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adiwan: It's probably not the best time to look for a laptop for my mother. On the other hand she runs a low mid-tier laptop from 2008 and has Windows 7 installed.
adiwan's status on Monday, 22-Jun-26 18:26:36 UTC
It's probably not the best time to look for a laptop for my mother. On the other hand she runs a low mid-tier laptop from 2008 and has Windows 7 installed.
adiwan: OH GOD. It's getting HOTTER. A whole week with temperatures from 30°C to 38°C in the shade. Just kill me sun. You are already the worst in Super Mario Bros 3.
adiwan's status on Sunday, 21-Jun-26 17:39:14 UTC
OH GOD. It's getting HOTTER. A whole week with temperatures from 30°C to 38°C in the shade. Just kill me sun. You are already the worst in Super Mario Bros 3.
adiwan: @adiwan I mean I wouldn't ever considered watching the finale in the cinema.
adiwan's status on Saturday, 20-Jun-26 18:45:02 UTC
@adiwan I mean I wouldn't ever considered watching the finale in the cinema.
adiwan: I have also watched The Amazing Digital Circus. I mean... It's not amazing... and there was a lot of circus around it... The best grade I can give it is: fine. It was creative. The "mystery box" aspect was the hook and appeal of the show at first. The ending was... something.
adiwan's status on Saturday, 20-Jun-26 18:31:47 UTC
I have also watched The Amazing Digital Circus. I mean... It's not amazing... and there was a lot of circus around it... The best grade I can give it is: fine. It was creative. The "mystery box" aspect was the hook and appeal of the show at first. The ending was... something.
adiwan: @scribus I only know I when I was young I was hooked on the series. The movie was obviously bad. I grabbed a copy from the high Internet seas and watched it. If it comes to streaming it'll be good watch to kill time.
adiwan's status on Saturday, 20-Jun-26 16:16:33 UTC
@scribus I only know I when I was young I was hooked on the series. The movie was obviously bad. I grabbed a copy from the high Internet seas and watched it. If it comes to streaming it'll be good watch to kill time.
scribus: @adiwan Was never a real fan of the property, but I did enjoy the Dolph Lundgren movie from the 80s with Courtney Cox-not-yet-Arquette, and while I probably won't see the new one in theaters, maybe if it shows up on Netflix I might throw it on some lazy Sunday afternoon
scribus's status on Saturday, 20-Jun-26 15:30:59 UTC
@adiwan Was never a real fan of the property, but I did enjoy the Dolph Lundgren movie from the 80s with Courtney Cox-not-yet-Arquette, and while I probably won't see the new one in theaters, maybe if it shows up on Netflix I might throw it on some lazy Sunday afternoon
adiwan: I watched Masters of the Universe 2026. It's a 5/10 movie with a 10/10 soundtrack with 7/10 vibes. Good watch with the right mindset of not expecting too much.
adiwan's status on Saturday, 20-Jun-26 12:37:18 UTC
I watched Masters of the Universe 2026. It's a 5/10 movie with a 10/10 soundtrack with 7/10 vibes. Good watch with the right mindset of not expecting too much.
adiwan: I mean I have added almost half of all tracks to my epic music play list that is reserved for only the best tracks I want to listen to.
adiwan's status on Friday, 19-Jun-26 21:33:46 UTC
I mean I have added almost half of all tracks to my epic music play list that is reserved for only the best tracks I want to listen to.
adiwan: Haven't watched the new Master's of the Universe movie, however I'm listening the soundtrack. It has surprisingly a lot of tracks that are absolute fire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwSpzK8rFl4
adiwan's status on Friday, 19-Jun-26 20:37:58 UTC
Haven't watched the new Master's of the Universe movie, however I'm listening the soundtrack. It has surprisingly a lot of tracks that are absolute fire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwSpzK8rFl4
adiwan: There is an indoor swimming pool almost next to me. Not even 3 minutes by foot. However it's closed during Summer as outdoor swimming pools open. I'm not going to use them. They are a cesspool of children, idiots, and idiot children, and they are on the other side of the city. Not convenient enough for a quick jump into the water during the current heat wave here. I guess the garden hose must suffice.
