captain_aggravated

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[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 14 minutes ago

Roundup is an herbicide, not a pesticide.

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 16 minutes ago

I was something of a Dirk Pitt fan in my teens, I've got 18 of the Dirk Pitt books (also five of the Isaac Bell series and one Oregon Files books, I have a whole Cussler section) including Sahara. It's the 11th book in the Dirk Pitt series.

It's the second attempt at a Dirk Pitt movie, in 1980 they adapted the fourth book, Raise The Titanic. It's even worse.

At first glance it might be easy to picture a series of movies based on Dirk Pitt books, but if you start thinking about it, 1. the books are all pretty formulaic, same general plot of handsome tall guy punches a captain planet villain and rescues the treasure/women, 2. Sahara is one of the more straightforward ones to film; other books you'll need much weirder settings varying from the ocean depths to the surface of the moon at one point, 3. each book is a bigger story than will fit in a movie. A bunch of stuff had to be trimmed out of Sahara to make the movie, kind of like they did with The Martian.

There's also a lot of shit that went wrong behind the scenes, the budget exploded, apparently there were bribes paid to the Moroccan government, and Cussler and the production company sued each other, with Cussler losing to the tune of $20 million.

All in order to produce a movie that lost its ass at the box office and failed to make any cultural impact at all.

[–] captain_aggravated 2 points 11 hours ago

I'm not going to go for 1.1 yet but I'm gonna boot up 1.0 to see. It's actually been awhile since I've played.

Can confirm. Doggo's big. Yeah yeah yaeh. It's not small, no no no.

Confusing creatures are small though, and the normal hogs are switched for some creature from one of Coffee Stain's other games. And the player's helmet is huge.

[–] captain_aggravated 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Are they doing the normal April Fools thing where the whale tick bird horse giraffe yaks are really small and the lizard doggos are enormous and maybe wearing a pioneer helmet again?

[–] captain_aggravated 11 points 15 hours ago

(explaining the joke for those unaware: The Battletech setting is a "nuked ourselves from interstellar space travel back to the stone age" type scenario. An interesting component of the setting is Comstar, the AT&T-like telecommunications monopoly mutated into a religious order which 1. as basically the only extant vestige of the old Star League are convinced they will someday return enlightenment to humanity, with increasing fanaticism, 2. carry telegram-like messages at telegram-like speeds throughout known space, 3. Operate as the de facto international bank and issuer of currency (the C-bill) because milliseconds of transmitter time is the only stable monetary base, and 4. the shifty fucks will sabotage any attempt to climb out of the dark age that isn't under their control.)

[–] captain_aggravated 21 points 16 hours ago

Well we see what actually scares them.

[–] captain_aggravated 3 points 16 hours ago

Depends, have you got a boomstick handy?

[–] captain_aggravated 6 points 16 hours ago

Yeah what the fuck good is the 24 hour "Donald Trump Peeled And Ate Ten More Babies" show? They should be the first ones against the fucking wall.

[–] captain_aggravated 9 points 16 hours ago

women wear a pair of panties but only one bra.

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 17 hours ago

just keep cross grain situations in mind.

[–] captain_aggravated 9 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

The peace of Blake be with you.

[–] captain_aggravated 5 points 18 hours ago

solid Major League reference.

 

I had dental surgery like, a month ago. Posted about it here. Instead of a front tooth I've got a metal (titanium I think?) cap sticking out of my gums. The tip of my tongue constantly touches it and I'm really over it.

The weirdest part is every time I brush my teeth it feels cold for like an hour. The button has a female drive to it (I think it's Torx?) and it holds onto toothpaste.

At least I'm off my no biting things diet. There's stuff that's still impractical to eat but I can have sandwiches now.

 

I've gotten several of the text-in-image variant lately from accounts on SJW over the last few days.

 

 

So here's the state of things right now:

I've got a Synology NAS with stuff like my movie collection stored on it. I think at some point I'll move my music collection up there, too. It's an ARM powered 2-bay thing, I'm not particularly interested in using any of Synology's software, and there's some stuff that won't run on that box because it's ARM instead of x86. I don't really have a "server" box running.

A few years ago I bought a "commercial TV" aka one that doesn't have Roku or whatever. For awhile, I ran OSMC (basically Debian Kodi) on a Raspberry Pi, which...I had enough problems with that it's unlivable. I'd rather just not have a television than continue to use OSMC.

