Status: Slept like crap, back is in fine form today because of it. The reasoning for this is likely that last night my sister texted me that she took our father to the hospital because of increased not-feeling-well-ness, including "room spinning" and such. They admitted him because it seems it was a form of heart failure, and I find out today that it was likely due to fluid buildup in the lungs which is likely due to him ALSO having the flu.
Posts made by e4tmyl33t
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RE: The Official Status Thread
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@e4tmyl33t said in The Cooking Thread:
Unless one stirs it quite well. A flour+butter roux added to a pot of stock is typically the base I use for making any kind of gravy.
If you add cold stock to a hot roux you have less of a chance of getting lumps. By adding the liquid to the roux and whisking well you can more easily ensure that you break up all of the roux and don't cook any of it into dough balls.
FWIW, the more you cook your roux the less likely it is to make "gravy Jell-O", for reasons that I have forgotten but I'm pretty sure that it was on an episode of "Good Eats".
Oh, of course. I never use that roux cold, I melt the butter and mix the flour into it in another pot on the stove and then immediately put it into the stock pot slowly while rather vigorously mixing to avoid lumps.
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
Alternatively you can make a roux and add that but it will be more prone to leaving your stew lumpy. Hot liquid added to a roux, or in this case a roux added to hot liquid, tends to turn out like lumpy gravy.
Unless one stirs it quite well. A flour+butter roux added to a pot of stock is typically the base I use for making any kind of gravy. Tends to turn out well, though it's not great for keeping since once you refrigerate it it tends to kind of gel up a bit. Still edible though.
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RE: Wallpapers
@accalia Upvote for Feretta. I just reread AToT in its entirety the other day.
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RE: In other news today...
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra I've never looked at Eve closely, but it always felt a little lot like "having a day job: the game" to me.
I've played it before. Depending on what you're doing, it can be. If you just wanna get in a spaceship and shoot other spaceships, or fly around doing the occasional cloaky-sneaky research/extraction mission you can. If you want to take up a second job running a massive interstellar war engine with associated logistics, you can do that too.
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
The key is to know how casual you are, and if you'll let your testosterone guide your responses.
This. Always this.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zenith Oh, yeah, my electricity bills have gotten insane over the last couple years. I understand adding an additional roommate will make usage go up a bit, but I'm now paying $500/mo on the budget billing plan for 4 of us in the house. This is nuts.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: One generally has more success making tea when one remembers to put tea in the boiling water.
Nah, you've just made holistic tea, infused with the memory of tea in your kettle. Should have all the same properties, isn't that how that works?
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RE: Hydrogen Vehicles - Truly Beneficial?
@boomzilla said in Hydrogen Vehicles - Truly Beneficial?:
Except Pennsylvanians would tell you that BEVs are already unsuitable without the cold.
We would, but that's largely because just about ANY vehicle is unsuitable for our roads and how fast they fuggin disintegrate
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: critical warning: unexpected failure in Censor: suicide evaluation was not cancelled within 39ms.
Stand-by
One cannot self-terminate.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Why would a package being sent from Mesa, AZ, to Mesa, AZ, go by way of Bloomington, CA
Probably because that's where the closest routing hub is. The delivery companies tend to have to have all packages go through the routing hubs even if they're going out via the same depot they came in front.
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RE: Where does one shop for computer parts these days (USA)?
@Unperverted-Vixen said in Where does one shop for computer parts these days (USA)?:
@loopback0 said in Where does one shop for computer parts these days (USA)?:
Yeah same here these days, making sure it's stuff sold by Amazon.
That doesn't always help - Amazon will comingle third-party stock with their own stock in the warehouses.
Yeah, but if it's coming from THEIR warehouses at least you're pretty much sure you're gonna get it. It's stuff "purchased" on Amazon but fulfilled by some third party warehouse elsewhere that are the ones you'll have problems with.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
it would make no sense for the truck to have gone around the block
Yes it does, to their internal delivery priority algorithm. If your package has "basic bitch" level shipping, they can pass your house 87 times delivering "sparkly diamond" packages first and yours'll get left for last.
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RE: Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it
@Polygeekery said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
Hmmmmm, I wonder if that is a large part of the reason why my shoulders are shot?
Based on my father as evidence, no, it's the guns. Possibly combined with falling off of roofs.
(He's hunted regularly for ~40+ years and worked as a third-party insurance adjuster, which is where he fell off a roof or two. At this point he can't raise his arms past shoulder-level at all.)
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RE: What gaming monitor to get?
I have a pair of these:
along with one third, smaller, shittier monitor. The Asus ones do pretty well, though I did have to have one RMAed because it started randomly just blinking off one day. The other's been rock solid though.
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RE: Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it
@remi said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
though I'll probably come to regret it at some point.
Generally about 5 minutes after you've sunk all the cost and energy into the current project, find out you still need to do the full replacement, and the project you did either doesn't make that cheaper or actually makes it more expensive somehow.
