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I feel like “Iran is more progressive than the west because they subsidize transitional surgery” really shouldn’t be a real take that somebody as unless that statement is followed with “because being gay is even worse over there”
Friday, 11-Jun-21 17:30:24 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Yeah that is at best half-understood, more likely deliberately half-revealed to make a point it doesn't actually support
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an older cashier audibly grumbled when he saw me wearing pride beads so I’ve been getting progressively gayer over the course of the morning to see if I can provoke a reaction
Friday, 11-Jun-21 14:28:56 UTC from web -
I’m excited to be getting back to living my life and making up for the year and a half that I’ve been stuck inside or at work, but at the same time, I’m kind of dreading having to go back into DC, transit around here is a joke
Friday, 11-Jun-21 05:24:04 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Not to doubt your own transit woes; I just wonder how ours compare, coast-to-coast
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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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So my state is a week away from TOTAL REOPENING (except where it stays restricted) and non-vaccinated people are supposed to still wear a mask indoors so . . . 90% is 100 now, yay for New Math!!
Thursday, 10-Jun-21 01:06:49 UTC from web-
@scribus I was incredibly worried about this when Virginia re-opened, and granted I don't know what vaccination statistics are like over there, but over here despite my worries we're only seeing, like, five new cases a day in Fairfax County, which is the most populous county in the state, so I'm a lot less worried now than I was at the time
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@zeldatra I'm more amused that it's a "total" reopening (with asterisks) than worried in any way
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man it's kind of obnoxious that there are only two bridges into Maryland from Virginia and both of them are an obnoxious drive away from where i live, which is literally on the Maryland-Virginia border, but I guess we gotta keep them out somehow
Tuesday, 08-Jun-21 18:08:25 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Protecting the local crab industry against the influx of limitless Chesapeake crabmeat? I think they put up limits, if you all want to expand infrastructure
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I have never voted for a winning primary candidate so I pretty much just placed a hex on Lee Carter’s gubernatorial campaign today
Tuesday, 08-Jun-21 17:01:36 UTC from web-
@scribus very much unintentionally! if I realized at the booth that my vote was a curse I woulda voted for our rapist LG to kill his campaign
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Dammit. I got weak and bought a dental vacuum forming machine. I mean I do not intent using it for dental work but I want to use it to vacuform small objects. With it I can copy flat-ish small objects, either as is or I can use that as a mold.
Tuesday, 08-Jun-21 16:15:19 UTC from web-
@adiwan You don't intend to use it for dentistry, but one day you'll have a need and the tool will already be there....
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@scribus Sure! It'll save me a trip to the dentist. I was watching Adam Savage's Tool Tip and couldn't resist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWxCvMzvxlQ I wanted a vacuform for quite some time but I'm too lazy building one myself or it was too expensive. 130 Eurobucks I can spend for an all-in-one device that looks solidly built (better than I could do).
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Yes, the violent, white, male protagonist is treated sympathetically in the film. He’s treated like a victim. Not THE victim. *A* victim. There are a lot of victims in the movie. Arthur. Bruce. Martha. The guys that Arthur killed in the subway. Opposite Joaquin Phoenix is Robert De Niro, who plays Murray. Murray is, like Arthur, a white male. He’s not violent. In fact, he’s (rightly) disgusted by Arthur’s acts of violence. But he’s the antagonist. He’s POWERFUL. And he plays a role in Arthur’s descent into The Joker, as does Thomas Wayne, the film’s secondary antagonist, who is even more powerful and, arguably, responsible for Gotham’s downfall altogether. It’s a film about how the subjugation of the disadvantaged by the rich and powerful can have grave consequences, and it’s dumbfounding that people, living in Obama-Trump-Biden era America where that’s the status quo, can’t see that.
Monday, 07-Jun-21 21:43:10 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I mean, one just cannot depict a cycle without showing somebody involved at the stage of both participant and product, simultaneously
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Tracked down the artist on Newgrounds... they haven't logged in since 2012 and their website is a dead link. Balls
Sunday, 06-Jun-21 06:17:56 UTC from web-
@scribus am currently in the process of a) DMing ALL of her social medias, on the off chance that she still checks any of them, and b) emailing the administrator for the forum we met on, on the off chance that he 1) still reads his emails, and 2) has any of her contact information.
