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ToxicSlurpee posted:Compared to technology that existed 30 years ago that's loving magic. One of my Star Trek data slates is a slow, laggy piece of poo poo, and the battery dies way too quickly. 
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Bees on Wheat posted:One of my Star Trek data slates is a slow, laggy piece of poo poo, and the battery dies way too quickly. Yeah, but at least you only need one instead of like twenty in a big pile on your space desk. Also, aren’t they called PADDs or something? jeez.
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Sep 15, 2018 00:52
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Mu Zeta posted:The Japanese call that "Tsundoku". I never object to yet another loan-word being absorbed by English, but we do already have bibliomania https://archive.org/details/bibliomaniaorboo00dibduoft/
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Sep 15, 2018 00:54
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When I visualize a bibliomania's house they have shelves full of unread books and the books are only there for display. Yo look at me I have a ton of books so I'm smart. For Tsundoku it's a bunch of piled up books on the floor or something. They really did intend to read the book but another caught their eye so they start to pile up.
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Sep 15, 2018 01:16
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Compared to technology that existed 30 years ago that's loving magic. I still get amazed that my phone is a piece of technology that even the science fiction of my youth didn't see coming. 30 years after first getting a ZX Spectrum, the cheap phone in my pocket can emulate the Speccy and hold every game I ever played on its memory card. Gonna have to show my niece and nephew some Speccy games so they can look at me the way I used to look at adults who talked about ration books.
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Sep 15, 2018 01:21
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I did a load of black laundry, then unloaded the washing machine to load it again with the whites. As I was digging through the hamper, I found one single black sock which I'd somehow missed the first time around 
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Sunswipe posted:I still get amazed that my phone is a piece of technology that even the science fiction of my youth didn't see coming. 30 years after first getting a ZX Spectrum, the cheap phone in my pocket can emulate the Speccy and hold every game I ever played on its memory card. Gonna have to show my niece and nephew some Speccy games so they can look at me the way I used to look at adults who talked about ration books. I legit feel bad for people who didn't get to see the internet happen. It was cool as gently caress to watch it happen. I remember when answering machines weren't a thing. There was a rotary phone with a roll of paper in a holder with a pencil on a string. You wrote messages down if whoever was called wasn't home. Each house had one number. Now everybody has their own cell phone so sharing numbers isn't even a thing and the phone can record its own messages. An answering machine with a tape in it as a separate device? Pfft. That's so last millennium. It's the 21st century now, fuckers.
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Sep 16, 2018 18:05
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I legit feel bad for people who didn't get to see the internet happen. It was cool as gently caress to watch it happen. I recall in elementary school a local college came by, set up some computers in the auditorium so we could IM eachother. All six hours was spent with a hoard of kids around two computers, some 10 feet apart, spamming eachother with rude phrases. One small group of kids who were too cool for everything insisted that "no one will ever use this stuff because you can just call them!"
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Sep 16, 2018 21:01
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That reminded me of that really cute moment on Kids react to rotary phones, where one of them is like: Host: So how would you text on this thing? Kid: You... um... you couldn't...? Host: That's right Kid: But how would you quickly contact a friend to get them a message... OH! You'd CALL them!
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Sep 16, 2018 21:16
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You can watch tv shows from the mid 90s where people wonder if the internet is a fad.
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Sep 16, 2018 21:16
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Inzombiac posted:I recall in elementary school a local college came by, set up some computers in the auditorium so we could IM eachother. All six hours was spent with a hoard of kids around two computers, some 10 feet apart, spamming eachother with rude phrases. Really the funniest thing was people proudly declaring that they would never, ever use a computer for ANY REASON!!!! The internet is only for turbo nerds and criminals and criminal nerds, dadgummit, and you'll never catch me having an e-mail address. Then like three years later they have two computers in their house. Give it a few more years and they have a cell phone, many gigabytes of music and/or porn, and are bitching their high speed internet isn't high speed enough. That hostility still makes me chuckle because anybody who wasn't a colossal dumbass realized that the internet was not only here to stay but was going to get enormous. We went from "lol computers are for nerds" to "I have a computer with an internet connection in my pocket most of the time" in like 15 years.
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Sep 16, 2018 21:31
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My grandparents had a rotary phone and my home number had a bunch of 9's in it and I hated calling it.
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Sep 16, 2018 21:38
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I'm mad about fan fiction (some specific aspects of it) but no one I know cares enough about the subject to listen to me rant 
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Sep 16, 2018 21:51
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Picnic Princess posted:My grandparents had a rotary phone and my home number had a bunch of 9's in it and I hated calling it. I used to have a theory before the US 911 number hosed it up that the reason that the number for emergencies was 999 because because it was a hassle to dial because you had to take the rotor all the way each time, to discourage prank calls.
