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Boy am I glad that I drive a Toyota, morons have emptied all the gas stations around here because they’re afraid that gas is going to go extinct
Wednesday, 12-May-21 01:01:17 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Back in the 70s my Grandpa filled his F-150 up, then siphoned from it into his motorcycle.
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So the horse that won the Kentucky Derby failed a drug test. It's the fifth horse under this trainer to test positive in the last year. The trainer claims not to use any of these drugs on his horses, and that he (and his horses) are being wronged! I smell a Scooby-Doo setup here.
Monday, 10-May-21 22:04:48 UTC from web-
@scribus Personally I’m a pretty big fan of the argument that the woke left is canceling his horse
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i'm having a bit of a suicidal episode (unrelated to my pervious post) and i'm pretty sure it's an adverse after-effect of an over-the-counter mood relaxer I took earlier today, which is nice that i know what's causing it and how to avoid that in the future, but it doesn't help me RIGHT NOW, so that's fun
Sunday, 09-May-21 07:24:01 UTC from web -
Tiger Queen launching a cryptocurrency, inb4 the next Fallout launches with "bottlEcaps" crypto tie-in
Wednesday, 05-May-21 15:15:37 UTC from web-
@scribus Todd Howard announces at E3 that it directly ties into the flow of bottle caps in-game through an online server, which sounds cool in theory, but in practice everyone loses money because somebody figured out you could duplicate them by making your companion pick the world object up while you’re pressing the button at the same time.
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I’ve always subscribed to John K’s character design philosophy that more expressive > more consistent and that keeping a character exactly on-model all the time isn’t very fun to look at, so imagine my surprise when I learn that cartoon watchers these days not only want characters to be drawn the exact same way in every frame because if it’s not on-model it’s “lazy”, but they ALSO want those exact same faces to be redrawn every time because if you reuse a drawing that’s also lazy. What, exactly, is the point in redrawing things if you’re going to want it looking exactly the same as it did in the last shot, scene, or episode? We should all just use Flash puppets at that point and go back to 2008-era Newgrounds.
Monday, 03-May-21 23:47:03 UTC from web-
@scribus They don’t. I saw somebody claiming the other day that pre-digital stock footage was ok because you can’t reuse cels so they had to redraw the sequence it every time which is obviously 100% untrue. It’s based entirely on whether you personally like the show in question or not because subjectivity is out of style, there has to be an objective reason now why you don’t like it (“it’s lazy” being the most common one).
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@zeldatra OK now I can't grok how cels aren't supposed to be reusable, if anything it seems obviously and imminently reusable
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@scribus You’d think so, right? Ultimately the people who make those arguments have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about. Or they heard that Disney used to wash cels in the 60s when they were on the verge of bankruptcy and assumed that EVERYONE did that.
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Finally got around to "Sonic the Hedgehog." I bet that isolation montage at the beginning hit a little different fourteen months ago.
Friday, 30-Apr-21 06:53:58 UTC from web-
@scribus The plot of a small-town cop trying to move to a city with more crime so that he gets to shoot people hits different today too!
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Is this a bit? You don’t even have to get very far into it. There’s a 1970s Shake & Bake ad two minutes in.
Thursday, 29-Apr-21 08:00:20 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I remember VHS tracking bars in the DVD of "Meet the Feebles," and my "Mothra" DVD only fills half the screen and looks like an 18 FPS framerate, but that is something else, lol
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@scribus with such a massive library of stuff, a good 70% of which was super obscure and hard to come by to begin with, it's understandable that you have to use some weird sources since the original print is, in a lot of cases, not available, and they did do a really good job in a lot of areas - like managing to produce HD copies of things that were made decades ago - but it's insane to me that they didn't cut any of the commercials, especially since they DID cut contemporary movie trailers and multiple references to the NBC network, where it aired, from the same program. What was the editing standard?
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Got my second Fauci ouchie, only feeling slightly apocalyptic about gathering, masked, in the husk of the old department store where I used to get my school clothes
Wednesday, 21-Apr-21 19:13:45 UTC from web-
@scribus the relief that I felt when I got mine was so strong, I almost broke down right there in my store.
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In German the word for queue is "Schlange". It's the same word for the word "snake". "In der Schlange stehen" means "standing in the queue". Translating it literally it means "standing in the snake". I'm happy that the snake population in Germany is low enough that this expression doesn't mean anything bad except for wasting time.
Monday, 19-Apr-21 08:15:51 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I guess Florida does something to a human on a deep psychological level that the extraordinary becomes the mundane.
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@zeldatra Blue Oyster Cult claim that Florida is the way it is because of an ancient curse on the conquistadores https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIdntHAhTv0 #theMoreYouKnow
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Not to advocate violence, but wouldn't the world be a better place if more pranks videos ended with a college bro getting beaten to within an inch of his life?
