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The M3 screws I ordered arrived. Of course the assortment box got jumbled up during transport and the screws were all in a state of chaos. I had to sort them. During sorting I found a M4 nut, oddly enough. To prevent that entropy find its way to randomize the screw positions I put all types of screws in small zip-lock bags. I don't want to count if there are 1110 screws, washers and nuts but I suspect I got duped by some missing ones but I value my time more than the screws are worth. I already wasted time sorting them.
Saturday, 03-Jul-21 19:04:12 UTC from web -
I am almost astounded at how well I managed to translate the Maniac Mansion home to Sims 3, so far !vgp
Friday, 02-Jul-21 07:23:24 UTC from web-
@adiwan Sadly, I was not able to get a nuclear reactor in the swimming pool, but I did put a "dungeon" of sorts in the basement (mostly just a bedroom with a barred window looking in, lol)
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One more strike away from cancelling my Dollar Shave Club; I ain't into businesses that use "errors" as an excuse to make it physically impossible to cancel a subscription. This is some AOL-tier crap, here.
Monday, 28-Jun-21 17:47:08 UTC from web-
@adiwan I've tried, but then I forget to rotate in a new one for like twice as long. Maybe I should just set a reminder in my calendar app...
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@scribus I clean my brush thoroughly after brushing my teeth so it lasts quite a while. I change the brush when the bristles are bent enough that they impact the cleaning performance. A tooth brush lasts about 2 to 3 months. Is it too long? I don't know but it seems reasonable.
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So I’ve got kind of a conundrum, I think I may have done something a little inappropriate. After I got transferred out of my store, I left my discord & such for some of the employees who were around my age in case they ever wanted to chat since I wasn’t going to be working it’s any of them anymore and I thought some of them were pretty cool. One of them was about 19, he’s a lot of fun to talk to but I was a bit iffy because he’s just out of high school. I know there’s nothing inherently weird about that given that I’m a pretty young guy, but he was still one of my employees for a long time, he started working here when he was sixteen. Now he wants me to hang out with him and his friends sometime, which, again, not inherently weird, but they’re all fresh out of high school too. I’m starting to feel like a little bit of a creep now, because I am getting invited to outings with all of these people who just graduated a year ago. Am I over thinking this, or did I screw up?
Saturday, 26-Jun-21 00:38:47 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Eh, some "border crossing" is kind of inevitable around that point, just don't buy them booze or smokes and it should be fine (unless they're dweebs)
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@scribus Yeah I didn’t even buy beer for my friends in college after I turned 21 as like a purely moral thing, don’t plan to do it here either
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Has EA done a single gorram thing right this millennium? !vgp
Saturday, 26-Jun-21 06:55:47 UTC from web -
I'm glad I refused to use Facebook, Instagram, Oculus VR headsets, and WhatsApp
Thursday, 24-Jun-21 05:56:31 UTC from web-
@adiwan I had to really ask myself yesterday *why* I still have Instagram; it's intended to be my last point of contact for some people, so I can announce my own website (with blackjack! And hookers!!) when I finally get that done
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@scribus I had the same with ICQ. At some point they have changed the protocol again and my multi-messenger stopped working. Most of the contacts were "dead" and I talked to a few anyway. So I axed it with all the other instant messengers.
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Cool! New Tuca & Bertie season and the first episode is on the official Adult Swim Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWIhZ0R2H7M
Monday, 21-Jun-21 18:36:27 UTC from web-
@adiwan I heard they're airing it, then putting it online free for a couple of weeks. I hope the rest of the season makes a YT appearance, too.
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@scribus BTW: The first episode of season 5 of Rick & Morty is also there on the channel. I watched the episode elsewhere but it's neat that they put it on Youtube for the exposure. Rick & Morty doesn't need that but Tuca & Bertie needs that as its style can be off-putting very easily.
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I had some fun with my Game Boy Camera today. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875935
Sunday, 20-Jun-21 20:08:21 UTC from web-
@scribus Shooting with a Game Boy Camera is super hard. Because of the 2 bit depth you need to exploit natural strong contrasts. Also the resolution is so bad that you need to have a recognizable big shape in the foreground. Anything in the distance gets fuzzy. In that picture the pond and the trees are unrecognizable.
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I just took the shot.
Friday, 18-Jun-21 15:55:44 UTC from web -
We should really get to work investigating that guy who tazed his own balls and died at the capitol riot this year. He should still be alive today.
Thursday, 17-Jun-21 23:20:26 UTC from web-
Matt likes this.
