FUNKCAT12 2020-12-08 13:18:23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkwrimw9ECI hope it helps

FUNKCAT12 2020-12-08 13:25:57

@ear12 @VortexSupernova Alot of welcomes to you.

Cyberdevil 2020-12-08 15:02:33

Wooah damn, sounds like you're just about to walk into a wall there. :/ Sleeping's such an important part of your well-being too, never mind weird times but gotta get some more sleep whenever you do get sleep! Is there maybe some counselor you could talk to about this? Get some more time for your assignments; manage to rest up a little? Though maybe you have Christmas vacation just around the corner now; you might manage some more rest then...?

That doesn't sound healthy at all no... I've always been the type to gain weight when I lead an unhealthy life, but actually losing weight seems worse somehow. Like as long as you gain weight at least your body's working.

LMMS hmm hadn't heard of that one... good to know about. That audio: won't submit to NG because of samples...?

Mmm, leaving memories behind ain't fun, I've fortunately (or not fortunately? However you want to look at it) been moving around most of my life so it just seems somewhat natural to me, whenever it's time for any kind of travel I wake up superalert even if it's in the middle of night, the habit's like instinct. But: we've always had a little cottage here in Sweden we spent time at each summer, so that's memory HQ. Doesn't matter so much where we moved there was always still that, and I've been there ever summer my entire life... so far...

Is that lamp problem at the new place? Memory now?

Positive note on the album there but isn't it even more stressful working with additional projects like that?! Sounds good though. @Nuskoo still giving out badges even when he's not @Olskoo huh, cool to hear. :) And always to worthy recipients!

Not good with memes but maybe: https://youtu.be/hy6oaDzy0-Q

If you have a few minutes maybe you'd enjoy this classic Swedish music video: https://youtu.be/Ropn_kwpFDU

OrangeFluff 2020-12-08 16:53:13

No problem with the unfriend, I understand the situation :3

Bahnou 2020-12-09 11:35:07

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⭑handing over a cookie

Praven 2020-12-10 01:52:53

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktbk_-pQ5TU

VortexSupernova 2020-12-13 20:42:37

@Cyberdevil I also forgot to say: I did my requirements, but most of time, turned in late. When I went to the new house in the afternoon in one day, I missed a test lol. Don't know if I could survive this. The album going through is stressing, yeah, but at least it has progress and still going on

Cyberdevil 2020-12-14 13:26:41

Ah complicating consequences of moving, was about to say I've never really had that kind of experience but I just realized I've never actually moved in a time when Internet was really that important... really has been a while hmm! Just fifteen years back the world was such a different place, crazy, I didn't have any real reason to use the Internet at all back then, just explored for fun sometimes...

Sounds like a mostly awesome change then at least. :) Cool. Pandesal huh... looks delicious, like a mix between Bon Matin and Brioche...

potato FL Studio lol. Good to know. You set high bars for yourself even artistically though it seems. .) Probably not a bad thing but hope you still appreciate making things regardless!

Yeah... too true. Feeling the stagnation a brewing over here too; all the more lately when you can't really get out as you usually do. Good reminder/call for motion though. Woah that many generations - how old are those very oldest of your relative elders? Real vacations might sound nice though - most of our summers are spent keeping the place in shape; repairing; farming; stuff. :) Though I do appreciate a more physical life for a change.

Nice.

Whaaat, you actually saw that video I linked to years ago? Yeah it really turned into an international thing. :) Swede filming in Malaysia acting like it's Calcutta. Don't think this stuff would fare so well now, too much stereotyping going on for our currently somewhat (IMHO) excessively politically correct word but: have some good memories with that one. :) Back in the day when everything was just fun...

Do you maybe know about Jinjing the penguin too? Also a nice story.

Do hope you SURVIVE this though!!! :O If there's an risk of not doing so there's bound to be a way, let go some tasks, talk to some people, test some meditation/affirmation/relaxation techniques and such? All the best now!

Cyberdevil 2020-12-14 13:28:00

Regarding Bon Matin and Brioche btw that's just the closest blend I could think of, seems a lot fluffier/sweeter/probably not really the same at all!

Maybe more like Japanese melon bread.

Cyberdevil 2020-12-14 13:28:25

Either way I gotta try those sometime.

