dorchadas | Entries tagged with internet meme (ネタ)

I Feel: amused
I Hear: Dave Rodgers – Deja Vu

I started on the next FreeCodeCamp project (based on React) and almost immediately got stuck. The answer turned out to be the IDE's fault--I had an unclosed comment at the end of the HTML section and, due to the way that CodePen separates out the parts of the page source, it was commenting out everything else without me actually knowing that was happening. Once I closed the comment, everything worked fine.

Computers. Emoji Psyduck Cylon

But before I figured that out, I did a search for the error message I got about abbreviation nodes, typed up part of the message and let Google autocomplete and, well:

Four common programming errors.

Unable to reach Ballmer Peak. Time to troubleshoot.

I also finished かぐや様は告らせたい～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦 / Kaguya-sama: Love is War today. A solid 8/10, with a story not based on stupid cliches, but rather based on the extremely-common modern desire to make the other person be vulnerable before you so you never have to risk any heartbreak. I've already bought the first volume of the manga, and while the sale of EbookJapan to Yahoo Japan means the old reader app I have no longer works--and thus, annoyingly, I need an active connection to read my books and can't download them all for reading on the L--I'm still going to make time to read it. A story about mind games borne out of insecurity but with a happy ending sounds like a treat.

But! The meme is actually based on a scene from the anime where they're in a taxi, trying to get to a fireworks performance before it ends. You can probably guess what it is from my Currently Listening section:

"Kaguya-sama time to drive fast 🅱" (Watch on YouTube)

I sent this to

meowtima because I knew he would appreciate it, and now I share it with all of you in the hope that you will too.

Alright, back to Breath of the Wild while I put off chores for a bit longer. Emoji Link smilie

I Feel: tired
I Hear: Phoebe Ryan - Mine (Illenium Remix)

Here's 2018's year-end survey meme:

( Read more... )

皆様、明けましておめでとうございます。ご健康とご多幸をお祈り申し上げます。新年も宜しくお願い致します

Happy New Year!

I Feel: pensive
I Hear: Stoneburner - Osafa Chram

I'm trying to tell myself that winter hasn't really begun if I haven't had to button my coat yet, even though it was -6°C when I left the apartment this morning and I had to wash my hair last night so it wouldn't freeze. The weather report says we'll have snow tomorrow. I guess I should be thankful we actually had a Chicago fall instead of going straight from summer to winter like last year.

My favorite zone in old World of Warcraft was Azshara and more than half of it was because it was eternally late fall there. 🍁🍂

You'd think after years of listening to podcasts and playing all the Legend of Zelda games in order I would have combined the two, and before last week you would have been wrong. But after a seeing a tweet from Zelda Universe about their own podcast, I did some searching for Zelda podcasts and subscribed to three: ZU's podcast; Another Zelda Podcast, which has themed episodes like one about forest temples and one about Breath of the Wild's ending; and Tandem Legends, which is two people playing through the whole series except they're doing it in timeline order instead of game release order. I've only listened to a couple episodes of AZP, but I'm halfway through the Skyward Sword part of Tandem Legends and I really enjoy it. Both of them have played the games before, but not all of them and not the same games, so they have differing perspectives and don't just gush about how amazing everything is.

There's also a section in each podcast about the music, which is amazing. Emoji Link smilie

My nightmares seem to have gone away, other than a dream a few days ago about vampires that woke me up an hour before my alarm. That might have been caused by nuVampire's problems, though, since I have vampires on the brain.

questionoftheday asks: Is your hair its natural color? Or do you regularly dye it? Is it a naturally occurring color, or a wild one? What's your hair story?

My answer: My hair is naturally already a wild color--it's "copper blonde," according to the marketing copy on drugstore hair dye products. It's also almost waist-long, so I figure it's eye-catching enough. I've dyed my hair only once--black, to cosplay Kaji from Neon Genesis Evangelion. I used temporary dye so it washed out over a few days. I checked a few months ago and sadly there are no pictures.

Alright, back to work.

I Feel: awake
I Hear: zircon - Identity Sequence (ft. Jillian Aversa)

They spent a week rebuilding the database and index, checking the entries, and then it immediately broke when I opened it after they said they were done. The very first physician I checked had no data attached. For this we spent all that time and money.

