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rivetgeek

@rivetgeek@dice.camp

Old school commie fiction first story gamer swine
Elderly rivethead
Senior SQL Server DBA
Tribes in the Dark Lead Designer
(He/Him)

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rivetgeek, to random
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This "All Purpose Flour" is a scam. It does not work as sugar.

Da_Gut, to random
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Well, I went to my primary care doctor yesterday, and had a bunch of labs done.
In the words of my wife "They are disgustingly good". (She is jealous of my cholesterol reading).
My A1C is a bit high (I've had diabetes for a while) but just barely over what we want it.
Everything else checks out... the low side of normal.
Interesting!

rivetgeek,
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@Da_Gut I found a primary care center that does the blood draws on-site for labs. They're associated with a private hospital in Seattle, which is why I think they do that. It make its a lot easier for me because I'm pre-diabetic (slowly beating it back) and hate to get my blood drawn, not a great combo when it needs to be done every few months. It's hard to procrastinate when the doctor says, "Just go into the waiting area, they'll call you".

rivetgeek,
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@Da_Gut Mine is almost entirely from a voracious soda habit. I just stopped cold except the occasional can of Sprite. My food diet intake wasn't really a concern, I eat pretty light normally, but too much cholesterol and processed food (tbh, I eat because I have to). I started eating more fruits and vegetables. I've lost like 6 lbs but I wasn't that overweight to begin with (20 lbs or so). Crossing my fingers with my next blood lab in a couple months that my A1C drops into the low 5s.

xinicit, to random
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The owner of this Chinese buffet is watching me eat like they’re casino security and I’m counting cards.

rivetgeek,
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@xinicit https://youtu.be/5KUyhlgxwFI?si=DbXNI9xvlzLvJFj3

thebrand, to random
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I'm seeing a lot of my fellow Gen-Xers saying "When did we start thinking the police were the bad guys?"

Did you not come up on Fuck the Police? On Killing in the Name?

Or is this only because now that you have your little bit of shit and feel entitled that you want to remake it? To be safe for you, instead of strong for them? To become the generation we hated for not protecting us?

These kids are doing what we did. Being who we wanted to be. Help them, don't shit on them. Fucking cowards.

rivetgeek,
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@miriamrobern @thebrand Yeah, it baffles me and is super weird.

rivetgeek,
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@LeviKornelsen @thebrand Myself and the few of my peers I'm still good friends with were never on the conservative side, and took much of the anti-establishment ethos of our high school years deeply to heart even if we wound up being boring old dudes. The ones who turned into raging MAGA chuds were just like us, going to the same clubs and listening to the same music and wearing lipstick and eyeliner and skirts. That's why it's so damn baffling.

rivetgeek,
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@LeviKornelsen @thebrand Like when I was 20 I was muttering "Fuck the Police" when cops were profiling me as I walked down the street. I kind of never stopped. Somewhere along the way, the same people who would have done the same are slapping Punisher stickers on their lifted trucks. No idea WTF happened to them.

rivetgeek,
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@thebrand @LeviKornelsen The dude I know who I met when he was a 16-year old punk kid and who was in a diverse circle of friends that included many sexual orientations and genders and ethnicities turned into a neo-Nazi, racist, Odinist, mouth-breathing MAGA. And he's half-Hispanic to boot. Blows my fucking mind.

rivetgeek,
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@thebrand @LeviKornelsen One of his best friends growing up, the younger brother of one of my high school girlfriend's friends, was from Guatemala. Their family escaped to the US in the early 80s, and before that they saw some shit. He had to completely disown the MAGA chud even though it broke his heart to do it.

rivetgeek,
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@kevin @thebrand @LeviKornelsen Way too many of them.

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rivetgeek, to random
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S6 is coming soon.

androidarts, to random
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Saw someone claim that games didn't use to have political content. Seems like bollocks. Final Fantasy 7? Too many to name? I think people just didn't notice because they were kids and controversy stirring was less of a thing.

