Replies to scribus, page 20
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@scribus yeah,maybe i can even get vaccinated when i go to france again in september xD
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@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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@scribus Don't they come here to read brainfarts from three blokes who watched a children's show?...
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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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@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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@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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@scribus if you’re so vain you think the song is about you, then the song is, in fact, about you
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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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@scribus Oof. I guess opening the case in order to repair it will probably result in a catastrophy.
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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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@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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@scribus Generally I think people fall into one of two camps - people whose first game was The Sims 3 or 4 prefer those games as a whole, while the the people whose first game was 1 or 2 prefer 2. I had 2 back when it first came out, but a lot of my friends started with, and prefer, 3.
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@scribus With all expansion packs, it’s IMO the easiest one to actually enjoy. The sequels are so cluttered with extra BS, and the UI gets more and more unintuitive over time, which should not be the case in a game whose primary input function is a mouse, that I feel like it ruins the simplicity that I think should be the focus in a game like this.
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@scribus I would even take that a step further and say that Sims 2 > 3, simply because the reputation system in 3 - which you can’t opt out of past a certain update - makes some parts completely unplayable.
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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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@scribus for reasons that I think should be somewhat obvious, I’ve always preferred visual fidelity to higher frame rates, so while I’m currently invested in 4K rendering, I’ve never in my life owned a monitor that could exceed 60fps, which works out to be a pretty good deal because I end up spending less money on everything from monitors to graphics hardware.
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@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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@scribus only tangentially related, but i have a batcave-load of both biological and marriage-related family that i've never met for various reasons. On the biological side, my grandmother was adopted out of a family of mostly prostitutes and drug dealers. On the marital side, my mother's half-sister's father is (was, he might be dead) apparently a high-ranking member of the Puerto Rican Mafia up in New York, powerful enough that he had my grandmother and my grandfather arrested on trumped-up kidnapping charges when she left him.
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@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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@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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@scribus Our most frequent shoplifters are teenagers grabbing White Claw and just walking out with them, but they’re really, really bad at it. They seem to think I’m literally going to hunt them down, so if they even think I know they’re stealing that drop their papaya and leave. Just the other night a kid was walking toward the exit with a case in hand and I wasn’t really paying attention, but he thought I saw him so he pretended he was just walking over to the produce to get something. Once I realized what was going on I just kinda stood there until eventually he walked back into the aisles, hid the goods, and left without making a further issue.
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@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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@scribus Many years ago I had also a few deaths in the family within a short time frame. At least I didn't have to buy a new suit because the one still fit.
