SatyrSack

S5E5 "The Waitress is Getting Married"

S5E7 "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops"

S14E10 "Waiting tor Big Mo"

My daily driver setup. Using clamps like this allows me to mount to the chair without having to drill into it (or any other permanent modification like that). My biggest complaint about this setup is the USB cable reaching from the chair to the computer. I always need to be aware of where the cable is when rotating the chair and whatnot.

• Svalboard Lightly with 52mm trackballs
• Herman Miller Embody
• SMALLRIG magic arms and crab-claw clamps

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36534205

30 Rock S1E1 "Pilot"
Always Sunny S8E5 "The Gang Gets Analyzed"

S14E10 "Waiting tor Big Mo"

S2E3 "Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare"

Not sure exactly what to call this, but I came up with an outline for a potential final season of the show. Any additions or changes you can think of that could make this fake season better?

Episode 1 - Dee Gets Deported

• As a "joke", Frank tips off ICE that Dee is a foreign national
  • Throughout the episode, Dee dodges ICE raids and is paranoid about seeing anybody even remotely resembling law enforcement
  • By the end of the episode, Dee gets abducted by an ICE agent pretending to be a Hollywood talent agent
• Mac "gives up" his "sinful homosexual lifestyle" after contracting HIV from a stranger
  • He makes a series of stereotypical "closeted man" lifestyle changes
    • Gets engaged to a "tradwife" fiancée
    • Wears uptight clothing
    • Goes to bible study daily
  • Uninstalls every app on his phone other than the bible app Thumpr
    • Unbeknownst to him, Thumpr is actually a Christian hookup app
    • Through his encounters with all these closeted/repressed Christians, he eventually slips back into his previous lifestyle

Episode 2 - Dee Gets Taken

• While still away from home due to the events in the previous episode, Dee gets abducted again
  • She ends up being held hostage in North Korea
  • Throughout the episode, she repeatedly tries calling the gang with her captor's demands. They all dismiss her cries for help or simply ignore the calls
  • By the end of the episode, she gets released after repeatedly offering to have sex with her captors and they realize that no one is going to provide their ransom anyway
• Someone tries burglarizing the bar overnight
  • Unbeknownst to the burglar, Charlie was sleeping at the bar, and he ends up chaining up the burglar
  • The next day, the rest of the gang finds the burglar sitting there, starving, chained to the radiator
  • There is a big debate about the situation
    • What should they do with the burglar?
    • Is vigilante justice even okay?
    • Is the burglar just fighting back against the broken system that led them to this life of crime?
  • By the time they reach a decision on what to do, they find that the burglar has died due to complications of some entirely unrelated medical issue

Episode 3 - The Gang Accuses Frank of Sexual Assault

• After not working for the past week due to the events in the past two episodes, Dee is out of money and wants to sue Frank for damages
  • After being informed that such a suit would go nowhere, Dee decides to make money by accusing Frank of sexual assault
  • Mac joins in and accuses Frank of doing the same to him as well
• Someone finds an OnlyFans page run by Dennis
  • He has been taking foot pics of unsuspecting women and selling them
  • There is a rousing philosophical debate throughout the episode regarding the ethics of the situation
    • the women do not consent
    • but no one's identity is being shared in any way
    • but Dennis is the only one profiting
    • but Dennis is the only one doing the work
  • In the end, it is revealed that the feet are actually all Dennis's own anyway

Episode 4 - Paddy's Smart Shop

• Frank discovers that through one of his many shell companies, he has the ability to write valid prescriptions for any medication he wants
• Mac works with him to fill prescriptions for steroids to sell to the beefcakes at the gym
• The rest of the gang condemns this overtly illicit behaviour and decides they would rather make "clean" money by selling legal highs at the bar
• Charlie creates a line of recreational drugs out of mixtures of cleaning supplies, but Dennis/Dee do not want to allow him to sell them alongside their drugs
• Explores the topics of drug legalization and harm reduction

Episode 5 - The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 8

• They decide to go in the opposite direction this time: every character is portrayed by an actor in race-changing makeup
  • Riggs: Terrell (from S1E1 The Gang Gets Racist)
  • Riggs's wife: Dee
  • Murtaugh: Mac
  • Chief Lazarus: Frank
  • Don Cheadle: Dennis
• Their logic is that if everybody gets offended, then nobody gets offended
• In a confusing effort to appear "racially ambiguous", Charlie appears as a character in full camouflage body paint
• Frank insists he needs to be painted a solid bold red color in order to accurately depict "redface". Everybody else tries to explain that Americans just have a slightly more red "tint" to their skin tone, not that they have literal red skin
• The frame story involves the gang shopping the film around to various "free speech absolutist" platforms to cover distribution, as it keeps getting removed from every mainstream platform they upload it to
• The Lethal Weapon narrative involves stopping the eco-terrorist pedophile Don Cheadle
• Don Cheadle was chosen as the villain because the gang wants to get back at him for what he did to Lethal Weapon 7

Episode 6 - DJ Spacebar

• The bar stays open later and later into the night until the gang realizes that they are basically running a basement rave every weekend
• Charlie finds himself part of a friend group of kids taking whatever drugs they can get their hands on
• Dennis enjoys choosing the music
  • The young crowd reacts poorly to his '80s trash
  • He ends up browsing SoundCloud and finds a bunch of remixes of '80s hits. The kids love it and (not knowing any better) assume they are Dennis's own original tracks
  • Dennis begins touring as DJ Spacebar with Frank as his manager
    • Charlie does not understand the name Spacebar, assumes they mean they are rebranding Paddy's as a space themed bar. When he is told that spacebar is a key on a keyboard, he assumes they are referring to a musical keyboard and insists they are wrong
  • Dennis now has a steady flow of underage victims to sexually assault
  • At a boat party he is playing at, everything comes metaphorically crashing down as the accusations roll in and he is cornered in a sort of reverse "implication"

