offendicula

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[–] offendicula@fedia.io 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ahhh hexbear. I was there at the beginning, and left after a few months. It's strange to see their dysfunction become more widely known. There were some nice features on their fork though.

[–] offendicula@fedia.io 3 points 2 years ago

It's good to recognize that. Sometimes a job is something you do to fund the other things you want to do. Because the things you really want to do don't pay anything!

[–] offendicula@fedia.io 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Conservative TV commentators love dropping buzzwords, dog whistles, and conspiracy theories, to the point of incoherence. Dear god it's been word clouds all along...

[–] offendicula@fedia.io 7 points 2 years ago

There was drama in Warhammer tournaments involving a really thorough amount of rule-breaking, and weighted dice. Two Youtube videos explain:

Shorter and more entertaining
Longer and goes in depth about the rules broken

When you type "warhammer cheating" into Youtube's search it helpfully suggests "warhammer cheating dice toilet"

[–] offendicula@fedia.io 3 points 2 years ago

Great writeup!

[–] offendicula@fedia.io 2 points 2 years ago

Love this chonker

[–] offendicula@fedia.io 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

hallettj, I really like your wife's take!

OP these two pieces of advice from an old college professor might help:

  • If you can't choose between two things, make a list of all the pros and cons of the first thing, then a list for the second thing, place them side by side, and make an emotional decision.
  • Always have a Plan B.

About 15 years ago I left the career path I'd started to move cross country and go to graduate school. I thought I might want to do research. Some wonderful things and some terrible times came out of that. I learned and grew greatly. Strangely I ended back on a similar career path, not as far along as I might have been but not back at the beginning either. Nothing's a mistake as long as you learn from it. Whichever path you take, check in with yourself sometimes to see if it's still working for you. If not, ask yourself what you can learn from that info.

If you have any questions about specifics I'm happy to try and answer.

[–] offendicula@fedia.io 9 points 2 years ago

This has always happened in homes by the foothills. Bears in pools, on your driveway, looking through trash. People don't realize how much legitimate wilderness there is here.

[–] offendicula@fedia.io 1 points 2 years ago

Many good recommendations already. Mine are: Warhammer, namely the Horus Heresy, the first few books of which I've read. Only 51 more to go. Robert Heinlein, all of his books are in the same universe which is pretty neat. He has his issues but the world building is top notch and sustained across so many works.

[–] offendicula@fedia.io 7 points 2 years ago

Same, the actual situation is equally enraging yet in a totally different way

[–] offendicula@fedia.io 2 points 2 years ago

i don't get a chance to say this often so i'll say it 😁... my first email account was on an mvs machine. i'd telnet in from my dorm and read it with mail or elm. if i wanted a printout i'd have to walk to the computer science department to pick it up. find it laid out in a rack of shelves with other people's printouts. it was on the grayest, most dirt cheapest continuous feed paper. good times

[–] offendicula@fedia.io 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ohhh I already wanted to give this person a big slap but now I wish I could give them a big double slap! In Minecraft

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