*sigh* Find a promising urban fantasy webcomic, read all of it, discover that its on permanent hiatus for the last seven years—i.e. basically dead without hope for revival. And just as it was getting really good!
I want to know what happened before/after!
I tore off my clothing in despair!
No, it was not a naughty comic, there was no nudity—main characters were minors (14?). There was one kiss between teenagers.
*sigh* Find a promising urban fantasy webcomic, read all of it, discover that its on permanent hiatus for the last seven years—i.e. basically dead without hope for revival. And just as it was getting really good!
I want to know what happened before/after!
what comic is this?
I lost track of the comic that had black people in it as a weird Roman/police force.
Demon Hunter Kain. Kain, the title character is a black teenager, but he definitely isn't a weird Roman/police forcewhat comic is this?*sigh* Find a promising urban fantasy webcomic, read all of it, discover that its on permanent hiatus for the last seven years—i.e. basically dead without hope for revival. And just as it was getting really good!
I want to know what happened before/after!
I lost track of the comic that had black people in it as a weird Roman/police force.
If you find it again, link it.
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"But I'm not asking them to WORK I'm just asking them to sit around until there's a problem and then tell someone how to solve it"
"Isn't that your entire job?"
Uh-oh...
New Castlevania collection hit the steam...
Hmmmmm...
Dawn Of Sorrow, Portrait Of Ruin, and Order Of Ecclesia?
Me want!
SHOWTIME!
Are there any four more dangerous words in the English language than, "This is completely legal."
Yep. I'm reading about the thousands of people charged with bank fraud because a TikTok video told them it was completely legal.
*SIGH*
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I could get very, very political here, but I just plain won't.
In less political but almost-as-aggravating news, yesterday I had to help my mother-in-law install her new fiber optic modem. To call it an appalling experience would be an understatement:
Step 1: Install the manufacturer's proprietary app on your smart phone. Yep. There was NO way to configure the modem without their app. My mother-in-law is 77 years old. She has never owned a smart phone. She has no intention of ever owning a smart phone. If I hadn't been there to assist her, the modem would have been a useless brick sitting in her study.
NobodysHome's Rule #1: You should NEVER need an app to conduct basic business with a company.
Step 2: Create an account with said company. Yep. You couldn't configure the modem without creating an account. Which, of course, required that you provide contact information so they could verify your account. So because I didn't want my mother-in-law to stress, I gave my minimal information (phone and email). And yeah, the junk calls have already started. The worst was that the default setting was, "Link to my Amazon account," and if you read the fine print it was so they could access your entire shopping history to serve up targeted ads at you.
Step 3: Turn on location tracking "to help identify your device". Nope. I found the alternate, "Type in the 20-digit serial number" instead, but it wasn't easy.
Step 4: Decline the half-dozen apps they try to install on the modem to monitor everything you do, all attractively marketed as "efficiency tools".
The desire of every company out there to hoover up your information is vile. For ISPs to make it impossible to have an internet connection without providing contact information to such companies is beyond despicable.
/rant.
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Are there any four more dangerous words in the English language than, "This is completely legal."
"Install this efficiency app" apparently.
The blank stares I get when I say I don't own a cell phone are getting close.
In other "amusing" news the paper check is making a comeback.
I just had major work done on the Prius and the shop said that unless I paid with cash, check, or cashier's check I'd have to pay a 4% surcharge to make up for the credit/debit card fees. The scheduler said that he's finding more and more places are now adding that fee, so he's taken to carrying a paper check in his wallet wherever he goes.
Way to go, credit card companies! You've managed to bring back obsolete "technology" (he says as he orders more checks from his bank).
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Itt hathe all bene gowynge downhyll since we did stoppeth usynge Hacke-silver, that is wotte I do quoth.
Are there any four more dangerous words in the English language than, "This is completely legal."
Yep. I'm reading about the thousands of people charged with bank fraud because a TikTok video told them it was completely legal.
*SIGH*
I was just talking about something similar earlier...
Not many new cons out there.
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Are there any four more dangerous words in the English language than, "This is completely legal."
"We won't get caught."
"Hey, y'all, watch this."And one more I can't say due to politics, but it's on a few hats...
And now I have finished the Far Cry 6...
Contrary to what some naysayers say, it is not a terrible game — but it does have a lots of wasted potential.
