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i'm trying to install windows xp on a system that doesn't boot from usb and i have no cd-rs and it is a daunting task that has taken me over 2 days now

i'm running into a problem i've seen before again where i'm trying to make a bootable fat32 partition (namely with plop boot manager on a laptop's hard drive) but all the bootable partition does is make an "A" show on the screen and hang and i've had something similar with freedos in the past

another day another internet kid telling someone off for using AAVE and not "proper english"

is there a dumb easy way to apply a glsl color shader onto a png without having to learn how shaders work or programming something myself

i just want to take a full RGB gamut and make a LUT based on a color correction shader someone else wrote

the worst internet scam was all of us allowing discord inc to con us out of skype

I answered 8 questions about my trans werewolf horror story "They Say Don't Get Clocked" as part of a thesis study by Miranda Lascelles.

She asks werewolf fiction writers "what aspects of humanity does Lycanthropy symbolize" in media and their work. I had a lot to say!

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"What’s your favorite gaseous compound? For me, it’s that sweet ozone that comes off a fresh copy or laser print job!"

unironically there's something about the fumes from certain diesel engines that i really enjoy smelling. i don't know enough about diesel engines to know if it comes from a poor combustion or what so i'm not sure how to specify
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"firstly happy birthday - secondly, do you enjoy video games loosely or strictly about golf, and what's your favorite one of those"

thank you! took me a while to reply to this ask because i was thinking about it and then i forgot about it. i haven't played a lot of golf games but i mostly like online multiplayer ones because they're really fun to play with my girlfriends who are all in different countries. vertiginous golf and golf with friends are two recent [...]
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in a moment of lovely synchronicity i rediscovered this David Byrne quote today.

"It can often seem that those in power don’t want us to enjoy making things for ourselves—they’d prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation."

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