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the sims mp game has escalated, Mortimer Goth is a slightly permanent houseguest now after a very silly misunderstanding
Monday, 04-Jul-22 06:33:03 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Hopped into an empty pool and can't reach the ladder?
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@scribus it’s more like he wandered into a secret underground room he shouldn’t have and lives there now. he’s fine. everyone’s fine. he’s just bitten off more than he can chew.
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@zeldatra Oh yeah, I've had that happen. They somehow forget they came in via a secret door, and well.....
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things got a bit out of hand in my Sims 4 multiplayer game. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876169
Friday, 01-Jul-22 05:10:27 UTC from web -
I just had a customer accuse me of racially profiling her (from what I can tell, purely because I checked her id on an alcohol purchase) and she said “I used to work here, so, I know how it goes”, which I can literally only interpret as “I know you’re profiling me because I used to profile people”
Sunday, 26-Jun-22 16:05:59 UTC from web -
Big corporations use their power to suppress everything that can threaten their business. Microsoft famously adopts free and open standards and alter them such that they are dominating them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
Friday, 17-Jun-22 19:05:47 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Apple loves to Stockholm-syndrome their customers. Upgrading the hardware or even repair? No way! Soldered storage? Sure! Using slightly different chips and software-locking hardware components! Of course! Installing unauthorized software on the iPhone? HELL NO. No filthy hands, hardware or software should taint it.
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@adiwan "Have you used certain hardware and software ever since you bought the machine? Well, not anymore! Every update takes power from you! It's not a bug, it's a fee-chur!"
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@scribus Linux is the only place where I can say:"Heck yeah! New stuff!"
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So now I have a set of folders synced between my iPad and my computer so animation I do on the go just appears on my desktop when I get home. Pretty convenient. For some reason I thought Apple was anti-convenience.
Friday, 17-Jun-22 16:33:11 UTC from web -
Going to finally see Bob’s Burgers today after being delayed by relatable setbacks such as my co-worker getting COVID, me having to work 70 hours, and then me and my entire family getting COVID
Wednesday, 15-Jun-22 18:06:25 UTC from web -
Bob's Burgers was a good movie (:
Friday, 10-Jun-22 06:13:41 UTC from web-
@scribus Kinda funny it was PG13 when it had no blood, Hitler, or fairy sex workers... but Bakshi's "Wizards" was only a PG.
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@scribus Pre-Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? You’re taking your kids to that borderline R-rated cartoon.
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@zeldatra Hell even post-Indy, my parents taped it off our yuppie cousins' cable and showed it to middle-school me, haha
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Hearing Kingdom Hearts IV’s theme song will be an Eminem feature to try and appeal to people who liked that period in the early 2010s where every pop album had Eminem on it
Tuesday, 07-Jun-22 23:13:33 UTC from web -
My D&D group adopted a Xorn, a gem-eating monster, and named it Ruby. We bought some Xorns to smuggle them to a mine in order to sell them there but we kept one, as my character was good enough in animal handling that it got tamed.
Sunday, 05-Jun-22 10:19:23 UTC from web -
buying a gun to protect myself from the gun owners who bought a gun to protect themself from the gun owners who bought a gun to protect themself from the gun owners who bought
Thursday, 02-Jun-22 21:19:23 UTC from web -
I'd like to slap the beard off of Ted Cruz and feed it to him, but that's not very on-topic for the site, so I just hope he gets kicked in the head by a horse (:
Wednesday, 25-May-22 01:32:48 UTC from web-
@scribus man we coulda been rid of this asshole four years ago if Beto didn't have such a big mouth. two friggin' percent margin.
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I genuinely believe we need a constitutional amendment securing the innate human right to kick the everloving goddamnit out of people who make -- or kowtow to implement -- moronic ass-backwards software design choices. Why in any god's holiest of names would the Keyboard Settings be ANYWHERE OTHER THAN SETTINGS > KEYBOARD??? The HELL I gotta go under papayaing "Time" for this you god damned useless batcaves!!? Who decided this, and have I missed out on the opportunity to skin the dumbass alive and roll them in rock salt?
