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- Comment on Michael 4 days ago:
LOL, are you trying to keep me from derailing a shitpost thread by rehashing boring the online debate that inspired it! How dare you!!! What are you? Some kind of Michael?
- Comment on Michael 4 days ago:
Huh. Not much a part of my identity these days, but in a yes/no sense, yeah I guess so, LOL. Of course, these days most gym bros are doing some gaming too.
- Comment on Michael 4 days ago:
You provide physical inputs, which are sensitive to timing and agility, to a rule-based competition. It’s at least as much a sport as golf or curling or bowling. And I say that as someone who doesn’t find eSports particularly compelling. It requires a sophisticated technal infrastructure and doesn’t require superhuman levels of strength or endurance (though the latter in particular could be helpful), but those are merely “sliders on the configuration screen” for whether a certain sport is to your interest.
- Comment on Why was Newgrounds like this in the 2000s? 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t, but it looks interesting and even more bonkers than the movie.
- Comment on Why was Newgrounds like this in the 2000s? 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s mildly transgressive to a certain demographic, and tools and internet speeds of the day allowed for visuals that were close enough to the inspirations for people to find them interesting. Subverting “innocent” characters has been a trope since at least Tijuana bibles of the 1920s and I assume much longer. Specifically portraying beloved animated characters as adult and jaded would also have been directly evocative of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
Eventually, most of that demographic comes to realize that the transgressiveness itself is only so interesting and there is usually something of value in the interesting property that distance lets them appreciate, so a spoof needs to have other things going for it to hold an audience’s interest (e.g. Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which is still brilliant). That said, there is a certain durability to the low-hanging fruit when the subjects of the satire remain popular to continually cycling cohorts of kids who have the unmitigated gall to begin growing up. :-)
- Comment on Relieve him for he needs it 2 weeks ago:
Slurm is still better.
- Comment on paint job 3 weeks ago:
99.99% sure it is. That looks like the old classic: Lasso Select, Adjust Hue.
- Comment on Which one and why? 3 weeks ago:
One. It already looks like the sugar spoon my kid always picks first for her meals anyway.
- Comment on Trekmovie.com: Scott Bakula-Led ‘Star Trek: United’ Pitch Explores Archer’s Family, Romulan War Aftermath 4 weeks ago:
They need to make one episode in which they retcon Trip’s death in that stupid Holodeck finale, air it so it’s canon, and then immediately cancel the show because this sounds mid AF, and Archer was an ass, and Bakula has all the presidential gravitas of a single neutron.
- Comment on We need a Thomas the Tank Engine horror game 5 weeks ago:
Peak Thomas horror has already been achieved…
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, Xena has got to go. There’s no phonetic difference with Z. Xavier might be your best bet, but that’s a tough one.
- Comment on A question for the ages 5 weeks ago:
This is already settled science.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 5 weeks ago:
I certainly didn’t mean to imply imply they’re actually incorrect, just that presumably working to fix it was part of their mandate, and the frank admission that they didn’t magically fix everything is kinda darkly funny.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 5 weeks ago:
I did particularly like this:
“We did not make this organisation insolvent, it was already insolvent,” the management committee said on Sunday.
Saying that in an indignant Australian accent makes it feel like it came straight out of some antipodean cringe-humor sitcom (FYI “Fisk” is pretty good!).
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 1 month ago:
That fat PP looks a little on the short side.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 1 month ago:
Most likely, yes. I think most people do end up finding one or two smaller boards’ worth of “unicorn barf,” which is to say everything is the right shape and 95-99% have the right thing written on them, but the colors are totally random and visually jarring. I also have a few ideas that might benefit from some of the weirder caps, (like a big square that uses four keybaord switches… people seem to end up with some of those) and occasionally you’ll land on something that someone in the hobby actually does need and you can help them out. A lot of it is simply indulging a certain need to examine and categorize.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 1 month ago:
Despite the site screaming left and right that one should not count on a proper keyboard’s worth of keycaps at all, much LESS a matching set, and despite years of forum and reddit posts declaring their underwhelming nature, I still bought a 5-pound (2.27kg) sack of random keycaps from Signature Plastics in Washington state.
I just have to know, and I’m kind of unironically looking forward to sorting them like so many Lego bricks. I may even get a few that are useful for my projects.
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 1 month ago:
Thanks, Richard.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 month ago:
I learned to shoot at Boy Scout camp when I was about 13. We shot .22 long rifle and 20 gauge shotguns. Many of my friends hunted (never appealed to me) and learned even earlier.
- Comment on Where is this located? Asking for a friend... 1 month ago:
I haven’t looked it up, but having spent a lot of time in Northeast Georgia, I’m guessing the odds are pretty high that the stress on that town name is on the first syllable.
- Comment on These used to popular 1 month ago:
Yeah, but look at the switch! If God made you that way, you’d all be pissing in your faces!
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 2 months ago:
Chip
- Comment on Language model 2 months ago:
And for every single one of them, the ‘gh’ at one point described a phlegmy hissing sound. Modern English spelling is sometimes closer to Chinese than we might think.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 2 months ago:
- Comment on Uhm 2 months ago:
If you haven’t spent as much time refining the prompt as you would have to take an art class and do the medical research, have you really used the AI properly at all?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Law school can be eye-opening. Con law in particular was an interesting one. If you can make it through Marbury v Madison in your first semester of your first year and not realize that the entire American system is held together with chewing gum and baling wire and it’s a miracle it ever enabled a functional government at all, or get through Dred Scott v Sandford or Plessy v. Ferguson later on and not realize that the law should always seek justice in as far as said chewing gum and baling wire even halfway plausibly permit, then you’re either an idiot or an asshole, and probably both.
Slavish devotion to your generation’s “plain reading” of increasingly distant legalese written by – to put it euphemistically – deeply conflicted men who were indeed clever and motivated, but were also the half-educated elites of a cultural backwater, is how you end up with our current mess.
- Comment on Anyone know why this weird CD won't fit in my CD drive? 2 months ago:
Yup. Really nice bearings. I also have a few HDD magnets that work well as hold-downs for laser cutting.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 2 months ago:
The biggest biggest technology change has been the AR wall… You can’t use the camera the same way, but when you see the see the opportunity, it literally captures what the a camera is watching.
When you do it right, you get “how did they do that on a TV budget!?” When you do it wrong, you get whatever the hell THIS was.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Please select from the following:
[ ] Sir, this is a Wendy's... [ ] i ain't reading all that. i'm happy for u tho. or sorry that happened. [ ] TL; DR [ ] <Homer returning to bushes>
Thank you for your consideration.
- Comment on I did not look up how progressive lenses really work before getting some. 2 months ago:
I don’t remember exactly what I ordered, but it was from an independent shop and I think I picked the middle out of five options. I’m going to give it the full three weeks, but the narrow intermediate distance band, the swimmy effect on the near band when I move my head, and the dead zone in the lower corners are all very irritating.
The prescription itself seems spot on; it’s just how the progressive is laid out. It’s on me for not realizing that aren’t just sort of linear, but it is — well — mildly infuriating.
