umbraroze

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

Some poor sod at the US government: "Hold on! HOLD ON! We're getting hundreds of payments a minute. We need some time to verify all of the new vote orders. It's very complicated. All votes will happen in due time!"

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean... Good? We nowadays have these things called "societal norms", which means everyone needs to think before they open their big stupid mouths.

You know what real pros do? They were already aware of this, and were already doing this.

If you have to be taught these lessons now, well, take it as a learning opportunity. Expand your horizons. Enhance your compassion.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Once again, they're calling for the government to stop messing with things, when the actual problem is the private sector messing with things.

The governments of the world do not have secret weather fuckuppery cannons. And if they did, it'd be pee in the wind compared to the literally industrial scale weather fuckuppery cannons the industrial sector runs all day every day very publicly.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Schuko (Type F) of course. The British plug (Type G) is a truly worthy adversary.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago

My parents live in a fairly small town. I tried to go looking for my late father in the Streetview pics. There were a few more Streetview photos from the last few years, after his death, but before that, there was just one set from over 10 years ago, and nothing beyond that. Couldn't see him on Streetview, but saw his car in front of the place where he worked in his spare time.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe they should also make it mandatory for pedestrians to carry rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and be trained in their operation.

This would hopefully make car drivers to exercise more caution.

/sarcasm that has an unfortunate chance of becoming reality in a few decades, you just watch

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yup, Scrivener saves data locally. Ironically, you should never use it on a cloud drive, because apparently it can lead to data corruption. I sync my Scrivener projects across multiple computers with Git instead, because that at least ensures the files are at a consistent state.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Martin: Organized crime?
Cosmo: Hah. Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized.

– Sneakers (1992)

Twitter is absolutely going to say "well, we're definitely not an organised hate group. Sometimes people just hate stuff. We're just a social media platform, helping people organise. Oh shit"

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I take zillions of screenshots. My day is ruined if notice too late I was supposed to screenshot something. Spend way too much time contemplating screenshot software and screenshot strategies. Hardly a day passes me cursing Android because the Volume Down + Power doesn't register correctly and it does either power or volume down and it sucks. Argue that Firefox screenshot feature is why everyone should switch to it. Just found myself thinking that Steam has clear advantage over Xbox in that it just saves the screenshots locally instead of the whole incredibly convoluted OneDrive ring around the rosey. And so on. This is a serious matter.

When was the last time I looked at a screenshot from long ago? ...um, some time late spring maybe???

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Instead of using this new pathetic armoured golf cart, maybe Trump should use one of these cars as a golf cart.

It'd sink in a water hazard.

But he has multiple of them. So just use a spare!

It'd get graffitied, set on fire by protestors, and then sunk into a water hazard.

But luckily there's many more of them available! So pick another spare.

And would you look at that, now he has the strongest golf cart money can buy!

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 18 points 6 days ago

I'm a photography nerd.

There's a bunch of rare and expensive cameras, of course, so I could probably just say "oh, probably anything from Leica".

But the real snobs go for turbo rare lenses. As a Nikon fan, I hope that I shall one day be allowed to the same airspace as the hallowed Nikkor 13mm f/5.6. The first ultrawide non-fisheye lens. 350 of these were made, each individually blessed by priests as they left the factory, or so the story goes. They cost an arm and leg - wait, in this economy, an arm and leg would probably be cheaper.

 

This is the official short film adaptation of the classic video game Papers Please.

...made in 2018 by a Russian team. Way before the whole Ukraine war thing, you understand. ...though I'd obviously love to hear where they are now.

 

...if you haven't played Sid Meier's Alpha Centari before, I have to say this does frequently lead to conflicts later on.

 

(Original picture by Brocken Inaglory, 15 April 2010)

Alternative title:
Michelangelo: "Oh no! DUCK!"
Leonardo: "...you made me look stupid, didn't you?"

 

(Please don't lob rocks at me. I love Python.)

 

Plus I cloned my Wii's NAND so I have all of the Virtual Console games and savegames, and I also dumped all of my GameCube memory cards and put everything to the Dolphin memory cards images.

Everything is cool and future-proof now!Highly recommend doing this if you have a working Wii - just install Homebrew Channel and CleanRip.

 

Commodore 64 remix.
Original: Matt Gray.
I know what you are saying: This game is an Indiana Jones ripoff. Yes. Yes it is. And I wish there were more metal covers of Indy songs.

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