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07:20 < aestetix> it seems that there is a whole industry of people who go to walmart to film fart "prank" videos
07:20 < aestetix> have any of you encountered one of them in real life?
07:22 < Evilpig> useless paloalto.  Their vpn product "globalprotect" has released a new 6.0 version and in the rpm they've renamed the package to "GlobalProtect_rpm" so this is not treated as an upgrade to the v5 client despite them occupying the exact same files on disk, because... duh... it's an upgrade.  
07:23 < Evilpig> I put in a ticket to their support requesting that they fix the rpm by either renaming the product back to globalprotect or add in an obsoletes to the package to remove the v5 
07:23 < Evilpig> Their answer was "this is a known problem, you have to uninstall v5 first, then install v6"
07:26 < Evilpig> My un-caffeinated response to them this morning.  https://www.dropbox.com/s/k1aoeeh3ivpp64q/Screenshot%202023-02-13%20at%208.24.01%20AM.png?dl=0
07:26 < PigBot> Dropbox - Screenshot 2023-02-13 at 8.24.01 AM.png - Simplify your life (at www.dropbox.com) https://tinyurl.com/2o8smneb
08:03 <@Dolemite> mr0ning, be0tches and h0ez!
08:04 <@Dolemite> And dear Hardees, thank you for making a heart shaped biscuit for me this morning, but fuck you for leaving off the gravy that I specifically ordered by asking for a Pork Chop and Gravy Biscuit.
08:04 < aestetix> Why did you have a porn chop for breakfast?
08:04 < aestetix> er, pork chop
08:05 <@Dolemite> Because it's fucking tasty
08:05 < aestetix> a porn chop sounds like some bdsdm thing
08:07 < aestetix> Dolemite: how often do you eat non-breakfast things for breakfast?
08:07 <@Dolemite> That isn't a non breakfasty thing
08:07 < aestetix> also, a pork chop and crazy biscuit sounds like something that would give me quite a few issues
08:07 < aestetix> gravy*
08:07 < aestetix> man I can't type today
08:28 < Evilpig> Dolemite: do you know if mcdonalds still does the steak egg and cheese bagel?  I just thought abou that this morning and had a major flashback craving
08:31 <@Dolemite> No clue
08:33 < aestetix> Dolemite: if you went into a McDonalds to get breakfast, and they told you they had stopped serving breakfast five minutes ago, what would you do?
08:54 <@Dolemite> I'd track you down and kick you in the nuts
09:19 <@Dagmar> How nice of them to make the food in the shape of where it's going
09:27 <@Mirage> Once again, Amazon really needs to fix their tracking shit so that something not delivered on time goes back into the proper tracking stage vs just saying "Running Late"
09:28 <@Mirage> Shit I'd ordered for "before 11AM" kept getting postponed throughout the day and finally at ~11PM just switched to "Running Late"
09:29 <@Mirage> Going by past experience w/ this, I might get my shit sometime today...or by the end of the week..or never
09:42 <@Dolemite> probably depends on whether it's Amazon Delivery vs FedEx Home vs USPS
09:43 <@Dagmar> Usually it gets to the "running late" state when they've not seen it get scanned in awhile
09:50 <@Mirage> This is "out for delivery" -> "running late" vs "shipped" -> "running late".   Granted both are kind of a limbo state, but getting there from "out for delivery" is the annoying as fuck one.
09:50 <@Dagmar> Yeah out for delivery is when it's scanned into a truck
09:51 <@Mirage> On a sep note, dunno about the rest of you w/ Hogwarts Legacy, but to me it's as bad as Factorio in that you keep thinking "just one more quick thing and I'll go to bed" and then next thing you know it's 3am
09:52 <@Dagmar> I am being a bit more strategic now considering that I postponed the first real "trial" until I was level 26 it threw some stuff out of whack
09:53 <@Dagmar> It's pretty unforgiving about "do the things"
09:54 <@Mirage> I'm 27 atm.  Went down the 'find all the chests' rabbit hole, then a bunch of side quests, and then I found the Merlin Puzzles... 
