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I keep running into this problem where the things I write are usually totally cool on the internet where nobody can really stop me from describing mangoio in the crudest terms possible, but right now I’m writing for what is possibly going to be on television and those same words would probably get me a very nasty letter from standards and practices. It’s very hard to go from writing like you’re your own boss to writing in such a way that won’t lose the network twenty million dollars in Wendy’s advertising.
Thursday, 25-May-23 01:02:54 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Do like other great shows did: invent new dirty words! Battlestar Galactica used *frak* all the time. It's not about the word, it's all about the inflection. I believe the most innocent word can be turned into a swear word when it's used as a swear word long enough. Using adjacent words can be also a nice opportunity to widen the vocabulary.
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@adiwan Oh yeah, for real. My great-grandma would never, ever cuss... but she made "fool" sound like the *real* F-word if she got riled up.
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I am Irish so it’s perfectly okay for me to say racist things about the Irish (but I’m also trying to get an Irish studio to co-finance something for me so maybe I shouldn’t)
Friday, 19-May-23 23:11:48 UTC from web-
@zeldatra It's the duck typing principle: If you walk an American and you talk like an American, then you're American. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
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Ireland is kind of like if J.R.R. Tolkien was God
Thursday, 18-May-23 00:11:13 UTC from web-
@scribus multiple varieties of short people, strange culture and folklore, Gandalf is president, etc
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In the spirit of jokes that literally only I am probably even capable of finding funny, I present to you Weird Alice Cooper's "Dare to be Stoopid" -____-
Sunday, 14-May-23 20:59:20 UTC from web-
@scribus I would like you to know a sex doll website signed up to reply to this dash with "bad bad"
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@thelastgherkin Naughty naughty
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@thelastgherkin Well met.... Lol
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OK.... Tears of the Kingdom... What does "tears" refer to? Is it the liquid coming out of the eyes (for example while crying) or is it the edge of two pieces of a material/object that has been ripped apart (for example tearing a piece of paper in two pieces)?
Friday, 12-May-23 13:18:20 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Aaah... So it is not derived from the German word "Tier" (plural "Tiere"), which means "animal".
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@scribus Good lord I wish, the previous game indirectly mentioned the events of Twilight Princess exactly one time and that seems to be the only acknowledgment Nintendo is willing to give that game.
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next time something like NFTs drops that could make me a ton of money but is ethically unsound, could somebody please let me know before you tell everyone else so that I can get in early and when the whole thing explodes I can be like “damn they hired death squads in WHICH developing nation? Oh man I didn’t know my bad dude” and run off with the money while publicly taking a stand against whatever terrible thing I’ve been complicit in
Wednesday, 10-May-23 07:04:15 UTC from web-
@adiwan I'm always torn between actually having a conscience and wondering if it's already too late until it actually is too late
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@scribus Yeah. I think the same of the stock exchange. It's a huge and legal gambling machine.
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@adiwan See, that's why I just goto Vegas. They're honest about fleecing you, and sometimes you get a free buffet!!
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Every time Joe Biden exhibits signs of mental decay his approval rating rises by 10 points
Sunday, 30-Apr-23 17:26:44 UTC from web -
I just checked my seldom used other bank account from when I was in college and learned I just had around $500 sitting in there, which isn’t much, but damn, that’s $500 I didn’t know I had
Friday, 14-Apr-23 15:55:32 UTC from web -
I just learned that John Leguizamo was the sloth in the ice age movies and now I fully believe in parallel universes because I swear to god it was Seth Green
Thursday, 13-Apr-23 16:21:58 UTC from web -
Yakuza: Like a Dragon - 40 hours in and I'm at chapter 11.
Monday, 10-Apr-23 20:36:25 UTC from web-
@scribus 15 Chapter. The length of a chapter is rather uneven. The later chapters in a yakuza game are longer when trying to get most of the sidestories. I expect it to take 15 hours to finish.
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You could probably show Fritz the Cat on MTV today
Saturday, 08-Apr-23 04:10:22 UTC from web-
@scribus I spent a little longer than I should have wondering what exactly is on MTV these days, both Beavis & Butt-Head and the Daria spin-off are on Paramount+, South Park only airs premieres on MTV, and the “M” in “MTV” hasn’t stood for music in a very long time
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YouTuber got shot in the mall down the street. Prank channel, so, 100% deserved.
Tuesday, 04-Apr-23 13:51:41 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Not the jackass who thinks it's top kek to make a bunch of noise in a college library, I hope. I wanted to pin him in a corner and give him 10,000 punches!
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@scribus Tanner Cook, apparently the subject of the prank whipped out a gun and shot him in the stomach, then the sheriff came and arrested them both. Since he didn’t die, I think I’m perfectly fine to say that I hope this incident causes these dudes to think twice about it from now on
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@zeldatra Except that this is the first I'm hearing his name, sure hope nobody else tries to stage a shooting prank to boost their career of evil
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Lashing Trump to a cross and placing a crown of thorns upon his head seems a bit extreme IMO
Monday, 03-Apr-23 16:56:00 UTC from web -
In case anyone is wondering: I learned this over the course of a nearly 24 hour shift.
