CaptainBlagbird

CaptainBlagbird , 7 months ago

Beat me to it xD

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

Or as we call it in Switzerland: Stöckli

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

I think because they are in the uncanny valley

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

Here’s my creation/guess:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/41bf8688-63dc-4e81-9c66-6e439ea9e783.png

Licence: Public Domain

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

The last of Barrett’s Privateers?

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

Would they assume OP killed the bird, or is it illegal to pick up the skull? (Are the bones beneficial to other organisms?)

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

But it works 🙈

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

Random fact on the topic:

A rust plague in the late 1880s killed off much of the plantation stocks in the Sukabumi area before spreading to Central Java and parts of East Java.

Source

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

How do we sleep while our beds are burning?

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Not in my experience. 100% of people I know that have it, also have read it. We buy that because we’re Tolkien nerds. People who don’t want to read it don’t buy it. Also it’s not at all like yellow pages for looking stuff up, it’s more like the Bible I guess, a collection of mythological tales of old.

I guess there are some people that have inherited it, or just bought it for collecting, but I don’t think this is the main case.

It might be different for The History of Middle Earth, it’s huge and requires a lot of time, and it’s more yellow pagey as far as I understand. I have them but have not read much of it yet. (Maybe you meant these?)

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

That’s exactly my experience. It doesn’t help that I have the https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_History_of_Middle-earth#/media/File:The_History_of_Middle-earth_Boxed_Set.jpeg that has almost see through thin pages… 😅

The Silmarillion I have also read multiple times though, both in English and German.

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

Same, and also when someone creates a new post on my communities :3

(Just also look after yourself not to get social media addicted, okay? 🥺)

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

Found the programmer.

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

passes out

Because you passed the gate, out of this fake world into the reality.

CaptainBlagbird OP , 8 months ago

Sadly I don’t remember specific titles. When I think of this music I picture badly rendered 3D landscape and violently erupting volcanoes 🤔

CaptainBlagbird OP , 8 months ago

Yeah probably synthwave or close to it if there even was a name for it.

I’m still trying to find examples

CaptainBlagbird OP , 8 months ago

Could you be thinking of old educational videos that were played in schools?

Yeah probably, but I think I also watched stuff like that on TV.

Maybe like Bill Nye or Eyewitness?

Not the first one, the second one is closer but too “tropical”.

If you do find an example, it would help a lot to narrow it down

I keep searching

CaptainBlagbird OP , 8 months ago

This is very close!

I guess a lot of documentaries used similar copyright free music, that thus sounded “simpler” (lower production quality).

CaptainBlagbird OP , 8 months ago

Oooh of course, how could I forget them, yes Vangelis is the closest so far!

CaptainBlagbird OP , 8 months ago

Yes, that’s the stuff :D

Thanks

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

Repost to !spooky_memes pls (not the nudes)

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

Now that’s an analogy I can understand.

I say, let’s top these things with melted cheese, so that all people face the buffet with the same feelings. 🤤🤨🤤🤨🤤🤨

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

You could crosspost this to !spooky_memes (lemmy.world/c/spooky_memes) 😁

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

!spooky_memes

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

Oh definitely post them there (too), they’ll be appreciated all year round 😁

I’d say you can post them to both, and check the upvotes.

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

Oooh it’s been a while, time for a re-read :D

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

Loss has some of the most original and ingenious variations, that’s what I like about it. I’ve never seen other memes close to it. It’s completely different to all the text-over-established-image memes.

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

🌭❔

CaptainBlagbird , 8 months ago

• There is nothing you can say about it that is funny or clever. We have heard it all before. Just don’t.
• If you do have something to say about it that is truly original and absolutely hilarious, see the previous rule.

What if I am said celebrity though? 🤔

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

🎶 There’s a shadow of a man at Hiroshima, where he’d pass the noon 🎶

#😢

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

…anymore.

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

But are you sure they wear it (only) for Beijing? 😏

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

Ach echt??!

I thought the emoji would be enough, but I guess I should have added the “/s”

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

Pythagondalf

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

yes, no, maybe, can you repeat the question?

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

What usually has 4 letters, sometimes 9 letters, but never 5 letters.

!It’s not a question, it’s a statement: “what”=4, “sometimes”=9, “never”=5!<

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

I know a similar one where you say some kind of finger counting verse, in the end you put your arms akimbo and request the other person(s) repeat it. It doesn’t matter if they get the finger counting right, because it only counts if they also get the akimbo correct.

It’s fun to do in a group of slightly drunk people, until all got it but one. Then it feels like bullying… :/

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

I love Black Stories, this was the first one I have solved/played years ago.

I won’t give away the answer, that would not be f air

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

It’s AI generated, squint your eyes to reveal text (or place your phone across the room and look at it from a distance).

But also yes, breeding m[redacted] cats is horrible and should not be promoted.

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

Rinse & repeat

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

/r/TonyHawkitecture was great…

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

To the Blüemlisalp-Hut which is at 2840m above sea level. Uff what a bad timing with the hail 🙈 On clear days it’s so beautiful up there by the glacier. I worked there some time ago over multiple weeks. (It might even be possible that we’ve met, depending on the year/date you visited).

I hiked up/down there more than anywhere else (probably about 25 times). The very first time I started too fast and overestimated my condition a bit, it was nice to feel my limits. Later, my record time for hiking up was just above 2h. I tried to be faster, but never managed to crack that 2h mark. Oh well… (The signpost says 4h10, and/but a normal paced hike took me about 3h.)

On a side note: Last year the glacier was significantly smaller than the previous years, that really was a shock to see with my own eyes rather than “just reading about it in a news article” 🥺

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

It flies there by autopilot, no delivery person/vehicle needed ;)

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

Missing ; on line 1

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

Years ago it was the only customizable browser, that’s why I started using it. Today it still is the most customizable one, even though other browsers started supporting add-ons and themes too.

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

FTFY (formatting)

Until one week ago I was using an old Samsung S20 with good results. I moved to a mini PC as I wanted to host Immich server and I felt it was too much for the phone (it might not be the case though…)

A quick extract from an old post of mine on what I was running:
lemmy.world/comment/354199

Software:

• Termux (android app)
• SSH (OpenSSH in Termux)
• Rclone (in Termux)
• Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr (in proot-distro)
• Transmission (in proot-distro)
• Kavitha (in proot-distro)
• Podgrab (in proot-distro)
• Ombi (in proot-distro)
• ntfy (in proot-distro)
• Filebrowser (in proot-distro)
• Vaultwarden (in proot-distro)
• Homer with lighttpd (in proot-distro)

TLDR: Go for it! Use Termux with proot-distro to avoid headaches

CaptainBlagbird , 9 months ago

Were you able to use the phone Bluetooth in HomeAssistant?

(Or do you not have access to interfaces like that with proot-distro? I’m not at all familiar with it…)