adiwan's status on Friday, 19-Jun-26 05:58:22 UTC
There is an indoor swimming pool almost next to me. Not even 3 minutes by foot. However it's closed during Summer as outdoor swimming pools open. I'm not going to use them. They are a cesspool of children, idiots, and idiot children, and they are on the other side of the city. Not convenient enough for a quick jump into the water during the current heat wave here. I guess the garden hose must suffice.
rustystringspony: @scribus thanks! I've looked at this site a few times, but only just now decided to make an account and stuff
rustystringspony's status on Wednesday, 17-Jun-26 06:39:11 UTC
@scribus thanks! I've looked at this site a few times, but only just now decided to make an account and stuff
scribus: @rustystringspony also, welcome!
scribus's status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-26 15:08:32 UTC
@rustystringspony also, welcome!
scribus: @rustystringspony Yeah, I needed to turn power save off for the wifi but other than that, so far pretty good
scribus's status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-26 15:08:13 UTC
@rustystringspony Yeah, I needed to turn power save off for the wifi but other than that, so far pretty good
rustystringspony: Hello everypony! I'm new here, not really sure how active I'll be, but I'm here!
rustystringspony's status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-26 08:06:20 UTC
Hello everypony! I'm new here, not really sure how active I'll be, but I'm here!
rustystringspony: @scribus Bazzite is great for gaming! it also has extra patches for proton, and Proton Plus built in if you need it!
rustystringspony's status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-26 08:05:42 UTC
@scribus Bazzite is great for gaming! it also has extra patches for proton, and Proton Plus built in if you need it!
scribus: Wi-fi was a little dodgy, but may have been settled
scribus's status on Monday, 15-Jun-26 23:20:15 UTC
Wi-fi was a little dodgy, but may have been settled
scribus: OK maybe I'm finally, finally, actually, really getting rid of Windows. Bazzite has been treating my Steam catalogue well enough thus far, fingers crossed!
scribus's status on Monday, 15-Jun-26 21:56:50 UTC
OK maybe I'm finally, finally, actually, really getting rid of Windows. Bazzite has been treating my Steam catalogue well enough thus far, fingers crossed!
adiwan: I know the history of the term "Jaywalking" however I can not help myself not to think of a bluejay walking across the street instead.
adiwan's status on Monday, 15-Jun-26 06:41:48 UTC
I know the history of the term "Jaywalking" however I can not help myself not to think of a bluejay walking across the street instead.
adiwan: I feel a sudden wave of nostalgia thinking about my first *proper* mp3 player, the Creative Zen Micro with 4GB 1.8'' HDD. I had a stupid USB-Stick with 128MB before and it was crap. My Creative Zen Micro couldn't be turned on and it was a sad day 20 years ago. I have too much music to consider using anything like that again without having to transcode everything to 128kb/s for a decent music selection. Apparently none survived as I can't find any working on ebay as all I can find are marked as junk or for parts. After that I had an iPod Touch 2G with 16GB that got a broken headphone jack and trying to repair it the display broke. Wouldn't want to use that again because of iTunes.
adiwan's status on Sunday, 14-Jun-26 21:23:33 UTC
I feel a sudden wave of nostalgia thinking about my first *proper* mp3 player, the Creative Zen Micro with 4GB 1.8'' HDD. I had a stupid USB-Stick with 128MB before and it was crap. My Creative Zen Micro couldn't be turned on and it was a sad day 20 years ago. I have too much music to consider using anything like that again without having to transcode everything to 128kb/s for a decent music selection. Apparently none survived as I can't find any working on ebay as all I can find are marked as junk or for parts. After that I had an iPod Touch 2G with 16GB that got a broken headphone jack and trying to repair it the display broke. Wouldn't want to use that again because of iTunes.
adiwan: I need to get all the old music I always had. I'm seriously missing the SNES music from StarFox (StarWing), especially the Corneria stage music. Somehow the SNES sound chip is still unmatched. The Amiga is close but not the same.
