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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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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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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’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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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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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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I was today years old when I learned that Twin Shadow is black.
Monday, 22-Mar-21 21:11:24 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Waitaminute, how the hell are YOU today years old when I'M today years old and I know I'm older than you are??
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here we...
Sunday, 21-Mar-21 22:32:19 UTC from web -
Why does Apple have to get interesting right when I'm gorram fed up with them???
Saturday, 13-Mar-21 01:22:18 UTC from web- Matt likes this.
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@scribus I thought the iPad was a Fluffle Puffing lame-ass joke when I was a kid and it was first coming out, it just seemed like a big iPhone, and it seemed even less necessary after iPhones started getting bigger, but now I feel like this is what they should have been marketed for all along.
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my new iPad arrived today and the first thing i drew to test out the pencil was a real blasty from the pasty http://rainbowdash.net/url/875850
Friday, 12-Mar-21 21:05:52 UTC from web-
@scribus honestly kinda surprised how natural it all feels, I don’t like the program I drew that image in but that’s ok because the full desktop version of my usual art program, Clip Studio, apparently works with the newer iPads so I went ahead and installed that, it’s pretty much perfect and I think it’ll make me a whole lot more productive. IMO for what I paid it’s actually a better purchase than an equivalently priced MacBook.
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Learned that the pharmacist at my store got yelled at by my boss because he gave me the covid vaccine that made me so sick I had to call out. Oops?
Monday, 08-Mar-21 20:23:19 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Your boss is just plain stupid. Any vaccine can provoke lessened symptoms of the disease, making one feel sick, although the strength of them can vary much.. For example the annual flu vaccine can do that as well. It's not an unusual or unheard side-effect of vaccines. Also, just from the cost-benefit side, he could have a bigger loss of productivity if you caught the real thing later. Also as an employer he has to be aware that anyone can sick at any time. It sucks but that's the job of an employer or manager to deal with sudden sick days.
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@adiwan I think the issue was more that it was completely unscheduled and out of nowhere so they didn’t have time to replace me when I was suddenly too ill to work the next day. In retrospect it was probably irresponsible of me to have taken it when I knew I had work the next day but like, hey, the vial was gonna go to waste otherwise.
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Need help on this script: BESIDES stuff from Marvel properties, what fictional landmarks would one find in New York City that a tourist would want to visit?
Sunday, 07-Mar-21 21:01:25 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Fry's Dog's Grave!
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@scribus Pannucci’s Pizza’s in now. Seymour’s been encased in dolomite for about a decade now.
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@mrmattimation I try not to dwell on that fact ;_;
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Just called out of work for the first time in like three years. Fever spiked to 102.5. Gonna take it easy today.
Saturday, 06-Mar-21 13:51:49 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation You went the whole-ass pandemic without dipping out? Man, take an extra one after the fever breaks, you deserve it.
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@scribus It’s difficult for me to justify calling out for anything less than an emergency because I’m the store’s closer and it’s hard to find other people willing to do that on such short notice for some reason.
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@mrmattimation I get that. I called out much less at the school cafeteria.
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Hey uh guess who just got a surprise Covid vaccine
Saturday, 06-Mar-21 01:35:40 UTC from web-
@scribus i literally was just walking by the pharmacy in my store and the pharmacist was like "hey Matt... we got one more dose left and i don't have any more appointments... want it?" was pretty much in the exact right place at the exact right time
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@mrmattimation Damn, sweet luck
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@mrmattimation You won the lottery!
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Also damnit I may need to learn Blender. Or some kind of free 3D wireframe making thing.
Wednesday, 03-Mar-21 00:43:41 UTC from web-
@scribus Blender is crazy easy to learn and there’s a lotta tutorials on YouTube, I’d give it a shot. The latest version has a real-time render engine too and most of its features are compatible with the other, slower, raytraced engine so if you have a halfway decent graphics card you can test materials and lighting situations and such fairly quickly.
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@mrmattimation Keen. Right now, I kinda just want to make a logo from my old karate school into 3D. It's been done, but I'd rather not steal someone else's. And I do have other things, like an attempt to create a visual model of the Self as a 4-dimensional being with extensions into the Minds of others like that whole NG:E last two episodes acid trip. I think it'll just end up looking like lightning or a neuron, though...