Back then it was mainly outsiders being upset about games perhaps? I remember Commando Libya, Cannon Fodder and also the whole satanism panic...

rivetgeek,
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@androidarts Even the game that became Monopoly was political...

Tim_Eagon, to random
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Ugh, someone scheduled a meeting on a Friday afternoon at 3pm...

rivetgeek,
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@Tim_Eagon

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Tim_Eagon, to random
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For the most part, I'm glad I waited until my mid-30s to have kids, but having a 6-year old at almost 48 leads to a special kind of exhaustion!

rivetgeek,
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@Tim_Eagon Preach! Our son is almost 10 now, I was 44 when he was born. Way different experience than when I was in my mid-20s or 30s.

Edent, (edited ) to random
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You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
1/3

rivetgeek,
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@Edent It's a scam the tries to overload the bank account holder with decisions in the hope they just go along with it.

valthonis, to random
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I understand why currency bills have security features (to defeat counterfeiters.) What I don't get is why so many treasuries and national banks advertise their security features. It feels like they're just telling would-be counterfeiters what new hardware to buy to pull it off.

Am I missing something?

rivetgeek,
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@johnwsheldon @valthonis Also I think the strategy is that by layering the various security features it forces counterfeiters to concentrate on just one or two to try to replicate. It's gotten complex enough that they can't reproduce all of them. The absence of one is easier to notice than the presence of the others.

thoughtpunks, to random
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What game was hardest for you to wrap your head around? I've seen a lot of people struggle with Mage and Burning Wheel, as examples. What about you? What was hard for you to grasp? Or what has been hard for your players in the past?

rivetgeek,
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@thoughtpunks I think it might be PbtA. Not that I don't get how most PbtA games I've read are supposed to work. It's just that the core loop isn't intuitive to me.

rivetgeek, to random
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set list dropped, and true the festival's name they have scheduled Duran Duran opposite Tones on Tail.

rivetgeek, to random
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I had to go to Wal-Mart (I know), and someone asked the cashier about the self-check area being closed while she was ringing me up. She said they were taking them out because of too much theft. I said, "It's for the best. If you see someone shoplifting, oh no you didn't". She wasn't amused.

rivetgeek, to random
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Flight booked for . I realized that with the time difference I was looking at outbound times wrong. So I booked a flight on Tues night that arrives Weds morning. It's practically the same as when I went to Indy a few years ago, just from a different airport. Flight to Denver, deplane, get on another flight to Indy. As long as I can crash after I get to the hotel I'll be good.

rivetgeek, to random
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Very apropos right now.

https://youtu.be/S-Zj5v6zp6Q?si=ARhJwV0k9CnNEwSc

valthonis, to random
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Thicc dames before thicc frames.

Dealing with MTU mismatches at work. Jumbo Frames: not even once.

rivetgeek,
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@valthonis The three Fates - D&D, DNS, and MTU.

rivetgeek, to random
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Oh great, apparently the latest Pixel Slate update made the onscreen keyboard even less useful.

exador23, to random
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Scientists on the Whale-SETI team have successfully communicated with a humpback whale named Twain, having a 20-minute “conversation” with the aquatic animal. This historic experiment involved a recorded whale call that the team played into the ocean using an underwater speaker, which led Twain to circle their boat and respond using a “greeting signal.” The exchange lasted for 20 minutes, and Twain would match the interval variations from the team’s calls, indicating that the two parties were indeed communicating with each other.

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/scientists-speak-humpback-whale-experiment.html

rivetgeek,
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@exador23 Paging @jdbarber

armadajosh, to random
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Here is the culmination of all the silly questions I've been asking about dogs. I've probably mis-assigned half the breeds, and the stats may not really make sense. Still, the basic framework seems right to me base on my interactions with dogs.

rivetgeek,
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@armadajosh For sure, at least partially. Ours is 85 lbs which is on the big end. To quote my boss, "Jesus Christ, that's a big dog".

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