adiwan's status on Sunday, 14-Jun-26 20:18:56 UTC
I need to get all the old music I always had. I'm seriously missing the SNES music from StarFox (StarWing), especially the Corneria stage music. Somehow the SNES sound chip is still unmatched. The Amiga is close but not the same.
adiwan: @scribus I went back to Slay The Spire 2 and unlocked the last bit. After that I have a gaping abyss full of backlog games. I own console games I have never even tried. The biggest road block is that I have to set up the consoles in the first place as all of them are in the boxes from my move into my current home.
adiwan's status on Thursday, 11-Jun-26 06:58:59 UTC
@scribus I went back to Slay The Spire 2 and unlocked the last bit. After that I have a gaping abyss full of backlog games. I own console games I have never even tried. The biggest road block is that I have to set up the consoles in the first place as all of them are in the boxes from my move into my current home.
scribus: @adiwan I've pivoted back to Project Zomboid, at least they outright admit there's no hope of survival
scribus's status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-26 21:32:47 UTC
@adiwan I've pivoted back to Project Zomboid, at least they outright admit there's no hope of survival
adiwan: Played more Mina The Hollower. I went full on AVGN despite the accessibility options. I'm so furious I can't sleep.
adiwan's status on Monday, 08-Jun-26 23:02:22 UTC
Played more Mina The Hollower. I went full on AVGN despite the accessibility options. I'm so furious I can't sleep.
zeldatra: 007 First Light is committed to presenting itself like a playable version of an Eon Bond movie, sometimes to its detriment; a very early mission is essentially a playable training montage, and while I see what they’re going for, the fact that it’s 100% playable and not a cutscene results in the feeling that you’re not watching a montage, you’re actually just being teleported around a map at random while the game is rapid-firing objectives at you. The game is fun and I appreciate how cinematic it is but man they commit way too hard in some places.
zeldatra's status on Monday, 08-Jun-26 17:23:49 UTC
007 First Light is committed to presenting itself like a playable version of an Eon Bond movie, sometimes to its detriment; a very early mission is essentially a playable training montage, and while I see what they’re going for, the fact that it’s 100% playable and not a cutscene results in the feeling that you’re not watching a montage, you’re actually just being teleported around a map at random while the game is rapid-firing objectives at you. The game is fun and I appreciate how cinematic it is but man they commit way too hard in some places.
adiwan: @scribus It's a dick move then that achievements (feats) are disabled when those, frankly speaking, accessibility options are enabled. I really liked Shovel Knight and it was a properly tough game. Not too hard but challenging, and the mechanics are not unfair. I don't have the same quality experience with Mina the Hollower.
adiwan's status on Monday, 08-Jun-26 09:17:13 UTC
@scribus It's a dick move then that achievements (feats) are disabled when those, frankly speaking, accessibility options are enabled. I really liked Shovel Knight and it was a properly tough game. Not too hard but challenging, and the mechanics are not unfair. I don't have the same quality experience with Mina the Hollower.
zeldatra: @scribus I watched it in theaters on Thursday. I ordered an old fashioned and then, midway into the movie, looked around and realized that I was the only person in the audience who was drinking alcohol. I then ordered a second old fashioned. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876767
zeldatra's status on Monday, 08-Jun-26 06:44:24 UTC
@scribus I watched it in theaters on Thursday. I ordered an old fashioned and then, midway into the movie, looked around and realized that I was the only person in the audience who was drinking alcohol. I then ordered a second old fashioned. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876767
scribus: @adiwan Yeah, I turned on like 12 or 15 of the built-in options, it's a very fun game but that difficulty makes me wonder if they gave up on balancing it and said "Here, you do it" (or maybe they're saying "Yes, we did this on purpose, and if you don't like it, here")
scribus's status on Sunday, 07-Jun-26 22:35:38 UTC
@adiwan Yeah, I turned on like 12 or 15 of the built-in options, it's a very fun game but that difficulty makes me wonder if they gave up on balancing it and said "Here, you do it" (or maybe they're saying "Yes, we did this on purpose, and if you don't like it, here")
scribus: I know there's no way this doesn't sound creepy so I'll just come out and say it, the big screen really lets you appreciate the texture of Ragatha's skin
scribus's status on Sunday, 07-Jun-26 22:34:30 UTC
I know there's no way this doesn't sound creepy so I'll just come out and say it, the big screen really lets you appreciate the texture of Ragatha's skin
adiwan: I am playing Mina The Hollower and I'm infuriated by the controls. The "sticky" direction controls are causing so many problems that made me run into enemies and fall into pits and losing all my currency within minutes. I want to like the game more but it's fighting me as a player. The flying enemies and the high HP enemies aren't helping either.
