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Chubby Henparty posted:The virtual (and free) equivalent of an hdmi dongle is spacedesk.net. You can turn a browser window into a virtual monitor and, hopefully, log into that one. This seems to work ok for the moment (ie. I can set it up without having physical access to the computer), so thanks. I think in future it will be simpler all around to just leave the monitor turned on though.
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Why are there little square animal pictures up the top of the forums?
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Tree Bucket posted:Why are there little square animal pictures up the top of the forums? Those are side animals.
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Tree Bucket posted:Why are there little square animal pictures up the top of the forums? They used to flank banner ads. Presumably to make looking at them more pleasant. I'm not sure why they stuck around after the ads went away.
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Do they have dry stone walls in the US?
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Do they have dry stone walls in the US?
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Do they have dry stone walls in the US? They're all over the place in the northeast. The whole region used to have a lot of farms, back in the day. There are also a ton of buried rocks, deposited there by glaciers. What this means that every spring, frost heave brings tons of rocks to the surface. The joke among farmers is that they grow rocks. Well, you can't leave those rocks in your field (they'd be murder on the plows), and they have to go somewhere, so the done thing was to stack them on the property line to make a wall. A lot of the farms are overgrown and reclaimed into public parks and such these days, so the end result is you can be walking in the woods and see random stone walls just sitting there, where a farm used to be. It's kind of wild, but they're a staple around here.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Do they have dry stone walls in the US? quote:Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
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Silver Falcon posted:A lot of the farms are overgrown and reclaimed into public parks and such these days, so the end result is you can be walking in the woods and see random stone walls just sitting there, where a farm used to be. It's kind of wild, but they're a staple around here. It's like that in the south, too, but with barbed wire fences. Nothing like catching your ankle on some rusty barbed wire in the middle of the woods.
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tuyop posted:Do people still care about BMX? BMX is a very cyclical sport with lots of boom and bust cycles. It got huge during the 80s then fell out of popularity and tons of companies went bankrupt. There was another boom during the X-games era when you had people like Dave Mirra who were as famous as most other sports celebrities. BMX is back in a lull period where there’s plenty of people riding and a very healthy ecosystem of rider-owned companies feeding the sport, but it hasn’t broken through and sustained back into mainstream popularity like previous cycles. Scooters also got very popular which took a small chuck of that rider base away from BMX, mainly kids starting out in skateparks. So tl;dr, it’s still popular with people who love the sport and quite healthy but it’s not something you hear of everyday. FCKGW fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Aug 1, 2022 |
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FCKGW posted:BMX is a very cyclical sport with lots of boom and bust cycles. You have to pay to see the source, but it seems like it's mostly been growing? Number of participants in BMX bicycling in the United States from 2011 to 2021 
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Anyway, going back to the original question, this is the spreadsheet that my PR team put together. If you have any insight on the names there, or names that you think should be included but aren't, or especially names that are on there that I should stay the hell away from, please let me know! Also to be clear, this isn't the complete list of streamers we'll do outreach to; it's a list of names that we might provide special attention to, e.g. by creating mods that let them cameo inside the game somehow. From your list, Matt McMuscles is a cool dude (near as I can tell). I don't know that your game fits his style (a lot of licensed games/fighting games as opposed to indie games) but I like his stuff for what that's worth. He just started an LP channel that doesn't have a lot of vids or subs yet, so hopefully if he was going to look at it he'd do it on his main channel. For other channels not on the list Cartoonz (https://www.youtube.com/c/CaRtOoNz/) might be an option as he seems to show indie/smaller games in between Triple A coverage. H20Delirious (https://www.youtube.com/user/H2ODelirious) is either an idiot or does a very convincing idiot play. But he also has 14M subscribers, so he can't be completely wrong. Both of those guys are big on playing with custom characters that look like their AVs, so if you can make a battleship look like a red skinned, one eyed devil, or Jason Voorhees in a blue hoodie, that will possibly be a boost.
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kalel posted:is there a specific name for the subgenre of pop where it's a solo vocalist with a backing orchestra, and maybe like a surf guitar? I'm thinking like the Connery bond theme songs, Nancy Sinatra, etc. Could be orchestral pop or easy-listening (minus the surf guitar). They're at least good starting places to look for related subgenres on Wikipedia until you find what you want.
