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In a week I'll own a house! I'd be happier if the city wouldn't penny-pinch me. I had to pay a bill for something that the city should pay themselves: an investigation if the city has an interest in buying the house (first refusal right).
Saturday, 26-Aug-23 13:58:23 UTC from web-
@scribus Thanks. The bill was 65€ for that. I will certainly suffer for pleasure of owning a home, especially since there was nothing done for over 40 years and has still wallpaper from the late 70s. What has to be done: New switch box (solar power ready), new electric cables, new windows, roof isolation, the wilderness of a garden needs to be tamed. Also when I'm at it I'll lay down network cables everywhere, at least CAT7 and glass fiber.
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Done with Yakuza 4, now on Yakuza 5. Big thing I’m noticing about 5 is that it’s slightly more impressive both technically and as a game than Yakuza Kiwami, which released four years later on a next gen console, which is a bit confusing to me but whatever
Wednesday, 23-Aug-23 22:38:03 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I also think 5 is the most varied in style and tone and side-stuff. I really enjoyed the taxi missions and wished there were more of them.
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Am I lost in the sauce? Or is the sauce lost in me?
Wednesday, 23-Aug-23 05:49:17 UTC from web-
@scribus Belated, but it was sweet and spicy garlic sauce uwu
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Tuesday, 22-Aug-23 08:56:57 UTC from web
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@scribus You made me hesitate with your remark, however as I look up images of giraffes being born, they usually have spots.
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IE about to get hit by a hurricane, what even is anything
Saturday, 19-Aug-23 04:32:55 UTC from web -
I'm not really a big karaoke fan in the Yakuza games but I somewhat miss it in Judgment.
Thursday, 17-Aug-23 09:22:01 UTC from web -
That’s Yakuza 3 out of the way, would’ve finished it sooner but due to the way combat works it takes roughly two hours to do one random encounter of beginner level thugs
Tuesday, 15-Aug-23 13:09:43 UTC from web -
I just found the missing bottle and now I have two bottles. My credibility is in tatters.
Friday, 11-Aug-23 16:27:04 UTC from web -
Golf spammers make me teed off. Geddit readers? Chortle!
Thursday, 10-Aug-23 08:23:12 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin flipping the birdie to all golf spammers!
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Now we are targeted by Golf SPAM. I've not seen this before, ever. Not even in my email inbox.
Wednesday, 09-Aug-23 11:32:12 UTC from web -
I’m a few years out from dating being permanently weird, because pretty soon everyone in my pool is either gonna have kids (I AM BAD WITH KIDS) or be enough years younger than me that I, personally, would feel weird dating them even if other people probably don’t really care that much.
Tuesday, 08-Aug-23 19:40:13 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Just wait a while longer, then the kids'll be grown and off to college or whatever
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Yakuza 3 is old and busted and scary
Sunday, 06-Aug-23 06:13:19 UTC from web -
Hmm. I may end up cutting contact with my father.
Thursday, 03-Aug-23 19:33:08 UTC from web -
Each successive Trump indictment is funnier than the last because every time he’s practically begged people to riot on his behalf at the various courthouses where his arrests occur and like five people show up every time.
Wednesday, 02-Aug-23 04:07:23 UTC from web -
In yesterday's D&D session I used my lizard familiar, placed it on my druid character's head, activated the feature to look through the familiar's eyes, and thusly gained 30ft darkvision. A poor man's Goggles of Night.
Monday, 31-Jul-23 17:20:53 UTC from web -
I think this hotel is not for people like me, it’s next to a bunch of corporate headquarters and data centers, the lobby is a trendy bar where a bunch of tech guys are drinking top shelf liquor, and the TV knows my name.
Saturday, 29-Jul-23 00:23:08 UTC from web -
ChatGPT seems to believe that Sora from Kingdom Hearts would be perfectly willing to ally with Tony Soprano but would draw the line at Walter White and I’m uncomfortable with the knowledge that, to an AI, the line between friend and foe lies somewhere between “murderous mob boss” and “murderous drug lord” and not well before both points.
Thursday, 27-Jul-23 04:56:43 UTC from web -
Twitter is essentially dead for me. I used to lurk some creators on twitter but my open source twitter client choqok failed to fetch any new data for a week now.
Monday, 24-Jul-23 19:14:58 UTC from web -
New Futurama’s pretty funny. Billy West‘s voice ain’t what it used to be though. Fry sounds like he’s been in the future for 23 years or something.
Monday, 24-Jul-23 05:48:22 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I really just . . . kind of don't care? And I'm not sure why, or how I feel about how I feel.
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If I were famous, I'd try to get the casual karate gi to catch on as fashion
Sunday, 23-Jul-23 22:45:10 UTC from web -
OK what kind of jerk wears flip-flops to the library, and why did it have to be me? ;_;
Tuesday, 18-Jul-23 21:09:56 UTC from web-
@scribus Could be worse. You could wear those novelty house slippers that make a "fun" sound when making a step.
