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I could swear on my life 40 was spelled fourty and not forty. I have known English for the majority of my life and for some reason I Mandela-effected myself into believing that it was written with a *u*. It made more sense because of the *u* in fo*u*r. Without the *u* it looks like an adjective to the word "fort", like "Your forty house is well-secured against a horde of zombies."
about 2 days ago from web-
@awl The way we spell "forty" is stupid. Like it's "Four" and "Fourteen" so it really should be "fourteen"
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@elli It's really so common and obvious that we could probably stand to officially change it, I mean it's not like Webster's is making the rules, nothing but convention and mental inertia behind it
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@elli no we don’t let foreigners dictate how we spell words. English is to never change ever.
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7 hours into my 32th birthday I've already caused all sorts of romantic chaos, had my crush hint very overtly that she would like me to fight with her boyfriend over her (won't, she made her choice) and had a drunk gay friend confess to me in an absolutely obsessive, self-destructive and pathological way (which would have been really hot if it was a girl)
It's turning out to be a VERY eventful day and I'm very happy for it.
I joined this place when I was 18 and I'm glad I haven't mellowed out at all in that time. Here's hoping in another 14 years things will be just as crazy still.about 4 months ago from web-
@adiwan Pretty sure I'm not! but it's a funny life for certain and I put in a non-insignificant amount of work into keeping it that way.
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@nerthos "Death and illness aren't scary to me, being bored is." Words to live by right there
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@elli I'm a stress free kinda guy
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Well I'm trying to do a House-aligned playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas, but I very really truly hate him and the terrible asshole things he says :-/
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@scribus Interesting, he's my favourite faction to side with on the grounds of pragmatism, he's the only one with a plan (and the actual capability to make it happen) to make humanity go anywhere other than "we'll just be hobos in perpetuity"
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@nerthos Yeah, I want to not hate him - I mean, a retro-future spaceVegas? Hell, yeah!! He's not even that unlikable, there's a wry sort of amusement to his bearing. But he's too egocentric; he's not preserving humanity, he's feeding his ego and seeking to create a thrallhood underclass to prop HIM up. Ultimately, I don't consider him sufficiently distinct from Caesar. Both cling to old-world ideals and play up some fantasy of the "inevitability" of "their" power. So, I kill him, take his city, and in my mind carry on with developing the space plans in a little more cooperative, ground-up fashion. (Though in all honesty a spacefaring future would be just as hellish as the vaults so iunno w/e i guess lol) Also I make The King governor or something :p
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@scribus That all sounds good until you factor in the kind of human resource you're dealing with in Fallout. Ironically the tv show is the best illustration of this, with the main character trying to behave like a civilized person and consistently getting banana'd by everyone.
House's narcissistic approach is a necessity in the world he's operating, without the army of robots forcing the wastelanders to work at gunpoint nothing will get done (example: they're still living in shacks near 200 years after the war)
Plus, he has civilized some factions already, so it's not like he won't uplift the competent and decent wastelanders into better positions. He has to do that for any space settling plan to work, since good people are needed to populate those colonies.
Sometimes, a competent megalomaniac is the only option that can get the job done.
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thank god a highly experienced gynecologist showed up as probably one of the last things i'll see before this site dies
man i'll miss this placeabout 8 months ago from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@liquidusmira At last, RDN is complete
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Anyone claiming a smartphone or tablet can replace a regular computer is a delusional fool who has not tasted the power and freedom that a computer offers. I tried catching up on my tablet and it made me realize once again how limiting and cumbersome touchscreens are and how android is not making it easy navigating anything and its ecology is not geared to power users. Autocorrect and predictive text blocks are mere crutches and poor imitations of the feats one can do when mastering touch typing on a physical keyboard. I coould learn doing that on a screen keyboard but doing so blindly is verging on the impossible.
about 10 months ago from web- Someone Probably likes this.
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@adiwan Extremely agree. It feels as though smart phones and tablets have become ever more restrictive. I do value the constant connectivity, but my phone could never possibly replace my computer.
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@elli I have a friend who is a teacher and they have children who have never touched a Windows PC. Those children are in a majority. THAT is scary.
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Gonna assemble myself a first-aid box. I have the feeling that all the ready-to-go purchasable ones are lacking in material and actually useful bandages. Also the ones with any number of pieces in the title are even more scummy as they count every single safety pin and other useless small piece. I want middle to big band-aids. Furthermore I don't need a hard plastic case or yet another nylon zip bag. For my car I need one of those ready-to-go ones that are mandated but that is a different thing.
