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Mapping a webcomic

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Up to date (by me, needs still some refinement)[Oh, my image (maybe (?)) contains spoilers if you’re not up-to-date with the comic.]

I like to read webcomics. A lot. One webcomic that I like very much, and that I read every day because its author is crazy and uploads new strips every day, is Dumbing of Age (Link). In today’s strip one character, Faz, mentions that he is plotting a relationship graph featuring all people he has met so far. (Faz is, in-universe and through other work of cartoonist David Willis, very known for his love for graphs.) The comment section then mentioned that they wished to see Faz’ graph, and one user (“A Nonymous”) linked to the outdated version on the Walkypedia. And this led me to thinking that I could do something with my life and improve upon the outdated version.

It should be noted, before I go into detail about how I went forth, that I didn’t so far scroll down and see if another user has already done this for me. I will do that soon, but first I have to get this blogpost out in time.

So I started very simple: I opened up gimp and created a new document in 1920×1080. Then, already, it started getting repetetive. First I used ‘maim’ to copy the webcomics logo into gimp (well, actually, a script that I use for sharing screenshots (using maim to create screenshots) copies the selected area to my clipboard, and then I copy that into gimp), and then I copied all images from Dumbing of Age’s cast page (Link) into gimp and arranged them accordingly. Then, because I was to lazy to figure out how to do proper lines in gimp, I saved my work in gimp, exported the image, started my Windows 7 vm in virtualbox and put the connecting lines in with paint. It does one job, and it does it (…) fine.

Then I saved that, copied it from the vm to my host system and started to write this post, which I will have finished now before Sunday starts so it counts for Saturday.

Thanks for reading.

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The Adventures of Not-so-smart-boy and Virtualbox-Demon (A trilogy)

Today I installed virtualbox again because I wanted to do some virtualizations. That should be obvious, actually. There’s no other reason to install virtualbox.

What I wanted to do was simple: set up a little Windows XP machine so I can play two simple games:
Wildlife Park 2 and Ski Racing 2005 (feat. Hermann Maier)

Both are absolutely beautiful gems that I loved when I was 12. Both are games I was absolutely shit at when I got them, and then through trial and error (and a little help from friends in understanding one of the games) I became moderately successful. By that I mean I finished all the missions in Wildlife Park (2) and unlocked all courses in Ski Racing (I never drove slalom or giant slalom though. Just super-G and downhill, because slalom has too many goals.).

So I hope I expressed my love for WLP2 and SR2005 enough. Last year in July, before I left for the GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH, I already once tried to satisfy my nostalgia for a better and more uncomplicated time in my life, by installing virtualbox. Sadly, I wasn’t successfull. The shitty piece of software tried telling me the friggin’ driver wasn’t loaded, even after restarts.

So I said “Fuck Oracle!”, removed virtualbox and its dependencies, and tried to ignore the hole in my soul.

But yesterday I visited a friend who still has his old XP desktop, and we played a bit WLP2 and I was right back in it.

So I installed virtualbox, and surely, the driver didn’t load. But this time smarty boy didn’t give up. Instead he tried to find the driver, reloaded it, and the shitty thing works perfectly.

I was ~very~ furious.

So now I have two VMs running XP Professional and Home, and none of my games work. Because probably the processor is too fast and that shits it up. At least for Ski Racer. Wildlife Park apparently doesn’t like being run in a VM because Deep Silver is fucking with me with their shitty FrontLine DRM.

I’ll feel like I have to get an old pc now.

Fuck Oracle.

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Disgusting food I cooked and ate

Multitasking!

Way too much food… maybe I shouldn’t have cooked the whole box…

I’d like to point out that that is rice right there and that means it’s healthy food. Although that sauce is McDonald’s sauce so maybe that cancels the rice out. Also my mom isn’t in the country right now so I can eat what I want.

I mean, I live alone so no one can tell me what to eat, but I feel a bit less guilty now.

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I am too blonde to complain.

Apparently.

Even though old German typefaces, like all old typefaces, is borderline impossible to read if you don’t do it often enough.

But if you’re blonde and blue-eyed and German, you aren’t allowed to complain apparently because the Nazis liked it and they also liked blonde, blue-eyed people and as such a person you can’t complain about the fricking unreadable text!

That’s the world we live in, now.

Fuck me.

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[How-To] Cook a Tasty German Currywurst

What you’ll need:
– 2-3 white sausages
– a frying pan
– lard to cook the sausages in
– curry powder
– salt, pepper (hot), paprika powder
– mashed tomatoes
– half a bottle of ketchup

How to cook:
1. Cook the sausages until they’re good (I don’t know how long it takes on my stove, like 5 to 10 minutes maybe?)
2. Put sausages on a plate in the (pre-heated) oven so they stay warm
3. Mix the mashed tomatoes with the ketchup
4. Add salt, pepper, paprika powder, and lots of curry
5. Enjoy!

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Tatort: A German Crime TV series

…since 1970.

I’ve always liked Tatort. Not all of them. Some detectives are horrific. Often the writing is cheesy, just to show off what fucking town their in. But some, some do have merit.

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Prospects of Neet-Life

I am a neet again. Well, actually, since today’s a Saturday I’ll be a neet on Monday since I don’t have a job, internship or not, to go to, and nobody works on weekends anyway. But I already feel like a neet (it never left my body) again. And it’s great. I only drove to Aldi today, the rest was spent on the computer, and in the shower because I have to do that, I couldn’t go completely filthy, I wouldn’t be able to stand myself.

I mentioned WarGames (1983) recently and I am writing on a post about that, but it’s taking me longer than I thought it would because I love it very much so you’ll have to wait on that.

But other movies I’ll watch in future and maybe will write about if I feel like it that are thematically related to WarGames are: (in no particular order)
– Hackers (1995)
– The Net (1995)
– Track Down / Takedown (2000)[Why multiple English titles?]
– Sneakers (1992)

I’ll also probably rewatch Antitrust aka Conspiracy.com aka Startup (2001) although I distintively remember me not liking that one. But I don’t remember why so a rewatch is needed to refresh my memories.

My cold has almost left me, I feel, so I will be able to go to the gym on all planned days next week, and that will be good. I hope I’ll stick to the schedule after not being able to do it twice. Frickin’ sneezing and lying in bed, eff you.

I don’t remember if I mentioned this, but Kevin Mitnick’s book “Ghost in the Wires” is really good and funny. I won’t write about that though. I’ll just recommend it. Go buy the man’s book, he spend five years in jail until he could write it.

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Daniel James is a motherfucking genius

In yesterday’s post (Link) I was angry about having to use a white WordPress dashboard. Well, Daniel James has a solution for my problem. It’s called “Dark Mode” and is a dark-themed mode for the WordPress admin dashboard. It can be either set to always be on, or it can be run at specific times, most likely at night. (I’m using it all time because white is cancer.)

10/10 best WordPress plugin, Link is here.