09:55 <@Mirage> One thing I would like to see is an option to lock-in whatever choices you made for transmog of your clothing.  The more stuff you get the more annoying it is to find what you want and set it back again
10:12 <@Mirage> The 'thieving' amuses me.  No stealth required...just unlock the door and ransack the house while the residents watch on
10:18 <@Dagmar> By "do the things" I mean blocking, countering, and riposte
10:19 <@Dagmar> like you either block and dodge correctly, or some of the trials just end you
10:19 <@Mirage> Yeah.   The stone guard dudes are mean and sneaky.
10:20 <@Dagmar> Once I got very serious about dodging and casting Expelliarmus, then attacking them with their own weapons, I sailed through without a scratch
10:20 <@Dolemite> Lots of clanging overhead.  We have our handyman contractor here today to expand our guest bathroom to something a normal sized adult human can actually turn around in.
10:38 <@Dagmar> Some of these twits need to learn 
10:39 <@Dagmar> THey think I'm being harsh on them for calling them out over not actually checking their facts, when they're saying terrible shit that is wholly made up
10:40 <@Dagmar> They're saying worse stuff about someone than I am, but apparently somehow they're not an even bigger dick because that person has a lot of money?
10:40 <@Dagmar> I've fuckin' had it with the venomous virtue signaling that keeps appearing on my screen
10:41 <@Dagmar> Bishes need to block me, shut the fuck up, or suck it up
10:54 < aestetix> ok maybe one of you knows
10:54 < aestetix> Is there some place where I can send money via paypal or something and get a virtual credit card?
10:54 < aestetix> Ideally a US credit card
11:12 < dasunt> Stop trying to rent hookers.
11:20 < Evilpig> you have to rent them.  it's illegal to buy them
11:20 < aestetix> lol
11:21 < aestetix> is there a good torrenting tracker for indy games?
11:21 < aestetix> I'm trying to find some games by an old studio that went out of business
11:21 < Evilpig> not by my experience
11:21 <@Dolemite> But is he really renting them when he just kills them and buries them in the mattress of his cheap hotel room?
11:21 < aestetix> I'd happily pay for it, but there doesn't seem to be a way to
11:22 < Evilpig> Mirage: the flying keys are infuriating.  I have no rhythm and i'm not twitchy enough to slap those little fuckers in reliably
11:22 <@Dagmar> The paycard industry is kind of designed around _not_ letting that thing happen, because everyone who tries winds up getting a visit from local regulators and KYC restrictions
11:22 < Evilpig> you're 27 and just found the merlin puzzles?  I'm only 17 and been doing those.  how the hell am I so far behind?
11:23 <@Dagmar> Evilpig: You kinda have to have your head up your butt to not notice the merlin puzzles when roaming the countryside
11:23 <@Dagmar> You're not behind
11:23 <@Dagmar> ...but I suspect mainly Mirage just ignored them when he saw them.
11:23 < Evilpig> I broke the one with the ball .  I sent it rolling down the hill and the fuckin' thing jumped the basin and got stuck in the water and wouldn't come out
11:23 <@Dagmar> Wingardium Leviosa
11:23 <@Dagmar> It'll lift thsoe
11:24 < Evilpig> nope.  wouldn't levitate either
11:24 <@Mirage> Evilpig: no, I haven't been doing a lot of the main quests bedcause of chests, merlin puzzles, magic collection, etc, etc
11:24 < Evilpig> I'm thinking it got stuck in the mud.  I jumped to one fo the warp points and ran back and it reset
11:24 <@Dagmar> It _should_ lift those.  That and that you can't use it on creatures is basically the difference between WL and plain Leviosa
11:25 <@Dagmar> I find it somewhat hilarious that they'll let you do the first trial at 10, when you have like five spells
11:25 <@Dagmar> In theory you could maybe survive it with a million wand zaps and lots of dodging but I wouldn't recomment it
11:26 < Evilpig> the end of the dualing tournament was pissing me off
11:26 < Evilpig> little fucker kept getting behind me and destroying me
11:26 <@Dagmar> Yeah unless one is on easy mode, there's not a lot of chance of completing that when it's first obtained
11:26 <@Dagmar> Not without a bunch of potions
11:28 <@Dagmar> In the rare times you'll have all four of them focused on you, there's just not really anything to do but roll, roll, roll, and keep rolling
11:29 <@Dagmar> They are demonstratably _much_ harder to beat than almost any of the outdoor encounters
11:29 < Evilpig> I did it with three potions and SEVERAL tries.
