I used to school the locals at SF2 and MK back like 20 years ago. This was in the quarters on the ridge, winner sticks, GenX days. I still get recognized in the surrounding towns.
This was all fine and dandy in the rural town I grew up in, but then I did a trip to a major city, out to Vancouver, and I got demolished by the big city kids. It was a disaster. I was getting laid out left and right. Just dummied. Sickened. Was humbled.
Whatever. I still clean up locally on the rare occasion it comes up. One of those guys from the town over ended up working at the same place I did for a while and he was going on about his SF2 prowess, so one day I brought in a Switch with some decent controllers and we went at it. We went 9 games to 1 in my favour in a 10 game series.
I work at a consulting engineering firm and write a lot of reports that are read by the public. I have an opportunity to recommend a different font for all of our written documents and am looking for something more modern/fresh than Times New Roman. Also open to recommendations for purpose specific communities about...
Nohwere? It’s an anagram but it’s not straight up backwards for “nowhere”, at least not quite. Presumably it’s named after the novel, which I knew nothing about before five minutes ago in any event.
A Senate bill that would require Canadians to verify their age online before accessing porn is moving through the House of Commons without the support of the Liberal government.
Apparently a season 4 too which I was unaware of. There are places you can read, but I’ll refrain from posting, but they wouldn’t be difficult to find if you take a look around.
I sort of happened to me once. I created an image and posted it eons ago (2006), got a few laughs, then promptly forgot about it. A few years later, like five years after the fact, I was following along with a PowerPoint presentation at some work thing and there was my image in the middle of it. Apparently the image had become an office favourite and ended up spawning a bunch of similar images, then t-shirts, coffee mugs, posters, all sorts of things. I started seeing the image in things like the documentation for Google Charts, and in other presentations. It was weird. The image blew up and I had zero idea it had happened. It spread via Boing Boing and Wil Wheaton, believe it or not.
I can only take credit for the image itself, as the joke itself came from a magazine I had read at a dentists office.
So yeah, I can totally see it happening, ‘cause it borderline-happened to me.
And posted it to the Awful Forums in a thread about funny charts. It blew up and I didn’t notice for years. The joke itself came from something I found in an issue of Toro, which was a sort of Maxim-style men’s magazine that was published in Toronto for a few years. If anyone could ever track down some issues of that magazine they might find the original joke, or at least my original discovery of said joke. The joke itself is probably even older. All I did was draw that exact image, and then a zillion imitators were spawned, but like I say, I was oblivious until like 5 years later when it showed up in an actual presentation I was attending.
Memes spread differently back then, as stuff like Reddit and 4chan were just getting their footing. Email was still a primary carrier, along with a handful of popular sites like Boing Boing and maybe Slashdot.
I think my favourite outcomes from this image were
seeing the chart appear in the documentation for Google Charts where it was used as an example of some advanced features of the pie charts modules. Edited to add: actually it wasn’t Google’s documentation proper, it was a blog post by Matt Cutts who was a Google dev for years. That’s at mattcutts.com/…/pacman-graph-in-google-chart-api/. I was thinking it was the actual docs.
an ironic copy of the chart where the data is represented as a bar chart instead of a pie chart.
just seeing all the stuff that came out of it, like the alternative drawings, the t-shirts, the posters, all the merchandising, merchandising, merchandising. The image has also literally appeared in print in at least another magazine, in a Finnish newspaper. Just do a Google image search for “Pac-Man pie chart” and you’ll see all kinds of nonsense.
All from a little image I did for the Awful Forums nearly 20 years ago based on a little image from a flash in the pan men’s magazine from Toronto.
That’s my claim to internet fame. But… ironically, I have like no proof. You can find the thread that the original image appears in, but for some reason the specific page that it appears on and the specific comment is missing, along with like a few dozen other comments from that thread. You can see the comments leading up to the image and the comments afterwards talking about how it has been picked up by Boing Boing and some other sites and has effectively become a meme, but the actual comment itself is missing. This wasn’t all that uncommon back then — the Awful Forums had their share of technical mishaps, and data went missing from time to time, so it’s not all that unexpected.
Boing Boing and Wil Wheaton are perhaps the two most responsible for its spread, and a few years ago I had a chance to talk to a Cory Doctorow at a tech conference and we spoke about the image and I confessed that I hadn’t been quite the comedic genius that could come up with that ironic chart, but that I did draw the actual image itself. I just wanted to get that out there I guess.
Depends on the situation. Sometimes they only find out that the planet they’re beaming down to is actually a 1920’s mafia planet or a Nazi Germany planet after the fact once they get there, and then it’s like, “Bones, Spock, and also random Crewman, we’ve just beamed down to a mafia planet, we need to get some proper clothes before we’re spotted. Oh no, we’ve been spotted, beat these mafia guys up and steal their clothes quick before we’re spotted again.”
