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Job had it gorram easy
about 9 months ago from web-
@adiwan Well, yes; and - I briefly thought I'd lost it before even starting, too! We have termites at the house. The job is work-from-home. I cannot leave for a fumigation in my first month! But there's an alternative treatment that can hold them off until work will allow me three days away. And then, that post, I had meant "Job" like the proper-noun Bible Guy because HAHA here I am thinking I got pre-cherryed for no reason other than God likes torturing his Sims. But I guess it's OK. But I also feel like crap because I panicked and got shouty and hit the walls and scared the cat and dog.
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@scribus Congrats and BIG OOF. I know exactly what you're getting through. One good thing happens and 10 bad follow on its heels. Termites on the other hand seem to be like a biblical plague in comparison.
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Well that's a neat piece of old animation history that's new to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG6mqAwGnY8
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I'm already missing the indicator light for whenever a new message arrived. So handy when I'm not at my phone and return back to it.
about 9 months ago from web -
Finally my new smartphone arrived, the Xperia 10 VI, for 250€. 100€ less than I tried to order in May. Now I'm transferring all my data. Only hassle is that I can't use my old SD card because it wants to format it. Have a spare one and it is fine.
about 9 months ago from web-
@scribus Now I'm jinxed and will let it fall down and dent it next time I take it into my hands. That's what happened with my Blackberry KeyOne on day 2 of ownership. It has a small dent at the top edge and its black anodized coating got off at the spot of impact.
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Database Error begone!
about 9 months ago from web-
@adiwan Turns out if you don’t set binary log expiration in MySQL and leave it unattended for about 10 years you eventually run out of disk space
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@ceruleanspark Ah... Makes sense. At a project I was working on they had similar issues. They logged EVERYTHING and had space issues in production. So much so that they had to make rotating logs but soon after so much was logged that the rotating logs would only save about 2-3 hours and yet more and more logging was added. My code had also very verbose logging that could be disabled but the client wanted even that output all the time. Coincidentally their DB views got so big that certain joints in some applications suddenly stopped working because it had too many columns. It was quite the ordeal to debug that.
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Woke up seeing a horrible blob of death at my 3d-printer's nozzle that has engulfed a vast amount of the hotend.
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On the other hand Tigerella (red tomatoes with yellow-ish stripes) are not that bad and they pump out a lot but they are not my preferred taste with their very juicy and sour notes. If I prepared salads they would have been ideal for that. A Polish sort called Malina on the other hand was described as very sweet and juicy but in my garden they turned out to be dull in taste. The same with a sort called Japanese Crab (it's from Russia) that is not much of a shower in the flavor department. Marmande (from France) is still a very solid all-rounder that I don't mind for being mid in everything. Harzfeuer (German) is also mid but the fruits are a little bit too small for me. Roma tomatoes (Italy) are quite hard, almost like a soft bell pepper and have little juice which makes them eating on bread less desirable. Adora tomatoes that I tasted were also not bad but lacked the qualities it is advertised as with its smoky taste. For me it's a watered-down Black Krim atm.
about 10 months ago from web-
@adiwan Roma tomatoes seem to get used a lot in salad out here, I like them for burgers or sandwiches because they're usually firmer and less juicy, easier to cut and they don't soggy things up. Those tiger ones sound interesting.
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@scribus Ah. That's a very good point. This is a good use-case for all the Roma fruits to be used up. Gonna buy beef patties and some buns tomorrow. As for Tigerella I have the UK sort that has small, cherry-sized, fruits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigerella (about 2 - 2.5 fingers wide).
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Metal Gear Solid Delta is very fun and the new control scheme is great, BUT, you invariably run into rooms that were designed for the top down camera that wind up being much harder to navigate with the over the shoulder camera, and unfortunately there isn’t any way to switch cameras without reverting to a checkpoint.
about 10 months ago from web-
@zeldatra That feels like a technical limitation from several console generations ago, wtheck?!
