Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

i figured that a pattern had been set so my nissan is named

Bundy.

not because of any sort of particular adulation or honor, but mostly because car names are like dog names: you really want something you can easily shout in frustration or elation depending on circumstances, and "bundy" is excellently shoutable

so my family names their cars

my first car was a little white car (a volvo). my mom's first car was also a little white car (tho not a volvo). it was named Sam.

she told me this and i immediately said "oh well, mine must be Son of Sam then of course".

then my volvo bravely died in service after somebody hit my mom while she drove it and literally truncated my car (my mom was fine tho), so...

@pettancow it may just be my family's thing but i think my parents were naming computers way before they wired up a home LAN - lmao

then again we also name our cars and that's why i have accidentally created a serial killer theme for mine? sooo uuhhh ymmv

my first one (that was really Mine) was an emachines pc got on special on black friday; i stood in line like 30 minutes before best buy opened in the pre-sunrise dark with my mom so we could grab it

the theme for computers on our network was currently grecoroman mythology so i named it Eos, after the rosy-fingered goddess of the dawn, because i got up so fucken early in the morning to get it lmao

there's an icebreaker question

what did you name your first computer

my parents still have the first computer they got - i fuckin forget what it is. it's named, of course, HAL

and i played HOURS of this fuckin fantastic game where you could make faces from different bits. i think it might actually be called FaceMaker since names were simpler in ye olden times lol.

HAL still runs, i think it's had some RAM go bad but my dad combed through the error messages, figured it out, now that's on his to-do list

@maple you got me deep in nostalgia now LMAO

i know a lot less about old computers than i should honestly, but ti-99s are intensely nostalgic

needs the wood trim colorway though

i was always too scared to play space invaders myself but i'd beg my mom to come play it so i could watch, lol

@maple holy shit

honestly i want to believe so bad that all of them are real. that all of those are real names real people really put on things, ESPECIALLY roberts paddle iv and super design ending-man bs-500 as

@maple i'm going to say the robik because it seems the most like a cohesive name for something and therefore not adequately ludicrous

i feel like i've heard of the exidy sorcerer and possibly the super child prodigy though

"now all swastikas are nazi flags now i guess", coupled with quips in the history like "gonna go all rulefag", "this year you get a free loli with entry"

yeah okay that's one way to make a block obvious through 'joking references' i guess. does anyone have some spare febreeze so i can get the 4channer stench off my fedi timeline, y'all know how that shit clings

if this bit of allergies is an ear infection brewing i'm gonna be super smad about it

oof ok this headache has settled in good and proper and made of me a foolish fool after i jinxed myself by floating the idea of writing tonight

hmmmm maybe with ice cream and beating back this headache a bit i can do.... another writing night in a row?????

i don't know why it's viscachaposting time but i support it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPxA6nasvQc

me, before namazu tribe quests in #ffxiv : why on earth did they do NAMAZU instead of SOMETHING COOL ugh

me, now, hitting rank 7: I LOVE ALL MY IDIOT FISH CHILDREN. *sobbing* look at them they're so dumb and so good!!!!

i mean honestly

if jk rowling can't even fucking wikipedia american history to put forward an idea that all of modern usa would be covered by one school in late 1600s, like it was all one english-speaking culture at that point, (HHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!),

i can probably skate by as i'm there googling what time lavender harvests are in france and what typical eurostar schedules are so i can have a throwaway detail be accurate

@georgesquares@snouts.online CHRIST the additional pottermore stuff has just been so awful and depressing

like... why did anyone think these were good ideas to publicise. why has anyone allowed this to happen on every level.

it does make it easy for me to feel much better about my fanfiction though.

@georgesquares@snouts.online that's one of the scenarios that really grates on me! i mean, fuck, there were surely a lot of kids who used HP books as a refuge from bad shit like, say, realization that they're a product of rape. and what an absolute shit sandwich to be served up there.