Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248

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Originally Posted by Rater202

Typically speaking, if someone is in the hospital and the doctors say they're not making it out of the hospital, it means they're not going to recover.

Ever.

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Thank you for clarifying but I still feel sorry for BisectedBroche and her father. Also I know how it feels to when a parent getting really ill. Believe me I've been there. :frown:

In other news, after noticing my stepfather struggling to get his jerky maker down, I volunteered to get it as I am tall and cursed with long limbs.

What I did not know was that he had a spare blade from his meat slicer right next to the jerky machine, not in any kind of container.

Time slows as what appears to be a serrated sawblade rolls out of seemingly nowhere and falls off the top of the cabinet and though I see it coming my body fails to move. It bounces off my hand, scraping two fingers, and then time resumes its normal flow as it bounces off of me, cuts the hell out of my stepfather's hand, and then bounces again landing on the far side of the kitchen counter.

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Originally Posted by Rater202

In other news, after noticing my stepfather struggling to get his jerky maker down, I volunteered to get it as I am tall and cursed with long limbs.

What I did not know was that he had a spare blade from his meat slicer right next to the jerky machine, not in any kind of container.

Time slows as what appears to be a serrated sawblade rolls out of seemingly nowhere and falls off the top of the cabinet and though I see it coming my body fails to move. It bounces off my hand, scraping two fingers, and then time resumes its normal flow as it bounces off of me, cuts the hell out of my stepfather's hand, and then bounces again landing on the far side of the kitchen counter.

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I wish I could say "and thats when your stepfather learned not to leave random unprotected blades sitting in obscure nonvisible locations where they could be dangerous." but based on how you have described him previously I think its more likely that the followup was "and that's when your Stepfather yelled at you for dropping a knife on his hand that you had no ability to see and he didnt tell you was there."

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Originally Posted by BisectedBrioche

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So, I was meant to have two weeks off for my birthday, but I ended up spending most of it looking after my dad. Either seeing him looking terrible, or waiting to pick him up from hospital. On Monday I got a call telling me he won't be making it out...

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I've nothing to offer but my sympathies and hugs if those are welcome.

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Originally Posted by Keltest

I wish I could say "and thats when your stepfather learned not to leave random unprotected blades sitting in obscure nonvisible locations where they could be dangerous." but based on how you have described him previously I think its more likely that the followup was "and that's when your Stepfather yelled at you for dropping a knife on his hand that you had no ability to see and he didnt tell you was there."

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No, actually. He was more concerned with stopping the bleeding.

Dude's an ******* but he's not that much of an *******.

Also, he's really used to getting cut. A few minutes later we were joking about it.

So anyway next Tuesday I got a job interview for Pret A Manger for food prep. Wish me luck. :smile:

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Originally Posted by Rater202

No, actually. He was more concerned with stopping the bleeding.

Dude's an ******* but he's not that much of an *******.

Also, he's really used to getting cut. A few minutes later we were joking about it.

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Hm. I feel like there's a song for that.

Thanks for the sympathy everyone (update in spoiler)

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I visited him this morning, on the palliative care ward. He's no longer responsive, and on a driver.

He's been rapidly going downhill since December, after he hurt his arm in a fall. My brothers think he just gave up. Either way, he picked up an infection last time he was in hospital and that seems to have spread to his kidneys.

I recently updated my desktop to have a 2TB internal SSD, and now loading times are much better on games. Especially BG3, now I just need to decide which of the poly Origin Characters to date so I can snuggle with Bear Dad.

Probably not Karlach, she's not that up for it.

So anyway today my supervisor told me the update for my television debut for Table For All on PBS. The day is going to be May 22, 2024 on Wednesday. I don't know the actual time but I'll let you know the final update of the time. :smile:

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Originally Posted by Anonymouswizard

I recently updated my desktop to have a 2TB internal SSD, and now loading times are much better on games. Especially BG3, now I just need to decide which of the poly Origin Characters to date so I can snuggle with Bear Dad.

Probably not Karlach, she's not that up for it.

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She is with the poly mod.

BB, sorry about your dad. That's rough.

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Originally Posted by Rater202

In other news, after noticing my stepfather struggling to get his jerky maker down, I volunteered to get it as I am tall and cursed with long limbs.

What I did not know was that he had a spare blade from his meat slicer right next to the jerky machine, not in any kind of container.

Time slows as what appears to be a serrated sawblade rolls out of seemingly nowhere and falls off the top of the cabinet and though I see it coming my body fails to move. It bounces off my hand, scraping two fingers, and then time resumes its normal flow as it bounces off of me, cuts the hell out of my stepfather's hand, and then bounces again landing on the far side of the kitchen counter.

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I've had something similar happen. I was in a Tuesday Morning, and there was a little old lady who was having trouble reaching a box of quilts on the top shelf. I stretched up, grabbed it, and it tilted just enough to drop the large cast iron frying pan that was resting on top of the box on my head. Large goose egg, and the sad thing is that wasn't even the worst part of the day.