Cyberdevil 2020-12-21 08:24:15

Ah right, isolation times too, we reaaally had nothing like this back when we moved either. :) Hope the exams went well!

Nice. :) Merienda hmm, that sounds satisfying somehow, perfect name for the occasion!

Ouch! XD Reminds me of Flash back in the old days, it used to crash all the time too, sometimes when you'd drawn something really elaborate and crossed a line with the brush the rest of the drawing would just disappear, motion tweens didn't follow the pattern, all kinds of strange bugs going on but... we kept using it too! In a way it's like the flaws made it seem alive. :) A program with personality.

Craaazy how fast you can change up your wake-up routines! :O Great to hear you're getting there. :) Regarding your mom's grandparents, woah, they're already at least 110 years old then?! That's incredible... some people really lead impressively lives... crazy amount of siblings too! The oldest person I've known lived to be 98 I think, my grandma's sister. Interesting vacations too. I'd say my family personally have a pretty unconventional one, most really just relax and do as little as possible, travel places, stay with relatives too, though traveling with extended family probably isn't that common. You're usually always with your nearest.

Nice. :) Hehe, try to stay off Twitter and Tumblr but seems you know more of the culture than I do... is that maybe how you found this place? As less of a social justice warrior haven? That'd make sense yeah, we wouldn't know of all cultures without it, even now. A lot are still stereotyped but with increased migration it seems like that becomes a bigger issue. Countries that are still far away from our radar/of which people haven't made it to our home ground as much though: seems it's not as big a deal to stereotype those. Like North Korea. Feel a bit sorry for how they're portrayed though, when the regime is really not synonymous with the people, but anyway: I don't mind people poking fun at Swedes either if it really is relatable. :) If it feels way off hmm... then I'm not so sure. Feels like some take things way too seriously these days but it's possible I'd take things way too seriously too in certain contexts...

Mmm, it's true. Though I have hope in copyright (or lack thereof) in particular. There's so much Creative Commons work now. A lot of artists are a bit more aware. Even if doesn't become mainstream the underground movement's pretty big; a lot of people listen only to Indie! Feels like maybe there's room for all, and nobody really HAS to join a label and sell out if they don't want to, they can still be famous enough to make a living, just in a different kind of world/venue. Some day maybe the labels will start to crumble.

Regarding the LGBT trend and all though... not sure where that's going. :/ Such a weird world to live in these days sometimes. When you'r praised for abnormalities; minorities are becoming acceptable superiorities; you don't really belong if you're not a part of their fractions. Plus by standing out you get all the more praise and attention. Must be pretty confusing growing up right now. I'm not anti-LGBTQandall per se, just very anti the spotlight. How everyone has to be represented no matter the social consequence, or if they really need to be there. It just gets weird. True equality would be not catering to any individual groups at all really. Just have people most suited for whatever role is relevant without even taking things like this into consideration. IMHO.

Whaaat, a trained spider? What kind of spider was that? Sounds awesome. I think I'd better not go too far down the cute animal rabbithole though, could get lost there indefinitely...

Awesome. :) Hope you manage! Happy Holidays too in a bit! Hopefully you do have some time off soon now? Though possible still way shorter a vacation than we do considering how strenuous the school system seems to be over there.

Cyberdevil 2020-12-25 12:24:24

Ah you've been using Flash too?! Do you have animations lying around somewhere you've been planning to submit? Games? Other gadgets or interactive things...? My favorite one is probably still 8 actually. :) It's the one I use most. I have that as CS6 installed if I collaborate with people on files only compatible with a newer version, but don't really have good enough hardware to run it, takes a long time to load and gets a bit laggy with larger files, so old versions are still a preference in that regard. They definitely did add some useful features, but I like how lightweight the old ones are regardless of hardware benefits. There's just no bloat at all! Super simple both to get into and to use, on basically any OS; any kind of device.

They forced everyone into CC though? You can still use CS6 if you have it can't you, just no more new versions that are entirely offline...? I've tried GIMP and Blender but never really got into them, big fan of Fireworks for most things, it's a bit like Photoshop but with more focus on interface/online design, not so much print, and so much lighter You can really use it for anything though. photo work, vector work, layout work. it's so flexible! Only tool I really miss there is the magnetic lasso.

