we said goodbye to Max tonight. turned out he had a few other health issues going on as well as what we could see, and the emergency doctor agreed that we were making the right decision. he was just about 18, and we’d had him for almost 11 years, too. good night sweet Max.

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percival is. not sure what he wants to do right now.

percival has been a little bit fixated on black desert online because it's a daily thing and he just has something to do again until DST updates.

percival is also tired of being in a small fandom. he's the only guy in the dont starve tag on waterfall, and he can't stop seeing assholes everywhere on tumblr.

neutral vent, sort of glad i got out of that zine for don't starve, considering they're asking for money just to print + ship it to klei.

which should probably be fucking covered by the organizer in the first place, since they're the guy that wants to print and ship, but apparently not.

additionally, it goes against the rule about fandom and the canon people, you don't send your fanon shit over to the people that are in charge of the canon because there's legal issues otherwise. -- not articulated properly.

all in all, this zine seems poorly planned, i'll figure out a way to make my own and maybe get a few people with actual experience on board.

Sorry about your kitty trystan. Sounds like you had some quality time with him, and vice versa.

So sorry for your loss, Trystan :(
<3

thanks Bio and Ava. we did have lots of quality time with him. :)

(i'm pretty sure i replied to this, but i guess something weird happened?)

Sorry for your loss. :(

i'm sorry your kitty is gone now :( but he had many happy years with you, he had a good life, and i'm glad for that

fuck BT and their fucking adverts on ibis paint. thanks for making the program hard to operate, BT, you useless bunch a bloody cucks! no, i don't want your 'super fast fibreoptic' bullshit. you're a goddamn monopoly.

anyways, losing a pet fucking sucks ass, lemme know if you want advice.

thanks Kitty and daiko! https://forums.dragcave.net/uploads/...29d3075a24.gif

O-O I should really work on my powerpoint presentation due in 2 days, but,
<-<; I don't wanna...
Also I need to shower.
And vote, apparently. =_=;

mutters quietly, considers eating an entire packet of biscuits.

Still struggling to click links on Trisphee due to how the page keeps jumping around or stuttering. Yet hasn't happened elsewhere.

I mailed in my ballot so voting is done for me. XD

That's strange. I thought I built this stuff in a way that wouldn't be too badly affected by that unless users post large images. It also shouldn't continue stuttering after it's had a chance to load once; subsequent page views ought to be much less of a problem.

I had a vaguely unsettling dream last night. I don't remember most of it, just the image right at the end, but I can piece together some of the context.

The scene I remember was a man slumped over the controls of a military-colored armored vehicle / light tank, with a pair of wires leading from the back of his head to be spliced into another pair of wires coming out of the vehicle's instrument panel. A voice (not sure if someone was talking, if it was my own thoughts, or if it was a movie-style narrator) said, in a compassionate tone, "he'll never have to yield to anyone ever again."

Of the context I do remember, I know the guy had the ability to interface with machines through a nervous system implant, some sort of possession type of effect. I know there had been some fighting, and someone dressed like a police officer (though I think it was someone just masquerading as one) had been chasing him down and attacking him and demanding that he yield.

I didn't see what happened specifically, but from the context I think he was already mortally injured and he used the last of his strength to crudely possess the tank. It was obvious that it wasn't done correctly (I got the feeling that the turret was the only part of it that he was able to control like that), and the emotional resonance I got from the scene told me that it would have killed him or at least left him a vegetable unable to detach even if he hadn't been in bad shape already. He didn't seem like the type to commit suicide out of spite, so the only sensible conclusion is that he was going to die anyway and he wanted to go down fighting.

But it was really unsettling to think about the fact that the last thing this guy would have experienced would be sacrificing everything about himself, turning into a blind, insensate vehicle for long enough to kill his attacker, and then helplessly waiting to finish dying in total isolation.

sounds like that could turn into a really cool novel, Coda!

I mean, yeah, it could, but I'm not going to be the one to write it. That kind of thing unsettles me when I see it as it is; I have no desire whatsoever to put myself in the mindset of someone who's going to set up that kind of situation.

EDIT: To be more specific, the idea of someone knowingly doing something that they know will unconditionally result in their death is profoundly unsettling to me. I can rationalize it in cases where there's no alternative, but it's still unsettling.

It's even more unsettling if it's a situation they're forced into instead of willingly chosen.

yeah, fair enough. i have trouble writing something because i just can't, so i get that.

Not sure what's making me more cranky, the weather or my back. XP

> gets called a slur in a modding discord for referring to myself in third purrson
> the fuckin asshole gets banned
> good riddance.

Warmed up enough lately that snakes are already being spotted. Not cool. Not cool.

:/ I think I'll take a shower after half-assing this powerpoint project.

percival really hates having bad acne and he does doubt that it's going to fuck off after he's 25.

psst, void, check yer trades...

I feel bad for all the medical professionals out there struggling to buy supplies because of the people panicking about the coronavirus.
Had a woman in at Joann last night buying thin cording so she could make masks because she absolutely cannot buy them anymore.
:c

People need to put less emphasis on masks. They don't do a whole lot to protect you from catching it -- they mostly help protect other people from catching it from you.

Handwashing -- with soap, not with an alcohol-based sanitizer -- and keeping your hands away from your face are the most important things.

Yep. I've kept up to date on information. I've also heard that if you absolutely are unable to wash your hands (for example my job at Joann means dealing directly with the potentially sick public, but I can't go wash my hands after every transaction), hand sanitizer is acceptable, but it needs to be at least 60% alcohol.

I know you know, but for the benefit of anyone else reading who might not:

Hand sanitizer is better than nothing, yeah. 90% is better (90% can kill the common cold virus, but no amount of alcohol can do anything about other types of viruses like rabies), but it's also flammable so it's not especially common. Soap does a better job of breaking down the lipid capsule around the virus and water physically transfers the microbes off of your skin and down the drain.

Out of curiosity, google searched for 90% alcohol hand sanitizer and one of the first results was an article about how there are hand sanitizer shortages as well and how you can make your own.
XD

I just checked the hand sanitizer I have here around the house and it looks like Purell brand is 70%.

Yeah, the generic hand sanitizer they have at the museum is also 70%. And I think the bath & bodyworks ones I was looking at last night (because I was comparing stuff and they smell nice and don't dry my hands out as much) are only 66%.

Trying to re-familiarize myself with curly hair methods, only to be reminded of why I stopped trying.

Despite my age I look and feel younger. ;u; I guess the saying "You're as young as you feel" rings true sometimes

have a vague headache, probably eyestrain or mild dehydration.

I saw a bag of goldfish crackers yesterday, and now, I really want some f*ckin' goldfish crackers. <:[

Was initially irritated at my paycard stuff for JoAnn changing, but then I discovered that, not only does the new site actually load really fast on my phone, but I also can transfer any amount I want to my bank account instead of having to transfer the whole amount. So now my paycard can be my sort of alternate savings for things like buying new furniture and stuff!

my younger daughter is on her way home from college for spring break. the bus brings her into center city philly, and from there she can take a train up to a train station that's like about 7ish minutes from my house. the bus station in center city is about an hour away... and i hate driving in the city, and she knows this... but she still asked me if i could come pick her up. i hope she's not too miffed i made her take the train....

been playing some black desert online, and i want to know all the lore. all of it.

Someone got footage of my dreams...