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Originally Posted by Rater202

I mean, not in the strict biological sense, no, but Living Abyss is called living abyss for a reason.

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Not sure I totally understand, but I think I understand the main point. You want to be life-suffocating goo.

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Originally Posted by 2D8HP

I tried to send this in a PM, but I’m having trouble with those, in any case it’s no great secret:

If you’re visiting San Diego the Model Railroad Museum near the zoo is well worth the visit, and as I recall the back then six year old loved it

As for me (since I haven’t given an update here in a long time, I’m living less then a ten minute walk to the Pacific Ocean, still with my beloved roommate who’s recovering from yet more cancerous tumors removed, I still have a 1978 Triumph Bonneville motorcycle, still doing the same job; on weekends I visit the kids.

I have a horrible cough I can’t shake, which since my beloved roommate has a chronically weak immune system makes life awkward (I wear a mask when we’re inside together).

About the most exciting new thing was I went to see one of my all time favorite bands The Buzzcocks perform this last week, and at the concert a very drunk young lady (she said she was only 39) said that I “looked really hot”, and was very friendly, the last time anything close to that happened was over 33 years ago (also at a concert).

I’m looking forward to seeing what D&D 5.5 is like, and i still re-read old sword & sorcery tales

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Congrats on the exciting developments in your life. Hope your cough goes away. And that you and that young lady get to see each other again.

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Originally Posted by Bartmanhomer

So anyway next Tuesday I got a job interview for Pret A Manger for food prep. Wish me luck. :smile:

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Good luck. :smallsmile:

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Originally Posted by Bartmanhomer

So anyway today my supervisor told me the update for my television debut for Table For All on PBS. The day is going to be May 22, 2024 on Wednesday. I don't know the actual time but I'll let you know the final update of the time. :smile:

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That's exciting. :smallsmile:

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Originally Posted by BisectedBrioche

Thanks for the sympathy everyone (update in spoiler)

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I visited him this morning, on the palliative care ward. He's no longer responsive, and on a driver.

He's been rapidly going downhill since December, after he hurt his arm in a fall. My brothers think he just gave up. Either way, he picked up an infection last time he was in hospital and that seems to have spread to his kidneys.

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I'm sorry about your dad. It must be a super stressful time for you and your family.

This is the last I'll say about it here (I know it's a bit of a downer)

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He passed away peacefully on Thursday morning.

My brothers and I are going through all the paperwork. I'm distracting myself as best I can while also looking for a new place to live.

In unrelated news, on Saturday I was woken up at like 9 in the morning by a middle aged woman asking if I could retrieve a balloon from my garden. Sure enough there was a "50 today" balloon tangled in a bush just outside the back door.

Very surreal.

So that Spec bio-series on Youtube I mention every so often has been picking up steam with output.

Last week the released a video on a rather terrifying take on deep-sea mermaids, after releasing the "what if both zombie and werewolf" video I mentioned a little bit before hand.

...This week, total whiplash. They started talking about the squonk.

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Originally Posted by BisectedBrioche

This is the last I'll say about it here (I know it's a bit of a downer)

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He passed away peacefully on Thursday morning.

My brothers and I are going through all the paperwork. I'm distracting myself as best I can while also looking for a new place to live.

In unrelated news, on Saturday I was woken up at like 9 in the morning by a middle aged woman asking if I could retrieve a balloon from my garden. Sure enough there was a "50 today" balloon tangled in a bush just outside the back door.

Very surreal.

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I am sorry for your loss, Brioche.

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... that, is very surreal. Feels like if an grandma knocked on your door and asked for her frisbee from off your roof or something. Good for them to have such an energetic life at this age, but weird to experience it.

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Originally Posted by BisectedBrioche

This is the last I'll say about it here (I know it's a bit of a downer)

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He passed away peacefully on Thursday morning.

My brothers and I are going through all the paperwork. I'm distracting myself as best I can while also looking for a new place to live.

In unrelated news, on Saturday I was woken up at like 9 in the morning by a middle aged woman asking if I could retrieve a balloon from my garden. Sure enough there was a "50 today" balloon tangled in a bush just outside the back door.

Very surreal.

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My condolences.

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Originally Posted by LaZodiac

... that, is very surreal. Feels like if an grandma knocked on your door and asked for her frisbee from off your roof or something. Good for them to have such an energetic life at this age, but weird to experience it.

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What kind of grandmother doesn't own a frisbee? Gotta keep in practice for when the descendants visit.

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Originally Posted by Anonymouswizard

What kind of grandmother doesn't own a frisbee? Gotta keep in practice for when the descendants visit.

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In the hypothetical I've concocted, the grandma HAS her own frisbee. The problem is that her hubby threw it too hard and it landed on the neighbor's roof and now we gotta go ask Miss Jenkins (20 something business woman) to get it back down for them.