adiwan's status on Sunday, 07-Jun-26 20:38:18 UTC
I am playing Mina The Hollower and I'm infuriated by the controls. The "sticky" direction controls are causing so many problems that made me run into enemies and fall into pits and losing all my currency within minutes. I want to like the game more but it's fighting me as a player. The flying enemies and the high HP enemies aren't helping either.
scribus: In the theater for the Amazing Digital Circus finale.
scribus's status on Sunday, 07-Jun-26 20:08:49 UTC
In the theater for the Amazing Digital Circus finale.
zeldatra: Sugawara of course being a part of the yakuza cinema homage since he’s most famous for starring in yakuza films.
zeldatra's status on Saturday, 06-Jun-26 23:11:44 UTC
Sugawara of course being a part of the yakuza cinema homage since he’s most famous for starring in yakuza films.
zeldatra: At the end of the day the whole franchise is an homage to yakuza cinema, and this game in particular seems to be a celebration of music, with how many musicians have had their likenesses dropped in. Snoop, Tori Kelly, Ado... Add into that the transpacific themes and IMO I don’t think using Tupac is THAT weird.
zeldatra's status on Saturday, 06-Jun-26 23:10:56 UTC
At the end of the day the whole franchise is an homage to yakuza cinema, and this game in particular seems to be a celebration of music, with how many musicians have had their likenesses dropped in. Snoop, Tori Kelly, Ado... Add into that the transpacific themes and IMO I don’t think using Tupac is THAT weird.
zeldatra: @adiwan imo it’s not any sillier than using Bunta Sugawara’s face, he’s been dead for 10 years and nobody seems that bothered by his inclusion.
zeldatra's status on Saturday, 06-Jun-26 23:08:10 UTC
@adiwan imo it’s not any sillier than using Bunta Sugawara’s face, he’s been dead for 10 years and nobody seems that bothered by his inclusion.
adiwan: @zeldatra To me I don't have any emotional relationship to Tupac and his music and his real life person. I don't have any clue to what's the point of that. Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One was in a way essential to the universe of the film and can be in a way excused to be resurrected (tough uncannily). In this case it's a completely new story that is not even in the same decade in which Tupac even lived.
adiwan's status on Saturday, 06-Jun-26 15:59:19 UTC
@zeldatra To me I don't have any emotional relationship to Tupac and his music and his real life person. I don't have any clue to what's the point of that. Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One was in a way essential to the universe of the film and can be in a way excused to be resurrected (tough uncannily). In this case it's a completely new story that is not even in the same decade in which Tupac even lived.
zeldatra: Tupac in Stranger Than Heaven is turning out to be Yakuza fans’ blue-armed Sonic moment.
zeldatra's status on Saturday, 06-Jun-26 06:35:24 UTC
Tupac in Stranger Than Heaven is turning out to be Yakuza fans’ blue-armed Sonic moment.
scribus: @cupcakinator I am . . . too large to comfortably be a plumber, lol
scribus's status on Friday, 05-Jun-26 17:14:13 UTC
@cupcakinator I am . . . too large to comfortably be a plumber, lol
cupcakinator: Yooooooooo! Everypony, how are ya?!