Episode 7 - The Gang Mans Up

• Dennis and Charlie join an alpha male boot camp
  • Mac does not join, because he believes he is already alpha male enough, but knows somebody else who he can help in manning up
• Carmen is pressured into detransitioning by Mac
  • She wears a fake beard and men's clothes, but that is basically the extent of her efforts
• Dee protests Pennsylvania's archaic public decency laws, spending the entire episode topless
  • In reality, she is just trying to show off her breast implants

Episode 8 - The Gang Gets Cancelled

• Each of the main characters dies in some comedic/ironic way.
• The deaths all occur offscreen. Except for Frank's death, the gang is too wrapped up in their individual plotlines to notice the others have died. We (the audience) find out about each death via things occurring in the background (TV newsreel, etc.)
• There are no personal metaphors in the way in which each character dies. They are just funny
• We also see a number of characters who have had their lives ruined by the gang, and how their lives get better after the gang dies
  • Roxy had actually survived after being left for dead in the hallway, and she is now thriving
  • Cricket becomes Pope
  • The Lawyer gets a cybernetic eye and his wife back
  • The Waitress
  • The Watier
  • Dumpster Baby
  • Brian Jr.
  • Not-Bruce
  • Juarez family
  • Brad Fisher
  • Art Sloan
  • Principal MacIntyre
  • Prudence LeFevre
  • Psycho Pete
  • Mike the stripper
• Deaths
  1. Before the events of the episode, Frank dies during an autoerotic asphyxiation session
  2. Excited by the news of Frank's death, Dee takes off on a solo road trip to claim some heirloom. She dodges all sorts of stereotypical road trip dangers (crazy hitchhikers, serial killer at a truck stop, dangerous road conditions, etc.). When she arrives at her destination, she finds that the heirloom does not actually exist because Frank had just been lying about it. When Dee cannot get her car started, she ends up stranded there and starves.
  3. While meeting with a taxidermist to stuff Frank's dead body, Charlie steps in a bear trap and bleeds out
  4. Dennis takes ownership of Frank's empire of shell companies. He becomes listed as the head of some health insurance shell company, and an unsatisfied customer kills him
  5. Worried about his own father getting old, Mac intentionally gets imprisoned in an attempt to be able to spend quality time with him. After finding out that the prison that he was sent to was not the prison where Luther is detained, Mac gets shanked for disrespecting a fellow inmate.

• Kinesis Advantage360 Professional
• Kensington SlimBlade Pro

Modifications:

• I remapped the Kinesis to Colemak layout, both in the firmware and by just swapping around the physical key caps. I do not necessarily mind the fact that the lighter home row keys are now out of place.
• I used a tiny dab of hot glue on each half of the Kinesis to add tactile homing bumps
• On the function layer of the Kinesis, I set the T, S, and R keys to left click, middle click, and right click (respectively). I do not use the buttons on the Kensington at all; I just make use of its trackball for pointing/scrolling, then click with the Kinesis
• I tented the Kensington using a double magnetic ring phone stand. I also placed a sheet of scrap metal under the desk mat to help keep the magnetic stand in place

I tend to have a very pointer-heavy workflow, so it is important to me to have an efficient pointing solution. Because of that, I do prefer my Svalboard with its integrated trackballs situated just millimeters away. But this is a sufficient secondary setup that has the bonus of being wireless.

S4E2 "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis"

My numpad had been operating just fine, but I decided to customize it a bit on https://keyboard.frame.work/ just to try out VIA and see what I can do with it. Now, every time the laptop wakes or boots, the numpad malfunctions. There is no backlight, and keypresses are not registered. In VIA, the numpad appears blank (as in the attached image). I have tried to fix it by reverting the few changes I had made in VIA, but that did not help. I can temporarily resolve the issue by:

1. Navigating to a different layer in VIA. Not actually activating the layer on the keyboard or anything; just clicking a layer in the VIA user interface (without making a change) is apparently enough to make it start registering keypresses.
2. Changing the backlight mode to "breathing". As I am not a fan of that lighting effect, I can then change it to "off", at which point the backlight will just be solidly lit like normal.

After doing these two things in VIA, the numpad starts working as expected again, but goes back to misbehaving again the next time I shut my laptop.

Any idea what is happening here? Are there supposed to be more Backlight Effect options than just "Breathing" and "Off"? Can I just revert the numpad back to the stock firmware or something to fix this permanently?

I seem to have resolved the issue, thanks to yessikg@fedia.io below!

https://knowledgebase.frame.work/keyboard-firmware-update-framework-laptop-16-r1LayV4Age

1. Follow the "Erase Firmware and Settings" steps. I could not see the erase_flash.uf2 file that it mentions anywhere, but I found flash_nuke.uf2 here (https://github.com/Pwea/Flash-Nuke) which worked for me.
2. Follow the "How to update with other OS (UF2)" instructions. In step three, instead of holding "left and right ALT keys", to reset the numpad (like I am trying to do), I needed to hold 1 and 6.
3. Open VIA and do the "navigate to other layer and change backlight mode" thing that I mentioned above.

After doing that, my numpad is now still working as expected when waking from sleep!