Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@maple honestly, agreed

i'm glad my parents did most of their monitoring of me by being involved in my life, interested in my activities, etc. and i think this is really the best way to do it - fostering a good relationship with your kids to the point where you know what they're doing, because they want to tell you

but i know on furcadia for instance i certainly had a lot of "there but for the grace of god go i" moments, and i try hard to pay that forward when i can

i mean i make that joke but i also know enough about myself that although i wouldn't hold a puppy gender reveal party, mostly because i intend to adopt where there's not much fanfare about that part,

i totally would throw a puppy shower aka baby shower equivalent aka "everyone come over and look at my cute dog" party

i know it's a stolen joke but it's also so true and i think of it often:

they say there's not really such a thing as white culture, but i would beg to disagree

'cos we don't have anybody but ourselves to blame for puppy gender reveal parties.

mfw slate.com's article about 'new affordable eye cream that really works' is 55 fucking dollars

phew lordy that was an easy block of a new person rolling in to follow me

i guess at least they make it easy by only retooting how they're mad about how it's a shame there are now petite weeb girls to flirt with

fuck me, my ear and throat are now REALLY screaming

don't know quite which is which, sweet oil didn't help the ear, so next up is some numbing throat spray. ugh

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