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So i just learned that the grapeing Hollywood sign is a trademarked symbol so I can’t put the actual Hollywood sign in the first episode of Swole Foods, which has scenes taking place in Los Angeles. What the papaya California
Wednesday, 16-Jun-21 00:39:44 UTC from web-
@scribus imagine if every disaster movie or something had the President just living in a nondescript mansion between two skyscrapers with a statue of Bill Clinton instead of the Washington Monument, that's what the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is asking me to do.
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I'm going to cycle 4km to a bike repair shop and walk back as the bike doesn't fit into my car. The gears don't work that well as the highest gears don't work at all. I had to wait for the appointment for 3 weeks. All the bicycle repair shops are flooded with repair requests. I asked around and the closest bike repair shop (1km) had a waiting time of almost 2 months.
Sunday, 13-Jun-21 13:34:41 UTC from web-
@adiwan Dang, is it because the shops are shorthanded, or are that many people suddenly tuning their bikes?
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@scribus Right at the beginning of the pandemic bike ownership spiked hugely here. I think that the long wait times are a result of the massive demand that roll over the available personnel. The more people using their (old) bikes the higher the probability something needs to be fixed, as in my case. I haven't used my bike for over 14 years because I had a car or I could use the bus and tram for "free" (paid with tuition costs for the uni).
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she complains about me to corporate anyway because she has an authority problem. I’m not an asshole, or I try not to be. But you gotta do your job right or other store can’t function. She can’t handle any amount of coaching. It’s obnoxious how many times I’ve heard from my bosses in Maryland over bogus complaints she’s filed. One time she got a nail in her tire and she told the police that I slashed her tires.
Sunday, 13-Jun-21 04:06:08 UTC from web -
How are you gonna not know Pride, but still think you have a sufficient bead on the LGBTQIA++ scene to have an opinion at all?
Sunday, 13-Jun-21 03:37:06 UTC from web-
@scribus We live in a liberal area compared to the rest of Virginia outside of Richmond and Newport News, but like, that’s like saying Georgia is liberal compared to the rest of the Deep South if you know what I mean. So she talks about how she voted foe Biden to customers then gets upset with me when they yell at her. I tell her to stop talking politics at work then, and tells me she has a right to free speech. And I tell her “yes you do, but so do they” and she just… can’t grasp that. Then she complains to corporate because I “discriminated” against her over her politics. She’s genuinely incomprehensible.
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A cashier’s been celebrating pride every year for the four years I’ve been here. Today she finally asked me what it means. She was extremely upset.
Saturday, 12-Jun-21 23:46:09 UTC from web-
@scribus i don’t work at this store anymore, I just fill in on the weekends because my replacement “fell” (I think she took a dive because when I worked with her she was always annoyed at having to do any work that I would normally do - now she’s always doing it) so I’ve been thinking about really gaying it up because of how many homophobes I apparently used to work with. Would like to see how they react to their “cool” manager being, like, a bigass gayzilla.
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@zeldatra I still can't get over that one gal; did she at least realize how deeply ignorant she must have been? Is she gonna actually THINK now??
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I’m excited to be getting back to living my life and making up for the year and a half that I’ve been stuck inside or at work, but at the same time, I’m kind of dreading having to go back into DC, transit around here is a joke
Friday, 11-Jun-21 05:24:04 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Not to doubt your own transit woes; I just wonder how ours compare, coast-to-coast
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So, i'm in my PhD now, i got a cotutelle scholarship with the university of Lorraine, in france (i speak nearly nothing of french tho, so my first time going to france qas a hell of an adventure. Brazil is even messier than before and i might have gotten even more reclusive than before (though now i'm much more well paid :'v )
Friday, 11-Jun-21 01:55:19 UTC from web-
@scribus yeah,maybe i can even get vaccinated when i go to france again in september xD
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My bois
Thursday, 10-Jun-21 04:33:09 UTC from web-
@zeldatra same tbh
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So my state is a week away from TOTAL REOPENING (except where it stays restricted) and non-vaccinated people are supposed to still wear a mask indoors so . . . 90% is 100 now, yay for New Math!!
Thursday, 10-Jun-21 01:06:49 UTC from web-
@scribus I was incredibly worried about this when Virginia re-opened, and granted I don't know what vaccination statistics are like over there, but over here despite my worries we're only seeing, like, five new cases a day in Fairfax County, which is the most populous county in the state, so I'm a lot less worried now than I was at the time
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@zeldatra I'm more amused that it's a "total" reopening (with asterisks) than worried in any way
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>horses
Tuesday, 08-Jun-21 20:04:32 UTC from web -
Because that's what the kids come to Rainbow Dash Dot Net for -- quasi-informed interstate commerce quips!!
Tuesday, 08-Jun-21 19:14:05 UTC from web-
@scribus Don't they come here to read brainfarts from three blokes who watched a children's show?...