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I think we need to have a public discussion about The Doctor’s proclivity for picking up 19 year old girls, you’re over 2000, you can’t keep doing that
Wednesday, 24-Feb-21 09:20:10 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation So what I hear is, Dame Judi Dench for next companion?
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@scribus Or maybe someone who doesn’t look like they could be a student at Ridgemont High, yeah
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@mrmattimation The Dame has my vote, if she wants the gig
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Well I just learned that I have a scar (somewhere on one of my knuckles) from the location of the first-ever episode of Bar Rescue. Which was closed after a stabbing murder. And then burned down. And is still a pile of fenced-off rubble 3 years later.
Sunday, 21-Feb-21 02:49:19 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Oof.
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@adiwan It's even less than that! It may play out like something something seedy joint, blablabla bar brawl, but I was just too damn drunk to play pool and hit the damn table with my hand :-/ haha
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@mrmattimation Yeah, that's haunted
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Borderlands 2 is fun right up until I either run up against the usual "What am I stuck on, why am I not running, why can't I even jump, if I'm not supposed to be here how did I even get in and why can't I get out again" antics of every FPS ever... That, or the keyboard-as-controller issues of "I wanted my knife, not to throw a grenade at my own feet..." !vgp
Monday, 08-Feb-21 06:59:37 UTC from web-
@scribus True story: I grew up pretty much entirely on PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360, so when I finally got a PC that could properly handle video games I was immediately put off by the keyboard controls and plugged in an Xbox One controller instead. To this day it's really hard for me to play shooters the "real" way.
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@mrmattimation I had had an NES, GameBoy, SNES, Atari XE, and Sega Genesis before we got our first "real" family computer, a 486 running Windows 3.11. My parents declared that the computer was therefore not for games, unless they were educational. I believe I would go on to N64, 3DS, and Xbox 360 before trying WASD-anything.
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So this guy watched my video about how we can separate the art from the artist... and saw it as a symptom of cancel culture? LMAO http://rainbowdash.net/url/875785
Saturday, 06-Feb-21 23:43:25 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Any critical thought is just dangerously close I guess
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Hey here's one, how are they gonna keep the animation cell fan industry going when everything is all digital?
Thursday, 28-Jan-21 03:59:36 UTC from web-
@scribus Three answers: The first is that The Simpsons didn't switch to digital animation until the mid-2000s, so there's always about fifteen years of that to go through (and Disney not-withstanding (they've been doing digital since The Rescuers Down Under in 1990), the rest of the industry was also pretty late on that train), the second is that a 22-minute program averages around ten thousand unique drawings (more than that if it's a Simpsons, less than that if it's a Flintstones or Jetsons) so there's a LOT to go through, and the third is, and you didn't hear this from me, a lot of those animation cels you see on eBay are actually reproductions or pieces of promotional artwork which have been created expressly to be sold, so they quite literally will be able to send you Itchy's arm for decades.
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@mrmattimation I keep threatening to spend my tax return on a Bakshi cell some time, but something else always ends up seeming more fun
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this frame took five minutes to render and it ain’t even from a finished environment, that’s two hours a second, can you believe it? http://rainbowdash.net/url/875749
Saturday, 16-Jan-21 09:00:41 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Why aren't you overclocking to the point you need buckets of liquid nitrogen noob???
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@scribus The crazy thing is I DO have what one would consider “professional” hardware for this sort of thing, AND I was accelerating the render with a ray tracing-capable graphics card. It’s the METHOD I used to get that painterly look that kinda screwed with things, I’m pretty sure what I did (which I did on accident) was not on the list of things the developers of the program intended designers to do.
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@mrmattimation So long as you're not still overnighting Polaroids of the day's frame back to HQ I guess
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Michael Bay’s new movie is about a bizarro alternate universe where the US government is mishandling a pandemic, but I did the math and I’m 95% certain the virus would have died out by killing all of its hosts too fast to find new ones under the conditions portrayed in the film.
Thursday, 14-Jan-21 10:23:44 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Wait, really? Not that he'd botch the math, that I super-believe... But the whole-ass movie??
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@scribus yeah, look up “Songbird” sometime. Written at the very beginning of the pandemic and filmed almost entirely by the cast with cell phones, it takes place in 2024 in a world where COVID mutated into a deadly super virus which kills 50% of the people it infects, anyone who gets it is automatically reported to the government via smartphone tracking, and they’re quarantined in a concentration camp until they either die or get better. I’m no virologist, but I’m pretty sure that under those conditions, the virus would have been dealt with a long time ago.
