my mother in law talking about her ideas for hobbies after retirement

"i could do video presentations on things like how to navigate insurance, dance, exercise..."

I'm nodding, makes sense

"and do it with a character"

huh?

"so nobody knows who I am. maybe a fox"

wait

"that way i can present boring concepts but do it as an animal character"

yall shes gonna be a furry vtuber

this is incredible

Ideas tontas que me vienen por la falta de sueño pero estaba pensando que con esto de la UE tratando de votar el chat control e ilegalizar la encriptación todas las puñeteras semanas hasta que salga (de lo que nuestro gobierno es de los más entusiastas de Europa), el intento de eliminar todo anonimato de toda actividad en interné y que toda actividad esté vinculada a tu identidad legal (de lo que el PSOE es super fan también), el furgol de los cojones dejándonos sin medio interné cada 4 días...

Igual deberíamos ir montando una infraestructura ciudadana separada? como aquella época en la que montábamos torres llenas de aceite y antenas con latas de pringles en las azoteas? hoy creo que sería más sencillo con raspberries y similares, routers con openwrt etc...

Igual con wimax por eso de mayor rango y menor ruido o yo que sé.

can we please just stop doing daylight saving time already.

I love poe2’s combination of “so many fucking particle effects at the same time that it’ll bring any machine to its knees” and “very tightly timed dodge rolls that you have to just read and time correctly.

The Aether has its livery again!
Still some work to do on the cockpit interior, some details like the front of the intakes and where the light from the headlamps points, and paneling and weathering.

But we're getting there!

#WIP

me too furnace, me too

A post was shared with me and I had a vision.
#slitherscribbles #kittyverse #DrPlasmodius #human

“Microsoft would really like for you to stop calling what they are doing slop”

Lol, that’s cute. I forgot where and when I asked for the megacorps opinion tho?

Microslop! Microslop! Microslop! ☺️

Y'know, everyone knows about the Gadget Hackwrench cult, but I don't have any evidence that it ever amounted to more than one meetup among Russian fans with kind of a funny gimmick. To me, the most inexplicable things about the fandom in retrospect are:

1. It's perhaps the most homophobic fandom I've ever seen, to the point where actual stills from the show was deemed too gay to be posted. This wasn't uniformly the case, of course, and there was a lot of resistance. The owner of the RRdatabase did some hosting shenanigans to be able to showcase gay CDRR art while remaining technically allowable to be linked to from the main forum.

2. There was an oddly big overlap with the star trek fandom and multiple fans had their own fantasy shipyard and would roleplay as starship captains. The only connection this show has with space is that they meet aliens in one episode and end up on a space shuttle in another, that's really it.

3. The longest thread on The Acorn Cafe was called "Poke", it was a link to a Flash game where you poke a penguin until it explodes. It turned into the lengthiest forum roleplay thread I've ever seen, with multiple distinct phases and storylines, some of which being more like a freeform paintball fight and other being more like a star trek adventure. I'd like to think it's still going.

4. The fandom fell apart circa 2010 basically a solid majority of the remaining fans became obsessed with My Little Pony instead.

5. The 2022 live action movie was so bizarre it caused many in the fandom to get back together after not having talked in a decade just to be able to discuss the burning question of "what the hell was that?"

the post game items in Super Climb Up!! are all completely above board, nothing shady at all about the place you buy them from or the lovely shopkeeper who sells them to you, right?

How you handle a bilingual wedding

normalize dressing like this IRL

if I ever learn C I’m going to use Jinja as my preprocessor

this is a threat

if you talk to someone whos ten years younger than you, you're like "so i was playing this puzzle game" and they're like "puzzer? puzz game? whats that. what is a puzz" and youre like "oh sorry i meant Metroidbrainia game. anyway it was pretty difficult" and they're like "differult? sorry im not familiar with that word" and you're like "shit yeah, sorry. i was playing the game and it was pretty Soulsvania. there were these random parts.. uhh, i mean, Roguelike parts"

When I was a teenager in the '90s, my boyfriend at the time gave me his old skateboard.

The trucks and wheels were fine, but the deck was heavily used and the design had been scraped off most of the bottom, so I took some paint markers and decorated it by painting a black and white checkerboard background with a large stormtrooper head in the foreground because Star Wars and ska were two of my favorite things at the time.

I was mostly just a poser and barely rode it and it remained in the back of my car for several years until I was at a sporting goods store and saw a kid doing tricks on a demo deck and I told him he was really good and he said "Thanks! I have to practice here because I don’t have a skateboard."

At that moment, I remembered my backseat skateboard and told him he could have it, but warned him that the "graphic" was kind of nerdy so he was more than welcome to draw/paint over it.

I went out to my car and grabbed the skateboard and brought it to the front of the store where the kid was waiting and he flipped it over and said "Whoa! Star Wars and ska?!? These are two of my favorite things!"

I’m so glad that skateboard finally found the right owner.