paddirn

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paddirn,

That boy ain’t right.

paddirn,

It’s gone up and down. I’d give anything to go back to being younger, but that’s just because my Dad died and I miss him. Otherwise though, I’m doing relatively well. Making more money than I think my parents ever made, got three great kids, an ok job, and an ok house, so I guess I have all the “traditionally” successful things going for me, but there’s always flare-ups here and there of in-the-moment disasters that make me wish I was someone else. If anything, it feels like many of the people around me are the ones with issues, I myself am a relatively boring person who doesn’t really need much to make me happy, it’s just dealing with all the BS from other people. Unfortunately, just cutting myself off or cutting them loose isn’t really an option, so… I just keep going.

paddirn,

Rise of Skywalker

paddirn,

As opposed to the real priests preying on parishioners.

paddirn,

I’m too cheap to get an unlimited data account and I don’t want to use up my mobile data. I have a separate ipod touch for my music, so it frees up space on my actual phone, so if one gets broken/lost/stolen, I’m not completely out of everything. Plus, I like the idea of actually “owning” my stuff, as much as you can own digital files. After my Dad passed, I picked up all his mp3s he had saved and merged them into my library, so I also like the idea of potentially passing on this collected library to my kids (if they care enough or the world hasn’t transitioned completely to streaming music when I die).

paddirn,

“Not the Jedi way,” yet it was fine to buy Anakin’s freedom when it was convenient for them.

paddirn,

Probably commanders are desperate for some kind of victory ahead of Russia’s upcoming election and they just really do not care about individual soldiers (though not sure the election even matters either given how rigged they are). They were probably told to capture Andiivka to get a high profile victory, that’s all that matters, the troops/equipment are all expendable.

Is there any way I can stop seeing sports posts?

I don’t know if this was asked before and I don’t know how to look for that so I’m sorry if this is a repeat but, I keep seeing American football posts which I couldn’t care less about and I keep blocking the communities but they’re like thousands of millions of communities that never end. And no, I don’t wanna stick...

paddirn,

It’s not just sports, but alot of other topics that I’m just not interested in seeing somehow dominate my feed at times. Foreign language communities that I can’t even read pop up now and again. There’s so many small niche communities popping up that somehow pop up in the ‘Top’ view for whatever reason, then you have to go through and block each on individually. Is the Fediverse so sparsely populated that literally any posts that get any sort of attention suddenly shoot to the top? I sort by Top Six Hours most of the time. I try to block them when they come up, but I feel like Reddit never had this issue, even with all the extremely niche subreddits they have. It just seems like top/trending communities aren’t showing up correctly or some posts are showing up when they shouldn’t.

Gamers who have gamed for a long time

do you find it difficult to get into games? I’ve got Epic Games and Steam Games libraries chock-full of classic top-tier games along with many other newer games like Stray or 2077, and a bunch of indie titles. I just can’t be bothered to download and install them, much less try to get into the characters and storylines. Used...

paddirn,

For the past few years I’ve been trying to go through my Steam gaming collection chronologically, in order of release date starting from oldest games. I’m trying to at least go through and have no unplayed games. After dozens of Humble Bundles and ~20 years building up my collection, I’ve got hundreds of games I haven’t even touched yet. Sometimes I’ll be interested in a game and play for awhile, sometimes I’ll play for 5 minutes, get bored and uninstall. Doesn’t matter, as long as I can check it off as “played”. Sometimes I get sidetracked by a newer game that comes out, or by physical board games, or by just life in general, but I still have that goal in mind to try new things, I at least have that if I don’t feel like playing anything else.

paddirn,

Witchcraft! Burn them!

paddirn,

See that, they fined a billionaire/millionaire $5k, he’s finally facing consequences for his actions. We got ‘em!

paddirn,

Guilty for doing what Trump was already supposed to be doing on his own anyways.

paddirn,

I think I have that same exact dongle.

