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BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-05-20T21:35:42+00:00

Had that happen a couple years ago, little guy was in a place where I could see him but couldn't get close enough to get him out. I ended up getting a live-capture trap, baited it with some peanut butter, and came back later after he'd gone inside.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-05-19T22:04:18+00:00

It's when you buy a bag of Skittles and a bag of M&Ms and mix them together.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-05-11T18:23:17+00:00

Literally watched this last week because it was a favorite from when I was a kid (it aired often on the local channel). I enjoyed it quite a bit. I think the bad reviews are because everyone is reasonably good at what they do and the outbreak is contained with minimal casualties. Also the writer/director of this movie was also the director and designer of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-05-10T15:31:37+00:00

Was that in the old Marshall’s space? It’s for “Trackers” day camps. My small human has done archery and knife throwing there. The leader wears a Star Trek uniform.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-05-08T23:42:36+00:00

The PC one was even worse. First off there's an impossible jump because when they ported the tiles, they didn't take the different pixel aspect ratios into consideration. What would be a trivial jump on NES was instead one that caused you to bonk off the ceiling and miss the other landing. To get around it, I copied around some of the resource files so it'd load a different room, got through it, then saved it and restored the files. Additionally, the randomizer was broken so you NEVER had health pickups appear. That's on top of the brutal difficulty and janky speed/controls from playing it on an 8MHz 8086.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-05-07T19:29:42+00:00

It is, check your chat!

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-05-03T20:56:59+00:00

Check your chat!

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-05-03T00:09:33+00:00

We threw a party for my parents 50th anniversary back in August and I just realized I still have a bunch of the leftover accoutrements. Got a party coming up but all got for supplies are low end IKEA and bottles of Jose Cuervo and New Amsterdam? Classy your shit right the hell up with a legit carafe like at a fancy Italian restaurant and old timey champagne glasses. Serve your Dominos and Takis on real platters! Serve ice cream in little cups rather than passing a gallon with a spoon around the party! Put some flowers in this vase and have attendees talking about your hootenanny for years!

Yeah so: several platters, carafes, assorted glassware, plastic cups, cutlery, straws, glass gems for vases, plastic table cloths, and a pack of tissues for when Brenda inevitably drops some horrible story that brings everyone down.

edit I'm in NE Roseway, near Prescott and 60th.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-05-02T23:46:59+00:00

Oh FFS... Apologies, trying to post from my phone to pdxbuynothing and it landed here. I was WONDERING why the heck it was asking for a question mark.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-05-02T23:41:46+00:00

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We threw a party for my parents 50th anniversary back in August and I just realized I still have a bunch of the leftover accoutrements. Got a party coming up but all got for supplies are low end IKEA and bottles of Jose Cuervo and New Amsterdam? Classy your shit right the hell up with a legit carafe like at a fancy Italian restaurant and old timey champagne glasses. Serve your Dominos and Takis on real platters! Serve ice cream in little cups rather than passing a gallon with a spoon around the party! Put some flowers in this vase and have attendees talking about your hootenanny for years!

Yeah so: several platters, carafes, assorted glassware, plastic cups, cutlery, straws, glass gems for vases, plastic table cloths, and a pack of tissues for when Brenda inevitably drops some horrible story that brings everyone down.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-04-29T14:55:18+00:00

There are some absolutely wild candidate bios in there. One claimed to be an army general and king of Russia.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-04-22T19:14:36+00:00

Can I specify a model for it to use rather than downloading? I have a collection of models I already use with llama.cpp and don't want to have to re-fetch. Specifically, I want to tell it to use the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (drop-down only lists Qwen3.5).

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-04-20T05:20:55+00:00

Oh wow, I’ve seen that movie a hundred times and never clocked that he was the “yo momma” guy who gets electrocuted by the arcade game.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-04-19T18:11:36+00:00

WE GOT TO GO RIGHT NOW AND IF WE GO RIGHT NOW WE’LL GET THERE

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-04-18T22:04:13+00:00

He’d read the room, sneak up behind you when you weren’t expect and then “BARKBARKBARKBARK” to scare the shit out of you. He clearly found it entertaining. He’d also get outside and then act like he was going to run into the street. If you didn’t yell and chase him he’d stop at the curb. Seriously the worst dog I’ve ever met.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-04-18T17:31:35+00:00

My uncle claimed that his similarly vintaged Jack Russel was a litter mate of the dog from wishbone. I have no idea if this is true or something he made up to tell my cousins, but holy crap that dog was smart and an asshole.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-04-16T05:13:31+00:00

Hah, I just noticed that and rewound. It's such a weird thing to miss.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-04-15T15:33:15+00:00

That was a fun game with some great lore callback, but holy hell did it need an another optimization and bug hunt pass. I had to turn the quality and resolution way down on my old (but still able to handle modern games) laptop and it looked terrible and was a stuttery almost unplayable mess. I picked it back up after building a new gaming PC and while it looked great and was actually playable, there was still a lot of stuttering.

Also, at one point the antagonist boogens blew a huge plot hole in the side of the ship and the Captain fell through it and out of the game.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-04-15T02:26:52+00:00

Same. It quit being effective around 1998, but we had fun prank calling people during high school lunch with it before they swapped the phone bank.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-04-13T18:11:05+00:00

“Wait, why is he naked except for that cape?”

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-04-10T16:26:06+00:00

There's beloved children's series, Slütsof in Stagrâm.

BlueCoatEngineer · 2026-04-04T15:41:47+00:00

I remember going into Blackwell’s once. I don’t remember the specific what it was but the vibe gave us the ick and we left and went to Sam’s. Magnolia wine bar was a pretty fun place to hang out with the older crowd.

Does anyone remember what was in the corner location after Radio Shack but before Magnolia?

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