Watercooler/Slowchat 2: Son of Watercooler

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:05 pm #166929

Bottom post of the previous page:

So apparently my brake lights aren't working. Apparently ONLY my brake lights too as I can't see any of the others lights, running lights and hazard lights and turn signals included, malfunctioning. Guess I'm going to be digging through both fuse boxes tonight.

Maccus · Post by **Maccus** » Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:20 pm #166956

Brakes?

You mean pansy pedals?

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:38 pm #166958

Maccus wrote:Brakes?

You mean pansy pedals?

you mean stay-alive foot levers

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 12:12 am #166973

It's probably either a fuse or a switch on the brake pedal. I'm irritated because I never have time to do anything with my schedule. It's something I can fix myself unless something greater is wrong. But it reminds me that my schedule is garbage because I don't have enough time to for errands in the morning because i have to be in by 9, and even in Vegas, a lot of vital businesses close after 6PM. So I can't do shit on Weekdays At all.

Takeguru · Post by **Takeguru** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 4:20 am #167027

Nothing today

The food we left out hasn't been touched by her, other animals, or even birds

EndgamerAzari · Wed Apr 06, 2016 3:28 pm

That sucks. Don't lose hope!

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 3:30 pm #167080

One time my cat was missing for three whole days outside. We had kinda started to give up hope but the dumb shit just showed up at the back door like nothing had happened. Was a little bedraggled but otherwise fine

EndgamerAzari · Wed Apr 06, 2016 4:31 pm

God DAMMIT

I just can't keep the weight off. I'm back up to 206 pounds this week. Why can't I stay below 205? I'm never going to hit my goal at this rate.

Takeguru · Post by **Takeguru** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 11:09 pm #167165

Okay so I got all antsy for nothing

She's back

Spent an hour trying to get her back though

She got on the roof and my sister doesn't own a ladder so I had to ask around

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 11:23 pm #167168

Been a couple of weeks since I got my car back from the garage.

For some reason there's now water puddling in my passenger side door sill...

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Thu Apr 07, 2016 12:44 am #167180

CosmicScientist wrote:I decided after running away from my university team project for three and a half weeks to try and get something done tonight.

00:00 (BST) - parents came in and reminded me for the first time in three weeks (and the second time ever) that we're going go-karting tomorrow. Whoopee.
01:35 - current time, staring at Android Studio, feeling incredibly unhappy with myself in many different ways.

turn on some vaporwave and just jam out some work homie
that's how I get all my projects done
and I'm a fucking moron who waits until the day it's due

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:29 am #167193

Everyone was

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu Apr 07, 2016 6:06 am #167245

Trust me, it won't work.

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Thu Apr 07, 2016 7:04 am #167257

Waiting until the last moment to do a set task is a problem I've found that has to be confronted, its not a habit you'll grow out of unlike your old shoes. The values and work ethics instilled in you from childhood are very hard to shake off in adult hood.

Incomptinence · Thu Apr 07, 2016 9:37 am

Yay the great barrier reef is bleaching woo crippled planet.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Thu Apr 07, 2016 4:12 pm #167317

Did you wear the shitty gloves with no grip a lot of tracks give you?

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 3:27 pm #167498

Hey this mechanic looks pretty good. Busy and they work on classic cars.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Sun Apr 10, 2016 5:55 pm #167945

Went to Specsavers last week for an eye test, didn't really need glasses but the VDU voucher from work gave me a free pair so I took them.

Having not worn glasses since I was a kid and since I don't really need them I'll probably only use them at home when my eyes are tired and not knowing anything about what eyewear looks good I decided to pick some practical frames with large lenses to keep my field of vision uninterrupted.

Picked them up yesterday and I've since realised they make me look like a certain famous person who'd love to have to over for diner

Spoiler:

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Sun Apr 10, 2016 6:03 pm #167946

I've started keeping a ledger for my store inventory as it comes and goes. Basically just a simple record of how much I bought each individual thing for and what I ended up turning it around for.

