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If only I had the pull to make #fakeMontag trend online....
about 9 months ago from web-
@scribus A Tuesday after a long work-free weekend is a fake Monday to me. It's not a Monday but surely feels like one.
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Job had it gorram easy
about 9 months ago from web-
@adiwan Well, yes; and - I briefly thought I'd lost it before even starting, too! We have termites at the house. The job is work-from-home. I cannot leave for a fumigation in my first month! But there's an alternative treatment that can hold them off until work will allow me three days away. And then, that post, I had meant "Job" like the proper-noun Bible Guy because HAHA here I am thinking I got pre-cherryed for no reason other than God likes torturing his Sims. But I guess it's OK. But I also feel like crap because I panicked and got shouty and hit the walls and scared the cat and dog.
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@scribus Congrats and BIG OOF. I know exactly what you're getting through. One good thing happens and 10 bad follow on its heels. Termites on the other hand seem to be like a biblical plague in comparison.
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Official RGG Summit prediction: they’re skipping Yakuza Kiwami 3, going straight to Dead Souls
about 9 months ago from web-
@zeldatra At this point they are rather remaking 1 and 2 again but with the RPG mechanics from 7 and 8 than overhauling 3. Realistically I see them showing some new footage from Stranger Than Heaven. Maybe they'll announce a new Gaiden game. A Gaiden game with Saejima as protagonist would be the most probable one if any. Personally I would like one with Akiyama and Hana-Chan.
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Well that's a neat piece of old animation history that's new to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG6mqAwGnY8
about 9 months ago from web -
Finally my new smartphone arrived, the Xperia 10 VI, for 250€. 100€ less than I tried to order in May. Now I'm transferring all my data. Only hassle is that I can't use my old SD card because it wants to format it. Have a spare one and it is fine.
about 9 months ago from web-
@scribus Now I'm jinxed and will let it fall down and dent it next time I take it into my hands. That's what happened with my Blackberry KeyOne on day 2 of ownership. It has a small dent at the top edge and its black anodized coating got off at the spot of impact.
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Database Error begone!
about 9 months ago from web-
@adiwan Turns out if you don’t set binary log expiration in MySQL and leave it unattended for about 10 years you eventually run out of disk space
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@ceruleanspark Ah... Makes sense. At a project I was working on they had similar issues. They logged EVERYTHING and had space issues in production. So much so that they had to make rotating logs but soon after so much was logged that the rotating logs would only save about 2-3 hours and yet more and more logging was added. My code had also very verbose logging that could be disabled but the client wanted even that output all the time. Coincidentally their DB views got so big that certain joints in some applications suddenly stopped working because it had too many columns. It was quite the ordeal to debug that.
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I figured I was good to do another Trump thing because he was in Virginia yesterday but uhhhh now the White House is saying “The President” has an announcement tomorrow. Don’t screw me man. I already have the assets made.
about 9 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Maybe he finally releases the Epstein files but instead it's the infamous pee pee tape.
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A Nation In Mourning
https://youtu.be/rvnCfCkFzr8
about 9 months ago from web -
Woke up seeing a horrible blob of death at my 3d-printer's nozzle that has engulfed a vast amount of the hotend.
about 9 months ago from web -
On the other hand Tigerella (red tomatoes with yellow-ish stripes) are not that bad and they pump out a lot but they are not my preferred taste with their very juicy and sour notes. If I prepared salads they would have been ideal for that. A Polish sort called Malina on the other hand was described as very sweet and juicy but in my garden they turned out to be dull in taste. The same with a sort called Japanese Crab (it's from Russia) that is not much of a shower in the flavor department. Marmande (from France) is still a very solid all-rounder that I don't mind for being mid in everything. Harzfeuer (German) is also mid but the fruits are a little bit too small for me. Roma tomatoes (Italy) are quite hard, almost like a soft bell pepper and have little juice which makes them eating on bread less desirable. Adora tomatoes that I tasted were also not bad but lacked the qualities it is advertised as with its smoky taste. For me it's a watered-down Black Krim atm.
about 9 months ago from web-
@adiwan Roma tomatoes seem to get used a lot in salad out here, I like them for burgers or sandwiches because they're usually firmer and less juicy, easier to cut and they don't soggy things up. Those tiger ones sound interesting.
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@scribus Ah. That's a very good point. This is a good use-case for all the Roma fruits to be used up. Gonna buy beef patties and some buns tomorrow. As for Tigerella I have the UK sort that has small, cherry-sized, fruits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigerella (about 2 - 2.5 fingers wide).