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The high PC component prices make me imagine that these parts may be so expensive that some eccentric rich people want to wear them as jewelry.
Saturday, 05-Jun-21 11:40:19 UTC from web-
@adiwan James Bond expects to break up a SPECTRE supercomputer, stumbles into the worst fashion show
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I think "true" wireless earbuds are a scam with some extra steps. They are expensive, their batteries cannot (easily) be replaced, and they are easily lost, and need a bulky case to charge the earbuds that also adds its failure points and inconveniences to the mix (easy to be lost, battery replacement, hinge, contacts for charging...). A cable isn't perfect either but there are some models with replaceable cables, that don't make it all unusable once it eventually breaks. Tangling of the cable is annoying but it is the less bad than all the wireless earbuds will inflict once they start to misbehave or become obsolete. 3.5mm audio jacks are so "dumb" and simple that it's hard for them to fail.
Thursday, 03-Jun-21 16:27:14 UTC from web-
@scribus Oof. I guess opening the case in order to repair it will probably result in a catastrophy.
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@scribus Yeah. I'm just imagining how a phone/portable musik player with XLR plugs would look like.
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@adiwan I managed to pull it out OK, but it's just too tiny, fragile, and fiddly for my soldering skillz
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Did somebody say “Bus Crash”??
Thursday, 03-Jun-21 14:04:17 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Hey, the only time I "crashed" the bus, I got hit on the broadside by a 90 year old! And nobody was even hurt, okay! Except my schedule... and maybe a couple hundred other people's schedule, down the line....
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Not that I’m emulating a Wii U game or anything, but Wii U emulation is such a pain in the ass I might just fork the money over for a refurbished console.
Wednesday, 02-Jun-21 20:38:53 UTC from web-
@zeldatra And what game would you fork over refurbished console money for? Wii U is a huge blind spot in my Nintento know. My Nintendknow.
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@scribus Nothing, now that I’ve (hypothetically) gotten the emulator working (in Minecraft), but basically I wanna start streaming some older console games like Zelda and such and I was trying to get the most convenient setup going. A Wii U can play Nintendo’s entire library excluding the GameCube and Switch, so it seems like the most convenient option.
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I guess I waited for a PC upgrade so long that it's better to just wait for the next big thing, like when AMD releases a new CPU socket and supports DDR5.
Wednesday, 02-Jun-21 17:40:52 UTC from web -
I know I've said before that Final Fantasy is the only time that 6 > 7, but I think that The Sims is having a similar run with 3 > 4 !vgp
Monday, 31-May-21 22:00:57 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Even after all of the updates and finally putting pools into the base game, I just cannot stand Sims 4. They're too dumb, and they're too bad at listening to the User. The multitasking is cool, and they don't clutter at stairs and doorways as badly as 3, but really.... That's about it, gameplay-wise, for me. Otherwise it's like they traded one graphical step forward for two or three game steps back. I hire a babysitter, I go to the bar with my wife, I come home at 3 AM and the toddler is unfed in the backyard playing around in a dirty diaper and that was about when I decided the game was literally unfinished and in Cimmeria, by Crom, pushing unfinished software to market would cost one's HEAD!! lol
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@scribus I should probably mention that The Sims 2 runs on a pretty much identical game engine to The Sims 3, with the big differences being that create-a-sim is more detailed in 3 and, of course, the interconnected neighborhood with no load screens. If you’re used to 3’s clutter it’s PROBABLY the better game, I’m just not.
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They say one of the best way to make yourself miserable is to compare yourself to others. I get that, I get that, however, it also hold true that one of the best ways to make yourself happy is to do the same.
Monday, 31-May-21 23:26:27 UTC from web-
I was around a group of about ten average people yesterday. I had forgotten just how pitiful and dull our species is.
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I’m one of those psychopaths who played Red Dead Redemption 2 at 30fps because I wanted to play on the highest settings.
Sunday, 30-May-21 22:37:02 UTC from web-
@zeldatra As long as it's over 24, man. I'm starting to get over it, but the ultra-high framerate thing puts me off. I've started seeing good uses of it, like sports, but I can pretty well usually do without.
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@scribus I think it really varies on what kind of game it is too. Shooters you obviously need the fluidity a higher frame rate can offer, but more cinematic, story-driven games like Red Dead Redemption 2 or Uncharted 4 or The Last Of Us or really anything that was on the PS4 in the last five or so years, I don’t really care if my rate is a little lower if that’s the trade off for getting the most crisp, detailed-looking image. But of course, I dedicated my life to studying a craft that involves working in 12 FPS environments, so maybe I’m a little biased.
