Most autistic thing you've purchased lately - c'mon feel the cringe

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Not sure if this is autistic, but w/e...

EDIT: I bought six. Two were free since it was B2G1F; Recommending serving is four, but fuck that. I'm consuming 2 scoops post every workout to make it last. I love the flavor and I only hope the fact that it's made in a lab doesn't kill me.
 
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lurkin said:
Im thinking a nice little 3' aquascape/paludarium with rams or some sort of small CA/SA cichlid would do me, it covers all my interests and could be a nice little community tank which I never tried before.
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Rams or SA cichlids? Before you do that, take advice from this post:
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I know how it can blow out form one tank to breeding tanks, quarantine tanks, racks, homemade sumps ect ect.
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Lmao, you're going to end up with breeding cichlids, grow-out tanks, another tank for when a different fish pairs off and breeds, live brine shrimp hatcheries etc. Don't resist, at this point you're too far gone.

If it's been a while since you kept fish, you might not have seen the freshwater shrimp that are now available. That's an obsession of its own. They do well in 5 gallon tanks and you can always squeeze in one more of those. Just one more, honest.
 
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fish fillet said:
Rams or SA cichlids? Before you do that, take advice from this post:

Lmao, you're going to end up with breeding cichlids, grow-out tanks, another tank for when a different fish pairs off and breeds, live brine shrimp hatcheries etc. Don't resist, at this point you're too far gone.

If it's been a while since you kept fish, you might not have seen the freshwater shrimp that are now available. That's an obsession of its own. They do well in 5 gallon tanks and you can always squeeze in one more of those. Just one more, honest.
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Hahaha nah no fucking way. Ive already talked myself out of it.
Wouldnt suprise me, when i was still keeping fish A grade crystals were the best thing around now I dont even think they have any red or black left and are just pure white beams of light. I really do miss having freshwater shrimp, they were the most captivating thing to stare at autistically. Will never forget the first batch of cherries I bred then afterwards they became feeders [because of how prolifically they bred]. I went to a local pet store for a looksee and they had some nice acaras there but I had to walk away. I have enough plants to keep me occupied to fend off the need for a tank, plus I want to convert an ikea cabinet to an indoor greenwall/terrarium. Maybe after that...
 
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allthewaydowntotheballbag said:
Telegraphic codebook from the early 1900's. It's the kind that maps words and sentences to 5-letter groups. It's completely useless but I have a fascination with obsolete technology and related stuff.
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You'd love my workshop then, nothing but old tech - but seriously that's a nice bit of History you have there I've never gotten into Telegraphy stuff but I saw some of the early Trans-Atlantic electronics frames and they where and are beautiful the boys who worked on them kept them pristine and obviously loved what they where doing.
 
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I bought The Pepsi Cola Addict. It's this legendary lost novel written by June-Alison Gibbons. She was one of 'The Silent Twins' a pair of mentally disturbed autistic sisters, who wrote endless obsessive letters, prose and poems. They eventually ended up committed to Broadmore. June paid for a vanity publisher to print the Pepsi Cola Addict when she was a young teen, and the novel became a legend of lost literature after the twins' biography was published. It's been on my list since I read it was being reprinted commercially. Strangely enough, it turns out that The Silent Twins is being adapted into a movie. Coincidence? 🤑
 
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Shidoen said:
That keycap I bought only works for mechanical keyboards and I have a Razer keyboard. Now I need to wait until I break my current keyboard in GAMER RAGE so I can buy the correct one. #FirstWorldProblems.
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Yeah - most keycaps are going to be Cherry stem unless explicitly noted otherwise. That said, this is a great excuse to get into the wonderful world of mechanical keyboards. They don't even have to be that expensive.

Keychron C1 (TKL): $72
Keychron C2 Pro (full-size): $85
Keychron C3 Pro (TKL; red backlight only): $37

As for the 'tism buys (and on a related note), I'm seriously considering buying this fucking thing. $300 just for the goddamned chassis, but look at it.
 
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WhatInTheActualFuck said:
Yeah - most keycaps are going to be Cherry stem unless I explicitly noted otherwise. That said, this is a great excuse to get into the wonderful world of mechanical keyboards. They don't even have to be that expensive.

