off-topic-discussion

[hexed hollow]

(there's a reason why I recomended the 5800x3d )

[loud garden]

what's your mobo?

[vocal yoke]

B450F from ROG

republic of gaymers

[loud garden]

ye just use AM4 cpu if you dont want to change mobo

[vocal yoke]

how so? is it compatible with the 4060?

[loud garden]

5800x3d is probably the strongest am4 cpu

[hexed hollow]

yes, it's the best am4 cpu for gaming

[hexed hollow]

5950x is the strongest for productivity applications on am4 though

[vocal yoke]

damn the price tag is double of a 5700X3D

[hexed hollow]

get that then, its basically the same thing, just ever so slightly slower
Especially if the 5800x3d is double the price, it's not worth it for the minimal uplift

https://gamersnexus.net/cpus/new-amd-ryzen-7-5700x3d-cpu-review-benchmarks-vs-5800x3d-more

[vocal yoke]

oh damn its half the price of the 5800X3D

how cool

im trying to future proof my PC

havent touched it since 2020

and to play GTA 6 in 2026

[loud garden]

the 16gb 4060 ti might be more future proof though..

or 6700xt

[vocal yoke]

ughhh very expensive

im sticking with the 8gb 4060 one

[loud garden]

gotcha

ye the price is a big jump lol. That's why I stick with 4060 too

still a huge upgrade to my 1650

[vocal yoke]

how's it performing so far and what games you using it for

[loud garden]

let's see. The most demanding was probably cp2077, I finished the whole game+dlc. high settings+dlss, idk if I can go ultra, did not try.
MH World on max,
Elden Ring got frame drops in some areas, but that's just how the game is, otherwise it's solid 60 fps.

[vocal yoke]

how well did cyberpunk run that way?

you also using frame generation?

[loud garden]

other games are just indie titles, and ff xiv, which isnt too demanding

yeah frame gen+dlss, it's solid 60 unless there are a lot of stuff on the screen

the most noticeable drop was probably when I went to this area with lots of npc walking around and there are some smoke vents from the ground

[vocal yoke]

interesting

[loud garden]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp1xSumj61U check this vid out too probably

[loud garden]

also no ray tracing, it kills my fps

[vocal yoke]

or maybe I should save a few months to get something better

[loud garden]

if you really want a future proof setup and probably go 1440p/4k along the way, this card probably aint it. It should handle 1440p with lower graphical settings, but 4k it'll chug

[fast marlin]

ur telling me this hotel is california

[celest cedar]

You're telling me a shrimp fried this rice

[tough light]

any tips on how not to flub a phone screen interview?

[fast marlin]

what a week huh

[snow jungle]

it's only thursday

[royal relic]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1283770779305246802/IMG_2257.png?ex=66e43435&is=66e2e2b5&hm=3790bef9202d49978dcc847169dcf97f67d9713fc098b0fe68db6005ea5d17f8&

Sad day tomorrow

[tall owl]

my mind has been occupied by classic wow chinese copypasta

patchwerk fat american 胖胖美国人angered hits on armored men对装甲兵的怒吼intentional pain river keeps others safe故意痛苦的河流使他人安全medics focus those who eat fists医务人员将重点放在那些吃拳头的人身上

rotating it in my head for days

[tough light]

does it get copied/pasted with the english or is that for our convenience?

[stable comet]

Damn it... The eternal struggle of trying to find out what anime opening/ending/bgm it is that is partially stuck in my head...
It's got piano and a woman singing in Japanese... That really narrows it down...

[sharp grail]

do u remember anything else abt it or just that

u could, idk, hum it into one of those sites that find songs based on your humming

ask r/tipofmytongue

[stable comet]

Haha it's just like the first 5 seconds of the song stuck in my head. Just really heavy piano notes that she sings with.
Then maybe trumpets?

Maybe trumpets and piano is persona...

[sharp grail]

lol thats what i was thinking

do update if u find it

[tall owl]

yeah it‘s always both. Apparently it comes from chinese wow players trying to communicate with english speakers (but also other chinese ppl)

[hexed hollow]

This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWRPihlt2ho

Actually this one might be more likely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eksw56g-WBY

[bronze lintel]

oh no

https://tenor.com/view/vietnam-flashback-cat-gif-18770750

[stable comet]

BrBr brbr BrBr BrBrn! BrBr brbr BrBr BrBrn.... Doodoo doooodoooo dooooooo dudududu

[stable comet]

Appreciate the attempt but unfortunately not

[hollow arrow]

It's 2pm at work & I'm booooored

[stable comet]

the good/bad part about when this happens is that: when i'm looking for what song it is, i find other great old ones like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMD1jEJEF4k

[sharp grail]

i never watched that one even when it was really popular

do you recommend it?

im also dying to know the song lmao

[stable comet]

it was fun to watch but it has a LOT of characters, and i only kinda remember stuff about like 3? so maybe its not so good.in that same time period / style, i liked the anime Baccano more

[sharp grail]

interesting

[stable comet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSjOcXSv-JY

[stable comet]

finally, uggh it barely even has piano, thats a guitar but it was this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DezkhzVuQmA

[sharp grail]

huzzah!

strong start but then the song gets meh 🤔

[stable comet]

yeah it was the first like 12 seconds, that was completly stuck in my head, and i was trying to find it off that

[stable comet]

idk im gonna say it was maybe close to whatever that was lol

[sharp grail]

lmao

how did you find it?

[stable comet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaLRliEBtfg

[sharp grail]

omg

thats funny

[stable comet]

then branching off from there

[sharp grail]

kinda genius

[stable comet]

i've.... had to do this a few times...

[sharp grail]

😭

[stable comet]

consolation prize:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsNDDwhSJ4

[vocal yoke]

How did the emperor of mankind not expect to be betrayed when he had legions literally names "World Eaters" "Death Guard"

[muted smelt]

and thats not trumpet its harmonica !

[stable comet]

https://tenor.com/view/yoda-failed-fail-gif-22515996

[hollow locust]

At last, I can relax with a drink and some Discord sessions! 😄

[hot ether]

one of the saddest truths is new gens wont know about michael jackson

radio songs nowadays are wayy to nsfw and random

[hollow locust]

Eeeeeh depends which station I suppose

Like in the UK on BBC Radio 2 we play some good golden oldies

And technically, Spotify also exists so they can discover him through there, if I'm being honest

[hot ether]

no offense but average teenager rn listens eminem or billie elish and i dont think noone like that gets close to michael jackson

i mean thats cool and all but i want people to remember this legend

[hollow locust]

I think a lot of teenagers, including myself, listened to Eminem 20 years ago lol

[hot ether]

my captcha right now is showing me a maze with where the rat can get the cheese wtf

why are bots so advanced i spend a minute doing captcha am i a bot

[hollow locust]

No offense, mate, but where are you basing this information from?

[hot ether]

my school friends

i dunno it may be different there

i have to ask this how did u come up with that username

[hollow locust]

I mean sure the majority of your school apparently likes Eminem and Eilish, but doesn't mean they don't know about MJ! And probably doesn't speak for every teenager nowadays! 😆

[hot ether]

thats quite a fair argument mate but the thing is i asked majority of them of Michael Jackson so not really lol njhbgfrdfgvbhnj

anyways there will alyways be people listenin him and i think thats cool enough

[hollow locust]

Of course!

A younger generation doesn't know of Status Quo, but that's fine!

As for my username? Well, it's actually an anagram of my real full name 😅

[hot ether]

oh thats cool

[hollow locust]

Thank you!

I saw people on Reddit do it a lot so I thought, I can do that too!

[sharp grail]

i didnt know billie eilish was still popular with the Teens™️

same with eminem i havent heard of him in years

[hollow locust]

I think he's dropped out a bit, I think

Aspect is just randomly name-dropping musicians they don't like

To use as examples, basically

[stable sable]

Idk guys Coldplay is where it’s at right now

[fast marlin]

yeah she had a new album recently

and then a collab with charli xcx

[river ice]

THEN

in the middle of all the chaotic cries

someone shouted

[royal relic]

oh christ almighty

i wasn't expecting the end of TGT to hit me so hard in the feels

[royal relic]

crap it's been two hours and im still teary eyed

[sharp grail]

TGT?