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Dammit. I got weak and bought a dental vacuum forming machine. I mean I do not intent using it for dental work but I want to use it to vacuform small objects. With it I can copy flat-ish small objects, either as is or I can use that as a mold.
Tuesday, 08-Jun-21 16:15:19 UTC from web-
@adiwan You don't intend to use it for dentistry, but one day you'll have a need and the tool will already be there....
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@scribus Sure! It'll save me a trip to the dentist. I was watching Adam Savage's Tool Tip and couldn't resist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWxCvMzvxlQ I wanted a vacuform for quite some time but I'm too lazy building one myself or it was too expensive. 130 Eurobucks I can spend for an all-in-one device that looks solidly built (better than I could do).
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I have never voted for a winning primary candidate so I pretty much just placed a hex on Lee Carter’s gubernatorial campaign today
Tuesday, 08-Jun-21 17:01:36 UTC from web-
@scribus very much unintentionally! if I realized at the booth that my vote was a curse I woulda voted for our rapist LG to kill his campaign
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I have just been introduced to the uniquely heartbreaking realization that cheeses can go extinct
Tuesday, 08-Jun-21 00:30:24 UTC from web -
Tracked down the artist on Newgrounds... they haven't logged in since 2012 and their website is a dead link. Balls
Sunday, 06-Jun-21 06:17:56 UTC from web-
@scribus am currently in the process of a) DMing ALL of her social medias, on the off chance that she still checks any of them, and b) emailing the administrator for the forum we met on, on the off chance that he 1) still reads his emails, and 2) has any of her contact information.
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The thing is, if you really are so vain, wouldn't you think the song couldn't possibly be about you?
Friday, 04-Jun-21 00:59:36 UTC from web-
@scribus if you’re so vain you think the song is about you, then the song is, in fact, about you
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I think "true" wireless earbuds are a scam with some extra steps. They are expensive, their batteries cannot (easily) be replaced, and they are easily lost, and need a bulky case to charge the earbuds that also adds its failure points and inconveniences to the mix (easy to be lost, battery replacement, hinge, contacts for charging...). A cable isn't perfect either but there are some models with replaceable cables, that don't make it all unusable once it eventually breaks. Tangling of the cable is annoying but it is the less bad than all the wireless earbuds will inflict once they start to misbehave or become obsolete. 3.5mm audio jacks are so "dumb" and simple that it's hard for them to fail.
Thursday, 03-Jun-21 16:27:14 UTC from web-
@scribus Oof. I guess opening the case in order to repair it will probably result in a catastrophy.
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@scribus Yeah. I'm just imagining how a phone/portable musik player with XLR plugs would look like.
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@adiwan I managed to pull it out OK, but it's just too tiny, fragile, and fiddly for my soldering skillz
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Not that I’m emulating a Wii U game or anything, but Wii U emulation is such a pain in the ass I might just fork the money over for a refurbished console.
Wednesday, 02-Jun-21 20:38:53 UTC from web-
@zeldatra And what game would you fork over refurbished console money for? Wii U is a huge blind spot in my Nintento know. My Nintendknow.
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@scribus Nothing, now that I’ve (hypothetically) gotten the emulator working (in Minecraft), but basically I wanna start streaming some older console games like Zelda and such and I was trying to get the most convenient setup going. A Wii U can play Nintendo’s entire library excluding the GameCube and Switch, so it seems like the most convenient option.
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I guess I waited for a PC upgrade so long that it's better to just wait for the next big thing, like when AMD releases a new CPU socket and supports DDR5.
Wednesday, 02-Jun-21 17:40:52 UTC from web -
I know I've said before that Final Fantasy is the only time that 6 > 7, but I think that The Sims is having a similar run with 3 > 4 !vgp
Monday, 31-May-21 22:00:57 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Even after all of the updates and finally putting pools into the base game, I just cannot stand Sims 4. They're too dumb, and they're too bad at listening to the User. The multitasking is cool, and they don't clutter at stairs and doorways as badly as 3, but really.... That's about it, gameplay-wise, for me. Otherwise it's like they traded one graphical step forward for two or three game steps back. I hire a babysitter, I go to the bar with my wife, I come home at 3 AM and the toddler is unfed in the backyard playing around in a dirty diaper and that was about when I decided the game was literally unfinished and in Cimmeria, by Crom, pushing unfinished software to market would cost one's HEAD!! lol
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@scribus I should probably mention that The Sims 2 runs on a pretty much identical game engine to The Sims 3, with the big differences being that create-a-sim is more detailed in 3 and, of course, the interconnected neighborhood with no load screens. If you’re used to 3’s clutter it’s PROBABLY the better game, I’m just not.
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