cerebralhawks

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it unusual if I am a woman but I do not smell "fishy" down there?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  People who say this are idiots.

  I had a good friend about 30 years ago who kept telling me vaginas smell like “tuna and bologna.” I didn’t pick up on it at first, but later realised he was saying this for his little sister’s benefit — who he hated, for some reason. (I liked her. She was a sweet girl. Took me way too long to realise he was just an arsehole.) I haven’t been with a lot of women, but I’ve since learned he’s wrong. I’ve never been with a woman who “smells fishy.” (He got his payoff eventually, he got her to blurt out “my pussy doesn’t smell like that!” in front of their mother, and we got sent away, I assume she at least got scolded. I wish I’d had the imagination (and the guts) to tell him hers really didn’t smell like that… partly to see how long it would take him to get it.) (We were not friends long. I couldn’t be friends with a guy who treats women or girls like that.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows copying Mac feature, but only in certain apps⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  On Mac or Windows? I’ve never had backwards scrolling on Windows.

  Apple calls it “natural scrolling” and it’s kind of sublime on a MacBook, with the track pad. With a mouse it feels like shit for some reason. I guess opinions differ, but as a seasoned Windows user, I didn’t like “natural” scrolling. When I roll the wheel, I assume the bottom part is on the page where the cursor is, so as I roll down with my finger, the bottom of the wheel is rolling up, pushing the page up, scrolling down. That makes sense and now I can’t visualise why it’s fine the other way with a track pad, but it is. I have no justification for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows copying Mac feature, but only in certain apps⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if maybe it’s coming to the rest of Windows later. Microsoft 365 is a subscription service, so maybe it’s a test pilot thing?

  People who use Macs at home most likely use Windows at work, if they use a computer at work. There are some jobs that do use Macs, but like usage outside of work, it’s a lower percentage.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 517 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, Halo… the main image that showed up in my feed looked almost like part of Mass Effect 1, but the vehicle wasn’t right.

  Same generation, but Mass Effect has a remaster, Legendary Edition. It’s been on sale on Xbox for $6 USD a couple times (what I paid for it)… and that’s for all three.

  While I suppose they are technically three games, the intended use of the product is for you to import your clear save from the previous one to start 2 and 3. Your decisions from previous ones carry forward, even minor choices in the first one playing out in the third one.

  For straight shooting, Halo wins, particularly against Mass Effect 1 and 3, but I think Mass Effect 2’s shooting was competitive to shooters contemporary to it. Though, it and 3 are a bit more like Deus Ex or Star Wars where you have tech/magic stuff you can do in addition to the guns. I tend to stick to pistols and assault rifles, but I’m known to throw a bit of magic here and there, especially the ones that eat shields.

  As far as Halo, I only completed the first one (and did it on PC with keyboard/mouse). Played the first couple maps of the third one on Xbox, never could get the hang of it though. Only single player, never multi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are skin readings a thing when it comes to psychics?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone posted a similar thing a couple days ago, except it was a guy who posted. Said he was 15. Said they asked for the exact same thing.

  Sounds like a scam they’re running on social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the longest, hardest fantasy rpg out there?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hack, or its modern incarnation, NetHack. (No relation to the .hack comment. That’s a game based on an anime. Hack is a Roguelike from the 1980s, came out shortly after Rogue itself, follows a very similar format, and is arguably if not definitively the oldest true Roguelike currently developed. I mean, you can get NetHack on iOS and Android, not to mention all modern computers, and it still looks like it’s running on UNIX in the 1970s. ASCII art and all. Though there are “tile sets” that give it graphics, the original does not have any [graphics] to speak of (aside from the icon, I suppose). You are the @ symbol (well, that’s the symbol for humans), floors are periods/full-stops, walls are dashes and pipes and plus symbols for corners, dirt paths are pound/hashtag, and most monsters are letters (and uppercase is not the same as lowercase; d is dog and D is dragon, IIRC).

