Stream Cancelled Again
I'm feeling MUCH better, but I'm still under the weather. I drug myself to work Saturday and it knocked me back on my heels. Additionally, I am still working on a fix for the Final Fantasy 14 issue we've been having.
I'm going to turn in early in the hopes of getting over this by tomorrow.
Stream Cancelled
The (likely) final Phantom Brave stream that was scheduled for tonight has been cancelled. I am ill and can't do a good stream if coughing into the mic and running away from the computer periodically.
Phantom Brave Phans be aware we will be doing the climactic stream next week on the 22nd.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sat Dec 16 22:24:57 2023 (LZ7Bg)
3@suburbanbanshee: Yeah, THAT was odd. I correspond with one streamer who was actually going to do a series of Renaissance art streams complete with art and history lessons. She was doing final prep on the first installment when Twitch belatedly realized what it had typed while it was drunk.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sun Dec 17 09:58:42 2023 (liVFZ)
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Take care of yourself! Way too many folks in this small circle of blogs have succumbed to health issues.
Those girls are from Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers IIRC.
Posted by: Mauser at Thu Nov 23 19:53:17 2023 (sZ6tC)
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Happy Thanksgiving! I have been crazy busy, so I am happy that you had time to post!!
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Mon Nov 27 10:52:32 2023 (sF8WE)
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I think I accidentally deleted a comment by Pete when purging my spam. I'm sorry about that.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Fri Dec 8 17:21:04 2023 (liVFZ)
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Naah, it wasn't anything important. Just letting others know that USP tags contained RFIDs, as I found by tearing one just right.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Fri Dec 8 23:00:03 2023 (LZ7Bg)
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Hey is that image is your works ? amazing arts if it is
Posted by: ihokibet at Wed Jan 17 23:53:48 2024 (3wymu)
The router finally did the thing in front of Verizon customer service.
WELL....That WOULD explain the problem we are having with lagging at awkward moments during games. (I'm paying for 1 G up AND down....but I guess one can't expect much in a curry mine). This has been an intermittent issue for 2 months that has made even the PS2 games unwatchable at times.
Verizon is sending me a new router, it should be here in a few days.
I'm going to cancel streams for the rest of the week.
Pending the arrival of the router, we will tentatively hit the ground running next week at twitch.tv/brickmuppet.
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What's the next test? Biopsy can only tell if they removed something that they should have, not what's left.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tue Oct 3 15:37:21 2023 (LZ7Bg)
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My modem periodically needs to be reset because it will drop down to one channel 12 mbps every day or three. I have no idea what causes it.
Posted by: Mauser at Tue Oct 3 21:17:57 2023 (BzEjn)
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Check how your cables are doing, at the same time. Might as well be paranoid.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Wed Oct 4 12:32:41 2023 (cHUaN)
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I got sick of dealing with crappy cable-company-supplied modems years ago, not to mention paying rent on them, and went out to my cable company's list of supported modems and bought one from Fry's. Works great, cost well under $100, and if/when it dies I just buy another one.
Posted by: Rick C at Thu Oct 5 10:36:41 2023 (BMUHC)
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Your post made me check my own Internet. When I moved here 3 years ago I think I paid for 100Mb, but maybe it was 200Mb. About a year ago they raised my bill by $3 and my speedtests went up to like 240Mb, which I thought was weird, but I confirmed it last night, and then logged into my Xfinity (barf) account and discovered I'm signed up for 400Mb!
That led to looking at their supported 3rd-party modem list and then checking prices on Amazon and a couple of other places and a bit of stomach upheaval at all the modems being $200-400. (My current one is still available for $55 on Amamzon, but it's only rated to about 300Mb and obviously doesn't get that speed).
Posted by: Rick C at Fri Oct 6 08:50:44 2023 (BMUHC)
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About the only good thing I can say about Comcast/XFinity is that it is feasible and affordable to buy cable modem/routers from third parties rather than using their offerings. You can not do that with Verizon, unless spending more on your modem than you did your TV sounds good to you.
Posted by: cxt217 at Sat Oct 7 22:36:44 2023 (2tHvf)
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I had Spectrum before Comcast and they had a list of supported modems that were reasonably priced--I'm on my second netgear CM400 in the last ten years or so now; there's a good bit of overlap in what they both support, but it looks like the Docsis 3.1 modems cost a lot more. Fortunately ~240Mbps is pretty fast so I don't *need* to upgrade right away.
