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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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So, i'm in my PhD now, i got a cotutelle scholarship with the university of Lorraine, in france (i speak nearly nothing of french tho, so my first time going to france qas a hell of an adventure. Brazil is even messier than before and i might have gotten even more reclusive than before (though now i'm much more well paid :'v )
Friday, 11-Jun-21 01:55:19 UTC from web-
@scribus yeah,maybe i can even get vaccinated when i go to france again in september xD
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My bois
Thursday, 10-Jun-21 04:33:09 UTC from web-
@zeldatra same tbh
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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 -
@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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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 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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so maybe a weird question, but is there a term for people who... kind of don't care about their gender identity? like, not gender neutral. i've always been comfortable being a man, and I still am, but as i get older my gender (and to a certain extent my sexual orientation, though my tastes are still pretty geared towards feminine-looking people - but not necessarily exclusively women) is something that matters to me less and less, to the point where, if I weren't so obviously male, i could see myself being pretty tolerant of just about any pronoun anyone wants to call me. gender agnostic?
Tuesday, 23-Mar-21 19:37:12 UTC from web-
@zeldatra there's always agender i guess, i know people who use that term with that kind of sentiment. i feel pretty similarly wrt myself but at the same time changing anything about my identity would just insinuate that i care about it more than i do
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Playing Metal Gear Solid again... I bodyslammed Meryl while she was disguised because I recognized her walk cycle and I wanted to see what would happen. Nothing happens, she just sprints into her next cutscene to prevent you from impeding her any further. And then she still claims to have gotten the jump on you.
Tuesday, 23-Mar-21 08:21:12 UTC from web-
@scribus This is why I always enjoyed the mostly-unscripted nature of the later Fallouts & Elder Scrolls. New Vegas particularly introduces you to a major antagonist (or ally, if you choose to go that route...) fairly early on, while you’re on your way to a story quest, and you can just let him do his thing, or, if you have the firepower, you can just FrankerZin shoot him and he won’t appear again for the rest of the game. (And then you can shoot his replacement later, too!)
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here we...
Sunday, 21-Mar-21 22:32:19 UTC from web -
So it seems to me that if Kyubey's goal in Madoka is then
Friday, 19-Mar-21 06:48:30 UTC from web-
@scribus yeah but she saved the universe despite the kyubey's intention
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@princelypublictimeline And yet, I feel like there has to be a solid Taoist reading to this show... lol
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glad to see this is still around
Tuesday, 16-Mar-21 01:50:47 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@scribus if anything I am the forgotten one lol
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@princelypublictimeline Don't feel too bad, I'm always forgetting crap. Yesterday, I found out that I forgot I had Yelp installed!
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@scribus no one remembers yelp lol
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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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@riddhik Bring it on I love black magic
Tuesday, 03-Nov-20 02:43:58 UTC from web -
Was anyone on here named Adam Hussein?
Tuesday, 27-Oct-20 23:53:32 UTC from web-
@oracle No, Saddam posted for a bit under his post-fake-death identity but hasn't been around in a bit, he's old now.
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Naruto: Five Characters That Joe Biden Could Beat (& Five He Couldn’t)
Sunday, 25-Oct-20 08:29:23 UTC from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@mrmattimation What level of sharingan Biden are we talking about? is he pre or post timeskip? does he have access to malarkey senjutsu?
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Damn. I bought another 3D printer.
Wednesday, 14-Oct-20 10:06:10 UTC from web-
@adiwan @scribus Not much of a point either, since we already have metal 3D printing in the shape of 4+ axis mills. You just put in a sufficiently big piece of metal and load the 3D model to the CNC software and let it work.
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@nerthos Oops, *mill OR hot extrusion
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Meanwhile, in Murrica: "The seven-day average of new cases has climbed above 56,000, a level not seen in the past 12 weeks, and is 14% higher week over week, according to John Hopkins data." https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html
Monday, 19-Oct-20 16:40:08 UTC from web-
@scribus Majority infection will be the eventual outcome, slower or quicker.
There are two ways to beat a virus: you either completely isolate every infected individual and anyone who is physically capable of contracting it for at least twice the lifespan of the virus, and I'm talking full lockdown, napalmed when opening the door; or you wait until almost the entire population has been infected and developed herd immunity, at which point new infections become very rare if the virus survives at all to mutate over following years.
Full lockdown wasn't done in time and in any case it is impossible considering the social paradigms of any western country, so the option that remains is the latter. Containment can only be reasonably used to slow spread to a rate to which the health system can handle it, but won't stop the spread, no matter how much a government insists on it. And it also vastly increases the number of deaths from existing conditions untreated due to lockdown.