[royal relic]

the grand tour

https://tenor.com/view/richard-hammond-the-grand-tour-clarkson-jeremy-clarkson-james-may-gif-27415224

those three

[fast marlin]

the media that mades me cry most recently was uhh

mentopolis the d20 campaign

it was tears of joy though its, very good

[sharp grail]

i played assemble with care early in the morning, definitely had me crying a bit

[fast marlin]

its weird to be able to cry at media now thats a new thing for me

[sharp grail]

i was always a crybaby i think

[fast marlin]

i cry like

when im angry or overwhelmed

very easily

but usually not sad/happy

[fast marlin]

hank green needs to back the hell up with his character (the fix aka hyperfixation) and his ending like thats really rude of him to do

[sharp grail]

crying when youre sad is hard

but it helps with feeling better and releasing that emotion

so when im sad and want to cry i listen to sad music

[royal relic]

it doesn't get me when i go looking for it

but here i just got sucker-punched with feels

and i wasn't expecting it at all

[fast marlin]

no yeah exactly

[royal relic]

the other thing that gets me in media is the buildup

like - when you know something is coming that will make you
and you start noticing little things building up to it

[tall owl]

i just watch this (only makes sense if you've seen the movie, and ignore the script at the bottom (watch aftersun)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDU-HK0IoiI

[royal relic]

like a bunch of little needles just poking at your brain in all the wrong spots

like - bastion got me like that on my second run
because i knew what was coming and i really wasn't looking forward to it

[sharp grail]

interesting, what it is about?

dont wanna watch the video so i dont get Spoiled

[mild pelican]

i was watching Eighty Six once, and in, like, first or second episode, where all the main characters were displayed having fun and enjoying life

[hexed hollow]

for me I think it was "a silent voice" though it may be it just sticks out the most to me because I love that movie so much and it caused a big emotional response

[mild pelican]

somehow i already knew what will come in the next episodes

[fast marlin]

hadestown

[mild pelican]

and dropped immediately

[fast marlin]

im doing hadestown at my school and augh,

[hexed hollow]

yo I'm gonna go see that next year

[fast marlin]

oh have so much fun

[mild pelican]

later people who watched it fully, confirmed my suspicions

[fast marlin]

ive seen it twice on broadway and its my favorite thing in the world

so getting to actually do it is kinda crazy

[hexed hollow]

clannad - afterstory (though I was spoiled on the thing which was entirely my fault)

(basically season 2 lol)

me seeing the spoiler of my own volition caused me to stop watching for months

[fast marlin]

unrelated my problem in life is alcoholic drinks look so scrumptious but i cant drink them

like why do they make them look so pretty

[hexed hollow]

thankfully they really pretty non-alcoholic drinks exist too :3

[fast marlin]

i know mocktails exist but i never have the ingredients ngl

[tall owl]

At the surface it's a recording of a father-daughter vacation but many years later, the daughter is looking through the footage to understand her father. Kinda. Very sad. If you want another very sad paul mescal movie, All Of Us Strangers is also great

[fast marlin]

true but still

[hexed hollow]

ye I getcha

[fast marlin]

ive heard about this but never watched it

[tall owl]

Might be my fav movie atm, though it will permanently alter how you listen to Under Pressure

[hot ether]

why cant i send imagez cuz i have a legendary one rn

[hexed hollow]

you have to use an external image hosting service (ie. a private discord server, imgur) and post the link to that here and it will embed

[royal relic]

god

damn youtube just recommended me a clip from that TGT ending

and of course - me being me - i clicked it
and im feeling again

god what a beautiful ending

[vocal yoke]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/888317171271344152/1284829092562079817/a3fef0f0886b7148c0e0513b7133fe5e.png?ex=66e80dd6&is=66e6bc56&hm=c5104f13c6b59c3460966b44da2eb7977827e803d61a4eecc6687db418ecc596&

[hollow locust]

That's the Vocaloid bird, innit?

[tall owl]

m-miku…

[royal relic]

i'll be honest
miku sounds like one of those crappy cable tv set up boxes

like roku

or a keyboard brand that i have - and im not making this up
"Rapoo"

feel free to assume the quality of that product based on its name

[hot ether]

is a blue bird eating him they should help him mate

[fast marlin]

caveman miku be like. pangea is mine

[sharp grail]

maybe you havent heard ppl who tune vocaloids well. 🤔

but i feel like the artifical quality of her voice is part of the charm, even though there are more realistic sounding voice banks today

some good ones, very different from each other tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw7pcm1W5tw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDfedFXfb3w

[hollow locust]

Well they're cool!

But can they sing Love Will Tear us Apart by Joy Division? By replicating Ian Curtis' (RIP) voice?

[sharp grail]

https://necronatural.tumblr.com/post/748862630240944128/a-lot-of-people-try-to-explain-this-without
this is a good explanation of how they work

producers can make covers like anything else, but probably using vocaloids or synth v and not replicating real peoples voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4r5ldpPWAY like this one

[hollow locust]

I'm uuuh

Not reading all that!

[hot ether]

not alone

[hollow locust]

Whaddya mean

[hot ether]

probably like other people like me

[hollow locust]

Okay I am still not getting what you mean here, mate 😅

[hot ether]

i thought it was obivious?

youre not the only one who didnt read all that

[sharp grail]

its not that long of a read but you dont have to read it, i just thought it was interesting

i just wanted to link the cover lol

[mild pelican]

Miku is great

even though im probably more of Kasane Teto fan, who's not even a vocaloid, but still

[sharp grail]

she is a vocaloid now!

[mild pelican]

oh

[fast marlin]

my hair. its gone. (i have bangs now)

[royal relic]

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpixel.nymag.com%2Fimgs%2Fthecut%2Fslideshows%2F2015%2F10%2Fbest-bangs%2FGettyImages-159834199_master.nocrop.w455.h670.2x.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=7e1a379d7109156bcba5014f2cf2de38e6dcdc222dd509c777772f80c0856305&ipo=images

like this?

[fast marlin]

not quite

[stable comet]

I've been playing Disgaea 5 lately and was curious to look up the voice actress for one of the more fun reoccurring characters. And wow! She's been in everything! And is probably who I'll list as a second favorite voice actress if I ever need to 🙂
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0741398/

[vocal yoke]

man i sure do love post metal

[royal relic]

you guys wanna see something funny?

some funnies to start off the day
https://youtu.be/JlRynGN-14s?si=funZVs40hzFEKHiN

god im gonna miss those three old farts

[hollow locust]

See? British people CAN be cool!

Example: Me

[royal relic]

well i never questioned that

have you seen their homemade limousine challenge?

[hollow locust]

Not yet!

[royal relic]

dude it's the funniest thing i've ever seen

it's a shame that all the stuff on youtube is cut down

[fast marlin]

guys i highly recommend getting on a schedule of washing ur sheets bc once every two weeks i get to go to bed with clean sheets and clean hair and thats like 60% of joy anyway

[royal relic]

that sounds like something a washing machine salesman would say

[fast marlin]

clean sheets are made by big hygiene to sell more cleanliness

[tall owl]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/333162407826554882/1285167285794766870/IMG_1532.jpg?ex=66e948ce&is=66e7f74e&hm=de4271b1871f6f32192008dcc21a7e23a30c34b14260b21b241ab7c30e459fb5&

[fast marlin]

i hate that

its ok men naturally have perfect skin and hair half the time somehow

[fast marlin]

speaking of big corporations selling me things i caved and got led light strips

unfortunately theyre very nice and connect to my phone and have a full color range

[tall owl]

sorry to hear that!

[bronze lintel]

You won't see mine sheetless that's for sure!

[hollow locust]

That looks like a Gregg's steak bake

[tall owl]

Even better!