Posted by: Rick C at Mon Oct 9 09:07:20 2023 (BMUHC)
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@ Pete: It can test to see if they got it all. Cancer surgery involves cutting away a layer of non-cancerous cells to provide a buffer. If they didn't get a layer of clean cells all around, then they need to go back and cut some more.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Mon Oct 9 16:51:49 2023 (liVFZ)
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Twitch stopped sending me e-mail notifications, BTW.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Fri Oct 20 22:39:51 2023 (LZ7Bg)
Stream Cancelled.
There will be no Disgaea stream tonight. I had skin cancer surgery and suffered my third flat tire in 30 odd days. I'm beat. There MAY be a Zomboid collaboration stream around 10PM EST / 02:00 UTC but that depends on my pain level.
The surgery went OK but I won't know if they got all of it for about 2 weeks. I was both relieved and concerned that the dermatologist did not waste time with a biopsy and just cut it off.
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I hope everything goes well for you on your surgery. My step-father ignored a skin cancer for years. It didn't end well, but cancer treatment has advanced by leaps and bounds since then.
Posted by: StargazerA5 at Fri Sep 29 17:50:56 2023 (iCtZd)
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Say, does anyone have access to Wonderduck's blog? It needs a spam purge and to be locked down.
Posted by: Mauser at Sat Sep 30 00:05:13 2023 (BzEjn)
No Trial Necessary
I mentioned in an earlier video that the Democrats risk 'crossing the Rubicon' with their bringing charges against Trump's lawyers.
Well, they're crossed it, are burning the bridge, and assembling their phalanxes.
'Cause they don't need no stinkin' trials.
I don't have ANY problem with an investigation, and if there is enough evidence, a trial and prosecution. I believe in equal protection under the law and I part ways with some of my fellow righties in that I don't think that running for president puts you above the law. I DO think that one must have ALL of one's ducks in a row if you DO bring charges against a presidential front runner. One of those of those metaphorical "ducks" is the basic right in our system to a trial by jury.
Heavy concentrations of carbon dioxide in the salty Tara Regio region, where the surface ice has been disrupted, suggest the carbon originated deep in the ocean. This suggests a similarity with Earth's deep-sea hydrothermal vent systems, where life on Earth may have originated, Scientific American reported.
It's interesting (and impressive) that this was discovered by the James Webb Telescope, and missed by the Juno and the previous probes in the Jovian System.
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How did your face thing go? My dad has had a lot of little melanomas taken off his face, but no bigger ones.
The one most recent surgeon my dad has used has a new toy, where he and his tiny robot can remove skin or flesh, layer by layer while looking through a microscope, so that he can biopsy as he goes. And when he gets to the layer under the problem, he stops. Which is basically right up there with jet packs...especially since he does it in his office.
But I think not many skin doctors/surgeons have that yet. It is usually just cut off or freeze off, and that works too.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Thu Sep 28 07:54:39 2023 (sF8WE)
This is the day that we remember the 3,000 civilians who died in an act of unspeakable terror, made possible by gross governmental negligence and which was used to justify a complete re-orientation of our national priorities and drive us into a cultural, economic, human rights, and military quagmire.
The immense potential that the 20th century held has thus far not been realized aside from the dystopian visions of some sci-fi writers and the Cassandra-like warnings of Solzhenitsyn.
It should forever be a reminder of the importance of vigilance, and the dangers of Government overreach.
Dershowitz, who is quite emphatically not a Trump supporter, points out the very troubling overreach of of the never Trump lawfare. In going after the lawyers, the Dems are crossing a Rubicon.
No one who crosses the Left will be able to get legal representation if this stands.
Contrary to many who assume these people are stupid and can't process the conditional hypothetical of the shoe being on the other foot, they are NOT stupid. The Left understands the concept of reciprocity perfectly well. They don't expect they will face reciprocity... because they don't plan to ever be out of power....They're going for the brass ring.
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Nah, they crossed that particular case of river earlier. Yale or Harvard pulled together a letter that they got signed by something 3/4 of law school heads, on January 12th 2021, epousing the novel legal theory that rather than representing their clients, lawyers had a professional responsibility to refuse to take certain cases and represent certain clients.
Note, the timing on this might have been tight for a genuine response to January 6th.