  It’s a procedurally generated game. You start on floor 1 of a dungeon, and you have to find stairs down (>) and advance to the 35th or 37th (I forget) floor, at which point the Amulet of Yendor has a chance to spawn. The game is won when you exit the dungeon via the first floor. The bad ending is doing it without the Amulet (including right at the start!). You live a long life in obscurity. The good ending is exiting with the Amulet, in which case you live a long life, rich and famous. If you die, you get a tombstone showing what you accomplished. And you can potentially leave a ghost behind which you can fight in later runs (and get all those items if you defeat it).

  The game is based on D&D, so you can level up. It’s also based on Tolkien lore, and there are a ton of neat things you can do (for example, engraving the name Elbereth, IIRC, into a floor space means certain enemies treat that space like a wall. Walking over it gives them a chance of being able to pass over it. It’s also turn based, you pause the game by not doing anything. Time only advances when you move. Hunger is also a thing, so you have to find food, or eat what you kill (some enemies are poisonous, and some give you perks, like eating a Floating Eye sounds disgusting, but you can see life forms through walls from pretty far away.

  Did I mention the game is 100% free? And actively developed?

  www.nethack.org/common/index.html ← Latest version released February 2023. So not actively actively develped, but updated more recently than, well, most games in this thread! Considering this is a game from the 1980s, that’s pretty impressive! They’re still fixing bugs and adding features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the longest, hardest fantasy rpg out there?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that the PS2 game they split into four parts and put an OVA DVD in each one, and charged $50 for each? If so, I only played the first one, and it was not hard. But, I only played a quarter of the full game.

  For anyone who hasn’t heard of .hack, it was an anime series that famously inspired Sword Art Online (first a book series, then an anime, and later it had games of its own). .hack was an original animation, meaning it wasn’t based on a manga or light novel, like most anime. It itself was an amalgamation of existing MMORPG tropes, based around a loner who couldn’t log out of the system. But SAO copied .hack wholesale, though SAO fans argue that the author of the SAO books, Reki Kawahara, merely started writing the SAO books while .hack was airing and didn’t actually watch it, despite being a Japanese citizen and professing to love both anime and RPGs. But of course he never watched a show that merged him, and all the exact similarities between his books and that anime are entirely coincidental. In fact, the writers of .hack may have read his stories and used them to steer the direction of their show! /s (if the sarcasm wasn’t obvious).

  I mean, don’t get me wrong. SAO is way better than .hack. The books, the anime, and the movies. (The games are trash, though. I got one on sale for like ten bucks and feel like I got ripped off.) There are over 2 dozen books in the main series, to say nothing of the spinoffs, and the first 17-18 of those books have been made into audiobooks, featuring the lead voice actors from the anime. Someone optioned the series to make a Hollywood movie of it, but nothing’s ever been announced and that option may have expired by now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good games to play while sick?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I’m sick I often get nauseated, almost like vertigo. So my answer is none of them.

  If I’m not nauseated, any of them. I play a lot of low-impact, easy games. Animal Crossing on the Switch is both of those, until you see a knee-high tarantula! (They are in the game and are big because they’re not to scale, like most of the bugs. They run away from you though… unless you have a net out, in which case they will attack! You can’t die in AC though, they just knock you out and you wake up in front of your house, no harm no foul.)

  I play Blue Prince on Mac and on Xbox (it’s also on PlayStation and PC). It’s a puzzle game, kind of a deck-building (but not really) building game (also not really). It’s pretty unique. I absolutely suck at it, but I like taking a run every other day or so. It’s fun to fail at. You have to get to the 46th room of a house, but its 9x5 grid resets every day, and as you come to a door, you choose the room to “build” (or blueprint, the name is a pun) and when you run out of moves, you call it a day and try again the next (in-game) day. It’s weird but it’s pretty chill. There’s one scene where you think there will be a jump scare, but it never happens (entering the Security Room).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney says Google AI infringes copyright “on a massive scale”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, absolutely. I’m just saying that now that it’s out there, it’s going to be on the others whether they like it or not. And they’d have a leg to stand on if they were against AI. But they’re not. They’re working with AI.