It's tough to justify any single purchase for myself, whatever it is or how much I might need it, when I'm also juggling all the purchases and stuff out of pocket.
We're still at the "garage" phase of this thing, where the imaginary till and my own wallet are the same damn thing. While I need to have inventory to sell to make money, I also need to keep a certain amount of liquid cash around to jump on random specs and offers as they appear.

So far so good, I think. I'm terrified and anxious all the fucking time, I have a lot of time to just hurry up and worry about everything while waiting for deliveries or staring at unsold merch.
So far so good, though. The cash flow is there and my senses for what makes a good buy and what doesn't seem to be working out alright.

It's fucking crazy to think that I turned a $200 microkorg into all this, slowly over time, one trade at a time.

By the numbers my current inventory contains $690 worth of instruments and accessories, which cost me $380 to get (and then some labor and a few parts to fix, fuck I should've recorded that).
I've got $400 worth of instruments arriving on Tuesday, which should be valued at least around $800 after I've fixed them up too.

So like yeah sometimes this is fucking great and I put two hours of work into something and it gains $200 in value. Hurray for sort-of-kind-of making $100 an hour there.
The problem is volume. I need to be giving myself as many opportunities to make that conversion as possible, which means buying a lot of individual things. Making a week's paycheck in four hours of work is rad but if I don't have jackshit to do with the other 36 hours of my "working week" then I could be doing better. A lot better.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Apr 10, 2016 6:10 pm #167948

Neat man, good luck being an entrepreneur. It is not an easy thing.

420weedscopes · Sun Apr 10, 2016 6:10 pm

my dad bought me a google cardboard viewer
it took me all of 14 hours to find out vr porn is real and that almost all of it sucks
almost.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Sun Apr 10, 2016 6:17 pm #167952

Wyzack wrote:Neat man, good luck being an entrepreneur. It is not an easy thing.

Thanks. It's really scary in a lot of ways but also incredibly rewarding.
When I look at how much money I can make now, using my own agency and thinking for myself instead of doing what I'm told to by some entity it's a lot to be proud of.
But at the same time it's totally agonizing and there's like...absolutely no security. Thinking about the volume of sales I need to make just to pay rent and buy food or other things. How easily it could just deathspiral after maybe a bad month or two.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Sun Apr 10, 2016 7:01 pm #167962

Right on man, seize the means of production and keep the profits for yourself instead of the fat cat up top!

Then get big enough to hire a few wage slaves to do all the work whilst you do fuck all except drink all cream.

EndgamerAzari · Sun Apr 10, 2016 11:17 pm

I saw a car full of highschool-age girls trying to take my picture as they passed me. They saw I saw them, and gradually sped up and glanced back at me, like they thought I was tailing them. The one in the back seat was wearing bunny ears.

What.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Apr 11, 2016 12:13 am #168015

Malkevin wrote:Right on man, seize the means of production and keep the profits for yourself instead of the fat cat up top!

Then get big enough to hire a few wage slaves to do all the work whilst you do fuck all except drink all cream.

Eh. I'm too young to want to just sit on my ass and collect money all day. Without something industrious to do life is kinda pointless. I actually enjoy taking things apart and fixing them. Even if I somehow blinked and was suddenly the owner of a multi-million dollar franchise of music stores I would still want to go into my stores and do something productive.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Mon Apr 11, 2016 10:06 am #168086

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420weedscopes · Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:29 pm

EndgamerAzari wrote:I saw a car full of highschool-age girls trying to take my picture as they passed me. They saw I saw them, and gradually sped up and glanced back at me, like they thought I was tailing them. The one in the back seat was wearing bunny ears.

