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what is your favorite wizard joke

(trying to impress a girl)

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nazis, transphobia, uspol Afficher plus

2017 Chinese Transgender Population General Survey Report

PDF
chinadevelopmentbrief.cn/wp-co

large survey (2000+ responses) shows tough times for our chinese sisters and brothers

everything is pretty, so nothing is pretty

perhaps in response we're seeing a lot of games that intetionally adopt visual/tech constraints, such as low poly counts or chunky pixels, as a way to stake out a unique visual identity

instead of getting lost amid the same-same 3D productions that are choking the market they make up the difference by combining carefully chosen constraints with sharp art direction

ofc that's also a function of budgets; small teams literally can't afford to chase the "AAA" look

guess it's another case of constraints fostering creative responses, just like in the old days

i think part of it is it's a nostalgic reminder of when this game was very high-end. even on our pentium 90 in 1995 the framerate would dip below 35 (the max) at times

i've never quite been able to untangle why (for lack of a better term) the technological impressiveness of a given game has contributed to my enjoyment

i'm rarely impresssed these days, but back then it was Very Cool when a game busted out some novel effect or hit a level of fidelity rarely seen on its hardware

and to play something on the then cutting edge felt... invigorating somehow. maybe it was just the novelty, which is gone now since most tech is Good Enough to render pretty scenes

one of my favorite little details of the original Doom games, for some reason, is the big floppy disk icon that flashed in the bottom-right corner as the hard disk did stuff

it's not actually in gzdoom. not sure about chocolate, i'll have to look for it next time. running off an SSD tho :X

first thing i do when editing this one gig's call transcripts is mass replace "you know," with nothing. makes the reading easier.

54 hits over 9 pages this time. bit low.

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i find myself liking the LED rope (tube) form factor. traditional bulbs sticking out of wires always feels fragile and prone to damage.

(then again, individual bulbs are also user-serviceable, theroetically, moreso than lights in tubes)

anybody have indoor holiday lights recommendations?

any particularly cool strings of colored LEDs to know about? fancy modern features i don't even know i want? or is a string of lights still just a string of lights?

my experience on the internet lately: "eggs, everywhere i look!"

uspol, health insurance, amusing unforeseen consequences Afficher plus

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In other news, I love these little emotes. :crt_w_green_lines: :crt_w_prompt: :crt_w_blue_screen: :crt: :crt_w_noise: 💾

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the interface is still disappointingly bright (not sure if it's supposed to be affected) and the black on gray decreases note readability. this hack needs some work.

why do all video player / music player volume controls around the web default to a maxed-out 100%

that would shake my walls, possibly damage hardware. do i keep my speakers unusually loud?

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Enable 👏 Dark 👏 Themes 👏 In 👏 Every 👏 Program 👏

hey you can hack your evernote .exe to force a non-glaring-white note background color

discussion.evernote.com/topic/

update: disabled Share; just had to reboot. reg entries inside Afficher plus