Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 4hthese bikes are made for jousting and that's just what they'll do one of these days these bikes are gonna break your lance in two 25713 57
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18hweird tho that hungarian seems to have settled on the dutch strategy rather than the german that we usually do, and translated it as "drinking yogurt" rather than "yogurt drink" which also makes it sounds a bit like it is the yogurt that does the drinking 240 4
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18hhe drinks a lager drink, he drinks a yogurt drink 140 4
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/10/2026ali g would be suffering from ai brainrot 040 4
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/10/2026strong farside vibes here (complimentary) 0150 15
Reposted by Peter EllisTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 19/10/2026My latest @newscientist.com cartoon 141597350 1.6K
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/10/2026if racists are openly and proudly saying the things you're saying as a joke, you're not a satirist, you're backing vocals 0111 11
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/10/2026and even then it only really works in a context where most racism isn't done out in the open then and only then can bringing hidden racism to the surface to mock it help reduce that hidden racism, very occasionally 230 3
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/10/2026they're hard work but pretty amazing 000 0
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/10/2026"the west will ride again" should be the slogan (for anyone from the discover feed: yes, i know "riding" has nothing to do with riding) 140 4
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/10/2026another day, another aspect of why a bit of friction is actually quite a good thing 191 9
Reposted by Peter EllisKen Shirriff @righto.com · 18/10/2026Have you ever thought about how your computer adds and subtracts? It takes a lot of hardware to handle floating-point numbers like 12.34. I opened up Intel's 8087 math coprocessor chip from 1980 to see how it works... 519337 193
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/10/2026it was a running gag on pointless how he was given a prop laptop to look smarter when in fact everything is written on cards 040 4
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/10/2026yeah, but we sent avram hershko to a literal concentration camp 100 1
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/10/2026we seem to be weirdly obsessed with retrospectively claiming nobel laureates, even if they literally had to flee the country or just left because they weren't given an opportunity to do their stuff in hungary 120 2
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/10/2026generally not*, although kovach and kovats do *except if you've won a nobel prize of course 110 1
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/10/20263. you were literally columbo 010 1
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 19/10/2026hungarian has a more sophisticated system you are classified as a hungarian if either: 1. you've got a hungarian name 2. your family is from a territory where hungarian might have conceivably been spoken at the time and you won a nobel prize or invented a machine that purported to play chess 220 2
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026i'm not saying this was my main inspiration for the character but i'm also not not saying it 120 2
Reposted by Peter EllisPeter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026love moments when the dice completely change the adventure and as a gm you roll with it party was fighting a demon summoned by a wizard who botched it, the last thing he did was lock them both in the room all that was left of him was a skull, which the party would find and deduce what happened 1111 11
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026love moments when the dice completely change the adventure and as a gm you roll with it party was fighting a demon summoned by a wizard who botched it, the last thing he did was lock them both in the room all that was left of him was a skull, which the party would find and deduce what happened 1111 11
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026or if you're pressed for time, skip the reading part if you must 1830 83
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026anyway, that skull is now travelling with the party in a velvet-lined box and is hands down my favourite npc 2160 16
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026what happened instead was that the cleric of the god of death and jokes prayed for divine intervention, chance of success: 97-100 on a d100 but i rolled anyway, and i rolled a 100 so the skull suddenly rose into the air and started berating the demon, distracting him and helping the party survive 1120 12
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026it makes sense that when it first came in, it was posh food for posh people who loved their greek 030 3
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026yeah, it's "portocal" in romanian too and it seems like quite a few other languages went for a similar name i suspect in romanian it may have come from turkish 050 5
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026no hungarian language lesson today cos i just randomly remembered that in romanian oranges are called "portugals" 3141 14
