Rinn

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[โ€“] Rinn@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

I had to check what community I'm in, still can't believe this is not the Onion.

[โ€“] Rinn@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

21/24 ๐Ÿ˜Ž but mostly because I'm a Tolkien nerd. All the ones I got wrong were old kings of Gondor, clearly shows which part of the universe I don't care about.

[โ€“] Rinn@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nah, honestly anything better than the bottom-of-the-barrel acrylics is going to add up quickly when you buy enough of it to make something like a sweater. If you want to use natural fibers (wool, cotton, I'll take bamboo too) that's a large jump in price, even if you're not getting anything too fancy. And I feel like if I'm going to spend months hand-knitting a sweater, I don't want to end up with something that's all plastic and will degrade in a year.

I do also have some fancy hand-dyed yarns that were properly expensive and these ones are indeed 100% on me :P But they're not really what I'm talking about here.

[โ€“] Rinn@awful.systems 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

Crocheting/knitting is cheap to try out but once you really get into it (and start worrying about yarn quality and so on), the money pit opens. Ask me how I know.

[โ€“] Rinn@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, I love the smell of burning bridges in the evening. Fuck. And I was getting excited about Divinity! Well, guess that means more money to spend on other things.

[โ€“] Rinn@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

Yup, Nintendo in particular has a bad habit of just sitting on a bunch of old games, keeping them unavailable on modern system despite the fact that there's clearly a market for it. And occasionally they'll reach into their great big bag of classics, pull something out and say "we've done the bare minimum so you can run this on our current gen system (Switch), that will be 50 dollars for a 20 year old game".

[โ€“] Rinn@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Until I played Morrowind, I had no idea that planning your commute to work can actually be fun. "Wait, so if I take the StriderBus to there I can transfer onto the MageMetro and then it's a straight shot over the hill to my destination? Amazing!"

[โ€“] Rinn@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've played that before, but have they removed/made players able to reduce frequency of appearance or outright stop the annoying moaning monster from the lab zone yet? I'm a solo player and it was a creepy encounter the first 5 times and then just an annoying interruption, and it was so constant and inescapable that it made me stop playing.

[โ€“] Rinn@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Same, except that once it gets too big we take it out to my parents' house in the mountains and plant it there. So far one has died and one is surviving and happily growing.

[โ€“] Rinn@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

You'll also likely benefit from drying it using an old 100% cotton t-shirt instead of a normal towel, for much the same reason (less friction).

[โ€“] Rinn@awful.systems 54 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's a reference to a meme that was particularly popular on Tumblr at some point, it's called Apollo's Gift of Prophecy Dodgeball, you can google that to see some examples. Basically when someone makes an obvious and ridiculous joke that (much) later turns out to be true, they were struck by the dodgeball of prophecy.

[โ€“] Rinn@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

After watching a mad scientist/chemistry youtuber NileRed trying to cook, I think that those skill sets are completely separate and may, in fact, be mutually exclusive to some degree.

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