Just got an email that they are still looking into it. Emoji Psyduck Cylon

I saw an article on twitter about how Glyphosate (aka Roundup) is killing bees. There are previous studies that found no effects on bees' navigation skills or learning ability, but this new study checked bees' gut bacteria and suggests that exposure reduces bees' resistance to disease. So add that to the list of ways that humans are destroying the environment and didn't even realize it until decades later. (h/t to

TwentySidedCat for the link)

I went to an Anime Chicago discussion on Sunday about 四月は君の嘘 / Your Lie in April, and it turned out that I was the lone dissenting voice. It was a fun discussion, but I felt a bit like a wet blanket talking about how all the slapstick humor with care taken to animate the blood in an anime about trauma due to past abuse turned me off, and how in a show almost entirely about how music allows us to form connections beyond words, they kept interrupting the musical performances with the audience's internal (and external) monologues. And the main female character is a manic pixie dream girl dying of mysterious anime disease. I gave it a 4/10 and I think the average excluding me was more like 7.75. Perhaps I am a hater. Emoji Cute shrug

Other than that I did a lot of nothing this weekend. I some coding practice and made a Roman numeral converter (only Arabic -> Roman, though it'd be easy to make it work the other way too). That took about an hour and a half of staring at the problem with no idea what to do, and once I figured out an approach, writing the function took maybe ten minutes. Then I kept getting NaN as the result, changed stuff, changed other stuff, changed it back to how it started and...it worked. I'm not sure what sorcery occurred, but I'll take it.

I'm sure I changed something somewhere that fixed a bug, but damned if I know what it was.

questionoftheday asks: If you were given the chance to be immortal, and to forever be the age of your choosing, what age would you be? Why?

My answer: 25. I mean, is there anyone who's going to answer differently? I guess some people would want to be younger than that, but given the choice would anyone want to be physically older assuming their mental experience came over unaltered? I don't see why.

Though if I were frozen at the age I am now I'd do okay. I'm 36, and I drank half a bottle of wine and stayed up to 1 a.m. last night talking with

lisekatevans and I'm fine today. As long as I can keep doing that, I'm good.

I Feel: awake
I Hear: Nothing

questionoftheday asks: What is your aesthetic?

My answer: Cyberpunk elf.

Like, take one part Demobaza, one part Zolnar, one part Maedhros the Tall, and one part Thranduil and mix them all together.

I Feel: amused
I Hear: Annie Lennox - Into the West (Cover by Peter Hollens) (Nightcore Mix)

Over on Facebook, I shared a "What music do you think I listen to?" meme and got a few of the expected responses from friends. Techno (True, I listen to Group Therapy), Symphonic Metal (True), Nightwish (True), "The sound of the wind in the leaves of a crisp fall dawn, and also the wailing of a thousand lost souls" (True and True), and video game music (Extremely True).

One person said "Elfcore," since I have a reputation among my friend as an elflord. And with a bit of searching, well, it exists:

Watch on YouTube

Rave in the Woodland Realm tonight. Follow the bonfires.

I Feel: indescribable
I Hear: Counting Crows - A Long December

Well, that was a year!

Last year,

schoolpsychnerd and I went to

resaamnesia's New Year's Eve party, along with a giant bottle of お屠蘇 (otoso), like we did the year before. It was good! At least, I thought so. I don't think many other people drank much of it, other than when

chronicluscious mixed it with rose water and made a mixed drink that even

oddsboy wouldn't drink, which is an accomplishment in itself. I'm told it smelled really good but tasted like soap. I'm glad I missed it. I stuck with plain お屠蘇 like I did last year. It was delicious.

Looking at last year's retrospective, I did accomplish some of my goals. I was a bit more social, and I was much more serious about Japanese. Playing all those video games in Japanese and reading 世界の中心で愛を叫ぶ with my Japanese tutor meant that I'm reading substantial lengths of Japanese every week, if not necessarily every day, and still getting plenty of speaking practice. I did play Android this year with

drydem and

damaskrosechicago, and won again even though I was Floyd the bioroid this time instead of Raymond the P.I. I still haven't played Kingdom Death, and have all the minis unassembled in boxes around our apartment.

We saved an enormous amount of money coupled with a stock market completely detatched from how the economy is performing for anyone of median income, so on paper we made a bunch of money but our lifestyle hasn't changed at all, and seems to have hit a nice equilibrium where we can put money into both short-term and long-term savings sufficient to have enough to cover emergencies and to save for trips or anything we'd like to buy. We did switch to the new data management system at work and it's Emoji Psyduck boom

, but we're probably switching to another system pretty soon. At the moment, I have to deal with the enormous amount of data that the system can't handle, but that's actually job security for me--my entire job is based around computers not being good enough to handle everything themselves yet, so more incompetent computers means more work for me, which means more reason for me to work. I will not complain.

