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My D&D group adopted a Xorn, a gem-eating monster, and named it Ruby. We bought some Xorns to smuggle them to a mine in order to sell them there but we kept one, as my character was good enough in animal handling that it got tamed.
Sunday, 05-Jun-22 10:19:23 UTC from web-
@scribus He did not do that much of research and neglected eating enough mushrooms (doesn't like them much) and neglected using supplements.
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Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers looks like the Xbox 360 video game adaptation of Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers. BUT… it’s still a lot of fun. I enjoyed it, a lot more than I thought I would. If you have Disney+ and a couple of hours to kill, you could do a lot worse.
Saturday, 21-May-22 07:13:07 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I watched it on Friday. It was.... an experience. The plot was fine but what it made special was what the legal team was able to get and what the creators were able to get away with. The cel-shaded 3D characters and the occasional painted-over humans were grating.
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Avatar is the least-exciting hyped movie I can remember. Everybody praises the 3D viewing experience but I think the use of 3D is only so good because all other 3D movies did it wrong in a way or another. Story-wise it's a dud in my opinion. The plot is as transparent as the main protagonist is flat and uninteresting.
Tuesday, 10-May-22 04:44:44 UTC from web -
my second full day in England was spent asleep because I caught something on the plane. to whomever did that: you are a dick
Friday, 15-Apr-22 16:54:35 UTC from web-
@cabal Clip Studio is amazing, I do a lot of the animation in it now too on my iPad, I wish you luck on your artistic endeavors!
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I completed my laptop stand http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876122
Tuesday, 12-Apr-22 10:53:20 UTC from web- Sereno Garay Aguirre likes this.
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@adiwan And how it looks on my desk http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876123
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Most of them want me to activate a gift card for them to “test” the system or some other such nonsense, I’ll usually go through the steps they give me, asking lots of stupid questions along the way, and then when I’ve “activated” the card I just tell them the card number is “zero”. Most just hang up at that point. One guy audibly huffed and hung up. Another guy got so mad he cursed me out and asked why I didn’t just hang up the phone. Scam calls to me turn into prank calls very quickly.
Friday, 01-Apr-22 17:55:53 UTC from web -
@vernandex I am fed up by people doing the thing that perpetuates the current situation. Instead of getting it under control it is getting worse. I want it to be over but doing the opposite is madness.
Thursday, 31-Mar-22 09:15:24 UTC from web-
Saying Covid is over is not the same as Covid being actually over. Ignoring facts doesn't help. It makes things worse. I'm disgusted.
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@vernandex I always wonder why the party who asks "Why do you care?" cares, y'know? This door swings both ways, as the Hermits say.
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it is kind of a long shot, but are any of you nerds good with that Julia programing language?
Wednesday, 30-Mar-22 14:17:33 UTC from web-
@mushi A friend of mine uses Julia for his work. Personally I don't like it very much as it reminds me of Matlab and I dislike Matlab very much. Cannot help you there
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@vernandex i literally need everything xD.
I accidentally ended up on a course on it and it is my first contact with coding and i'm screwed xD
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i made this car in 2016, when I was 19. This is the first time the badging - a very mature nazi joke, poking fun at Mercedes-Benz' origins as a manufacturer - appears on screen. Going back and forth on whether or not I want to retexture it to remove that. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876094
Friday, 18-Mar-22 02:06:51 UTC from web-
@adiwan It’s to be expected, honestly. The US outlawed slavery long before most modern American companies got their start, and the ones that do go back that long are from New England which was less reliant on slave labor than other places, I’m sure if like Coca Cola existed in 1830 I’d be able to point at them and go “hey this company owned slaves”
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@zeldatra Considering the way scrip was manipulated, one could make an argument about company towns
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Elden Ring
Tuesday, 15-Mar-22 01:01:41 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark How the game has been received by the public it could have been a c*** ring.
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This sounds kiwied up but I’ve never helped a customer from the former Soviet Union who WASNT sending money for nefarious purposes.
Wednesday, 09-Mar-22 07:52:59 UTC from web-
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That relatable moment when you have to spend 40 minutes on the phone with Western Union because one of your customers is a Russian national on an international sanctions list sending money to saboteurs in Ukraine
Tuesday, 08-Mar-22 19:05:39 UTC from web-
@zeldatra It's surprising that people actually use Western Union. And if they do it is probably not legitimate. I always associate it as a service to send money to scammers or other fraudsters.