[royal relic]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

i got a chipped tooth and something cold got right on that chipped spot

right on it

god i wanna smash my teeth in with a hammer just to make it go away

[vocal yoke]

So I just realised The Salamanders in 40k are just space jamaicans

[hollow locust]

What do you mean Jack Black was already in Minecraft?

https://youtu.be/-IhSjrfSt7k?feature=shared

And Andrew WK was in it?!?

[magic citrus]

not sure i would be able to pay this water bill ☠️

[sharp grail]

damn how much is your water bill

[hollow locust]

Who is "Water Bill"?

[blissful charm]

in unit w/d privilege

which i am madly jealous of

i had it in my old apartment but this one doesn't and i didn't realize how spoiled i was before 😔

[unborn thicket]

Guess my username reference and you get a gold star

wait wrong server

My bad

[royal relic]

Oh Christ

Not again

[tall owl]

https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-gif-4911562037271756587

[bronze lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/good-afternoon-rollygifs-afternoon-blessed-afternoon-gif-8122701567068046464

[muted smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/good-night-doom-cacodemon-gif-283231185399225994

[tall owl]

H*ECK YEAH

[fast marlin]

aj???? Jackson????

my favorite lesbian cishet man alexander jackson jackson

[loud garden]

did y'all have your mooncakes?

[bronze lintel]

My aunt already sent a ton

So I'm good

[loud garden]

oo nice!

I gotta be careful eating these lol, such a calorie bomb

[bronze lintel]

I'm not often to be the one that finish them. Though more often than not they disappear whenever I want to eat them

[loud garden]

me too, I eat like small slices, but all these flavors man I gotta try all

[tall owl]

https://tenor.com/view/we-stay-hungry-devour-rock-gif-23748082

[ruby shard]

hi can someone help me rewrite this cause zerogpt says its 68% ai generated while the threshold is 15 thanks!

The Darfur Conflict hailed as the “Forgotten War,” began on July 21, 2001, when rebels in Sudan launched a revolt to protest against the government's neglect of the western region and its non-Arab population. Omar al-Bashir, the president at the time, responded by hiring the Janjaweed militias, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, or “Hemeti,” whom Bashir trusted deeply. In 2013, Bashir gave the Janjaweed official status as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), with Hemeti as its leader. After Bashir was overthrown by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Abdel Fattah al-Burhan took control of the SAF. Together with Hemeti, the two men seized control of Sudan. When pro-democracy protests erupted in Khartoum, Hemeti’s RSF brutally cracked down, killing over 100 people. The U.S., U.K., Ethiopia, and the African Union pressured Sudan into a power-sharing agreement, where military and civilian leaders would alternate control. However, Burhan and Hemeti were in charge of the transitional council, with Hemeti as vice chair. Tensions grew between Burhan and Hemeti, especially over the RSF's future integration into the army. Burhan wanted it done in two years, while Hemeti proposed a 10-year timeline. This disagreement led to the current conflict between the two men. Burhan’s forces, including the air force, have caused significant casualties, while Hemeti’s wealth allows him to finance a large ground force. Despite international pressure, ceasefires have been broken, and the conflict rages on, leaving the hopes for Sudan's democracy in ruins.

[hollow locust]

What

[royal relic]

[sharp grail]

i went grocery shopping in such a huge supermarket today it was almost scary

and i got a huge bag of dried banana chips... and theyre actually good

[tall owl]

carrefour my beloved

[royal relic]

kaufland is better

[royal relic]

god

days like this one remind me of my favourite line from l4d2

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired

and yeah i am

i got a week off but my steam deck isn't here yet so

[muted smelt]

a week off!

time to live it up

[vocal yoke]

bro i remember a video from poland in a Kaufland where a guy was hanging from those hanging neon lights near the cash registers and fell down as the neon lights craked and literally exploded in a loud way

[mild pelican]

i just realized.. none of Voices of the void servers im in have any Kerfur emotes

weird

[fast marlin]

my one thing is ill eat infinite dried strawberries

dried bananas are too sweet for me

[tall owl]

drying fruit is a cardinal food sin for me… it‘s like the soul left the fruit

[hollow locust]

I'll eat dried fruit!

Except raisins

[tall owl]

I don‘t like raisins but conversely, they might be my ‚favorite‘ dried fruit

[royal relic]

Not gonna do it without my steamed deck

[hollow locust]

Man I hope you get it soon!

[royal relic]

Two more days

Gonna play so much ace combat on that thing lmao

[long cairn]

Opinions on fruit leather?

[sharp grail]

loveeee fruit leather

[long cairn]

same, grew up on that stuff

[muted smelt]

makes the best shoes!

[tall owl]

Can‘t complain about its marketing, like why would I want to chew on leather

[hollow locust]

Fruit Leather?

Are they, fruit roll ups or something?

[fast marlin]

yeah

[vocal yoke]

you know whats a huge ass scam

charging full grain leather prices for vegan leather items

[fast marlin]

TRUE

you know whats a huge scam

charging full grain leather prices for vegan leather items

it’s just plastic you just made plastic

[vocal yoke]

i remember the times when vegan leather wasnt called that and it was just faux leather used on headphone sponges

[hot ether]

guys im casually time travelling

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1260610517643559006/1285994466150449213/image.png?ex=66ec4b2d&is=66eaf9ad&hm=a06c38b71d4e3af3499d8e0d43c19265841f5dafc1005a7ab755e5c2620e4c34&

no edits fr

[hollow locust]

So am I! To the future, only very slowly

[mild pelican]

i'll enter 19th in 2 hours

anything you'll want to know, so i can check?

[hollow locust]

Aaaah so where are you? OZ?

[vocal yoke]

https://torchlightgh.com/cdn/shop/files/https___trade.games-workshop.com_assets_2023_07_52170101001_SMInfernusPaintSet07_1024x.jpg?v=1689388740

so i just ordered this

[hollow locust]

Oh that's well tidy, bruv!

[mild pelican]

GMT+7, but.. i've made a mistake. i still live at GMT+3 and got it set as the system time

so.. im already in the future

[hollow locust]

Ooooooh!

Find out my winning lottery numbers

[hexed hollow]

https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2024-worldwide/

Full gender census 2024 results for any gender enjoyers

[limber walrus]

Sweet

[tranquil bay]

https://twitter.com/arcaneshow/status/1836942477703389513

Arcane (@arcaneshow) on X

@netflix For those counting down to the hour.

Here's when #Arcane Season 2 will be released around the world, only on @netflix.

Twitter · Sep 20, 2024, 1:36 AM

2am for me, pls. im gonna be doing some honk shoo 😭 forget staying up

[loud garden]

whaa season 2?

I ordered some gunpla, im excited

[bronze lintel]

ayyyy what kit?

[loud garden]

HG Barbatos and HG Calibarn

im so excited for the Calibarn

[bronze lintel]

Well it IS sick

barbatos motion range is so good.

[loud garden]

oo nice! good to hear, now im way more excited for these now

HG kits has come a long way, my first ever was Heavyarms custom, while cool it was pretty.. basic

[bronze lintel]

and from the looks of it, Calibarn doesn't have too much stickers

the bane of HG existence

[loud garden]

oh stickers, my least favorite part of building a kit

esp SD kits, the stickers are soo bad

[fast marlin]

hawaii not mentioned again…

[hexed hollow]

New zealand erasure smh

[tranquil bay]

[sharp grail]

hmmmmm made a mango and passion fruit smoothie and it was… not what I expected
Or maybe I should have expected it. More sour than sweet, and just a little… tasteless? Maybe I added too much water

but it wouldn’t blend otherwise!!!

it was too thick

regardless. I love fuit :)

[fast marlin]

my mom uses rice milk and that works for her

[sharp grail]

ye i think any liquid serves the purpose and i also kinda didnt want to add milk to those kinda fruits specifically. but i also dont have rice milk and its such a busy time to grocery shop rn i prefer to avoid it

as in, today this time of day

not something general

[fast marlin]

fair!