It's main issue is that is mostly more of the same, and when they try to innovate, the changes are more often than not for the worse (removal of skill system and replacing it with putting perks on clothing pieces, preventing creation of any interesting and creative combinations) or pulled completely out of the donkey (extremally annoying and completely pointless change to third person view in the three main camps). They have even removed existing tools that would fit the game greatly (summoning friendly rebels to aid you, now those are either scripted or random).
Another issue that the game lacks enough interesting content for its size, it's bloated and extended in artificial and boring way.
When the game was fresh and much more people were playing it more intensely this challenge would be fine but not anymore now.
The story is very mixed bag, there are some interesting NPCs and quests but they don't flow very well, and mostly don't really tie into each other. There are three factions that are basically independent of each other, interactions between them could make the story much more engaging.
Giancarlo Esposito fully deliver, earning every penny he got from this game. The guy voice acting his son does good job, though he has nowhere near as much as screen time, and the boy often expresses a lot of silently in his scenes.
Ah, well, for now I have to decide if I want to finish the repetitive add-ons. They sounded promising when first announced but they are sort of let down too.
I love the game for the amigos.
Especially the rooster.
I mostly went around with Oluso (those eyes!).
Boom Boom was a disappointment, after being fine in FC5 :(
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I always used Peaches or Cheeseburger in 5. Our dog was named Peaches so I always have a soft spot for animals with food names.
Party is over and dishes are all cleaned and put way. I spent most of the night behind the bar or in the kitchen, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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"I want to pet it"
I've written the city many times before about their shortcomings in communication. (It was a decades-long standard that they'd send a postcard saying, "We'll give you 72-hour notice before we start work on your street," and then one Monday morning you'd wake up and find the street closed.)
But this... this is of far more epic proportions.
I got up, tried to get to the store... and today is the fricking Solano Stroll, with NO visible notice to residents. Yeah, having 40,000+ people show up unannounced in a town of 20,000 and closing down the main thoroughfare can't possibly inconvenience anyone, right?
I've written the city many times before about their shortcomings in communication. (It was a decades-long standard that they'd send a postcard saying, "We'll give you 72-hour notice before we start work on your street," and then one Monday morning you'd wake up and find the street closed.)
But this... this is of far more epic proportions.
I got up, tried to get to the store... and today is the fricking Solano Stroll, with NO visible notice to residents. Yeah, having 40,000+ people show up unannounced in a town of 20,000 and closing down the main thoroughfare can't possibly inconvenience anyone, right?
Dude, the Solano Stroll has been the same damned weekend for decades.
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I always used Peaches or Cheeseburger in 5. Our dog was named Peaches so I always have a soft spot for animals with food names.
I miss that little guy with the stripper name.
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Fantasy Monster: Last Rays Of The Deep Sun.
Some ancient underground civilization forgot to switch the lights off when they were done...
I've written the city many times before about their shortcomings in communication. (It was a decades-long standard that they'd send a postcard saying, "We'll give you 72-hour notice before we start work on your street," and then one Monday morning you'd wake up and find the street closed.)
But this... this is of far more epic proportions.
I got up, tried to get to the store... and today is the fricking Solano Stroll, with NO visible notice to residents. Yeah, having 40,000+ people show up unannounced in a town of 20,000 and closing down the main thoroughfare can't possibly inconvenience anyone, right?
Dude, the Solano Stroll has been the same damned weekend for decades.
I haven't lived there for six years and *I* remembered it!
Actually, "Decades" is an overstatement. Back when I actually used to frequent it in the 1980s and 1990s it was on the last Sunday in September. Google will only give me the dates back to 2014, so yes, for at least one decade it's been on the second Sunday, but it certainly wasn't always that way.
If you can find records that contradict me I'd love to see them. I just spent about 10 minutes trying to get Google to generate a list of Solano stroll dates for me to no avail. Maybe you'll have better luck.
Not to mention the whole, "People move," thing I was complaining about with the street sweeping. Just because you have the same event at the same time every year for 100 years doesn't mean you don't have to announce it; both the newcomers and those who don't care about it will otherwise not know about it.
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All I know is that it was always my birthday weekend, and I would use that as an excuse to not have to go because I detest street festivals.
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All I know is that it was always my birthday weekend, and I would use that as an excuse to not have to go because I detest street festivals.
LOL. We are kin.