Unfortunately Adobe decided to focus on Photoshop entirely though a few years back, so you can't get any new versions of it since, but old ones work fine! It's also a program back from the Macromedia days (same company that started Flash). Recently discovered OpenShot for video btw, also an OpenSource alternative, though seems pretty good. Way easier to use than say VirtualDub or AVIDemux, if you've mayhaps been into video editing too? And way lighter than the professional stuff like Final Cut or Adobe Premiere. Anyway, over to the actual response stuff...

Ah what a huge change! Currently falling asleep between 1-2 AM here, hectic pre-Christmas days = a little worse habits, but still, not so bad. Apparently it's possible to really turn it around too huh. :) Ah sorry to hear that. Though good to hear they led long; hopefully somewhat healthy/happy lives too! :) My grandma hit 93 or 94, which to us at least is really more than usual. Hope my parents reach a similar age...

...wait the average life span is just around 60~ over there now? O_O Or you mean it was before...?

Ahh that's nice. And woah that's a big gathering. :) Impressive. Back when my grandma was alive we could maybe be around 20 people there at the same time; celebrating her birthday. She was a bit like a central hub for all our families. There's nobody we all have as strong ties to now, so everybody's a bit more distanced. Tis a shame...

Aha! Alright! :D Good to have that clarified. My grandparents actually had at least 5-6 siblings each btw, way bigger families back in the day here.

Didn't know the term 'nuclear family' before. :) Interesting... I suppose in Swedish culture we're also a bit more nuclear these days. :P Unfortunately as everything's commercialized and capitalized (Westernized, basically) it feels like the value of family diminishes a bit; people focus more on careers than community... but I wish we had more of that. Personally grandparents are all dead now, so I suppose it's natural we don't have as big gatherings anymore, but you notice there's less focus on multiple generations getting together or living together elsewhere too. I like how they have it in Italy. Feels really familiar over there - maybe a bit like you have it. So much focus on family dinners too. Everybody really appreciating the food and the gathering.

Ahh what happened on Twitter? Just a wave of BLM related stuff? I haven't been following that really but does seem like it's been going a bit overboard. :) So you've been playing Geometry Dash too? Cool to know your origins here! I don't really remember how I stumbled in here at this point but I know I stayed for the stats. :) Starting competing to get to the highest ranks of reviewers/posters/etc. Of course enjoyed the content too but that's what really made me join way back when...

Ah interesting.

Well-said. :) Agree totally. it's a very aggressive kind of equality war sometimes, and I feel eventually it'll be tipping the scales of favor away from their fight. People oughta just get tired of all the hostility, no matter what group you feel you belong to, and the injustices they're trying to improve on will unfortunately - at least partially - come back because of it. Hope these things all calm down in time though, when the woke really wake up and realize it's no joke to say stuff and provoke the main bunch too much, poke a serpent to sway stuff and... it might bite. :P

Aww that's awesome. :) Gonna try showing this to some peeps with arachnophobia, wonder how they'll react. :3 Big shame people don't like spiders more! Feels like it's one of those unreasonable fears that just gets passed down from generation to generation. Well maybe not everywhere but: at least in Sweden we don't have any lethal spiders.

They're all really pretty cute once you start looking/interacting a bit.

Cyberdevil 2020-12-29 13:50:37

Wooah you've got quite some potentially powerful connects then! :D One of the real NG legends! Nice. Though shame 'bout the lock. The unintentional CC migration wasn't one I'd heard of but good to know,,, you know your Flash history too huh. :P Here I thought you were like a decade younger hmm! Remember splitting websites from Photoshop designs too. :) Which reminds me of: Dreamweaver. One of the other great tools Macromedia played a part in, and I believe that one's still going strong, maybe, hopefully... Flash, Fireworks and Dreamweaver were my main three back in the day. They complemented each other so well. No need for anything else for anything!

Lightworks - would it be useful if you did learn it fully you think? Just totally unnecessary?

Ah did you try Openshot now just after I mentioned it, or earlier? That is a major downside if so yeah... with a slightly more low-end PC it took me just around two hours to export my recent mixtape though, which personally seems pretty good, way faster than the alternatives I tried before it. Just a cover image and an audio track there though, not sure how much complexity of the embedded material factors in as all formats still export frame by frame but it's bound to be something...