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Hello !
Monday, 17-Jul-23 20:55:13 UTC from web-
@rainbowdashy Aloha
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@scribus how are you ?
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@rainbowdashy Angry. Very angry. Also, sad. Frustrated. Bored. Confused. Trying to do probabilities and stupid math crap. Angry.
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My D&D group started a new campaign and the starting level is 2. I managed to be at 0HP three times within the first two sessions. The first time was a mimic (a barrel), then a quickling, and then some goblinoids with slings.
Monday, 17-Jul-23 10:16:35 UTC from web-
@scribus It's a female lizardfolk grassland druid with the name "Chamilia Moonsicle". This type of druid is not a tank. With the natural armor and a wooden shield she has 16 AC. Not bad but still too squishy for my taste.
The first down-to-zero-HP moment happened as she examined a weird barrel that happened to be a mimic-like animated creature. The next time it was a Quickling she managed to percieve (Quickling moved extremely fast) and followed a few steps out of the door, where she got stabbed 3 times with high damage rolls. Then she was hit to the head with a sling by a goblinoid savage (having little HP at the beginning of the battle didn't help either).
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@scribus To be totally frank: I have a long history of having many dead characters and stupid moments initiated by my dumb decisions. This time, I swear, wasn't the case.
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It sounds obvious in retrospect that you should just play 0 first anyway but I wasn’t expecting them to insert much from 0 into the remakes given how closely the actual story cutscenes stick to the source material
Saturday, 15-Jul-23 14:40:57 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I started with 0 as it is basically the beginning of Kiryus story, even though it was told much later after the Yakuza 1 release. 0 has some minor spoilers for 4 and quite some references to other installments. It didn't bother me. I rather liked it because I got an 'aha' moment and understood the reference retroactively, making the scene a little bit richer and due to the backstory aspect more understandable. The problem one can see more is making the decision when to play 0. When it comes to real downgrades Yakuza games 3 is the one that aged the worst, as it didn't get the Kiwami treatment and modernizing the controls and gameplay feel. Looking back on it it has some endearing retro aspect of the PS3 era when looking past those flaws. Generally starting with Kiwami 1 isn't bad either gameplay-wise, as the other games feel much more open and there are more areas besides Kamurocho.
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Not that I think this is a bad thing, but I got whiplash upon learning that Kiryu, a Japanese man in 2005 approaching middle age who in the lead-up to Yakuza has been in prison since the 90s, and before that having been in a criminal syndicate since the 80s, is not homophobic, and is perfectly pleasant and even supportive of his cabaret date upon learning she’s a lesbian.
Tuesday, 11-Jul-23 18:34:34 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Kazuma Kiryu is the most based and good-hearted yakuza who uses violent methods. There is a sub story in 3 where he meets a trans woman https://i.redd.it/339rcr2v8nm61.jpg
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OK well Moho keeps basic, fundamental necessities like "manipulating bezier handles" behind their $400 edition so I think they can mango themselves just on principle alone
Monday, 10-Jul-23 22:58:33 UTC from web-
@adiwan Like, I can get that over the scope of a 3D or even 2D "world" that the *absolute* position of a player character's sword swing is much less relevant than the (...well...) /relative/ position of the sword to the character. God, I wish it could just snap, or use guidelines, or snap to guidelines, or *any* kind of precision that's been available in draw programs since at least 1995. Ugh :shiver: I can't abide loosey-goosey, nosiree, not in this context at least. :p
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Anybody online who might maybe be able to talk me down from self-inflicted head trauma, please?
Monday, 10-Jul-23 06:00:45 UTC from web -
I tasted mead recently but it tasted more like acetone and couldn't stomach more than a few drops. But it's a "me"-problem. It was good and not spoiled. I just have a different taste. Even normal wine tastes like some kind of acetone to me. Grape juice itself is alright for me. I guess the fermentation products are causing the putrid smells and tastes that my nose and tongue cannot deal with. Also beer smells like wet and half-eaten bread with vinegar. Pure vodka also is very nasty as it creates a very strong burning sensation in the esophagus.
Never gonna be drunk because of that alone.Sunday, 09-Jul-23 09:33:25 UTC from web-
@adiwan Gene Simmons has famously said that the very smell of alcohol has always turned his stomach, some people taste cilantro as soap... Literally different tastes for different people
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Well it looks like my mead is turning out to be a success, and even my mad science "cherry Coke wine" might be working out
Sunday, 09-Jul-23 03:53:48 UTC from web -
I think a big part of it is in bad practices in Corel and/or Inkscape with my SVG vectors
Wednesday, 05-Jul-23 19:01:03 UTC from web-
@scribus my CGI models are all built in an incredibly stupid way that would make any other 3D artist pull their hair off so for this pilot I’ve had to go in and clean up some things in the event that somebody else has to look at it.
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