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CzarChasm posted:From your list, Matt McMuscles is a cool dude (near as I can tell). I don't know that your game fits his style (a lot of licensed games/fighting games as opposed to indie games) but I like his stuff for what that's worth. He just started an LP channel that doesn't have a lot of vids or subs yet, so hopefully if he was going to look at it he'd do it on his main channel. Thank you! The purpose of this list is to identify streamers who I can do "cameo content" for, so if these folks are specifically interested in that kind of thing, all the better! Fruits of the sea posted:I mostly watch roleplaying and variety streamers but I think you might have some luck with the communities doing Kerbal and adjacent games. Probably some of the folks who went in on Totally Accurate Battle Simulator as well. Thanks! And yeah, KSP seems like it'd be a good fit, but it's such a broad category that it's not entirely clear to me which folks would be best to approach. And yes, I agree re: chuds. It's one of those things that I need to be prepared for, but it might well never actually happen. Inceltown posted:This is Aus rather than USA but things are getting pretty wild out there. loving yikes.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:You have to pay to see the source, but it seems like it's mostly been growing? Oh yeah, I wouldn’t say it’s dead and I definitely see more kids at the skatepark than I did 10 years ago when I stopped riding. But if your frame of reference is back in the early 2000s then it might seem like no one rides anymore.
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How does one become an activist for a cause they feel passionate about? Where do you even start? Is one person's effort (a person with no money) worth anything at all? I am feeling helplessly outraged lately and I have no idea what to do with myself.
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artsy fartsy posted:How does one become an activist for a cause they feel passionate about? Where do you even start? Is one person's effort (a person with no money) worth anything at all? Start by looking for organisations around you that deal with the topic you're passionate about and see if they have need of volunteers. Facebook, for all its flaws, can be a decent spot to find local groups without much of an online presence.
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artsy fartsy posted:How does one become an activist for a cause they feel passionate about? Where do you even start? Is one person's effort (a person with no money) worth anything at all? You probably want to be a bit more specific in order to get specific advice, but usually the first step is to find other people who care about whatever it is.
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:You probably want to be a bit more specific in order to get specific advice, but usually the first step is to find other people who care about whatever it is. Inmates, specifically poor inmates exploited by whoever runs the commissary and/or messaging systems (all which are overly expensive and whose UIs are broken and lovely) and more importantly, inmates in Texas with NO AIR CONDITIONING. I'm in an area where it's regularly getting into the triple digits during the day. People are being roasted alive, I have a loved one trapped in there right now, I want to scream.
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Please help, I'm going insane. I have a PDF document I've been editing for about a year. I have been adding text boxes, times new roman, size 8, colour red. Occasionally I've switched it up to black size 10. No issues at all. Now, when I go to click on those boxes, it seems to start with Helvetica, size 12, black. And if I copy the boxes, that's what it copies them as (as you can see with the "F" there). The only thing I can think of is that yesterday I tried to make a little line, and the issue seems to have started after that. I've tried restarting the program, and I've tried restarting the computer. I'm not very good with this stuff. Is there a way out of this bizarre hell? 
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Thank you! The purpose of this list is to identify streamers who I can do "cameo content" for, so if these folks are specifically interested in that kind of thing, all the better! Day[9], maybe? I just took a look and apparently he doesn't have the massive numbers of the folks CzarChasm mentioned, but he's one of the very first streamers and he's still going. He's a variety streamer, these days mostly playing Magic The Gathering, but has a segment called "Day[9]'s Day Off" where he plays other games, often indie games. Lovely bloke.
