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tango

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Furry, Con Staffer, Guild Wars 2 Player, Board/Card Gamer. He/Him.

Find me online: https://link.space/@RebelsHeart

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tango, to random
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I stream to raise money for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals as part of .

All this month, every $5 you donate through my campaign is an entry into a raffle to win a commission worth up to $450 from Animal Shapes. Check out this example below and get more information at https://extra-life.org/participant/rebelsheart

thevglibrary, to FinalFantasy
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Favourite pixelated game....GO❗️

And when you're done, be sure to check out FFDOT., a love letter to the incredible pixel art found in the first 6 entries of the series. ♥️📚

👉 https://thevideogamelibrary.org/book/ff-dot-the-pixel-art-of-final-fantasy

@bookstodon

tango,
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@thevglibrary @bookstodon VI. Hands down. No hesitation.

tango, to random
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Tonight at 7pm MDT - in just 15 minutes! - my friends and I will be streaming Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game for 's Tabletop Appreciation Weekend.

https://extra-life.org/participant/rebelsheart

tango, to random
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REMINDER TO MOST OF NORTH AMERICA:
Daylight Saving Time begins tonight.

tango, to random
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Twister is getting a sequel almost 30 years later…

tango, to random
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I’ve had Yoarashi, my 2023 Mustang Mach-E, a year as of today.

lauren, to random
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By the way, the one time in my career that I've ever pressed "The big red button that shall never be pressed!" was at RAND.

It is standard for computer room facilities to have a way to kill all power to the equipment quickly in cases of emergency. Traditionally this is a very large red button that can be pressed for this purpose, often just inside an entry door. Typically it's under some sort of plastic shield or such to avoid it being pressed accidentally.

This button is never to be used in the course of normal events. Because it abruptly terminates all power to associated equipment, the risk of data loss and even equipment damage is very significant.

So one day, I walk down the stairs to my basement computer room at RAND where the PDP-11s and ARPANET interfaces lived. I open the door ... and there's nothing there but a wall of white.

When faced with something like that, it takes a couple of seconds to figure out what the hell is going on -- it's not in your brain's expected scenarios for opening that door.

The room was full of white smoke.

Within a few seconds I reached up under the shield just inside the door and slammed down the "never to be pressed" red button.

Instantly power was cut to the UNIX PDP-11s, the ARPANET equipment, a bunch of peripherals, and even a number of disk drives that were in an adjacent room that serviced the big IBM mainframe on the ground floor above.

As it turned out, the Halon fire suppression system was within a few seconds of firing when I killed the power -- management was pretty happy about that since recharging the Halon was expensive.

I got a DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) CE (Customer Engineer) out to RAND within a couple of hours. He quickly found the source of the problem.

A PDP-11/70 power supply had dramatically failed. It was partly molten slag. Very impressive. I tried to get the RAND photographer down to take a photo of it (this was long before cell phone cameras or even cell phones), but the CE grabbed the power supply, hid it under his coat, and ran out to his car with it.

Apparently he wasn't thrilled with the prospect of photographic evidence of the failure.

Interesting day.

tango,
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@lauren This is far more dramatic than me hitting the big red button on a roller coaster once.

tango, to random
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Only in an airport…

tango, to random
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Flight crew: “we’re not sure if you were notified, but departure has been delayed 20 minutes to accommodate some delayed connections. We’re anticipating a shorter flight than usual, so we should still be on time.”
Airline app: (silence)
Airline app as I type the above: “Flight status update!”

tango, to random
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Married life

tango, to random
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Persons who have an Apple Watch Series 9 or Ultra 2 - which did you pick and what made you pick that one over the other one?

tango,
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@tailsy I charge my 6 before bed. 6 months ago that was charge between 8p and 9p.

About 3 months ago it became charge from 7:30-9.

In the past month it’s become start charging between 7 and 7:15 and it’s ready beteeen 9 and 9:15.

I know people charge them overnight, but I find the sleep tracking important.

tango, to random
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I want something different for birthday lunch.

I don’t want a lot because @iberianwolf are going out tonight.

Subway and Five Guys should not be the leading contenders…

tango, to random
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Tonight’s Metroid Prime adventure:
“Hey, the Omega Pirate is over here!”
Me: -goes artifact hunting instead-

tango, to random
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Hearing reports of people whose Telegram accounts are being suspended (or similar) simply for being linked to a Google voice number. Anyone else ?

tango, to random
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On my plane. First one in years with a video screen in the back of the seat.

tango, to random
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This year's theme for Online Caroling is "My Childhood". To that end, please enjoy "A Christmas to Remember" performed by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCzRkv6q4fQ

tailsy, to random
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Why would a company respond to your complaints about their product if they know you will never stop using it no matter what they do?

tango,
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@tailsy I don’t expect a response, but venting sometimes feels good

tango,
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@tailsy I don’t get a say in what I use at work.

tango, to random
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tango, to random
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Building my annual playlist is a good way to end the night.

I only need 3 more songs!

tango,
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And done

isomeme, to accessibility
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Sometimes I can't help but wonder whether some large fraction of product designers actively hate people with low vision. For example, I just had to take a photo and use zoom and image enhancement to determine that this Keurig pod is decaffeinated.

If I were Empress of Earth, I would allow only vision-impaired people to work as product or UX designers.

tango,
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@isomeme @Chip_Unicorn white on yellow is always bad.

Also, I thought this was branded “Panera Bread” and was wondering why they weren’t using their usual logo.

tango, to random
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It’s only a little foggy at work. And it was clear at 7a…

tailsy, to random
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Make absolutely, positively sure before hitting that "Search" button...

...that you typed "otaku games scart," and not "otaku games scat."

Be extra sure. Be surer than me.

tango,
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@tailsy oh dear

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