My Warlords of the Mushroom Kingdom game is still going strong, to my happiness. It's not the longest-running game I've ever been in, but it's almost at two years now (it'll hit two years the second week of March). That's really good, since the average game lasts less than a year (around one academic year, in fact).

There's a traditional new year's meme that's going around Dreamwidth and, before it, went around LJ. I've never answered it before, but it provides a nice structure to my retrospective. Here:
( Forty questions )

皆様、明けましておめでとうございます。ご健康とご多幸をお祈り申し上げます。新年も宜しくお願い致します。

Happy New Year!

I Feel: thoughtful
I Hear: Clamavi de Profundis - Song of Durin

After being tagged by

tropicanaomega, I finished the seven day black and white photo challenge, and now I'm going to go against the spirit of the meme and explain all my pictures. I didn't do it during the challenge, so that counts, right?

I wasn't sure I was going to participate at all until I looked on the internet to make sure I understood the rules and I found this article about how terrible the whole idea is, written in a very "how dare you have fun!" way. I mean:

Many people can’t leave the house without posting a photo on Facebook. So to frame this as a challenge is just asking for trouble. The prompt to eschew color, people, and explanatory text has given participants free rein to post cringe-worthy “arty” pictures they’d normally have the good sense to be embarrassed by: their shadow-dipped lattes, their brooding pets, their kids’ tilted-over toys, often framed diagonally to add that extra “I’m doing serious photography” edge. The leaves! The cars! The fences! I saw one photo of a faucet, for some reason. Is this Facebook, or are these the photos that come prepackaged with frames at Ikea?

Someone is Mad On the Internet. And so to make them even madder, I posted my own photos. Explanations follow.

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I Feel: full
I Hear: Shoujo Kakumei Utena - Legend: The God's Name is Abraxas (伝説・神の名はアプラクサス)

I made a dumb Utena meme on the tumblr I share with

schoolpsychnerd. You might like it.

On Tuesday, before Japanese class, we went to the Museum of Contemporary Art to see The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, an exhibit of Murakami Takashi (村上隆)'s art. I didn't know anything about it before we went and modern art isn't usually to my taste, but I was surprised by how much I exjoyed the exhibit. Not the pictures where DOB, Murakami's cute Mickey-Mouse-esque character, is unfolded and stretched across a campus in a nightmare of teeth and eyes, but the works that are more traditional.

Examples:
( Click for art )

Yesterday, both

schoolpsychnerd and I went to the farmer's market together, which meant that I had some input on the contents of the meal! I originally thought about having duck and pita bread, but there were no bakers selling any pita at the market, so we settled on something different and made sandwiches instead. Ingredients are mostly my idea with

schoolpsychnerd's input,

schoolpsychnerd was the one who put them all together into the final meal. Emoji Kawaii heart

( Farmer's Market food pictures )

I have a dentist appointment in two hours to reapply a sealant on my teeth, so of course I'm very nervous. I'm going to

schoolpsychnerd's dentist, because he's within walking distance and she recommended him to me, and I know that sealants are an easy procedure and it shouldn't take more than half an hour, if that. But any number of things could go wrong, and even though I know they won't, what if they did? Emoji Panic flailing

But there's not much point in worrying about that now. Back to playing Wind Waker.

I Feel: amused
I Hear: Square Roots podcast

It's been a very long time since I actually answered one of these memes, so I'll try my hand at this and give the ネタ tag a workout.

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I Feel: thirsty
I Hear: Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff podcast

I haven't posted one of these in an incredibly long time, but one of the blogs I read linked this "What D&D Character are you?" quiz and I tried it out. It's rather long, as a warning if any of you want to take it.

I Am A: Lawful Good Elf Wizard (5th Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength-13
Dexterity-13
Constitution-15
Intelligence-15
Wisdom-12
Charisma-11

Alignment:
Lawful Good A lawful good character acts as a good person is expected or required to act. He combines a commitment to oppose evil with the discipline to fight relentlessly. He tells the truth, keeps his word, helps those in need, and speaks out against injustice. A lawful good character hates to see the guilty go unpunished. Lawful good is the best alignment you can be because it combines honor and compassion. However, lawful good can be a dangerous alignment when it restricts freedom and criminalizes self-interest.