  I really do get what you’re saying, but what people need to realise about AI is, it doesn’t care about rights. AI is trained off of thousands if not millions of works of art, mostly without permission, let alone compensation. This would be true of Disney IPs even if they weren’t working with AI. But since they are, since they’ve opened that door, it removes the moral concern the rest of us have, coming from the point of view of the artists who were never given a choice, let alone a cheque. We can’t feel sorry for Disney having other AI companies use their characters when it’s used characters from independent artists without even asking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has trouble studying⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s wild is the Reddit app was based on an older app, Alien Blue. Or so I’ve heard, I never used Alien Blue. It was supposed to be the best Reddit app, but it was only on iOS.

  Then Apollo was the best Reddit app, and it, too, was only on iOS. However, after the purge, the author posted the source code, and, I’m not a programmer, but Voyager looks and acts just like Apollo — and it’s on Android as well. (I use Mlem on iOS, but I use Voyager on Android.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s funny, because a selling point of the Switch 2 version of Animal Crossing is that not only can you talk to other players, but you can connect the webcam and see each others’ faces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney says Google AI infringes copyright “on a massive scale”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like once they open that door, they shouldn’t get to decide who walks through it. Either they support AI using their characters, or they don’t. I mean, they’re certainly well within their rights to say none of them can do it, and I would support that if that was the way they went, but no, they said one company could use their IP to train its data. It’s a rat race. They’re all going to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has trouble studying⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Their site always worked better with other peoples’ code.

  I wonder what would have happened if they just hired those people instead of trying to accuse them of blackmail?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but Tom Nook doesn’t run the store anymore, his nephews do. Tom Nook is offering two home storage upgrades, I think 7500 items, and 9000 items. (Yes, it should have been 9,001 for the meme.) They aren’t saying, but the last couple storage upgrades came with perks of some kind. A new recipe unlocked. One was the storage shed, which lets you access your home storage anywhere on the island (hint: keep one in inventory, plop it down wherever, it’s a Bag of Holding, essentially). Though I think that was the first storage upgrade.

  But yes, the store, Nook’s Cranny, should get an upgrade. So should the tailor’s, though I’d argue it is upgraded. There should be a base model that only sells the clothes on display. And, once you’ve received all of Sable’s gifts (the patterns, from talking to her and getting past her mean streak), that should unlock the tailor’s shop as we know it now, with the fitting room and the online component.

  That’s how I’d upgrade Nook’s Cranny, actually. A way to buy all the variations (or at least unlock them in catalogue) of an item, or buy more stuff that they don’t show on the floor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s weird because the DS family had mics, and a fair few games took advantage.

  Hotel Dusk: Room 215 wins it for me for games that took advantage of the DS’s unique hardware features, but I’m sure there were other contenders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Razer Kishi. That’s what I have — but mine only supports Android (I have one of each). It’s USB-C, but doesn’t support my iPhone 16 Pro Max. That being said, if your controller is recognised by iOS, it should work. I use the 8bitdo controller that looks like a Super NES controller, only it has analogue sticks and a second set of triggers (like a PlayStation controller). Works great.

  But yes, since Apple revamped the Files app, every app that exposes its files to iTunes/macOS should have its files accessible right in Files, and you can move from the app folder to the download folder and vice-versa. It still isn’t as open as Android, but functionally, it’s just as good. I have no problem moving files between my iPhone and either my Android phone, or my wife’s. What you really need for this is an app that will set up a file host, and that app also needs to expose its files to the Files app. Have one host, have the other connect to it, two-way communication over WiFi. No AirDrop needed, they just have to both be on the same WiFi network (could be one’s hotspot).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally no iOS restrictions on Delta.

  Okay, say we’re standing face to face and I’m showing you my iPhone. I swipe between library pages showing you my games. I go into Final Fantasy III and show you a 50 hour save. Then, to your astonishment, I swipe up to Home, then uninstall the app. “But your save!” you say, but I’m just smiling. I go into the App Store, re-download Delta. I show you my empty library. Then I go to sign into Google Drive, turning my back for privacy. I turn back and show you I’m hitting Enter/Submit/Log In/whatever. We watch as my games repopulate the library. I open Final Fantasy III. My save is intact.

