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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 -
Planning to leave my job on May 1st. No idea what comes after that but I can’t work in this environment anymore. Probably gonna focus on YouTube for a bit while door dashing on the side so that I still have some money coming in
Thursday, 08-Apr-21 21:02:32 UTC from web -
It's half your age, plus seven, people! I know it's math, but it isn't hard math.
Thursday, 08-Apr-21 16:48:11 UTC from web-
@adiwan And a 7 year old can only date a 10 year old, but the 10 year old could only date 12+
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I mean like look if you’re 19 and she’s 17 then neither of you really has your mango together, so who cares, right? But RageNineteen was 28 years old and dating a 16 year old who he’d met when she was 15 while dating her friend who was also 15, and that’s just supposedly normal in the YouTube world?? The hell’s going on????
Thursday, 08-Apr-21 02:54:24 UTC from web -
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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@scribus To answer the question I just got via email, the server is a basic digitalocean droplet. The $20 one. Depending on how much traffic you're expecting, you could easily run a couple of instances on there.
Wednesday, 07-Apr-21 22:48:40 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Groovy, thanks. I have a couple $5 ones for some blogs I wanna keep IP isolated, and was eyeballing a $10 for startup. Good to know.
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No more "How is babby formed"
Wednesday, 07-Apr-21 12:42:38 UTC from web -
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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Gonna start collecting covid vaccines to make my body stronger
Tuesday, 06-Apr-21 03:05:40 UTC from web -
Anyway, I was digging through my older cartoons to pull out assets for a newer one, and oh man, teenage Matt organized projects like a troglodyte. Until 2016, every single one of my flash files existed in a single-level folder labeled “Flash”. Zero organization. There was a separate folder called “Audio” which itself was properly organized for some reason.
Monday, 05-Apr-21 20:45:18 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I'm trying to get the best drafts of my various writing projects together to move forward. I am not convinced that present-Me has managed "file organization" yet.
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Aaaand it's snowing on Easter.
Monday, 05-Apr-21 16:35:13 UTC from web-
@scribus A few days ago it was sunnily warm, then it got grey like late autumn, and now it's snowing while daffodils my mother got are growing at an insane pace and opened their flowers today. The whole damn calendar is put into a blender.
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Ten years ago today on Monday, 04-Apr-11 22:37:22 UTC, the rainbowdash domain was registered. The first post was published an hour later on Monday, 04-Apr-11 23:23:56 UTC.
Congratulations RDN on ten years of operations! /)Sunday, 04-Apr-21 22:37:37 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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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 think half the reason I won't go to bed is all the crap I tell myself to do "tomorrow"
Sunday, 04-Apr-21 07:53:31 UTC from web -
really wish people would stop treating Hispanic people like we’re a monolith. Even people who think they mean well have a tendency to just group us all together like we’re all just from the same place and that itself is pretty racist.
Friday, 02-Apr-21 22:39:34 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I've been hearing this since high school, especially from my Cuban/PR friend who kept getting asked about life in Mexico
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April Fool's Day is exhausting. I don't even bother clicking on an obvious case from any of my Youtube subscriptions. I know they put a lot of work into but they aren't that funny.
Thursday, 01-Apr-21 20:59:04 UTC from web-
@adiwan Lock Picking Lawyer had a groaningly base one, but his was at least brief and not overly tortured
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@scribus LPL was one of the better ones. Yeah... the puns were groanworthy, but at least he has shown a nice set of locks, and thus in line with his regular content. The briefness is also welcome, although it's somewhat longer than the usual stuff.
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@adiwan Yup. It was stupid but still enlightening, and over by the time I was done laughing at the joke. Nailed it, lol
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I started binge-watching "My Name is Earl". Wholesome dumb stuff.
Thursday, 01-Apr-21 10:09:44 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@scribus I was also watching random episodes when it was running on TV but it didn't grab my attention enough to keep watching. Maybe it was a bad time slot or the German dub.
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@adiwan My mom actually watched it regularly, so it would often be on when I was visiting and there was already a . . . "social" or "collective" disposition to it, I guess?
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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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Buying a new car, even a cheaper new car, is still a huge thing to put money into. That huge purchase makes all the little things look insignificant. "4€ for a bread, it's nothing, doesn't cost as much a car."
Thursday, 25-Mar-21 08:42:25 UTC from web-
@scribus OK. That's an inflation problem. A new car costs now less than it did back then. A modern car has in addition a computer, entertainment system, navigation, explosives (air bags), automatic driving assistants (break, lane control, distance, parking). Although a house usually keeps its value or increases it over time.
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@adiwan Yeah, it's a thing. The other week for me it was, $2100 for a new bed? Why not, that's only 1/26th what we paid for our Tesla. No but seriously, I still feel tremendously guilty and uncomfortable when I go to a restaurant.
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@oracle Crom, I paid a grand for my bed and thought that was stiff, then again it is only for one...
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I wouldn't be surprised if everything shown in the Rick & Morty trailer won't be in the new season. I think it's in the realm of possibility that this could be an elaborate act of trolling the audience by Harmon and Roiland.
Tuesday, 30-Mar-21 20:31:43 UTC from web -
So you know how they've got those nigh-pornographic art models with the poseable skeletons and all that jazz? Do they make them in non-human? Looking for a mouse or a rat... uh, also non-lewd. I don't need a sexy mouse. Not yet....
Saturday, 27-Mar-21 20:26:28 UTC from web-
@adiwan I dunno, lol. This is really probably just Perfectionism stepping on Productivity's toes. Mostly I just was looking for a reliable way to check if something I would write would be physically plausible. But I've already taken pages of notes on "The Secret of NIMH" and other cartoons and actual live animal footage, so I probably don't *need* anything at all.
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@thelastgherkin Dude I've seen that before! And it is a good idea... um, in the context of trying to make an anatomical/biomechanical model. heh
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@scribus I think it's cheaper to buy a real mouse and not bother trying to replicate the skeleton in order to see if a pose is even possible. Yeah... It'd bite back but still cheaper time-wise and financially. I don't think pet shops allow anybody willy-nilly to grab a mouse and contort it.
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I hope one of Gavin Newsom’s recall challengers invokes California in his campaign line they’re doing in Texas and Arizona. “We’re gonna stop California from coming to California.”
Friday, 26-Mar-21 11:34:40 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I hope Ahnold runs again, but none of his recent movie catchphrases are memorable and the crowd just "Huh?" at each other over it
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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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