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Sep 16, 2018 21:57
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Mikl posted:I'm mad about fan fiction (some specific aspects of it) but no one I know cares enough about the subject to listen to me rant Pm them to me
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Sep 16, 2018 22:34
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I won’t read them but I hope it makes you feel better
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Sep 16, 2018 22:34
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I'm slightly hungover and I had to work a morning shift. They let me out early because it's dead, but then asked if I could work a few more hours later. I could have just gone home but I guess I hate myself because I agreed to stay.
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Sep 16, 2018 22:55
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I'm trying to drink sweet wine but I have fruit flies. GET OUT OF THERE
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Sep 16, 2018 23:01
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One of my front teeth chipped slightly despite my near-religious work at taking care of my teeth since getting fillings in  It's entirely superficial and doesn't hurt at all, the tooth is not structurally compromised, but it's just... dammit! I'm gonna need to get another filling! And it's in one of the front incisors! It's really high up near the gum line where it's not very obvious, but still!
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Sep 17, 2018 05:12
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I had two pints of Blue Moon and now I feel awful
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Sep 17, 2018 06:44
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Work was terrible, but not as terrible as getting told two different things by different managers and feeling like absolute poo poo for doing something that one manager said was okay, and the other said most definitely wasn't. 
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Sep 17, 2018 10:46
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The apples I bought all had some weird small foul part right at the stem that I didn't see, and while looking fine inside they taste like poo poo.
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Sep 17, 2018 13:27
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I haven't talked to my friend in about 3 months now, after I told her I was mad at her for her dropping off the map, then wanting me to IM her daily 'to remind her that someone cares,' then finding out she had "no time" for our online games but had devoted several hours a night to her WoW rpg. So part of me misses her but only when I am reminded she's online still. She's not on any of my msg programs anymore but I see her on Facebook sometimes, and part of me, a small dumb part with memory issues, wants to reach out to her...but then we'll go back to the reason for the fight in the first place, where she didn't see anything wrong with keeping me around just for consoling her that she's a good person. Miki, PM me the fanfic stuff, I used to write the poo poo. 
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Sep 17, 2018 13:44
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I’m abstaining from drinking for the month of September and it’s boring hanging out with your friends when they are all drinking and you aren’t.
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Sep 17, 2018 14:52
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My illness is costing me relationships because they don't feel like dealing with me in my current state. I talk about it too much and I'm not the same person I once was. Yeah, no poo poo. I'm at like a 7 level pain in my spine every waking moment right now. It kind of takes over my thoughts. But at the same time it's weeding out the lovely people so overall it's probably a good thing.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Miki, PM me the fanfic stuff, I used to write the poo poo. You know what? I'll post it here, and gently caress it. It still counts as a FWP because it irritates me to no end and I've no one else to discuss it. There's a type of fanfic called "alternate universe". The author takes an established fictional universe, changes something, and runs from there. Some are quite good! Because the events and character development, though different, follow logically from that one single change, and if you know the original material the fanfic is derived from you can see that yes, the characters would react in this and that way, and the plot would develop this and that way. All from a single change. It's cool! However, some authors take this to the logical extreme. Instead of changing one thing, they change everything, basically changing the whole background of the fictional universe and the characters, their personality, motivations, etc. It gets to the point where you're basically reading a piece of original fiction where the characters, settings, themes, and so on, are entirely different from what they were, with only the names reminding you that yes, these are supposed to be the fictional people you care about. And I hate this. tl;dr: I'm a huge nerd who gets irritated by people doing the wrong thing on the internet. Carry on.
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Picnic Princess posted:My illness is costing me relationships because they don't feel like dealing with me in my current state. I talk about it too much and I'm not the same person I once was. Yeah, no poo poo. I'm at like a 7 level pain in my spine every waking moment right now. It kind of takes over my thoughts. But at the same time it's weeding out the lovely people so overall it's probably a good thing. Definitely a good thing. No person worthy making company to will make a big issue out of illness. Understandably you will whine, especially in an event of onset of a serious issue, and they might understandably be annoying about it to an extent, but not "no longer a person you once were" top 10 saddest anime death drama tier poo poo.
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Sep 17, 2018 16:01
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With the seasons changing, the weather is starting to get to where I have to start my truck and let it warm up before leaving in the morning. I just wanna get up and go before my coffee is finished damnit.
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Sep 17, 2018 16:21
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Final Fantasy XIV is down for maintenance all day today. I wanna play the new patch nooooowww I also forgot to add a phone accessory I wanted to last night's Amazon order so now I have to wait until the next time I order stuff. frogge posted:With the seasons changing, the weather is starting to get to where I have to start my truck and let it warm up before leaving in the morning. I just wanna get up and go before my coffee is finished damnit. I wish it would get colder already. I ordered a couple hoodies last spring but it got too warm to wear them by the time they arrived.
