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- Comment on Fact 1 week ago:
I doubt I’m saying anything novel here, but good lord Kilmer stole that movie for himself, and he’s therefore a big part of the reason nobody gives a shit about the Costner one, the rest being that anything “epic” that Costner did after Dances with Wolves was a self-indulgent and overlong toboggan-ride over the top-most surface of whatever theme he claimed to be exploring.
Not that the rest of the Tombstone cast didn’t have their moments, but they were all dancing to Doc’s tune. Without him, it’s a B-movie that punches slightly above its weight and gets filed away with the likes of Young Guns 2.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 1 week ago:
Yeah, not the best angle. The PS/2 port is that little silver box. The USB-C port is on the PCB. This was assembled to go inside a vintage keyboard to semi-permanently convert it, but I’ve been using it to test other boards. If a board is fully intact, I’ll just use an external converter, but there used to be a practice of snipping the cables on hardware that businesses retired for accounting purposes if they were written off, which can be a good, if risky, way to get an eBay buy for cheap.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 1 week ago:
You’ve been warned.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 1 week ago:
Well, I feel pretty deep into that rabbit hole, where I’ve even designed a couple of primitive circuit boards and hand-wired a bunch of keyboards. I also mess stains worth vintage stuff a bit.
This particular converter is programmable and meant to be used with a not mechanical 122-key terminal keyboard made by the company that took over IBM’s US keyboard factory, but it’s been hanging out with several DuPont wires shoved into it to connect it to a molex connector to test a different old board.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 1 week ago:
I would really appreciate it if nobody looked at the PS/2 to USB adapter currently on my workbench, kplzandthx.
- Comment on Michael 3 weeks ago:
LOL, are you trying to keep me from derailing a shitpost thread by rehashing boring the online debate that inspired it! How dare you!!! What are you? Some kind of Michael?
- Comment on Michael 3 weeks ago:
Huh. Not much a part of my identity these days, but in a yes/no sense, yeah I guess so, LOL. Of course, these days most gym bros are doing some gaming too.
- Comment on Michael 3 weeks ago:
You provide physical inputs, which are sensitive to timing and agility, to a rule-based competition. It’s at least as much a sport as golf or curling or bowling. And I say that as someone who doesn’t find eSports particularly compelling. It requires a sophisticated technal infrastructure and doesn’t require superhuman levels of strength or endurance (though the latter in particular could be helpful), but those are merely “sliders on the configuration screen” for whether a certain sport is to your interest.
- Comment on Why was Newgrounds like this in the 2000s? 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t, but it looks interesting and even more bonkers than the movie.
- Comment on Why was Newgrounds like this in the 2000s? 5 weeks ago:
Because it’s mildly transgressive to a certain demographic, and tools and internet speeds of the day allowed for visuals that were close enough to the inspirations for people to find them interesting. Subverting “innocent” characters has been a trope since at least Tijuana bibles of the 1920s and I assume much longer. Specifically portraying beloved animated characters as adult and jaded would also have been directly evocative of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
Eventually, most of that demographic comes to realize that the transgressiveness itself is only so interesting and there is usually something of value in the interesting property that distance lets them appreciate, so a spoof needs to have other things going for it to hold an audience’s interest (e.g. Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which is still brilliant). That said, there is a certain durability to the low-hanging fruit when the subjects of the satire remain popular to continually cycling cohorts of kids who have the unmitigated gall to begin growing up. :-)
- Comment on Relieve him for he needs it 5 weeks ago:
Slurm is still better.
- Comment on paint job 1 month ago:
99.99% sure it is. That looks like the old classic: Lasso Select, Adjust Hue.
- Comment on Which one and why? 1 month ago:
One. It already looks like the sugar spoon my kid always picks first for her meals anyway.
- Comment on Trekmovie.com: Scott Bakula-Led ‘Star Trek: United’ Pitch Explores Archer’s Family, Romulan War Aftermath 1 month ago:
They need to make one episode in which they retcon Trip’s death in that stupid Holodeck finale, air it so it’s canon, and then immediately cancel the show because this sounds mid AF, and Archer was an ass, and Bakula has all the presidential gravitas of a single neutron.
- Comment on We need a Thomas the Tank Engine horror game 1 month ago:
Peak Thomas horror has already been achieved…
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, Xena has got to go. There’s no phonetic difference with Z. Xavier might be your best bet, but that’s a tough one.
- Comment on A question for the ages 1 month ago:
This is already settled science.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 1 month ago:
I certainly didn’t mean to imply imply they’re actually incorrect, just that presumably working to fix it was part of their mandate, and the frank admission that they didn’t magically fix everything is kinda darkly funny.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 1 month ago:
I did particularly like this:
“We did not make this organisation insolvent, it was already insolvent,” the management committee said on Sunday.
Saying that in an indignant Australian accent makes it feel like it came straight out of some antipodean cringe-humor sitcom (FYI “Fisk” is pretty good!).
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 months ago:
That fat PP looks a little on the short side.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 months ago:
Most likely, yes. I think most people do end up finding one or two smaller boards’ worth of “unicorn barf,” which is to say everything is the right shape and 95-99% have the right thing written on them, but the colors are totally random and visually jarring. I also have a few ideas that might benefit from some of the weirder caps, (like a big square that uses four keybaord switches… people seem to end up with some of those) and occasionally you’ll land on something that someone in the hobby actually does need and you can help them out. A lot of it is simply indulging a certain need to examine and categorize.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 months ago:
Despite the site screaming left and right that one should not count on a proper keyboard’s worth of keycaps at all, much LESS a matching set, and despite years of forum and reddit posts declaring their underwhelming nature, I still bought a 5-pound (2.27kg) sack of random keycaps from Signature Plastics in Washington state.
I just have to know, and I’m kind of unironically looking forward to sorting them like so many Lego bricks. I may even get a few that are useful for my projects.
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 2 months ago:
Thanks, Richard.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 2 months ago:
I learned to shoot at Boy Scout camp when I was about 13. We shot .22 long rifle and 20 gauge shotguns. Many of my friends hunted (never appealed to me) and learned even earlier.
- Comment on Where is this located? Asking for a friend... 2 months ago:
I haven’t looked it up, but having spent a lot of time in Northeast Georgia, I’m guessing the odds are pretty high that the stress on that town name is on the first syllable.
- Comment on These used to popular 2 months ago:
Yeah, but look at the switch! If God made you that way, you’d all be pissing in your faces!
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 2 months ago:
Chip
- Comment on Language model 2 months ago:
And for every single one of them, the ‘gh’ at one point described a phlegmy hissing sound. Modern English spelling is sometimes closer to Chinese than we might think.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 2 months ago:
- Comment on Uhm 2 months ago:
If you haven’t spent as much time refining the prompt as you would have to take an art class and do the medical research, have you really used the AI properly at all?
