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A local elementary school recently paid someone who was very obviously a furry to draw their mascot and now a bunch of cars are driving around town with some guy’s fursona on their bumpers
Thursday, 22-Jun-23 16:51:47 UTC from web -
Tldr Dad's life was a rails shooter, my life feels like a Sierra Online adventure
Wednesday, 21-Jun-23 04:32:15 UTC from web-
@adiwan If I could just dial mine more towards Maniac Mansion, I think I could manage
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so like what should I post about on here? should I use it more like livejournal with long introspective effortposts about what’s going on in my life, or more like twitter and just spew off short little jokes and thoughts as they come? I feel like what excited me about having a place like this when I rediscovered it was being able to share my thoughts, feelings, and ideas without having to contribute to an already congested and overstimulating platform like twitter that vampirically feeds off your attention, but now I’m realizing I don’t know what I want to even say lmao.
Tuesday, 20-Jun-23 21:01:23 UTC from web -
Discovered an incorrectly programmed formula in my cigarette inventory book that causes the calculations to be off by anywhere from $100 to $300 every week. Looked through the other stores’ books and realized that the same error exists in almost all of them… which means that some of the other stores have been cooking the numbers because their final variances have been very small. Hmm.
Monday, 19-Jun-23 17:10:11 UTC from web-
@zeldatra One can only wonder how a summation can be borked. I don't know but how much does it differ from the expected "shrinkage"?
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Today was evidently the one-too-many'th time I had to listen to my coworkers spewing various LGBTQ-phobias. Though, I did rant and rave more about the fact that they were standing around gabbing than the fact that I don't need to hear the rest of the crew blaming everything wrong in the world today on people I deeply care about.
Sunday, 18-Jun-23 06:54:38 UTC from web-
@adiwan I *probably* shouldn't've said I had to leave before I killled somebody, but they definitely should not have said they'd use trans people for target practice, and their little death threats against my people came first so tit-for-tat yknow?
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Might finally be time to go fully SSD
Saturday, 17-Jun-23 13:59:11 UTC from web -
Just got recommended a TikTok titled “non-binary fashion”, and like, I’ve been drawing my nb character in a t-shirt and some jeans, am I doing it wrong??
Friday, 16-Jun-23 19:28:58 UTC from web -
I have a “I’m in another country and can’t make it to work on time” dream kind of a lot for some reason.
Friday, 16-Jun-23 02:51:31 UTC from web -
Futurama’s society has no conception of how, when, and where the moon landing occurred, but they have video of Rudy Giuliani putting a bunch of garbage on a barge and pushing it out to sea. What were the standards for the retention of information?
Thursday, 15-Jun-23 22:10:04 UTC from web-
@scribus a lore tidbit that the show kind of ignores when convenient, which to be fair, is consistently how they like to do things over there
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Overall it’s a fun time that I’d recommend as a co-op stealth game, but if you’re looking for something actually scary to play with your friend you might as well keep looking.
Wednesday, 14-Jun-23 17:49:27 UTC from web -
how was everyone’s weekend????? anyone do anything fun?
Monday, 12-Jun-23 01:58:50 UTC from web-
@chomper The yeasts do perform most of the real work. Not as complex as beer or whiskey, for sure.
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@scribus I guess you could say it takes the....... yeast amount of effort
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@thelastgherkin yyeeesssss! XD
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I'm close to buying a house: my current offer is at 225.000€ for a 88m² house with 4 rooms, 163 m² parcel. However I have to do a ton of work there to get it to a state that is up to current standards, like the electric switch box, the bathrooms, windows... The garden is also more a jungle than habitable. I hope I won't regret it.
Monday, 12-Jun-23 09:38:19 UTC from web-
@scribus The garden is full of bushes and other stuff. The owners planted a fir tree relatively in the middle and it has grown so big that there is barely any room left for anything else. The first thing that has to be done in that garden is to fell the tree. Also it is such a kind of fir tree that is not even beautiful and full. It looks more like a skeleton of a tree with more branches than needles.
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Half-Life 2 VR is a very fun experience and I think anyone who has the equipment should give it a shot
Sunday, 11-Jun-23 04:56:45 UTC from web -
REALLY CUTE PONY OC I WANNA SEE THIS COLORED SO BAD http://rainbowdash.net/url/876369 http://rainbowdash.net/url/876370
Sunday, 11-Jun-23 00:10:27 UTC from web -
The biggest trap in"adult" animation is that it uses vulgarity and crass situations too often. It's easy to appeal to juvenile adults with "forbidden" stuff like violence and sexuality but the more lasting stuff are the more day-to-day real adult situations the characters have to deal with. These situations can be comical or otherwise but the basis has to be familiar and relatable and somewhat a base adult life experience. The earlier Simpsons seasons are one of the best as they are not flanderized to the extreme. Bob's Burgers is similar as most episodes deal with heightened but not completely unrealistic situations. I'm not against some violence but it can be grating and numbing and boring when it is used too often.
Tuesday, 06-Jun-23 08:45:36 UTC from web-
@chomper These days you can throw a stone and always hit one. The last one I saw was "Inside Job" on Netflix, mostly because it was produced by Alex Hirsch (Gravity Falls) but it was sadly right in the valley of mediocrity because it went "adult" route and used unnecessary vulgarity.
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@chomper Hey, I love "Helluva Boss!" I don't deny any of the accusations, lol. Just saying that uuhhhh..... I guess it's lazy *if* you're doing it for fauz gravitas, but it can still be fun. I wouldn't say that's *all* HB has going for it or going on; there's a lot of interpersonal relationship and character development under the bloodbath and pottymouth.
