I was just thinking the exact same fucking thing. Somebody call Eddie Murphy.

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Yeah that same cat I was talking about needed thyroid medication that was given to him by ear cream. Compounding pharmacy liked to underdose him by a factor of 10 though; we got at least two batches of that medicine that was something like .01mg when it was supposed to be .1mg. Which was…great.

I had a cat that could not be pilled. You could push that pill down that cat’s throat elbow deep and he’d still spit it out. I had this conversation with more than one vet:

“Do you have that medicine in liquid form? You can’t pill this cat.”

“Oh sure you can, you just have to do it right.”

“Okay, demonstrate if you please. Give him a dose and show me how it’s done.”

“ugh, okay.” fails to pill the cat “…Huh. Well…”

“Do you have that medicine in liquid form?”

The story itself (creator being creates an environment and friends to make himself happy, one of the creations usurps him, another creation usurps the usurper, we all live happily ever after) is about as wholesome as creation myths get, but…

All of the characters are brand new beings who haven’t invented thinking about stuff yet, so they have this innocent stupidity to them. “You’ve got to, like, save the world or something, man; I dunno.” The good ending features the creator being saying “It is now time to GOOF OFF!”

The Neverhood is worth studying.

Not very many things in the 90’s were like The Neverhood, but The Neverhood is very much of the 1990’s.

It’s a puzzle game with bones similar to Myst, which are usually designed to make the player feel smart for solving the puzzles, but the story has a central theme of stupidity.

The gameplay is fairly shallow, again it’s mostly learn-and-apply-knowledge or solve the soup cans type puzzles, but they made the graphics in a tremendously time and labor intensive way purely for the aesthetic of it. It got funded, developed, published and distributed because “let’s do something creative and out there.”

Gnome is about deliberate lack of features. Blank windows with the few existing UI elements crammed into the top bar and a hamburger menu with nothing in it because Gnome and its associated software are not intended to be used for anything.

The only defense of Gnome: It’s not mandatory.

Except they also do GTK, which still manages to leak outside their 9 foot thick steel and concrete containment vessel.

Conclusion: the clear vision that Gnome devs have is obviously wrong.

Shiny coat.

My most recent haircut required a temperature check. “for the governor,” the men at the barber shop joked of the procedure. I thought to myself, “Hey, I thought of a way to save $18 a month.” I wear a pony tail now. Not my first.

This is NOT what I meant and that damn genie KNEW it…

The dangle tail is yes.

I think there are several different motivations.

First, I’ve seen cats chew up cardboard boxes in order to shape them. This side is in my way, I’m gonna saw it off, and the only saw I have is my face. ergo: cronch.

Second, humans like chewing on things like crunchy potato chips. Imagine if you had long pointy fangs, wouldn’t it be satisfying to sink your teeth into something like cardboard?

The little nose wrinkle as the teeth get punched in always slays me.

I we ar my PPE. Most commonly eye and ear protection but I’ll wear a dust mask when routing or sanding, etc. Allowing onesself to be injured in the shop is unethical.

CGA had a number of modes, but one of the 4 color 320x200 modes was most often used in game; these look like they’re supposed to by white, black, cyan and magenta. The thing is, it could use NTSC color artifacting to actually show more colors on a composite monitor through the use of dithering.

I think we could sacrifice billionaires to Peppa Pig and it’d still get the job done.

I find desert t be a bit too dry and sandy for my tastes, so I’ll go with breakfast for dinner.

Also, the idea that this is a breakfast food, that is a dinner food is dumb. I’ll eat pancakes before bed and stir fry when I wake up if I want.

If I recall correctly, Linux Mint did their own thing for a bit with the apt command so there were two different implementations out there for awhile?