But yeah, all the way back to 2014 it was the second Sunday. I could bother to go to City Hall and ask, but meh, if Google can't answer, I don't care. :-P
using Google to search for
first "Solano Stroll"gives me this as the first result
https://www.solanoavenueassn.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/solan oavenuestrollhistory.pdf
It's a nice history of the stroll, but it doesn't discuss the dates. For example, the 2013 stroll was on September 8 (the second Sunday). But Google AI will give you ONE year and then shut up about it, so I don't know when the 2012 stroll was... until I search tomorrow, I guess...
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All I know is that it was always my birthday weekend, and I would use that as an excuse to not have to go because I detest street festivals.
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F+%~ing Elden Ring DLC! Rot swamps, and blood swamps and regular swamps weren't enough of a pain in the ass? How about madness swamps! With giant rats, and madness sunflower people with madness Harry Potter wands that you can't hit unless you specifically parry the wand at a specific time otherwise it's back to the beginning. And your ghost horse is a giant wimp and won't let you summon them, so you can't just ride past the sunflower wizards.
So. The kids all have these youtube videos they watch where people make annoying sounds, like slurping, opening wrappers , tapping toys, and clicking things.
I don't know if that's supposed to be ASMR, but whatever that is I have the opposite of it. I want to smash the TV Or iphone making those noses and set them on fire. And then smash the ashes. And then smash the ashes and set them on fire.
I get annoyed by these sounds from accross the house, through doors, when people in the same room as the tv think they have the tv muted because they can't hear it at all...
I have finished Control DLC for Far Cry...
I don't think I will be finishing the other two DLCs, though I am not uninstalling FC, yet.
All I know is that it was always my birthday weekend, and I would use that as an excuse to not have to go because I detest street festivals.
That's different. It's Halloween.
I'm talking about the kind of street festivals that are row after row of vendor booths, mediocre cover bands, and McGruff the Crime Dog hanging out next to the bounce house in the "fun zone".
If I want to blow money frivolously, I'd rather go to a Con, where at least I can dress up and take pictures of all the awesome costumes.
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Actually, it would not surprise me to see someone cosplaying McGruff as a pervy Furry flasher at a Con. I bet it's been done.
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It's a terrible indictment of the downtown in my part of the world that I kind of like the street festivals here, since it's otherwise dead as a door-nail.
It's appalling, because the thought of the same-ish sort of thing in the metropolis where I grew up makes my skin crawl - but then again, there's always something going on there. Or at least a half-way to interesting window display to press one's nose against.
In all fairness, out here in the provinces, some of the booths are at least run by enthusiastic local shops and community organizations, rather than legions of grim merchants merely resigned to a weekend street closure, so. And it's not just mediocre cover bands here - that's what the community / conference hall is for! :/
It's a terrible indictment of the downtown in my part of the world that I kind of like the street festivals here, since it's otherwise dead as a door-nail.
It's appalling, because the thought of the same-ish sort of thing in the metropolis where I grew up makes my skin crawl - but then again, there's always something going on there. Or at least a half-way to interesting window display to press one's nose against.
In all fairness, out here in the provinces, some of the booths are at least run by enthusiastic local shops and community organizations, rather than legions of grim merchants merely resigned to a weekend street closure, so. And it's not just mediocre cover bands here - that's what the community / conference hall is for! :/
All I'm going to say is that I loved Ottawa's winter "festival" on the river. But then, Canada's population density is a couple of orders of magnitude below my area's, so a "crowded" Ottawa festival is pretty much a nearly-empty street around here...
EDIT: I was curious so here's the math:
Canada: Population 38.93 million (2022), area 3.8 million square miles. Population density roughly 10 people per square mile.
San Francisco Bay Area: Population 7.76 million (2020), area 7,000 square miles. Population density roughly 1100 people per square mile.
So that "a couple of orders of magnitude" throwaway was spot-on. I'm impressed. Though ask 10 locals about what it means to be in the San Francisco Bay Area and you'll get 10 different answers. Officials have given up and declared that the "Bay Area" is anywhere in the 7 counties that actually touch the bay, even though some of those counties extend across the coastal range and into the Central Valley, they're still considered the "Bay Area". And Napa isn't, even though it's basically our rich people's playground.
EDIT 2: This got me curious about Ottawa in comparison. Population 994,837 (2017), area 1072.63 square miles. Population density roughly 927 people per square mile. So at least it's closer to the Bay Area...
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Woooooow... interacting with the local wildlife pays dividends like you wouldn't believe:
(1) We had the skunk incident with the Fluffernutter, where a skunk huddled up against her when I scared it. Her non-reaction protected both her and me from the skunk losing it.
