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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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Watched "Kill la Kill" and it was awful. Despite positive reviews my experience was not good. It contains huge and obvious plot holes. I can stretch my suspension of disbelief so far. It had some good characters in there but the plot weighted all down like an elephant on a cardboard box.
Wednesday, 17-Feb-21 17:38:15 UTC from web-
@adiwan Yeah, that one's much more about antics and story than plot. And fanservice. Like, to such a core extent one wonders if it's even "service" anymore, lol.
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@scribus The fanservice was the least of my problems with it. The plot is so convoluted it hurts my intelligence. Sentient alien thread accelerates the evolution of humans so they can wear clothes, Then the thread is used to make super-powered magic clothes. Then the bad guys use the thread in normal clothing to enslave/transform humanity while the good guys have also thread on their bodies. Then the master plan is to engulf the earth with the magic thread so to make it pop and burst more thread into the universe. And then the whole school thing and trying to conquer other schools is also the dumbest thing in the series. Where is the military? Where are state officials? It's certainly concerning when there are huge military-grade fights all over the country without any consequences. My suspension of disbelief can handle only a limited amount of BS before it turns against the piece of fiction.
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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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I'm afraid that "Coming 2 America" will suck. The first film is my all-time classic feel good movie. The trailers don't bode well.
Thursday, 11-Feb-21 10:10:37 UTC from web-
@adiwan But Eddie Murphy is playing four characters, that never means schlock and broad slapstick!!
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The first computer I used was a Commodore Plus/4 and the first I owned was a 286 Compaq Portable III.
Monday, 08-Feb-21 19:29:19 UTC from web-
@scribus I was too small to remember but my parents said that it was sold soon very soon as it was mostly incompatible with the C64 software library.
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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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Great! My car was stolen. A serious medical emergency and I get a BINGO on my Bingo card.
Friday, 05-Feb-21 16:21:03 UTC from web-
@scribus And I bought all the parts for repairing my rear window wipers. The car has a completely full tank. Luckily there aren`t any expensive or personal objects in there. I have contacted my insurance and I was at the police. I hope I get a good cash out for the car to buy a new used one.
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@adiwan oh, I totally misread that, too. I had somehow construed it to mean that both were, collectively, a single square on the card... haha
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@scribus I guess it's an eldrich and cursed Bingo card that slowly merges all squares into one.
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Man I sure would love to go bowling again sometime before my entire right side gives out :-/ lol
Friday, 05-Feb-21 05:08:34 UTC from web-
@scribus You can try Irish Road Bowling or also known in other regions as Klootshießen, Klootsheeten, (Straßen-)Boßeln, or Boccetta su Strada. Make the world your bowling alley!
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sword nerd lol https://youtu.be/vI6gbaWO7lY
Monday, 01-Feb-21 02:13:11 UTC from web -
On the night from Thursday to Friday I had to call the police because a drunk person with an empty vodka bottle slept and snored on the staircase about next to my apartment. Probably one of my hate neighbours acquaintances. Then the next two days were extremely noisy and I had to call the police 3 times. In the span of the 3 days I was awake for 44 hours straight.
Sunday, 31-Jan-21 16:44:48 UTC from web-
@adiwan Ugh, that's painful... I think I got 3 hours of sleep in 72+ hours the last time "Sage and Savant" did a live show.
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And it turns out that there ARE places where I could get some, and the weather today isn't nearly as bad as it was forecast to be, but I'm in sweatpants and cozy at home
Friday, 29-Jan-21 17:53:21 UTC from web-
@scribus Locally here I'd try visiting some artistic craft stores but I guess it'd be of limited success. But they are closed anyway.
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Gee for some reason it's not easy to find sealing wax in the store, almost as if wax seals are some kind of anachronism or some junk
Thursday, 28-Jan-21 23:06:53 UTC from web -
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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Maybe I try participating in the lottery. Only 6 numbers out of 49. Only a chance of 1 in 140000000 for winning the jackpot. It's more likely I get killed by a rogue falling coconut or a shark or a lightning bolt.
Tuesday, 26-Jan-21 20:14:06 UTC from web-
@adiwan Maybe we can make you out to be a vague European prince and work something with them...
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@scribus Yeah. A lot of US citizens are very bad about geography (I've heard) so it'll make it quite easy.
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@adiwan I myself tend to peter out around "...Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Guyana and still..." before "Ecuador, Chile, Brazil!" and kind of losing the thread again.
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Well I just got to see falling snow for the first time in my life, and in my own back yard at that! It did not stick around, nor was it even enough to show up on my phone camera. But it sure was cold and wet!
Monday, 25-Jan-21 23:51:41 UTC from web-
@scribus Coincidentally it snowed here too but the snow remained and left a 1cm thick layer on my car. And today I had to use the car. Luckily it was already starting to melt so removing it was quick. I'd like to see how you react when 3mm diameter hail falls down from the sky.
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@adiwan We get little hail a couple times every few years or so. It tends to stop offices and empty classrooms as everyone stops to gawk and frolic, lol.
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@scribus Haha. It's not often that it hails at my place. But every time my father tells me to drive the car under a bridge because he fears of hail damage. And I tell him that when it starts to hail heavily it's already too late.
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Also the general inevitability of is pretty off-putting. Less terrifying on a bus than a train, easier to stop, able to swerve... like that time I almost ran over a doofus on a skateboard in all black with the hoodie up at night - WHEN THERE WAS A BIKE LANE they coulda been in!! ugh, people sometimes....
Sunday, 24-Jan-21 17:49:54 UTC from web-
@scribus It's also not fun being almost a victim of being run over. I can count about a dozen of events when I or the driver weren't paying attention. 3 were last year from suffering neighbour-induced insomnia.
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@adiwan The roads systems have become a frightful failure on just about every front. I used to enjoy driving, heh
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16 hours until my on call duty ends and thus my week long paranoia. Literally I couldn't poop without having the fear someone calls. At least the paranoia gives me a modest extra more to my bank account.
Sunday, 24-Jan-21 16:53:33 UTC from web-
@scribus Due to the lack of projects that I want to make, and a lack of projects in general that involves my interests and expertise, I had to take this to keep me billable to clients. I shudder to the thought as well but it pays even when I get no call.
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Now I need a table saw and a scroll saw and a belt sander and a lathe and a drill press and a mill and a .... I'm becoming a man one power tool at a time.
Friday, 22-Jan-21 19:17:57 UTC from web-
@adiwan More! Power!! https://youtu.be/kBNPAJLhKZ4
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Seems a nearby city council has declared *all* businesses as "essential"
Thursday, 21-Jan-21 16:50:59 UTC from web -
I'm too much of a pacifist to rampage. But oh boy I do feel I'm about to rampage.
Wednesday, 20-Jan-21 07:01:36 UTC from web-
@scribus Carb Coma makes me angry with myself. Also my stomach will do the rampaging.
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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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Burning your tongue on hot tea.
Thursday, 14-Jan-21 17:46:59 UTC from web-
@scribus Just happened to me. I poured steaming hot tea into my mug and didn't put a thought into waiting for it to cool down for a short while. But other to the actual case of that happening it's a great idea for using it as a metaphor for various things. Your interpretation fits it well. It can also applied to saying things that are potentially false or need more time to be sure they are not.
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@adiwan It's always pizza and the roof of my mouth for me, but coffee does run a close second.
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@scribus Pizza was also a problem for me. Thankfully I haven't burnt myself with pizza (and its cheese) for a long time. Those burns last for days. Whenever I make or buy pizza I am paying attention to the amount of fat and cheese it has, which are always the culprit. So in the case of making pizza myself I cover the pizza lightly with cheese that that there is not a thick layer that can keep the molten lava hot long after it's out of the oven. I like thin and crispy pizzas anyway. The more cheese and fat the soggier they are and the harder the slices are to handle and eat. I bake my pizzas such that the bread is stiff enough the pizza (slice) can hold up itself.
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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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Watched this documentary on "deep time" and human history last night. It was all like, "Columbus set sail because 5 billion years ago a planetoid hit proto-Earth, causing the axial tilt which resulted in the weather patterns which led to spices growing in India. Meanwhile, the Portuguese got rich off of a dying star 7 billion years ago, which resulted in a silver deposit in modern-day Mexico..."
Wednesday, 13-Jan-21 20:41:07 UTC from web-
@scribus And then the Saudis got rich because a bunch of dinosaurs and old plants decided to rot below the earth and turn into a slimey liquid.
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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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I have banned Donald Trump from the Rainbow Dash Network
Saturday, 09-Jan-21 09:46:35 UTC from web- Scribus and ric drasin like this.
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@thelastgherkin Who else can teach the yellow tan monster friendship?
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@adiwan Iiiiii think he's just gonna have to be imprisoned in the statue garden for a couplefew thousand years...
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I haven't eaten an "Amerikaner" for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_white_cookie Here it's mostly sold with only white glazing.
Friday, 08-Jan-21 19:54:35 UTC from web-
@scribus I'm not a pumpkin guy but I imagine a simple chunky butter wheat cookie covered with a sugar glazing and small caramelized pumpkin chunks.
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@adiwan I'm actually using a basic sugar cookie, plus some gourd puree and relevant spices, a little maple syrup. So far, so good. Last time I was out of cinnamon so they were a bit more like ginger snaps than pie, like I'd hoped, but the texture was great and they worked even without the cinnamon. May cut down the cloves, though...
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I was sooo optimstic that everything would be over sooner. I was thinking it'd be like SARS and MERS when it comes to the global impact. Serious but much more contained. How foolish I was.
Friday, 08-Jan-21 16:36:52 UTC from web