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@scribus I like most of helluva actually! I just find the edgy humor to be boring and uncreative lol. But I genuinely like a few of the characters and the worldbuilding/lore.
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who would have ever thought that the last bastion of healthy social media would be a brony-made website lmfao
Friday, 09-Jun-23 15:17:14 UTC from web-
@adiwan oh apple wait does this still work?? all the 3rd party apps I was using got locked out earlier this year and I've been stuck using a hacked version of the main app that fixes most of my issues but is really buggy lol.
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@chomper It works for now. I was also surprised it wasn't blocked. I guess the user base is so low (and open source) that it doesn't make any difference.
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@chomper And thank the Users that we can't be bothered by the rest of the Fediverse anymore!
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Gavin Newsom is still a prick though I’m not apologizing for that
Wednesday, 07-Jun-23 21:05:45 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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Trying to hit a balance on content is frustrating to me because I don’t want to be vulgar for the sake of it but I also don’t want to be made to tone the adult themes down because the show’s not vulgar enough to appeal to adults. It just seems like there isn’t a market anymore for The Simpsons-level adult content that’s adult on a more conceptual level instead of just relying on vulgarity to appear adult, and that frustrates me.
Monday, 05-Jun-23 05:33:25 UTC from web -
The teenagers working for me seemed to be under the impression they could just show up to work on their own schedule because I couldn’t possibly fire ALL of them, so today I fired all of them and now they’re super confused about it.
Sunday, 04-Jun-23 03:59:04 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Tell them to go start their own store. With blackjack! And... well, tell them to open a casino!
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Oh, how I envy those naive enough to believe in a future
Friday, 02-Jun-23 15:12:49 UTC from web -
I'd need to invest 410€ for playing TOTK (the game, Switch, Pro Controller (ain't gonna play on the minuscule Joycon controllers)).
Sunday, 28-May-23 18:04:09 UTC from web -
…and I think I created my account when I was in the UK because all of my rates are in pounds which means that the licenses are actually more expensive than I think.
Tuesday, 30-May-23 13:13:26 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I could swear I saw where to change the region in the google settings. Ad-hoc I can only see the help page for the Play store https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7431675?hl=en&sjid=2903081056934453095-EU
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@adiwan nah, I’m talking about my music clearance service, which exclusively shows me prices in pounds and says my location is the United Kingdom (but the company is headquartered in London, so. Maybe that’s why)
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Number ten: Full frontal nudity
Sunday, 28-May-23 05:32:32 UTC from web-
@scribus tears of the kingdom not being multiplayer is a wasted opportunity in general tbh, the amount of insane papaya you’d be able to do with the Rust building mechanics… you don’t even need to justify a second Link, the game does it for you with the Naruto shadow clones that everyone seems to be able to use now.
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@zeldatra Man, I have got to overcome my Fallout New Vegas addiction so I can get addicted to Tears of the Kingdom already
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I keep running into this problem where the things I write are usually totally cool on the internet where nobody can really stop me from describing mangoio in the crudest terms possible, but right now I’m writing for what is possibly going to be on television and those same words would probably get me a very nasty letter from standards and practices. It’s very hard to go from writing like you’re your own boss to writing in such a way that won’t lose the network twenty million dollars in Wendy’s advertising.
Thursday, 25-May-23 01:02:54 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Do like other great shows did: invent new dirty words! Battlestar Galactica used *frak* all the time. It's not about the word, it's all about the inflection. I believe the most innocent word can be turned into a swear word when it's used as a swear word long enough. Using adjacent words can be also a nice opportunity to widen the vocabulary.
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@adiwan Oh yeah, for real. My great-grandma would never, ever cuss... but she made "fool" sound like the *real* F-word if she got riled up.
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I am Irish so it’s perfectly okay for me to say racist things about the Irish (but I’m also trying to get an Irish studio to co-finance something for me so maybe I shouldn’t)
Friday, 19-May-23 23:11:48 UTC from web-
@zeldatra It's the duck typing principle: If you walk an American and you talk like an American, then you're American. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
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Ireland is kind of like if J.R.R. Tolkien was God
Thursday, 18-May-23 00:11:13 UTC from web-
@scribus multiple varieties of short people, strange culture and folklore, Gandalf is president, etc
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currently dating @liquidusmira.. it really is a small world huh
Friday, 12-May-23 18:07:11 UTC from web-
@shyderp You're both still alive so that's good news, there was a non-zero chance of that being the case
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They play three (3) Smash Mouth songs in my store an hour and I’m starting to become a believer in righteous violence
Monday, 15-May-23 20:05:54 UTC from web -
In the spirit of jokes that literally only I am probably even capable of finding funny, I present to you Weird Alice Cooper's "Dare to be Stoopid" -____-
Sunday, 14-May-23 20:59:20 UTC from web-
@scribus I would like you to know a sex doll website signed up to reply to this dash with "bad bad"
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@thelastgherkin Naughty naughty
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@thelastgherkin Well met.... Lol
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OK.... Tears of the Kingdom... What does "tears" refer to? Is it the liquid coming out of the eyes (for example while crying) or is it the edge of two pieces of a material/object that has been ripped apart (for example tearing a piece of paper in two pieces)?
Friday, 12-May-23 13:18:20 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Aaah... So it is not derived from the German word "Tier" (plural "Tiere"), which means "animal".
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@scribus Good lord I wish, the previous game indirectly mentioned the events of Twilight Princess exactly one time and that seems to be the only acknowledgment Nintendo is willing to give that game.
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