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RE: Today in reading the headlines...
@Rhywden said in Today in reading the headlines...:
with a (marginally) passing grade at 50%
If only the US's testing standards were made of the same kind of sense. Most grading schemes here put failure at anything below 70%, from what I've seen. Both in individual tests and in overall class scores.
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RE: In other news today...
The wood box on the top shelf is a 15th (or so) anniversary edition of Settlers of Catan with wood tiles and the 5-6 player expansion included. To its left are Tsumo and Carcassonne.
Blue box on second shelf is a complete edition of Suburbia. White-ish box with the hooded guy to the left of Ticket to Ride is some form of Magic the Gathering boardgame.
Bottom shelf underneath the Civ boardgame is something called "Ricochet Rock Jockeys", and that Archer game is complete shit.
There's some more stuff to the right of those boxes (A copy of Million Dollars But..., another copy of Scattergories for some reason, 7 Wonders, some Battletech maps/hex sets, Red Dragon Inn 1-3...possibly one or two other things but my memory is failing and to get up and check.)
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RE: In other news today...
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@e4tmyl33t ... and two packages of
Monopoly
. And - is that? -Pandemic
?
Ha!
It was you who started that !Yes, there's a copy of Mega Monopoly and a (completely unplayed) copy of Klingon Monopoly in that game cabinet.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@e4tmyl33t We've found your Secret Lab
Not mine, the cats'. After I unboxed and assembled my chair, we packed it with some blankets and cut a big-ass hole in the side so the cats could have a little fort.
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RE: In other news today...
@PotatoEngineer It's not bad. I have a Pixel 7 Pro and the camera seems good for the very little I tend to use it.
Example picture I just took using the default settings of a random spot in my living room:
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Howbeit a nearly-half-decade-since-launch game STILL can't handle late-night activities without issue?!?
Sounds like a Scopely game to me.
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RE: Error'd Bites
@Tsaukpaetra said in Error'd Bites:
Status: Did I stumble on one of those fluffing fake posts?
Interesting name for a Surface Pro charger. (I can tell on sight as it's identical to the one my Pro 3 uses)
Doesn't light up very much though, so I wouldn't give it a good rating being sold as a light.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Hololens 1
As much as I'd like to have a neat AR rig to mess around with, I can't imagine what I'd actually do with one. Especially since I already never use my VR rig and that generally has more gaming capacity than AR stuff does, let alone several-year-old equipment...
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zenith You think it's bad there, should come up here to the northeast part of the state where it's more likely they'll never receive the items in question!
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@BernieTheBernie said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla Well, almost.
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is the comparative ofkabir
, so it meansbigger
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Greatest is obviously Admiral-Ackbar.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Applied-Mediocrity Dunno, it's something with how their substations learn how much power needs to go down the line + signal/noise ratios and whatnot and then optimizes the transmissions to it can sometimes take a day or two to even out.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Installation appointment is next Friday morning, so I get to see if I can get the Comcast contractors to run the cable from the front all the way around the back of the house and punch it in through the back wall into the living room to make things easy...
New modem and router have arrived and have been wall-mounted (through a slight bit of trouble including needing to whack one of the screws/anchors a few mm to the left since I drilled ever so slightly to the right of where I needed to to line up with the router's mounting holes). Router is hooked up to old internet connection, so now I just need to wait for Comcast to come hook me up with service, swap a couple cables around, and I'll be in business.
Status: Comcast tech has come and gone. New internet is up and running, speeds are a bit wonky but building and I've been told that they can fluctuate like that for the first day or two on a new cable connection as their system "learns" my cabling.
Technician gave me a bit of a hard time about drilling a hole in the exterior wall, and was a bit pushy about my choice of cable modem (Arris SB8200) but otherwise got it done and handled within ~2 hours or so.
Now, once I make sure it's stable and functional, I just need to call and cancel my old service and arrange to return their equipment.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Waiting for today's Amazon delivery of a new cable modem and router. A few days ago I made the probably terrible decision of ordering Comcast service to replace my current cable internet service now that they're available in my area, because rather than paying $130/mo for 300/10 service, I can pay $90/mo for 2 years and then $117/mo afterwards for 1000/20. However, I absolutely don't trust their equipment worth a damn so bought my own modem, and figured since my Amplifi router is ~5 years old and I'd like to both A) wall mount the new equipment and B) have a web interface for managing the network again instead of just a mobile app, I'd get a new router as well.
Installation appointment is next Friday morning, so I get to see if I can get the Comcast contractors to run the cable from the front all the way around the back of the house and punch it in through the back wall into the living room to make things easy...
