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"Uh...THE BOREALIS!? in THIS hemisphere of the planet, at THIS juncture in the resistance against the Combine, at THIS late in the storyline of Half Life, localised ENTIRELY within this offlimits area we can only see through this video feed?!"
"Yes!"
"...can we go there in the sequel?"
"...no."

Important ASA (Admins Service Announcement) for Mastodon and generally PostgreSQL admins: Due to some changes in glibc some distribution upgrades will cause PostgreSQL text indexes to become corrupted, potentially leading to unique indexes not being correctly enforced and inconsistent application data.

THIS WILL ALSO HAPPEN IF YOU DO NOT UPDATE YOUR POSTGRESQL, A DISTRO UPDATE IS ENOUGH!

wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Local

@noiob @Nine now thinking abt an actual wireless water implementation where you have a backpack with a big funnel connected to a hose and a base station that tracks your location and shoots water into the funnel

ah frig. Brutal Doom crashes GZdoom on the regular due to the chasecam. so, rolling, fatalities, presumably even the death cam, all outta the question. :< Can't find any damn info on why or how to fix it, and yeah, it's just Brutal Doom causing it. Tried an otherwise vanilla mod load with just Doom 2 and Brutal doom, three levels in, and blooop, crashed due to rolling.

me: Hmm... Oh yeah, Commander Keen was a thing wasn't it? Wodner why they've not tried to remake it or anything??

*googles*

...oh no

in video codecs, i-frames are when the motion compensation algorithm is invincible after having been hit by an enemy

Me, fanning face because of the weather: "Geez, it's hot and buggy outside today...."
Imaginary Respondant: "...ren Don't you mean Hot and Muggy?"
Me: *half-clipped through my seat at an odd angle whilst a bird flies backwards through the sky in a frozen animation frame* "I know what I said."

Why did anti piracy ads always have such cool music in the background?

Advert: *du du du du duu na na naa du na* You wouldn't steal a car!

Me: Man, this music is sick, makes me want to commit a crime!

Ad: Piracy! It's a crime!

Me: How convenient!

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fluffy babey mainey kitty in my arms curled up against me

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