wjrii

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About 10 years ago i remember seeing this picture with a title something like "This is a meme from the future" The prophecy is true apparently.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. That looks plausible and should keep the mental wolves at bay, LOL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About 10 years ago i remember seeing this picture with a title something like "This is a meme from the future" The prophecy is true apparently.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, somebody here has to know of have better image searching skills than I do. What is the Visor prop? It’s clearly not a spray-painted hair clip like (the inspiration for) Geordi’s, but it doesn’t look bespoke, more like some sort of removable support rib from… something. Grrr.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s something about the parasitic nature of it, taking over an otherwise healthy ear of corn. We tend to think of our edible fungi as growing out of the dirt like a plant, or a fallen tree, or at worst sort of calmy sitting on top of whatever it is using for its own food. THe fact that this has invaded kernels makes them very bad corn kernels and triggers something instinctive. Corn smut is one of those “the first person to try this was in a bad spot” kind of foods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A secret cord⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Legitimate? Basically none. Illegitimate? First, lazily fixing a fuckup on putting up strings of Christmas lights where you can’t daisy chain them properly, with bonus points for the likeliehood of needing to break off the grounding pin. Second, injecting power from a generator into a single circuit of your house if the power is out.

  In one sense, you could argue conductors are conductors and if you think through every eventuality you can mitigate risk, but on the other, if you find you’re in a situation where one of these seems useful, you are not the type of person thinks through every eventuality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't all write notes and letters with such class⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cue the James Joyce letters in 3… 2… 1… 0.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have it on good authority that the Starbucks protein coffee gives you the double-shits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Allah fard moment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s possible to feel sympathy for a process running a text-to-speech algorithm, then it would have to be for the one tasked with transcribing Donald Duck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Got a lot of sticktuitiveness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parenting advice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I should go against the grain here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fact⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve been warned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can do anything at Zombocom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would really appreciate it if nobody looked at the PS/2 to USB adapter currently on my workbench, kplzandthx.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michael⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Slurm is still better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨paint job⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  99.99% sure it is. That looks like the old classic: Lasso Select, Adjust Hue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Peak Thomas horror has already been achieved…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New phonetic alphabet just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.