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buckysrevenge

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Stay at home dad, interested in #VideoGames, #Linux, #SciFi, other geeky stuff. I run a sci-fi #BookClub in Portland, Oregon

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tashasounart, to random
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I'm so glad me and my husbands' jobs are understanding because I don't think reliable childcare exists unless maybe it's a family member.

buckysrevenge,
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@tashasounart it's exactly why I quit my formal job 20 years ago, my son is non-verbal and wouldn't easily be able to tell us if he was being neglected or abused. Luckily now I'm employed as his personal support worker through my state's Medicaid so it worked out in the end

tashasounart, to random
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It's charming that my mom still cuts out articles from a magazine and mails them to me in an envelope complete with name and address written in neat cursive.

buckysrevenge,
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@tashasounart yeah it's a very boomer equivalent to sharing a link to an article 😁

tashasounart, to Disneyland
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Was at Disneyland for the last couple days for the Pixar Place Hotel opening (will share photos soon) but the cutest/best part of my trip was when my son went with me on Indiana Jones and when the ride ended, he burst into applause. 😍

buckysrevenge,
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@tashasounart one of my sons when he was 4 or 5 was convinced that the Eye would really turn him into a skeleton, but still insisted on riding 💀

buckysrevenge,
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@tashasounart coincidentally my oldest son (autistic) and I are actually down from Portland for the next few days visiting Disneyland as well!

scummvm, to random
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Our resolution for 2024: around 640x480.

(You knew this was coming, right?!)

buckysrevenge,
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@scummvm

Band Of Misfits Monkey GIF unenthusiastically playing a rim shot on a drum kit

tashasounart, to Parenting
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Looking at a picture of a spiny starfish
My kid: "You can't touch."
Me: "No, you don't want to touch that."
Kid: "Game over."

buckysrevenge,
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@tashasounart did you read the recent news that they determined that the sea star's whole body is basically a head crawling facedown everywhere? Freaky stuff

Starfish Sing GIF

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/future-3

buckysrevenge,
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@ZachWeinersmith coincidence that this was posted a couple days ago? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231114-time-travel-what-if-you-met-your-future-self

Nifflas, (edited ) to random
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Best superpower? Time travel is discovered. How would you prefer changes to the past are handled?

buckysrevenge,
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@Tijn @Nifflas just don't eat any mammalian creatures while you're there, you might wipe us all out of existence

gamingonlinux, to random
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Likely nothing on the site tomorrow as quite sick 🤧

buckysrevenge,
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@gamingonlinux hope you feel better soon

Nifflas, (edited ) to random
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Best superpower? You can travel between five portals that are only visible to you. They're perfectly safe, and you decide their locations.

Select an extra trait.

buckysrevenge,
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@Nifflas I assume you can bring with you anything you can reasonably carry?

glassbottommeg, (edited ) to random
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I keep discarding book keeping systems like tissue paper, wondering how on earth anyone makes these things work long term.

Intuit? Jesus, it tied itself in knots after a year.

Zoho? Seems good at first, but if your feeds from your accounts EVER BREAK, that's it. Fixing them again is functionally impossible. You're expect to hand edit to fix any missed transactions, and it's even odds whether reconnecting the feeds will also corrupt the entire history.

I just. I don't get how any of these things stay in business.

All the while, I'm thinking "Quicken worked better than any of these, and you just bought it once forever."

Is there anything like Quicken/etc out there still? Not online, no bank connections, just rules that filter transactions and you import the statements manually. I'm fucking done. This entire industry has rotted over the last decade, and I don't think there's any functional options left. Any online option that works today will stop working by the end of the year because That's The Biz.

buckysrevenge,
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@glassbottommeg along with Homebank, there's also GnuCash and KMyMoney, they've both been around a while, I haven't used any of them for a while since my finances are pretty basic and my bank has a decent enough website

Nifflas, to random
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Random game dev tip! I know it's extremely specific, but it took me two games to fully internalize it.

If in 2D, player aims with a thumbstick, hide the aiming line completely when they center the stick.

Otherwise, many players will not realize they can adjust their aim with the thumbstick without re-centering it every time. They'll frustratedly keep flinging and flinging the stick until aim line points perfectly.

Yes, I promise this is very common. I've done tons of playtesting to solve this

buckysrevenge,
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@Nifflas ASA is like Kinect Party on the Xbox 360 - the best use of the peripheral for that console and the only reason I keep those respective consoles

gamingonlinux, to random
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Actually had to open the ifixit kit to get a battery out of the Steam Controller 😅

buckysrevenge,
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@gamingonlinux yeah, at least 2 of mine need a lot of coaxing to get the batteries out

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Awesome numbers on photovoltaic shipments:

Lowest price on record, highest month for shipments ever. 10x as much shipped as all of 2006, lower overall cost. Solar is gonna eat the world.

buckysrevenge,
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@ZachWeinersmith now if they can convince the power companies in the US to set this up rather than individuals in their houses being potentially suckered by sketchy solar companies.

Nifflas, (edited ) to random
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Best superpower? Teleportation! All painless. Options:

A: Your body is destroyed and an identical one (on a subatomic level) is constructed elsewhere.

B: All particles are disassembled, moved, and put together identically.

C: Like in the Portal games.

D: Let's not teleport!

buckysrevenge,
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@Nifflas I'm hoping that we get a scenario like in Star Trek: TNG and I get doppelgangers running about

tashasounart, to Parenting
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Ugg today's an extra coffee day. Was up tossing & turning thinking about my son's school situation (we're not happy with his classroom placement again)

buckysrevenge,
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@tashasounart my wife is really worried, too (I'm just a bit anxious 😵‍💫). Our daughter is going to a new school, new teacher, 😬. Luckily she knows some of the other students already and her previous teacher (whom we loved) selected the new classroom for my daughter

buckysrevenge,
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@tashasounart we try 🙂

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Just 12 more hours to get the two new books, to get signed books, AND to get free audiobooks thrown in. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/the-universe-abridged-beyond-the-point-of-usefulness?ref=user_menu

buckysrevenge,
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@ZachWeinersmith over 3000 backers now! Can't wait to hear what's up in the next update!

gamingonlinux, to random
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The new Jsaux dock sure is pretty when lit up huh

buckysrevenge,
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@gamingonlinux they've been putting the Ethernet jack in the back finally! When did they start doing that?

buckysrevenge,
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@gamingonlinux weird, their website shows it on the back https://jsaux.com/products/rgb-docking-station-for-steam-deck

Nifflas, (edited ) to random
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Best superpower? You have done well protecting the fragile glass orb which destroys the universe if broken. But now it's time to pass it on. Who shall be its new guardian?

buckysrevenge,
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@Nifflas aka which of the 3 Stooges is the least incompetent? https://tenor.com/X5QS.gif

tashasounart, to random
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My husband and I both just got over covid, now the kid is sniffling and sneezing 😩

buckysrevenge,
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@tashasounart oh no, hope it's just allergies

tashasounart, to random
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My kid must be the only person on earth who gets excited to go to the dentist 😆

buckysrevenge,
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@tashasounart after my son got used to the routine he was fine with it, he got excited because there was a specific video he always watched when he went

Nifflas, (edited ) to random
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Best superpower? A movie about your life is made and it's wildly popular. Some say it's the directors' best work. The movie is very loosely based on reality. Extremely loosely.

Who will direct it?

buckysrevenge,
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@Nifflas Wes Anderson maybe instead?

tashasounart, to random
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They never told me when I became a parent that I would have to watch "Monsters vs. Aliens" on repeat 😬

buckysrevenge,
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@tashasounart you wouldn't believe how many of my son's DVDs I've memorized

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