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"Superman" was really good, "Weapons" also was good, and damn it even the "Tron: Ares" trailer looked good in spite of the Jared Leto-ness of it all
about 10 months ago from web -
Turn-based combat is king. All those attempts to do a hybrid approach are failing in my opinion. I think Diablo has poisoned these games with the fancy real time hack and slash combat. I like D&D for intense strategy combat and not for the real-time hectic confusion. I have a party of 4 people against 5-10 enemies. I am too slow to even judge the situation and make a good decision.
about 10 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Yeah. The companion AI might also do a lot of heavy lifting there too. Imagine how bad it would look like if the other characters were potatoes and did the worst decisions. In BG3 I was peeved off any time (out of combat obviously) whenever a character stepped into a trap or dangerous zone. I had to reload and redo a fight because a NPC character completely out of my control stepped into an AOE effect (Moonbeam spell) that was active when every enemy died. Then due to that dumbness the NPC went hostile against me because he was that dumb.
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@zeldatra Hearing about the new battle system actually piqued my interest in playing the remake, I'd previously been put off by hearing about the plot changes
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I think people should be allowed to use whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable in. That's why I walk up two flights of stairs to use the bathroom that's always empty.
Thursday, 23-Feb-17 17:07:57 UTC from web -
I recently put on a very old piece of clothing that has been washed with scented detergent and it hit my nose really hard. For about 4 years I use detergent without any perfumes. My nose couldn't handle the stench of "freshness" companies try to sell to customers.
about 10 months ago from web-
@adiwan Are you saying you don't think that fresh smells like a rotting strawberry soaked in rubbing alcohol?!
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@scribus Thank you. You have described the scent pretty well. I was lacking myself the words to describe the mango. I am happy that I found shampoos that are based on olive-oil that don't overwhelm me and give me headaches.
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This is me speaking about fashion options as a dude who wears almost exclusively graphic t-shirts and jeans (or sweat pants at home).
about 10 months ago from web-
@scribus It reminds me that I need a new suit for special occasions. Last time I bought one was 10 years ago. My proportions have shifted a bit.
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@adiwan I was so grateful that my recent job interview was online so I could wear mismatched slacks with a jacket I couldn't actually button and nobody could tell
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@scribus To my in-person interview in September 2017 for my current job I wore a graphic t-shirt with a sailship being attacked by a kraken, griffin, and a sea serpent. However the graphic t-shirt with an astronaut using a half-moon as a rowboat for an interview at IBM was unsuccessfull. The reasons were mainly that they wanted a Java-focused developer and not one preferring C/C++/C#.
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I have some gherkin plants but they grow too few fruits to make it viable to pickle them. Some are giant while other fruits are barely grown. I'd need thrice as many as I have now to have a good selection of mid-sized gherkins at a time and enough to make it worth the process to put them into the pickle jars. So far I have given them away or ate some myself. I'm not a fan of fresh gherkins but at least they are better in taste than store-bought.
about 10 months ago from web-
@adiwan Gherkin mention
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@thelastgherkin Unsolicited gherkin pic https://i.imgur.com/EHgptpy.jpeg This one is about 15cm long. Similar ones I harvested were about 250g in weight.
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the king of the hill revival is pretty good
about 10 months ago from web-
@zeldatra i binged it across two days. i was dreading it based on the teasers having jokes about masks/vegans/bathrooms but peggy calling herself "female-presenting" got an actual laugh out of me
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@tiff Hank Hill going up against a manosphere incel is something I never thought I’d see and it still felt right
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@zeldatra lost my mind a little seeing an actual beta meme and hearing valorant mentioned
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I continue to find myself surprised by my aim. Today I shot a long gun for the first time and even though my stance was probably awful my spread was tight.
about 10 months ago from web -
Nothing quite makes me wish I could've known a person like beating life expectancy and then checking out in a homemade helicopter accident, he sounds like he was party as batcave https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/russian-man-88-dies-after-homemade-helicopter-falls-apart-on-takeoff/
about 10 months ago from web-
@scribus Whenever I see home-made helicopters I already flinch by the sole thought of touching one. They look soo flimsy and with safety third in mind.
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I have finally a working 3D printer! I bought a used Prusa MK3S for 250€. It's about the current price it goes for but for me it's a bargain, as it is the start of the end of many of my printer problems. I want a work horse, reliable, not super fancy, but it does the work, neither exceptionally but competently. Also it's my first direct-drive extruder which will enable me to print with flexible material like TPU at 95 shore hardness.
about 10 months ago from web-
@scribus Thanks. The previous owner had printed a test print just before I arrived to demonstrate that it works, and I believe him fully that it always was without any problems. However, There is a lingering thought in my head that is slowly getting louder saying that my luck (more misfortune) will make it to an object with the same amount of problems as I had before. Joking aside, I think it will take me a little bit of time to get it to know and know its limitations and quirks. It uses a magnetic spring steel sheet with a PEI layer as the print bed surface, which can be really tricky to print with PETG, that is my preferred material. It tends to destroy the PEI coating of the print surface when not being carefully handled.
