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Tuesday, 20th of September 2022, 11:59:40 UTC
11:59:58
PincerAttack
Hope you manage to get some rest soon
12:00:21
gingerale
Hell is a name of a fictional place and calling it Hades is disrespectful towards that particular mythology.
12:00:27
gingerale
And heck doesn't mean anything.
12:00:36
gingerale
I hope so too, Pincers.
13:41:43
shinmera
bleh, another meeting in 20 minutes
13:41:49
shinmera
and then the team meeting in the late evening
13:43:21
shinmera
Completely unrelated: what's with people's obsession with flags? I suspect this is just me being :spergin: but I really don't understand why there's a flag for every little thing and why people spend eternity debating what it represents
13:44:30
shinmera
The tweet that spawned the confusion in me was this, though https://twitter.com/Simonablake/status/1571942287701073922
13:45:34
shinmera
I kinda get the use of a flag as a visual abbreviation of a concept or thing
13:45:49
shinmera
but I don't get the *identifying* with a flag
13:46:33
shinmera
I guess it's a form of art that just doesn't do anything for me
13:51:19
gingerale
Do people identify with flags? I thought it was just a way to show support.
13:52:04
PincerAttack
I thought it was more they just identify with that it represents
13:52:09
shinmera
if they feel it appropriately represents them then they identify with it, yes
13:52:42
shinmera
to me flags are just too abstract and I don't get how it could represent any of what I believe in
13:52:54
shinmera
or why I would want such a thing to begin with
13:54:13
gingerale
Eh, people are proud of who they are and want something that shows a part of it important to them.
13:54:37
shinmera
I guess. I just can't reciprocate
13:55:16
shinmera
Like, that tweet. I don't see how it represents "solidarity" or "community". I guess it represents inclusion since it has every label that has claimed a colour for itself in there
13:55:27
shinmera
but the rest I can't see
13:57:07
shinmera
in other news, kojima likes the netflik cyberpunk anime https://twitter.com/Kojima_Hideo/status/1572207610648199168
13:57:21
gingerale
This means you have to watch it
13:58:05
shinmera
and the law is there to be broken
13:59:38
shinmera
gingerale: https://twitter.com/Shinmera/status/1571983672513036293
14:00:27
gingerale
Yeah, that's a good one
14:29:28
shinmera
I love how it's the only thought I've encountered that gives negative effects
16:27:27
gingerale
I ran into a video of a music teacher listening to Outer Wilds OST and he's catching a bunch of things I never noticed myself. It's quite fun
16:27:51
gingerale
Like about halfway through the soundtrack he pointed out that a lot of these songs build up towards the end but then stay there at the climax and just end.
16:52:44
shinmera
my meeting was moved to tomorrow
16:52:49
shinmera
you wanna wilds it up then?
16:52:54
shinmera
I'm free all evening now
16:53:57
gingerale
Sorry, I was thinking of going to bed very early today in hopes of getting solid sleep tonight.
16:54:33
gingerale
Not quite yet, but thank you
16:54:41
minty
oh... well, good evening then
16:54:45
Colleen
Your fortune for today is: forlorn
16:54:45
Colleen
Your fortune for today is: forlorn
16:54:52
gingerale
Good evening to you too
16:54:55
Colleen
Your fortune for today is: the coffee never fails.
16:54:55
Colleen
Your fortune for today is: the coffee never fails.
16:55:04
minty
took today n tomorrow off work
16:55:41
minty
i got one little chicken, boober, with a cross beak. i had to stack some cat food cans n put food in the lip on top so it's her height so she can eat
16:56:09
minty
she's having trouble trying to eat like a regular girl. gonna have to build a taller food tray for her
17:13:20
minty
i refuse to lose another chicken. she's precious she just needs some help
17:23:50
gingerale
I hope Boober has a good day
17:24:21
PincerAttack
Thought you went to sleep
17:24:23
minty
here i'll post a pic of her in the grouptext
17:24:52
PincerAttack
Or did I misread things again?
17:27:28
PincerAttack
Might be a bit more scatterbrained recently
17:29:46
minty
last night i fed boober out of my hand but i don't think she appreciated it much since i tried scooping her lower beak into the food
17:32:07
minty
i'll just make a variety of food crumbles available for her at a series of different heights n work from there
17:32:19
minty
gonna go put these towels on the clothesline
17:49:00
gingerale
I said not yet, Pincers
17:49:20
gingerale
But yeah, I'll be heading soon
17:56:31
isoraqathedh
I blew today because I'm so feeling tired of something.
18:13:09
gingerale
Well, goodnight, you all
18:32:13
suntmc
so apparently the new Monkey Island is very good
19:57:50
shinmera
Finished disco elysium
19:57:59
shinmera
very likely will stream another run some day
20:19:56
suntmc
they announced Portal with RTX
20:20:05
shinmera
finally the game will be playable :v
20:20:08
suntmc
replaying the game in a whole new light
20:20:41
suntmc
well idc, i love portal. another reason to replay it :shrug:
20:20:58
suntmc
i just wish that Valve could count to 3
20:21:25
suntmc
but I hope my 2080 can still do this at 60fps
20:21:44
suntmc
haven't played a single RTX game since i got the card
20:23:17
shinmera
I thought you had a look at Control?
20:23:59
suntmc
I downloaded it on my PS5
20:24:11
suntmc
i know i have it somewhere
20:24:45
suntmc
i'm not counting my PS5 though. So far the only RT games i've played on my PC were a couple of minutes of BF5 and CP2077
20:24:53
suntmc
ah and the Minecraft RTX demo levels
20:25:39
suntmc
but then again, I don't really play anything 'big' on my PC. I prefer console for most games because I get less distracted with settings and notifications
20:26:23
shinmera
I mostly play on PC because it's the only option I have
20:26:46
suntmc
currently it is for me as well since I can't connect my PS5 to anything :')
20:26:54
suntmc
no space on my desk and no TV
20:27:18
suntmc
preordered Stray on disc, forgot about it and now i cannot play it
20:30:29
suntmc
welp. maybe in a year or so
20:31:21
suntmc
at least the current 'high-end' TVs i'm looking at decrease quickly in price
20:31:42
suntmc
and I'd consider them very good still in a year as well. and then they're gonna be quite affordable
20:32:45
suntmc
hm. just saw that the TV lowboard i wanted increased by 90.- for no reason. shame
20:37:45
suntmc
nvidia is releasing 2 different RTX 4080
20:38:10
suntmc
one with 16GB and the other with 12GB VRAM. which would be fair, but the 12GB one has fewer CUDA cores, slower VRAM etc
20:38:35
suntmc
like...it doesn't have the same die. why call it a 4080 at all. way too confusing
20:41:57
shinmera
their naming has never made any sense
20:42:39
suntmc
their higher end cards (xx60 and upwards) was always pretty clear tbh
20:42:58
suntmc
(well, starting with the 4xx series card in like 2012 at least)
20:43:44
suntmc
they've usually only done stupid naming shenanigans in the low end 'i just need a display out' tier
20:44:24
suntmc
but hey, gotta charge xx80 prices for a card that's clearly supposed to be a xx70 somehow, right
20:45:04
suntmc
they should've named the better one at least xx80 Ti, but that's probably reserved for their mid-season refresh
21:34:50
shinmera
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21:34:51
Colleen
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21:34:51
Colleen
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Tuesday, 20th of September 2022, 23:59:40 UTC