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  1. Comment on Being well prepared makes me feel šŸ˜Œ in ~life

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    Some people give me shit for bringing a foldable umbrella everywhere in the summer. Look who's laughing now that we have heatwave after heatwave in France and I have what essentially is a portable...

    Some people give me shit for bringing a foldable umbrella everywhere in the summer.

    Look who's laughing now that we have heatwave after heatwave in France and I have what essentially is a portable shade?

  2. Comment on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely in ~tildes.official

  3. Comment on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely in ~tildes.official

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    Wait, why are you leaving?

    Wait, why are you leaving?

    26 votes

  4. Comment on What are your memorable airport stories? in ~transport

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    Story 1 When I was a child - say 11 or 12 - I needed to take a plane to go to a math contest not so far away from my country. I was technically an unaccompanied minor but several other parents...

    Story 1

    When I was a child - say 11 or 12 - I needed to take a plane to go to a math contest not so far away from my country. I was technically an unaccompanied minor but several other parents were there and I was kind of liking the independence of chilling in an airport alone. One of the parents asked me to buy food for the group and I was in line at Popeye's. The guy in front of me offered to buy my order. I smiled and thanked him but refused since I was technically ordering for like four people and perhaps he assumed it was for just one. As an adult, I don't know what to make of that situation. Was he a genuinely nice guy or was it for something else?

    Story 2

    I just flew into a city without an apartment, just an AirBnB booked for a month so that I could get the time to find one. Before I left, my parents added a box of biscuits to my luggage (that I knew of) to share with people (or not), because why not? When I arrived in the new city after the almost 24-hour journey, I contacted the AirBnB and panicked a bit since they were not replying immediately and I had nowhere to sleep. They eventually replied and I got directions. While on my way there, I realize that I was missing luggage. I usually count the number of bags I have before leaving a place but with the AirBnB anxiety and the fact that the biscuits were a last minute addition, I realized I left it just outside security but still within airport premises.

    I was already on the bus to go to the AirBnB when I realized this. Since I flew into a city that freaks out about unattended luggage, I thought I should call them. They told me everything was fine and to just get my luggage back. I hesitated because who cares about losing biscuits right? But I went back anyway since they told me to. I was brought to the police office in the airport. I didn't even know that was a thing. I was scared shitless. The officer gave me a speech about how they had to assume the worst for the box and that the flow of people at the airport needed to be stopped for some time. And that thankfully it was not a busy day since stopping the flow of people would have delayed many flights and they would have charged it to me. I don't know how true that would be in retrospect but my sleepless self just said sorry and they said they would take my number and call me if I needed to pay for delays caused. I never got a call. Thankfully.

    Story 3

    I realized a bit late in the year that I was going to be in between jobs during the Christmas holidays. So I took a flight back to the country I grew up in since I've since moved to the other side of the world. Realizing the cheapest day to fly around those dates were Christmas day itself, I took a ticket that leaves that day. I didn't care enough about the celebrations if I'm being honest. I arrived to my starting city's airport and it was empty. Breezed through security. Great!

    During the layover, the agents in the airport said it was overbooked. I was feeling groggy and sickly and they were offering a hotel stay and for me to fly the next day. I hemmed and hawed since my family already organized to take me next day and taking the hotel would be one day less of my visit home so I hesitated and evnetually a different group took the offer. I went through the boarding queue and my boarding pass beeped red. I was a bit scared. The agent gave my boarding pass to what I assume is someone higher up. I was scared that I'd be forced to stay in a hotel and stay in this layover city. I was then handed a new boarding pass. I looked at the ticket and the seat number changed. Like the lowest seat number I ever saw. I was upgraded to business class for the first time. It was a 10 hour flight and I missed almost half of it since I slept like a baby since the seat reclined horizontally and I didn't even know that was possible. Now I'm always hoping to be upgraded again.

    6 votes

  5. Comment on An update in ~health.mental

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    I echo the other comments and I have nothing but one thing to add. You made me learn a new word: copacetic. I hope that makes you feel copacetic! (Not even sure if I'm using it right at this point...

    I echo the other comments and I have nothing but one thing to add.

    You made me learn a new word: copacetic. I hope that makes you feel copacetic! (Not even sure if I'm using it right at this point tbh.)

    2 votes

  6. Comment on eBook management for Kobo in ~books

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    Yeah it's a problem and I don't have what I think is the best solution but I have a solution. I installed Koreader and Syncthing. Not the most convenient but I'm putting it out there in case it's...

    Yeah it's a problem and I don't have what I think is the best solution but I have a solution.

    I installed Koreader and Syncthing. Not the most convenient but I'm putting it out there in case it's useful. So that I just need to put the files in a folder of another computer.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on Slay The Spire 2 in ~games

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    We're not as different as you might have initially thought... (:

    We're not as different as you might have initially thought... (:

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Slay The Spire 2 in ~games

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    I am quite in the same boat. I do have a couple friends here and there to play coop because they wanted to try. But they were just one-offs. I'm down in principle but timezones are gonna be tricky...

    I am quite in the same boat. I do have a couple friends here and there to play coop because they wanted to try. But they were just one-offs.

    I'm down in principle but timezones are gonna be tricky as hell as I'm in GMT +2.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on I need more hilariously awful pick up lines to make my wife roll her eyes at me in ~talk

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    Who needs gravity if Iā€™m just gonna keep falling for you? Iā€™m a scientist, and youā€™re my one and only lab. I feel like Iā€™m always on a see-saw. When youā€™re not there, Iā€™m down. They say Ā«...