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Err.. Sorry. @ceruleanspark
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Wednesday, 26-Aug-20 00:57:45 UTC from web
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I love when Dan Harmon says something mean about Trump and people start bringing up that time he humped a baby doll in a Channel 101 sketch ten years ago.
Friday, 14-Aug-20 23:55:20 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation people have tried to cancel him like every single year but nobody cancels Dan Harmon better than Dan Harmon himself imo
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@tiff I really thought he’d have left or been ousted from Rick & Morty by now but watching Roiland’s solo show helped me realize that Dan Harmon isn’t the hero he asked for, but he’s the one we deserve
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I'm not even sure some of these changes are "problems" and not more like "just an obvious place to maybe recast for a start," really?
Tuesday, 30-Jun-20 03:38:19 UTC from web-
@scribus the sentiment is nice and all but working from the societal equivalent of an F to a C- and calling it a day is not the big move they must think it is
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@tiff Oh, and I totally get that. Like, a BW vid saying "I take responsibility" or whatever? Jegus... It's all been showboating and easy answers so far, it seems.
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@scribus oh yeah that too, I was thinking about the industry at large but also individual people saying "I didn't know this racist thing I actively engaged in was racist" is something I don't often buy
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was about to joke about how like 50% of Always Sunny will get thanos'd but i googled it and how are netflix only removing a single episode lmaoo
Monday, 29-Jun-20 23:18:47 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation sure is
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I know that they're pulling an episode of Community for implied blackface, and without even reading into it I know the exact scene they're talking about and I sincerely do not believe that a single person with any stake in societal progression watched that scene and thought it was actually a problem
Monday, 29-Jun-20 10:45:08 UTC from web-
@tiff Similarly, I’m pretty sure pulling an episode of Golden Girls is not especially high on BlackLivesMatters’ priority list.
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@mrmattimation I dunno how far exactly I'd go to defend these sorts of jokes but pretty much every example I can think of is pretty obviously a subversive criticism *of* blackface. Obviously I am not the person who can/should decide if that makes it more okay, but I feel like removing these scenes is stifling discussions of anti-racism if anything. Like just put the disclaimer in front like WB and Disney or whatever
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in the mood to chase someone off the site again, quick someone say something headass
Sunday, 28-Jun-20 23:13:09 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I would prefer it for future reference if POC actors got to voice POC characters, especially in the current industry where they aren't getting the same treatment or opportunities as white people; but I absolutely agree that this current wave of networks removing TV episodes with instances of racism and actors conveniently regretting voicing POC roles all of a sudden is largely posturing in the absence of actual willingness to, you know, hire and support and pay POC. I also don't think it's a particularly far reach to suggest that companies are just pretending this is what activists are asking for as some sort of psyop, since it will most likely push the needle back in their favour (i.e. still not hiring, supporting and paying POC)
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Is there a name for people who are basically terfs but instead they hate gay men because they think male homosexuality is the result of misogyny? I seem to recall knowing someone like that in high school.
Friday, 19-Jun-20 22:46:58 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation that's called being gay
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Started binge-watching Community. Before I have never watched more than a few episodes.
Thursday, 11-Jun-20 16:48:56 UTC from web-
@adiwan Community season 2 is one of my fave seasons of anything ever so I'd definitely take it that far at least. The rest ranges from okay to pretty good for me if you pretend the show ended with season 5
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@tiff Finished Season 5 today and it was a stinker. I'm mid-season 6 and it ain't better.
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@adiwan I got like 4 episodes into season 6 and gave up lmao, it is not the same show at all by that point
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Shape your watermelon. Shape the young watermelon
Wednesday, 10-Jun-20 14:06:08 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Are pumpkins an acceptable substitute?
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@scribus I'll allow it http://rainbowdash.net/url/875539
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Does anyone else find it particularly gross when for-profit corporations send messages about donating to charities or supporting a particular political opinion that doesn't have to do with their main business? It makes sense on the hiring end of course, and I get that companies are made of humans, but doing it on the public end just feels like capitalizing on people's emotions. The realty group holding my apartment made a donation to a campaign related to the protests. Why not give that money back to your leasers, or even your employees instead? They can then choose to do what they want with it.
Friday, 05-Jun-20 10:44:41 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser dismantling systemic racism at its core by making a vague "black people deserve to not die" statement on twitter and then asking the patrons of my multi-million dollar company to donate money for me
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