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I'm somewhat relieved reading news. This year selling fireworks is forbidden in my city (igniting them is not). Every year it's a nuisance seeing all the garbage on the streets rotting away for months as well as smelling all that sulfur for days after New Year's. Yeah... I'm a party pooper in this regard but all the other people poop on me with their inability to pick up trash.
Tuesday, 01-Dec-20 17:34:21 UTC from web-
@adiwan My family always kept at least one big bucket of water handy, dunked all the spent fireworks, and tossed the trash out properly for 4th of July, how damn hard is it?
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I'm a bad enough dude that seagulls don't poke me in the coconut
Tuesday, 01-Dec-20 08:57:31 UTC from web-
@scribus Is it the same song as SEAGULLS! (Stop it Now), the bad lip-reading song of Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back?
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The polls were wrong again, as many said they would be, but those people missed a crucial point: Biden’s lead was SO massive that even a larger-than-average polling error (and this error was pretty average - about the same as it was in 2012, when Obama did better than expected across Florida, Virginia, and Colorado) couldn’t undo it. The campaign couldn’t rely on the polls being wrong, and they did anyway. So why are they surprised they lost?
Monday, 30-Nov-20 02:23:57 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation "But what good is a guess or estimate, based on this moment in time, if it can't accurately guarantee a match to the hard realities of a totally different timespace configuation to follow??"
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it is time to discuss the butt
Friday, 27-Nov-20 16:56:48 UTC from web-
@liquidusmira my butt isn’t worth discussing. :(
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@liquidusmira The whole butt, or just the butthole?
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Rudy Giuliani saying that Trump “probably won” Virginia is making me question whether or not Rudy Giuliani’s head is on straight. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875696
Thursday, 26-Nov-20 14:32:15 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Golf scoring, lowest total wins
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@scribus Evidently, seeing as how people are also saying he’s the legitimate winner of California
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Trump keeps talking about that tax cut but about 25% of my income this year was funneled directly to the government so I don’t think he did a good job
Tuesday, 24-Nov-20 23:32:51 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation The 0% Bezos paid says otherwise
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Oh boy. I search for a new laser printer for my parents as theirs refuse to cooperate. The exact model I own is now about 100€ more expensive than I bought it over a year ago. WTF.
Saturday, 21-Nov-20 13:13:02 UTC from web -
I wish I could amputate the awful part of my mind that thinks I've done something wrong if people don't text me back immediately
Monday, 23-Nov-20 15:19:05 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@thismightbeauser Same, except it's constantly
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@scribus Sorry about that. *hugs*
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The new Animaniacs series slaps.
Sunday, 22-Nov-20 10:06:45 UTC from web-
@scribus I just watched all the 13 episodes. It's good. Not overwhelmingly good. Good good. Some jokes and segments were not to my own taste but the rest was good 'ol fun.
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@adiwan @scribus I enjoyed it quite a bit, although I definitely thought the Pinky and the Brain segments were generally the better parts of the episodes they were in. Not that the Warner Bros. segments were bad at all, they were pretty funny, I just thought P&B had waaaaay less misses.
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@mrmattimation Pinky and the Brain operate from a well-established formula and it s not very surprising that their segment is the more consistent one. I still agree that they were mostly the better part of the show.
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Because I'm somewhat of a dumbass, I only recently learned that one of Ireland's symbols is the harp. I had some vague familiarity with the Guinness harp (though I don't drink often) but I didn't really connect it. It's on Euros too of course, but I either didn't use any when I went to Spain or wasn't paying attention.
Wednesday, 18-Nov-20 22:54:42 UTC from web-
@adiwan Yeah, I've seen a mixture of different designs and countries since I've gotten here. The US started a thing a while back for the states. Not sure if they ever stopped since the original coins are still in circulation. Wasn't paying much attention to the years.
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@thismightbeauser I think they completed the first run of 50 states a while ago, and have gone into a couple cycles of state-themed stuff, like birds or trees or something, but we've been on a "coin shortage" all pandemic so I haven't seen quarters in weeks at least, lol
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Friday, 20-Nov-20 10:40:53 UTC from web
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14 year old me probably woulda called the president the f word over the way he's been acting the last weeks
Monday, 16-Nov-20 10:02:27 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Fartknocker?
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Like wouldn’t it be fun to just place hundreds of cans of beans on this shelf and make my real-time render engine kill itself?
Monday, 16-Nov-20 00:03:32 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I used to build Age of Empires maps on my buddy's Windows 98 machine with bird spawn points enough to just barely not melt the motherboard
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@scribus This is really just a bad habit of mine. Any home console games where you could manipulate things on-screen usually ended up getting pushed to their very limits by me. Special mention goes to Fallout 4 where my game was perpetually running at sub-20 any time I was in one of my settlements.
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It depresses me that there are less and less new PC cases with space for optical drives (CD/DVD/BluRay). I'm starting to look around for a new PC. As my PC is older and my case has only USB2 ports and an unreliable headphone jack, as well as showing wear I want a new one. My current case is from Cooler Master from 2006. This one in black/silver https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/B0009SZQY8.2.jpg
Saturday, 14-Nov-20 17:55:36 UTC from web-
@scribus What even happened to floppy drives, EDO RAM, user-upgradable CPU cache, manually selectable device IRQ, Soundblaster, 3Dfx, CRT monitors, PS/2 keyboards, ball mice, IDE, SCSI...?
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@adiwan I'm willing to let go of ball mice, but I still want me some PS/2 ports because damn it you only give me four USB ports and expect two of them to be mandatory input devices???
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@scribus I'm glad my monitor has an integrated USB hub. I have a mouse, keyboard, scanner, drawing tablet, VR headset, and an external HDD, a microphone, and a webcam attached to almost all available ports of the whole system. I use the front ones occasionally for the SD card reader. So I'm pretty much maxed out.
