The Official Status Thread
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I have probably been looking at the same ~17 Switch games on store shelves since 2020
There's 17 different games for the switch?!
I know, right? Wikipedia says over 4000 but it has to be a lie.
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
At least 1 of them isn't a Mario, Pokemon or Zelda game!
Disturbingly true. I probably have half of what the store does. Mario Odyssey, Mario Wonder, Mario Golf, Mario Soccer, Mario Kart, Mario Divorce Court, Mario High Speed Chase, Mario Jailbreak, etc.
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status: yep. The sun is ever-so-slightly obscured, resulting in an imperceptible dimming and a bunch of dipshits outside.
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@Tsaukpaetra We're about to reach totality.
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@error_bot xkcd eclipse coolness
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@error_bot said in The Official Status Thread:
A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky.
Can confirm.
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OK, so now apart from having to convince my computer I don't need a cloud account to log in, I also need to convince my phone I don't need two cloud accounts to log in?
Let's just hope it's not going to nag.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
OK, so now apart from having to convince my computer I don't need a cloud account to log in,
Should have bought the Enterprise version.
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Status: Watched a tiny, blurry version of the sun mostly-but-not-quite disappear inside a toilet paper tube
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@hungrier Maybe if I had tried to precisely control pinhole diameter, focal length and stuff like that it would've been a bit better?
Ah well there's always the next one, in...
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@hungrier I peeked during totality. Damn my eyes.
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@hungrier I guess I could travel to see one (Spain, August 2026 or Australia, July 2028) but if I'm going to take that much bother I might as well get a couple pairs of eclipse glasses for $15 or whatever silly price
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm also sort of pissed that I bought this surprisingly fun game called "Shantae: Half Genie Hero" in 2022, only to find out yesterday that it had a sequel in 2020 that, surprise, had a limited physical run.
You (may have) also just missed the limited physical run for Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution, the previously unreleased sequel to the first game. (It ended yesterday.) I like the Shantae games and almost bought it myself.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia High ceiling.
Doors tend to all be petty standard in height. Ceilings, not so much.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
The weather forecast was so bad, I didn't bother setting up my telescope ahead of time, but a while after it started, I looked out the window and saw sun peeking through the clouds, so I set it up as quickly as I could. The moon was blocking maybe 50% by the time it was ready.
The clouds were playing hide and seek with the sun throughout the eclipse. Just before totality, dark heavy clouds blocked the sun. A couple minutes later, I looked up and saw this (scaled down, because the original is too big for ). This was the second of 5 images I was able to take. (Plus a couple with my phone showing my telescope and my neighbors looking up at the eclipse.) Just before totality ended, clouds covered the sun again, so I missed the end, too; I knew it was over, though, because it suddenly got much brighter, and I quickly put the filter back on the telescope.
The sun continued to play hide and seek, until I finally gave up because it got stick in the "hide" phase, and I packed my stuff up and took it back in the house.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier Maybe if I had tried to precisely control pinhole diameter, focal length and stuff like that it would've been a bit better?
Ah well there's always the next one, in...
23 August 2044. Calgary will be the place to be. It won't be as good as this one, though. It'll be just before sunset, so you'll need a clear horizon to see it. Totality will be visible in the US, in northern Montana and parts of North Dakota and South Dakota. The eastern parts of the path will be limited not by the end of the eclipse but by sunset. Of course, the partial eclipse will be visible over a much larger area, but
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier I peeked during totality. Damn my eyes.
It's safe to look during totality; you can't see anything at all through the glasses. Just be ready to put the glasses back on instantly when the photosphere appears again.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
It's safe to look during totality
Careful. You may see @error at his peak level.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
It's safe to look during totality
Careful. You may see @error at his peak level.
Fortunately, that's unlikely. IIRC where he lives, he's about 200 miles (320 km) away, so it's not likely I'll see him. (However, I'll be in his general vicinity, kilt and all, in a couple of weeks.)
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@Parody Luckily I knew in advance and ordered it at around 11PM last night.
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Delivery Distortion Status: One (1) package:
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Status: Hrm. Not sure what this is about, but I think it's what's behind my inability to open this document from Nextcloud...
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status: a refrigerator is an odd place to leave ones keys, but I don't judge.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@error_bot said in The Official Status Thread:
A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky.
Can confirm.
Do you see stars? Did they turn on public lighting?
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier I guess I could travel to see one (Spain, August 2026
Oh?
Only partial here? Heh. I'm not traveling to Spain for this.
Edit: there will be another a few years later, but again I'll miss the zone of totality.
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Lisbon gets a total solar eclipse in 2327!
Braga and Coimbra get an annular on 2082-02-27. Faro gets an annular in just four years – 2028-01-26.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Only partial here? Heh. I'm not traveling to Spain for this.
I had that same thought. Then I googled to find out the next total one here is ... 2081.