Saturday, 17-Apr-21 00:48:40 UTC from web-
@scribus Only tangentially related, but i was always a big fan of this video by Lyle Wrath & Chris O'Neill which basically subverts YouTube "savior" culture where wealthy YouTubers will make a huge deal about it when they donate to charity or whatever. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875874
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@zeldatra I appreciate the satire, but it was a bit close to the bone for comfortable viewing, lol
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No, but seriously, playing through the entire series again after having (once again) beaten Metal Gear Solid V is making me appreciate the series’ side characters a lot more. It’s not ACTUALLY a series about Big Boss and his sons. It’s a series about Big Boss’s legacy and the people who were affected by it. In Metal Gear Solid, Snake works with Hal “Otacon” Emmerich. Thirty years earlier, in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Naked Snake works with his father, Huey, and they’re largely identical in most ways, so identical that one has to wonder for a minute if Snake was the only subject in the Patriots’ cloning program. But if you played MGS2, you already know they /aren’t/ the same because Huey goes nuts and drowns himself and tries to drown his stepdaughter in a vengeful murder-suicide after he catches his second wife molesting Hal. “Revenge” is explored in MGS5, where we learn that Hal & Huey are pretty much only identical in appearance.
Friday, 16-Apr-21 23:54:02 UTC from web-
In MGS5, Huey has a bad habit of stabbing literally everyone he knows in the back. He tries to put Otacon, two years old at the time, in the cockpit of Metal Gear Sahelanthropus to be a test pilot, which his wife objects to somewhat. Naturally, Huey puts his wife in a Peace Walker AI Pod and batcavein suffocates her. This is AFTER he had already betrayed Naked Snake and MSF by letting XOF come aboard Mother Base while Snake was off on a mission. THEN he betrays XOF to go work for Snake again. Then he bizarrely decides to let a vocal cord parasite loose on Mother Base because I guess betraying people is in his nature? What I’m trying to say is that Huey is an asshole. And we learned already that HUEY’s father was one of the designers of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. But Otacon isn’t really like either of them, to the point that by the end of the series, he’s like the only one of Solid Snake’s allies who hasn’t stabbed him in the back.
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man is not sleeping with minors really that difficult? I always found it very easy to not do that. It’s very very easy to not do that.
Wednesday, 07-Apr-21 23:20:21 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I mean if you're one of those older seniors in high school, maybe, but that's only for a slim window of time and anyway I was 17 at graduation
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@scribus talking about specifically YouTube stuff. One of the new Eddsworld showrunners just got outed as a serial groomer/abuser and it’s frustrating the hell out of me that there seems to be a new one of these every week.
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Binged through the whole series of "My Name Is Earl". I can somewhat understand why they pulled the cord and cancelled the series at the end of season 4. While fun it was kind of repetitive or insane and thus alienating any new watchers. Also it got increasingly serialized despite of its episodic nature at the beginning.
Tuesday, 06-Apr-21 19:43:25 UTC from web-
@adiwan Officially, the cancelation happened because of financial issues over at NBC from the then-recent recession. They had been given the go-ahead to start writing for a fifth season, which is why the fourth one ends on a cliffhanger.
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@zeldatra Sure. I have also read that. But when I look at the viewership numbers they were decreasing rapidly towards the end. I don't know what happened in April of 2009 but they might have spooked some people in the upper management in addition to the financial crisis. They could have at least resolve the cliffhanger and do a somewhat proper ending to the series.
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@adiwan TV Tropes mentions an official "What if" ending, per the creator. I like knowing that, even if they didn't get to film it.
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Bout to tell my boss to shove it. If I’m gonna go out like everyone thinks I am, I DON’T want it to be because of this stupid grocery store.
Sunday, 04-Apr-21 00:54:11 UTC from web-
@scribus I’m just fed up with the new management. These guys are total pricks. One’s a delegatory blowhard who wants me to do most of his job, and the other one is a crazy apple who acts like a crackhead.
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@zeldatra Wish I had better advice than "Try not to get caught screaming in the parking lot about how you'd applaud the news that the manager killed themself." Bad management is the worst, man.
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I’M NOT BEING MEAN, he’s legitimately inbred. It runs in the family apparently.
Wednesday, 31-Mar-21 22:12:10 UTC from web-
@scribus I’m always afraid I’ve done something to anger him, because on top of the fact that he’s like always glaring at me, one of the effects of his, uh, condition is that his fuse is shorter than the average bear’s. I always feel like he’s one misstep away from going apebanana on somebody
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State secessionist movements are really funny to me, a Virginian, for no particular reason...
Friday, 26-Mar-21 00:02:17 UTC from web-
@scribus the California split movement confuses the hell out of me, because you got Los Angeles/San Diego in the south, San Francisco/Sacramento in the north, and a loooootta Biden counties in between... you would need to create a really weirdly shaped state to change any kind of electoral momentum over there. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875860
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@zeldatra Yeah, I don't get it, either. I think it depends on the plan, too. Some call for North/South, others up to five (5). Mostly I just riff because I doubt it'll happen. :p
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Playing Metal Gear Solid again... I bodyslammed Meryl while she was disguised because I recognized her walk cycle and I wanted to see what would happen. Nothing happens, she just sprints into her next cutscene to prevent you from impeding her any further. And then she still claims to have gotten the jump on you.
