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Worst fucking birthday I ever had to be honest.
I'd explain why, but it's not worth it.
Regardless, I only noticed the impact about 9 months later, when I finished High School and qualified for a particular pension - as Australia does for many youth.
Having money was completely insane!
I mean... I could just... have ten bucks spare? I could buy anything I wanted with that ten bucks??
I was a broke kid and teenager.
Anyway! Congrats! Welcome to the world of being able to say "Yes, I am 18+" to online forms. |
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Blackberry seem to make nice Android phones with big fat physical keyboards on them.
As a man of gigantic thumbs and big hands, they'd be perfect for me.
A shame they're so expensive! |
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Lenovo ThinkPad L570, running Win10.
It's a nice machine. Shame about the only Windows it supports. |
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Fuck this.
People that know me well know why I'm upset.
This's a pain in the arse for archivists. I wish them a hell of a lot of luck. They need it.
Seriously. Fuck.
Just casually nuking internet heritage. It's disgusting.
Quick Edit: Note that whilst a lot of people can move their blogs, a reminder that there's those that've either literally died, or aren't able to be around or capable of shifting their blogs. |
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Been playing Civilization II on a gigantic World/Earth map. Ended up modifying the rules.txt to greatly buff Sea Unit and Explorer ranges and sights just to make the map playable in the first place.
I'm SUPPOSE to be doing productive project work, but family around Christmas is way too stressful.
I am very sorry! |
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Apparently Millennials are ruining Car Ownership.
I fail to see the issue.
Very late edit: Just realized that the topic header says your favourite thing.
i r dum |
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I want fixed pixel displays that can integer scale with Nearest Neighbour scaling.
It's absolute garbage that a 4K screen should feel the need to blur up a 1080p image, when it could render it just 2x as big without the filtering.
The filtering is pointless! |
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T-the author knows they have a stomach, right?
Y'know, that thing that sends signals to the brain when it's empty, in combination with the rest of your body lacking in particular energies, when required?... |
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Everyone says I'm a furry, but I'm not even sure what a furry is.
So.. am I? |
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I've been watching through the series with a friend as it comes to air, and we've been quite enjoying it.
I went into it without really thinking about the context of Seth's other works. It does take a few episodes for the show to figure out what itself is, though.
The first two or three episodes do feel like they're trying to pitch the content to FOX. |
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Originally posted by Joe
Any game with Yoshi in it, except now Yoshi's tongue extends until it hits something.
Ristar but it's Yoshi. |
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Originally posted by Tarale
* not using the TV as a babysitter (so you, can chop some veggies for dinner, no, you're supposed to talk your kid through what they are seeing and hearing)
* going to music lessons because learning music is very good for the brain but very bad for mummy and daddy's budget and any sense of free time
* going to sport because exercise is very good in a lot of ways like teamwork and also brain development, but also very bad for mummy and daddy's budget and free time again
Oh man, I gave a small - okay, big ramble/rant about it on the IRC, but I'll throw down a small digest here.
Even raising the child in all those three ideal circumstances, can still backfire. Really badly.
To explain why might be a bit beyond the scope of the topic, but forcibly trying to progress a kid's development along a certain part can just as easily end up with them revolting and reviling the time, money, budget, and effort spent on shoving them through stuff they have absolutely no love or care for whatsoever. |
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There is the corporate patches coming to Windows 7 for corporate users. The whole "Pay for Patches" programme.
I wonder if those patches will safely leak out, somehow. |
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Originally posted by Gabu
In that vein:
Baby boomers/good chunk of Gen Xers: "We're going to prepare the everloving shit out of millennials/Gen Z by shoving as many skills and ideas into their still-developing brains as possible so they can participate in this capitalist rat race!"
Millennials/Gen Z: "(Get stuck with perpetual anxiety, burnout, and general sheer exhaustion from performing as hard as humanly possible for as long as possible - just to maintain the bare necessities)"
*cough* |
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| Chocolate covered Peanuts. |
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So the season finale aired about last week.
Season 2 was definitely far more consistent in its execution than the first Season. And the more serious focus did help with the show's direction. |
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I'd love a transistorized clone of the Hammond Novachord.
For the uninitiated, the Hammond Novachord was a 1939 fully-electronic synthesizer. No tonewheels. It operated through running twelve oscillators, each divided down for each playable octave on the instrument.
Further Timbres were generated through the use of analog filters, alongside other features, such as electro-mechanical vibrato.
So, basically almost entirely electronic!
It manages to found remarkably modern, rather like the 70s/early 80s era synths that came out over time.
Of course, 144 of the machine's 163 vacuum tubes were used just for the key on/off functions.
There's also a great deal of custom value capacitors in the machine, over a thousand of them.
I'd love to see the machine miniaturized into something the size of a standard keyboard synthesizer. But still function, electronically, exactly the same way as the original 1939 machine.
There is, of course, other aspects of the machine that are massive, and would need to be not exactly-the-same in cloning, but it's either the machine is cloned, and a good starting point for people wishing to experience the instrument, or at least something very very close to it - or the machine dies completely with time, thanks to its bulk and rarity.
It is just a bit of a shame I actually have zero skill playing a real musical instrument! |
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I get more and more astounded that development teams use to be able to churn out RPGs in less than a year back in the late 80s/early 90s.
On the other hand, a lot of them were painfully formulaic grindfests - granted, part of that can be attributed to being stuck on a cartridge. |
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As I've gotten older, my eyes strain more easily. I find that into the evenings, I simply cannot run my laptop's LCD at full brightness.
Thank goodness for the conveniently accessible brightness controls. And voltage-controlled backlight, rather than PWM. |