What.

it's the beard bro
i'd fuck

EndgamerAzari · Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:46 pm

I actually dialed back the beard a little bit. It was getting uneven around the jawline and MUH SYMMETRY. It's currently very short and I think it makes my jaw look a lot more defined and makes me look five years younger, though your mileage may vary.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:52 pm #168117

420weedscopes wrote:
EndgamerAzari wrote:I saw a car full of highschool-age girls trying to take my picture as they passed me. They saw I saw them, and gradually sped up and glanced back at me, like they thought I was tailing them. The one in the back seat was wearing bunny ears.

What.
it's the beard bro
i'd fuck

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Mon Apr 11, 2016 3:23 pm #168125

Wyzack wrote:
420weedscopes wrote:
EndgamerAzari wrote:I saw a car full of highschool-age girls trying to take my picture as they passed me. They saw I saw them, and gradually sped up and glanced back at me, like they thought I was tailing them. The one in the back seat was wearing bunny ears.

What.
it's the beard bro
i'd fuck

You sure they weren't taking a photo to send to the police because they thought they found an escaped convict?

EndgamerAzari · Mon Apr 11, 2016 3:56 pm

TheWiznard wrote:
Wyzack wrote:
420weedscopes wrote:
EndgamerAzari wrote:I saw a car full of highschool-age girls trying to take my picture as they passed me. They saw I saw them, and gradually sped up and glanced back at me, like they thought I was tailing them. The one in the back seat was wearing bunny ears.

What.
it's the beard bro
i'd fuck
You sure they weren't taking a photo to send to the police because they thought they found an escaped convict?

WANTED for being too handsome

Spoiler:

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Mon Apr 11, 2016 4:22 pm #168129

TheWiznard wrote:
Wyzack wrote:
420weedscopes wrote:
EndgamerAzari wrote:I saw a car full of highschool-age girls trying to take my picture as they passed me. They saw I saw them, and gradually sped up and glanced back at me, like they thought I was tailing them. The one in the back seat was wearing bunny ears.

What.
it's the beard bro
i'd fuck
You sure they weren't taking a photo to send to the police because they thought they found an escaped convict?

[youtube]15S0g8pG6HU[/youtube]

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 1:00 pm #168450

Homestuck officially ended today, 7 years after it began

and in faithful tradition, the epilogue is on an indeterminate hiatus

EndgamerAzari · Wed Apr 13, 2016 2:31 pm

rip hamsteak
Honestly the ending was really impressive but SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

I need to make a decision regarding this Software Guild thing. I know things won't get better if I don't change things (my meager bonus and raise proved that), but I'm so damn worried about so many things. I NEED SOMEONE WITH AUTHORITY TO MAKE DECISIONS FOR ME, I HAVE NO SPINE

EndgamerAzari · Thu Apr 14, 2016 6:45 pm

If you've got an incredibly puerile sense of humor and a strong stomach, this might cheer you up.

EndgamerAzari · Fri Apr 15, 2016 2:11 pm

CosmicScientist wrote:Heh, it helped. Thanks.

I'M HELPING

Takeguru · Post by **Takeguru** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 4:03 pm #168851

Mom called earlier, asked what I've been up to

Told her the usual stuff, mentioned I got a new hard drive

"What the hell do you need 6 terabytes for, how much porn do you have?"

Thanks Mom, good to see you think I'm a degenerate

Spoiler:

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 4:50 pm #168867

God damn it mom this is the 21st century we stream our porn like civilized human beings.

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 5:20 pm #168872

CosmicScientist wrote:Went to a dissertation fair. "You must pick a dissertation theme within your course area". I'm doing game engineering as a course, I have to pick game engineering as my theme or change my course.

They had a lot of interesting topics to talk of and none of the other themes grabbed my attention so I'm on the right course. In short, the prominent things mentioned:

Rendering a planet in front of you without any assets, so created and modified by the code.

Water physics.

AI algorithms running on the GPU.

Algorithms in general running on the GPU without interrupting rendering jobs (water physics ties into this).
I get to pick what I want to do in the next year of the course.