The ABA credentials all the law schools, and the law faculty have failed to understand the extent to which public buy in to the legal system relies on the legal system's ability to persuade that it resolves disputes fairly.
The letter was a clear signal both of will to power nonsense beliefs, and to GOPe faculty eagerness to sell out voters for the sake of getting Trump out of their business.
It discredited not only the idea of settling the current insanity by electoral process, but also by the legal process. The insane ones have calculated that they have cut off our every path to remedy, except the ones that they intend to trap us with. They miscalculate this badly, as they miscalculate almost all of their behavior forecasts.
The universities have now been a venue for killing at least two professional schools, medicine and law. There is little reason to hope that they will not soon kill any remaining value left in academic training. This frees our hand.
We need merely remain firm in reiterating the following argument: Faculty have purported themselves able to curate which arguments get brought before the courts. If this is true, the precedent going back decades may no longer be binding as having not been corruptly decided, and the courts cannot purport to be acting fairly as agents of the public. In such case, there is no reason to have schools of law. If there is any purpose in law, lawyers, and schools of law, then these faculty have made an untrue statement. Therefore, they must retract the statement, and resign.
It may persuade sufficient people to correct this injustice. If they close their ears, we still have a paper trail.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thu Sep 7 22:48:09 2023 (r9O5h)
MOVIE NIGHT
I'm still having issues interfacing with the blog. However streaming is actually going reasonably well.....to that end.....
Tonight at 9:00 PM EST / 01:00am UTC join us at https://www.twitch.tv/brickmuppet for a Super-Secret-Silent-Sci-Fi Saturday as we watch 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1916). We showed this once before...to two viewers. However, this is a fascinating film, and the first theatrical release to feature actual underwater photography. I actually have multiple movie posters and newspaper ads to show, but the blog doesn't like images right now....
So....IMAGINE if you will : SHARKS!, A GIANT OCTOPUS!, FISH!, STALWART HEROES STANDING AGAINST THEM!, AN OLD BEARDED GUY WITH A SEXTANT!
Or....join us for all the fun tonight.
Afterwards we'll be playing Disgaea: Hour of Darkness!
Midnight Movie Night on Kick!
Tonight (Sat7/8/23) at 21:00 EST/ 01:00 UTC we'll be doing another Testing and Breaking Things Stream over on Kick.com.
We'll be doing a bit of grinding in Disgaea to level up the new character and around Midnight we're going to watch some Silent movies, a silent short that is TBA and Der Golem (1920)
A German expressionistic Horror film set in the middle ages. The Golem is the last film in what was the very first Multimedia mass merchandising SciFi Horror Franchises, with Book, Radio, Film and Merchandise elements. It is also a prequel that serves as the origin story for the film series. https://kick.com/brickmuppet Come by, say "Hi!" and poke about while checking out the Beta of Kick.com!
(We actually showed this looonng ago on Twitch, but only had 2 viewers the whole night and this film really deserves to be seen. )
Then and Now
So, in what is now called Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, 247 years ago today, a group of men, some more reluctantly than others, declared the independence of their homeland from their nation.
After a declaration of principles, they listed their grievances. Those grievances are highlighted in red below the fold.
Aside from certain ones that have a contemporary ring to them ("He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us...") and a few others that were products of their time, I am struck by how mundane many of these concerns seem to most of us today, yet back then were seen as sufficient infractions of liberty to inspire men to take up arms against the most powerful military in the world.
I'm further struck be the lack of anything approaching child genital mutilation amongst the grievances.
This may yet be winnable without a great deal of violence.
SEcondly, the appropriate time and place for violence would be in circumstances where every American would understand it to be justified. See Rittenhouse.
Thirdly, the path out will need a victorious coalition able to deliver peace. The type of person most necessary to bring into that coalition are the ones who would dislike stupid emotionally compromised applications of violence, that are directed against innocents.
Each of these items alone would perhaps be grounds for some thoughtful and attentive deliberation. Together, I find them strongly compelling.
Most current things seen as provocation have perhaps been going on for decades. I think the schools were pretty abusive twenty or twenty five years ago.
Covid and the rest of 2020's activities were a combination of the left unmasking thinking they had won, and them being too clever for their own good. The current level of disenchantment is downstream of their own goals, and discrediting of their tools.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Sat Jul 8 21:58:13 2023 (r9O5h)
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