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hyperdimension

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About hyperdimension

please kill me quickly

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    Comment #46347414

    Is it that good? I quite liked The Plague Dogs. He writes with a nice flowery style.

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    Comment #46283517

    Neat, I didn't know there was an upside down interrobang.

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    Comment #46196091

    Interesting! That makes sense now. I thought it stood for CAble TV and always wondered why they used two letters instead of just CTV.

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    Comment #45987133

    Yeah, I'll freely admit I'm a curmudgeon with respect to technology "upgrades", but we've really lost a lot of solid reliability in our phone systems (landlines at least) Now it fe…

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    Comment #45908794

    I guess my opinion rounds down to nothing now. I guess that fits my track record.

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    Comment #45835750

    Funny, I use toilet paper and check if it gets wrinkled, but I like your method better.

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    Comment #45336111

    Yeah, but everyone knows that one. ;)

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    Comment #45221695

    That bothers me way more than it ought to too. When I hear people saying it IRL I keep thinking that trillion dollar companies are engineering our speech. What can ya do? :/

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    Comment #45041406

    That's the point. It hardly does what is claimed to do.

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    Comment #44973088

    Until we find the murderer's face!

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    Comment #44839048

    "I asked GPT-5 without thinking and it said..."

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    Comment #44746593

    Did you post the essay anywhere? I've always had kind of a soft spot for Ted--not his actions, mind, but his manifesto raises some rather prescient ideas. I also think he was..."ju…

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    Comment #44725005

    "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuums"

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    Comment #44640932

    Not part of this, but that's not really called for. It just seems you two have different experiences from possibly different countries is all.

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    Comment #44587854

    On nearly every point. We should be glad we still have water, if not just to flush the toilets with.

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    Comment #44537219

    I believe that would be the line for me. Personally, anyway.

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    Comment #44439494

    >Do people pay for tinfoil hats these days? Only with cash.

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    Comment #44169448

    "common failure mode" = 'they break in a particular way a lot' As Randy Fromm says, "the things that work the hardest fail the most" Examples: MLCC (multi-layer ceramic capacitors)…

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    Comment #44033511

    I'm dense. Who are you two talking about?

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    Comment #43806173

    Off-topic: I initially thought you misspelled 'flaunt,' but 'flout' is indeed the correct word to use. Nice!

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    Comment #43389035

    If you do, please post a link here! The book is still backordered on bookshop.org.

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    Comment #43320413

    "top notch" indeed. Oh wait, it's a 'dynamic island' now.

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    Comment #43233283

    I don't mean to be pedantic, but not always --see the recent DigiCert delayed revocation issues. I will admit it is rare though and more often than not, you (should) know when your…

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    Comment #43232472

    Diphenhydramine/Benadryl is extremely effective if you're looking to be permanently thirsty with a side of terrifying thoughts.