On the way home I walked through the park I live near. It was raining but it wasn't heavy nor was it windy so it wasn't cold and my waterproofed zip up saved my upper body more. The birds were singing, the ducks and what looked like a close relative of the moorhen were swimming in the lake, the island in the middle had the sound of many insects staying in the dry. Then something stopped me. Little, hopping, wet furred rabbits were going across the paths. There were two and they were cautiously making their way to the thigh-high hedge maze. When they found an out of the way spot, they got up on their hind legs and ate the green leaves off the branches. After that I walked across the moor connected to the park instead of being near loud and fast cars before turning into the quiet street where my flat is.

Oh I forgot to mention the swans, half were in the water, heads nosing around at the bottom and probably finding Roman coins for all that I could see given the murky water. The other half were on the tarmac path circling the lake with their heads turned 180 and nestled in their backs except for one which was standing on one leg.

Your whole story sounded really deep but then I realized it's because I have jazz on in the background and it fit in really well with the timing it too me to read your post

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 6:09 pm #168881

Wyzack wrote:God damn it mom this is the 21st century we stream our porn like civilized human beings.

Most of the porn I have is remarkably difficult to stream, and I sure as hell am not bookmarking THAT many lizards.

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 8:32 pm #168909

CosmicScientist wrote:Only lecture today, 10:00-12:00 time slot. Left at 09:50, arrived at 10:07, lecture started at 10:10, lecturer stopped going on about the material covered in the last lecture at 10:25, had a break from 10:50-11:00, lecture ended 11:30, dawdled home by 12:00.
This is what I call an average Friday.

>nine grand a year
kek

2k ayy yearmao

EndgamerAzari · Fri Apr 15, 2016 10:36 pm

Oh God I sprayed this powerful air freshener in my cubicle because of my farts so everything smelled like a laundromat but I keep ripping nightmare ass so now it smells like a hobo shit himself and died in that laundromat

Sat Apr 16, 2016 7:29 am

Takeguru wrote:Mom called earlier, asked what I've been up to

Told her the usual stuff, mentioned I got a new hard drive

"What the hell do you need 6 terabytes for, how much porn do you have?"

Thanks Mom, good to see you think I'm a degenerate

Spoiler:
It's only like 100gbs, jeez

jesus christ

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 2:30 pm #169059

Somebody please sit down beside me, pat me on the back and tell me DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT TRYING AMATEUR GAME DESIGN YOU NERD.

Because it's idea season again and I'm bored outta my skull.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sun Apr 17, 2016 2:01 pm #169219

Great.

In ten years you'll be able to play some meme mecha game that, I promise, won't feature lizards.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sun Apr 17, 2016 3:21 pm #169238

No swords.
I'm talking Aliens-powerloader-tier realistic robots. Well, maybe leaning more in the direction of those walker things from Avatar.
Closest you'll get to unnecessarily shiny will probably be a plasma gun and a LOX/LH2 rocket flamethrower.

Still, give me ten years, or however long it takes to figure out UE4, then make a halfway playable game.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 5:51 am #169463

Oh, snap the fuck outta it.

If you can't snap the fuck outta it over the course of a month or so, go buy yourself a doctor cos then this shit's serious.

420weedscopes · Mon Apr 18, 2016 6:35 pm

azari you will be thankful today because i have been editing instead of not editing
after careful consideration i decided not to have a clip of you laughing
a) it was really slow and drawn out
b) it was a little tricky to find a place to cut in the middle of it so it wouldn't last too long (this no longer matters but oh well)
c) it sort of ruined comedic timing because you made a Fucking Good Joke immediately afterwards
d) removing the laughter keeps up the 'external suffering' thing you have going on (you can't have your fans (what?) thinking you've changed your style)

you're welcome

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 6:38 pm #169607

We gonna play something tomorrow? Because i am actually free for once

EndgamerAzari · Mon Apr 18, 2016 6:44 pm

Can't have people think I'm capable of emotions other than frustration and despair.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 4:53 am #169743

You are?