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troberts

@troberts@theblower.au

#Canberra resident
Heavy #Metal fan
Parent
In Owner/Ownee relationship with cat (exact role in dispute)

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troberts, to random
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My dad will send me these pictures of some artwork he's doing.

He'll be like "I am using all these reference photos from when I travelled to the relevant country, and I've done all this research, and I've been working on the picture for 2 months, and I hope to be finished next month."

So I'm sending back my drawings like "This is a bat who I imagine could be my personal assistant and I drew it in 20 minutes."

troberts,
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@thegarbagebird I imagine when anyone comes to book an appointment with me, my bat PA just screeches wildly at them.

troberts, to random
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It's been a day at work. A real day.

People will look back and say, "Wow that was certainly a day."

Others will then nod their heads, knowing full well what a day it was.

DJDarren, to random
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Shaved my beard off this evening, and have only just worked out why Face ID isn’t working.

I am not a smart man.

troberts,
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@DJDarren Interesting. A lot of facial recognition systems are designed to work regardless of beards.

I worked on one that matched people against passports. Since passports are issued for a number of years, it was important that it would work despite facial hair growth.

troberts, to random
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Now that I have two Mastodon accounts, I can mute myself from one of them.

Because screw that guy.

troberts, to Metal
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Listening to...

'PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation' by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.

I'm never going to not put that full album title.

troberts, to Metal
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As much as I like Heavy Metal, I would never want to be a Heavy Metal musician.

It seems, especially for the more extreme genres, to be a life sentence of performing superhuman feats night after night.

troberts, to Marvel
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So yeah, in summary, I think the early MCU films are great cause they are full of character.

That they would go on to choke the life out of all mainstream cinema is unfortunate.

I had a moment of "Hey Tom, are you being unfair?" and no I don't think so. If a studio comes to dominate the cultural output of a medium, then they are open to all the criticism that comes with that.

#MCU #Marvel

troberts, to DoctorWho
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The Guardian had a crack at a Doctor Who ranking and … well I don’t like it.

I’d have Pertwee and Capaldi much higher.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/03/the-greatest-doctor-who-ranked

HailsandAles, to newmusic
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troberts,
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@HailsandAles I liked Darkthrone. I gotta check out Inter Arma.

DJDarren, to random
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Having a really odd experience with Music.app.

Imported an album as normal, which plays as normal. So far, everything is fine.

Try to copy to my iPod: no dice.

Try to edit the metadata: nope.

Right click > Show in Finder: It either shows it as being in the SSD’s root folder, or does go to the correct folder in the Music library, but the folder is empty.

Tried restarting the app, but it’s doing the same.

troberts,
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@DJDarren Is it possible you are now a ghost?

troberts,
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@DJDarren This eventuality happens surprisingly often. Hope you solve the Mac issue and/or who murdered you.

troberts, to random
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Fediverse tip.

If you want to search for posts you’ve made previously, the criteria “from:me” can be used.

E.g. If you wanted to search for all your posts related to the influential Belgian musical artist Technotronic, you would search “from:me technotronic”.

https://youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI?si=zpsGCuWI-n0q_1Bn

sister_ratched, to Canberra
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Horses tagged at Kaleen agistment blocks? Actual horses... 🤯

troberts,
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troberts, to random
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Iggy Pop really does have the best Jennifer Aniston haircut after Jennifer Aniston.

DJDarren, to random
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Morning champions!

Was about to make a fry up, then I realised that I have no mushrooms or baked beans.

Bugger.

troberts,
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@DJDarren Walk to the shop Darren! Make this Sunday legendary!

(you don't have to listen to me tho. it's ok)

troberts,
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@DJDarren You'll have to stare at the local Co-op through the frost encrusted window panes of your house, and imagine what could have been...

;)

troberts,
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@DJDarren I can't talk. I'm gonna make Vegemite toast tomorrow cause it's all I've got.

troberts, to random
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BRIAN BLESSED!!!

troberts, to random
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My understanding of Hamlet so far..

Hamlet’s friends- “We saw your dead Dad as a ghost.”

Hamlet - “No way.”

Hamlet’s friends - “Way.”

#Hamlet #Shakespeare

troberts, to random
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If you have a beard, and you don't know what 'beard oil' is, I suggest you look into it just in case it's for you.

Random beard tip.

alexkidman, to retrogaming
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It’s Friday, which means it’s retro game of the week time! Continuing my pinball theme this week, it’s the BEST video game pinball of all time. It can only be Dragon’s Fury/Devil’s Crush! https://alexreviewstech.com/retro-game-of-the-week-dragons-fury-devils-crush-mega-drive-pc-engine/

troberts,
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@alexkidman Regarding the GOAT Pinball game...

The main Pinball games I've played are:

  • NES 'Pinball'
  • 'Pokémon Pinball'
  • 'Devil's Tilt'
    I always wanted to play that 'Metroid Pinball' but never did.

Anyway, 'Devil's Tilt' certainly is pretty great.

However, a game I enjoyed far more than any of those listed above is 'Yoku's Island Express'. Obviously it's a genre-bender, but that's my pick.

troberts, to fallout
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Finished Fallout TV series this evening. Really fantastic series I thought, especially having played the 3rd and 4th games a fair bit.

Got super gory and disturbing at times tho.

troberts, to random
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We’ve named this little guy ‘Spippin’ aka ‘Spider Pippin’.

Pippin (the cat) hates Spippin.

troberts,
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@derthomas Huntsman’s tend to be scary cause they are so large and will do crazy things like run across your car window whilst driving. But they aren’t actually dangerous.

Redbacks and Funnel-Webs are reasonable dangerous tho. I have to spray poison in the garage to keep the Redbacks under control.

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