Keychron C1 (TKL): $72
Keychron C2 Pro (full-size): $85
Keychron C3 Pro (TKL; red backlight only): $37

As for the 'tism buys (and on a related note), I'm seriously considering buying this fucking thing. $300 just for the goddamned chassis, but look at it.
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Damn I might just get a prebuilt from steelseries.
 
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Two more SSDs. One 250B NVME and a 1TB SATA. Going to put these into my old ASRock DeskMini X300 with the 32GB RAM and 4650G that are already in there.
I'm going to turn it into a little NAS to give to my parents for Christmas. It's been sat in its box for the last year so best someone gets some use out of it. I was inspired to do this after my dad asked "Is there a way to download music these days like I used to do with Limewire back when you lived at home?"
Obviously Limewire is long dead and he is far too tech illiterate for me to teach him the ins and outs of torrenting. However....
My plan is to install TrueNas to the NVME and use the 1TB as the shared storage.
Next I will set up Docker (I know its not Docker under TrueNas but that's what I know it as) containers for:
Lidarr
SABnzbd
Prowlarr
Jellyfin
WireGuard

SABnzbd + Prowlarr will be sent through the WireGuard connection both for safety and so I can get away with sharing my usenet accounts/indexers.
Lidarr is the only thing my parents will interact with and they'll use that to add artists/albums that they want to download.
Next up is Jellyfin, I'll get them to install the Jellyfin app on their iPhones and iPads so they can remotely play the music they download on the WiFi and bluetooth it across to whatever speakers and stereos they are close to. This solves the problems of having to sync the music across to their phones using iTunes freeing them from having to fuck about with the laptops and their split music libraries.

With Lossless removed from the quality rules and sensible limits on the unknown max file size it will be a long time before they fill that 1TB SSD and if they do then they can buy a 2-4TB one and stick it in the second 2.5" slot. One that has 1TB left they can move the stuff off the 1TB onto the new one and replace that.

Next year when their internet is up for renewal I will talk them into going to PlusNet so they can get a static IP. Then I'll set up WireGuard server on the NAS and they can just VPN into their network and play all that music wherever they are.
 
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glass_houses said:
I randomly tripped over The Lucifer Effect by Zimbardo in an op shop the other day, about the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. I'm hoping it will be interesting.
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Warning: Zimbardo is not a reliable source (sorry to sound like Wikipedia) and his data is unreliable, much like Milgram's. While both of their experiments had results that I think are significant and important, they also both confabulated and manipulated the results. This is even disregarding that their experiments were highly unethical and would never be allowed today. Take anything from either of those two with a grain of salt. Or several grains.
fish fillet said:
Lmao, you're going to end up with breeding cichlids, grow-out tanks, another tank for when a different fish pairs off and breeds, live brine shrimp hatcheries etc. Don't resist, at this point you're too far gone.
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Are cichlids the most autistic family of fish? Every autist I know who collects fish is obsessed with them. Are they the trains of fish?
 
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PandaChai said:
Five kilograms of mixed world coinage, because I will genuinely have fun sorting it and cataloguing it on Numista. Coincidentally, if anyone knows anywhere good to melt metal scrap into bars in the Midlands, let me know.
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Modern or ancient? I had a brief stint into a certain narrow section of Roman numismatics, but it's been years since I've made a purchase.

I'm a member of a few Reddit communities pertaining to the interest, but they're mostly unimaginative dumbasses who buy the same coins, all the fucking time.
 
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Flavius Claudius Julianus said:
Modern or ancient? I had a brief stint into a certain narrow section of Roman numismatics, but it's been years since I've made a purchase.

I'm a member of a few Reddit communities pertaining to the interest, but they're mostly unimaginative dumbasses who buy the same coins, all the fucking time.
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Modern; I'd need to be several magnitudes wealthier to purchase 5 kilos of ancient coinage, even if each coin came encrusted with an inch of dirt on both sides.
 
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Warning: Zimbardo is not a reliable source (sorry to sound like Wikipedia) and his data is unreliable, much like Milgram's. While both of their experiments had results that I think are significant and important, they also both confabulated and manipulated the results. This is even disregarding that their experiments were highly unethical and would never be allowed today. Take anything from either of those two with a grain of salt. Or several grains.
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A lot of Psychology 101 shit is absolute garbage. The Kitty Genovese thing (in regards to the supposed "bystander effect") also didn't happen the way it's always brought up.
 
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