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all of this moving around between stores finally pays off - I finally have the evidence I need to have a certain customer banned from all of our stores because I personally saw him running the same scam at three separate stores. kinda weird that it took three separate stores though, right?
Monday, 30-Aug-21 02:28:52 UTC from web -
Sunday, 29-Aug-21 19:43:43 UTC from web
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Although I have a bike I'm interested in having a second bike more geared towards comfortable rides in the city: a ladies' dutch bicycle. I don't see a reason for having that ball-crushing crossbar between the legs that makes it hard to get into the saddle.
Thursday, 26-Aug-21 06:41:54 UTC from web -
Aww, you're maxed at 3 stamina wheels?
Monday, 23-Aug-21 22:42:26 UTC from web -
I have no way of knowing if the fact that I've done nothing but play BOTW for a week is, like, an ADHD hyperfocus, or Autism obsession, or just the perfectly rational realization that there is nothing of greater value in the society we have built up around ourselves
Monday, 23-Aug-21 18:13:33 UTC from web-
@scribus I had a somewhat similar experience playing BOTW. But to be fair: I had a vacation and could spend all week playing it. I tried to complete as much as it was feasible to get the good ending and solve as many shrines as I could for the much needed health and stamina upgrades.
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@adiwan And what a terrible choice to have to make early in the game, health or stamina... lol
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New glasses, and I feel just like Tina Belcher O_O
Tuesday, 17-Aug-21 01:14:12 UTC from web-
@scribus Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.
Glasses. Check.
Horse fan. Check.
(Friend-)Fiction writer. Check.
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Is this thing on?
Sunday, 15-Aug-21 18:35:48 UTC from web- Griffin likes this.
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@scribus I mean last week I managed, using only apt-get upgrade, to uninstall grub from the server, so this is way more "on" than it was
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@ceruleanspark Oh. Missed that, then.
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@ceruleanspark Maybe I should finally look into why my personal dot com is 50x-ing me....
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thinking about buying the cheapest Mac Mini and using that for animation instead of my current PC. I don't believe it would be better (or worse, for that matter) in terms of performance, because let's be real, you don't need a beefcake to run Flash, but i do think it would help with productivity because I would have to switch to my other computer to run any of my games and so that's one less thing to get distracted by.
Saturday, 14-Aug-21 21:19:02 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I tried dual-booting OSes to solve that problem. Didn't work, lol. Better luck, whatever you end up trying.
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@scribus thought about doing a dual-boot but they don’t make macOS graphics drivers for my hardware, and Adobe Animate won’t run natively on Linux, so it would be more trouble than it’s worth.
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Wow this Shakey's Pizza ad may actually have just used text-to-speech instead of hiring a person to talk for 30 seconds
Saturday, 14-Aug-21 01:30:44 UTC from web-
@scribus the same guy’s been recording our phone messages at the store for years and he does the entire district, and they don’t re-record unless they absolutely have to, so up until the covid pandemic (they had to re-record at that point and a couple of times after as new information came out) one store would have an answer menu with a voice that’s audibly years younger than another.
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Good evening http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875978
Friday, 13-Aug-21 22:58:28 UTC from web -
update: if I don’t have covid, then I have something that sure feels a lot like it, because this sucks major balls.
Thursday, 12-Aug-21 06:06:35 UTC from web -
Just noticed there’s cat food in the department managers’ office and now I’m trying to figure out a) who in the store is feeding cats, and b) what cats are hanging out on the highway far from any of the nearby suburbs
Sunday, 08-Aug-21 14:11:20 UTC from web -
one of the main characters in Swole Foods is a “Californian” (he lived there for six years and has made it his entire identity) but I’ve never lived in California, I only know what I see on the news, so some of these jokes might seem inaccurate to people who actually live there, which I think is pretty fair considering Hollywood directors seem to think Virginia is still a part of the confederacy.
Friday, 06-Aug-21 18:42:02 UTC from web-
@scribus Maybe! Wouldn’t feel right about it until I could pay you tho, so let’s see if I can get this thing picked up or funded first. Flying to Atlanta next year for the first of what is presumably going to be many, many pitches.