Tuesday, 23-Mar-21 08:21:12 UTC from web-
@scribus This is why I always enjoyed the mostly-unscripted nature of the later Fallouts & Elder Scrolls. New Vegas particularly introduces you to a major antagonist (or ally, if you choose to go that route...) fairly early on, while you’re on your way to a story quest, and you can just let him do his thing, or, if you have the firepower, you can just FrankerZin shoot him and he won’t appear again for the rest of the game. (And then you can shoot his replacement later, too!)
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I was today years old when I learned that Twin Shadow is black.
Monday, 22-Mar-21 21:11:24 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Waitaminute, how the hell are YOU today years old when I'M today years old and I know I'm older than you are??
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here we...
Sunday, 21-Mar-21 22:32:19 UTC from web -
Why does Apple have to get interesting right when I'm gorram fed up with them???
Saturday, 13-Mar-21 01:22:18 UTC from web- Matt likes this.
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@scribus I thought the iPad was a Fluffle Puffing lame-ass joke when I was a kid and it was first coming out, it just seemed like a big iPhone, and it seemed even less necessary after iPhones started getting bigger, but now I feel like this is what they should have been marketed for all along.
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my new iPad arrived today and the first thing i drew to test out the pencil was a real blasty from the pasty http://rainbowdash.net/url/875850
Friday, 12-Mar-21 21:05:52 UTC from web-
@scribus honestly kinda surprised how natural it all feels, I don’t like the program I drew that image in but that’s ok because the full desktop version of my usual art program, Clip Studio, apparently works with the newer iPads so I went ahead and installed that, it’s pretty much perfect and I think it’ll make me a whole lot more productive. IMO for what I paid it’s actually a better purchase than an equivalently priced MacBook.
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Learned that the pharmacist at my store got yelled at by my boss because he gave me the covid vaccine that made me so sick I had to call out. Oops?
Monday, 08-Mar-21 20:23:19 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Your boss is just plain stupid. Any vaccine can provoke lessened symptoms of the disease, making one feel sick, although the strength of them can vary much.. For example the annual flu vaccine can do that as well. It's not an unusual or unheard side-effect of vaccines. Also, just from the cost-benefit side, he could have a bigger loss of productivity if you caught the real thing later. Also as an employer he has to be aware that anyone can sick at any time. It sucks but that's the job of an employer or manager to deal with sudden sick days.
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@adiwan I think the issue was more that it was completely unscheduled and out of nowhere so they didn’t have time to replace me when I was suddenly too ill to work the next day. In retrospect it was probably irresponsible of me to have taken it when I knew I had work the next day but like, hey, the vial was gonna go to waste otherwise.
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Need help on this script: BESIDES stuff from Marvel properties, what fictional landmarks would one find in New York City that a tourist would want to visit?
Sunday, 07-Mar-21 21:01:25 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Fry's Dog's Grave!
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@scribus Pannucci’s Pizza’s in now. Seymour’s been encased in dolomite for about a decade now.
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@mrmattimation I try not to dwell on that fact ;_;
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Just called out of work for the first time in like three years. Fever spiked to 102.5. Gonna take it easy today.
Saturday, 06-Mar-21 13:51:49 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation You went the whole-ass pandemic without dipping out? Man, take an extra one after the fever breaks, you deserve it.
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@scribus It’s difficult for me to justify calling out for anything less than an emergency because I’m the store’s closer and it’s hard to find other people willing to do that on such short notice for some reason.
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@mrmattimation I get that. I called out much less at the school cafeteria.
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Hey uh guess who just got a surprise Covid vaccine
Saturday, 06-Mar-21 01:35:40 UTC from web-
@scribus i literally was just walking by the pharmacy in my store and the pharmacist was like "hey Matt... we got one more dose left and i don't have any more appointments... want it?" was pretty much in the exact right place at the exact right time
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@mrmattimation Damn, sweet luck
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@mrmattimation You won the lottery!
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Also damnit I may need to learn Blender. Or some kind of free 3D wireframe making thing.
Wednesday, 03-Mar-21 00:43:41 UTC from web-
@scribus Blender is crazy easy to learn and there’s a lotta tutorials on YouTube, I’d give it a shot. The latest version has a real-time render engine too and most of its features are compatible with the other, slower, raytraced engine so if you have a halfway decent graphics card you can test materials and lighting situations and such fairly quickly.
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@mrmattimation Keen. Right now, I kinda just want to make a logo from my old karate school into 3D. It's been done, but I'd rather not steal someone else's. And I do have other things, like an attempt to create a visual model of the Self as a 4-dimensional being with extensions into the Minds of others like that whole NG:E last two episodes acid trip. I think it'll just end up looking like lightning or a neuron, though...
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I think we need to have a public discussion about The Doctor’s proclivity for picking up 19 year old girls, you’re over 2000, you can’t keep doing that
Wednesday, 24-Feb-21 09:20:10 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation So what I hear is, Dame Judi Dench for next companion?
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@scribus Or maybe someone who doesn’t look like they could be a student at Ridgemont High, yeah
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@mrmattimation The Dame has my vote, if she wants the gig
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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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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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