Race:
Elves are known for their poetry, song, and magical arts, but when danger threatens they show great skill with weapons and strategy. Elves can live to be over 700 years old and, by human standards, are slow to make friends and enemies, and even slower to forget them. Elves are slim and stand 4.5 to 5.5 feet tall. They have no facial or body hair, prefer comfortable clothes, and possess unearthly grace. Many others races find them hauntingly beautiful.

Class:
Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard's strength is her spells, everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar- a small, magical, animal companion that serves her. With a high Intelligence, wizards are capable of casting very high levels of spells/

( Detailed Results )

Charisma 11, which I suspect is because of all the introverted answers I put in, though with those stats it looks like I used 4d6-drop-lowest for stats. Clearly, I'm not a real old-school character. :p

I Feel: apathetic
I Hear: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

Youtube Rickrolling people was funny. ^_^

Normally, I'm not a huge fan of Internet Asshole Day, since most of the "jokes" aren't funny, and you can't trust any news you read (Sony to remake FFVII for PS3! No wait, it's April 1! HAHAHA!). Some people do a good job (Blizzard and Wizards of the Coast this year, I thought), but most don't. I suppose it's because I think that Rickrolling, much like This! Is! Sparta!, is one of those memes that may never get old.

To this day, the sound Lavos makes makes me twitch. I should really play Chrono Trigger again. Same with Homeworld and the third mission... "Kharak is burning." I think video games have had more emotional impact on me than any novel I've read yet or movie I've watched. Maybe it's the interactivity? For another classic example, "But...the future refused to change." I've explained them to

schoolpsychnerd, and she doesn't feel strongly about them, probably because it's the identification through having interacted with the characters in an active fashion.

Two of my friends from college came to visit this weekend. It was all kinds of fun, though the weather was probably the worst March weather for a visit imaginable. Drinks were drink, karaoke was sung (though not by me, as I had to work), Smash was played (Sonic boom, sonic boom...) and for a few days, it was just like old times. It was a nice feeling.

I Feel: amused
I Hear: Rob Balder - Still Annoyed (The Bowser Song)

Bowster is less charitable than GLaDOS was. ^_^

I Feel: amused
I Hear: None

Most of you, no doubt, have no idea where it comes from.

But I like it.

desu.

I Feel: accomplished
I Hear: None

PingPlotter is reporting between 25 and 50% packet loss on the first leg of the journey from the modem to Comcast's router, though it's a bit harder because the packet loss average percentage gets thrown off every time the modem gives out.

Pretty sure that either the modem they gave me or the line connecting it to the wall is crap.

Also, if you want to see the true workings of the Internet Hate Machine, as well as hear a Fox News reporter unironically say the phrase "truly epic lulz," you could do worse than to watch this clip.

( Explanation )

I Feel: restless
I Hear: Khalal, Nintendo Guru - Metal Gear Uh Oh! The Beat Have Started To Move! OC ReMi

( I could instruct you... )

softlykarou and I almost had a heart attack when my e-mail to the person facilitating our move into our apartment bounced. I tried again, and it bounced again, but it was 11:30 at night, so I couldn't really do anything about it. I had

softlykarou call again today, though, and it looked like it was a momentary fluke. He still worked there, and he didn't have any idea why our e-mail didn't get through. Incidentally, the e-mail was about what apartment number we were, since we were told the wrong one the first time. As it turns out, we are Number Six.

...

I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN!!

...

How reasonable is it for me to expect someone working in a modern office to understand basic computer functions? For me to expect them to know that, say, if there are two distinct locations to save stories to (on the network or on the hard drive), and I give a location which is on the hard drive, not to load up the network save option and stare at it with a dumbfounded look on their face before asking me what they're doing wrong. For me to expect them to know basic tricks like copy/paste to a new document when the current one isn't saving. For me to expect them not to constantly fuck up and save over their previous documents (something that, in several years, I have never done), requiring multiple redundant backups to keep my/their work safe from them. It's kind of weird how I'm the computer go-to guy for minor things, and yet I would describe myself as having "adequate" computer aptitude.

In further news, I ran into two of the most ridiculously named twins today I have ever seen--Destinee Mi’Amor and Charitee My’Amor [last name omitted]. Sometimes, I think we'd be better off if we had a board like Germany, where you were required to submit the name of a newborn and they checked it to make sure it wasn't stupid or likely to make your child want to kill you when they came of age.

