Mooseman9

Just had a fairly hilarious occurrence in Rome: Total War's Grand Campaign.
I'm at war with the Greeks, and they'd approached me to broker for peace. The requested a ceasefire, and demanded I gave back Syracuse which I'd taken from them a few turns earlier.
Not wanting to do that, obviously, I made a counter-offer. A ceasefire, but they give me Thermon. I did that knowing they wouldn't go for it, we'll go another few years of war, I utterly trounce them, et cetera.
They went for it. Of course, now I have a town that's completely isolated and will likely fall within the year, especially as it's surrounded by quite some troops. But I own Thermon.
Moral of this story: Do everything you can with as much arrogance as possible. It pays off. (don't listen to that)

I got a Steam Controller and Steam Link for Christmas.
I'm honestly impressed by how good they are, the link in particular. On a wired network it's pretty much indistinguishable from playing at my desktop. I mean, no-one is going to be playing pro CSGO on a Link anytime soon, but still, it's consistently adding about ~3ms display lag/ ~1ms added input lag according to the debug stats. Vsync alone is usually worse than this IIRC.
As far as graphical artifacts, it's basically perfect. The only time I noticed anything at all was when the GPU, (R9 Fury), was pushed to the absolute limit, and even then it was still plenty playable.
The Steam Controller, well, it's also better than I thought it would be. It's a learning curve, and once in a while it's a tad clunky handling games with no built-in normal controller support, but the controller itself is plenty serviceable, and I'm loving the community profiles. The control-scheme tweaking looks very in-depth, but I haven't needed it so far.
(Still working on youtube mixtape.)

Remember spirographs? Those little gear thingies you could make swirly shapes with?
Behold: http://nathanfriend.io/inspirograph/
You're welcome.

I now own a Mini NES.
Everything is ever so slightly better.
Still utter shit! But slightly better. On the personal level.

I think we're seeing the resurgence of right-wing patriotism. First Brexit, now Trump. I wonder which country will go next.

new phone who dis

So.
I have the computer I want on the screen here. All the parts, it's all there.
I have the money, and I have no further commitments coming up that I want to keep it for.

Why haven't I clicked "order" yet?
Because for the same money, I can buy two used cars* (A '97 Opel/Vauxhal Astra convertible, and an '01 Volkswagen Polo, if you were interested). That's quite a bit of money. Which is very scary.

Gonna do it anyway! But it's scary!
 
* Why two used cars? Why not one more expensive used car? Because that's not how my brain works!
 
EDIT: Just did it! It's gonna be built soon.

Speaking of pokemon go, my old neighborhood (as defined by the rocky mountain standard "within a one hour drive") is in the news due to a 19 year old playing it found a dead body.

GUISE GUISE GUESS WAT
Plug.dj is baaaaaaack!

I got a 4.0 in Human genetics and also did these for my final project in color and design
here is Animewasamistake, part 1,2,3, and 4




 
 
 

So, just had this rather coherent dream for once as opposed to the usual mishmash of characters, nonsense dialogue, and 80’s CGI Hollywood effects, so I thought I’d share. Plus I can’t sleep any more now anyways.
So, here I was, just chilling out, enjoying playing muh video games, (particularly some sort of fusion of EVE Online, Warframe, and Starmade. It actually seemed like a really cool game.), when for no good reason, I became the target of a good-old-fashioned public internet hate-mob. The reason I had become public enemy no. 1 is because apparently some Mexican father had tried to contact me about helping his obese son to exercise and become healthy. I never saw his message, and apparently that translated into some sort of unforgivable sin against humanity. (shrugs)
So anyways, I started being attacked randomly inside said game, (my existence in which was also somehow tied to my ability to listen to Spotify???). First rando or two, I handily blew up, leaving naught but fragments of spaceship and angry-yet-defenseless people. After that, it started to get overwhelming.
And then the cavalry arrived. ALL of you guys swooped in, saved my butt multiple times, and we, coordinated via Skype, commenced obliterating noobs and skilled-yet-uncoordinated players alike with extreme prejudice. Lazers flew, bombs whiffed, ships were boarded and Warframes bit the floor. A massive horde of random people were bitterly defeated before the awesome might of our ragtag fleet of ships and crew. After clearing a massive buffer zone around the area of space where I usually was, which apparently no new ships could spawn in, we were enjoying a victory party. We had a pool barbecue. (But in SPACE, so cooler I guess.)
When SUDDENLY, we were all teleported into the depths of a massive, and very hostile, enemy mothership/planetoid/thing™. Our escape was epic, and, after judicious use of short-range teleportation techniques to drop missile and laser turret locks, we escaped back into open space. (and got to watch the massive ship explode death-star style for some reason, that was cool too.)
After that I guess some pop star must have died again or something, because the public stopped seeming to care about me and everyone went on with their lives. The massive void in the space game we cleared out remained as a testament to what had happened.
Real world damage to me consisted entirely of two amusingly benign and delicious vanilla cakes being delivered to my doorstep, already paid for. (I guess this was a very amateur internet hate mob???)
Overall, 8/10, still a better love story than Twilight, would buy again.