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I'm at the end of Act 2 of Baldur's Gate 3. WHO DESIGNED THIS PIECE OF CRAP ENCOUNTER?!?!?! It is impossible.
about 11 months ago from web-
@adiwan The skeleton thing? I went through that one just fine but I guess that's the advantage of a cleric/pally heavy party
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@scribus Wait until you try Wrath of the Righteous.
Pathfinder in general is number crunching hell since its first edition, but WotR takes it a step further crowning itself as the most number-crappy TTRPG I've played so far.
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@nerthos It was the fight. My party had a Ranger with the teleport moth swarm (my character), a cleric (Shadowheart), a wizard (Gale), and a barbarian (Karlach). My damage output was too low and all of them failed their saving throws more times than statistically possible.
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I see that Tesla calls their front trunk the "frunk," in places that call it the boot is it the "froot?"
about 11 months ago from web -
I'm the weirdo blasting orchestral soundtracks out of the rolled down car window next to the guy with the mega subwoofer in the other lane.
about 11 months ago from web-
@adiwan I have at some point been driving around, windows down and "Phantom of the Opera" up
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@scribus I'm a more simpler man: I had Grasslands de Chocobo from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on slightly than higher volume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN8W9Ng-P4U
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What are the natural forces in video games that reset a room upon exiting and entering it again? Why aren't these forces resetting the puzzle upon entering? Is it related to infinitely spawning enemies and why is the law of conservation of energy and mass violated? Why are some people/creatures fading out of existence upon death and some need to be buried? It'd be interesting if a piece of media told a story that tries to explain odd and common video game stuff.
about 11 months ago from web-
@scribus Never seen that piece of entertainment but I know its infamy as it was told among the whole nerdom and it was cursed by all its witnesses spew out toxic because of the end.
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I could swear on my life 40 was spelled fourty and not forty. I have known English for the majority of my life and for some reason I Mandela-effected myself into believing that it was written with a *u*. It made more sense because of the *u* in fo*u*r. Without the *u* it looks like an adjective to the word "fort", like "Your forty house is well-secured against a horde of zombies."
about a year ago from web-
@awl The way we spell "forty" is stupid. Like it's "Four" and "Fourteen" so it really should be "fourteen"
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@elli It's really so common and obvious that we could probably stand to officially change it, I mean it's not like Webster's is making the rules, nothing but convention and mental inertia behind it
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@elli no we don’t let foreigners dictate how we spell words. English is to never change ever.
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I’m not proud of this but I’ve been playing the Gex Trilogy for most of the night
about a year ago from web-
@zeldatra GEX 3D: Enter The Gecko was awesome. I had to guy a 3DFX Voodoo graphics card to get the game to work back in the day. It was the best Mario 64 replacement a PC gamer could have without owning a N64.
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just voted. Tactically, both of the men I supported are black, which removes the possibility of me having accidentally platformed a guy who did blackface… again…
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I don't like what I was seeing the the Naked Gun trailer.
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan I laughed exactly once at the OJ joke in the first trailer but I have been unimpressed otherwise.
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@zeldatra I got a slight chuckle at max out of this. I feel like the stuff in the trailer was off-putting serious in tone while being off-putting outlandish in the next. I don't remember the originals being like that. Also I don't like that he is so trigger happy for a comedy film. I guess, according to the Youtube comments, it will be a moderate success, as I have seen a ton of positive comments. Cinema is dead, I guess.
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The mystery of the mysterious poop in my garden has been solved. A few weeks ago I was cleaning up some poop from behind my grill. Before that I had some poop on my lawn. Today I found the culprit: A hedgehog. Somehow there is a hole somewhere in the fencing and a hedgehog found its way in my garden. I encountered it when I was checking for rain to collect in buckets. While that I found the hedgehog standing absolutely still on my lawn. I grabbed a few sticks and pushed it gently out of my gate since I don't know where it could exit otherwise and I am certain that it wouldn't survive in my garden.
about a year ago from web-
@scribus Words like "go away" and "idiot" were uttered. That stupid stubborn little piece of poop and spiky bristles either didn't move at all or it moved quickly back to under the bush to make the whole process comically on repeat. 10 minutes for a distance of 1.5 meters.
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@adiwan I spent half an hour yesterday chasing a duck around the yard, also on account of poop. I warned it for months that the pool wasn't going to keep me out forever, and yesterday was the point where I finally said "Oh ho, it's Speedo time," stripped down to my underwear, and cannonballed on about a meter away from it.
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I gotta say… every time I see an F-150 in DC I gotta ask wtf these dudes are doing
about a year ago from web-
@zeldatra Compensating and pretending they need the flat bed for the off-chance to transport something big enough to warrant the purchase and ignoring trailers are a thing.
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