  You’re excited. You want Delta too. So you download it on yours. You have the games at home and you’ll load them up later, but you wanna get some time in on Super Metroid right now. So I scroll down to it, long press it, and tap AirDrop. You swipe down, long-press your connections widget, tap AirDrop, and change it to “Everyone for 10 minutes.” Your iPhone shows up, and I AirDrop you the game. Your iPhone receives it, and it opens in Files. You tap on it, it gives you the option to open it in Delta. It’s now in your library. And backed up to your Google Drive account, if you set that up.

  Android guys have some better options than Delta, for sure, but they also kinda wish they had Delta.

  Delta emulates only Nintendo and only up to the NDS. That said, as a Super NES gamer, you should be aware of better ports on later systems. Most notably IMO, Zelda 3 on Super NES vs Four Swords on GBA. Four Swords is a multiplayer thing, but it also includes Zelda 3 but with better translation, widescreen support, a better inventory, updated translations, and some other fixes. Of course, if you’re running a JP Zelda 3 1.0 for exploits and speed runs, well, that’s different. (You can do that, too.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically, the best parts of the Animal Crossing 3.0 update are free. The hotel, which is based on the Happy Home Paradise DLC (which is $25), is free. The bonus features are mostly free. The ones locked behind the $5 Switch 2 Edition upgrade mostly require Switch 2 hardware, like mouse control, higher resolution, and the party/multiplayer bonuses. And being able to call villagers by name. I though the Switch 1 had a mic, too, but I’m not sure. Maybe it does and that feature will be available on both Switches, but the video made it seem like it would just be for the Switch 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, I just don’t think the Switch.2 will be where they launch it. While I’m not one of those guys who says the Switch is a minor iteration, I do say it’s a necessary iteration but still just a Switch. It’s just the 2025 Switch. Bigger, more powerful, mouse mode, higher resolution, some nice stuff to have… but it’s still a Switch.

  Thinking about Animal Crossing releases, did the 3DS XL or New 3DS get a new Animal Crossing? Pretty sure it was just New Leaf, and Welcome Amiibo was sold on the eShop. Did the DS Lite or DSi get a new Animal Crossing, or was it just always Wild World (or City Folk, the other being NGC or Wii)?

  I don’t doubt they’re working on a new Animal Crossing, but I don’t think it will be on the Switch.

  It might also matter if you could get something closer to Animal Crossing on computers or rival consoles. Similar games exist but they aren’t that similar. I think Stardew Valley is the main one, but the recent Disney game would be a contender, too. And the Hello Kitty one. But Nintendo knows they don’t have any competition in the space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not making a new Animal Crossing for the Switch 2. They’re making a free hotel add on for New Horizons that is the DLC but toned down. And adding multi crafting and strafe terraforming. Oh and mouse controls and the ability to call villagers via the mic for the Switch 2. $5 for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the Razer one. It said it was for Android, and I do have an Android phone, and it basically works, but back then, iPhones were using Lightning. For whatever reason, it does not support iPhones. My iPhone has a bigger screen (6.9" vs 5.8") and is more powerful. The Android phone is good enough for retro emulation, of course, but iOS wins Nintendo emulation with Delta, due to the Google Drive backup feature. I have a Flygrip on my iPhone, and I have an 8bitdo Bluetooth controller that can pair to the iPhone. I think Xbox controllers can, too. My old Xbox One controller pairs to my Macs just fine. Maybe it’ll pair to iPhone.

  Fortunately RetroArch is on iOS as well. I don’t think it can use all the cores, but it can use the ones that count (like PS1 and prior). I know on Android you get all of them, including PS2, PSP, Wii, NGC, and so on. But my Android phone is a Galaxy S10 (2019), so I wouldn’t expect it to run the newer games. My iPhone 16 Pro Max is capable, but won’t run the actual cores due to iOS restrictions.

  I wonder how hard it would be to homebrew a Raspberry Pi, a custom screen, and a custom controller. Though for what you’d spend doing it (and the value of your time!) there are existing devices (mostly from China, I think) that are meant to do exactly that. But I wouldn’t know where to start with those.