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Bucky Fullminster posted:Please help, I'm going insane. Holy poo poo, now it's gone and actually changed a bunch of the text boxes I'd moved into the black 12 Helevetica thing. It was going along ok, then I zoomed in on the document, and it decided to go "ZOINK", and change all the ones I'd touched.  What the gently caress is going on, why is it torturing me like this. edit - when I go to add a new text box, it starts as "Red, Times new roman, 9" (although the text is actually much smaller than it should be / used to be). But when I click on the pre-existing boxes, which are clearly "Red, Times new Roman, 9" and then I click on the text edit tool, it goes "we're talking Black Helvetica 12, yeah?". It's so goddamn weird. Bucky Fullminster fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Aug 2, 2022 |
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You'd have to say what program you're working with, but even if you did, I'm not sure anyone would know exactly what's going without examining the document and the program itself. Sorry that I don't have a solution, but I can suggest some alternatives. If you're working on a document with many pages over a long period of time, then a visual editor is not going to be ideal since, as you've seen, an unintentional change can end up screwing up the whole document and it can be difficult to see how to revert it. You will want to consider moving to a proper typesetting program such as InDesign (although this costs money of course) which offers better document creation tools. Even better would be a typesetting system that uses a markup language as those give you very fine control over exactly what is happening at any point in the document and you can safely make changes without messing up the rest of the document. An example of this would be something like LaTeX, or for the specific case of music notation, LilyPond. These have a learning curve to them but tend to be worth it. Once you are set up with what you need, you usually don't need to make big changes to your workflow. Obviously if you chose a different system it would be time consuming to transfer and rewrite things since you have over 400 pages, but you could spread it out over a period of time and then your document would better prepared for future additions. Here's a LilyPond example I found that somewhat matches what you have in your document. https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/47957/lilypond-is-there-a-way-to-create-a-song-with-just-lyrics-and-chords-without-t and here's some examples of how similar things might be accomplished in LaTeX https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/147839/chords-lyrics-songbook Goon Boots fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Aug 2, 2022 |
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It’s preview, cos yes I’m an idiot and didn’t splash out for specialised software, and find all that stuff daunting tbh. In my defence it did the job, all 850 songs over 420 pages, I’m only going back over it now to fine tune it and it’s started doing this. The problem is something to do with the default text format setting I guess? Thanks for the advice, much appreciated. E - these are the songs if anyones interested, it’s a good list of accessible and entertaining tunes for basic guitarists or pianists: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/71hVBwQd7D4nCcySJLsv9C?si=omDrqZy2RLWrgv0RKdW1HQ Bucky Fullminster fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Aug 2, 2022 |
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Do rich people have giant blow dryers they can step into after a shower instead of using a towel or is such a thing simply not realistic? I love standing around in a shower but the minute or so of being cold and wet drying yourself off is the worst part of my daily routine by a huge margin and I would definitely pay to not have to do it if I was rich.
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gay frog chemicals posted:Do rich people have giant blow dryers they can step into after a shower instead of using a towel or is such a thing simply not realistic? I love standing around in a shower but the minute or so of being cold and wet drying yourself off is the worst part of my daily routine by a huge margin and I would definitely pay to not have to do it if I was rich. Momo the wonderdog has one. https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1438484588687282184
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gay frog chemicals posted:Do rich people have giant blow dryers they can step into after a shower instead of using a towel or is such a thing simply not realistic? I love standing around in a shower but the minute or so of being cold and wet drying yourself off is the worst part of my daily routine by a huge margin and I would definitely pay to not have to do it if I was rich. Dry yourself in the shower? This is assuming that your shower is big enough. I do this in the winter. My place gets stupid cold.
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Bucky Fullminster posted:It’s preview, cos yes I’m an idiot and didn’t splash out for specialised software, and find all that stuff daunting tbh. In my defence it did the job, all 850 songs over 420 pages, I’m only going back over it now to fine tune it and it’s started doing this. The problem is something to do with the default text format setting I guess? There is a reason a lot of these things use that sucky typewriter font, courier new: all letters have the same width, which makes it easy to align text. If you decide to handle it in an actual text editor like word, that's a good tip. If you do fix it (or not), can you post the document? It's always nice to have these collections. Rich people showers: rich people don't have cold homes I assume. Get some good floor heating, close doors and windows and you won't get cold. And then have Enrique dry you the second he turns the water off.
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Bucky Fullminster posted:It’s preview, cos yes I’m an idiot and didn’t splash out for specialised software, and find all that stuff daunting tbh. In my defence it did the job, all 850 songs over 420 pages, I’m only going back over it now to fine tune it and it’s started doing this. The problem is something to do with the default text format setting I guess? Was there an automatic software update? That's my guess. I use Foxit Reader (also free) to annotate pdfs, if you can't get your original thing back the way you like it.