[muted smelt]

Fruit's probably not ripe enough. Also if you use water it will just taste like watered down fruit! Smoothie's tricky like that...
Restaurant ones taste good because they're loads of sugar

[vocal yoke]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1144669267141341214/1286631881269317652/20240920_120136.jpg?ex=66ee9cd0&is=66ed4b50&hm=e4b508a564ac1e74cd199314b5647a584b6075c9552899b0357ae06f23af1fc3&

[royal relic]

what am i looking at?

[vocal yoke]

stupid god damn british plastic thats what

its my first time assembling warhammer minis

[hollow locust]

Oh no it's snapped! That's not good

[bronze lintel]

Glue to the rescue!

[vocal yoke]

yeah i totally should do that

but only now i realised how small these minis are

[muted smelt]

dont worry in warhammer that much injury is to be expected

[sharp grail]

It was frozen, so probably fine

[vocal yoke]

i also cut my middle finger slightly with my precision knife

cuz i forgot to get clippers

[bronze lintel]

on the bright side, you precisely know what you did wrong

[tranquil bay]

finding out this guy was at yahoo previously explains a lot actually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabhakar_Raghavan#Criticism

[blissful charm]

becoming the "face of declining quality" is a pretty bad title to have

[tranquil bay]

what the consumer thinks doesn't matter as long as line go up 😌

[faint panther]

Hello!

[hollow locust]

Goodnight!

[faint panther]

I would like my life to have a greater purpose than just staying alive at all costs.

It's sad and boring, i can't just stand the indeference of the world

Serve to someone greater that gives me a purpose, like friend

He gives purpose to other in exchange of eternal loyalty

i want that

If i cant have it, then there is no meaning to live

And its better i just leave this world

[mild pelican]

there is actually a benefit in not having a purpose - the ability to choose a purpose for yourself

some say the purpose is in serving the God or something like that, it's also an option

but if our purposes aren't given upon birth on a paper attached to the forehead, it doesn't mean there isn't one

maybe we didn't discover it yet

as a humanity, as living beings

maybe it has to be found out, by travelling, by speaking, by studying the world and yourself

maybe it works not only for persons, but for the life itself

maybe the quantum condition of the universe is unstable, and it needs a sentient observer

maybe somebody has to find a way to stop the entropy, to turn time back

seems like worth living enough to me

or maybe it's better to never know

what if the purpose is to never eat sweets and don't sleep untill 11 pm

i'd just be disappointed

[fast marlin]

i do one of these!

[fast marlin]

also gentle reminder this is not the server for this and pls seek professional help if ur feeling like this

youre not alone in those feelings

[faint panther]

Sorry, i wrote this during a rant

I like to write my rants to others to seek advice

[fast marlin]

went to homecoming they played hot to go so it was good

[hollow locust]

Is Homecoming like, prom?

Or is it something different in the UK?

I don't know I never went! 😭

[faint panther]

Homecoming was like, fall prom.

[faint panther]

nice pfp you have

[hollow locust]

Sooo basically like, what we would call, a school disco?

[faint panther]

Thanks, one of the moderators here made it.

[faint panther]

Yes, actually. Homecoming has more explicit ties to athletic programs at a given school, but there is a prom/dance event.

[hexed hollow]

Was it Kam? It seems like something she would make

[faint panther]

Yup.

[hollow locust]

Aaah fair enough!

This was probably something I could have easily researched on Google, apologies for messing you about! 😅

[faint panther]

All good, I wouldn't have answered if it were a problem.

[hollow locust]

Well those days are over for me, I think!

Just staff parties now, or as we call them Staff "go to the pub and get arsed" events

[vocal yoke]

painting warhammer minis + divorced dad rock + snus

life good

[sharp grail]

please don’t bypass the swear filter

[hot ether]

is there a swear filter i always filter my swears usually lol

sorry bout that

[sharp grail]

Also I ask to keep in mind that this heavy talk about mental health may be a triggering topic all around for people, so please be conscious of that. and since this is not a server focused on this kind of topic, it’s better to talk to a friend or someone who is close to you if possible when you feel this negative. Or somewhere that has more space for these topics

And yeah, messages containing swear words are automatically deleted. Please don’t censor them and better yet don’t use them

[hexed hollow]

@inland peak please refrain from bypassing the language filter as previously mentioned by AD

[inland peak]

brother you can NOT look me dead in the eye and tell me that 'penis' is a swear word

evidenced by the fact that I just wrote it plainly and the swear filter did not remove it

[hexed hollow]

I never said it was

[inland peak]

so not much of a bypass then either

[hexed hollow]

I asked you to not bypass the language filter, nothing to do with it being a swear. It's just colloquially called a 'swear filter' even though not all words on it are expressly swears

I'm about to go sleep, so if the language filter is still an issue for you, you can open a ticket with modmail as I won't see anything you post here till morning. Have a good timezone

[inland peak]

broski I get that it's ur job but I specifically did not do that thing you're talking about

[hexed hollow]

Would you like me to pull out the chat log?

[inland peak]

if you're willing to sacrifice 5mins off both of our lives then absolutely

[hexed hollow]

Please do not attempt to gaslight me with objectively false allegations

[inland peak]

okay I believe whatever you are doing you're doing in good faith so I'll go for one more

perhaps it'll save you some future deliberations in your mod career or some such

[hexed hollow]

Have a good timezone

[inland peak]

bypassing the language fiter constitutes changing the ascii symbols of a word such that the filter does not detect it but the word remains intelligible as the banned one

the word I chose to pick in that fateful message was 'penis' which is, as you may infer from this very message containing it not being deleted, NOT banned by the language filter

so however I chose to deface that word for a whimsical little 10iq joke of mine (e.g. P3И1S) would not constitute a bypass of a lnaguage filter since THE PLAIN VERSION OF THE WORD PENIS IS PERFECTLY LEGAL TOO

i do hope this sheds some light on things for you and have a great nap

[ionic viper]

regardless of whether or not the word is on the language filter to begin with, the original statement of "don't try and bypass the filter" stands

[inland peak]

never even thought to argue with that one, mate

[ionic viper]

i'm asking that the topic of conversation change to something else at this point as i think we're going in circles

[inland peak]

did you know that an anteater can eat as much as 10kg of ants in a single day?

[ionic viper]

dang that's a lot of ants

[mild pelican]

honestly, i always thought it's a maximum number or something, because, honestly, it's hard for me to imagine 10 kg of ants to begin with

i don't even think a colony can produce so much in a day

[ionic viper]

right? like, ants are pretty small and light, that's got to be like....... an entire colony and then some?

[mild pelican]

aslo, it's interesting how did they count it

[ionic viper]

but dang. hungry hungry anteaters i guess

[inland peak]

ok that was a complete and utter lie they do not really even eat ants they eat termites the whole thing is misnomer sorry bro had to think on my feet

[mild pelican]

i just imagine them bringing more and more to a captured anteater, untill it was like "nah, im full, thanks"

[hexed hollow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlNSDPj2T64 reminded me of this gem

[inland peak]

i do have a pet colony of ants at home though they are veritably cool dudes

[mild pelican]

termites are more believeable, they are thick

and their colonies are huge

[inland peak]

some termite colonies (i swear to god not a meme this time) are over 30000yrs old

imagine carving out a 10x10m piece of land for your family, isolating from the world completely and spending EONS there

humanity could - hell, all mammals - hell, all vertebrates could disappear tomorrow and the little primeval dudes would not even notice or care

lovecraftian stuff imo

[mild pelican]

tbh, 10 by 10 m is pretty big area if you're a tiny bug

it's for us bipeds its barely two rooms

[hollow locust]

I like those videos of people putting liquid metal down an empty anthill and digging it up

Looks cool!

[sharp grail]

what is this that I woke up to

I got another mysterious phone call from a number I don’t recognize which woke me up

[mild pelican]

spam probably

or some phone fraud

another one of those "your credit card data has been compromised, please send all your life savings to a safe account and never hear from us again"

they like to call at the least convenient time when brain of a normal human doesn't function properly

[sharp grail]

It was a weird number

See, now I went back to sleep and got woken up by my cat knocking over a small bin

[hollow locust]

Finally finished work! Now to chill with a nice cool lager.

