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Haven't been around as much lately, posting-wise. I've still been lurking pretty regularly, but I've been busy with other stuff. For the last year or so I've been working as a freelance writer for all sorts of people, and really wanted to start writing fiction. So I wanted to post what I've been working on for the last month and a half for everyone's enjoyment: Orphans It's a web serial/novel I plan to update once a week, maybe twice going into the future. It's got martial arts, and stuff! Check it out, leave a like, comment, and subscribe or something like that. Tell me what I'm doing wrong and how my story killed your dog, I can take it as much as I tend to dish it out, you won't hurt me (too bad).

I had to generate a 16-team tournament for a business eSports class, and I named all the teams after SPUFers! https://challonge.com/2h6nvw58 (Don't blame me for how you placed, blame my nickel.)

Ownership of the Funko Pickle Rick figure is considered justification for homicide in all first world nations.

Nicole sounds like a discount Bob Page.

You have FIVE (5) seconds to explain why you aren't watching Kemurikusa right NOW

fucking sold EDIT: Just gonna drop my thoughts from my first impressions as some chucklefuck with full-time employment as a sifu/whatever the hell my dojang's equivalent is 1: Good idea using Kung Fu, namely five animals as your martial arts base - There's a lot of diversity in those combined arts which allows for a lot of freedom of explanation - Although I personally found it difficult to read my way through the initial combat scene. Maybe run it through with a friend while trying to keep a straight face. 2: The concept of some esoteric psychonaut-fu that lacks the usage of Qi automatically puts you in my good graces and tactfully covers the Qi energy field bullshit side of martial arts rather well 3: I have taught six-year-olds. The fact they managed to sit entirely silent for what in writing sounds like several hours is what most would consider a miracle. I need to learn this style of disciplinary action that hopefully doesn't involve a bamboo stick.

The exact same thing happened to me last month when I was building my new PC, it would keep restarting without ever reaching the BIOS. PM'd you the fix. Turns out the motherboard power connector wasn't in fully. I'd check and reinsert those. If that doesn't work then I'd still be fairly sure it would be a PSU or maybe a motherboard issue.

Does it have a system speaker? These things can save your life sometimes. If you have one, plug it in and check the beep code. I have diagnosed burned out memory controller on a CPU last time that way. If it fails, I'd go for usual drill of pulling stuff out and plugging it to a computer you know works for certain, one thing at the time.

I mentioned in another thread that I have coworkers who argue which is the best/easiest East Asian language (from the big three of Chinese (specifically Mandarin), Japanese and Korean). I decided to make an honest attempt at each language to try to get an objective opinion on this. Now I can't say this for 100% certain since I've spent about 50 times more effort learning it than the other two, but I'm pretty sure that Japanese is by far the easiest. Korean may be easier in theory to learn the writing system for (though there's so many vowels/consonants which are just barely different from each other that I'm not convinced even of that), but the politeness system is a nightmare. Mandarin has the problem of being a tonal language, too few conjugations to easily figure out how to say things, and the fact that you have to learn hundreds of Chinese characters just to get started. In contrast Japanese has a reasonable number of conjugations, only two major politeness levels to worry about for 95% of interactions, and if you learn Hiragana (which should take about as much time as learning Hangul) you can ease your way into the Kanji. But then again I'm a huge weeb so this may not be entirely unbiased.

"I'm going to try learning Korean. I hope it doesn't have as many conjugations as Latin does!" >mfw

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There are more frames in this fan video than in all of Kemono Friends season 2:

An old acquaintance of mine recently put out a demo of a game that him and his buddies have been working on, Vibrant Venture. I decided to speedrun the demo: Maybe would've been 41 if I didn't stub my toe at the end and cut one of the high jumps in the cave a bit closer. Overall, the movement is very fun and fluid (though I did have some suggestions for him), and all the speed tricks (mostly bouncing off of things during a longjump) feel and look really cool. The game seems like it'll be really fun to run. The demo's on Gamejolt if you wanna check it out for yourself; it's a pay-what-you-want, but you can get it for no price at all by hitting the "no thanks, take me to the download": https://gamejolt.com/games/vibrantventure/397907

"All hail Stephen King, of the lesbians!"

Adding on to this, the search is horrible. Lots of things related to news and comedy will just get you endless CNN videos or late night talk shows, regardless of whether they are relevant. The worst I've encountered so far happened when I wanted to post that old Harry Partridge cartoon "Stephen the Lesbian" on another site. The first result is for a reupload of the original video with less than a thousandth of the views of the original. Then a couple of playlists with the original video on them, then fandubs into other languages, then a mix of videos about lesbians, people named Stephen and other Harry Partridge videos. But as far as I can tell the original video never appears in the search results. Even adding "Harry Partridge" to the search doesn't really help anything. At first I thought the video got taken down for being offensive or something, but it's still there if you go directly to his channel. Maybe it was shadowbanned, maybe the search algorithm is just shit, I don't know. It's worth noting that video.google.com generally has better results for youtube videos than the search on youtube itself, including in this example (where the video comes up as the #1 result). EDIT: Looking at the comments of the original video apparently it showed up on a ton of people's recommendations a few weeks ago. So apparently youtube will recommend it to everyone, but not reveal it if you search for it. Which just makes everything make even less sense. EDIT 2: Okay, so while both "stephen the lesbian" and "stephen the lesbian harry partridge" give you results where the video doesn't appear at all, "all hail stephen king of the lesbians" does get you the original video as the top result (with the next results mainly being about Stephen King with a few Harry Partridge videos mixed in, then tons of playlists which have nothing to do with either topic). What the hell is this search even doing.

Impressive.

I take back what I said about Fortnite. Tetris 99 is unironically the most skill-indexed battle royale right now.