Crazy!!! XD We all stayed up on Christmas Eve till maybe around 1 but that's way late over here. New Year's Eve though: normal then. Way too much sweets here too. XD Mmm, think it was the same with my grandma, though it still has to be at least in part good genes too. But you really are what you eat... ah damn, siblings with diabetes too? Maybe a lot of sweet food in your family? Interesting. Apparently we're up at around 82 years over here, though that's not the average I suppose, must be a little lower: https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

Always known Japan as maybe the country with highest expectancy. Been thinking their seafood diet must be pretty healthy but maybe more things factor in. Still lowest in central Africa...

Yeah that's true. :/ People prioritize careers over family these days, and I feel like we're really not getting happier because of it. Though maybe there's just more pressure overall; people in developed countries at least don't feel like they have the time for family. But that's life is all about really. Wonder where this'll all go in the long run...

I wouldn't be surprised actually. :) A few decades back I don't think people imagined we would be paying for water, but look at us now! Tap water's still clean and free here but people still buy bottled. Or filters. Everything's a business, and the more we exploit the world the less of it you can really consume as is. Too much pollution. Processing required. I've been wondering about all the air conditioners around the world too, creating cool air indoors at the expense of even hotter air outdoors, and the hotter temperatures the more we need to cool...

Maybe not exactly the same trend with nursing homes for the elderly here but: there really are a lot of them. :/ The glimpses you get it doesn't seem like anybody's really happy there either.

Ah yeah in the UK there definitely seems to be more focus on the family, same with a lot of Europe really, Italy, Spain, etc. Maybe not so much the Baltic countries. Would you say the UK is a part of the 'West' too though? :) When we think 'Westernized' were basically just thinking US/Canada. And not so much Canada. For us Westernized and Americanized is basically the same thing. Of course though that term really depends on where you live!

I'll take your word for it. :) Haven't been there in a long time really, but what a shame, maybe it'll go the same way as Tumblr did recently. Nice. :) Never played GD but looks fun!

Noo did not see that! Hehe well sure, I'll give you an official 100% Scandinavian (at least a couple generations back, both parents) free pass on all braids you could possibly want to have right here! :D I don't think we consider them a symbol of our heritage to the point anyone would take offense. XD Plenty of people here actually have buns too though hmmm! When people are just looking for something to comment on they'll find something everywhere though. It's a shame that initially good causes so often just get carried away. Nothing as both dangerous or sad as a good person believing so strongly in that what they're doing is right, no matter how wrong it might be. :/ Hope so!

Mmm, I have a nephew who's reaaaally creeped out by spiders. Will let you know how that goes. :) I do have pretty wild imagination too though... really wonder why this fear takes root in some people more than others. Might simply be how you're raised. My mom's not particularly scared of spiders but my nephew's mom definitely is... then again my mom really doesn't like snakes and I almost file like they could be my spirit animal. Fortunately no lethal snakes in Sweden though. It feels like it'd be reasonable with these fears if they were, and I guess in part maybe that's why so many still have them. It's in our genes. (ah characters ran out, just a moment...)

Cyberdevil 2020-12-29 13:51:27

...plenty people dying of bites in the past to incur on us the necessary survival-relevant responses!

Ah those old world tarantulas look awesome too. :D Maybe not directly 'cute' but...

Reminds me, when we lived in Chile we occasionally had these pink tarantula-sized spiders occasionally fall into our pool; used to pick them up and carry them over the fence with a net. Might be a part of what took away my fear of spiders if I had some innate at the time. They just seemed so clumsy and harmless, big or no. We just called them bird spiders, but trying to find an image now I can't find any that are really pink... not sure what species they were or if my memory's really playing tricks on me now regarding the color...

Cyberdevil 2020-12-31 10:33:47

Ah you got a FOLLOW?! That's more than enough. :D TomFulp on NG, Waterflame on Twitter, you got some legends on leash there... ah nice, five year margin of age-related correctness, though at least a decade in difference then. :D FYI the term's also used on the business side of things: splitting, merging, flipping, turning... always confusing moving between fields with the same terminologies. :)

Mmm, might be interesting to try sometime then! :) Good to know. Personally big fan of lightweight over bloated, even if that means I'm usually missing some pretty handy features. Like that magnetic lassooo...

