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Just washed some pro-Trump graffiti off of a bathroom stall and tbh I’m more mad at the brand of sponge I used (“EraserDaddy”).
Sunday, 23-May-21 00:38:56 UTC from web -
Anyway, on a brighter (and finally pony-relevant!) note, saw new MLP toys at the store. I was under the impression there had been some sort of reboot or relaunch, I think isn't it Pinkie-focused now? Anyway, was kinda surprised to see Twilight still as a princess, is all.
Saturday, 22-May-21 18:05:33 UTC from web-
@scribus There is a MLP series currently running called "Pony Life". It's the mane six in an Equestria with modern technology. The episodes are all 5 minutes long and the series' style is Teen-Titans-Go-ish. The story substance is very shallow as a result of this. Not horrifyingly bad, mostly meh.
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@adiwan Ooh, I actually kind of liked TTG, that sounds a bit fun but yeah, not substantial.
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they caught these two teenagers that have been going around robbing stores around town... somehow mine was the only one that didn’t get hit......... not that I had anything to do with it or anything, but let’s not ask too many questions now, alright?
Thursday, 20-May-21 08:26:55 UTC from web-
@scribus Nope, shoplifters just use the regular exits regardless. Nah, these kids were like showing up overnight, smashing the windows, and grabbing whatever cash they could before dipping (which, at my store, would have been about $900)
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@zeldatra Oh, damn dude! That's pretty outright. I just knew a guy who's crew used to target a specific store because the liquor was right by the fire door; their solution was simpler than reorganizing the store, but otherwise problematic, lol
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welp, i weigh 215 now... i was like 160 two years ago
Saturday, 15-May-21 19:32:56 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I'm pretty sure every pound I've ever lost found its way home with five friends ;_;
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That's how I remember it http://rainbowdash.net/url/875905
Saturday, 15-May-21 11:54:36 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@thelastgherkin Pretty much how it looked from the peanut gallery, too
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First thing I did when I got into work today was field a phone call from an angry customer about the CDC’s recent call that vaccinated individuals don’t need to wear masks anymore..... thanks for that one, guys
Thursday, 13-May-21 20:32:21 UTC from web -
Aaannd I now own an 8mm camera from 1962. Just $70 for 3 minutes of black-and-white footage!
Thursday, 13-May-21 16:37:48 UTC from web -
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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I was going through my local listings browsing for comics. About 60% is Manga, 20% Disney, 10% Marvel/DC, the rest mostly Astérix, Lucky Luke, and then random others. And everything almost exclusively in German. I found only a couple offers with comics that are in English. Somehow I prefer reading fiction in English.
Monday, 10-May-21 13:13:36 UTC from web -
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 -
App / Website Idea
A friend finder???
Step 1: Log in with Google, Facebook or Apple.
Step 2: Select your privacy settings.
Step 3: Add your personality defining likes. Interests, hobbies, ect.
Step 4: Add things you explicitly don't like to do or talk about.
Step 5: Get a list of people sorted by how a like they are to you and how close they are to you.Friday, 07-May-21 23:43:27 UTC from web-
@scribus Location would only show City. Privacy options would include display controls for name, social media links, city and few other. Most would be set to private by default.
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My All Dogs Go to Heaven animation cels got here today. First time I’ve ever bought one. Hoping to get some Bakshi originals next.
Friday, 07-May-21 22:03:46 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Nice! I keep threatening to spend my tax return on a cel from the Fritz scene in Wizards one year
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It's shocking how hard it is to find a decent and respectable portrait image of a Lizardfolk person with a female appearance without huge mammaries (or chestbumps), and in a realistic art style, and sufficiently clothed. I don't mind a little wider breast but it gets out of hand in a lot of images.