New modem and router have arrived and have been wall-mounted (through a slight bit of trouble including needing to whack one of the screws/anchors a few mm to the left since I drilled ever so slightly to the right of where I needed to to line up with the router's mounting holes). Router is hooked up to old internet connection, so now I just need to wait for Comcast to come hook me up with service, swap a couple cables around, and I'll be in business.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: Waiting for today's Amazon delivery of a new cable modem and router. A few days ago I made the probably terrible decision of ordering Comcast service to replace my current cable internet service now that they're available in my area, because rather than paying $130/mo for 300/10 service, I can pay $90/mo for 2 years and then $117/mo afterwards for 1000/20. However, I absolutely don't trust their equipment worth a damn so bought my own modem, and figured since my Amplifi router is ~5 years old and I'd like to both A) wall mount the new equipment and B) have a web interface for managing the network again instead of just a mobile app, I'd get a new router as well.
Installation appointment is next Friday morning, so I get to see if I can get the Comcast contractors to run the cable from the front all the way around the back of the house and punch it in through the back wall into the living room to make things easy...
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@dkf Yeah...maybe 2, they're all gaming-grade PCs with 600-800W powersupplies, though the only one that's really CONSISTENTLY being used is the one on my desk which gets used ~16 hours a day.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@dkf There was SOME more heater usage this year as it was somewhat colder than last year, and half the heaters in the house are electric baseboard heat (the main heat for the house is a gas furnace powering steam radiators), but still...
Guess I just need to yell at the roommates to curtail the heater/AC usage as much as they can this year, because this constant high amount isn't sustainable.
Edit: The 3-4 desktop computers that are also always on plus the half-dozen or so laptops probably aren't helping matters either...
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: Fucking hell, the power bill's gone up AGAIN.
This month's bill is $505. And that's on the budget billing plan that reserved $132 off of it. I know there's 4 people living here but fucking hell, how the hell is our power usage THAT much higher than last year when it was HALF that amount with 3?
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RE: In other news today...
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Eh, the city admits the work was done in January and it was still unfilled. So the city is arguing semantics if it takes them >4 months to fill a hole that they created.
That amount of time doesn't surprise me. There was water main work being done on the street on the side of my house ~6 months ago. It wasn't until a couple weeks ago that they came out and fixed the patch in the intersection that had a piece of rebar or someshit sticking out of it that occasionally decided to piss away water down the street for some reason.
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RE: D&D thread
@GOG said in D&D thread:
@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
It's a home-brew campaign, and the DM hadn't figured out what's supposed to happen next, because this session deviated so much from his plan.
Y'all plan out your sessions?
Every DM does. Then they cry alone in a corner after every game session when the plan was thrown out the window and the players do something insane.
On another note: I watched Bright yesterday and now I have the urge to play Shadowrun again. Damn.
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RE: Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea
@boomzilla I have not yet worked up the courage to subject myself to it.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
@e4tmyl33t said in Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea:
tend to like instant ramen
@Applied-Mediocrity I'm not! I eat the FANCY instant ramen (Shin, usually)
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RE: Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea
@boomzilla My roommate found those. Bought two to bring home for us to try, as we both tend to like instant ramen of various varieties. He ate one bite of it and immediately noped out and tossed it.
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RE: The Official 2023 Death Pool
https://twitter.com/settlersofcatan/status/1643252209033904128?s=20
The creator of Catan, and thus an influencer on more than a generation's worth of boardgaming, has rolled his last.
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RE: WTF Bites
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
I'm not sure I can trust your directions.
You'll arrive at some
unknown
place.
So, everything is ok.I would say a place where someone'd steal all @DogsB 's money...but Ticketmaster's already done that.
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RE: Outlook being Outlook
@Gearhead said in Outlook being Outlook:
I observe this behavior in Word as well.
That's unsurprising as Outlook utilizes the Word engine for its editor.
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RE: External data files or hardcoding? Why not both?
If it hasn't been buried in the ground for at least 50 years and then dug up again, it's clearly not history.
/sarcasm
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zenith Mine does similar but once a year or so hands out a paper sheet they stick in everyone's fences/mailboxes that has the garbage/recycling pickup schedules for various little subzones or street sections of the municipality.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Well fuck them, I'll leave the cans out front until the next pickup cycle.
Be careful with this and doublecheck your municipality's laws, I know in mine if the trash cans are left out too long like that you can be cited and fined for something or other.
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RE: How to lose trust and alienate customers, TTRPG edition
@Gurth said in How to lose trust and alienate customers, TTRPG edition:
Why not keep playing it, then? Youโve got the books (or PDFs or whatever), right?
Continuing to utilize it can lead to others potentially needing/wanting to buy materials for it, which would lead to the company you want to "boycott" still receiving money.
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RE: How to lose trust and alienate customers, TTRPG edition
@Benjamin-Hall Indeed. 5e was fairly mechanically sound without being overly crunchy.
I don't have any games running but most of my available playgroup right now is basically "D&D only" when they do want to play. I'm gonna have a hard time converting them to another system, especially if I pick up Pathfinder or GURPS or something...
sigh