Woooah, that's CRAZY! :O No chance you might have accidentally picked the most compression-heavy codec they have? It really shouldn't take that long! I'm on just a regular two-core computer myself right now, and as mentioned an hour long file just took a few hours. Went with 1080p I think, not so important with the size ratio when it's mainly audio. Nut ah, compressing a longer video, indeed haven't needed to try that... good to know. Same export time both with Filmora and the built-in one there?

Ah that explains the musical vein, part of the culture over there! :D Sounds nice regarding the karaoke; real shame regarding your siblings on medication already... we try to get a lot of garlic in our family to keep blood pressure down. Mainly for my parents. They're still not taking any meds at all, closing in on 80 y/o now, so far healthy diet seems to go a long way. :) Ooh allergies too! What kinds? Used to be allergic to fur when I was little, managed to get rid of that. Hmm interesting. On the flipside Japan have really high suicide rates though - people pretty much working themselves to death there. :/ I wonder if the statistics will change with the newer generations, maybe life expectancy's not as high now as it used to be... anyway cool to see it's a bit better in the Philipines! If those stats I linked to are reliable.

Regarding sources I think Scandinavia would be a bit better off we were still progressing, but the last few decades the social order's just getting worse and worse. A tenth of the population's immigrants here, we have some internal conflicts between groups, people don't really trust the government/the government doesn't have much power, it feels like everything is just slowly falling apart... we don't have the resources to sustain everyone, or a social unity that lets us really work together to build a good community, yet we have to keep up a good 'image' so we're constantly handing out aid to other countries; getting involved with external affairs even though IMO the thing we really need to focus on is sorting things out on home turf. Feels like most politicians just play a game over here; most people have been softened by all too long a time of really having it pretty good; not having to work hard for anything; losing sense of what's important and what we're supposed to be working towards.

Hmm, rant mode enabled. XD Sorry 'bout that. I'm really not happy with the current government, but hopefully it'll get so bad eventually that we can really bond together and start to improve things again... all that ranting aside it's really still a nice place overall. Still lots of nature, so in a way that's like a built-in reserve in regard to resources/riches that otherwise lenient social order can't so easily take away. Though they do their best to exploit that too.

Had a short vacation in Qatar actually. :) Beautiful country. I wonder if the maybe make a considerable amount on tourism too, considering it's a more 'open' country than the ones they're surrounded with. A lot of people from the surrounding countries tourist there to live a bit more freely. But yes, oil too probably. :) Regarding central Africa, do you have any TLDR version on why they have the lowest? Corruption, disease, famine, colonial abuse; a lack of connections with the outer world? Maybe it goes even deeper...?

Mmm, that's true. Definitely a lot like that over here. Yet in part I feel like this trend creates a society with less patience and understanding overall. Relations are all about a certain level of compromise after all. It's good to be independent, but it's good too really care for the family; to have a bond that just grows stronger the harder it is to keep... somewhat. Of course there are plenty of abusive parents too. Don't want to force anyone to stay at home, I just feel like these days a lot of people escape their problems instead of dealing with them, and it really all starts with the family. And damn I forgot about that rent-a-family thing in Japan. :/ Watched some documentary on people marrying dolls too, feels like something done gone a bit too far over there somehow... I mean if they really do love their dolls then props to them but: doesn't really feel like that could ever be true love, and the whole family thing and natural selection and attraction and all...

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Cyberdevil 2020-12-31 10:39:31

Ah, Chlorofluorocarbon, over here we know that mainly as Freon. Might have an old fridge with that at our summer place... the thing about CFC (or Freon in particular, if other types work differently) is that it's not actually dangerous to the atmosphere until it leaks out. Been wondering how well we took care of all old fridges that were thrown away during the time, to get rid of all CFC - could they really recycle the gas? How much of it didn't just float up into the atmosphere BECAUSE we banned it and everybody drove out to dump their old fridges? It seems possibly a bit like how many people grew sick just from sanitizing houses of asbestos after people were made aware of the dangers in that, when really it doesn't deteriorate at all when it's left untouched.

But on the topic of Freon: did you know the guys who invented it are the same ones behind Nylon, Teflon, Kevlar, Agent Orange, and sooo many chemical substance that have been leaching into our world the last century or so? DuPont. They've indirectly killed so many people yet still keep going; innovating; creating new things that might be deemed potentially disastrous down the line yet of course currently don't have any known side-effects. The first version of Teflon was a huge scandal too but it's barely had any news coverage at all herer. I wonder how some company executives manage to sleep at night; how do you ever get involved in such a business...