  I can even play games on my Apple Watch, but you gotta think, with only one hand controlling it (assuming you’re wearing the watch), you can’t play too many games. I have Zelda, as a proof of concept, but Pokemon is far more likely.

  These days, just about anything can emulate. Not too many of them can do it well. A good example is, the original Super Mario Bros… The latency is way too high to play it like you can on original hardware, and it sucks that as advanced as our tech is, the game is virtually unplayable in any emulator. It feels like you’re playing on an ice level (like in Mario 2) almost with how slow the game is to react. We didn’t have this problem in the 80s playing on an actual NES. Even the newer Nintendo consoles are just emulating, and they are subject to the same latency issue. Even first-party Nintendo games on modern consoles can’t beat the latency. For example, on Animal Crossing — fucking Animal Crossing — fishing is impossible to do if a fish has 3 (of 5) stars of rarity or higher. The fucking second it bites, you press the button, latency got ya — you were too late. But undock the Switch and I can catch 5 star sharks, whale sharks, the fucking Coelacanth — every time. It’s a game for grade school kids. It’s not hard. But latency makes it go from “tricky” to “what the fuck why is this game so hard?” real quick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Quentin Tarantino?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. I’m not a fan of Will Ferrel’s acting, but I have nothing against him as a person. Would it be so wrong for me to say I do not enjoy his movies or his comedy, but I’d be willing to speak to the man and maybe enjoy a chat over coffee or something? He’s probably a decent person. Maybe he’s not. If I met him, I’d only treat him with respect until he taught me otherwise. Still don’t care for his movies.

  Same with Adam Sandler, but I’ve seen him actually act. Reign Over Me was the first one I saw him act well in. “Men, Women & Children” is another one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Quentin Tarantino?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Scream 3 was the bad one, IIRC — it’s only up from there!

  Whichever one gave Ghostface the super power to copy anyone’s voice. Dumb AF. And doesn’t return in the newer films.

  They’re all pretty clever, but that one was a bit daft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the US was partitioned, what new states would you want to appear?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you could call it Jesusland, taking the LORD’s name in vain and all that.

  Christchurch though? Totally acceptable. Pretty sure that’s a city in Texas. Or, take the Aramaic (language Christ spoke) word(s) for “promised land” and Anglify it.

  Anyway, which would your capitols be? I’m thinking maybe Dallas for “Jesusland” — it’s in Texas, and it’s far enough inland to miss a lot of hurricane damage that gets Houston right on the coast — and maybe keep Ottawa for USC. Except it’s not very centrally located… still might be their best bet since it exists. I sure wouldn’t put it in California (too many wildfires/earthquakes). I was kinda thinking British Columbia though (north of Washington State, bordering the Pacific). Like Vancouver maybe. Lovely area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not, as a rule, play games where my enjoyment affects others. When I do, no, I don’t cheat. The rest of the time? I’m not above taking a shortcut if it brings me more enjoyment if the product I paid for. I occasionally cheat at Animal Crossing. Look up treasure islands. I don’t abuse them but I definitely make use of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why are they pushing kpop demon hunters so badly? Who makes money off this new group?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know a lot about anime, but not as much as some. I’ve only been watching since 2013. And I know about an animated flick that’s popular with little girls, but I’m neither little (I’m in my 40s) nor female. I have a niece who’s about twice as old as your kid, but she likes any character with red hair. Or pink. I tried to get her into SPYxFAMILY (which doesn’t have any singing!) but, just because everyone’s favourite character is a four-year-old with pink hair and big green eyes, doesn’t mean the show is made for four year olds. It’s set in 1960s Germany, albeit with fictional place names, but it’s the whole East vs West, Spy Vs Spy kinda thing, except the spy needs a child to get to a reclusive rival who only ever attends school events for his young son. So he adopts this girl, but anime plot twist, she has pink hair and is telepathic (also dumb as a box of rocks). So it’s a comedy. Then he needs a wife, for the mission, and “marries” an assassin — from the other side. It’s PG-13 at best but there are a lot of gun fights, and the “mama” fights with knives. There is some blood but it’s not graphic. It’s nothing compared to what I grew up with, so I’d say it’s fine. Not all the episodes are about the kids, but a lot of them are, and the kids are pretty realistic, like how they bicker and plot and make up by the end of the day, and have their little cliques and whatnot.