Pop culture trivia: When Gravity Falls was first airing, the showrunners posted an AMA thread in character as series antagonist Bill Cipher.

One Reddit user asked Bill's gender and his response was that he doesn't know because, to paraphrase, his dimension of origin recognizes over 14 billion distinct genders and he can't be assed to do the paperwork to keep track.

Granted, he could be lying. He does that.

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Originally Posted by Rater202

Pop culture trivia: When Gravity Falls was first airing, the showrunners posted an AMA thread in character as series antagonist Bill Cipher.

One Reddit user asked Bill's gender and his response was that he doesn't know because, to paraphrase, his dimension of origin recognizes over 14 billion distinct genders and he can't be assed to do the paperwork to keep track.

Granted, he could be lying. He does that.

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I wonder how many letters each pronoun would have to be to have distinct words for 14 billion genders?

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Originally Posted by BisectedBrioche

This is the last I'll say about it here (I know it's a bit of a downer)

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He passed away peacefully on Thursday morning.

My brothers and I are going through all the paperwork. I'm distracting myself as best I can while also looking for a new place to live.

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I'm really for your loss, friend. :frown:

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Originally Posted by Batcathat

I wonder how many letters each pronoun would have to be to have distinct words for 14 billion genders?

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If Bill was being truthful, his real name in his native language would disintegrate a mortal so we can conclude that their language involves some sort of exchange of energy other than mere sound which might make it easier to have distinct pronouns.

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Originally Posted by LaZodiac

In the hypothetical I've concocted, the grandma HAS her own frisbee. The problem is that her hubby threw it too hard and it landed on the neighbor's roof and now we gotta go ask Miss Jenkins (20 something business woman) to get it back down for them.

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You see in my mind Granny was single and had made the throw herself.

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Originally Posted by Rater202

One Reddit user asked Bill's gender and his response was that he doesn't know because, to paraphrase, his dimension of origin recognizes over 14 billion distinct genders and he can't be assed to do the paperwork to keep track.

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So he's from near future Earth,?

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Originally Posted by Anonymouswizard

So he's from near future Earth,?

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Pretty sure most of the genders the internet comes up with are just meme genders that won't actually last or be recognized by most society in the long term. At best, they will probably just all be shoveled under "Non-Binary" for the sake of simplicity.

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Originally Posted by Batcathat

I wonder how many letters each pronoun would have to be to have distinct words for 14 billion genders?

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Depends on the language. By my calculations, with about 280 phonemic speech sounds (easily manageable even without going non-pulmonal if you don't mind conconant clusters), the answer is 5 or less per each. Some of the letters, mind, will probably look… Weird, to the untrained eye.

Edit: Oh, and that's assuming the language uses a reasonable, largely phonetic alphabet. With, say, an abjad, a syllabary, logographic stuff or some very odd etymological script one can go lower yet (possibly at the cost of dramatically increasing the number of graphemes neccessary, but such is life).

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Originally Posted by BisectedBrioche

This is the last I'll say about it here (I know it's a bit of a downer)

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He passed away peacefully on Thursday morning.

My brothers and I are going through all the paperwork. I'm distracting myself as best I can while also looking for a new place to live.

In unrelated news, on Saturday I was woken up at like 9 in the morning by a middle aged woman asking if I could retrieve a balloon from my garden. Sure enough there was a "50 today" balloon tangled in a bush just outside the back door.

Very surreal.

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That’s really hard. I’m sorry.

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Originally Posted by LaZodiac

I am sorry for your loss, Brioche.

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... that, is very surreal. Feels like if a grandma knocked on your door and asked for her frisbee from off your roof or something. Good for them to have such an energetic life at this age, but weird to experience it.

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50 is still young. And you’re never too old for balloons. :smallsmile:

To bring up some lighter news, I've successfully made ears for my tiefling cosplay!

https://twitter.com/BisectedBrioche/...88630566215696

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Originally Posted by Lord Raziere

Pretty sure most of the genders the internet comes up with are just meme genders that won't actually last or be recognized by most society in the long term. At best, they will probably just all be shoveled under "Non-Binary" for the sake of simplicity.

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A) do you always try to ruin jokes?
B) that would be a bad thing as there's a big difference between demimales, agenders, and fluidflux people. We should honestly instead just tear down the pillars of male and female and let people identify their gender as they see fit*.

But mostly A.

Reinstalled Mass Effect Andromeda and fires it up yesterday, because BG3 has so few romance options that look cool. On the downside none of the ME romances reach the awesomeness of Halsin.

* I don't have a legal name, why do I have a legal gender?

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Originally Posted by BisectedBrioche

To bring up some lighter news, I've successfully made ears for my tiefling cosplay!

https://twitter.com/BisectedBrioche/...88630566215696

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJjKD42X...jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJjKD-eW...jpg&name=large

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Looks nice.

Hey TaiLiu. I wrote 2 chapters of my Dungeons & Dragons: The Dragoon Family so far. I'm so happy. :smile: