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2020 Part 2 Electric Boogaloo
Thursday, 07-Jan-21 07:10:22 UTC from web-
@scribus 2022 will be 2020 Part 3: Return of the King. The end will be very long and will end many times, and will have a war towards the end with the remaining forces of evil. But it will finally be a new age of mankind.
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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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So, when's the next episode of pony??
Wednesday, 06-Jan-21 23:40:36 UTC from web-
@adiwan Right about now, a mule kick in the junk sounds preferable to life in America
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I was viewing a house for purchase but as I stepped in it was worse and worse the further it got. The seller wanted almost 300000€ but the stuff to repair and renovate can be summed up to 100000€ with ease. It looked OK fine from the outside but inside the house showed every bit of horror. The rooms have cracks in the wall. The cellar reeks of oil and had water damage (apparently fixed but I don't believe it's over). The windows are leaky. The thermal isolation has to be improved all around. It needs a new heater in 10 years.
Monday, 04-Jan-21 17:46:07 UTC from web-
@adiwan Water damage is never *truly* fixed (he said with the full extent of his real estate "experience" being haunted house horror flicks)
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@scribus Yeah. It didn't bode when It was said that water pushed through the wall from the outside. There was a new isolating sheet installed but my suspicion alarm went off hard. There was only one side fixed and my fear was that the other sides were ticking time bombs.
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"Sleeveless trenchcoat" probably is not the look I imagine it to be
Sunday, 03-Jan-21 20:45:54 UTC from web -
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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Watched Shazam! yesterday on Netflix for the first time. It was... fine I guess. It didn't blew me away. Still a ton better than the other DC dumpster fires.
Thursday, 31-Dec-20 09:05:57 UTC from web-
@adiwan It was a bit cookie-cutter and obvious, but it was a lot of fun! I want more fun in my movies. I'm over the grit; I think I was there a bit too early, it's worn out its novelty, lol.
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@scribus It made attempts to be "fun", however I wasn't a big fan of the way it tried to present it. I got a huge character whiplash from Billy Batson in his normal and hero form. I've never had the feeling they were the same character. I can commend the jokes but they were not much of a hit for me.
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@adiwan I think that might be a lore problem, there have been times where the kid and hero were pretty separate beings (at least, as I've read online; no firsthand comic experience, here). But I can totally see that being a thing.
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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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Speaking of having nothing whatsoever to do, how fares the UK with its mutant COVID strain and tier-4 lockdowns?
Monday, 21-Dec-20 18:23:33 UTC from web-
@adiwan I get it mixed up sometimes too since I have no stake in it. The latest drama with Ireland is the EU wanting to check goods coming across the Irish Sea so companies can't dodge taxes by going through the North-South border, I think. I may have that mixed up. The UK is obviously mangoed off about that because North Ireland is part of the UK, obviously. I was talking to someone up there when I was in Belfast, and they gave the impression that it was going to cut them off economically and actively harm North Irelanders (at least from what my anxious mind was able to gather), which seems hilariously false if you think about it for two seconds. The goods will still flow, just not in the completely hands off way that the UK demands.
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@thismightbeauser Maybe I should say North-Republic border? I dunno
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@adiwan I thought that everyone involved would have demanded a pause on Brexit earlier this year, but it continues.
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So, SNL sure was live this Saturday night
Sunday, 20-Dec-20 07:38:48 UTC from web -
I decorated my fir tree in the shape of a rocket https://i.imgur.com/KiS5Me3.jpg
Friday, 18-Dec-20 15:02:07 UTC from web-
@adiwan Kind of reminds me of http://rainbowdash.net/url/875727
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"Making a title sound more impressive is a way of paying someone with something other than money." -Jonathan Blow
Friday, 18-Dec-20 06:35:51 UTC from web-
@oracle My title is "Lead Developer". It sounds way more impressive than I feel it represents my ability to actually lead.
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