Regarding those coal and gas emissions: did you know that with electric cars now we're emitting more than ever? Hopefully it'll change in time but the carbon dioxide emissions you get from electric cars are way higher than what you get from regular petrol-driven ones (that electricity still has be to be producced somehow), add to that dirty battery production, and how much environmental impact you get with any newly produced car, whereas old ones - apart from already having been built with generally more sustainable materials - after they stopped using for example asbestos brake pads - can run on for years without notable consequence. With truly renewable energy maybe this'll all change, but these days it seems like 'green' has been the new form of exploitation. They've commercialized environmental gain, and are really just making money off of our naivete. People driving around in brand new hybrids thinking they're helping the environment over here...

Ah there are people who really want to stay there too... on the bright side maybe elderly homes over there aren't so bad? :) Sounds somewhat hopeful. Indeed, people seem to see those places with different eyes, it's just a shame when someone doesn't really have a choice; has to spend their final days in a place that sometimes seems to really derive of any innate rights and freedoms they used to have; drains them of energy no less. I'm probably coming across way to cynical here though. XD Surely there are some great elderly homes out there too!!! In an ideal world there'd be no reason not to want to live in one. Just gather together with people your own age; relax; have a good time... just hear too many reports on poor treatment over here.

Mmm, it might be that Scandinavia is still a bit of an exception. Maybe the cold winters bring us together a bit more. :) But I know most families probably aren't like mine. Everybody doesn't stay together as much. Your earlier comment on teens just wanting to flee their parents and lead their own lives: same here. There's a lot of that. But regarding the 'richer' ones, maybe it's simply that we're not as rich as you imagine? Getting your own place to live is difficult these days. A lot of kids can't move out when they graduate even if they want to; I guess there's a large part who gather together by necessity now. The income gap's pretty big. It's really a pretty divided society, and so probably also a split approach on that distancing trend. Ahh so basically 'Americanized' is 'Westernized' gone wrong. XD lmao... you've got a point! Seems like at one in point in time they WERE the same, then, but not so much anymore? :) They even tried to get healthcare for all there recently, supposedly emulating our currently not-very-well-working welfare system, interesting how things are shifting in the world...

Ah no, just lived there a couple years. :) My dad worked at Ericsson when I grew up (retired since maybe a decade back now) and we moved around a bit due to his work. Grew up in a looking back pretty enviously open world! :) At the time of that Qatar vacation earlier on we lived in Saudi Arabia.

But I actually do have a Chilean cousin come to think of it...

Hmm maybe you could follow some different people on Twitter though? :) Most NG artists seem to be there too after all... or yeah, just avoid completely. Personally I just don't feel like I have time for other social communities. NG's become home. So reaaally hope it doesn't ever turn that same way now... lmao! XD No good GD experiences?! I thought users made their own levels though? Is there a more official set/popular selection everyone goes with?

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Cyberdevil 2020-12-31 10:41:48

...ain. :P Just a little more now...

Hey no need to start committing violent crimes just for that. XD I'm sure they'll come to their senses eventually!

Sounds like I need to send you some cute snake videos sometime and maybe change that. :P That's crazy though, so crazy venomous... do you know anyone who's been bitten? Do you have serum at home just in case? Is there even a serum for those kind of bites...? I guess you have some additional outdoor routines over there like: not just going out in tall grass, and shaking your shoes before you put them on?

Oh you found it! Nice. It seems probable that was it, though it really seems so much pinker in my memory... but maybe Google images don't do them all justice either. Size-wise at least: seems about right. :)

Aaand sorry for this long-ass message now! Ran on a bit more than I expected...

Cyberdevil 2020-12-31 11:12:08

Btw regarding Central Africa I didn't mean to make it sound like the elements I mentioned weren't 'enough', it's really an unfortunate set of circumstances they deal with over there. Feels like to a large extent the colonization had an impact on that too, and maybe bred a certain culture of corruption because of it, where it's deemed acceptable or desirable just to run over the population. Cause that's what we (we as in Europeans) did back in the day, and still we prosper...

Hopefully things calm down there too in time. Just curious if there's some element to it all that I don't know about.

