Gyokuyoutama

Apparently GOG Galaxy broke when it comes to fetching games.  I'm using the old version, though I wouldn't be surprised if this happened in the new version.

I discovered this when I decided to reinstall TIE Fighter only for it not to show up, despite me knowing for a fact I had purchased it and previously played it.  But it doesn't show up at all in searches of the library in Galaxy.  On the website it does show up, and when checking this out I noticed that I had literally one hundred more games listed on the website compared to Galaxy.

I'm 90% sure I've found the issue.  Anything sold in a bundle will not show up on Galaxy.  So TIE Fighter didn't show up because GOG actually bundles the original game, the CD rerelease, and the 1998 "special edition" remake using the X-Wing vs. TIE fighter engine.  Similarly none of my Space Quest games show up since they are sold in a 1-3 bundle and a 4-6 bundle.  Anything with more than one entry to the store purchase won't show up.

It had to have happened recently, since I successfully installed SWAT 2 about a month ago and that comes in a bundle with SWAT 1 (and neither game shows up in my galaxy library at the moment.)  DOOM and DOOM II even vanished from the galaxy version of the library due to the enhanced editions of those games being given to people who had previously purchased them.

Apparently I'm in the perfect demographic because the Nielsen corporation is constantly asking me to fill out surveys.

This time they only sent three bucks though so I think I'll hold out for more.  Once they sent 30.

Error codes I have seen by simply repeatedly refreshing the main steam store page:

1

7

105

108

118

No error code but nothing loads but a black page

Excerpt from recent e-mail from the dean:

"When making online versions of courses, please make sure that they are accessible to all students.  Keep in mind that not all students have the same level of technology.  Some students might not have smart phones, and some might not even have access to computers or internet connections.  Nevertheless, your course should be accessible by all of these students."

So apparently the new online course must be usable by people who are not online???

Finally figured out why the current Shadowverse meta pisses me off:

-Efficient damage spells: cap out at 4 damage.

-Current broken creatures: Have defenses starting at 5.

Finally save up enough to craft a second copy of a legendary.

Find out it's been restricted to one per deck.

Had someone e-mail me several times over the course of the week saying I had sent him the wrong file.  At first I assumed I did and resent it.  But then he said that I sent him the wrong file again. 

I double and triple checked, and it was the right file and so I sent a long e-mail explaining to him what the purpose of the file was and how I know he has the right file.  He responds almost immediately "No, it's the wrong file again!" 

Then a few minutes later he sends an e-mail saying "Nevermind, it's the right file.  I didn't read it before so I didn't realize it had the right information."

Here's a challenge:

Start a browser in private browsing, for a fresh history.

Go to youtube without logging in.

Repeatedly watch whatever video you want, then return to the front page, making note of the recommeneded videos.

Your score is the number of videos required before Family Guy stops being recommended.

Lower scores are better.

Hard Mode: Get rid of late night talk shows, movie trailers, and sports shows too.

Impossible Mode: Get rid of bullshit clickbait list videos.

How does Kemomimichan get the meat?

I just discovered Nissin cup noodle commercials.  Why are these all so good?

I just now realized that "Joanna Dark" is a play on "Jeanne D'Arc".

Only just over 20 years after Perfect Dark was released.

I know this is a late insight but...

Did Japan really just lobby for the 2020 Olympics because that's when they happened in Akira?

I thought people were exaggerating when they said that the Japanese writing system was intentionally designed to be obtuse.

Then I discovered round katakana.

(Maybe this should have just been a PM to Corv since he's the only one who's going to get this).

I was fiddling around with an old mp3 player of my brother's that he had left at my parents years ago.  All the buttons on the outside are busted, but I thought maybe I could get it working.  I couldn't get it to play music, but I did get into the file structure and saw names that both resembled my humor far more than his and referenced stuff that he wouldn't have been interested in (like Big O and Aura Battler Dunbine.)

I hooked it up to my computer and apparently I used it as a makeshift external hard drive backup of my first personal computer.  In addition to a gig of the first music I downloaded from the internet, there were also about 60 books in .txt format, lots of various school assignments, some old java programs I made, and Hello! style archives of the very first forum I was active on.  I only vaguely remember making the decision to transfer this stuff over to the mp3 player, and as far as I remember I never transferred them to any other device before now.

I'm pretty sure I just stumbled across a wiki for a show that doesn't exist:

https://theworldoftony.fandom.com/wiki/Ecce_homo_qui_est_faba

If I needed to explain to someone what the 00's era internet was like, I would link them to this ZZT World:

https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/9elation/

If the Nielsen company sends you a survey thing asking what TV Shows you watch, make sure to write down My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Every time I've done that they've sent me at least 20 bucks.

If you watch this video ten times in a row you can almost believe that old SPUF still exists.

In "The Marriage of Mrs. Fox" (Die Hochzeit der Frau Füchsin) Mrs. Fox's husband has nine tails and is quite proud of this fact.  You can see this in this Brothers Grimm cartoon from way back:

I guess this is technically an anime even though I think it was primarily made for European audiences.  But the detail appears in the original fairy tale, as the very first line goes: "Es war einmal ein alter Fuchs mit neun Schwänzen" i.e. "there once was an old fox with nine tails."

Anyway, this is literally the only time I've seen references to foxes having multiple tails in a western, non-influenced by Japan work.  The fact that there are nine tails specifically is stranger still, as just having multiple would be enough for the story to work.

The story is basically about worrying about getting cucked and faking his death to see what happens only for his wife to be faithful to him... until she finds another fox with nine tails and then immediately decides to marry him.  The story could have had Mr. Fox get beat out with the new suitor having ten tails, but it stops at nine, like that's the max.

Anyway, I'm posting this for two reasons.  One is just I thought it was an interesting tidbit.  Second, I'm curious if anyone has encountered any western stories with foxes having multiple tails, discounting stuff influenced by anime.  The closest thing I can think of outside of this is when Samson burns down a vineyard by tying pairs of foxes together by their tails.

In isolation DeepL will translate メスガキ as "female brat."

But in the context of longer phrases I've seen it translate it to "little bitch," "meth head," "meshuggah" and in one particularly bizarre instance "anonymous scholarship system for orphans whose parents have been killed in traffic accidents."

Have yet to see it use Pixiv's gloss of "sassy loli" though.

Is a dragon a reptile, or is it really a bird?

Now hear me out: I'm not just saying that because they fly.  A dragon is basically a dinosaur, and dinosaurs are supposedly more closely related to birds, right?  So wouldn't that make a dragon a bird, technically?

Is it normal for there to be a guy handing out full crates of cookies for free when you leave the grocery store?

And hypothetically speaking if I were to accept such a crate of free cookies, should I be worried about getting poisoned?

Is Moby the Duck a reference to Moby Dick?

If so, am I retarded for taking this long to notice?

Is there anything worse than carefully planning out your burn to clear an opponent's ridiculously full board then getting killed next turn by some haste stuff...

...only to realize that you could have won if you had just burned his face instead.