cupcakinator's status on Friday, 05-Jun-26 06:15:14 UTC
adiwan: @scribus Ah. I'm generally more disappointed that "sorbet" ice cream is not more common and flavors like orange, pineapple, and sweet woodruff are not more common. I'm sick seeing chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and cherry.
adiwan's status on Friday, 05-Jun-26 04:42:31 UTC
@scribus Ah. I'm generally more disappointed that "sorbet" ice cream is not more common and flavors like orange, pineapple, and sweet woodruff are not more common. I'm sick seeing chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and cherry.
scribus: I make cookies based on their Cherry Garcia flavor that are pretty regularly well received
scribus's status on Thursday, 04-Jun-26 23:18:20 UTC
I make cookies based on their Cherry Garcia flavor that are pretty regularly well received
scribus: @adiwan It is fairly premium amongst ice creams, if you like mix-ins especially. I don't feel ripped off at all when I do buy it, but it's also not my regular ice cream
scribus's status on Thursday, 04-Jun-26 23:17:39 UTC
@adiwan It is fairly premium amongst ice creams, if you like mix-ins especially. I don't feel ripped off at all when I do buy it, but it's also not my regular ice cream
adiwan: Never had Ben & Jerry's ice cream. If I had it I don't remember. Either way: when I see it in the store I think about trying one tiny pack but the price is high enough to lose my interest and curiosity.
adiwan's status on Thursday, 04-Jun-26 22:15:41 UTC
Never had Ben & Jerry's ice cream. If I had it I don't remember. Either way: when I see it in the store I think about trying one tiny pack but the price is high enough to lose my interest and curiosity.
adiwan: It's not been very long but I feel the lack of Steven Colbert's Late Show. Usually I wake up at 6AM and his monologue was usually the start of my day.
adiwan's status on Thursday, 04-Jun-26 10:31:20 UTC
It's not been very long but I feel the lack of Steven Colbert's Late Show. Usually I wake up at 6AM and his monologue was usually the start of my day.
adiwan: @scribus I know! It's like a kick in the groin into my bank account. The leadership in Canada has stupid high demands in profit and we haven't reached them 7 years in a row. Also a ton of people here don't have a billable project, which is also not a good standpoint to ask for more.
adiwan's status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-26 13:48:02 UTC
@scribus I know! It's like a kick in the groin into my bank account. The leadership in Canada has stupid high demands in profit and we haven't reached them 7 years in a row. Also a ton of people here don't have a billable project, which is also not a good standpoint to ask for more.
scribus: @adiwan I don't suppose the bosses would be swayed by the old point that a raise which fails to outpace inflation is a pay cut?
scribus's status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-26 13:26:51 UTC
@adiwan I don't suppose the bosses would be swayed by the old point that a raise which fails to outpace inflation is a pay cut?
adiwan: grape yeah. My raise of my yearly wage is effectively 150€. The economy is batcaveed.
adiwan's status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-26 11:19:15 UTC
apple yeah. My raise of my yearly wage is effectively 150€. The economy is Potato Knishesed.
scribus: So for a few weeks now I've been dying my muttonchops and moustache blue. Today at work someone asked me, a big white guy with a blue beard, if I was trying to look like Papa Smurf, the famously small blue guy with a white beard. I had no response in the moment and continue to lack one aside from pointing out the direct opposition of every point of comparison.
scribus's status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-26 20:25:55 UTC
So for a few weeks now I've been dying my muttonchops and moustache blue. Today at work someone asked me, a big white guy with a blue beard, if I was trying to look like Papa Smurf, the famously small blue guy with a white beard. I had no response in the moment and continue to lack one aside from pointing out the direct opposition of every point of comparison.
adiwan: For Turkish restaurants it's Pide month
adiwan's status on Monday, 01-Jun-26 07:09:23 UTC
adiwan: @scribus One of the episodes was a backstory episode that shows how Benson got the position of the manager of the park. So your remark checks out to some extend.
adiwan's status on Sunday, 31-May-26 20:17:09 UTC
@scribus One of the episodes was a backstory episode that shows how Benson got the position of the manager of the park. So your remark checks out to some extend.