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zalasur

@zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net

I play strategy games, write software, and stream on Peertube (not necessarily in that order). Also, sock monkeys! Preferred pronouns: he/him/his.

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zalasur, to DwarfFortress
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Today we are striking the Earth. With our embark preparations completed in our sinister biome, we begin the search for iron and the magma we will use to power our forges! What threats do we face in the wilderness? We don't know yet, but I'm sure we will find out.

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

zalasur, to random
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Gonna eat lunch. Finish up work. Then, Dwarf Fortress time!

zalasur, to random
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You know I think I will squeeze in a stream this afternoon. Tonight I have to disassemble my desk upstairs which means I if I am going to play some Dwarf Fortress, my window of opportunity is between 3 and 7 PM tonight.

DeliaChristina, to random
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6 am is really the most productive hour of the day.

zalasur,
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Juju, to random
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With everything going on I feel like I should be boycotting Eurovision?
Unfortunately, I feel very conflicted.

zalasur,
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@Juju Wait... what's going on with Eurovision?

zalasur,
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@Juju boooooo 😤

NanoRaptor, to random
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That's a win for team bears.

zalasur,
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@NanoRaptor No one is going to question where that cheese came from.

zalasur, to DwarfFortress
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Tonight on Dwarf Fortress, The Plane of Myth: a new world with some tweaked parameters. I'll be settling on an embark site and choosing a Dwarven civilization to help me take over the region. Will it work? Hard to tell, but it's worth a shot.

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

zalasur, to random
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One thing they don't tell you about getting older is that all your friends that are "aging well" are the ones who looked like they were already in their forties back when they were twenty.

zalasur, to random
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My observations of a certain segment of IT:

Infosec Professional, 2023: I am an expert with years of experience who understands best security practices and the most urgent vulnerabilities plaguing the Internet in the modern day and age

Infosec Professional, 2024: This is my farm. I grow potato. I do not live within a five mile radius of a power line or any other functioning electronics.

zalasur,
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@ai6yr A little of column A, a little of column B 😉

zalasur, to random
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It's impossible to sing along to a Pearl Jam song without sounding like Adam Sandler impersonating Eddie Vedder on SNL. This is known fact.

HCBunny, to random
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Posting to the wind

zalasur,
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@HCBunny Remember to post downwind, not upwind, or else you'll get post blown back into your face.

RickiTarr, to random
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What cracks me up is when you go to a restaurant, and they ask if you've been there before, and then they say, "Well, we do things a little different here", and then it's exactly like every other restaurant, but more expensive.

zalasur,
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@RickiTarr "Our chefs do this amazing thing where they make the portions smaller!"

"Does this save us money?"

"Oh, no. No, no. Not even close."

zalasur, to random
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So did the brain worm starve to death? HEY-OOOOOOO

batkaren, to random
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Great day for an old-timey comeback of mercury poisoning and brain worms!

zalasur,
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@batkaren I read that and you'd think I'd be shocked. Shocked, I tell you!

Ok not all that shocked.

zalasur, to random
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If you think you're part of the problem, try setting your sights higher and become most of the problem.

zalasur, to random
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I have this urge to play Minecraft but I don't want to rejoin the multiplayer server. It's not that it's a bad server; quite the opposite. But being absent from an active server hosting a sandbox game means you join in and everything is unrecognizable and they've got this crazy economy system going and I'm like I just wanna play with silly blocks.

mudboot, to random
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I had a dream that someone took me to an octopus restaurant but didnt tell me until we walked into the dining area. And they said, "this is an octopus restaurant" and even in my shocked state, I immediately located the kitchen doors, ran in, found the octopus tank, stuck both my arms in, they latched on, rescued every octopus i could manage, and ran.
And i'd do it again too

zalasur,
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@mudboot Somewhere out there in the indescribable aether there are a bunch of dream octopodes who owe you their lives.

RobSF, to random
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One thing they don’t tell you is that when you’re in your mid-60s reading a novel about characters in their late 40s, you still imagine them as older than you.

zalasur,
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@RobSF I once described this guy I saw as "an older gentleman". I was asked how old, and I replied, "he seemed to be in his late forties or early fifties."

It slowly dawned on me. That's me. I just described me.

zalasur, to random
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"We have updated your estimated delivery time. Pray we do not update it any further."

andrewdessler, to random
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typing planet "Jupiter" and almost — almost! — typed it Jupyter

zalasur,
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@andrewdessler Still mad at myself that I keep typing "google" when referring to the number.

mcc, to random
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I love Nine Inch Nails, and I love the Revolting Cocks, but I've never listened to, like, any Ministry. I wonder if I should. One problem is it's hard to know where to get started, there is a lot of it

zalasur,
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@mcc Ministry is one of those bands where if you start with a random album it will be a solid choice no matter what.

My personal favorite is Filth Pig.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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My daughter just quit her job that reduced her hours down to 8 a week.

Good for her.

I'm sure she'll find something else soon, or start selling her paintings. Either way, I'm glad she's done with that place.

If I was a bitter father, I'd wait two months, create an alias, and start a complaint campaign to corporate about their managers lack of any real managerial skills.

But, that's not me. (this time) I'd rather focus on the future and helping her move forward.

zalasur,
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@HouseOfSten @Mrfunkedude They say that making good decisions is the result of wisdom. They also say that wisdom is the result of making bad decisions.

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zalasur,
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@infobeautiful "That's amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!" - Mel Brooks as President Scroob

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