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  Amended "that's not my department" to "that's out of scope for me" before hitting send. 😇

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  Carrot peel! That's what creatine tastes like! Just realised.

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  Eugh! I had just fallen asleep on my back. I couldn't breathe properly, but sleep paralysis prevented me from moving properly. I had to carefully breathe with my stomach, trying to move any of my limbs, to break the hold and roll into my side. I thought I was going to suffocate! This after a little patch of insomnia, while my brain tried to tell me everything wrong with my life and expected me to fix it all then and there. Cool, good, great. About 5:45 total shuteye. Very auspicious s...

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  I was playing Mechwarrior 5 last night with some friends. I spotted some Chargers, checked the loadout, and told my buddies "they're not crap Chargers they have ac/20s". No sooner did I say that, but one of the characters radio'd a message warning that these are new and improved Chargers with big guns instead of small lasers. Lol. Anyway, 3xPPC to the centre torso took care of them before they got in range. Quite enjoying the MAD-3D, I should use it more often...

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  Mouselook down to detonate the BFG ball on the floor early? #DooM

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  ?! - "I very strongly do not know what is going on" !? - "I know what is going on and I don't like it"

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  MotherFUCKER! Android has force updated a bunch of my apps! I deliberately stay on old versions because new ones inevitably get enshitified or break. Fuck me! I was just thinking last night that I ought to look into changing to a non-stock OS over Google locking down the platform, but this is just too much

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  It doesn't hurt to check that the treats packet is sealed before you shake it to get your pet's attention.

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  @ethanschoonover@mastodon.social ROCK AND STONEWARE!

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  @DM_Zeppelin@dice.camp it's not driven by (eg) Discord. It's driven by idiots in governments like mine, who are indeed doing it "for the children", as a kneejerk reaction to appease voters, and when we pointed out all these privacy problems that would result from the policy they stuck their fingers in their ears. It's the same motivation as machete bans in my home state: be seen to be addressing a problem, regardless of whether the solution is actually effective or has uni...

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  @ifixcoinops@retro.social my email address is firstname@firstnamelastname.com. Beyond that, my website hasn't been updated in ages. The most useful thing on it is the link to my Global Game Jam profile.

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  @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ...every day I find it harder and harder to leave the comfort of "IDE? no, I just use Vim".

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  Ordered myself another UAC hat. And so... #DooM

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  AI workshops at work. You need to complete the training in order to be authorised to use the thing. But it's voluntary. So, after being put into the channel for my class, I posted "I'm opting out. I think it's unethical". Boss (my boss's boss actually, head of software) goes "ok, no problem, you can leave the channel". Later on, a co-worker asked me privately for my views. He said he'd got my slot, so he'd see...

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  I love how in this season on #MasterChefAU when they get up to the tastings, and they're quickly going through all the ones they haven't actually been showing us the progress of, it's totally different to early seasons. In ages past, these little tasting snippets would be along the lines of "yeah, it was okay, but you ought to have done xyz to improve it, good effort" middle-of-the-road stuff. But by now there are so many god-tier cooks that the brief s...

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  Went to buy some music off Bandcamp. It let me buy some of it, but then redirected me to PayPal to buy the rest. And that's not fucken happening. I thought the Australian container affairs guys managed to get everyone to outlaw that sort of thing? Or, at least, they stopped ebay from forcing everyone to use PayPal and accept alternate payment methods...

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  Started another game of #Stellaris. Switched off fallen empires, crisis and advanced starts - I want an even playing field to murder the computer while I get to grips with the latest mechanics. I've just integrated a vassal into my empire, and suddenly I have more than double the colonies I used to, and they're all grossly mismanaged. Lots of worlds with a shitton of mining potential that have instead been set up (badly) as fortress worlds. Trying to actually figure out what t...

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  Karaoke, when your karaoke-loving friend is tone deaf?

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  Just finished Ancient Aliens. What a ride! I'm kind of stunned they were that into the shitpost concept that they carried it for 30 levels, and they're really really high-quality levels, too! Also, the slaughter fights weren't nearly as hard as they looked (or I'm getting better, but probably the first thing). I did use Intelligent Supplies for the third episode. I've got it set to only health and ammo affected, not armour or powerups. (I sort of think s...

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  So, a bit after that game, we were discussing the server's upcoming shift to allow modern weapons. And I was like "that's good" because I'm more familiar with active radar missiles and BVR timelines than heatseekers (and we don't get semi-actives in the Viper anyway). I then had the thought of "aw, man, what if we come up against Eagles, though, that's going to be a pain in the arse". The Eagle radar is much better than the Viper's. My buddy was like...

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  Star Wars pub trivia. I knew the answers to 5 out of 40 questions, and one of which I had guessed they were going to ask and looked up the answer beforehand ("What does AT-AT stand for?"). I was like ASK ME ABOUT THE SHIPS ASK ME ABOUT THE SHIPS. ASK ME WHO MANUFACTURES THE X-WING. ASK ME WHO MANUFACTURES THE LASERS ON THE X-WING. ASK ME THE CLASS OF STAR DESTROYER THAT CAPTURES THE TANTIVE V; THAT IS THE NAME OF LEIA'S CORELLIAN CORVETTE ALSO KNOWN AS A "BLOC...

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  You know what I want, when watching TV and such? Separate volume controls for the different things going on. Dialogue/music, for instance. When I'm watching GDQ on YouTube, I want to adjust the game volume and the commentary volume myself. I'm watching MasterChef now, and the music is way too loud. Such a simple thing, such a useful quality-of-life feature. I hope someday people hammer out the necessary standards and make it happen.

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  Sci fi game where you FTL jump your charming wooden spaceship around the galaxy looking for ingredients for your charming woode tea shop

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  Putting it out there in case anyone has advice: how do I fix not sleeping well due to being physically uncomfortable in bed? What kind of profession do I need to consult to sort that out? I don't trust salespeople. If I just go to a bed shop they'll talk me into buying some garbage that won't do the job (this has happened before). I saw a sleep physician, who told me sorry he can't help with that particular problem. Would have been nice to know that before wait...