The Official Status Thread
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Status: WHOA I GOT AN EXOTIC WEAPON IT'S MY LUCKY DAY
Oh, it's one of those shitty account-bound ones where you get to choose between healing power + toughness and toughness + healing power.
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Status: Hip aches after first night in hotel bed in Phuket, Thailand. Food is amazing, beach is beautiful, temperature a little too high for @Arantor but I think @royal_poet is good with it...
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It is supposed to appear magical or something.
In reality, it just looks like we hosted a stripper convention.
That is just a different kind of magical.
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My wife sprinkles glitter on the floor for the boys to show where Santa walked when he delivered gifts. It is supposed to appear magical or something.
When the kids were little, we used to sprinkle "reindeer food" around the yard. The reindeer food was oatmeal mixed with glitter.
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Status: OK so the cinnamon jack daniels I bought was a mistake, but it is pretty good when mixed with cider.
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Is that a Zoidberg quote? Is Zoidberg aware of the Time Cube?
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It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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@Onyx said:
Status: Popping in to say Merry Christmas to all!
What are you talking about? Christmas is in two weeks!
:-)
Right now I'm celebrating Greek Orthodox Halloween
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Status: finally saw that movie about scars, scar wars, the war over scars. Lotsa good scars in that movie
Also I am way drunk os I bet that is less funny than I think
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scar wars
But there's only one war. It should be called scars' war. --Stephen Colbert
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Status: Watching endless Russian crash videos on YouTube, still eating turkey and drinking the last of a very good Chablis. It's now just before 8am on boxing day, I should probably go to bed at some point.
I have consumed about 1.5kg of a 4kg turkey. I'm going to be eating this thing for days
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Status: My wife sprinkles glitter on the floor for the boys to show where Santa walked when he delivered gifts. It is supposed to appear magical or something.
In reality, it just looks like we hosted a stripper convention.
Pro tip: we use a piece of string leading from their bedroom and though the house (this year through the garden too) to where the stockings are hidden. Much easier to clean. :-)
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Status: what's up with Steam®? Open Twitter and there seems to be some drama. Data leak?
Also, got my Xbone for Xmas. There should be a warning on the box:
"Welcome to the next-gen, here download this 44GB remake of a game to get you started"
And I once thought digital would take over physical games... Not when it takes me longer to download any game than to go to Belgium and back to get a game.
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I agree with what @Eldelshell just posted.
Because I also got an Xbox One for Christmas. And I can't play it with my dad tonight because it was downloading until he fell asleep.
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what's up with Steam
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/steam-bug/53710/41
They set up akamai or something to cache the account details page. Fixed now.And I once thought digital would take over physical games... Not when it takes me longer to download any game than to go to ■■■■■■■ and back to get a game
What I've been hearing is that physical copies don't help much these days, you still end up downloading 80% of it anyway.
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Feeling a little deflated. My mother didn't appreciate the gag gift of bacon soap nor the high end hoover.
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They ruined it with scar-scar binks.
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Status:
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Needed to do some grocery shopping this morning (at Walmart, because it's cheap). Woke up early, so decided to get up and go before it got crowded. Was treated to one of the most beautiful sunrises I've ever seen — maybe not the best, but close. (Plus very much not crowded — zero wait to check out.)
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Zero wait at a Walmart checkout?
UNPOSSIBLE.
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Hi @Vault_Dweller!
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Zero wait at a Walmart checkout?UNPOSSIBLE.
In at 07:45; out before 08:00. I almost always do the self-checkout, so the wait isn't usually long, anyway.
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Status****strong text my avatar in the useless-bar has been broken for nigh-on a week.
http://i.imgur.com/TorYVG2.png
I'd do a hard refresh, but I assume that would crash Discourse.
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What I've been hearing is that physical copies don't help much these days, you still end up downloading 80% of it anyway.
Yeah, when they started delivering the games digitally, they stopped attempting to fix bugs.
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Status: Oh my GOD! They make ENTIRE MAGAZINES dedicated to teas and tea cakes and tea parties and heaven help me I think I'm in love.
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They make ENTIRE MAGAZINES dedicated to teas
You and my ex-wife might just get on well. We had, and I assume she still has, at least one big coffee-table book all about tea. I can't begin the count the number of little cucumber sandwiches I've made. And we were all on first-name terms with the owner of the Lisa's Tea Treasures in Campbell.
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One of the best things about joining up with other Steampunks in my area is all the tea houses I've taken afternoon tea in that I never knew even existed before we sought them out.
Another is the theme bars :D
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high end hoover.