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026and in fact a thing you can simply buy at the market, no need to go to all that trouble to make it at home 000 0
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026i like how unlike the more traditional italian horse's head, this message strikes both fear and "ooh, i can cook something nice out of this" 270 7
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026ah yes, the famously low roi business of *checks notes* selling drugs 020 2
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026there was a niche claim to fame in the late 1980s when bulgaria somehow became the source of many of the era's computer viruses 060 6
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026gaagh, i misremembered the r in rpn 110 1
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 18/10/2026, is forth love is forth life 120 2
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026besides all that, what would even be the point? do they think it'd be just like in the "good old days"? which were a bit shit btw? no, it wouldn't be, nothing will ever be, time's arrow being time's arrow, what has been learnt cannot be unlearnt, and you'll never be who you were 10 years ago 081 8
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026oh m8 "look, i'm sure we can rely on these people not knowing how to interpret text, i mean they're umm...authors" 041 4
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026sadly not, it's a tara reference 100 1
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026hands down this: band name, song length and lyrics all come together to make this the absolute worst choice www.youtube.com/watch?v=db2H...youtube.comMy Dying Bride - Two winters only (with lyrics)YouTube video by Katerina Banagi 141 4
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026that's 27 less eggs than there should've been www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...independent.co.ukBottoms up: TV remotes, vapes and Lego removed from rectums at English hospitalsA boiled egg, a door handle, and a potato were among the more bizarre items removed 120 2
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026"Szóval, a Richmondon senkinek sem mondtam el, hogy az édesapám köztársasági elnök lett, mindez csak azután derült ki, hogy elmentünk a pápához." 10/10, semmi notesz 010 1
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026de még az ő kezét is kötötte az idióta központi követelményrendszer, emlékszem, egyszer focizás közben lehívott a pályáról, hogy az évvégi ötöshöz függeszkednem kéne, mondtam, hogy jó a négyes és mehettem vissza focizni nekem ez a sztori vicces volt (és ma is az), de valahol azért elkeserítő 130 3
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026nekünk két tanárunk volt, az egyik a legrosszabb kategória, a másik csak annyit követelt tőlünk, hogy a hátnyújtó-erősítő bemelegítést rendesen elvégezzük, mert mint mondta, jó eséllyel nagyrészt ülőmunkát fogunk végezni egész életünkben, szóval erre szükségünk lesz őrá jó szívvel emlékszem 120 2
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026nekem az jött le az iskolaéveim alatt, hogy kilencven százalékban attól függ, milyen tanárt kapsz, és ez nem jó persze, egy jó vagy rossz tanár sokat számít, de hogy ennyit, az mindenképp a tanterv és a módszertan hibája (hozzátenném azt is, hogy nagyon gender itt minden, a lányoknak tök más volt) 110 1
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026to this day there is no trace on the internet of the company ever having existed i have no idea what the fuck it was, the guy clearly splashed out a lot of money on office hardware but beyond that i have no idea (but it doesn't feel like it was money laundering cos there was no money coming in) 030 3
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026so after 6 weeks, when the boss finally turned up, i asked for my money, which he refused to pay in full, but i got half of an already ridiculously tiny sum, and told him that i'm not coming in tomorrow cos i don't really see the point 110 1
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026one month passed by and there was still no sign of the boss, ergo still no money but then i was a student, i had nothing better to do, so i hung around, except there was nobody to tell us what we did need to do, what the goal of the operation was we had a domain registered and that was about it 100 1
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026over the weeks a couple of things became obvious to me: 1. i still had no employment contract, just a promise that money will be cash in hand 2. "the developers" couldn't code for shit, i had to teach them the basics of c 3. they were however pretty good at playing doom, which they did non-stop 100 1
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026so we started unpacking and putting together all that shit, installing linux/freebsd, setting up our office network connection, which was a not particularly beefy but decent for its time dsl i did this with three other lads who were "the developers" the boss was nowhere to be seen but who cares 100 1
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 17/10/2026on my first day i arrived in an empty office, which was essentially a large rented flat somewhere on the outskirts of budapest okay, it wasn't completely empty, there were desks and chairs and boxes like loads and loads of cardboard boxes "what are these?", i asked "the servers", they said 100 1