Only a week and a half until we move into our apartment. Watching

softlykarou's Sims game (which has sims of us living together) makes me itchy for it. As a note, we'll have a wireless adaptor, but with enough security (set up by my father) that random assholes can't come in and leech off our bandwidth. I figure that it's reasonable, considering how many of us have been that random asshole before.

Be seeing you.

I Feel: amused
I Hear: Within Temptation - It's The Fear

Lolcode!

Example:
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
UP VAR!!1
VISIBLE VAR
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE

Clearly, this will revolutionize the computing world!

I Feel: amused
I Hear: Within Temptation - Hand Of Sorrow

Crush this person!
Get your own ThisCrush.com CrushTag!

According to the original page, each person with a tag has an average of 3.09 crushes. The statistic is meaningless without knowing anything else about it, but I'm bored and figured it out.

If anyone reading this is a subject of the Queen, Terry Pratchet is up for consideration for a knighthood.

I Feel: calm
I Hear: Paprika - Byakkoya no Musume

http://sweetraptorjesus2.ytmnd.com/

That song has been stuck in my head for days, so I now inflict it on you.

My insurance company continues to confound my attempts to see them as villainous bastards. A week ago, I got a letter from Tri-City Radiologists, telling me that I owed them about $500 for the CAT scan I got (which the hospital had already billed me for), with the rationale that they had sent the bill to the insurance and gotten no response. I was all set to call and yell at my insurance company for not paying for something when they had already approved it (since they covered my hospital bill), but instead I was told that they paid the bill the day after it was sent to my house. Well then.

Heroes rocks. NBC does not. Hey NBC--if your other shows didn't suck so much, you wouldn't have to make sure Heroes was running during sweeps!

I Feel: pensive

That ys ynogh. I haue hadde it wyth thes cursed by Seynt George snakes on this cursed by Seynt George shippe! ^^

Also, yesterday was my birthday. It was nothing special. But thank you everyone who wished me a happy birthday

I Feel: thoughtful
I Hear: Adema - Immortal

Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.	✓ I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	✓ I love to play video games.	× I've tried marijuana.
✓ I've watched porn movies.	✓ I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes.	× I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. (Not a lot this year. More the year previous)	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

( it goes on... )

There's more, but I'm under NDA. Ask me.

I Feel: amused
I Hear: Nothing

The internet for porn? Nononono...

The internet is for KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

I Feel: sleepy
I Hear: Kompressor - Tunak Tunak Tun

Yeah, you read that right. Kompressor did a cover of Tunak.

I realized, after I wrote that poll, that I probably should have made it anonymous. Otherwise, people would (justifiably) be worried that voting for the misery option could be read as "HAHAHA!!!! SUFFER, FOOL!!!!!!!" Also, as

uriany pointed out, I should have included an, "I'll read it anyway" option. Oh well.

I'm really sleepy. My father is down here staining cabinets...anyone know if stain odor is soporific? When I was upstairs talking to

softlykarou, I started feeling sleepy after maybe 5 minutes. Not cool.

I Feel: happy
I Hear: oc@ormgas.com - FFmusic Dj - Final Fantasy, Trancelude

Damn them and their thieving ways.

Today is my and

schoolpsychnerd's year anniversary! Yay! It certainly doesn't seem that long...I remember when she was just a person on the other end of the IM texting me. It doesn't seem that long ago...

Following

greyselke, here's my Japanese name:

My japanese name is 中島 Nakashima (center of the island) 陸 Riku (land).
Take your real japanese name generator! today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.

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Entries tagged with internet meme (ネタ)

Two memes

2018 New Year Meme

I'd prefer eternal fall, honestly

The database is an avatar of the Crawling Chaos

A E S T H E T I C

"What kind of Music" meme

New Year's Retrospective 2017

Black and White Photo Challenge Explanations

The octopus eats delicious locally-grown food

41 Questions meme

D&D Meme

Okay, I admit it.

I'm Still Annoyed

I have a new user icon

Hmm...

Verily, " 'Tis better than thine."

Brought to you by lolcats...

Yeah, meme-whoring...

Sweet Raptor Jesus!

Another year older, and what have you done?

It's been a while since I memed it up

Wow. Just...wow

KOMPRESSOR STEAL YOUR TUNAK!!!

The Italians stole all our bagels!

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