  As far as traditional cartoons for toddlers… I have no idea. Kids these days play Roblox and Fortnite on tablets. I don’t know what they watch on their own.

  If you want more anime recommendations though, I can help with that. Also I wouldn’t mention something if it wasn’t in English. I watch mostly in Japanese with subtitles, but obviously that wouldn’t work for a 4 year old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why are they pushing kpop demon hunters so badly? Who makes money off this new group?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not actually a group, it’s just a movie. And they weren’t pushing it. Netflix released it thinking it wouldn’t go anywhere, and it took off. That’s why there isn’t a lot of merch for it (and it’s just now coming out), because they didn’t expect it to take off like it did. Now they’re pushing merch and kicking themselves for not doing it sooner. Now they’re pushing it to try to meet demand. It’s largely being pulled by grade school girls and young adults.

  As for “new group,” I’d say you’re confusing KPDH with 22/7, only most people don’t know what 22/7 is. 22/7 is a Japanese pop group who have an anime which tells a fictional tale of a mysterious wall that spits out cards with orders that people follow, eventually creating an idol group to win the hearts and minds of the people. But 22/7 is an actual group that records music and releases it. Their best song isn’t even in the anime — it was released after.

  With KPDH, it’s just a movie, though if the producers and whatnot were smart, they’d take the three singers who do the singing voices of the HUNTR/X girls, and have them record together… like 22/7 do. So by the time the next movie comes out, they’ve already had a couple albums out, and this can play into the lore of the new film. EJAE (Rumi) is a K-Pop star in her own right, but they don’t have to write songs. The pop industry has for decades had other people write songs for the performers. (The other two are also singers, none of them are very good on their own, though it’s subjective, but the other two are quite unlike HUNTR/X, with a lot of explicit stuff. Not something you want your grade school daughter looking into.) (They should also do the same with the Saja Boys.) (Of course, if KPDH has you jonesing for K-Pop, you could just listen to BTS if you like the boys, and Blackpink if you like the girls, then branch out from there. Or K/DA if you like cartoon bands — they did music for League of Legends, before Jinx/Arcane were the focus. K/DA is probably the most similar to HUNTR/X as far as I can tell.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people who have bad relationship with their parents care about "insults" like "I fucked your mom last night"? Or do you just not care?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, we don’t. My response to that would be something like, “damn, that’s why she sounded so disappointed. We hadn’t spoken in a few weeks, so I know it wasn’t me this time… it sounded like she got some bad dick, thanks for providing context I suppose.”

  Or if it were in passing/in person, maybe something more short and to the point like “she told me, said it wasn’t the worst she had, nor the smallest, but definitely the saddest.”

  Or maybe just “I’m sorry, you should go get tested.”

  Wouldn’t bother me in the least.

  I don’t have a “bad” relationship with my mother, but a joke like that is hardly worth considering. Might as well have some fun with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but Apple has a history of doing that. They dropped support for Motorola chips in the PowerPC era. They dropped support for PowerPC chips in the Intel era. And they’ve started dropping Intel chips in the Apple Silicon era. They keep reinventing the Mac to stay current. Meanwhile, Windows supports stuff going way back regardless of it being updated to support the newest stuff. Except Microsoft decided to try a similar thing, but also kinda not really? I mean, you can run Windows 11 on 7th gen Intel (I was running it on a 4th gen Xeon), they just don’t want you to.

  At least with Apple you know what you’re getting, and it’s a lot more secure and stable for it.

  Besides, I wouldn’t expect someone with a perfectly good PC to throw it out and get a Mac. I’d suggest they run Linux instead. It’ll run better than Windows, too. But if your computer is dead, dying, or on its way there, I do suggest Mac as a perfectly good alternative.

  No one’s really running computers for 20+ years, except the government. For whatever dumb ass reason.