Sunday, 02-Apr-23 21:07:09 UTC from web -
Wednesday, 29-Mar-23 18:35:30 UTC from web
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@scribus I'm really hoping they get the funding for a proper series/movie, the "aesthetically pleasant, good for all ages funny animal cartoon" genre needs a revival.
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@nerthos For real, dude. It's been too long since G and PG meant anything other than "little kids" and "bigger kids," Brandon Tenold does a great takedown of 70's PG vs Today in his video on Ralph Bakshi's "Wizards."
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I can’t wait to get home later tonight and have my pc FrankerZ a brick because it hasn’t installed a security update in two weeks
Thursday, 23-Mar-23 09:38:48 UTC from web -
Rand Paul is complaining about "woke" schools that are now disallowing kids from wearing shirts with firearms on them. Maybe this is just because I was part of the first generation to attend school after Columbine, but it seems to me if Republicans think that this is suddenly a thing that is happening right just now they need to get their eyes checked, because I remember growing up in Florida and being told any gun-related clothing would get my ass expelled.
Monday, 20-Mar-23 14:37:48 UTC from web -
Ahoyhoy Amsterdam. I’m NOT here for that one thing, or that other thing, grow up
Wednesday, 15-Mar-23 16:58:03 UTC from web -
Danny Trejo is also in it but he at least plays a character.
Tuesday, 14-Mar-23 21:13:03 UTC from web -
Were NES games region locked is probably the better question actually
Monday, 13-Mar-23 12:44:36 UTC from web-
@zeldatra NES games are region locked. You need your console modded to play PAL games on NTSC consoles or vice-versa.
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I’m too tall for double decker buses, in case anybody was wondering.
Sunday, 12-Mar-23 08:54:54 UTC from web -
The Simpsons is on Channel 4 and it’s very clearly sped up to 25 frames per second, this country is GROSS
Wednesday, 08-Mar-23 18:04:27 UTC from web -
…did I make that joke already? I’m getting deja vu from that joke.
Sunday, 05-Mar-23 20:51:49 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I'm not sure... I might also be deja-vu'ing, based largely on the fact that CA hasn't had a popular governor since before I was born
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One week until my risk of death in a transatlantic plane crash rises significantly
Tuesday, 28-Feb-23 20:25:04 UTC from web-
@adiwan and then once the plan lands my risk of getting killed in a mass shooting also falls significantly
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@zeldatra Lemme know how it feels to not need to scope the exits and cover opportunities for every building you enter
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@scribus Downtown London is crazy man, kids in the suburbs were getting off school, came to the city on a train, and were just wandering about buying sweets with their allowances, never would’ve dreamed of doing that when I was a kid (I mean, mostly because the Washington metro didn’t hit my hometown until I was 25, but still…
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I put sunflower seeds on my window ledge because I feed Eurasian Blue Fluffle Puff. They have made a nest nearby.
Tuesday, 28-Feb-23 09:47:24 UTC from web -
I was reading Dilbert from 2004 to 2009-ish. The content was more recycled than the paper it was printed on. I definitely stopped after Scott Adams did something stupid as well around that time, I don't know what it was anymore. Also he said some anti-vax stuff in regards to Covid-19 and was also favorable to Trump. The recent outburst of racism is barely surprising.
Monday, 27-Feb-23 11:18:03 UTC from web -
new comic http://rainbowdash.net/url/876325
Monday, 27-Feb-23 05:00:13 UTC from web -
Hearing about a big, nationally syndicated comic getting pulled from newspapers nationwide because its creator is a racist, going to see what it was, and then seeing that it was Dilbert was genuinely funnier than any strip of Dilbert. Laughed out papayaing loud.
Monday, 27-Feb-23 00:53:00 UTC from web-
@zeldatra And possibly all because he didn't get a 6 year old meme and is incapable of admitting being wrong
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Snowfall at the hardware store today
Saturday, 25-Feb-23 20:10:03 UTC from web-
@scribus As somebody who’s never been west of El Paso, Southern California is all the same to me, frankly you guys are lucky people even know there’s places besides LA over there
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@zeldatra It would probably help if the Anaheim (OC) Angels didn't somehow become an LA team, and a FrankerZant car auction in the boondocks of Mira Loma, IE called itself their LA location, among other things like the city's history of swallowing up other towns (largely by calling dibs on water rights, which of course involved the flooding of a native sacred site) and the general fact that most of SoCal really is just one neverending urban/suburban/exurban sprawl
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@scribus I was gonna say, the other day I saw a map of SoCal’s road network and it sure does seem like urban Los Angeles is much bigger than LA County based on that alone
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My search for a house is not going forward. As I thought I got one my banker told me the house ain't worth the asking price. The banker's estimate is too far off for getting a credit. He was right in hindsight as further investment would be needed to get it anywhere worthwile. It was a house from the 60s and not much has been done there. Also currently all houses on the market are overpriced as the interest rates jumped up and the houses on offer are needing a lot of TLC.
Monday, 20-Feb-23 18:23:07 UTC from web