That was one thing my wife actually asked for. She wanted a canister vacuum to clean under the beds and furniture. She also asked for a new kitchen trash can. She is an amazingly practical woman.
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One of the best things about joining up with other Steampunks in my area is all the tea houses I've taken afternoon tea in
I've never seen the appeal of Steampunk, myself, but the tea houses, yeah, I'd be up for that. We'd almost always find some place for tea when we went on vacation. I think I may still have the menu from the Sunday afternoon tea dance at the Palm Court at the Astoria from our honeymoon in London.
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Status: And Blakeyrat's Best Tweet Of 2015 is:
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Uh. Hm. Twitter Analytics can't do a full year report at a time. It maxes out at 4 months? WTF.
And Blakeyrat's Best Tweet Of 2015 is:
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@DogsB said:
high end hoover.
That was one thing my wife actually asked for. She wanted a canister vacuum to clean under the beds and furniture. She also asked for a new kitchen trash can. She is an amazingly practical woman.
There has actually been a study on which kind of presents are received best come christmas.
Pretty self-explanatory but I guess it doesn't hurt that someone actually rationalized the whole thing. In short:
- dollar-value doesn't really matter much
- Practical gifts are great
- If you ask what you should buy and actually buy that, it comes off better than "surprise" gifts
- nice wrapping increases reception but don't overdo it
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Pretty self-explanatory but I guess it doesn't hurt that someone actually rationalized the whole thing. In short:
dollar-value doesn't really matter much
Practical gifts are great
If you ask what you should buy and actually buy that, it comes off better than "surprise" gifts
nice wrapping increases reception but don't overdo itWe do Amazon wish lists, which helps tick off a few of those boxes. It also helps my in-laws who are terrible gift givers. They are not even the type that when you open the gift you are like, "Oh...that's nice". They are the type that you open the gift and wonder, " were you thinking?" and start looking for a gift receipt.
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it comes off better than "surprise" gifts
I think this depends on both the recipient and the surprise. I like a surprise gift better than something I was expecting, if it's a good surprise. If it's a @Polygeekery's in-laws surprise, yeah, you should have asked.
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STATUS: Finally watched Interstellar.
A lot of people were meh about it, which is why I skipped it initially.
Bullshit. What a great movie. Hit all the right emotional notes with me, and had a pretty interesting story too. Easily 8/10, maybe even 9/10. Liked it more than the Martian, for example.
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Status: getting mad at fictional characters.
I just started playing Soul Suspect and everyone is so damn unhelpful.
"Hello, fellow ghost, I just got murdered and discovered there's an afterlife. You look like you've been sitting here for a few centuries doing nothing, think you could spare 5 minutes to explain how this thing works?" "No, fuck off"
"Hello only person who can see me, do you think you could give me a little bit of help to track down the person who's been murdering people?" "No, fuck off, ghosts are stupid"
Oh, and girl, don't you think it would be nice to inform the rest of the world that ghosts exist? Since you could provide proof and everything. Just a thought.
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Status: finished editing, rendering and uploading all of Dreamscapes: The Sandman.
Now to play, uh, procrastinate on playing Dreamscapes 2, where you have to save Tim. Fucking Tim.
BTW you also have to deal with a lot of Tim in episode 8. Fucking Tim.
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I think people didn't like it because SCIENCE FALLACIEZZZZ.
Overall I thought it was pretty good
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"Hello only person who can see me, do you think you could give me a little bit of help to track down the person who's been murdering people?" "No, fuck off, ghosts are stupid"
Wasn't that pretty much most of that Patrick Swayze movie?
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Status: @accalia and @Fox are now in Dwarf Fortress:
@RaceProUK, too:
They removed the giant desert scorpion whose venom instantly rotted your brain and upper spine, though.
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Status: Listened to The Beatles on the way home because you can stream them now /o/
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Status: Thanks /r/nocontext (I guess not safe for work, but it honestly isn't bad. More weird than anything.)
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Where is the
CLOTHING_SLOT = BRA
line?
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Petition to add bras to Dwarf Fortress
I mean, we already have these:
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Petition to add bras to Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf tits are the hairiest tits, yo.
Filed under: They can be used to smash rocks
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There might be an issue in that breastplates and leather armor are both [SHAPED] and dwarves can only wear one [SHAPED] item per slot, so they'd have to choose between bras and armor. Or I guess they could wear chainmail over their bra.
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Status: @accalia and @Fox are now in Dwarf Fortress:
So, now when you post shit, we won't have any idea if it is a silly name that was programmed in or maybe it was just a horrible misspelling?
Also, we will have dwarves that spend all of their time just sitting around and complaining but not really doing anything.