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@mrmattimation I mean considering what a 3% mortality rate did to us, I must be inclined to agree, one way or another...
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Sunday, 10-Jan-21 19:13:32 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Y'know I'm starting to suspect it's less mental gymnastics, and more like mental scoliosis
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@mrmattimation And also, just, everything is on fire, why not
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One day I’ll have to answer for a few of the people I used to associate with and I can’t really think of anything better than “I had bad character judgement skills when I was 19”
Sunday, 10-Jan-21 01:44:52 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I mean, I really don't see (especially after time has passed) why people can't accept "saw what they were, told them to split/split myself." The whole "Crap the uprising failed, uuhhhh Sowwy?" move is obviously weak, but I mean really! 19! NOBODY is good at 19!!
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@scribus The one I’m really worried about does backend stuff now for a certain wildly popular (especially with teenage American girls????) animated web series and I don’t wanna be the dickhole who sets that team back again so I’ve been thinking about getting in touch with the current show runner to let him know what I know so that it doesn’t bite ALL of us in the ass at some point in the future.
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So you can imagine how I, someone who lives twenty minutes from where that all went down, wish I had worn brown pants today.
Thursday, 07-Jan-21 09:40:25 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation That was a hell of a thing
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@mrmattimation Also, not sure the miles to minutes ratio outside of CA, but damn dude
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@scribus honestly, it's twenty minutes to get to the metro station which takes me into the district proper, longer if you try to drive into the district. I live really, really close to the city BUT there's pretty much only one bridge going into and out of the city on the Virginia side, not sure if it's the same story in Maryland. And traffic on that bridge is always, always terrible. I used to drive into Alexandria once a week for school - Alexandria being one of the two cities that borders Washington on this side of the river - and even THAT is a complete nightmare. Definitely not as bad as going from, say, Glendale to Los Angeles, based on photos I've seen, but still pretty bad.
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Don’t worry/I’m sorry, I didn’t die in the mass shooting that just happened here
Sunday, 03-Jan-21 00:39:32 UTC from web-
@scribus Not as bad as some we saw pre-pandemic - the police were already nearby because of a robbery that had occurred in the same plaza earlier in the day - but the Wal-Mart I do some of my shopping at a few minutes down the road just got shot up.
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@mrmattimation Only thing Google showed me was "In 2020, there WERE no Mass Shootings!"
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@scribus How unfortunate that it took a global pandemic to get our first shooting-free year in two decades
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Back to the Future’s most egregious presumption was that Marty McFly would need entirely different money to buy things in 2015, as if money from 1985 would be no good thirty years later.
Tuesday, 29-Dec-20 00:01:37 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I've worked alongside cashiers who were suspicious of money old enough to be of a design they didn't remember. I, myself, have been taken aback by the changes when I come across an old bill.
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@scribus Maybe it’s just because I, being the guy who counts the money at the end of the night, see bills from back when we only had 48 states more often than one normally does.
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@mrmattimation My mom used to keep small bills on hand at work for when something neat or rare came through, so she could swap them out and bring it home.
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Any conspiracy theorists here who believe this who Covid-19 thing is a contrived event?
Saturday, 26-Dec-20 20:46:30 UTC from web-
@ricd personally i think Covid is a hoax created for and by the Chinese to make American business less competitive /s
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@mrmattimation And *I* think that hoaxes themselves are psychic virii developed by Russian mystics, but you don't hear me going on about it
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Man animating Among Us characters is kiwiin easy, I wish I coulda done this instead of ponies and skeletons
Tuesday, 22-Dec-20 22:58:27 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation How's the Pac-Man fan scene?
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@mrmattimation Some properties just don't need a third dimension
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Increasingly difficult to write letters to politicians when you aren't allowed to say "kill yourself"
Saturday, 05-Dec-20 17:16:57 UTC from web-
@scribus Around the time of that school shooting in Broward County, I had a cartoon written (and a background painted!) that was just Marco Rubio listening to a bunch of voicemails from constituents telling him to kill himself, it was like four straight minutes of just that, and then the punchline was that he... kills himself. I decided not to do it when I realized it would probably get me a friendly visit from some federal prosecutors looking to ask me some questions.
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@mrmattimation Well, I hit my limit break, lllooolll