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gay frog chemicals posted:Do rich people have giant blow dryers they can step into after a shower instead of using a towel or is such a thing simply not realistic? I love standing around in a shower but the minute or so of being cold and wet drying yourself off is the worst part of my daily routine by a huge margin and I would definitely pay to not have to do it if I was rich. I've lived in a house with heat lamps in the bathroom before and that seemed like a sufficient rich person solution for not being cold outside the shower. That and heated towel racks probably.
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gay frog chemicals posted:Do rich people have giant blow dryers they can step into after a shower instead of using a towel or is such a thing simply not realistic? I love standing around in a shower but the minute or so of being cold and wet drying yourself off is the worst part of my daily routine by a huge margin and I would definitely pay to not have to do it if I was rich. Using an actual blowdryer is quite nice, too. I do that from time to time.
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Is there a TVTropes page or just a name for the "old lady with a sassy mouth" trope, a la Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey, Lady Olenna in Game of Thrones, Estelle Getty in The Golden Girls, etc? E: I guess https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoolOldLady is close
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Thanks for the info on BMX stuff, I guess I didn't think of these things as cyclical (lol) even though when I was like 13 those scooters were huge and now they're back again, over 20 years later!artsy fartsy posted:Inmates, specifically poor inmates exploited by whoever runs the commissary and/or messaging systems (all which are overly expensive and whose UIs are broken and lovely) and more importantly, inmates in Texas with NO AIR CONDITIONING. I'm in an area where it's regularly getting into the triple digits during the day. People are being roasted alive, I have a loved one trapped in there right now, I want to scream. I believe you're looking for prison and police abolition groups. If you're not there yet, there are also lots of reform groups but there's kind of a lot of evidence that reforms don't work and the whole system is a rotten horror. There are probably some mutual aid groups near you that would be interested in contributing to commissary and other actions to alleviate the suffering of the inmates. I've heard of people doing things like driving family members to visits and stuff like that.
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I need to run ethernet and power through a patio door (and then the ethernet goes through the outside of the building to another room) but I rent this place so I can't go and drill holes in the walls or gently caress with screens. Does anyone have any ideas? Even something like this is kind of a problem because it doesn't do gigabit. Also doesn't solve the power problem. 
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For ethernet you can probably just use a powerline adapter to piggyback on the existing power solution (which... doesn't exist yet, whoops!)
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tuyop posted:I rent this place so I can't go and drill holes in the walls or gently caress with screens How cool is your landlord? I do some side work for a guy that owns, well basically an entire neighborhood. We'll do weird stuff all the time for tenants if they ask. Either let them do it themselves, or come and help them do it if they explain what it is they need. Usually with the caveat that you have to leave whatever it is installed, or repair it when you're done. I just added a hidden outlet for a lighted/heated mirror because the renters ask and the owner was just like sure why not. It didn't take me but half an hour and parts we had kicking around. If it's a temporary situation, would it be worth just popping out the existing screens and putting them back when you move?
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Ironhead posted:How cool is your landlord? I do some side work for a guy that owns, well basically an entire neighborhood. We'll do weird stuff all the time for tenants if they ask. Either let them do it themselves, or come and help them do it if they explain what it is they need. Usually with the caveat that you have to leave whatever it is installed, or repair it when you're done. I just added a hidden outlet for a lighted/heated mirror because the renters ask and the owner was just like sure why not. It didn't take me but half an hour and parts we had kicking around. This is a good point and I'll ask. I also thought about somehow snaking it through the outlet and getting an outlet cover that has a hole or whatever, but it's an exterior wall so I don't know how to do that without loving with the insulation.
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Ask in the wiring thread, though I'd wager that they'll tell you it's not worth the risk. Doing work for landlords is always a dicey proposition; even if they say they're OK with it, they can always come back later and say "this isn't what I agreed to" or something. Running power wiring in particular should be done to code, and that generally doesn't mean "sending it out one window and in another".
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