Regarding Freon too, forgot to mention it's just banned for use in new production here. Still OK to keep old items with the gas contained. Freon is supposedly harmless for humans too, bad only for the ozone. I suppose they might have realized that just throwing everything away at once maybe did more harm than good. Might be wise to do so gradually as to not impact the ozone layer too much all at once. At least it'd make sense to me if that was the reasoning. Ozone layer actually seems to be healing too, some positive environmental change going on there at least...

Not so positive in regards to current Teflon disposal. ;) No chance that'll just float away and just cause a little harm on the way out...

Cyberdevil 2021-02-12 17:51:29

Heey drifted away from this a bit earlier, sorry!

Whaaat you have to ask for permission up till you hit 18?! XD I never asked back in the day, my parents have never been much on the Internet, they're just not that generation. Makes sense now that you mention it but... I really haven't thought about the general underage age limit before either. 13's actually pretty low. It's the same here (as in on NG) as everywhere I suppose, though it might not have been as clear back in the day, everything's become so much more legislated/strict, suppose enough site owners have been sued that they've started taking these things seriously. I think you mentioned your age a while back hmm, a few years more right? :) Totally OK at least for NG!

Oh and regarding the follow, it's easy to follow interesting people but for an interesting person to actually follow BACK... that is a pretty cool thing! :D Even TomFulp after that!! Aaaaa!!!

Yeah when you need the magnetic lasso you REALLY need the magnetic lasso. XD Agreed. I might actually be avoiding work that involves selecting things when I don't have that tool, come to think of it... the magic wand works well for a lot of things though. If you just need to remove a background or similar. Not as useful with more advanced things where you work with particular portions.

Ah I mean when you export, you get the option to choose which codec to use, and some are way heavier than others. I don't remember the selection right now, but for example the different versions of HEVC use more and more hardware with each. The better they get the smaller filesize you can get without additional quality loss but: a lot of that comes down to compression. Requires a bit better hardware just to play the newest codecs, but where it's most notable is when you export something in the first place. I just went with the default though. Maybe H.264. If you didn't intentionally choose anything there maybe that's not it after all, they shouldn't use the heaviest by default. Hopefully...

Woooah 1 minute video at 100x100 taking that long is craaazy. O_O Then again maybe this really is a codec/setting thing after all... but if you have better alternatives never mind that. Maybe it's just badly designed for the particular hardware you're using.

NVIDIA? Do they have a program themselves? A format? This getting confusing. XD Hope we're talking about the same things...

That still sounds fun though. XD And hey a little Swedish music too! Funerals too woah, sounds crazy at first, but I guess funerals usually do have a little festivity after it too. I remember my grandmas earlier, the actual event was so sad but everything lightened up with the different after it. Felt like you could really let go a bit. Doesn't feel like a bad thing after all! Some people probably wouldn't want to be mourned so much either, more so celebrated. :) What better occasion!

Yupp. XD Yeah I'm the youngest. Sister's 42, brother's 49 soon... grandads younger than my parents, feeling old! XD But thank you. Hope they live a long and strong life too. :) His kidneys though, if you just let them rest a while they should be able to recoup. Hope he drinks a lot of water? It's such an easy way to help the body if not, other drinks of course have their own various effect on the kidneys, need just clean water to actually continually flush toxins out without adding in new ones. But maybe it's a more serious issue, some kind of disease creating all that creatinine...? Mmm, afternoon tea's a heavy tradition over here but apart from that we probably do. :) We're pescatarians too, so no meat. I guess we eat a bit of a mixture between traditional Scandinavian cousine/Mediterranean/vegetarian. Try to eat good but of course not always. Lots of snacks. No fast food though! Can't remember the last time I had some actually, maybe 2019...

Ahh hope they start taking care of themselves too. Even if a positive mindset seems to move mountains as ell. Read about this guy who ate hamburgers for breakfast lunch and dinner and was in great shape too. :) But that's gotta be genetic. Anyway good to know the allergies are just seasonal at least... mostly! Crustaceans, does that mean you can't eat seafood (oh wait you answered that, never mind)? How about going to the beach? Strong scents: problems with perfumes and similar? That must get a bit problematic sometimes if so. What kind of reactions did you get btw, just stuffy nose? More serious?