paddirn,

I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

paddirn,

Rule 34

paddirn,

I proposed something like this for my graphic design thesis about 10+ years ago, though it was meant more as a warning against all the social media apps that were coming out at the time (foursquare, facebook, and others). People were posting pics of themselves all over and you could grab a ton of info just from a person’s picture. To prove my point I picked a random person based on a photo they posted and found as much info as I could. The pitch was that I would present it completely straight, as if it was a legitimate service, but I wanted it to come off creepy as fuck, as a sort of warning against the out-of-control posting that people were doing. It was going to be a sort of “dating” service where you could take a picture of somebody and instantly get all the information available on the internet about them, more a stalking app than anything, but same basic idea as this. Apparently I should’ve started up my own company.

paddirn,

The Final Solution, eh?

paddirn, (edited )

It’s sort of amazing how basic yet barren the core game feels after all these years since Microsoft acquired it. I know it’s changed quite a bit and they have made changes, but at the same time it feels like they’ve sat on their asses and did nothing. I’m assuming they’ve just shifted from adding to the base game more to adding paid content via the Marketplace stuff (or whatever the in-game store is called).

But then you start playing with mods like Create and you’re like, “Holy shit, this is awesome!” And you realize how intellectually bankrupt Microsoft/Mojang has been, they’ve done almost nothing interesting with the game since they acquired it (apart from the cross-compatibility aspect, but even that is lacking). They keep doing these incremental changes and the mob vote has all these idea proposals that are just cast aside bc there can be only one idea picked… for reasons. You’d think Microsoft was this small indie company with no resources to spare or something.

paddirn, (edited )

I don’t know if I can jerk off to her in good conscious anymore.

paddirn,

Yes, those freedom fighters bravely raped and murdered a music festival full of people for the glory of Palestinian freedom.

paddirn,

It’s Leg day, every day.

paddirn,

Too clean. Should’ve used multiple fonts, stretched/compressed them, and messed with the leading & kerning. Then exported it as a low resolution jpg.

paddirn,

Papyrus will forever be the “Ethnic font” for me. I worked as an entry-level graphic designer for some university foreign language departments and every region’s department would use Papyrus to represent their country in their material. Native American, South America, Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, and if there was anyone that covered Australia, it would’ve been used for there too.

paddirn,

Classic non-apology.

It’s not that I did anything wrong, it’s just that you decided to feel offended about it, that’s the real problem here.

paddirn, (edited )

I mean, that robot’s head is just basically one giant titty, how can you not just look at it?

paddirn, (edited )

The hands are just giant black cocks. Everything everywhere is blatantly sexual.

paddirn,

I’ve read that astrology is actually an accurate predictor of personality, provided the person believes in it. It becomes a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy where the person that believes in it assumes the traits that they’re told they’re supposed to have. Many of the traits given for each sign are so universal that everybody probably exhibits some amount of all of them at some point in their lives. Believing in astrology though probably causes people to focus on those aspects more because they’re molding their personality to fit what they’ve read.

I imagine people predicting stuff about different Ages are just molding their worldview to fit whatever they’ve read, that theory definitely has a pro-religious bias. Winning wars was valued long before the time of Christ and it’s atheists that are considered offensive, not religions.

paddirn,

Work for a food company dealing with fallout from this, all of our strawberry products have red #3 in it and there’s alot of discussion swirling around this (though none of the stuff I personally work on is affected, so I’m not privy to any specifics). For whatever reason, they’re not going with any alternative red dyes (cost is a probable factor), so we’re just going to have not-pink strawberry stuff. Though I think there was quite a bit of market research done and alot of people just preferred not having any sort of coloring added. So then we have to wrestle with the packaging because how do you convey that this vanilla-looking food is actually strawberry-flavored? It messes a bit with the packaging we already had, but whatever. I imagine food companies all over the place are dealing with this same question.

paddirn, (edited )

There is the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and normally that’s their purview, but they’re probably a bit more lax and industry-friendly, so more likely to let that stuff slide. California is a bit more progressive and health-conscious, and they’re a big enough market that when they say they’re gonna ban something, it essentially becomes banned for everybody else. Businesses won’t develop CA and non-CA products, they’ll just rework whatever it is to conform with CA’s demands.