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the cyborg ninja from Metal Gear Solid is played by the same guy who played the Grim Reaper in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, which is just a little goofy if you ask me.
Wednesday, 26-May-21 07:17:29 UTC from web-
@scribus He does not, but that actor, Greg Eagles, ALSO voices the DARPA Chief in that same game, and another character in the sequel, and both of them basically sound like what I imagine Grim would sound like without the accent.
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...my car didn’t have very many miles on it when I bought it. I think I figured out why the cab company had to sell it.
Wednesday, 26-May-21 02:07:10 UTC from web -
annoyingly, for Swole Foods I have to design a new police car 3D model from scratch instead of using the one I've already got for The Twin Souls, for geographic accuracy. Over in Denver, they use (or at least did, in 2016) Crown Victorias and mountain-ready SUVs, so I modeled a Crown Victoria expy. Here in Virginia, most localities use Dodge Chargers, which I will tbf have to model eventually, AND the state troopers use these weird, ugly-looking Ford Taurus-type cars, AND in Northern Virginia occasionally you'll see Capitol Police around because congressmen live here and apparently that means that they have jurisdiction here??? Those guys use Crown Vics. So I can at least just texture-swap that. But I'm gonna have to model the other two from scratch.
Tuesday, 25-May-21 08:03:46 UTC from web-
@scribus Wouldn’t be unheard of tbf, one of the recurring characters is a Congressman so I imagine the caps would make their way out there fairly often. Still.
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here’s the thing about making a comic about anthros while being completely removed from the furry fandom: you don’t know if something you’re about to upload is gonna awaken something in someone. Like, this? I’m sure somebody’s into this. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875909
Sunday, 23-May-21 06:39:10 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Oh yeah, and there'll be like four different subsets of how/why they're into it, to boot
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Just washed some pro-Trump graffiti off of a bathroom stall and tbh I’m more mad at the brand of sponge I used (“EraserDaddy”).
Sunday, 23-May-21 00:38:56 UTC from web -
Anyway, on a brighter (and finally pony-relevant!) note, saw new MLP toys at the store. I was under the impression there had been some sort of reboot or relaunch, I think isn't it Pinkie-focused now? Anyway, was kinda surprised to see Twilight still as a princess, is all.
Saturday, 22-May-21 18:05:33 UTC from web-
@scribus There is a MLP series currently running called "Pony Life". It's the mane six in an Equestria with modern technology. The episodes are all 5 minutes long and the series' style is Teen-Titans-Go-ish. The story substance is very shallow as a result of this. Not horrifyingly bad, mostly meh.
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@adiwan Ooh, I actually kind of liked TTG, that sounds a bit fun but yeah, not substantial.
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they caught these two teenagers that have been going around robbing stores around town... somehow mine was the only one that didn’t get hit......... not that I had anything to do with it or anything, but let’s not ask too many questions now, alright?
Thursday, 20-May-21 08:26:55 UTC from web-
@scribus Nope, shoplifters just use the regular exits regardless. Nah, these kids were like showing up overnight, smashing the windows, and grabbing whatever cash they could before dipping (which, at my store, would have been about $900)
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@zeldatra Oh, damn dude! That's pretty outright. I just knew a guy who's crew used to target a specific store because the liquor was right by the fire door; their solution was simpler than reorganizing the store, but otherwise problematic, lol
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welp, i weigh 215 now... i was like 160 two years ago
Saturday, 15-May-21 19:32:56 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I'm pretty sure every pound I've ever lost found its way home with five friends ;_;
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That's how I remember it http://rainbowdash.net/url/875905
Saturday, 15-May-21 11:54:36 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@thelastgherkin Pretty much how it looked from the peanut gallery, too
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First thing I did when I got into work today was field a phone call from an angry customer about the CDC’s recent call that vaccinated individuals don’t need to wear masks anymore..... thanks for that one, guys
Thursday, 13-May-21 20:32:21 UTC from web -
Aaannd I now own an 8mm camera from 1962. Just $70 for 3 minutes of black-and-white footage!
Thursday, 13-May-21 16:37:48 UTC from web