11:29 < Evilpig> it was just frustrating I got two of them beat down then all of the sudden I was in the air and on fire
11:30 <@Dagmar> Most of the time I pick goblins and ashwinders off one or two at a time to clear camps, but I have done several by just running in so I could take advantage of mechanics or becuase the challenge was "set someone on fire and throw them into someone else"
11:30 <@Dagmar> Yeah you gotta get religious about dodging and blocking because there's no cleric
11:30 <@Dagmar> Trolls, you dodge or you die
11:31 <@Dagmar> Those fucking frog things?  Jack them into the sky when they stick that tongue out, or they'll pants you as well
11:31 <@Dagmar> With the undead at least it's somewhat obvious you MUST set them on fire or they ignore all damage
11:31 < Evilpig> how do you throw them?  I have seen a few of those challenges and I can pick them up then tried to pull them but end up getting hit and dropping them trying to drag them
11:32 <@Dagmar> Tehre's a Depulso spell for yeeting humanoid-sized mobs, which works when they're on the ground but it works better when they're in the air from Leviosa or Accio
11:32 <@Dagmar> THe frogs are too big for that
11:33 < Evilpig> I haven't gotten that yet
11:33 <@Dagmar> If you cast Leviosa while they're warming up for a tongue strike (which is obvious when you start looking for it) it'll jack them into their air _by their tongue_
11:33 < Evilpig> I had picked a few frogs up by the tongue but didn't realize their tongues were out and that was the trick for that
11:33 <@Dagmar> ...and all your follow up shots ill hit that nice, soft underbelly, and stand a good chance of pwning them
11:34 <@Dagmar> I just using basic wand zaps until I see the tongue, and then I unload the whole arsenal
11:34 <@Dagmar> er jsut use
11:34 <@Dagmar> Some of the spiders have equally hilarious vulnerabilities
11:35 <@Dagmar> The ones that spit at you, slap them with Confragio (the little fireball) or if you're close, the crappy spell when they rear up to spit
11:35 <@Dagmar> THey will catch fire, and then run around in a panic and explode
11:35 <@Dagmar> ...or you can punt them at something else and then everyone explodes together.
11:36 <@Dolemite> Mmmmm...  Ruby Tuesday has cheeburger + side for $5.99 today.   I know what my lunch is about to be.
11:37 <@Dagmar> My absolute favorite tho is everyone with a two-handed melee weapon
11:38 <@Dagmar> Knock the weapon out of their hands with Expelliarmus, then snatch it up with ancient magic throw (which is a _free cast_) and you'll smack them with their own weapon, which catches them off-guard and is somewhat predictably an unblockable attack
11:39 < Evilpig> hadn't considered that.  I normally just mash both of the ancient magic buttons and watch whatever get wrecked
11:39 <@Dagmar> The "I win" spell costs you mana
11:39 < Evilpig> it feels good though
11:40 <@Dagmar> 'Z' is just free mayhem.  :)
11:40 <@Dagmar> I know the red barrels contain extra fun
11:40 <@Dagmar> ...I really need to see if the _blue_ barrels contain ice cream.
11:40 <@Dagmar> I've starte seeing a few of those and I suspect maybe they're not filled with water
11:40 < Evilpig> i'll be back in a bit.  need to go forage
11:41 < Evilpig> Dagmar, Mirage: if you have contact info for Chad Wigal reach out and ask him how he's doing on his first day free from VUMC
11:42 <@Mirage> Just as him in discord..
11:42 <@Dagmar> I don't, but if I did I'd send him celebratory fireworks
11:42 <@Dagmar> He was a decent boss
11:43 <@Mirage> Of course, knowing him, he's probably still recovering from getting hammered last night watching the super bowl
11:43 <@Dagmar> Heh
11:43 <@Dagmar> He is a man of tastes
11:43 <@Dagmar> I can respect that
11:48 < Evilpig> i've been giving him shit about his dog
11:49 < Evilpig> they got a pomeranian because that's what his wife and daughter wanted, but he has to take it out and stuff.  a couple months back we were laughing because someone showed one of those hiking harnasses to carry your kid on your back and he told us they have one to put the dog in you wear on your chest
11:50 < Evilpig> he swears it's his daughter's and he's never put it on and will NEVER put it on, so we've been giving him shit about it saying he's going to put cosmo in it and head to the bar for a guy's day out now that he has free time
11:51 < Evilpig> y'all know what he looks like, so just picture him wearing a fluffy dog...  