Thursday, 11-Jan-24 20:36:49 UTC from web-
@scribus second this, I switched to them a while ago. I haven't really gotten a chance to use them aside from a few small cuts here and there (which is a positive I suppose) but my experience with them has been positive.
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so, anyway, i basically got a GF now. bet you didnt expect that
Sunday, 23-Oct-22 03:21:33 UTC from web-
@nerthos road trip road trip roadtriP ROAD TRIIPPP!!!I
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@nerthos i've been since msay, but i will go to france again in the end of november, for the last time finally
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@scribus I would still go on an RDN roadtrip no questions asked, even though I'd probably have to shoot someone a few hours in at this point. Bonus points for a certain someone, in his own words, wanting to hit me with a wrench but 100% not brave enough to actually try if in the same room.
You're cool though, so we can eat fries after the fights die down.
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@stephttleq Oh good I see some things never change
Monday, 24-Oct-22 14:22:03 UTC from web -
Always pleasantly surprised to see this place still kicking
Monday, 24-Oct-22 01:08:08 UTC from web-
@whomst sup
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@thelastgherkin Hey there. How's it goin
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WEE-WOO WEE-WOO I'M A BIG BAD IMPORTANT USER WHO DON'T NEED NO RULES #banmepls
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ay do site managers still come on here from time to time?
Saturday, 02-Oct-21 18:40:26 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Awesome! Is there any way to chat privately?
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@feelsbadman Yep. You should be able to DM me with the “Message” button in my profile.
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@ceruleanspark Sorry to bother, did you get my messages?
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Is this thing on?
Sunday, 15-Aug-21 18:35:48 UTC from web- Griffin likes this.
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@scribus I mean last week I managed, using only apt-get upgrade, to uninstall grub from the server, so this is way more "on" than it was
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@ceruleanspark Oh. Missed that, then.
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@ceruleanspark Maybe I should finally look into why my personal dot com is 50x-ing me....
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So has anyone ported Doom to the Virtual Boy, and do they make a good VB emulator for a VR headset yet? !vgp
Sunday, 01-Aug-21 17:44:27 UTC from web-
@scribus There's actually a VB emulator for the Oculus Quest 2. It's called "Virtual Boy Go".
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@ceruleanspark Hmm... I could sure go for a round of Teleroboxer again...
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I'm not big into LEGO but somehow I want a Star Wars Clone Wars Gunship set.
Thursday, 15-Jul-21 19:19:37 UTC from web-
@adiwan I hope they've revised the design since I tried to build Gherkins old one. That build is an unfun nightmare and produces the flimsiest model.
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@ceruleanspark From what I've seen is big and sturdy. But I can only say that as an opinion without much insight and experience with big LEGO builds. I want it but I am aware that these sets are luxuriously expensive. I rather buy new Winter tyres for that kind of money.
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@adiwan Gherkins was one of the first-gen models from the AOTC era, so it's entirely possible they've made the design slightly less likely to just explode on contact with a stiff breeze.
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E-mails asking me if I wanna be harder and longer, meanwhile I've been hard long enough and just wanna mellow, man....
Friday, 16-Jul-21 18:06:17 UTC from web-
@scribus Are you sure it's not Daft Punk emailing you because they're bored in their retirement?
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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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i logged out for like 8 months and now email notifs are working again
Sunday, 21-Mar-21 23:40:46 UTC from web-
@tiff It's probably because I stopped paying the company who does it for me, so they fixed it so they could hassle me to pay them again
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@ceruleanspark don't give in
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@tiff They're like "our free offering only lets you send 10000 messages a month though!"
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DON'T EVEN TRY SUGGESTING DUCK DUCK GO, I AM INFURIATED ENOUGH WITH THEM ON A GOOD DAY
Wednesday, 23-Dec-20 06:45:22 UTC from web-
@scribus God I tried them for a while, but then I got sick of never being able to find anything
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@ceruleanspark I've just decided to convince Google that I must have a pack of unruly children by searching "poop" followed by "pooop" "pooooooop" and "puup"
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@scribus There used to be a browser extension for that.