A search for 'saesangs' and the first result is '13 Extremely Disturbing Stories Of Sasaeng Fans'. XD Doesn't seem promising hmm... revenge porn too huh, not what I was thinking of but that surely does play a role too... yeah I'm not so hopeful about life expectancy getting better either the way we treat the world, but possibly in certain countries/groups. Those who can afford artificial aid. Otherwise the future really seems kinda dystopian already. I think corruption's a problem here too but people don't acknowledge it/believe it. We're still so naive. At least trust in politicians is probably... wait characters running out here again...

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...at an all time low right now, it's just one scandal after the other, haven't had any good ones since before I was born at least. You know what, it seems like our countries might not be so different after all. XD Wonder if it's really the same all over the world right now. Things still seem a bit better in Switzerland though...

Mmm our healthcare, I don't know about that... last time I had to get a check-up for something there was a three month waiting time. Ended up trying alternative remedies and managed to fix things myself. :P It might seem good in theory but it's so crazy overloaded, and doctors don't seem that competent, when this corona thing started for example they were given directives to give old people in particular morphine in case they had trouble breathing, which ended up causing hundreds to die, because morphine actually reduces the body's ability to absorb oxygen. And we all know using respirators in the first place can be dangerous too, as it both reduces our natural capacity to breath but strains the lungs when they're most vulnerable. Better with nebulisers to loosen up phlegm, as Israel were using from the start.

I feel like this first world country thing is a bit of a facade at this point, though maybe I'm being naive, you guys surely do have it worse than we do but maybe worse than I imagine. I've never had to resort to SSI or similar but at least we do have such a system in place. It's just abused to the point not everyone is given any; the ones who get aid aren't always the ones who need it most. Random example: pensioners were recently given a small increase on 60 USD/month, though this only applied to everyone with a pension over 1400 USD/month, those with less didn't get anything at all, when some have so little income they spend their days as beggars and barely have enough to eat. Everything goes to rent. You can't survive in the winter here if you don't have a roof over your head, so that's the priority, and if you have a roof over your head it suddenly seems like it's not so bad after all. That's the kind of injustices we have over here right now. And immigrants who haven't even spent a working year here - never paid any taxes - are given more right off the boat. The ones who have little get less and the ones who actually live pretty decently are taken care of. I can't see how this can keep working in the long run.

Regarding the sinking ship thing I'm not sure exactly what that's in reference too either but: may be legit. :) I'm not a fan of the EU either. We give more than we get back there. Going by population, we're contributing the most per capita of any one country in the union, maybe the boat was some reference to that.

Ah that doesn't seem good either. :/ Do you always have some relative(s) working aboard, sending back money? I really can't complain yeah. Though rant: for sure. XD I guess if things get worse here they'll be getting even worse over there at the same time, so maybe we'll remain a first world country regardless, just with fluctuating levels of hardship that balance fluctuating levels elsewhere...

Oh narcotics and hitmen? O_O Do you have something similar to the cartels in Colombia/similar...?

lmao. XD Has your upper class classmate from Qatar settled in since? Did not know about the dark side to Belgium chocolates, holy shit, or that they actually import food in Africa - I thought they more so exported to the point they had little left for themselves... definitely tough land to farm though. Mmm, too true. Regarding Christianity I'm surprised it's managed to spread so much. It may have some good foundations but all those crusades, so much violence in the name of religion... it's almost like entire nations have had Stockholm syndrome through the ages, where they somehow grow to adopt the practices of their conquerors. Like maybe most recently most notable when the US dropped those two nukes on Japan, and since then their society's been incredibly Americanized. It's a little baffling. You'd think there'd be way more resentment, but maybe there still is and it just doesn't come across in the rest of the world; it'd be different if I visit... though maybe it's in our genes also to idolize the strong. The ones with power. And that's why this hierarchy just doesn't disappear. Anyway regarding the colonialism it really did go deeper huh! Interesting to know.

To some extent I suppose guilt over those past deeds is one of the reasons we let in so many immigrants now. :) Though that's not stopping any wars; that's not solving problems in the rest of the world. You'd wish the people who had more resources than they know what to do with; don't need to focus on just getting by would attempt to do something about this, but it seems there's rarely a benevolent person in a high place. Wonder if the riches change them or if that's just the kind of person you have to be to ever become that rich. Ruthless.

Ah dang the characters be running out again, one moment...