Celtore
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Ok, I'm sick of being conflicted. I'm going to the astronomy club meeting Friday to see what it's all about, social phobias be damned.
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Is there such a thing as food indoctrination? I remember them advertising on kids channels very commonly with their happy meals and mascots, but I havent seen a McDonald's commercial in years. I wonder if it's that childhood familiarity that keeps the restaurant going or some similar subtle psychological strategery at play... But at any rate, balance is key. The menu is pretty unhealthy, so you shouldn't base your diet on it; not even their breakfast sandwiches. By the same token, it's alright as a rare occurrence. Try to have a mostly balanced diet, exercise and it shouldn't be a big issue.
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Not good. I just went into a spiraling pit of dispair and self-loathing for the past 40 minutes because of a stupid, stupid mistake I can't do anything at this point on my own to fix. It's nothing really overly-terrible looking at it subjectively, but still... unsolvable yet avoidable issues really upset me.
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Absolute crap. It's spring and yet there's snow on the ground and it's spitting freezing rain. I was looking forward to post-winter to do some astronomy without the frigid temperatures, but nope! Now instead of sub-zero temperatures, there's just garbage visibility.
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Have to love autoplaying videos... I was just listening to a podcast in the background, then all of a sudden, depressing egyptian flute music starts playing from another tab. I should make a plugin or something to whitelist autoplay.
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I forgot how awesome tiling window managers and virtual desktops are. I think i'm going to search for something to incorporate this for work; I usually have like 5 instances of visual studio going and frequently get lost in them.
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Looks like my Network monitor is finally working reliably. Funny how many issues can arise from timezones. A major bug was caused by requesting data from negative 10:00. Whenever that was.
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"This is the best beard trimmer I've ever owned!" Seriously, the thing just ran out of charge now after being used twice a week for the past 6 months. Did Phillips sell their soul to the devil to get that kind of energy efficiency? All my previous trimmers had a battery life of like 2-3 weeks.
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Baked spaghetti. It's like lasagna, but with spaghetti noodles; it's incredibly tasty. What's your favourite species of wild animal?
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What a nice nap. I dreamed I ran into the champ lake monster and got decent recording of it. No idea what brought that dream on, haven't thought about that stuff in over a decade.
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Dark chocolate. Trying to lose a few pounds and I've kind of grown to like the taste of it. Ketchup or Mayo?
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Hopefully I feel a bit better tomorrow. My back is sore from chasing Venus through the sky last night with my telescope. The base and the telescope weigh 50 pounds each...
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At its core, I feel this problem is caused by crap game design and what should be legislated is the loot box. The skin gambling issue arises from the fact that these items are obtained by random chance from a store, and naturally, some are more desirable than others. If these items can be traded between players, it creates a small supply and demand market tied with actual currency that's fairly easy to jump in on. If every item was outright purchasable, you couldn't have a gambling economy because everyone would just buy what they wanted. You might have small-scale gambling between players with in-game items and people who bought the items from the store, but nobody will be making any money from these sorts of bets besides the publishers upon the initial purchase. We shouldn't be legislating a symptom of bad game design, we should be taking it out at its dirty roots. Another easy solution to get away from this would be to make the items from loot boxes untradable. Now, all money flows to the publisher as players desperately try to get that one cosmetic item they want with maybe a 2-10% success rate. Problem solved.
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You wake up in the world of the last video game you beat.
Celtore replied to Mand'alor Dash's topic in Forum Lounge
The world of Detective Pikachu. Interesting. On the plus side, pokemon are real! On the downside, the evil in this universe specifically is a bit more realistic and dastardly than the standard games. I guess I'd help out the protagonists for plot armour. -
Exciting night! I saw venus through my telescope! Nowhere near as pretty as Saturn or Jupiter, but I'm very happy I got to see it! I saw the beehive cluster in Cancer for a bit too, which was also pretty darn cool.
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Yes, but I was too young to really confirm this 100%. I remember seeing a man in a grey suit and flat cap walk through the living room to the computer room and never walk out. I thought he was there to fix dad's computer, but nobody knew who I was talking about. Edit: ninjad; honestly, none. Tattoos look like they'd hurt a fair bit and I'm an absolute chicken when it comes to pain. Have you read any good books lately?
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You Wake up and are your own avatar! What do you say?
Celtore replied to Venomshank's topic in Forum Games
*burps explosive lightning ball* ... Excuse me... -
My weakness for stuffed animals strikes again... Oh well, it's still cheaper than buying a new telescope lens...
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Inspirational and generally enjoyable, but something about it felt a little Hollywood cookie-cutter. I'll go with an 7.25/10.
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I like weasels and pine martens. They're just such adorable little carnivores.
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so, you waste 65 years of your life for a paycheck. or you could
Celtore replied to Jora's topic in General Discussion
My job gives my passion focus; while I like to think of myself as a fairly good software developer now, I can't come up with good project ideas of my own for the life of me. It also gives me chances to learn new things about my passion, I likely would have learned about how to program GPU kernels or work with computer vision technologies otherwise and that stuff is incredibly cool. So if I were ejected from work due to some kind of weird system, I'd probably become a full-time open source developer and do exactly what I'm doing now. Except unpaid. And I might spend a few more nights gazing up at the stars a bit longer than usual. -
Potentially... Alternatively, this may also indicate that you're slowly turning into a rhino. Doc, I'm having trouble being decisive about important decisions.