Although to be fair those sorts of episodes actually didn’t involve time travel, since they were other planets that for some reason or another became entire planets of mafiosos and Nazis, but the prime directive still applied.
As a Canadian, I’ve been hoping for a Stan Roger’s biopic but I know that’s pretty niche. He was a folk singer who started making some waves when he died in a cabin fire on an Air Canada flight coming back from Texas to Canada in 1983 when he was only 33. His songs became part of the Canadian music tradition, as he generally wrote songs based on Canadian topics and issues. Most recently there were some fun clips of Stephen Colbert asking some guests if they knew any of his songs, like Michael Buble (who as a Canadian did indeed) and Jack White (who somewhat surprisingly also did, but is less surprising when you know that two of his grandparents were born and raised in Nova Scotia). Stan’s brother Garnett Rogers wrote a phone book-sized memoir of their time on the road touring that has plenty of material to pull from, and I always figured it would make a great music biopic, at least for Canadians. Our own Walk the Line or Ray.
I once fixed a bug in credit card payment form because someone had gotten some formatting character screwed up and used a capital M in some place where a lower case m should have been. Since it was a payment system they couldn’t take payment for a while whilst that was screwed up. I was contracting there and happened to notice it. Sometimes all it takes is one character.
I just finished watching the entire Columbo series for like the 10th time. I have it on DVD packed away somewhere, but this time around I watched it on archive.org, as all of the episodes are available here:
I’d pay good money for just a Bloodborne 60 FPS release. Doesn’t event need anything else, just up the frames, drop it on PSPlus. I had read somewhere that someone internally at Sony or From or something did that with the dev tools they had access to and it ran fine, but maybe that was just a fever dream.
A lot of my friends worked in the bar and restaurant industry over the years and I’ve spent a shit load of time in bars. I’ve had several bars that were my regular haunts for a few years at a time, and I’ve gone through a few completely different sets of, like, “bar friends” over the last 25 years. (One of the “bars” was more of a bar/coffee shop where I drank way more coffee than booze, mind you, but anyways…)
don’t sit in the corner. The bar is where it’s at.
talk to the bartenders a bit. Ask about the local scene. Any events going on? If it’s a sports bar, ask about any PPVs coming up if they do that sort thing. If it’s a music bar, ask if they have any good bands coming up or if there’s open mics or whatever. At a minimum that starts up a conversation for a few minutes and gets the ball rolling. Of course, if the bar is being slammed, don’t just pester the bartender like a jerk, they still have other customers and a job to do, but part of their job is getting folks to come back. Repeat business is generally better business, and if you ask about what’s coming up in the future, you’re showing interest in coming back.
go a few times over the course of a few weeks. People will probably start to remember you.
any activities at the bar? They have dart boards? Pool tables? Open mics? I’ve sucked at darts and pool but I still played ‘em, and even played in some dart leagues, and no one really cared that I wasn’t particularly great ‘cause neither were they — it was all just an excuse to get out of the house for a bit.
the music scene is where I landed in the end. That’s been the last 15 years for me, really. It all just started by showing up, asking about shows, “any good bands coming up? What are the Bluesy Jazzies like? I’ve never seen them before, they worth the cover?”
don’t limit yourself to bars. Coffee shops, table top game stores, go bowling, whatever. It’s all really just about talking to people, starting with the chitchat, making inquiries, getting involved in some activities. Eventually you’ll be socialized as fuck.
It could also indicate that other summaries of the texts were used to train the LLM and that it is summarizing those summaries. The actual book doesn’t need to be there, unless you can have it spit out the actual text of the book itself?
Several years ago PCG reported on the early stages of a project by programmer James Lambert, who really loves the N64 and decided for the hell of it to make a version of Portal that runs on hardware first released in 1996....
Portal 2 also came out on PS3 and Xbox 360 but was a standalone and not part of the Orange Box. Portal 2 on consoles was interesting because I believe it also came with a Steam key for the game as well.
Next episode: completely forgets about the incredibly traumatic, horrifying incident and never mentions it again and is never plagued by even a hint of post-traumatic stress.
I’ve had similar arguments with people over the pronunciation of Linux, with one person saying it’s “Lie-nicks” because it’s named after “Linus”, but Linus himself has said he pronounces his own name differently depending on the language he’s speaking at the time, but Linux is always pronounced “Lynn-icks.”
“People in Halifax are purists about the donair,” Ms Wickstrom said. “You will be publicly shamed, even driven out of the city for even putting lettuce on it.”
There’s a few places around southwestern Ontario that ain’t too bad. Sammy’s Donair I. Burlington is a decent one. There used to be a place in the Danforth called the Fuzz Box that was run by a guy from Berwick, but that place closed down a while ago now. There used to be a place called Halifax Original Donair that had locations in Burlington and Milton but I see that they retired literally two weeks ago and closed down. If you’re in the Burlington area, I guess Sammy’s is your best bet.