Also put one over for my colleagues at work, cos it's my dad's birthday today. Gonna light a candle for him later 😊

[gentle jungle]

Is someone here a pc nerd? Im factory resetting my pc rn and I’ve shut it down cause it was stuck at 53% and it’s only a black screen rn. I’ll leave it on overnight . Should I be worried?

[fast marlin]

it depends theres a lot that can be going on there

i thinnkkkk @hexed hollow was into pc’s? Not sure on that one

theres def people here though this server helped me build my first pc

[hexed hollow]

hi ^-^
I am a lil busy rn, but can see what I can do later today ^-^

[swift valley]

I just saw a new tier of terminal onlineness

someone got so butthurt that I blocked them on reddit that they busted out a 9 year old alt that had no activity history to keep replying to me

[sharp grail]

You can block people on Reddit?

How I feel not being on any social media

[fast marlin]

ill block anyone on anything

[faint panther]

It's easy, you just hold back.

And sometimes back and down if it's a low attack.

So I was doomscrolling and I found a particularly meta post with a bunch of excellent one-liners ("You cannot kill me in a way that matters" unfortunately was not on the list) that says "All of these are from poopposts, regrettably not from literary classics," and I think that's the wrong way of looking at it.

It's the 21st century, video games are the newest medium of art and the internet is the newest place for writers to go off.

[zenith olive]

i blocked a guy on spotify once

[gentle jungle]

Alright I left it on overnight and reset it this morning and it was always still on blackscreen

Did I break something in my pc?

I’ve read online that I need an outside source to kickstart the os reinstall

Does that mean like a usb drive with windows in it?

[snow jungle]

hey ik the "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" post
it's about mushrooms

[tranquil bay]

from tumblr even!

unfortunately the post breaks our server rules so I can't post it but yeah it's a tumblr post about mushrooms lmao it's a beloved site relic

[bronze lintel]

There are a lot of september memes in my YT feed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7EAVK3bAGg

but I unironically enjoy this one

[mild pelican]

hehe

same thing happened with 3rd september meme in russia..

about flipping the calendar

[bronze lintel]

https://youtu.be/8fb5EOCSW38?si=HeZgpDGuKp3xaGtq

This is hilarious tho

[fast marlin]

this is very good

guys i just had a relevation

the guys who made all these videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPwG6L73-VU&list=PLhT8ACQdPzpwkpvnvvPf6jCfWxEPmn-Kk is the same guy from the dropout stuff i watch

and also the good place

[weary siren]

I

O

[fast marlin]

bro im too young for back pain

it came for me too soon

[vocal yoke]

need...protein....powder...

[royal relic]

https://tenor.com/view/proteyn-aggretsuko-sanrio-protein-musclehead-gif-11795614

[loud garden]

my gunpla has arrived!

[sharp grail]

What the hell I just realized the adventure zone started a decade ago

That’s nuts

[hollow locust]

We got three bookings at work today, all for this evening and one of them is myself 😆

[river ice]

what is real?

[royal relic]

Death, taxes and sony making dumb decisions

[royal relic]

That…
Sounded better in my head

Im tired…

[tall owl]

Good morning

[royal relic]

Guten Tag

[royal relic]

folks
may i present you...

the best spotify playlist ever made

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/361885089824505858/1288162074584682678/aQz3A7e_460svh265.mp4?ex=66f42deb&is=66f2dc6b&hm=8f582f0f2e86b543adfff123009bba9ac4d3033d4c1bdedfb0e645bd1d614be4&

[hollow locust]

Ssh Bim!

GBBO is on!

[royal relic]

gbb who?

[hollow locust]

Great British Bake Off!

[royal relic]

so i was close

i was thinking of the Great British Bim Off

[hollow locust]

Close enough!

[royal relic]

yeah not really

im kind of...
how should i put this...

culinary challenged

iunno - every time i try to cook anything more advanced than just... pasta
it feels like i should have four arms, two heads and around 27 pots and pans

[mild pelican]

that's exactly how it's shown in all those culinary shows

[royal relic]

im not even watching those

the only cooking show i like is may's "Oh cook"

cause he's just as hopeless there as me

[mild pelican]

four arms, two heads, two aprons with logos and full shelves of pots and pans, provided by our great sponsors

[royal relic]

"and here's one we made earlier!"

btw

have you seen James May cooking literal AI slop?

they gave chatgpt a bunch of random stuff and told it to make a recipe for anything with that

and it came up with... something
and they did it - followed the instructions and what not

and what came out the other end was literally
a bowl of slop

made by AI

amazing

[mild pelican]

ooh

im subbed on a channel in telegram, where they from time to time publish recipes made by AI

they not even include inedible things, but also some rituals and actions to make a dish possible

and then they feed the recipe to another AI to create an image of the complete dish

[royal relic]

"rutials" and "AI" are words that i do not want to see together in the same sentence

i've seen some sc-fi

i played system shock

miss me with that

[mild pelican]

looks pretty chtonic

[royal relic]

this reminds me of mythical kitchen on youtube

ever heard of them?

[vocal yoke]

should i unironically begin collecting the Horus Heresy books

it's a mere 53 book series

[royal relic]

EXCUSE ME
we're talking AI slop here, son

[mild pelican]

honestly, its not that different as you think

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1086865501214482462/1288229172711391302/image.png?ex=66f46c68&is=66f31ae8&hm=7bc8079e53bf9e501bbf130b3064a342e45a7d82bfe12f7094d061c2aa6f9c77&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=550&height=314

[royal relic]

wot

what is that

[mild pelican]

this is called Borsch of deception

hold on, i have to translate

[royal relic]

this is supposed to be barszcz?

there's like...

but it's a...

it...

ah

im speechless

[hollow locust]

I met James May

Well, I served him a pint

And I've been to Richard Hammond's house and looked inside his fridge

And met his dog

[royal relic]

really?

[hollow locust]

Oh and swam in his pool

[royal relic]

does he know about that?

[hollow locust]

Yeah once GBBO is over, I'll explain it all!

[hollow locust]

Probably not 😂

[mild pelican]

Remove grpe pulpie from the seeds, roast down on a pan until golden brown. Peel and fluff down onion into hot water, so he will reject his evil plans. Add there salt and peppers to taste, to enhance the feeling of endless possibilities. Fry some whipped dairy butter with medium heat, untill it'll become edible. Heat milk with wormwoodness untill it boils, then cool it in the fridge - it's a broth. Decorated with butter and sour creamie over the tops and decorative.

[royal relic]

oh
oop

volus lost it

the AI overlords took over

rip

[mild pelican]

it just took time to translate

well, it's an example

[royal relic]

THIS is translated?

[mild pelican]

yeah

[royal relic]

yeah i think you forgot to click "transalte to human"

[mild pelican]

probably i could feed it to another AI, but nah

[hollow locust]

So @royal relic STORY TIME!

Years ago, my dad's friend used to be a gardener for where Hammond lives', well, he was a gardener for the previous tenants of the house and I would usually get to go over there and swim in the pool that they had.

So kinda of a stretch that I swam in his pool, but rather the previous owners.

After Hammond moved in, he was still the gardener there and my dad would still take me over while he helped with his friend. So I thought "Oh I'll go in his house and see if he's there!" like the dumbarse I am, so I did and nobody was in so I thought least I can do is look inside his fridge, so I did.

As for meeting his dog, she was very lovely. TG she was called! TG meaning Top Gear of course.

Now that's about me swimming in Hammond's pool, meeting his dog and looking in his fridge.

[royal relic]

that fluffy white dog?

[hollow locust]

Yeah!

[royal relic]

such a good dög

[hollow locust]

Yeah she was very friendly!

[royal relic]

they actually call me hammond at work

this was my nickname back at uni
then it kinda went away - thankfully

but now they picked up on it again and it stayed lol

[hollow locust]

Now wanna know how I served James May a pint?