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But in general: Saying "F*** Apple" is always appropriate.
Friday, 13-Nov-20 19:30:37 UTC from web-
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@adiwan Every. Single. Update. Removes functionality and control from the Users. It's just waiting for TRON to liberate the Grid!
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papaya Apple. I mean, grape Apple. I mean, seriously, EFF YOU oh wait that's censor evasion but all the same kiwi APPLE!!
Friday, 13-Nov-20 18:45:37 UTC from web-
@adiwan No; I had to spend three hours "updating" to record three minutes of audio...
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A lot of brainwashed right-wingers spouting conspiracy theories about YouTube going down. Wow. Americans are a diffrent breed of stupid
Thursday, 12-Nov-20 03:40:22 UTC from web-
@oracle Conspiracies were so much more fun in middle school, when it was the Alien's cloaking tech keeping Bigfoot and Nessie safe, and Mothman tried to warn us of infrastructure failures...
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Oh God I hate Amazon's bot chat. I always used the email option because I despise the chat. The bot makes it even worse. I had my already prepared text for a complaint for a late prime delivery that gives me a 5€ voucher. The chat takes a lot more steps between my complaint and its resolution and a lot more time. First I have to click trough the bot responses and then do the whole customer support dance to get to my desired result.
Tuesday, 10-Nov-20 20:19:38 UTC from web-
@adiwan All the while, they hope it's good enough to pass for "customer service," but bad enough to save them the fiver.
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In fact, we just had our first local snow, a couple thousand feet up
Monday, 09-Nov-20 17:27:03 UTC from web -
Changed my tires today. Because my father used a pneumatic drill last time I had a hard time loosening the screws. I had to literally stand on the wrench to have enough force to get over the friction.
Sunday, 08-Nov-20 14:12:12 UTC from web-
@adiwan Eh, it's California. It's a local gag that you can surf in the morning, and ski in the afternoon. Or vice-versa.
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@scribus I could do that too but the North Sea is toooo damn cold haha I don't know if the indoor skiing halls are open in Summer.... The mountains near me are not tall enough for snow all year around. I would need to drive to the Alps and it takes about 8 hours to get from where I live. But it isn't worth the time and gas.
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@adiwan Ah, yeah, it's not a year-round snow, here. Maybe further north, yeah, but then the surf becomes a different story, lol.
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I wish Twitter would just ban all Congress members already so the establishment media will stop complaining about them "interfering" with false and violent information
Sunday, 08-Nov-20 07:55:16 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@thismightbeauser I mean, how did cherrypost Central replace the Roman Forum, anyway??
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Day 1 in Biden’s America: the batcaveing vending machine still doesn’t work. I hate this country.
Sunday, 08-Nov-20 04:23:56 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@mrmattimation Thanks, Obama
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Almost gotta respect how many times CNN can publish "BREAKING: We Still Don't Know!" like being told on Wednesday that it could take until Friday or longer didn't already inform us of things like "We don't know yet, and it will take time to count."
Saturday, 07-Nov-20 15:42:10 UTC from web-
@adiwan I suspect his talk about "being so embarrassed that he leaves the country" was code for "finding somewhere without extradition to the US to die in penury," but maybe that was just wishful thinking.
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@scribus He has a memory of a goldfish and an ego as big as Jupiter. His stubbornness and rabid followers will pull him back. Presidency two: electric vote-a-loo. The Fluffle Puff show will repeat again. As much as I have no wish for that I am emotionally preparing it as soon as possible.
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@adiwan I've said it before, but I'll believe everything because I can't believe any of it. XD
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I think I might change my name to Cassandra. Hey, if Vincent can become Alice...!
Friday, 06-Nov-20 16:46:28 UTC from web-
@adiwan Well, it's less that I'm claiming to be 100% correct about events that have yet to pass, and more a satirical statement in reflection on the fact that people are surprised that Donald Trump is doing exactly what he said he'd do four years ago. Like, if it's that widely shocking when an asshole, who said he would be an asshole, is an asshole, then clearly "having seen it coming" MUST be among some kind of ~SpEcIaL pOwErS~ or whatever.
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Santa cannot deliver presents this year as he would break quarantine entering each home. He would also be spreading the virus in an unprecedented manner and speed to each home.
Thursday, 05-Nov-20 08:16:25 UTC from web-
@adiwan To hell with that, he's magic, or an elf, or something. He's immune, he won't be a carrier! I have to believe this!!!!
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Thursday, 05-Nov-20 01:06:56 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Is it, though? And should it be? . . . wait, wasn't that Eddie Vedder's line?
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It's election day! And as your former headpony I demand you vote.
Tuesday, 03-Nov-20 16:24:58 UTC from web -
Trump has finally built the wall (around the White House) https://us.cnn.com/2020/11/02/politics/white-house-fence-erected-again/index.html
Monday, 02-Nov-20 17:11:32 UTC from web -
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if there was any doubt that I’m a tremendous papaya, my mind is currently on cinematic parallels between this election and the one depicted in Citizen Kane.
Sunday, 01-Nov-20 23:30:36 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@mrmattimation A blowhard egomaniac trying to buy popularity and power? Gee, I don't see it...
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@scribus Well, that, but also... http://rainbowdash.net/url/875657
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@mrmattimation Outright depressing how familiar the present can be
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The game jam rankings are published https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/vaguely-named-horse-game Not too bad from 3206 entries. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875651
Wednesday, 28-Oct-20 14:04:26 UTC from web-
@scribus Overall top 8.3%! I'm more proud of the "Fun" category, which is in the top 2%. The Overall category is wishiwashi and undefined.
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