Well mom, remember my dream of owning a big house on a hill and how I used to wish for a living room with a plaster lion in it from Mexico and how I always wanted a large twenty four seat dining table in a dining room with original oil paintings by Michelangelo and Rembrandt and remember how I always wanted a rotating bed with pink chiffon and zebra stripes and remember how I used to chit chat with dad about always wanting a bathtub shaped like a clam and an office with orange and white stripes and remember how much I wanted an all red billiard room with a giant stuffed camel and how I wanted a disco room with my own disco dancers and a party room with fancy friends and remember how much I wanted a big backyard with Grecian statues, s-shaped hedges and three swimming pools? Well, I got that too.
In Canada, the difference is generally that universities offer degrees while colleges offer diplomas and certificates. Degrees generally take longer to earn that diplomas or certificates and would include things like bachelors degrees, masters degrees, PhDs, etc.
It struck me watching Christopher Nolan’s masterful three-hour epic telling of the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, long labeled the Father of the Atomic Bomb, that this is a period piece with…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is sending both flying and sailing drones into the eye of hurricanes to help improve storm forecasts
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What are your favorite fonts for technical reports?
I work at a consulting engineering firm and write a lot of reports that are read by the public. I have an opportunity to recommend a different font for all of our written documents and am looking for something more modern/fresh than Times New Roman. Also open to recommendations for purpose specific communities about...
Senate bill would require age verification for Canadians accessing porn sites (www.ctvnews.ca)
A Senate bill that would require Canadians to verify their age online before accessing porn is moving through the House of Commons without the support of the Liberal government.
What is your favorite disaster movie or show ?
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The dumbest way to make history (startrek.website)
know the features of your language (lemmy.world)
Chappell Rule (aussie.zone)
The Department of Temporal Investigations is on the case (pixelfed.social)
Names (lemmy.ca)
Who's the next artist that should get a biopic?
Cash grabs aside, I really enjoy a good biopic. I’m between David Bowie and Michael Jackson
Gotta get those github stats up (media.kbin.social)
Yet they immediately forgot again (pixelfed.social)
They're always looking for a way to fuck up your day. (lemmy.world)
It’s like it’s part of their job description.
Columbo investigates Star Trek. (source: cursedtrekedits on tumblr - more in comments) (startrek.website)
The future is now (lemmy.sdf.org)
What’s something on your mind lately that nobody else would understand?
Canada bans WeChat and Kaspersky products on govt devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
After Elden Ring and Armored Core 6 successes, FromSoftware is gearing up for "multiple new projects" (web.archive.org)
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Baldur's Gate 3 Caused A 40 Percent Rise In Digital Revenue For Hasbro (www.thegamer.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 has made bank for Hasbro, significantly contributing to a 40 percent increase in digital revenue for the company.
Anon goes to a bar (sh.itjust.works)
I love it when I have to scream at a computer (lemmy.world)
John Grisham, other top US authors sue OpenAI over copyrights (www.reuters.com)
Legend has spent years making Portal for the N64 and by Gaben he's done it (www.pcgamer.com)
Several years ago PCG reported on the early stages of a project by programmer James Lambert, who really loves the N64 and decided for the hell of it to make a version of Portal that runs on hardware first released in 1996....
Star Trek: Dark O'Brien (startrek.website)
Sony's Remote Play handheld Project Q has been renamed PlayStation Portal and will be available for $199 (www.gamescensor.com)
When you hear someone pronounce GIF as 'JIF (i.imgur.com)
Canadian donair sandwich costume sells for $16,000 (www.bbc.com)
“People in Halifax are purists about the donair,” Ms Wickstrom said. “You will be publicly shamed, even driven out of the city for even putting lettuce on it.”
What Upstate New York city is Captain Jonathan Archer from?
All the bios just say is that he was born in Upstate New York, and lived a majority of his life in San Francisco....
Where to even begin? (www.zillow.com)
Damn whippersnappers (i.imgur.com)
61 years ago, August 6 1962, Jamaica gained independence under this flag. It is the only national flag in the world without either blue, red or white. (upload.wikimedia.org)
This was an initial proposal, with the same colors in a slightly boring horizontal triband:...
What's the difference between "College" and "University"?
Until recently I assume they were synonymous 😅, Here you go to Uni immediatly after finishing HS.
Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark (futurism.com)
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‘Oppenheimer’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Epic Thriller About Father Of The Atomic Bomb Is As Frightening As It Is Brilliant (deadline.com)
It struck me watching Christopher Nolan’s masterful three-hour epic telling of the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, long labeled the Father of the Atomic Bomb, that this is a period piece with…
Swarm of storm-resilient drones will soon fly into Atlantic hurricane… (archive.is)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is sending both flying and sailing drones into the eye of hurricanes to help improve storm forecasts
Peter Molyneux teases new project with idea that's "never been seen in a game" before (www.eurogamer.net)
Legendary game developer - and game development tease - Peter Molyneux has discussed his next project, and talked up it…