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As a DM I'm struggling hard creating satisfying roleplay moments. So far I used my NPCs to direct the players from place A to B to whack on enemies. I tried to do something, but my players were adamant going the most efficient and direct path. E.g. they skip encounters and don't make prisoners. I threw in moments to gather information but they didn't take the bait. I had to info dump them with a Harper they rescued who was investigating a dragon cult this session because I feared that they don't catch up otherwise. At the end of the session they took finally some prisoners who are leaders of the cult's cell.
about 10 months ago from web-
@adiwan My DM has this deck of campfire conversation prompts he has us pull for RP when we travel or pass time
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my assistants come to me for advice their parents should be giving them. Come on man I know I’m bald but I’m not THAT old
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"Superman" was really good, "Weapons" also was good, and damn it even the "Tron: Ares" trailer looked good in spite of the Jared Leto-ness of it all
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Turn-based combat is king. All those attempts to do a hybrid approach are failing in my opinion. I think Diablo has poisoned these games with the fancy real time hack and slash combat. I like D&D for intense strategy combat and not for the real-time hectic confusion. I have a party of 4 people against 5-10 enemies. I am too slow to even judge the situation and make a good decision.
about 10 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Yeah. The companion AI might also do a lot of heavy lifting there too. Imagine how bad it would look like if the other characters were potatoes and did the worst decisions. In BG3 I was peeved off any time (out of combat obviously) whenever a character stepped into a trap or dangerous zone. I had to reload and redo a fight because a NPC character completely out of my control stepped into an AOE effect (Moonbeam spell) that was active when every enemy died. Then due to that dumbness the NPC went hostile against me because he was that dumb.
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@zeldatra Hearing about the new battle system actually piqued my interest in playing the remake, I'd previously been put off by hearing about the plot changes
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I think people should be allowed to use whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable in. That's why I walk up two flights of stairs to use the bathroom that's always empty.
Thursday, 23-Feb-17 17:07:57 UTC from web -
Odd dream last night. It was the start of a feature length animated special: a James Bond-type spy infiltrating a heavily guarded freighter containing some kind of device that was the last component needed to power up a North Korean nuclear submarine. The spy stole it but was forced to drop it into the ocean before reaching the rendezvous point. Cut to My Little Pony opening credits! Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie are attending a comic convention somewhere, with Pinkie dressed as an allicorn and Rainbow Dash dressed as the coolest thing she could think of (herself). Genre conventions tell me it was going to be a whodunnit, with one of the unsavoury convention attendees having stolen the plot device: Gilda (dressed as Opal), Sunset Shimmer (dressed as a bunny); but everything was interrupted by a Transformers Animated awards ceremony where Sentinel Prime gave accolades to obscure characters.
Wednesday, 19-Aug-15 09:31:15 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Yay, I'm not the only one who has crazy dreams!
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@scribus I realise at this point there was also some kind of... Majora's Mask themed giant I had to take down while wearing Link cosplay.
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@thelastgherkin 10 year anniversary of this dream lol
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I recently put on a very old piece of clothing that has been washed with scented detergent and it hit my nose really hard. For about 4 years I use detergent without any perfumes. My nose couldn't handle the stench of "freshness" companies try to sell to customers.
about 10 months ago from web-
@adiwan Are you saying you don't think that fresh smells like a rotting strawberry soaked in rubbing alcohol?!
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@scribus Thank you. You have described the scent pretty well. I was lacking myself the words to describe the mango. I am happy that I found shampoos that are based on olive-oil that don't overwhelm me and give me headaches.
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met another trans girl at a local event who had the same name as me but was way hotter so unfortunately i have to fight her to the death
about 10 months ago from web- MetalTao likes this.
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@liquidusmira The rules may seem harsh, but without them we are mere animals
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This is me speaking about fashion options as a dude who wears almost exclusively graphic t-shirts and jeans (or sweat pants at home).
about 10 months ago from web-
@scribus It reminds me that I need a new suit for special occasions. Last time I bought one was 10 years ago. My proportions have shifted a bit.
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@adiwan I was so grateful that my recent job interview was online so I could wear mismatched slacks with a jacket I couldn't actually button and nobody could tell
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@scribus To my in-person interview in September 2017 for my current job I wore a graphic t-shirt with a sailship being attacked by a kraken, griffin, and a sea serpent. However the graphic t-shirt with an astronaut using a half-moon as a rowboat for an interview at IBM was unsuccessfull. The reasons were mainly that they wanted a Java-focused developer and not one preferring C/C++/C#.