    Who needs gravity if Iā€™m just gonna keep falling for you?

    Iā€™m a scientist, and youā€™re my one and only lab.

    I feel like Iā€™m always on a see-saw. When youā€™re not there, Iā€™m down.

    They say Ā«Ā happinessĀ Ā» starts with H but to me, it starts with U.

    8 votes

  10. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Hello, I just finished migrating my Immich from external libary to internal. I started Immich back when it wasn't stable so I figured I couldn't let it restructure my meticulously organized...

    Hello, I just finished migrating my Immich from external libary to internal. I started Immich back when it wasn't stable so I figured I couldn't let it restructure my meticulously organized folders of albums. Now I have more trust in it and well I decided to go all in. Even wrote about it in my blog.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Hot or Not: Temperature guessing game in ~creative

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    Glad someone found one of the Ā« easter eggs Ā»!

    Glad someone found one of the Ā«Ā easter eggsĀ Ā»!

    6 votes

  12. Comment on Hot or Not: Temperature guessing game in ~creative

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    Ah! It does suck losing on a small difference. I tried to remove cities that are around the same geographical area to fix this. In doing so, it is less likely that you get asked the temperature...

    Ah! It does suck losing on a small difference.

    I tried to remove cities that are around the same geographical area to fix this. In doing so, it is less likely that you get asked the temperature difference between Ā«Ā neighboring citiesĀ Ā» like Brussels and Amsterdam. Those feel like a coin toss.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Hot or Not: Temperature guessing game in ~creative

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    Good idea. Although, implementing a live cam at each of the 200+ places seems quite optimistic! I already had trouble sourcing the photos for these and Iā€™m not 100% sure that each photo...

    Good idea. Although, implementing a live cam at each of the 200+ places seems quite optimistic! I already had trouble sourcing the photos for these and Iā€™m not 100% sure that each photo corresponds to the city itā€™s associated with.

    Indeed, the temperatures are the current ones and part of the fun for me is discovering where each city / country is, what time it is currently over there, and what ā€œseasonā€ they are currently at.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Hot or Not: Temperature guessing game in ~creative

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    Hey tilderinos, I've unearthed this project / game of mine after a discussion with a friend yesterday. I wanted to show him this game I made but it got broken because the Teleport API was...

    Hey tilderinos, I've unearthed this project / game of mine after a discussion with a friend yesterday. I wanted to show him this game I made but it got broken because the Teleport API was deprecated and thus it was less fun if we can't at least have an image representing the city.

    And now it's back. With better balancing (less US cities, less Europe cities, more varied set of cities, more wildcards) since I am not limited to what the Teleport cities API gives anymore. Plus I fixed that bug that keeps happening with Bali. I was using rectangles and apparently the "bounding rectangle" of Bali pointed to the ocean making the temperature reading much lower than what is the fair temperature.

    What was a project that was just to buff up my CV ended up one of the games I enjoyed developing. And now with AI assistance, I can balance the game (or at least feel to have balanced it) despite my lack of geography trivia.

    9 votes

  16. Comment on What movies become better by having a bus suddenly come out of no where and hit someone? in ~movies

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    Great creative idea! I miss these kinds of low stakes funny threads from other Tildes-like sites that I frequented before. I admit Iā€™m not the biggest film buff but: Indiana Jones getting hit by a...

    Great creative idea! I miss these kinds of low stakes funny threads from other Tildes-like sites that I frequented before. I admit Iā€™m not the biggest film buff but:

    • Indiana Jones getting hit by a bus after succesfully escaping the rolling boulder.
    • Batman would be so different if his parents got hit by a bus instead. He would be a vigilante against drivers not paying attention.
    • Jaws getting hit by a bus would not change the plot too much. It will just be a random funny moment.
    • Rapunzel from Tangled, being sheltered all her life, could have gotten hit by a bus. But then Mother Knows Best would not be a duet.

    Thatā€™s all I have so far.

    20 votes

  17. Comment on Which covers did it better than (or put a fresh twist on) the original? in ~music

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    Oh wow! I hung out there a lot. Thanks for creating that! That got me started on my collection!

    Oh wow! I hung out there a lot. Thanks for creating that! That got me started on my collection!

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Which covers did it better than (or put a fresh twist on) the original? in ~music

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    I have a lot in my collection but it'd just saturate the list, so here's some of my favorites. I wouldn't necessarily say better, just different. And I love the fresh takes. I Will Survive - CAKE...

    I have a lot in my collection but it'd just saturate the list, so here's some of my favorites.
    I wouldn't necessarily say better, just different. And I love the fresh takes.

    • This was the original and I learned this from Second Hand Songs, a website collecting covers!

    And also, here's my somehow dated Spotify playlist of "Wrong Genre" Covers.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on MOUSE: P.I. For Hire | Official launch trailer in ~games

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    Looks cool, got hyped. Then I saw it was Windows only. I hope it's Steam Deck compatible!

    Looks cool, got hyped. Then I saw it was Windows only. I hope it's Steam Deck compatible!

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Color game ā€” how well can you remember colors? | Dialed in ~games

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    I did surprisingly well with 42.4/50. I feel I have trouble remembering the lightness.

    I did surprisingly well with 42.4/50. I feel I have trouble remembering the lightness.

    3 votes