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Disney+ has a collection titled "The Simpsons Predict the Future", which includes episodes of The Simpsons in which they make jokes that later became fact. One such episode is "Bart to the Future", in which Lisa mentions "President Trump", and "The Serfsons", where they predicted the ending to Game of Thrones, and "The City of New York Vs. Homer Simpson", where... uh...
Hey Disney, what the mangoMonday, 27-Apr-20 06:29:58 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation And the Lady Gaga episode, iirc, which uuhhhmmm.... evades me, at least.
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@scribus Lady Gaga's performance in that episode was really similar to a halftime show that she would do after the episode aired so i'm assuming that's why that's there
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@mrmattimation Ah.
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whoops i'm playing fallout 76 again
Sunday, 19-Apr-20 08:09:08 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation What platform do you play on? I need someone to die for me (PS4)
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@mrmattimation That's probably for the best. My PS4 is frequently on the verge of achieving flight when trying to play it.
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Fluffle Puff it, I'm turning the search off.
Friday, 17-Apr-20 08:55:45 UTC from web -
I optimized the database for the two of you. Just shows I still care~
Thursday, 16-Apr-20 21:52:45 UTC from web -
@mrmattimation This seems like something you might find interesting: https://bluwingskitty.tumblr.com/post/613056765209214976
Friday, 20-Mar-20 08:18:58 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Dude that orcamaid picture is sweeeeet
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@ceruleanspark thank you
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I'm sure you all want to know what Rainbow Dash Network is doing about Coronavirus. The answer is, much like McDonalds: "grapeing nothing".
Wednesday, 18-Mar-20 19:23:27 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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I’m not too proud to admit I was wrong @nerthos was right. I am in fact, enjoying Fallout 76 a great deal.
Friday, 28-Feb-20 09:01:25 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@ceruleanspark i haven't played in a good while but it was less that i wasn't enjoying it, moreso that other games caught my interest. I've had a lot of fun with
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@mrmattimation I saw it on sale for £10 so I figured at that price, if I at least got some funny stories out of how busted it was, I’d have broken even, but now I’m level 30 and drugging new players with unlabelled Nukashine
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@ceruleanspark It has been so long that I don't remember what I told you regarding the game. Glad you're enjoying it, though.
AFAIK they've put some work in fixing the most glaring issues over the years, despite the crazy antics like the duping glitches and players chasing vips off the game.
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HOTELS IN LOS ANGELES ARE EXPENSIVE!!!!! TF!!!!!
Thursday, 27-Feb-20 08:02:46 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@mrmattimation So, there's this coffee shop in Hollywood that serves a "Turbo-Coke," a double espresso and a half-litre of Mexican Coca-Cola, that is somewhat less expensive than a hotel
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@scribus I don’t know why the idea of someone ordering a Turbo Coke and being asked “is Pepsi OK?” Is so funny to me but it just is
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@ceruleanspark It totally is XD
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But I do have something today: I bought a house!
Friday, 27-Dec-19 00:16:28 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark congratulations on having a house! Still in UK I presume?
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@ceruleanspark Wow, congrats! I'm severely envious, not gonna lie, but still - gratz!
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@ceruleanspark Congratulations Adam, I sincerely hope that turns out well for you, homeownership is the threshold to genuine independence and the biggest milestone in the construction of a life of your own.
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I do actually miss you guys pretty often. I just very rarely find I have anything to say anymore?
Friday, 27-Dec-19 00:16:09 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Same, we've all drifted apart over the near decade that passed. My contact info remains the same as always though, if you or anyone ever wants to hang out.
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honestly im not sure if i expected to be still coming here ten years later.
The site has kinda lost it's relevance. Maybe we should rebrand.
" the microblogging service formerly known as rainbow dash network "Friday, 11-Oct-19 06:17:03 UTC from web-
@scribus Yeah but ironically MLP ended up being pretty much the only series to endure out of the ones we were all thinking of at the time. Littlest Pet Shop: Cancelled. Over the Garden Wall: Over. Gravity Falls: Over. Steven Universe: Who even knows. Rick and Morty: anathema to thinking people. Adventure Time: Over.
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@ceruleanspark Funny you mention Over The Garden Wall. It's very recently become my favorite cartoon of all time.
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@ceruleanspark Long live the Princesses, I guess.
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That said, I'm pretty sure we *are* a gay speed dating service? How many people came to terms with having the big gay just through this website alone? At least two of them.
Friday, 11-Oct-19 23:14:19 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark I was going to say, can we please be a gay speed dating service?
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