna be the dickhole who sets that team back again so I’ve been thinking about getting in touch with the current show runner to let him know what I know so that it doesn’t bite ALL of us in the ass at some point in the future.
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So you can imagine how I, someone who lives twenty minutes from where that all went down, wish I had worn brown pants today.
Thursday, 07-Jan-21 09:40:25 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation That was a hell of a thing
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@mrmattimation Also, not sure the miles to minutes ratio outside of CA, but damn dude
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@scribus honestly, it's twenty minutes to get to the metro station which takes me into the district proper, longer if you try to drive into the district. I live really, really close to the city BUT there's pretty much only one bridge going into and out of the city on the Virginia side, not sure if it's the same story in Maryland. And traffic on that bridge is always, always terrible. I used to drive into Alexandria once a week for school - Alexandria being one of the two cities that borders Washington on this side of the river - and even THAT is a complete nightmare. Definitely not as bad as going from, say, Glendale to Los Angeles, based on photos I've seen, but still pretty bad.
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Don’t worry/I’m sorry, I didn’t die in the mass shooting that just happened here
Sunday, 03-Jan-21 00:39:32 UTC from web-
@scribus Not as bad as some we saw pre-pandemic - the police were already nearby because of a robbery that had occurred in the same plaza earlier in the day - but the Wal-Mart I do some of my shopping at a few minutes down the road just got shot up.
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@mrmattimation Only thing Google showed me was "In 2020, there WERE no Mass Shootings!"
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@scribus How unfortunate that it took a global pandemic to get our first shooting-free year in two decades
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Back to the Future’s most egregious presumption was that Marty McFly would need entirely different money to buy things in 2015, as if money from 1985 would be no good thirty years later.
Tuesday, 29-Dec-20 00:01:37 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I've worked alongside cashiers who were suspicious of money old enough to be of a design they didn't remember. I, myself, have been taken aback by the changes when I come across an old bill.
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@scribus Maybe it’s just because I, being the guy who counts the money at the end of the night, see bills from back when we only had 48 states more often than one normally does.
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@mrmattimation My mom used to keep small bills on hand at work for when something neat or rare came through, so she could swap them out and bring it home.
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Any conspiracy theorists here who believe this who Covid-19 thing is a contrived event?
Saturday, 26-Dec-20 20:46:30 UTC from web-
@ricd personally i think Covid is a hoax created for and by the Chinese to make American business less competitive /s
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@mrmattimation And *I* think that hoaxes themselves are psychic virii developed by Russian mystics, but you don't hear me going on about it
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DON'T EVEN TRY SUGGESTING DUCK DUCK GO, I AM INFURIATED ENOUGH WITH THEM ON A GOOD DAY
Wednesday, 23-Dec-20 06:45:22 UTC from web-
@scribus God I tried them for a while, but then I got sick of never being able to find anything
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@ceruleanspark I've just decided to convince Google that I must have a pack of unruly children by searching "poop" followed by "pooop" "pooooooop" and "puup"
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@scribus There used to be a browser extension for that.
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Man animating Among Us characters is kiwiin easy, I wish I coulda done this instead of ponies and skeletons
Tuesday, 22-Dec-20 22:58:27 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation How's the Pac-Man fan scene?
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@mrmattimation Some properties just don't need a third dimension
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Increasingly difficult to write letters to politicians when you aren't allowed to say "kill yourself"
Saturday, 05-Dec-20 17:16:57 UTC from web-
@scribus Around the time of that school shooting in Broward County, I had a cartoon written (and a background painted!) that was just Marco Rubio listening to a bunch of voicemails from constituents telling him to kill himself, it was like four straight minutes of just that, and then the punchline was that he... kills himself. I decided not to do it when I realized it would probably get me a friendly visit from some federal prosecutors looking to ask me some questions.
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@mrmattimation Well, I hit my limit break, lllooolll
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it is time to discuss the butt
Friday, 27-Nov-20 16:56:48 UTC from web-
@liquidusmira my butt isn’t worth discussing. :(
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@liquidusmira The whole butt, or just the butthole?
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Rudy Giuliani saying that Trump “probably won” Virginia is making me question whether or not Rudy Giuliani’s head is on straight. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875696
Thursday, 26-Nov-20 14:32:15 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Golf scoring, lowest total wins
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@scribus Evidently, seeing as how people are also saying he’s the legitimate winner of California
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The new Animaniacs series slaps.
Sunday, 22-Nov-20 10:06:45 UTC from web-
@scribus I just watched all the 13 episodes. It's good. Not overwhelmingly good. Good good. Some jokes and segments were not to my own taste but the rest was good 'ol fun.
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@adiwan @scribus I enjoyed it quite a bit, although I definitely thought the Pinky and the Brain segments were generally the better parts of the episodes they were in. Not that the Warner Bros. segments were bad at all, they were pretty funny, I just thought P&B had waaaaay less misses.
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@mrmattimation Pinky and the Brain operate from a well-established formula and it s not very surprising that their segment is the more consistent one. I still agree that they were mostly the better part of the show.
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Like wouldn’t it be fun to just place hundreds of cans of beans on this shelf and make my real-time render engine kill itself?
Monday, 16-Nov-20 00:03:32 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I used to build Age of Empires maps on my buddy's Windows 98 machine with bird spawn points enough to just barely not melt the motherboard
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@scribus This is really just a bad habit of mine. Any home console games where you could manipulate things on-screen usually ended up getting pushed to their very limits by me. Special mention goes to Fallout 4 where my game was perpetually running at sub-20 any time I was in one of my settlements.
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Oh yeah. More websites to add to my block list.
Thursday, 12-Nov-20 15:25:45 UTC from web-
@vcgriffin What?!? AOL as an internet service provider is dead. AOL's only purpose is to be used by people like father for the email address.
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Putting out my daylight lamp. I feel how the limited sunlight is affecting me.
Wednesday, 11-Nov-20 15:24:19 UTC from web -
Thanks, accidental Return-key strike! :D
Sunday, 08-Nov-20 04:53:37 UTC from web -
In fact, we just had our first local snow, a couple thousand feet up
Monday, 09-Nov-20 17:27:03 UTC from web -
I wonder how long it would take until someone comes back here
Saturday, 07-Nov-20 18:03:20 UTC from web -
Wow interesting
Saturday, 07-Nov-20 18:02:09 UTC from web -
@riddhik Bring it on I love black magic
Tuesday, 03-Nov-20 02:43:58 UTC from web -
if there was any doubt that I’m a tremendous papaya, my mind is currently on cinematic parallels between this election and the one depicted in Citizen Kane.
Sunday, 01-Nov-20 23:30:36 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@mrmattimation A blowhard egomaniac trying to buy popularity and power? Gee, I don't see it...
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@scribus Well, that, but also... http://rainbowdash.net/url/875657
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@mrmattimation Outright depressing how familiar the present can be
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Was anyone on here named Adam Hussein?
Tuesday, 27-Oct-20 23:53:32 UTC from web-
@oracle No, Saddam posted for a bit under his post-fake-death identity but hasn't been around in a bit, he's old now.
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Naruto: Five Characters That Joe Biden Could Beat (& Five He Couldn’t)
Sunday, 25-Oct-20 08:29:23 UTC from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@mrmattimation What level of sharingan Biden are we talking about? is he pre or post timeskip? does he have access to malarkey senjutsu?
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