Friday, 20-May-22 21:15:20 UTC from web-
@scribus Similarly - why are “Device Manager” and “Printers and Devices” two separate menus?
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@zeldatra Why does YouTube have two (or more, I've just found 2) ways to link the tv app and the mobile app, one numeric and the other alphabetic. No idea why there's not just one way, they couldn't pick one?
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Really think Adam Sandler shoulda been the next Doctor. Doctor Jew.
Sunday, 08-May-22 16:30:04 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I heard the BBC passed because the songs he tried out just didn't fit with their vision of the Doctor. I guess acoustic-guitar-backed manchild moans about "timey-wimey" just appeal to a very select audience.
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@scribus was really looking forward to hearing the doctor talk like an actor whose entire understanding of mental disability comes from very special episodes of the 1980s
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@zeldatra Were you looking for some kind of lost Sims 2 thing? https://simworld.neocities.org/frontpage.html
Saturday, 07-May-22 00:40:26 UTC from web-
@scribus this is an interesting read! Sims 2 fortunately though has a large modding community at modthesims.info (as well as elsewhere for people looking for more, ah, substantive content) so the lost media don’t bug me as much
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I am very comfortable with this "web 1.0" movement, I think
Saturday, 07-May-22 00:41:00 UTC from web-
@scribus Like Elon Musk purchasing Twitter and Facebook going meta, I fail to see what Web 3.0 has to offer me, the content creator. As soon as somebody can tell me how MY life changes, that’s when I’ll start caring.
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my second full day in England was spent asleep because I caught something on the plane. to whomever did that: you are a dick
Friday, 15-Apr-22 16:54:35 UTC from web -
New PowerPoint just dropped https://youtu.be/J_tstG691CQ
Saturday, 09-Apr-22 22:35:01 UTC from web-
@zeldatra animated pretty much 100% in Microsoft PowerPoint with the circle tool and automated slides at a 1/24th of a second delay, but there’s a little bit of CGI in there too… wanted to invoke Futurama here.
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You got any ideas why Ostatus wount let me remote sub on baraag? Also does it allow me to see posts or just a easy follow button? @ceruleanspark
Wednesday, 06-Apr-22 07:04:09 UTC from web -
Much rejoicing for the demo bein live @tonyyotes
Wednesday, 06-Apr-22 07:01:42 UTC from web -
it is kind of a long shot, but are any of you nerds good with that Julia programing language?
Wednesday, 30-Mar-22 14:17:33 UTC from web-
@mushi I know a guy who's been using it for a few years. What do you need?
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@vernandex i literally need everything xD.
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@mushi ...well, here's everything: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/. Have fun with programming, I guess.
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Got today my first scammer on my company phone. They spoofed a local phone number (probably a SIP gate) and called probably from India, as the caller had an Indian accent and spoke English. They said they were from Microsoft and my computer had a "problem". I didn't hesitate very long and hung up. It'd be funny to waste their time but it's also my time too that would have been wasted.
Friday, 01-Apr-22 12:14:25 UTC from web-
@adiwan I've tried messing with a few scammers/spammers in the past, but I seem to be no good at it. They never reply to my responses, I must be too obvious.
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@scribus I’ve been known to subtly waste a phone scammer’s time at my place of work, to the point that some of them, if I pick up and they recognize my voice, they’ll immediately hang up.
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Now, I, fully vaccinated AND having caught the virus, personally am proceeding through life as I did prior to the pandemic, with the exception that I wear a mask to work and in crowded places still, but the idea that there should be zero precautions taken whatsoever and people just shouldn’t care about it anymore is frankly incredibly shortsighted.
Thursday, 31-Mar-22 17:02:34 UTC from web-
@scribus The blatantly-rude and incorrect comment "we can skip the “muh freedom” dog and pony show, we all know you don’t actually care about that" is incorrect for many reasons, but one in particular that can be proven here: This site runs on GNUSocial (previously known as statusnet), and I learned about this website through exploring GNU software that I do not usually use. I ise Free software and reccomend it to my peers because I very much do caer about freedoms and liberties, unlike the aforementioned. All of the aspects of my "rat" are perfectly comprehensible, but I would understand that you would be confused as the StatusNet link now directs to an unrelated website.