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Sep 17, 2018 16:28
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I made vegetarian bean tacos for dinner, complete with homemade guacamole, tomato salsa and tortillas. I found a tasty sounding recipe for the beans and proceeded to toss it all together while focusing on a thing I was streaming. The recipe called for sugar, and I followed the measurement exactly and stirred it in before reflecting on exactly how much that was. Whoever wrote the recipe must have mixed up tablespoons with teaspoons, at least I hope they did, because that sugary mess is inedible. I won't finish it, and there's so much left of it, and I hate waste. Also, that bean mess let down my truly excellent salsa.
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Sep 17, 2018 20:47
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Picnic Princess posted:My grandparents had a rotary phone and my home number had a bunch of 9's in it and I hated calling it. My grandmother's phone number has a 9 & 0 in a row, and when I was a kid & would call her from my great-grandparents' rotary phone, I always looked forward to those two numbers the most.  Mikl posted:I'm mad about fan fiction (some specific aspects of it) but no one I know cares enough about the subject to listen to me rant  Mikl posted:You know what? I'll post it here, and gently caress it. It still counts as a FWP because it irritates me to no end and I've no one else to discuss it. AU is ridiculous, and it seems like people either take it WAY too far or not nearly far enough. So as you were saying, you'll have stories where everything is so different it might as well just be an original story, but then you have stories that are like "3 years in the future"-AU or "takes place in England instead of Germany" and it's like, what even is the point?
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The worst is "[thing] but they're all in high school!!" Wow holy poo poo no thanks
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I love, love, love horror movies so I finally watched Hereditary. There's nothing hereditary about the story. Yeah it's about three generations of women but it's not like there is some illness or curse being passed along. All it was was a cult trying to summon a prince of Hell, screwing up by having the wrong vessel and then someone outside of the family attaching the demon to the main character's son. Still, a very good movie and I'm glad I didn't know anything about the story going in.
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Sep 18, 2018 14:21
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The shower head holder broke so the shower head is at its lowest possible height all the time and I keep bumping my head on it while I'm trying to wash my hair. And I'm only barely 5'1", so that's saying something.
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AU can work if you only change one or two things. Like, an AU in Potterverse where Harry gets sorted into another house, or his parents end up in the asylum and Neville's are killed instead. When I wrote lovely fanfic I called it parallax instead, ie a parallel universe. FWP: thoughts summon the beast. That friend texted me last night and said she was ready to talk. So I said fine, and let her pour how how hurt she was when I told her off a few months ago (this was after a few months of her barely talking to me, but needing me to always ask her how she was, her effectively ending our online rpgs because she was barely there) for her being able to hold rpgs online with a loving WoW group of strangers but was barely able to talk to me. She kept saying how sorry she was that I felt a certain way, and certainly never admitted she did anything wrong, but wants to be friends again, even if we never do another rpg. Which is what led us to meet in the first place and has pretty much been what held us together. Just now she posted on Facebook that she is finally, after six years of trying, expecting a baby in May. So she is about a month or so pregnant. And posting pictures. And I just....don't most people wait until the second trimester because of miscarriage possibilities?
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Inzombiac posted:I love, love, love horror movies so I finally watched Hereditary. That's not the take I got from it. I thought what was hereditary about it was the mental illnesses passed from grandma to mother to daughter. The cult's doing or not, towards the end the mother starts exhibiting the exact behaviors that she earlier used to describe the grandmother, and ok it's a stretch but the daughter was clearly an eccentric kid that didn't really fit in. I kinda figured there was a chance that the cult was to the side of all of it, and the latter half of it was a grand hallucination by the son riddled with guilt over killing his sister. My FWP is that I love horror films, and even though I know it's all bogus- sometimes I just can't go to sleep right after watching them or I will totally have to have the lights on when I get up to go to the bathroom. Even if what happens is fake- I've chosen to spook myself. frogge has a new favorite as of 02:59 on Sep 20, 2018 |
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I came down with a really awful cold yesterday, and also the internet has been loving up for a few days. Comcast has sent out three different techs after the one I spoke to one the phone couldn't fix it, and the tech I've been talking to on the Xfinity forums is equally stumped, despite being that one guy that usually fixes this particular issue for everyone. It sounds like it might be an issue with the wiring in this building, but I don't know. The tech today didn't really say anything. I can still log into an Xfinity wifi hotspot and get my internets that way, but I really just want to get this poo poo fixed so I don't have to deal with it anymore. I don't want to try and explain poo poo to a bunch of strangers in my house while it feels like my ears are going to explode and my nose won't stop leaking and 
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Sep 20, 2018 05:03
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Because I'm dumb with timezones i set up a teleconference perfectly through my lunchtime.
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Sep 20, 2018 10:35
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My legs are just long enough to cause discomfort on the bus with the seat in front of me.
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AlphaKretin posted:My legs are just long enough to cause discomfort on the bus with the seat in front of me. Ugh, relate so much to this, also if I step the wrong way out of the I'll hit my head.
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