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@adiwan I live in a town with a super substantial population of middle-aged immigrants so most of them have no idea what Venmo is, they’ve been doing Western Union since the 90s so there’s no going back now
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Putin or more like Poo-Teen
Wednesday, 02-Mar-22 05:58:01 UTC from web-
@scribus My bad. I don't want to put poutine's name in vain. I just looked up how it is pronounced https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=de&text=%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD&op=translate It appears to sound more like "poot yen"
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ok so, the weirdest thing happened these days. a girl i had never seen before added me on FB, then i accepted because whatever
then some hours later she posted a stories saying that she'd show her mangoy to any long haired guy who wanted to see
then i haha'd her storied, she came in my DMs and said she'd send me her pics if i sent her mine, then i said "lol, no, i'm not sending you those pics", but she sent hers anyway
then later she started asking me to let her use my paypal account to recieve payments from the gringos she sold packs to, i said i wouldnt and taught her how to open her paypay account
she got angry, called me rude and unfriended me.
where do those people even come fromTuesday, 22-Feb-22 10:18:19 UTC from web-
@mushi It appears to be some kind of overcomplicated and poorly thought out catfishing phishing.
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found a squatter in one of the unused locker rooms upstairs… well, now we know why the motion alarm’s been going off at night
Saturday, 19-Feb-22 01:01:54 UTC from web-
@zeldatra WTF. It always appeared to me that the Malcolm In The Middle episode where Malcolm lived secretly in a store (and an adult man was also living there) was more unreal than real.
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I think I can remove the idea out of my head to get a proper keyboard smartphone ever again. I guess the next upgrade will be a soulless slab. I guess also it'll be a Google Pixel or similar with a reasonably good outlook for software updates.
Tuesday, 15-Feb-22 17:06:08 UTC from web-
@adiwan I've been eyeballing a Pinephone https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_(Pro)_Keyboard because I seem to thrive in self-induced misery lol
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@scribus I believe that I'll be quite unhappy with a phone from a niche manufacturer. TCL's Blackberry phones are the minimum quality I expect and that one does not fill me with confidence. Also I don't want a fold-out keyboard. At max I can live with a slider style or whatever the HTC Desire Z was.
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@adiwan Yeah, failing a better solution I've side-eyed a KeyTWO, new-old-stock. Sliding horizontal keyboard is probably still my favorite, I had an old LG (Ally?) that did that.
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I think it’s time to revisit this idea http://rainbowdash.net/url/876064
Tuesday, 15-Feb-22 00:47:33 UTC from web- Әлібек Индира likes this.
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on one hand using AI to replicate actors’ and musicians’ voices is like really weird and shady and isn’t going to end well, but on the other hand, as an internet creator, it seems like a golden opportunity to parody movies that get popular artists to perform marginally related songs for the soundtracks by performing some stupid, tongue-in-cheek blockbuster-style song about Undertale and then using AI to replace my voice with Eminem or something like that.
Friday, 11-Feb-22 08:33:13 UTC from web-
@zeldatra You don't have to go that far. A friend of mine uses Text To Speech (AI assisted or not) for his game jam games. It is often a blessing not to hear the programmer doing the voices. I played too many game jam games where a non-native and heavily accented English speaker tries to speak into a crappy gaming-microphone in the most monotone and least engaging way. I genuinely think that the TTS from google at http://translate.google.com delivers better an emotion than these crappy attempts.
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@zeldatra I'm seriously curious if four years of narrating a podcast has made my voice public enough to theoretically steal
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I got a monitor and docking station from work. Now I can live the multi-monitor life at home!
Wednesday, 09-Feb-22 18:15:35 UTC from web-
@adiwan I've got a 7" monitor I've tried dual-ing with. It's a lot nicer than the 3" built-in screen on my camera, but really insufficient for modern desktop use lol
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@scribus Haha. Are you using an external display for a video camera? It is surely a great help keeping oneself in the shot when no cameraman is available.
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@adiwan Yeah, I had bought it for "selfie-ing" I guess, lol. But I've had some success using it for stationary photography (like birds on the bird feeder) where it lets me see much better to begin with and lets me be sure of the shot before I hit the remote switch.
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I'm at a point that if the destination is within 4km I rather use the bike. Well... Only if it's not pouring rain. I bought a rain poncho and have it always in my backpack but it's already uncomfortable enough when the moisture accumulates under my jacket. I don't need more from the outside.
