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davesnider

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A chaotic good web designer trying to not piss off the Internet. System design & open source https://hachyderm.io/@xata. Alum of Elastic and Giantbomb. Kermit the Frog is my model in life.

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RxBrad, to random
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Punted my wife twice last night, because I dreamed a different Greek God was trying to kill me every time I fell asleep.

Versed + Fentanyl does wild things.

And I guess I'm basically Kratos.

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@RxBrad I woke up last week with a violent physical jump after Hulk Hogan suplexed me in a dream. No drugs, just grew up in the 80s and he's there floating in my psyche.

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Rooms three through six in my Ker Nethalas run complete. I like doing one room a night and only giving myself 10 minutes for the sketch.

Having more fun then I expected playing an RPG by myself. It feels like a manual Wizardry game.

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Who says you can't play RPGs by yourself! Room one of my Ker Nethalas dungeon delve. Gonna draw a monster for each room.

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Two rooms cleared.

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@bss Yeah for me it's just an excuse for doodle prompts! Ker Nethalas is pretty grim and has a sanity check so it fits ballpoint scraw style!

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Watching Go (1999). Watched this one a dozen times in my early 20s. Don't miss a pre-cowboy Timothy Olyphant.

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Sitting in the Bird Bath section with the kids. Let's hope for extra base hits tonight.

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My wife... doesn't like cantaloupe. Also my wife... has a cantaloupe baller.

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Up early to smoke some pork.

Big green egg with smoke coming out.

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@caroline 12 years now. I use it all the time. Especially on nice sunny days. 🌞

davesnider, to random
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Pretty impressive bit of teamwork in yesterday's Orioles game.

In this play, the third baseball (Westburg) purposefully slides to give the Shortstop (Henderson) room to throw.

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My kids are 9 and 11. They've been interested in Dungeons and Dragons indirectly through me for years. I was worried it was a little too rule heavy for them, and instead started them on a Game Book (basically a choose your own adventure with state) called Legendary Kingdoms. It's meant to be single player, but you control four characters. I narrate.

We've had the best time playing through the story. Highly recommend as an intro to deeper gameplay for young kids.

https://www.spidermindgames.com/collections/legendary-kingdoms-1/products/legendary-kingdoms-book-one-the-valley-of-bones

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Watching Friedkin's Sorcerer for the first time. I've watched Wages of Fear many times before and know its beats. This is the rare remake that adds to the story while sticking to the tenants of the first film. It feels like a horror film closer to the tension / vibe of Apocalypse Now.

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MLB is so funny. I pay a decent chunk of change for a Flex plan for Orioles tickets (live). I pay for MLB TV. They blackout the games because I'm local and they want me paying for cable. I pay for a VPN to get around it. But MLB still has one game a day exclusive on Apple TV. I don't need that, so I'll just watch a pirate stream.

The money I'm paying to get around this bullshit id happily pay directly to them, bypassing all this middle man shit.

Makes zero sense. Miss the days of antennas.

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@sponge Unfortunately the local sports network is not provided as an over air channel.

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Does anyone have any good tutorials for Pico8 / Tic-80 aimed at kids? I need to elevate my kids past scratch and think thisight be a good fit?

ethanschoonover, to random
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Back from lakeside camping up by Mount Baker including a wilderness hot spring soak.

davesnider,
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@ethanschoonover Beautiful photos duder.

jimniels, to random
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I absolutely love when folks have the discipline to archive their previous site designs and make them accessible, like this page from @latte

https://anhvn.com/past-designs/

davesnider,
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@jimniels @tylergaw Sort of similar. I've actually archived all my design screenshots since 2008 or so and made them searchable. Even the bad and broken stuff.

https://www.davesnider.com/museum

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@jimniels @tylergaw Then here's a post that goes through my screenshot workflow (warning: I'm one of the weirdo designers on Linux)

https://www.davesnider.com/posts/screenshot-app

davesnider, to random
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I have always hated getting my hair cut. There's always something weird about going someplace every couple months and having a random stranger touch your head and cut off hair. "How do you want it cut"? Just writing that out, it seems so foreign to me, but it's something I've always done, because it's just what you do.

No more! I cut my own hair today. It looks fine. I've reached peak Dad.

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today marks my 8️⃣ year anniversary at . and it’s also a new start, since it’s my first day in SF to put us better on the map here — view from the office
PS: not an april fool‘s post 😅

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@xeraa Congrats! I loved living in SF while I was there.

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Somehow I'm enjoying Remnant II despite always bouncing off of other Soulslike games. I think the immediacy of hitscan guns does it for me. I'm always too impatient in the slow, heavy combat of Dark Souls.

I also like that most of its game mechanics aren't obscured by lore. I'm OK with clicking "make my game public" rather than needing some weirdly named item only a wiki would explain.

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@Novyx Yeah, been playing with headphones. The sound design is suuuuper well done. Can always tell which side the enemy is on. Just beat that weird maze boss. Super fun game.

davesnider, to Orioles
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Dude. This Orioles game is nuts. 9 runs this inning. Still no outs.

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Every year I think to myself... next year MLB will figure out their streaming strategy and not make me go through terrible VPN hoops to watch a team I already give a couple of thousand dollars a year to (I have a ticket plan for my family).

I don't understand how they expect to keep a fan-base this way.

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