12:04 <@Dagmar> Good lord.  
12:04 <@Dagmar> I toted my sister-in-law's yorkie to Bongo on a leash
12:04 <@Dagmar> Dog ain't too small to walk
13:47 <@Dagmar> <evil>You should point out to him that it's easier to get chicks when the Pomeranian is prancing around on a leash
13:47 <@Dagmar> Toy breeds default to trying to draw attention to themselves
16:08 <@Mirage> lool... just killed a mountain troll w/ cabbages.  =)
16:11 < Evilpig> i'm about done for the day myself
16:11 < Evilpig> actually I am done.  might pick that up
16:21 <@Dagmar> Cabbages are a bit OP
16:21 <@Dagmar> They'll up and eat a goblin
16:22 <@Dagmar> I will _definitely_ drop a couple the next time I find a troll
16:22 <@Dagmar> They're such sponges I figured I'd be waiting too long to bother
16:22 <@Dagmar> ...but if they'll kill the thing I have no qualms about sneaking up and throwing one down
16:23 <@Mirage> I did soften it up a bit w/ Ancient Magic 3x first, but that only got him ~1/2 health.  
16:25 <@Dagmar> OKay, that's a bit reassuring
16:35 < Evilpig> https://www.belcourt.org/films/tommy/
16:35 < PigBot> TOMMY - The Belcourt Theatre (at www.belcourt.org) https://tinyurl.com/2pz49yav
16:35 < Evilpig> They remastered Tommy in 4k,  that's neat
17:02 <@Dagmar> No idea what's up with TubiTV
17:03 <@Dagmar> Apparently they bought the rest of 'The Nevers' and they're airing them in realtime or something
17:03 <@Dagmar> Like, _not_ streaming them
17:03 <@Dagmar> ...or at least not on-demand.  And they're airing them at fucking weird ass times
17:04 < Evilpig> my tracker shows three episodes tomorrow, and three the day after that
17:04 <@Dagmar> THe first new one at 1:38pm tomorrow, then ep8 at 2:46pm, and then ep9 at 3:47pm
17:04 < Evilpig> https://www.dropbox.com/s/zrf34yioaaepepc/Screenshot%202023-02-13%20at%205.04.13%20PM.png?dl=0
17:04 < PigBot> Dropbox - Screenshot 2023-02-13 at 5.04.13 PM.png - Simplify your life (at www.dropbox.com) https://tinyurl.com/2nelygxn
17:04 <@Dagmar> I'm just kinda hopin' they'll become available for on-demand after htat
17:05 < Evilpig> they will be in one form or another
17:05 <@Dagmar> ...because that would be a bizarre schedule for a terrestrial broadcast station
17:05 <@Dagmar> Well, yeah, I'm planning on doing that very same thign
17:05 <@Dagmar> I do _try_ to work with the "market" whenever possible tho
17:05 <@Dagmar> We're spending enough each month that I generally can
17:06 <@Dagmar> Frankly it's only out of sheer laziness that I haven't returned the X1 box
17:06 <@Dagmar> For whatever reason it was randomly waking up and seizing the TV it's connected to in the downstairs, which was annoying as fuck, so I unplugged it's HDMI months ago
17:06 <@Dagmar> We just had to hook it back up so Audra could watch the halftime show last night
17:07 < Evilpig> I didn't care anything about that, I assume my tuner would have gotten it on nbc or something
17:07 <@Dagmar> "The Nevers will be in regular rotation on Tubi’s WB TV Watchlist Channel, with the next time fans can expect to catch the series being March 1 through March 3. In other words, if you can’t stream any episode “live” at the time noted, you’ll have to catch it the next time around."
17:08 <@Dagmar> What in fuck
17:08 < Evilpig> attempting to make a ratings watch?  watch now or else fuck you?
17:10 <@Dagmar> ...but in the middle of the damn afternoon?
17:10 <@Dagmar> Not even Fox executives were that hateful
22:19 < Evilpig> I got the room of requirement unlocked.  guess that's far enough for tonight
22:20 <@Dagmar> I was impressed with how polished that bit was
22:20 <@Dagmar> It even shows center lines for the detail obsessive
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