Wednesday, 05-May-21 21:12:46 UTC from web-
@scribus I get what you mean. I just wanted a slightly female-coded (to my monkey brain) lizard-woman that doesn't scream "look at my bewbs" or appears to be sexualized. The attached image is the one I will use as it is currently the closest to what I'm imagining for a female lizardfolk druid potion brewer. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875898
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@scribus Yeah. I took the image from https://www.artstation.com/artwork/361zm , removed the bottom half of the picture, AI upscaled it with http://waifu2x.udp.jp/ and enhanced the colors to match the other portraits of the other players that are used for the character tokens in Roll20.
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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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Californians, if you all get yourself into the position where you have to say “Governor Jenner” for the next two years I will be very disappointed in all of you.
Tuesday, 04-May-21 02:10:08 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Look, contrary to willfully ignorant opinion, I only get one vote, it can only do so much!!
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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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Actual chimpanzees stack these grocery pallets, there is no other explanation for why they’re consistently so bad
Thursday, 29-Apr-21 00:03:06 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I hear Jeff Bezos is working on training the really good climbers so that he can make his warehouses taller
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I don't imagine there's anybody still here who knows A from B on MUSH softcode? Just trying to pay the taxi driver, man....
Tuesday, 27-Apr-21 19:41:25 UTC from web -
Sup bois.
Tuesday, 27-Apr-21 01:22:35 UTC from web-
@tenebarius Angst levels. Et tu?
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I've cut into my fingernail of my index finger and have split the damn thing in half. No major injury. Only the fingernail itself is affected. The lack of structural integrity there feels soo odd and annoying. Even with nail polish holding it together (borrowed a transparent nail polish from my mother) it turns out to be an annoyance. At least I'm not afraid anymore of the split going any further.
Saturday, 24-Apr-21 09:39:15 UTC from web-
@scribus It's half as bad as it sounds. It's only a 5mm (1/5th inch) cut. I tried a new transparent matte nail polish and it looks almost as good as new, except for a little blood under the nail and a little bit of white around the cut. I applied 4 thick coats and the finger nail is usable for light work like scratching the nose.
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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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Looking into getting a security job at the local old folks’ home. Twelve hour days but only 3/4 days a week, and I’d mostly just be filling out paperwork.
Friday, 16-Apr-21 00:40:36 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Twelve on your feet sucks, but twelve on your butt is mostly boring (or good writing time!)
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I have “superior intelligence” but I still don’t 100% understand what makes Pickle Rick funny
Wednesday, 14-Apr-21 07:29:13 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Nothing. I enjoy anti-humor, and it isn't even that. It's like Musashi wrote, nothing IS a thing - a concept, or an awareness of absence. No-thing would be true nothingness, void, not even thought. Pickle Rick is no-humor.
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I feel like I'm one of the last ones reading/watching pony content.
Sunday, 11-Apr-21 13:39:00 UTC from web-
@adiwan I think my friends' 8-year-old might still? It may be on his Plex, maybe I could finally finish FiM...
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Watching "Way of the House Husband". Its animation is as minimal as it gets. It's more motion comic than usual animation. I guess they are fixed on recreating the manga panels. There are a ton of static images with pans and simple mouth animations. Sometimes there is a ton of shaking implying intense action but it looks odd when everything shakes but nothing moves. It's fine I guess but I had different expectations. Also an episode is divided into several smaller episodes that also recreate each manga chapter as closely as it can get. The pacing feels a tad off as the story starts and stops every 3 minutes.
Thursday, 08-Apr-21 19:12:47 UTC from web-
@scribus I've never seen any movie he created (directed or produced). The closest would have been the Toxic Avenger cartoon. Maybe I've seen the first Toxic Avenger but I have seen so many clips of the movie my memory isn't sure about watching it at all. All assimilated by popculture osmosis.
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@adiwan But Troma have managed to make feature films for a half-million dollar budget pretty reliably all the while, not inflation adjusted - $500,000 in 80s money for 80s movies, and still $500k in 2010s money for 2010s movies. And that has included some endearing jank, like a car flip/explosion they've used constantly since 1991 or so.
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As I am catching up with Bob's Burgers I noticed that I somehow skipped Season 5 when it aired.
Friday, 09-Apr-21 09:41:27 UTC from web
