Replies to scribus, page 23
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@scribus I was too small to remember but my parents said that it was sold soon very soon as it was mostly incompatible with the C64 software library.
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@scribus True story: I grew up pretty much entirely on PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360, so when I finally got a PC that could properly handle video games I was immediately put off by the keyboard controls and plugged in an Xbox One controller instead. To this day it's really hard for me to play shooters the "real" way.
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@scribus I guess it's an eldrich and cursed Bingo card that slowly merges all squares into one.
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@scribus And I bought all the parts for repairing my rear window wipers. The car has a completely full tank. Luckily there aren`t any expensive or personal objects in there. I have contacted my insurance and I was at the police. I hope I get a good cash out for the car to buy a new used one.
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@scribus That was only an expression of dark humor. Obviously I don`t want that but 2020 is trying to catch up with me.
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@scribus You can try Irish Road Bowling or also known in other regions as Klootshießen, Klootsheeten, (Straßen-)Boßeln, or Boccetta su Strada. Make the world your bowling alley!
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@scribus Locally here I'd try visiting some artistic craft stores but I guess it'd be of limited success. But they are closed anyway.
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@scribus Seal wax is quite the niche product. Maybe there is an online seller. Amazon Germany has a selection of different colors and amounts.
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@scribus Three answers: The first is that The Simpsons didn't switch to digital animation until the mid-2000s, so there's always about fifteen years of that to go through (and Disney not-withstanding (they've been doing digital since The Rescuers Down Under in 1990), the rest of the industry was also pretty late on that train), the second is that a 22-minute program averages around ten thousand unique drawings (more than that if it's a Simpsons, less than that if it's a Flintstones or Jetsons) so there's a LOT to go through, and the third is, and you didn't hear this from me, a lot of those animation cels you see on eBay are actually reproductions or pieces of promotional artwork which have been created expressly to be sold, so they quite literally will be able to send you Itchy's arm for decades.
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@scribus Yeah. A lot of US citizens are very bad about geography (I've heard) so it'll make it quite easy.
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@scribus Haha. It's not often that it hails at my place. But every time my father tells me to drive the car under a bridge because he fears of hail damage. And I tell him that when it starts to hail heavily it's already too late.
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@scribus Coincidentally it snowed here too but the snow remained and left a 1cm thick layer on my car. And today I had to use the car. Luckily it was already starting to melt so removing it was quick. I'd like to see how you react when 3mm diameter hail falls down from the sky.
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@scribus It's also not fun being almost a victim of being run over. I can count about a dozen of events when I or the driver weren't paying attention. 3 were last year from suffering neighbour-induced insomnia.
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@scribus Due to the lack of projects that I want to make, and a lack of projects in general that involves my interests and expertise, I had to take this to keep me billable to clients. I shudder to the thought as well but it pays even when I get no call.
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@scribus I NEED TO BUY UNNECESSARY THINGS NOW AND GET A HAIRCUT AND DINE IN RESTAURANTS AND STUFF.
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@scribus Carb Coma makes me angry with myself. Also my stomach will do the rampaging.
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@scribus The crazy thing is I DO have what one would consider “professional” hardware for this sort of thing, AND I was accelerating the render with a ray tracing-capable graphics card. It’s the METHOD I used to get that painterly look that kinda screwed with things, I’m pretty sure what I did (which I did on accident) was not on the list of things the developers of the program intended designers to do.
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@scribus Pizza was also a problem for me. Thankfully I haven't burnt myself with pizza (and its cheese) for a long time. Those burns last for days. Whenever I make or buy pizza I am paying attention to the amount of fat and cheese it has, which are always the culprit. So in the case of making pizza myself I cover the pizza lightly with cheese that that there is not a thick layer that can keep the molten lava hot long after it's out of the oven. I like thin and crispy pizzas anyway. The more cheese and fat the soggier they are and the harder the slices are to handle and eat. I bake my pizzas such that the bread is stiff enough the pizza (slice) can hold up itself.
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@scribus yeah, look up “Songbird” sometime. Written at the very beginning of the pandemic and filmed almost entirely by the cast with cell phones, it takes place in 2024 in a world where COVID mutated into a deadly super virus which kills 50% of the people it infects, anyone who gets it is automatically reported to the government via smartphone tracking, and they’re quarantined in a concentration camp until they either die or get better. I’m no virologist, but I’m pretty sure that under those conditions, the virus would have been dealt with a long time ago.
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@scribus Just happened to me. I poured steaming hot tea into my mug and didn't put a thought into waiting for it to cool down for a short while. But other to the actual case of that happening it's a great idea for using it as a metaphor for various things. Your interpretation fits it well. It can also applied to saying things that are potentially false or need more time to be sure they are not.
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@scribus And then the Saudis got rich because a bunch of dinosaurs and old plants decided to rot below the earth and turn into a slimey liquid.
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@scribus The one I’m really worried about does backend stuff now for a certain wildly popular (especially with teenage American girls????) animated web series and I don’t wanna be the dickhole who sets that team back again so I’ve been thinking about getting in touch with the current show runner to let him know what I know so that it doesn’t bite ALL of us in the ass at some point in the future.
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@scribus I'm not a pumpkin guy but I imagine a simple chunky butter wheat cookie covered with a sugar glazing and small caramelized pumpkin chunks.