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@zeldatra Good luck on the pitch(es)! As I understand they're super easy, barely an inconvenience. And I appreciate the monetary morals, but if you just need a punchline checked or something then I do the same for my writing group no problemo
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So there's a petition for an HD release of the Super Mario Bros movie http://chng.it/h2GyMhJT7F
Wednesday, 04-Aug-21 21:44:35 UTC from web -
See how terribly my reflexes have decayed over 25 years, haha #mortality #thecoldembraceofdeath
Wednesday, 04-Aug-21 17:47:19 UTC from web-
@scribus I was playing a round of Beat Saber a few days ago and I half-way sucked. Last time I played it was about 3 months ago. The fast songs I was good at were a tragedy (like Darude Sandstorm on Expert).
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So has anyone ported Doom to the Virtual Boy, and do they make a good VB emulator for a VR headset yet? !vgp
Sunday, 01-Aug-21 17:44:27 UTC from web-
@scribus There's actually a VB emulator for the Oculus Quest 2. It's called "Virtual Boy Go".
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@ceruleanspark Hmm... I could sure go for a round of Teleroboxer again...
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So do people still talk about mlp here?
Sunday, 01-Aug-21 05:43:38 UTC from web-
@mariomario4156 It's gotten a little bit more general than that, but it comes up now and again. Welcome!
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@mariomario4156 We can try damn it! http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875971
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@firestormdangerdash Heck yeah mate! :D
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I’m a little old to be waking up to news about Chris Chan, can’t we leave that in the past
Friday, 30-Jul-21 17:53:12 UTC from web-
@scribus It’s PROBABLY National Enquirer-tier just because of the sheer insanity, but also, that would imply a certain level of untruth to it, and, uhhhhhhh…
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I need to decide on where all these new patches are going on my Levi's jacket, and also whether to get a NERV or SEELE one, and which (up to) 6 Pokemon I want and a place for all of that, and then what the hell I'm even supposed to do with a JACKET in the face of global warming and life in Southern California. Also eBay doesn't seem to even have a Ninetales patch so
Wednesday, 28-Jul-21 19:28:12 UTC from web-
@scribus I found one Ninetails patch on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/listing/977438366/
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@scribus Well I found a seller who had spelled the NERV credo right, so I bought one. Eight on, two ready, three more coming in the mail.
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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'm intrigued cycling around a bicycle track around the center of my city but it's about 19km (11.5mi) long. But it's maybe a bit too long for my endurance. I could take breaks but I want to avoid that.
Monday, 26-Jul-21 13:49:08 UTC from web-
@adiwan I cancel my plans doing this. I've done a quarter of that track and it is not very good. The track is almost exclusively made of hard dirt and quite narrow. It is not a very comfortable ride. The idea was nice from the city to create such track but it is hardly used by me as it leads no almost no place I want to go, or there is a more efficient route, at least for me. At this point I'll wait until it get asphalt.
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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.
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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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Long horse is loooong !art #giraffe http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875964
Saturday, 24-Jul-21 19:30:04 UTC from web -
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I'm not big into LEGO but somehow I want a Star Wars Clone Wars Gunship set.
Thursday, 15-Jul-21 19:19:37 UTC from web-
@adiwan I hope they've revised the design since I tried to build Gherkins old one. That build is an unfun nightmare and produces the flimsiest model.
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@ceruleanspark From what I've seen is big and sturdy. But I can only say that as an opinion without much insight and experience with big LEGO builds. I want it but I am aware that these sets are luxuriously expensive. I rather buy new Winter tyres for that kind of money.
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@adiwan Gherkins was one of the first-gen models from the AOTC era, so it's entirely possible they've made the design slightly less likely to just explode on contact with a stiff breeze.
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E-mails asking me if I wanna be harder and longer, meanwhile I've been hard long enough and just wanna mellow, man....
Friday, 16-Jul-21 18:06:17 UTC from web-
@scribus Are you sure it's not Daft Punk emailing you because they're bored in their retirement?
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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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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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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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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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