Friday, 28-Jan-22 19:03:25 UTC from web-
@adiwan My poor bike got so rusted and sun-destroyed over the pandemic, but I also just can't ride the damn thing anywhere. Super jealous, lol
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@scribus Oh yeah. The USA is not very bike friendly from all the videos I've seen. I'd be terrified to cycle there and would do only that on the sidewalks if at all. To protect my bike from the elements and thieves I always put it back into the cellar. It takes a few minutes to put it in and out but at least it'll last a bit longer. A neighbor has a steel frame bike and it has developed an even rust coating.
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@tetrahedron As far as I know there are no active users here at the moment who come from Canada, except for you.
Wednesday, 26-Jan-22 07:53:52 UTC from web-
@adiwan There may be a Canadian or two to pop back in every couple of months, but I don't know if any of them were from/around Montreal
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The Eternals movie was a dud. The actors were all good but the plot and direction were my main issues. Good that I didn't waste my money going to the cinema for that.
Thursday, 13-Jan-22 18:39:20 UTC from web-
@adiwan I've heard it was pretty aggressively "meh," I'm kind of over most of the Marvel movie scene right now.
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Suddenly curious how many people who were perfectly into "everypony" can't handle "they/them"
Sunday, 09-Jan-22 21:30:50 UTC from web-
@scribus <sarcasm>It's "everycreature" now because "everypony" is excluding all the other species.</sarcasm>
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I tasted wine and it gave me the impression of vinegar.
I tasted champagne and it gave me the impression of very stingy vinegar.
I tasted beer and it gave me the impression of half-digested and thrown-up bread.
I tasted mead and it gave me the impression of acetone.
I tasted vodka and it gave me the sensation of a burning esophagus.
I think alcohol will never be a thing I can enjoy like any normal person. I am not sad about it. I'm just curious why it is as it is.Tuesday, 04-Jan-22 18:05:13 UTC from web-
@scribus I have not. I've tried some variants like OJ with vodka. At this point I just give up.
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Is next year A New Hope or Rogue One?
Saturday, 01-Jan-22 20:12:02 UTC from web-
@scribus It's only over after "The Sneeze Strikes Back" and "The Return of the Fauchi"
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Nowadays I'm pretty much #HorseFamous on twitter http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/763113
Friday, 06-Jun-14 06:58:51 UTC from web-
@lyokotravels the context for this post didn't age well has it.
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@lyokotravels Most things don't age well beyond a certain point. Fruits, vegetables, one's own body....
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Petition to classify vaporware as a cryptid
Monday, 27-Dec-21 18:54:04 UTC from web-
@scribus I'd imagine more a creature that affects people/corporations to become greedy with ambitions that results in vaporware. I imagine a millipede and snake hybrid (tail end rattle snake, body millipede, head snake with fangs) with large bug antennae with floofy balls at the ends. The cryptid uses the floofy balls to distract the victim and hide its hideous body and then bits the victim at the back of the head. The fangs inject some kind of venom that causes the feature creep/greed, which itself causes headaches and frustration. That is the nourishment it needs to asexually reproduce itself and affect others in the company.
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@scribus As any good cryptid should be. A hideous creepy crawler that "explains" a bad thing in life and that multiplies itself by inflicting more of the bad thing.
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Enjoyed s4 of Aggretsuko.
Monday, 20-Dec-21 06:37:40 UTC from web-
@scribus I perceived the season more on the meh side. As much I appreciate the layoff narrative and commentary I think that the season was a little bit all over the place. The aftermath of the idol career was extremely side-lined and Retsuko's relationship plot with Haida was weirdly piecemealed. The rest was fine.
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@adiwan Yeah, it wasn't the best season, but it helped pull me out of my funk for a while. I agree it felt scattered, like they were told this would be the last and they needed to cram two seasons into one. By the end I almost missed having a job, but that's probably just the two++ years of isolation talking, heh
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Dangit, the tail end of this batch of cookies started separating while I was baking the first half
Wednesday, 15-Dec-21 05:18:39 UTC from web-
@scribus I have the same feeling about oven-baked potato fries where 1/3 is about to get turned into charcoal, 1/3 is good, and the last 1/3 is barely done and the opposite of crispy.
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It's not that Germany has also its fair share of dumbass politicians *sigh*
Wednesday, 08-Dec-21 21:26:34 UTC from web-
@scribus I'm not enthused. I wasn't happy with Merkel, at least she tried not to F-up everything. I'm not seeing that the replacement is going to be remotely good. Christian Democrats are here the right wing conservatives, and don't share much with my political ideology. I'm more left-leaning and a Pirate Party voter. At least I can say that I didn't vote for the dumbasses that are in power.