In the meantime, I built a new gaming PC for my desk, the old machine (which happens to be in a Fractal Node 202 case so it already looks like a TiVo) has been moved into the living room. It's a Ryzen 3600/GeForce GTX-1080 machine with a bit over a terabyte of SSD and 16GB of RAM. It's still kicking bubblegum and chewing ass. Yes, it idles at a greater power draw than the Pi pulls at full steam, but it'll spend most of its time asleep, we'll be okay.

I'm currently still using Mint Cinnamon on it. Which is a hilariously unusable home theater OS. Plus I have my desktop (a Ryzen 7700/Radeon 7900GRE machine running Fedora KDE) and my phone (A Galaxy S10e) that I sometimes watch media on. Some questions:

  • Why does VLC error out when trying to play mp4s stored on my NAS? Is it because SMB is Microsoft fucksewage that doesn't actually work? Because that's my working hypothesis.

  • I have so little information on what Plex/Jellyfin even are, I gather Plex is at least semi-commercial while Jellyfin is the open source but worse option. These may or may not have a server component that has to run on a server-like box, which I don't and won't have.

  • On the client side, I don't know if they take the place of a DE the way Kodi does, or if it's a separate app, or if you'd have to exit Plex or Jellyfin to use something like Steam, or if Steam Big Picture mode would work as a media center, but can it get to Youtube...

Is there anything out there that works better than throwing my TV away and forgetting about it?

 

I finally caught a lunar eclipse. like five of them I missed due to weather, it's clear tonight.

 

Did a lot of things like emptying the bathroom trash can, got rid of some packaging that was holding nearly nothing, put some stuff in some drawers, folded one load of laundry and loaded another. The place is technically better in a way that isn't apparent.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by captain_aggravated to c/[email protected]
 

So I've got a goofy issue tuning my ~~block~~ bench plane. It's one of the Pony Jorgensen #4 smoothing planes they're selling at Lowe's in the States. Works pretty well with one exception: Moving the frog forward to bring the iron closer to the mouth also advances the iron.

I can't get it anywhere near as closed as you're supposed to with a smoothing plane before I can't retract the iron sufficiently. The mating surface in the sole that the frog rests on is slightly angled downward, so the frog is lowered as it is moved forward. I can't realistically bring the iron any farther on the chip breaker than I've got it.

As I had it apart, I noticed the finish on the bottom of the frog, the surface that mates with the sole, was as cast, it isn't machined or lapped. Should it be?

 

I posted these end tables here awhile ago.

The carcasses turned out pretty well but I was never happy with the drawers. I implemented them as the world's worst piston fit drawers, they had like a quarter inch of slop so they were less drawers and more boxes that fit in a hole.

I had some time on my docket so I remade the drawers, converted them to side hung, fitted them better to the space provided, and lengthened them. I had just enough poplar to make an additional drawer back, so I implemented @[email protected] 's suggestion and added a secret compartment. I haven't made the stops yet so it will just pull right on out but I've made a piece of furniture with a secret compartment in it. Now I need something cool to put in it. Maybe a smallish bottle of scotch and a pair of glencairns?

 

Sometimes gravity pulls her wrong.

 

Probably several months ago I watched some woodworking video on Youtube, and the video was sponsored by this strange saw contraption that I'm having no luck googling. Maybe I dreamed it up and I've got something worth patenting, I don't know.

The most concise way I can explain it is, imagine if the table saw had been invented, but power tools and circular saws hadn't. Or, think of the journey you go on when making a circ saw into a table saw, and then go on that journey with a frame saw.

This is a stationary tool that holds a straight blade in tension, the blade doesn't move, the stock is secured to a guide which slides on rails, and can be positioned to make various different cuts.

I thought "huh, I'll look that up later to see if it's worth a damn" and now can't find it again. Might have dreamed it.

 

Bit of a marathon session today in the wood shop finishing a computer stand I'm building for my father. Did most of the construction of a drawer box. Had to do some tuning on my dovetail jig, it's not as definite as I'd like it to be, but the drawer box turned out okay.

Worked up some fatigue, my cat Izzy helped me take a nap on the couch. If you don't have an air purrifier, I highly recommend one.

Woke up hungry, made a stir fry. Still missing a tooth so a stir fry is a great way to get an actual hot nutritious meal in me. Thoroughly enjoyed it, too.

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I had dental surgery (self.dull_mens_club)
 

Resorption in a front tooth. Had it extracted and now there's a fancy titanium drywall anchor grafted into my skull. A few weeks of healing and then I'll have a false tooth bolted in.

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