[royal relic]

go on

although you're kinda pushing it cause at this point i don't think im gonna believe it

next thing you're gonna tell me is that you're the stig or something lmao

[hollow locust]

No no this is 100% true! Haha I'm not the Stig, I don't even drive 😅

So this is YEARS later and Hammond still lives in the same place, I just so happen to work at the hotel near his house

(A bit of background here, his house happens to be in a village outside my hometown)

So naturally, he comes to the hotel sometimes. I don't know, I wasn't there long. Covid hit and the place shut down. ANYWAY

Turns out all three of them are having a get together with family and friends at the hotel. "Cool" I thought, maybe I can meet all of them!

I was working in one of the bars serving drinks and James May comes in to meet some friends who are already there and he asked me to serve him a drink and I was like "Yeah sure!" so I did. He was like, two feet away from me?

Now, I didn't see Hammond OR Clarkson that evening cos I had to finish but my colleague at the time said he saw Clarkson.

But yeah that's how I served James May a drink!

[royal relic]

yeah you didn't see hammond cause he couldn't reach over the counter

he was there

[hollow locust]

Naturally I didn't converse with May or ask for an autograph because he was mingling with friends and I had to serve drinks, naturally!

[vocal yoke]

state of copium in 1 hour

[royal relic]

the absolute state of play?

i might tune in to see them announcing the freakin
horizon remake or whatever they're cooking

or more like re-heating
in a microwave

[vocal yoke]

mmmmm....

slop...

[hollow locust]

Ah it's at 11pm you say?

[royal relic]

man
wtf happened to sony?

[hollow locust]

What happened TO ALL PLATFORMS?

[royal relic]

i was playing some bl3 with a friend today and we talked about it

[hollow locust]

Well, Nintendo is okay I guess

[royal relic]

and this...
decade-long string of failuers and bad decissions really does feel like self-sabotage

[hollow locust]

I think

[royal relic]

like someone's trying to bring their value down only to then sell it to someone ealse for cheap

[hollow locust]

They saw how Microsoft was falling off and they thought "We're the market leader, we can do anything we want!"

[royal relic]

is it really?

[hollow locust]

I mean they got games coming out that I wanna play

[royal relic]

with their constantly outdated hardware and online subscriptions and massively anti-consumer practises and milking nostalgia and like three mario games a year and so on and so forth

nintendo is the disney of videogame industry

[hollow locust]

Nah I'd say that's Microsoft

Buying up everything

[royal relic]

honestly - i'm not the biggest fan of microsoft, but they've been treating their newly bought studios rather well

bethesta is doing their own thing (sadly)
id software is doing great

[hollow locust]

To be fair, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are all guilty of milking their franchises

[royal relic]

oh nintendo is the worst at this

hands down

[hollow locust]

Well

[royal relic]

it's like they have an allergy to new IPs

just one more mario, bro!

[hollow locust]

I think we should be having this in #video-games !

[royal relic]

i think we shouldn't be having this convo at all

[hollow locust]

Even better!

[royal relic]

im tired, three beers deep and i'm about to activate

[hollow locust]

Let's go back to famous people we've met

[royal relic]

nah im going to bed

[hollow locust]

So I've met like, maybe two or three actors fr-

Aw okay

[royal relic]

and i've been to some videogame levels irl

mostly from the witcher, painkiller and some others

[hollow locust]

Who will I talk to? 😩 Discord is the only thing I'm NOT banned from!

[royal relic]

https://tenor.com/view/bart-simpson-simpsons-gif-21258017

[hollow locust]

Go to bed, you!

[fast marlin]

bought a real record player finally

in other unrelated money spent on music news

might get a ticket to go see saint motel live in the spring

i would have to fly there lol

[royal relic]

oh man i'd love to listen to the downward spiral on an actual vinyl

something about this super distorted digital sound being played on the most analogue format out there seems appealing to me

though keep in mind that most of the album sounds like this:
https://youtu.be/MwfID7ne5hM?list=PLlqCTAn5ppFJDqx0RhOoR16uCs6hXsW_F&t=221

mmmmmmm

oh really?
can't play this embeded?

[tranquil bay]

yeah umg always blocks embeds lol no fun allowed

[bronze lintel]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/204208590339178497/1288010175919427685/20240924_123151.jpg?ex=66f44934&is=66f2f7b4&hm=86f20d4f96324fae978f14d4afe90f1994d4c889de1ee61c45135e47efa71916&

The customers will never suspect to listen to cat synths

MUAHAHAHAHAHA

[loud garden]

Sneaky

[muted smelt]

Oh gods. Synthetic cats.

[sharp grail]

i broke my streak of days of procrastinating and did my laundry. please clap

well, one load out of probably three

now i wait for it to finish so i can do the rest

[fast marlin]

niceeee

also chat i took a nap and somehow im more tired

[sharp grail]

i understand that so much

[fast marlin]

its not my fault my playlist only played the sad tired songs and my room was dark it was fate i had to

[sharp grail]

sometimes i end up sleeping the whole day because i take one nap and then im too tired to get up for the rest of the day

absolutely shattered

[fast marlin]

yea

i took like an hour nap and then remembered i need to eat dinner

[sharp grail]

yesterdays state of play was pretty late for me but i got confused and set my little nap timer for 3 hours when i could have slept for 5. thats basically a full nights sleep for me so maybe its good that i didnt LOL

not that i slept these full 3 hours, because my cat was stomping all over me

the moment i lay down he wants to sleep on me but he has very sharp claws and it hurtsss

[fast marlin]

nooooo

[stable comet]

Not me considering buying a 2nd laundry basket...

"ok the basket is full, I have to do laundry now... Unless I get a 2nd basket..."

[mild pelican]

not possible when your amount of laundry fits in one

and not even full

[sharp grail]

lol

i dont want to put off laundry even more

[fast marlin]

wtf today i learned Kieran Culkin of scott pilgrim fame (and succession lol) is related to Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin

[sharp grail]

i need to keep watching succession but its like intense second hand embarrassment

[fast marlin]

i havent started it but ive heard its good

[faint panther]

I'll watch shows about terrible people, but I can't watch shows about capitalists anymore.

The Last of Us? Go off, Joel, ||shoot that doctor.||

[fast marlin]

thats a take go on

last of us is great because i love ashley johnson

[faint panther]

Succession, or Billions? No. Those people actively make my life a living hell every day, that is not escapism.

[fast marlin]

i know shes not in the show

but still

[faint panther]

I very much enjoyed both the game and what I've seen in the TV show.

She is, actually!

She plays Ellie's mother in an original-ish plot that explains how Ellie got her immunity.

[fast marlin]

oh sickk

[faint panther]

My dad's rewatched Dallas like 3 times in the last 5 years, the last few times I've gone over it's been playing.

I don't know, I'm eternally Disappointed by the Motive.

Homelander tortured as a child for inhumane scientific research? He's still very much the villain of The Boys but now I especially want to see Vought toppled.

JR breaking up his brother's marriage for a business opportunity? I'm just going to turn the television set off.

[sharp grail]

laundry pt.2 is happening

every time im surprised by the fact that if i just get over myself and do it, its so simple for me

[hollow locust]

Yeah it's not so bad!

[river ice]

what if i ate the rune of death

[hollow locust]

You'll get runestones

[muted smelt]

Youll have a bad case of....the runes

[hollow locust]

Heeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyy! 👉 👉

[tranquil bay]

@vale plank ILLUSEN ICON POG!!!! was skimming channels and saw u and got reminded to finish my dailies

[gleaming silo]

https://tenor.com/view/yippee-gif-12598976956267201998

Hey guys I don't know how to be social. Yipee

[sharp grail]

hey :)

It’s hard but you can ask questions and stuff

How was your day/morning/evening/timezone?

[faint panther]

today I learned that the reason the percy jackson TV show is so good is because rick riordan himself (and his wife) are the executive producers of it

I wonder if there's a way to support shows directly rather than pay for services(disney+) that let you access the shows

bc I want to make sure riordan can bring all 5 books to the big(ish) screen

[gleaming silo]

My time zone is morning, I'm listening to my moon playlist to start my day

[hollow locust]

I liked the Lightening Thief film! 😫

[gleaming silo]

Couldn't be me... but respect.

[hollow locust]

Aaah are you from England as well?

Well I say England, I'm in Wales

[gleaming silo]

Naw NYC

You a brit bruv?

[hollow locust]

Aaaah so VERY early morning then! Like 6ish?

I am a Brit, bruv! A Brit in Wales 😆

[gleaming silo]

Nice my mum is Welsh...

[faint panther]

I like both honestly

The thing is the percy jackson movies aren't like... completely bad, they were just created for a different audience than the books (9-12 year olds for the books and teens for the movie)

so as long as you aren't comparing them to the books, the movies are pretty alright by themselves

[hollow locust]

Ooh I don't think I've seen the second one

But you are right!

I am not a book reader, I'll be honest. Comic books maybe! So that's probably why I liked the film

Me dumb. Me no like books with just words

Actually I am lying, I love books with words in. Just, random facts and useless knowledge books.

[gleaming silo]

Real af

[hollow locust]

Like for example, Ice Hockey was actually created in England. But it was Canada that popularized the sport

[gleaming silo]

I read the books back in the day, they were ehh okay for me. tbh

[hollow locust]

The books I read back in the day were Paul Jennings books, like Unreal! or Uncanny!

Later adapted into episodes for the TV series "Round the Twist"

Which had the BEST theme song ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPxJ6RR40ZU

[gleaming silo]

Debatable....

[hollow locust]

Alright toughy! Show me your best TV theme song!

[gleaming silo]

Bet.

https://open.spotify.com/track/04vHPXVGnb51q13NBoW22W?si=1e8d3edad49a4f38

https://tenor.com/view/moon-knight-khonshu-moving-rotating-gif-25417783

Enjoy the vibes.

[hollow locust]

I like it!

I've been on a "The Cult" binge recently

[gleaming silo]

Slay

[hollow locust]

https://open.spotify.com/track/0Zozvz5376177QuyO0FQS4?si=49fe423807974ecf

[gleaming silo]

Oooo... I like

[hollow locust]

Yes released in '85 on their album, "Electric". Although that's a sample of the Peace Remix version, which I do prefer! But the original is a banger too

[gleaming silo]

I love it tbh

[hollow locust]

If I had a car, I would name it that EXACT song name 😆

[gleaming silo]

Nice

I want a truck or a motor bike yk?

[hollow locust]

Oooh nice!

Get a bike!

[gleaming silo]

https://tenor.com/view/the-road-to-el-dorado-both-both-is-good-gif-8304204

Hmm... yes

Honda trunk... pls

All black, bc yes

With a white or dark blue thunder bird, that's the dream/goal

[sharp grail]

Controversial take but I also liked the Percy Jackson movies. They’re alright, just bad adaptations

I was a huge pjo fan when they came out and saw them in theatres, I actually won a ticket for the first showing of the second movie in a fan contest

It was probably worse than the first one, according to my extremely foggy memory of over a decade ago

[gleaming silo]

Respect, personally i feel differently about that piece of media but i get where you're coming from.

[sharp grail]

I still need to keep watching the show but because I’m an adult now it feels a liiiiittle weird engaging with media that has such a young cast. Like, I am not the target audience anymore LOL

I think I watched an episode or two with my younger sister but it’s still very nostalgic

[gleaming silo]

I recommend LO on webtoons if you haven't already tried it.

Or Punder World is also really good

These are Greek lore inspired graphic comics/novels btw.

[sharp grail]

I hate lore olympus 😬

[gleaming silo]

Real

I honestly just enjoy the feminist plot and the colors, thats it tbh

[sharp grail]

I disagree with both of these assessments of it, but to each their own

Well I do like the colors

But I hated what I read of it

[gleaming silo]

Sooo fair, although it did help me through some hard times (so it holds a special place in my heart.) I also understand, not everything in that piece of media is good. let alone appropriate to even talk about...

[sharp grail]

I can understand that, I also have some bad games that got me to good places

Playing it really brought me and my friends closer and I met new people

[gleaming silo]

It's nice to meet you btw, I've enjoyed chatting with ya

[tranquil bay]

the only thing i liked about LO was some panels of ares being a gremlin but otherwise it was entirely frustrating to engage with and I don't think the story the author wanted to tell needed the mythos backdrop

there was actually an interesting vid i saw some months back about the wave of retellings of greek mythology we've been seeing lately

[sharp grail]

That sounds like an interesting watch if you find it again

[tranquil bay]

this one I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tL3Pbc_zhU

[sharp grail]

Even though I’m not one for yt essays, I trust u 🙇

[tranquil bay]

it's in my resources on my media server so I think it was this one I watched lol

[gleaming silo]

Will watch during my next break...

[tranquil bay]

oh she made a follow up vid will have to look later

[gleaming silo]

Noice

So on a brighter note...

[tranquil bay]

the gist is basically discussing if recentering myths around women (in all of the recent feminist retelling stories) actually changes how we understand the myths

[gleaming silo]

I'm planning on a Greek tattoo

[tranquil bay]

oh?

[gleaming silo]

Oooo very nice

yeah I'm getting either a back tattoo or one on my sternum

between a gorgon head, or a hydrae yk?

[tranquil bay]

ohh depending on the designs id go hydra but im biased and like dragon-adjacent things

[sharp grail]

I’m so scared of getting a tattoo even tho I’ve wanted a transistor tattoo for nearly a decade

So permanent…

[gleaming silo]

I can send a ref of the sketches i made

[gleaming silo]

Lol that's the point?

[tranquil bay]

i prob won't ever do tattoos but i do have a cool ares pin from this collection :3c https://shop.windywallflower.com/23/product/greek-myth-pins-the-olympian-collection/

[gleaming silo]

OOOH

SO COOL

Echoes into the grave.

Brb...

[sharp grail]

Waiting for the bus and it’s soooo hot outside

Agonies

But at least I decided not to walk…

[gleaming silo]

Do you have a water?

[sharp grail]

over 30 degrees celsius 😃

[gleaming silo]

Water??

[sharp grail]

nah but I can drink once I get home
It’s not a long ride

[gleaming silo]

Guh...

get water... pls

[sharp grail]

It’s ok it won’t make it less warm LOL

[gleaming silo]

Hm...

Fine.

[sharp grail]

The bus app is kind of pissing me off with the amount of full screen ads
I need to know where to go without paying for “premium”, dummy

[gleaming silo]

Ew, we hate ads

[sharp grail]

Yep!

It’s ok I’m on the bus now so I’ll be home soon

[bronze lintel]

It's raining, it's chilly, I have a milk tea ready, but burnt my tongue with mala already

[sharp grail]

other than burning your tongue, that sounds rlly nice

also i got home! waterrrr

[gleaming silo]

Aqua de Vida

[split crow]

Is it at least functional? Mine's become even worse than the service itself

And that's a low bar considering last week I waited an extra hour and a half for my bus

[sharp grail]

its functional. theres just an ad every 5 seconds. pleaaase im just trying to check my routes

[split crow]

at least it works

Mine is currently telling me the next bus is delayed an hour, the bus after will be on time, the only bus on the tracker is apparently stationary, sideways, in the middle of a motorway,

Yesterday the bus on the tracker appeared to be on its way and then it vanished into thin air, and the bus never showed up

The worst part? It's always packed at this time and they choose to only run tiny, crowded, single-deckers

sorry I'm waiting for a bus rn and needed to get it out my system

[sharp grail]

aw man

i have never seen a double decker bus outside of the UK

i didnt even take the bus once
it was just passing by and i was marvelling at it LOLL

buses i think

sounds like its horrible to drive

[hollow locust]

Yeah they are!