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I have some gherkin plants but they grow too few fruits to make it viable to pickle them. Some are giant while other fruits are barely grown. I'd need thrice as many as I have now to have a good selection of mid-sized gherkins at a time and enough to make it worth the process to put them into the pickle jars. So far I have given them away or ate some myself. I'm not a fan of fresh gherkins but at least they are better in taste than store-bought.
about 10 months ago from web-
@adiwan Gherkin mention
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@thelastgherkin Unsolicited gherkin pic https://i.imgur.com/EHgptpy.jpeg This one is about 15cm long. Similar ones I harvested were about 250g in weight.
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British friend just had a kid so I’ve decided I’m going to ruin his accent intentionally
about 10 months ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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It’s worked out pretty well for me so far—sales are way up because I replaced some low sellers with Mr. Beast Feastables and stuck Prime in my coolers to punish Inca Cola for never sending a merchandiser out—but one day the other show will drop.
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>mfw homestuck is relevent again
about 10 months ago from web- Matt likes this.
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I continue to find myself surprised by my aim. Today I shot a long gun for the first time and even though my stance was probably awful my spread was tight.
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the king of the hill revival is pretty good
about 10 months ago from web-
@zeldatra i binged it across two days. i was dreading it based on the teasers having jokes about masks/vegans/bathrooms but peggy calling herself "female-presenting" got an actual laugh out of me
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@tiff Hank Hill going up against a manosphere incel is something I never thought I’d see and it still felt right
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@zeldatra lost my mind a little seeing an actual beta meme and hearing valorant mentioned
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don't worry do your best!
white boy grapey feel so good!about 10 months ago from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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I have finally a working 3D printer! I bought a used Prusa MK3S for 250€. It's about the current price it goes for but for me it's a bargain, as it is the start of the end of many of my printer problems. I want a work horse, reliable, not super fancy, but it does the work, neither exceptionally but competently. Also it's my first direct-drive extruder which will enable me to print with flexible material like TPU at 95 shore hardness.
about 11 months ago from web-
@scribus Thanks. The previous owner had printed a test print just before I arrived to demonstrate that it works, and I believe him fully that it always was without any problems. However, There is a lingering thought in my head that is slowly getting louder saying that my luck (more misfortune) will make it to an object with the same amount of problems as I had before. Joking aside, I think it will take me a little bit of time to get it to know and know its limitations and quirks. It uses a magnetic spring steel sheet with a PEI layer as the print bed surface, which can be really tricky to print with PETG, that is my preferred material. It tends to destroy the PEI coating of the print surface when not being carefully handled.
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The “America” part of the NRA headquarters’ sign has been flickering for days. You can’t write this.
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Nothing is better than surprising a beholder and killing it in the first turn before it can even react.
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I'm at the end of Act 2 of Baldur's Gate 3. WHO DESIGNED THIS PIECE OF CRAP ENCOUNTER?!?!?! It is impossible.
about 11 months ago from web-
@adiwan The skeleton thing? I went through that one just fine but I guess that's the advantage of a cleric/pally heavy party
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@scribus Wait until you try Wrath of the Righteous.
Pathfinder in general is number crunching hell since its first edition, but WotR takes it a step further crowning itself as the most number-crappy TTRPG I've played so far.
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@nerthos It was the fight. My party had a Ranger with the teleport moth swarm (my character), a cleric (Shadowheart), a wizard (Gale), and a barbarian (Karlach). My damage output was too low and all of them failed their saving throws more times than statistically possible.
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I see that Tesla calls their front trunk the "frunk," in places that call it the boot is it the "froot?"
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I'm the weirdo blasting orchestral soundtracks out of the rolled down car window next to the guy with the mega subwoofer in the other lane.
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@adiwan I have at some point been driving around, windows down and "Phantom of the Opera" up
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@scribus I'm a more simpler man: I had Grasslands de Chocobo from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on slightly than higher volume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN8W9Ng-P4U
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