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The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Jul 5

Maybe he realizes that the fireworks are far away.

He's never been in the same room as a firework or a bolt of lightning, but a sneeze can happen right in front of him.

The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Jul 4

I keep getting AI Generated ads for a mental wellbeing app.
The ad talks about procrastination and its connection to Childhood trauma, and I feel like it legitimately is relevant to what I've been through.

But I just refuse to download it, because of how AI-Generated their ad is!

The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thank you! I've been wondering how this happened for years!

The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Jun 9

I'm just confused as to how this happened.

Nothing Without You

Emma Blackery · Single · 2017 · 1 songs

open.spotify.com

The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Jun 9

The links to it still work, but there's no song there. And there's nothing related to Emma Blackery when I search this song up anywhere else.

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The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Jun 9

At some point, I apparently added a song called Foufoune Palace by Emma Blackery to my Spotify playlist.

I think this must be a Spotify glitch, because I can't actually find any proof that this song ever existed. I don't remember anything about this song.

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The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Jun 7

And mods!
I had to pay for Portal 2, but I got multiple fan sequels from it for free.
I had to pay for Slay the Spire, but I got Downfall for free.

I'd rather play a cheap old game than an expensive new game. I don't NEED a new game.

Portal Reloaded
Portal: Revolution
Portal Stories: Mel

The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Jun 7

I keep seeing people getting mad that video games are gonna coast $80 dollars now.

Guys. They were already over priced. Every flash game ever is available for free, combined with all the free (and/or) indie games on itch.io and Steam.
And I've gotten YEARS of replay value from just a few free games

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But A Jape @butajape.bsky.social · Mar 24

The Collapse

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The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Apr 9

One of those ugly Crane Flies just flew into a spider web in the corner of my room.

Finally, proof that not cleaning my room has some upsides.

The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Mar 7

This is me but with coding languages

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · Mar 7

Me: you probably should start learning something by making something simple

Me: stubbornly insisted on learning to knit lace socks on double points, learned quilting by making a bedspread, French seams from making a wedding dress

This is really common for neurodivergent people.

The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Feb 24

There's a few comments here that are like

"Yes, this 'Us vs Them' mentality is a bad thing. It's a good thing OUR side doesn't believe it. Only THEIR side believes it."

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The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Feb 23

Managed to save him by pushing the Steel Watcher into the harbor. Somehow that was okay. But removing smokepowder wasn't/

The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Feb 23

Might try to turn this into a full app

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The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Feb 23

Downloaded Processing.org again. Made this little tool for making shapes with hexagonal symmetry.

It's such a simple thing, but all the apps I've used only have square, reflectional, and rotational symmetry.

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The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Feb 22

Part of me wants to learn Assembly just to make a simple but efficient Desktop app.

The other part of me wants to get back into #Processing.org just to make a simple Desktop app.

Another part of me just wants to finish BG3

The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Feb 22

Because Laezel had committed the heinous crime of stealing from evil cultists. I managed to dispatch the mooks, and get to camp before the Steel watcher got over the fence, but I couldn't end the combat, because I have to get EVERYONE to camp, and Volo, who was cowering in a corner, is still there!

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The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Feb 22

My last #BG3 fight went very strangely.

Volo got blown up because for once, some mook shot the smoke powder. Pressed Alt-F4 in an attempt to fix it. It worked! I got a bit of reload and managed to save him by having Laezel teleport over and steal the barrels.

Then a Steel Watcher attacked...

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The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Feb 22

And the real pain is that I'm too far in to restart, but I also don't even know if I'm gonna beat the game. I might be trudging on for nothing.

The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Feb 22

Also Gyldro Angleiron died. I was under the impression that if I dealt with Orin before long resting then he'd be saved, but I found his corpse in the temple. I guess I should've headed there before speaking to Gyldro?

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The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Feb 22

I really want to do a BG3 honor run where I save everyone, because I'm sick of people dying.

Volo just died. For the first time ever, someone shot the smokepowder barrels instead of shooting me. I even got a Deva to move the barrels first and it made no difference. Unbelievable.

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The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Feb 22

It took me years to realise people were saying "Lipton Iced Tea" and not "Liptonized tea"

The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Feb 22

For a moment I thought that was a Joey

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The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Feb 22

I wish my job would let me do nothing.

No more "There's no work in this department, we'll find something for you in the other department."

Just "There's no work in this department, you can do some programming or whatever on your work computer."

The Last Gas Mask @thelastgasmask.bsky.social · Feb 22

2048 is basically a modern version of the Tower of Hanoi.

To move 8 disks, you have to move 7 disks twice, with one extra move for the 8th disk.

To create 2048, you have to create 1024 twice, with one extra merge for the 2048 tile.