They get so much stick too, it's unbelievable

[tall owl]

Good morning. I emerge from my exam cave and have no idea what to do with all that free time now

[split crow]

yeah (UK)

[muted smelt]

finally we can get tidb to play games

or ac6

[fast marlin]

oh this is fascinating

also chat driving is so hard

curb shouldnt have been there

[muted smelt]

true

if things werent so car centric we wouldnt have all these curbs

[tall owl]

we wouldn't need curbs if these pesky pedestrians didn't exist

[fast marlin]

trueee

[muted smelt]

woah...why didnt i think of that

[fast marlin]

walking???? in MY path??

[mild pelican]

I've seen a double decker! and actually took a ride several times

i've never been in UK, but here in my country there's a habit to buy old decommissioned buses from EU for minimal cost

and in around.. 2003-2007 there were two-decker Man buses in the southern siberia

boy, it's scary to ride on the second floor

our drivers weren't used to them and sometimes took turns a bit steeper or quicker than they should

and the whole bus was like, \\

then they vanished

even longer ones are rare now.. everything tends to come down to tiny mercedes vans instead

not cool

[mild pelican]

Neoplan Jumbocruiser

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1086865501214482462/1288944297906798602/derbus-titanic-sized-articulated-bus-is-the-worlds-biggest-and-most-luxurious-motorhome_6.jpg?ex=66f7066c&is=66f5b4ec&hm=2c7b08aa8613003ed1ba981c02748c4cf1e567e5fce309c23bf8c9c16fa68a04&=&format=webp&width=466&height=350

what a shame it's so limited

[hollow locust]

America has double deckertrains!

Well the one I went on did

[sharp dew]

Wonder if Ghost ship and Supergiant would ever collab

[hollow locust]

The IPA?

[sharp dew]

Just randomly came into my head

[hollow locust]

If Supergiant made an ale, I'd drink it!

[sharp dew]

Shoot now you got me thinking of ghostship making a ale for the dwarves

Best I can think of lord hades as the mission control and mission control as hades himself

Using the first game as reference considering 2 is still being forged in the fires

Also got me thinking about how silly it would be but fitting to have Bardin Goreskon from Warhammer Vermintide as a guest character in Deep Rock

[faint panther]

Speaking of Supergiant-themed food, I've been thinking of a potential Sea Monster flatbread (I'm just going to make a pizza) but I cannot for the life of me think of a decent seafood that won't get ruined cooking in a pizza oven.

[limber walrus]

Could add it on towards the end of the baking

Or do something like grill the seafood and then just add it on top

[faint panther]

That's what I'm thinking.

I've had coworkers put fried chicken on buffalo chicken pizzas before towards the end of the cook and that is an option.

I could cheat and just use bonito flakes in a garnish.

Hello

Hpw are yu?

[muted smelt]

Put whole lobster on pizza

[bronze lintel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN6sy42sI1c

I wouldn't call this a lobster pizza

more of Lobster on a flat bread

[muted smelt]

[sharp dew]

An ENTIRE lobster??

[sharp grail]

i was not prepared for the live lobster butchering in the beginning

yuck

had to skip half the video

[bronze lintel]

Sorry on my part, I wanted to warn that but I forgor

[sharp grail]

well, heres the warning for the rest LOL

[muted smelt]

I thought you enjoyed dungeon meshi

[sharp grail]

I do but it’s also a fantasy show

[fast bolt]

I want to get off MR BONES WILD RIDE.

[vocal yoke]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1150015572852101170/1289315886364229642/HHSeriesOrder.jpg?ex=66f8607d&is=66f70efd&hm=46691d3a18ef358ef04962596cd7f9cfe5fa21000a5da4fbaf097fe53ac4241f&

man i should get into the horus heresy!

[gleaming silo]

Ooo very nice

[hollow locust]

And to be fair, I want to eat most of the food on that show

[faint panther]

Im hungry

give me ideas about what should i cook

[sharp grail]

rice.

[hollow locust]

A Peperami

[faint panther]

nah, i dont like eggs in rice

but rice is good

i may try uhhh

tailandese rice?

[cold jolt]

sorry to jump in with random stuff but I gotta share this.....

so I found this

aaah can't send pics here, right?

😦 nvm then, sorry

[sharp grail]

you can send links to images and they will embed

[cold jolt]

I posted on fanworks but I'll upload it to imgur as well, thks

[river ice]

https://tenor.com/view/boykiseer-blink-blinking-eye-blinking-head-empty-gif-5694165117406086182

[subtle willow]

hello!

[hollow locust]

Good evening, mate!

[hexed hollow]

hi @jolly blade this kind of (now deleted) content is more suited for #self-promotion.

[jolly blade]

okay, thank you for notifying. Sorry for posting it here

[inland peak]

what is that brother

[vocal yoke]

the entire horus heresy timeline in warhammer 40k

and its merely the horus heresy exclusively before the siege of terra

[inland peak]

i've wanted to get into wh40k a couple of times but the sheer amout of lore is just deafening lmao

you understand this chart alone is something a whole ass separate ip would usually merit, yeah?

[vocal yoke]

well yeah the horus heresy is technically just warhammer 30k at this point

you're so wrong bro

most warhammer games are pure shovelware

rarely there's any good warhammer games

space marine was like one of the few good ones

So the only 40k games worth playing are

Dawn of War and Dawn of War 2, Space Marine 1 and 2, Mechanicus, Rogue Trader, Darktide, Battlefleet Gothic Armada 1 and 2, Space Hulk games, Boltgun, Armageddon

the rest is kinda bad

I mean Gladius is alright but Im not a fan of 4X

this is in the span of 2 decades

and if you dont like turn based games

then its even worse

but i grew to love them

dawn of war is epic rts action

mechanicus is xcom but without the bs hit chances, and about technofile mars cult disturbing tombs of long slumbering aliens

darktide is like vermintide but in 40k but it plays like l4d2

boltgun is gonna be a good one for you, it's basically a boomer shooter and you play as a space marine

enjoy

[hollow locust]

So what genre is Space Marine 2?

[snow jungle]

game

[tall owl]

video, even

[vocal yoke]

just a hack and slash

[hollow locust]

Oooh okay

[inland peak]

if i ever do get around to it, where would you advise a compelte rando to begin?

not the horse hearsay or whatever specifically, wh40k in general

[muted smelt]

you start with boltgun

[vocal yoke]

youtube videos

and the wiki

it makes you appreciate the setting more

[hollow locust]

The figurines

[vocal yoke]

https://youtu.be/Gbbp52l12nE

very good video btw

[hollow locust]

Did they actually start out as figurines?

[vocal yoke]

yeah

[hollow locust]

Aaah okay

[vocal yoke]

and i have some and suck at painting them

i got shaky ass hands and bad lighting

[hollow locust]

Oh yeah, no, you wouldn't get me painting any! No thank you

[vocal yoke]

it aint as bad as other did it but not perfect

if you couldnt tell 40k was made by british people

[hollow locust]

Also this too, I have involuntary shaky hands too

[vocal yoke]

they even have a planet so bad and troglodyte and horrible called Birmingham

[hollow locust]

Just like real life!

No no I jest

[vocal yoke]

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Birmingham

I love british humour

[hollow locust]

Me too! Not saying that cos I am

We just hit differently.

I think we are WELL good at panel shows

My ex was American and she had no idea what a panel show was

[vocal yoke]

were it not for warhammer we also wouldnt have Bolt Thrower, arguably the best british death metal band alongside Carcass

[hollow locust]

I wouldn't know, heavy metal isn't my favourite genre BUT however, if I like something I will. If that makes sense?

Like I love all music from classical to heavy metal, just if I find a song that I like I'll jam to it!

[vocal yoke]

bolt thrower is just dark groovy music it just works

[hollow locust]

I'll check 'em out!

[vocal yoke]

shame they disbanded in 2016? after the drummer died

[hollow locust]

Oh darn that's not good, it's a shame when that happens

And yet Status Quo are still going!

[sharp grail]

cleaned my keyboard thoroughly (over several hours, as it included a nap, getting groceries and waiting for the keys to dry)
i struggled a bit with putting the keys back in but it looks basically brand new :) yay

lmaoooooo what