The FDA did step in I believe when states starting talking about introducing different labeling standards and having different requirements for what needed to be called out, because it would’ve turned into a nightmare if you had to manage 50 different sets of labeling requirements.

paddirn,

That was legit one of the few books I read halfway through then put down in disgust at how banal, ridiculous, and repetitive it was. The first part was okish because there’s something of a mystery, but the “revelation” that all the industrialists moved to a sort of entrepreneur’s shangri-la and that life without government created this perfect utopian society, it was just such a stupid thing and I was so tired of all the dead horse beating. Anybody who says they like this book is either lying or has mental problems.

paddirn,

I’ve got a library’s worth of books, board games, and video games that I’m planning to read/play/consume “at some point” when I get the time. I actually have more content to digest than I probably have time left to live and that’s kind of depressing.

paddirn,

Me: “I’m giving these people fucking gold here, holy shit, I’m a modern Shakespeare.”

My comment: “👉🏻👌🏾💦💩💩🤣🤣🦄🐒”

paddirn, (edited )

XKCD created this handy Radiation Dose Chart that shows the radiation exposure you get from bananas as compared to other sources of radiation, to put it in perspective. Luckily, I’ll never get radiation from sleeping next to someone else.

paddirn,

I really dislike the thought of running epic months-/years-long campaigns. In theory, it sounds like it could be interesting, but then it just breaks down under real world conditions. You’ll rarely find a solid group of consistent players and if you’ve already worked it out that its going to take months to get through, you’ve kind of already decided to start railroading the players (though you can allow for improvisation, the overall story’s structure is pre-written).

I much prefer running one-shot adventures, maybe lasting <10 sessions at most, where I have as little idea what’s going to happen as the players and there’s no pressure to keep things going. It just lets me work on the general feel and concept for the game I want to run and not worry about funneling the players through a set of specific story beats or work out what’s happening in the background amongst different factions, etc. If the players liked running improv, just go with it then, true improv in gaming feels so rare (at least in my gaming group I think).

paddirn, (edited )

How many sets of tits does she have?

Edit: looked it up, apparently it’s just two for horses, though not sure if the human set would count or if she’d have two up top and two on the underside.

paddirn,

It was done like that on purpose:

youtu.be/ZshMwU2-HCM?si=kISlcB2gCdQ_JAix

arch2o.com/story-behind-college-architecture-plan…

It was a loading dock that had some work done, but the sign apparently isn’t even there anymore:

When asked if he wanted to re-space the letters of the sign to make it look good, he replied: “No, just stick it on the wall because it will look funny.”

paddirn,

It wasn’t originally planned like that, but when they were redoing it for an addition, the contractors asked if they wanted the letters respaced and the dean was like, “No, just stick it on the wall because it will look funny.”

lemmy.world/comment/4226592

paddirn,

They should go after the other Florida man who suggested using bleach in the first place.

paddirn, (edited )

These kids are about to learn so many new words.

paddirn,

As a parent with three small children, this is not accurate. I feel alive and productive when I’m alone and feel like I’m getting my life back together again. Everything is finally getting back in order. It all comes crashing back down after everyone else gets back home.

paddirn,

“The pictures are free with every order, it’s no extra charge, just so you know.”

paddirn,

Saw it with my son, it’s Paw Patrol, so nothing ground-breaking, but he enjoyed it and it was his first time seeing a movie in the movie theater, so that was special.

paddirn,

I don’t actually even remember what my first movie was I saw in the theater. Maybe Transformers: The Movie (the cartoon movie)? I would’ve been about the same age, 5 years old, but that movie was just in a completely different league than Paw Patrol.

America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion (apnews.com)

Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled....

paddirn,

I don’t mind people going to Church and practicing their religion, as long as they stay in their lanes and they’re not trying to force their religious beliefs on everybody else. Trying to better yourself and your community is great, there’s a ton of really nice people out there who go to Church and are just all around good people. It’s all the assholes that think their belief trumps everyone else’s rights that need to eat shit.

paddirn,

Brought mine too, realized it was full, so the pharmacist offered me a new one. It only has two slots for boosters, which seems ridiculously optimistic now.

paddirn,

They should split it up into $100,000 increments. Yeah, that’s not a billion, but that could still be life-changing for thousands of families.

paddirn,

I feel the need to add on to this as well.

paddirn,

From age 40, I keep forgetting how old I am by a year. I thought I was 41 throughout 40, and all through 41 I thought I was already 42. I’ll do the math every few months and realize the mistake, then forget about it and make the mistake again.

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