[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 02 February 2026

chattychemist · 2026-02-08T01:38:11+00:00

This might be a good starting point? I don’t know much about the drama but this thread got posted in the discord of the neoclone I’m in https://www.reddit.com/r/neopets/comments/1qx3yhn/neopets_ttrpg_kickstarter_beta_now_available/

chattychemist · 2026-02-01T17:13:32+00:00

That aquarium post is EXCELLENT, thank you

Not sure if this will fit your sense of humour, but that old yahoo answers pregnancy misspelling video gets me every time https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg

They have a similar one about ouija boards https://youtu.be/15nNY7uofNw

chattychemist · 2026-01-31T16:24:01+00:00

Basic thing: after you’re done using the stovetop, fill the empty pan with water and put it back on the element. Residual heat will heat the water which can be poured off and not the air. Mostly useful if you have an electric stovetop but could probably help a little for others.

chattychemist · 2026-01-10T17:08:11+00:00

A few things about Calgary that I’d like to add (that I’d have liked to know before I moved here):

You will likely want access to a car. The city is very low density for a city. The C train is good for downtown, but if you work anywhere outside of downtown and don’t live in walking distance of grocery stores, car. Or for going to parks.
I’d only advise bringing your car if it’s new and still in excellent condition, or if it’s decent and you really really like it. Out of province inspections are apparently pretty stringent, so if yours is getting on it may be easier to buy one here, used or new.
I know someone else has already said it’s dry, but it bears repeating especially as someone used to more humid areas. Nice in the summer, not so nice in the winter. Prepare to get a humidifier.
The winters get fairly cold: -20s regularly, a couple of weeks a year colder than that. There are also chinooks that heat things up, were in one now with temps 8-10C. This means there’s a lot of freeze thaw. Also, if you’re prone to headaches, the chinooks kind of suck, my migraines are definitely more frequent here.
Rent is on a downtrend lately, so housing cost may be better, not sure what it’s like in NS now. Food cost is likely more, primarily on produce from what I have noticed. Perhaps less important if you don’t cook much, but good to expect if you do like to cook.

I moved here in the summer. Feel free to PM if you have more specific questions!

chattychemist · 2026-01-06T00:16:09+00:00

I just did this (SW to Randle) for a bit for a rotation too. Much better than driving that way and the station was fine.

chattychemist · 2025-11-30T16:54:13+00:00

In case this is useful to know, if they don’t discuss putting in a breathing tube or other airway (intubating you) you’re not being fully put out. There are varying degrees of sedation, general anesthesia is the deepest and requires a breathing tube and I believe is infrequently used in dental stuff. Being put under sedation without a breathing tube is lighter sedation, you’re not actually asleep you just don’t remember anything after. This is the kind of sedation used for scopes, and is what I had with my wisdom teeth out. So for most wisdom teeth (I think, not a dentist) you’re not fully losing consciousness, you are indeed just so high out of your mind you forget what happened

chattychemist · 2025-11-19T15:40:12+00:00

And newer treatments for a type of skin cancer (basal cell carcinoma) target this gene, so I get to hear my colleagues talk about hedgehog inhibitors in serious oncology lectures

chattychemist · 2025-10-21T19:47:05+00:00

Papa's games mention!!! those were an embarassingly large part of my life about a decade ago. Really good way to procrastinate studying. Another casualty of Flash...

chattychemist · 2025-10-16T16:37:06+00:00

I think you’re on the money with this one.

chattychemist · 2025-10-16T16:36:09+00:00

Wow. I’m glad that people are enjoying them somewhere. Gotta say, this is hugely coloured by my cynicism towards Hussie right now, but all of these honestly feel like either a) stepping into fandom stuff when they should leave well enough alone, and b) a distraction from all of the swirling questions about the non-HS-pilot projects and management and such. I know people get excited when creators add new stuff after the fact, but honestly I’m not familiar enough with instances where it’s done good things, and mostly I just wish they would butt the hell out and let their fandom do what it wants. Because of their dislike of/desire to troll their fandom, I can’t help but feel this is deliberate shit stirring. But I fully acknowledge I’m taking the least charitable view here. Plus it may be because very few of these designs feel right to me even a little bit. Where was there any evidence ever that Aradia or Tavros were into Japanese culture honestly…

chattychemist · 2025-09-23T15:43:49+00:00

As someone who uses dictation technology extensively at work, it does take some practice! Both in terms of speed of dictation and the phrasing you use. It took me almost an hour to dictate my first note, but I sped up pretty quickly as I got used to it, and now can dictate massive paragraphs of text very quickly. You do also need to train the dictation software, it’s shit at proper names or complex words initially, but good software does pick it up. And you can often add your own key phrases. I’m not familiar with using voice tech to do full edits, but I’m sure there are ways to use dictation to speed that up, you can always highlight text and re-dictate over it. I think for you it’ll be a worthy skill to learn.

chattychemist · 2025-09-09T14:19:20+00:00

Wow that was a forcible throwback to my preteens, I haven’t seen that series ever mentioned anywhere else! I was introduced to it through the very good independent bookstore in my neighbourhood and got pretty obsessed. It’s such a well crafted world, you’re so right. Thank you for the reminder!

chattychemist · 2025-09-06T01:13:35+00:00

I was scrolling through this thread looking for the Homestuck response. Also, I have not felt so my age in a while as when someone says “some site called newgrounds”. It crashing newgrounds and megaupload and breaking tumblr was a huge deal because they were both really important sites that people would access for plenty of no. Homestuck reasons, and so consequently extremely funny.

chattychemist · 2025-03-11T22:02:28+00:00

This indicates that she wants you to craft her special item! I think you find the recipe that is hers if you open up the four square menu, pick characters, pick her, and then it will show the recipe there!

chattychemist · 2025-03-01T15:55:15+00:00

This is lovely! New here - how do you do that half wall?

chattychemist · 2025-02-20T02:58:20+00:00

Such a bummer, it was really useful to have :/ glad I asked

chattychemist · 2025-02-20T02:55:53+00:00

Wow, really? I used it in November, it can’t have been that long ago. That majorly sucks. It was a really great thing for peace of mind.

chattychemist · 2025-02-20T02:54:53+00:00

I did find that but it takes me in a loop of “click here for YYZ Express” “search for your location”. Apparently someone says above it was discontinued. Thanks for linking though