Yeah, I'm (hopefully) not going to make that. I remember the one of 1999. Didn't realize they're that long apart.
Maybe Spain it is...
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@topspin I also saw the one in '99. We happened to be traveling back from vacation that day anyway so we arranged to be in the zone of totality at the right time.
While it's an impressive spectacle, I won't bother to travel significant distance to see it again.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier I peeked during totality. Damn my eyes.
Sexy glasses error pics will be much appreciated.
status three minutes with three pound skipping rope. I’m done with moving for the day.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier I guess I could travel to see one (Spain, August 2026 or Australia, July 2028) but if I'm going to take that much bother I might as well get a couple pairs of eclipse glasses for $15 or whatever silly price
I still have them from 1999. When my employer bought one for every employee. Wow!
Were also quite useful when watching Venus in front of the sun in ... 2004?
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Status: Is it Friday yet?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody Luckily I knew in advance and ordered it at around 11PM last night.
I am still waiting for 2 purchases from Limited Run Games from January and March 2023. They are both “in production” though other folks on Twitter have absolutely received theirs already.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@error_bot said in The Official Status Thread:
A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky.
Can confirm.
Do you see stars? Did they turn on public lighting?
Yes to both.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier I guess I could travel to see one (Spain, August 2026 or Australia, July 2028) but if I'm going to take that much bother I might as well get a couple pairs of eclipse glasses for $15 or whatever silly price
I still have them from 1999. When my employer bought one for every employee. Wow!
Were also quite useful when watching Venus in front of the sun in ... 2004?Funny thing, the previous major eclipse that was over my area (sometime pre-pandemic, 2017 seems to be the only one that fits) we had a set of them and took time out of the afternoon to go out
and stare at the sun. Apparently we didn't keep track of those through the years, or else I may have snagged one when I went into the office last week
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status fucking zoomers!
have you any dietary requirements?
don’t feed me after midnight.
why…
I don’t get it.
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@DogsB how long after midnight? Does alcohol count as food?
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB how long after midnight? Does alcohol count as food?
If I started drinking at night, I would never have time to hunt vampires.
Alternatively… alcohol is mostly water so the earth would technically be awash with mostly evil copies of me.
Wasn't sure which to go with
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Status: Grumble
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
23 August 2044. Calgary will be the place to be.
Fortunately, it's in August, so it won't be too cold
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@error_bot said in The Official Status Thread:
A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky.
Can confirm.
Do you see stars? Did they turn on public lighting?
I did see Venus, but not any actual stars (except the Sun, of course); it was too cloudy to see anything else. Yes, the streetlights did come on (automatically, due to darkness, I assume).
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm not traveling to Spain for this.
Greenland, the western tip of Iceland, and Siberia are also possibilities. Personally, I'd pick Spain over the alternatives.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Didn't realize they're that long apart.
Solar eclipses occur a few times every year, but not all of them are total. Even if it is, totality is visible within only a narrow region. Any particular place gets a total eclipse only once every 100–400 years.
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
I won't bother to travel significant distance to see it again.
I would, if I had the money and health. Unfortunately, both of those are less available than I would like them to be.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Didn't realize they're that long apart.
Solar eclipses occur a few times every year, but not all of them are total. Even if it is, totality is visible within only a narrow region. Any particular place gets a total eclipse only once every 100–400 years.
Only twice I think? When the orbital planes align. You can have a (partial) lunar eclipse two months in a row, but I don't think that can happen with solar.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status fucking zoomers!
have you any dietary requirements?
don’t feed me after midnight.
why…
I don’t get it.
I saw the movie, so I get the reference, but I never understood the "after midnight" thing.
How long after midnight? Technically, any time is "after midnight".
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@Gern_Blaanston And is that midnight in summer time, winter time, or local solar time?
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@PleegWat yes
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gern_Blaanston And is that midnight in summer time, winter time, or local solar time?
Local or GMT?
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Status: Somebody must've fat-fingered the sale end date at Iris. Looks like the code expired 4-8-2025 instead of 5-8-2025 as displayed on the front page. Well at least I got one order in, even if they are dragging their feet on getting it shipped.
On the upside, I discovered I had more cases already here to work with. Turns out I stacked a bunch of stuff on top of two cases of the 19qts and stacked some empty 30qts along with some cardboard boxes I just tossed. So later this week I should have some real open space to work in. Then more Monday if Lowes delivers as expected and more whenever Iris gets around to it.
Also had a chance to look at the smashed scanner and it looks like the glass was just held in by double-sided tape. Lowes supposedly cuts glass so I may be able to salvage the scanner. That would be great if so.
Status (yesterday): Really wanted to play the Konami X-Men arcade game online instead of unpacking the retro arcade cabinet in the midst of this chaos but I cannot find an emulator site that plays it without extremely choppy audio.