(2) We had the Raccoon Of Unusual Size incident where the giant raccoon didn't care that I came out to see what was happening.
(3) A couple of minutes ago I stepped out of the studio and startled two skunks who were just heading under the deck, so I was within 3' of them, startled them, and blocked their escape. Instead of spraying me, they ran frantically in circles and I started speaking. They immediately calmed down and one strolled right past me into its hiding space. The other was more skittish, but ran off around into the side yard. It was a younger one, so I could well have gotten sprayed, but the older one's recognition of me deescalated the situation to a simple, "Let's figure out where everyone wants to be and avoid each other," scenario.
Unfortunately, I couldn't move the trash cans out because that's where the juvenile decided to hide, but I'm giving it a few minutes to find a better hiding place and then I'll go back out.
EDIT: I find it amusing because I honestly believe that their teeny little pea brains (in the case of skunks) register, "This one is making normal-sounding noises, meaning it's going to behave in an expected way."
Try screaming when you see a skunk some time. It's pretty funny.
Impus Major's fly-by-night employment model has finally caught up with him, and not in the way you'd expect.
I carefully check his income totals and check with my accountant every year, so it's not the IRS.
It's that his new employer likes to write checks to "Impus Dang" instead of "Impus Major" because it amuses them in some way. The credit union accepted such checks for several months. But I think the idiotic Tik Tok video put them on their toes, so this week's check was rejected with, "You cannot do a mobile deposit of a third-party check."
His employers are going to need to write him checks with his actual name on them. What a concept!
(I've been appalled that banks and credit unions have been so callous about mobile check deposits for so long, but thanks to Tik Tok I'm sure they'll be reviewing every deposit carefully for at least the next couple of months.)
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But then, Canada's population density is a couple of orders of magnitude below my area's, so a "crowded" Ottawa festival is pretty much a nearly-empty street around here...
EDIT: I was curious so here's the math:
Canada: Population 38.93 million (2022), area 3.8 million square miles. Population density roughly 10 people per square mile.San Francisco Bay Area: Population 7.76 million (2020), area 7,000 square miles. Population density roughly 1100 people per square mile.
So that "a couple of orders of magnitude" throwaway was spot-on. I'm impressed. Though ask 10 locals about what it means to be in the San Francisco Bay Area and you'll get 10 different answers. Officials have given up and declared that the "Bay Area" is anywhere in the 7 counties that actually touch the bay, even though some of those counties extend across the coastal range and into the Central Valley, they're still considered the "Bay Area". And Napa isn't, even though it's basically our rich people's playground.
EDIT 2: This got me curious about Ottawa in comparison. Population 994,837 (2017), area 1072.63 square miles. Population density roughly 927 people per square mile. So at least it's closer to the Bay Area...
Now you’ve got me curious. There are so many of all y’all that I’m not sure how I’d model where most Americans live (everyone in California and New England?), but using the factoid that 90% of us live within 100 km of the border, a back-of-the-envelope estimate for where most of us live gives me a pop. density of about 100 Canucks/sq. mile, on average, I think.
Which feels about right? Choose a random Canadian town and it’s likely to feel about an order of magnitude less exciting (in terms of people hanging around) to a spoiled big-city princess like me, but not actually desolate, unless chance lands you out in the actual woods or prairie.
Uh-oh. Is this math-y enough to summon a raging Freehold? :)
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Actually, it would not surprise me to see someone cosplaying McGruff as a pervy Furry flasher at a Con. I bet it's been done.
It wasn't supposed to be pervy, it was all a big misunderstanding.
EDIT: I was curious so here's the math:Uh-oh. Is this math-y enough to summon a raging Freehold? :)
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First session of my Troika! campaign. Combat needs to be made much more difficult.
They haven't found the wreck dinosaur mecha yet, either, but I'm sure they will.
Now you’ve got me curious. There are so many of all y’all that I’m not sure how I’d model where most Americans live (everyone in California and New England?), but using the factoid that 90% of us live within 100 km of the border, a back-of-the-envelope estimate for where most of us live gives me a pop. density of about 100 Canucks/sq. mile, on average, I think.
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As a cook, it is baffling and confusing to me how hard it is to get some simple ideas across to non-cooks.
Mustard.
Any condiment primarily flavored by the seeds of the mustard plant is called "mustard", and adjectives are added to describe what kind of mustard to use. If you're supposed to add 1/2 cup of yellow mustard to a sauce and instead you add 1/2 cup of hot sweet mustard, that sauce isn't going to taste anything like you expect.
