zaphodb2002

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[–] zaphodb2002 2 points 15 hours ago

+5 comedy points, I chuckled.

[–] zaphodb2002 3 points 15 hours ago

I almost exclusively run PBTA games nowadays because of this. And if the players are totally inexperienced we'll run a one-pager like Lasers and Feelings or Honey Heist first.

Rules just bog down the play speed too much unless everyone is an expert, paying attention, AND not drunk, which is basically never.

[–] zaphodb2002 2 points 15 hours ago

I met Maurice LeMarche at comic con way back in maybe 2002 or so at the Futurama panel and got him to record the Brain's "Yes!" And also "Oh, what luck! I've got a French fry caught in my beard!" as Orson Welles from the Critic onto my Palm Pilot, lol. Used them as ringtones for years. Very nice guy.

[–] zaphodb2002 2 points 15 hours ago

This might make you feel better, but it's not very effective to argue with chuds. They don't understand arguments or even words, really. They use words only as a weapon, or as a mating call to attract other bigots. They don't even really grasp the meaning of what they say, much less what is said to them. They just parrot their talking points. What's the expression about playing chess with a pigeon?

[–] zaphodb2002 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)
[–] zaphodb2002 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't the "Rainbow Six Universe" just, like, the regular world? I haven't played an R6 game in more than a decade, but I remember the draw being realism.

[–] zaphodb2002 2 points 16 hours ago

I'm in a red district in SoCal and my mom, a disability rights advocate and civil rights lawyer, tried to run for office a few times over the last couple of decades. Each time the only thing any of the Democratic Party reps we talked to cared about was how many rich people we knew and how many donations we could gather. Once they recognized she didn't have connections to money, all support was pulled.

Not to say that people shouldn't try. But not only do you need the time and ability to run for office, unless you have a LOT of money it's very difficult to even get a foot in the door.

[–] zaphodb2002 2 points 16 hours ago

Alaska's a long way from where penguins come from, isn't it?

[–] zaphodb2002 2 points 16 hours ago

Gurren Lagann has a lot of great music. Viral's theme in particular is a banger.

[–] zaphodb2002 3 points 1 day ago

I recently went back to baby face after more than a decade. It's mostly an attempt to shame myself into getting rid of the second chin.

[–] zaphodb2002 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The most Star Wars fan opinion ever

[–] zaphodb2002 2 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah that's a great cast

 

MAL and Nerdfonts conspiring to slander our ever-compiling friends.

 

Konig Countergrams in 15x7.5 et35, 205/50 tire.

Flyin Miata V-Maxx sport kit.

Might bring the front down a tiny bit.

 

So I'm no expert, but I have been a hobbyist C and Rust dev for a while now, and I've installed tons of programs from GitHub and whatnot that required manual compilation or other hoops to jump through, but I am constantly befuddled installing python apps. They seem to always need a very specific (often outdated) version of python, require a bunch of venv nonsense, googling gives tons of outdated info that no longer works, and generally seem incredibly not portable. As someone who doesn't work in python, it seems more obtuse than any other language's ecosystem. Why is it like this?

 

So. This is something I've never talked to anyone in my real life about, but for whatever reason I'm more comfortable asking a bunch of strangers on the internet for advice. Deep breath.

I am coming up on 40yo, and since I was 16 I've mostly been in dedicated heterosexual relationships. I have always considered myself a cis male and maybe a little bi but things are... changing rapidly, I guess. I am single for the first time in years all this freedom and time means I'm doing some long overdue introspection. I don't think I've ever been particularly happy with my body or my gender. I am finding myself much more attracted to people with penises, and more importantly, I am finding myself wanting to play a different, more submissive maybe, role in the bedroom. I finally have an opportunity to try new and different things with all sorts of different people, and that's sort of exciting, but I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing or even what I'm feeling.

I see a lot of trans folks self-actualizing and I'm super happy for them. I envy them for knowing what they want. I don't know what I want and it's driving me a little crazy lately. I would kill to have that level of knowledge of who I wanted to be. I am not a particularly masculine man, but I don't think I feel like I would be more comfortable being more traditionally feminine, though that doesn't necessarily repulse me, either. I would certainly be happier with less body hair. When I was I kid I wanted to be a robot. Now as an adult I maybe just want to be a robot who fucks occasionally, gender irrelevant. Fully functional, you might say. I don't really know what to do with that feeling, though.

Any advice on how to navigate literally any of this would be awesome. I feel like a teenager again, no idea how any of this works or where to even begin. I don't have the knowledge or the language to talk coherently about any of this stuff, and certainly no experience. I am doing my best you guys but all of this is confusing as fuck.

 

Never in my life have I felt so used by a game. Feels dirty. The video game equivalent of emotional abuse.

5 stars, would recommend.

 

I assume it has something to do with the sound cancelling. It uses white noise or something, right? I'm running out of nails to test this.

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In her natural habitat (sh.itjust.works)
 

It was a nice day.

 
 

So I'm reading The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell and I'm quite enjoying it. I don't really have anyone else in my life who shares my game development interests so I thought it might be fun to put together some kind of regular discussion. I've got a pretty long reading list, would nice to have someone to talk to. Thoughts?

 

I'm very excited.

97, 5-speed, Torsen, 96k miles.

 

Anyone have any favorite internet radio stations, preferably ones that aren't just dance music? I'm primarily into post-rock, punk, alternative, and psychedelic, but I'm open to anything really, especially if it's well curated.

 

So I've been using Linux now for a while, and am looking to migrate my dev environment to vim and spend more time in the command line. I'm fairly comfortable with bash but by no means an expert. I've used zsh with some minor customization but just recently learned about fish. I'd love to hear people's opinions.

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