And so began the writing of the modern epic, Dreams of the Byte Master: A Technic Forums Space Opera.

I'd at least swap out the i7 for an i5, very few games can actually make real use of the i7. Either way, I'd recommend waiting for the new generation of GPUs to come out before buying anything.

I'm dying

 

I've finally got a good enough replacement for plug.dj. It's not perfect, but it's easily the best one I've found now that it's been improved.
https://www.dubtrack.fm/join/kitty-jail_145808039340042
Come one, come all, come on and slam.
 
The system is a bit weird, but it works.
You can queue songs directly into "your queue"
Then you join the DJ queue, and they'll play
You can also make playlists and dump them into your queue

No one lives either way

 

From wikipedia: "Sublimation has also been used as a generic term to describe phase changes between solid and gas that avoid the liquid state without specifying the direction of the transition".
I was taught in school that sublimation works both way. I don't know what you'd consider an official source on this. Some quick googling tells me you're correct, but no-one bothers to use it correctly. TIL.

Deposits*
Sublimation is when solid water (ice/snow) changes straight to vapor.

Jack Frost draws on your car when he's feeling creative..
Seriousy though, these patterns happen when the water vapor sublimates on the cold surface (same process as when snowflakes are formed). If you have high humidity it might condense instead (depending on temperature), which makes droplets that freeze into clear ice (as in your first pic).
Alot of ice on cars is from snow that has melted from the cars' heat, though, and that won't (generally) form crystals.

Zootopia was a fun movie. The squirts loved it (Bell even joined in on the howl, in the theater) and there was easily enough adult humor to make it a family show instead of a kids show. Better storyline than the trailers would suggest too. Kinda odd to watch a movie that was better than the trailers.
Now to await the sequels and spinoffs. I can definitely see them doing a Cops themed tv show.
 
My only gripe is fan reaction. I know it's standard, but I would like to be able to search for cute fanart to shows the little ones without having to wade through the rule34 crap and "headcannon" fanart/fiction that frankly should never have escaped the noggin that spawned it.
Seriously tumblr. When I search for a film name I don't want to see rageposting from someone angry that no one else accepts their headcannon theory that Nick's sexuality is something you need 37 syllables to describe. "You can see it in this aura" is never a valid argument.
And deviantart could use a better search algorithm, seeing as safe searching still turned up an image  that can only be described as murderfucking.

Found it; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantai_Collection
That's... quite the long and very specific list of ships in the game. 100+ of them, all voice acted.

What the fuck... http://store.steampowered.com/app/379980

Back up, sorry about that. Honestly I wasn't aware anyone was using it still, lol. Maybe I'll have to get back on.
Turtles are usually not allowed, but we can make an exception for the Supreme Overlord of Turtles, I suppose.
The address is spence.mooo.com
As far as I know, it's the latest version. Correct me if I am wrong, though.
Also;
 JET SET RADIO IS FREE ON STEAM GO GET IT NOW MERRY CHRISTMAS 
 
 
 

I didn't get to present my power point because I wouldn't remove the Lucifer part in the power point and called the comic book club president a fascist.

I made a power point for my Weeaboo club on how to paint
The president refused to pay me
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZaPcJyrYaPrw8zlVqc1EUO-Fq2uFW94lhRG9j3SuBWI/edit?usp=sharing