Tom742 [they/them, any]

Work emails have to be “dumbed down” to get co-workers to respond.

If I send the fully detailed email I want to, explaining what the situation is, what actions I need them to take and why, I get ghosted 9/10 and have to waste time getting their attention.

If instead I send one sentence emails I can at least get a response and back and forth conversation going. The majority of my co-workers have difficulty parsing anything more than like 2 paragraphs for relevant info.

Dead Space UI is my jam, more of that please

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I think you just explained to me why the only Sonic game I’ve liked is Sonic 2. I had that one for GBA so I was constantly replaying the same levels. Recently I picked up Sonic Mania, struggled through the first 3 levels exactly once and haven’t wanted to play it since

On some level I think society feels it has to hit the gas hard on misogyny during a girls transition into womanhood, just to really rub it in and cement that stuff early on, so they get an outsized proportional response of that hatred.

Whenever generative AI (or whatever, could be the climate driven death of slop) has completely replaced the need to use actual live child actors we’ll look back at Hollywoods use of child actors as straight up barbarism and child exploitation of the worst kind.

Typo, fixed, thank you!

the PhD that wrote this should get kicked in the mouth every morning for a month

Pretty much. The more hollow I make my communications with NT’s lately, the better reception and response I get, but I honestly feel like I’m being rude for not trying to relate.

Fox Engine is incredible and it’s a shame only a couple games were made with it.

Hadn’t thought about the pushing people online aspect, I think we’ve known for a while what the negative effects are but not until now has it become so pervasive we can see the effects en mass

It’s such an interesting design. Brand new they have really good precision, especially closer to the neutral position which is something even modern joysticks struggle with. But the design basically eating itself alive is a death note for those controllers.

If you ever get a chance, some folks used to make steel bowls to replace the plastic ones and prevent the grinding issue and those controllers are just

Sure am glad the industry seems to be moving to Hall Effect as standard tech now though

Do you think it’s just ingrained contrarianism that causes this? I’m always amazed when the narrative flips on a dime like that and all memories of the previous one seem to get erased to them.

America (western culture in general?) is quite literally reverting to superstition based analysis, all vibes no critical reasoning.

How is this anchor not embarrassed reading this out by realizing he’s basically sitting in the middle of the burning house Sagan noticed some hooligans were torching decades ago. The institution he is intrinsically part of is exactly the one called out.

Some real cognitive dissonance

One of the white house press conferences, iirc when asked about shooting these down they said that it’s up to the discretion of local law enforcement or something like that. Wild if New Jersey police shoots down a passenger plane because of this

Honestly, Hank is one of my least favorite King of the Hill Characters and that’s one of my favorite comfort shows.

Just one example, in season 1 Peggy is invited to a Boggle tournament, where upon checking into the hotel Hank is mortified to learn that the reservation is under Mrs. Peggy Hill, so the clerk refers to the reservation as such and he loses his absolute shit that he’s called Mr. Peggy Hill

“Peggy married me, I didn’t marry her”

Bobby and Luanne are my favorites

At a summer camp they had the motto Chert Hurts and I fell while running and still have a scar on my knee. My question is, do you have any Chert facts? Seems like it’s just silica and nothing special, but it does hurt.

Really appreciate your in depth answers, especially the effort post on glaciation. That was a satisfying read!

“Moscow”

No creativity, their brains are mush

Noise also has a thing on us - we can't continue thinking our thoughts, and I've realized it can be a trigger to my anger.

This was such a huge realization for me. Is there a name for this?