So I've been making the Fake Russian's ex-wife's corned beef glaze. (And yes, LM, I put it over home-brined corned beef.) And it's been appalling. I need spicy brown mustard.
Kid Trip #1: Brings back stone ground dijon mustard. "It was the brownest mustard they had."
I explain mustards to the kids.
Kid Trip #2: Brings back hot sweet mustard, yellow mustard, regular dijon mustard, and hot dijon mustard and says that's all they had so I had to deal with it.
I told him next time not to buy anything.
So this time I found that we *STILL* don't have any spicy brown mustard so, like a crappy ex-boyfriend, I went back to the corner store hoping that they had changed.
Nope. They had an entire bookcase-sized section dedicated to ketchup, mustard, relish, and horseradish. And no spicy brown mustard.
As Impus Major put it, "How can a place have a deli and not carry spicy brown mustard?"
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EDIT: I find it amusing because I honestly believe that their teeny little pea brains (in the case of skunks) register, "This one is making normal-sounding noises, meaning it's going to behave in an expected way."
Try screaming when you see a skunk some time. It's pretty funny.
"AHHHHHH
"Hello
"OH! I didn't recognize you bringer of peanut butter.
I often joke that I can run wild empathy off of con because the critter bites or scratches me and then seeing we're not fighting is just like well I guess we're not fighting then, I'm cool with just sitting here with the giant thing I can't hurt apparently... Then this became an actual feat in starfinder.
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EDIT: I find it amusing because I honestly believe that their teeny little pea brains (in the case of skunks) register, "This one is making normal-sounding noises, meaning it's going to behave in an expected way."
Try screaming when you see a skunk some time. It's pretty funny."AHHHHHH
"Hello
"OH! I didn't recognize you bringer of peanut butter.
Experienced this one just last night. I went out onto the back deck at dusk and a skunk I didn't recognize was out in the yard. It looked at me, I looked at it, and it resumed nomming. Since it was light enough to see it well, I invited Impus Minor to come out and take a look. The moment Impus Minor came out the skunk panicked, ran in a little circle, lifted its tail, then ran through a hole in the fence.
Somehow, in spite of being legendarily nearsighted, at 20' away the skunk recognized me as "the harmless one" and Impus Minor as "unknown potential threat".
No idea how it could tell us apart from that distance or what it was thinking. It wasn't, "Now there are two of them," because I've watched them with GothBard before.
OK, I'll admit it: I've hated fingerprint recognition for years because it's never worked for me. My iPad continues to refuse to recognize my fingerprint at all, and my Android is so twitchy about it that it's usually faster to just type in the PIN.
But I realized that when I'm first booting up for work, my laptop is open and right in front of me, and the fingerprint sensor is right there, so I might as well try and complain about it on FaWtL when it failed.
Set it up yesterday. This morning I started the computer. Log in? Fingerprint touch and it actually worked. Sign in to the corporate web sites on Chrome? Fingerprint touch. Sign in to the corporate web sites on Firefox? Fingerprint touch. Sure, it saved me all of 6-8 seconds overall over typing in the PIN three times, but over hundreds of days that adds up.
Congratulations, Microsoft! You actually built a fingerprint scanner that recognizes my finger!
(Of course the next test will be to see whether Impus Minor's finger unlocks it, since his fingers are roughly the same size and shape and I'm dubious about a fingerprint scanner that works so well and so quickly, but time will tell...)
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EDIT: I find it amusing because I honestly believe that their teeny little pea brains (in the case of skunks) register, "This one is making normal-sounding noises, meaning it's going to behave in an expected way."
Try screaming when you see a skunk some time. It's pretty funny."AHHHHHH
"Hello
"OH! I didn't recognize you bringer of peanut butter.
Experienced this one just last night. I went out onto the back deck at dusk and a skunk I didn't recognize was out in the yard. It looked at me, I looked at it, and it resumed nomming. Since it was light enough to see it well, I invited Impus Minor to come out and take a look. The moment Impus Minor came out the skunk panicked, ran in a little circle, lifted its tail, then ran through a hole in the fence.
Somehow, in spite of being legendarily nearsighted, at 20' away the skunk recognized me as "the harmless one" and Impus Minor as "unknown potential threat".
No idea how it could tell us apart from that distance or what it was thinking. It wasn't, "Now there are two of them," because I've watched them with GothBard before.