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@vernandex Right, but how does you using FOSS make HIM a troll?
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@vernandex sorry, we're talking about rats now???
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i made this car in 2016, when I was 19. This is the first time the badging - a very mature nazi joke, poking fun at Mercedes-Benz' origins as a manufacturer - appears on screen. Going back and forth on whether or not I want to retexture it to remove that. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876094
Friday, 18-Mar-22 02:06:51 UTC from web-
@adiwan It’s to be expected, honestly. The US outlawed slavery long before most modern American companies got their start, and the ones that do go back that long are from New England which was less reliant on slave labor than other places, I’m sure if like Coca Cola existed in 1830 I’d be able to point at them and go “hey this company owned slaves”
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@zeldatra Considering the way scrip was manipulated, one could make an argument about company towns
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@scribus Yup, thought about this too.
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back when i was e-famous i used to get requests to draw weird Undertale AU stuff a LOT during streams. i usually ended up taking the banana and making the characters say terrible things to get people to stop. unsurprisingly, this only encouraged people http://rainbowdash.net/url/876088
Saturday, 12-Mar-22 06:53:03 UTC from web-
@zeldatra January 2017, btw. If only I knew!
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That relatable moment when you have to spend 40 minutes on the phone with Western Union because one of your customers is a Russian national on an international sanctions list sending money to saboteurs in Ukraine
Tuesday, 08-Mar-22 19:05:39 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Wow. That sounds, uh, fun....
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@zeldatra It's surprising that people actually use Western Union. And if they do it is probably not legitimate. I always associate it as a service to send money to scammers or other fraudsters.
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@adiwan I live in a town with a super substantial population of middle-aged immigrants so most of them have no idea what Venmo is, they’ve been doing Western Union since the 90s so there’s no going back now
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like, right ther other day some pople on FB were saying they were suprised at my age because they thought i was 17. what is even wrong about those people
Thursday, 03-Mar-22 21:52:57 UTC from web -
Putin or more like Poo-Teen
Wednesday, 02-Mar-22 05:58:01 UTC from web-
@adiwan Nah, that sounds too much like talking crap on poutine
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@scribus My bad. I don't want to put poutine's name in vain. I just looked up how it is pronounced https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=de&text=%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD&op=translate It appears to sound more like "poot yen"
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@adiwan Oh yeah, that would be a more French pronunciation, wouldn't it?
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gonna use Australia instead, what the Potato Knishes are they gonna do about it
Saturday, 26-Feb-22 07:46:19 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Better hope the Emus don't rise again
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@scribus the big disincentive to using Australia now, besides the emu uprising, is that it ruins a joke in Swole Foods. One script has a borderline senile old man recounting a battle he fought in Australia; with his senility being the joke. But then a script that’s placed later in the timeline has a character who works for the government mention the same event, making it more credible; a third script then finally reveals that in this universe, NATO fought an atomic war against Australia. I might just generically say “a country in the East” or something like that instead.
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The house I could potentially afford was already taken when I put down a house viewing request. Of course.
Tuesday, 08-Feb-22 19:40:57 UTC from web-
@adiwan same :/
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Start with something super unbelievable, that way the stuff that’s only mildly unbelievable is pretty believable in comparison.
Sunday, 30-Jan-22 04:52:32 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Just about the exact inverse of what I'm trying to do. Want them to believe a near-future cyberpunk urban center, with human/animal hybrids, which eventually develops real-deal Magic and ends up making contact with >3rd dimensional intelligence? Start with something standard, like a murder procedural, so they're not entirely flippin' lost lol
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@scribus the way I see it - since *my* universe is usually grounded pretty firmly in reality, starting with some really crazy grape off the bat means nothing’s off the table. Futurama’s first season goes from 1999 New York to literally the edge of the universe, so for the entire rest of the show they could go literally anywhere in between.
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