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| Jul - Posts by Flygon |
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Flygon Member Level: 20      Posts: 41/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| It feels like a broader Internet thing - I've noticed everyone's moved over to Discord servers, or Telegram rooms. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 42/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| Whenever I think of Maine, I think of Kentucky.
And now I want Fried Chicken. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 43/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| I've been thrown into the Aspergers camp ever since I was a child.
It's difficult for me to gauge exactly how it's impacted my life, but both Primary and High Schools were absolute hell for me. Not the times of pleasant memories. Aced Math Class in Primary School. Hated the other subjects, found them very boring. High School kept trying to push me through more and more advanced Math, but I couldn't even understand Algebra. I have no idea what was up with that. They would always say "We know you can do better!", which was, frankly, very insulting for me to feel subjected to. It's only with the power of hindsight that the reason I felt extremely sleep deprived, ever since I started attending School, is because my body's body clock somehow locked itself into a 1-2AM through 111AM sleep schedule. Obviously not conductive hours to any form of life - it left me feeling utterly shitfaced, especially through High School. The end result is that I was nigh failing my classes in High School, wound up with an ATAR score of 35 (below 30 is when they literally refuse to tell you your score) - whilst all my friends who knew me well expected me to get over 90. If a teenager is failing High School, the issue might not be laziness. It might just fucking be that they're literally too tired to learn. Attempts to train my body to wake up at earlier hours in adulthood, has simply resulted in me having extreme bouts of irritability and anti-socialness. Trying to force myself into earlier hours seems to kick me into a... and this is embarrassing to try and phrase, a more 'female' oriented mindset - glance at my profile's "Don't Care" regarding pronouns and use your imagination from there. Attempting to medicate the problem with Melatonin appeared to work at first - but the effects stopped being effective after several days. Further usage of the medication is a futile exercise, and will not resolve the problem. Through my own life circumstances, I've would up being pushed into very anxietant life circumstances - in short, the easiest solution would for me to move into my own place, away from family. Rather - not dealing with the family, or rather, one specific subset of it, at all. But, I am broke. There is not the money nor income to move away. I find myself often getting abuse and teasing over my own mental health problems surrounding my anxiety, and being offered "solutions" that rather drive that anxiety utterly sky high. It's needless to say that my own living circumstances, with my very own family, even when they claim to try to be improving my health, is rather ruining it instead. Feel free to use your imagination a bit more. In short - Anxiety, Aspergers, and an anti-social Body Clock is the perfect recipe to have a completely ruined life, and combine that with an unsympathetic family and an overinflated housing market, and... I just feel very angry, very exhausted, and very very worn out. Even with my own mental health being a trainwreck enough to quality for a pension that's suppose to ensure I can live my own life in solitude, and eventually carve out my own proper life with a proper job in the long run. The reality is. I cannot. Not the way I am currently required to live. It makes me feel pathetic and belittled. It's only through the friends that I've had as a support network through my life that I hadn't taken any radical actions against my own body. Sorry to be a dampener in this topic. But I just needed to say what I needed to say. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 44/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| Not gonna lie, Ragnarok Online is probably the single most influential game in my entire life. Simply because of its aesthetic choices - and weirdly addictive gameplay.
With hindsight, I probably played it a LOT to escape the problems of my life in the past. I play far less often now. Also introduced me to playing different characters as different genders. Funny how I could never settle on one or the other. It's also kind of spoilt me though - we'll probably never ever see another game with its specific artistic direction, both visually and musically, ever again. And the newer expansion packs simply don't recreate that magic. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 45/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| It was a good run. It's a shame it's being killed. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 46/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| Forums are much, much better for archival retrieval, but Discord is much better for spontaneous discussion and discovery.
Social Media isn't great for either. I have serious concerns about Discord's longevity, however. We've all got bad memories of many many other IM clients dying out suddenly. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 47/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| It's five years since the last post here, but I'm seriously considering looking at a 27-28in 4K 144Hz monitor when an affordable one comes out.
A lot has changed in the time since, and the market is beginning to look interesting. The problem is that whilst the Gigabyte M28U is fairly cheap for what it is, they have both atrocious quality control, and only perform 8-bit RGB - the entire reason I'm in the market for a 4K 144Hz monitor in the first place is because I had to RMA a Gigabyte M27Q that had a panel fault, a process that wound up becoming two months of hell getting the monitor returned and eventually a refund issued toward me. It's mindboggling how fast the monitor and TV markets are suddenly accelerating, especially after the late 00s and 2010s were otherwise stuck in such an incredible malaise. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 48/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| I'm speechless. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 49/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 50/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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Originally posted by HalianOriginally posted by Xenesis MMR would be nice to help resolve some districting issues. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 51/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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Originally posted by HalianOriginally posted by FlygonOriginally posted by HalianOriginally posted by Xenesis For some reason, I thought it was "Multiple Member Representation", rather than MMP. The Australian Senate already uses a variant, but unfortunately not the House of Reps. The huge tl;dr is is that you get 2-3 members per seat elected. Obviously the 2-3 most popular reps. This makes it easier for smaller popular third parties to get in. EDIT: I'm also a bit tired, so I'm probably not getting all the facts correctly straight. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 52/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| Yeah, I was thinking of a system where both preferential voting is in effect, and 2-3 candidates per seat were elected.
Sorry for the mess! |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 53/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| Admittedly, I'm not too worried about having to deal with all the DPI adjustment related stuff.
My eyes probably aren't going to hit issues with that for about another decade, hahaha. I'm actually super interested in using a 4K monitor for text clarity purposes, at 1080p a lot of text feels VERY blurry, and turning off anti-aliasing just... makes it worse because a lot of fonts are NOT designed not to be anti-aliased. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 54/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| I feel like I'm late as hell into the community - only really joining it proper a few years ago through the #x IRC channel, and then consequently the Discord.
I actually had no idea how big the community was when I joined #x. And I honestly made a giant idiot out of myself during that early period. Still, I suppose, for a community 20 years old. My existence here is a blip, and the mistakes I made even blippier. It's astounding to see a forum last for so long. It also really makes me feel my own age, hahaha. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 55/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| I'm sad and angry.
I'll probably have more words to say tomorrow. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 56/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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Originally posted by Kazinsal Admittedly, that's a factor that wouldn't affect me too much. It's definitely a super valid point I've seen hit others, though. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 57/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| A forum I use to help moderate for a period of time - a VERY long time ago - use to abuse the fact it was NSFW (long story) by having porn on its registration form, and relying on knowledge related to the site for the user to select the correct two images.
That seemed to stump actual bots. I never thought to consider metrics for human-based spammers. I can't say that would be a useful solution for Jul. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 58/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| It's possible to register an offline account with Windows 10. They just make it annoying to find inside the installation process. Apparently Windows 11 Pro has similar shenanigans - 11 Home will mandate signing into a Microsoft Account. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 59/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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Originally posted by tactical-waffle You post here inside this specific forum thread when the site's down. |
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Flygon Member Level: 20 Posts: 60/78 EXP: 40912 For next: 1527 Since: 09-06-12 Pronouns: Not Fussed From: Victoria, Australia Since last post: 53 days Last activity: 16 days
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| I do not know. |
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