knife [any]

I hope people will be nice to them for trying at least

it fun. also really horny :volcel-judge:

yeah it is pretty good! What surprised me was how almost all the characters were compelling, except for Heimmerdinger or however it's spelled, him just constantly saying :blob-stop: without justifying himself and going :surprised-pika: when seeing poverty was really annoying.

is it still worth a read?

• give kids access to software designed to constantly undermine their attention through manipulative design. Don't blame Google OK?
• keep them at home or doing some adult supervised activity 24/7. Unsupervised play among their peers is dangerous, they could be kidnapped!
• school is just a giant prep course for a series of standardized tests. If your kid sees no point in that, though luck!
• kid can't focus/sleep/is acting out? Give them drugs!
• what do you mean this is not how humans have developed for most of their existence?
• Oh, so you want out? OK, how much cash do you have??? :porky-happy:

keep in mind I'm a dipshit who has never had to raise a kid, but things look bleak indeed.

I think this is just a consequence of people not having a name for 3d zelda-like combat (third person + lock-on + roll) until dark souls became popular. It was under the vague umbrella of "action games", which is not really helpful in describing anything. So I think it's fine, call whatever you want a dark souls/earthbound/rogue-like if you feel it's a useful shorthand.

has anyone made a parody game where the whole thing is just an endless sequence of launchers? It sounds like it should be a thing

YTA. His pizzeria, his rules!

You could get a team of, like, five enthusiasts together and they could give you something substantially more interesting in like six months.

It's called Sonic Mania

Of course it started with a gaming webcomic.

Weird snobs, it's the ghost of that old fart Roger Ebert. In a fit of arrogance, he declared games to not be art, while understanding virtually nothing of the media's history and having no actual interest in engaging with any of it, be it because he was an uncurious asshole or (more charitably) because he was already an old codger and games have too high a barrier to entry if you never picked up a controller before. So instead of trying he dropped a hot take about win states or something.

I have a childhood teddy bear that is really beat up, the paint in its eyes is completely gone, leaving just pure white, the patterns in its pajamas are faded, and there's a knot in its hat I'm seemingly unable to undo. It's kind of creepy which I think is awesome. Also a really squeaky bird puppet thingy, a panda and a lil camel with an annoying bell.

If nothing else, you can ditch the chain entirely for a “chain in spirit” where a company like Google requires you to verify things like your college diploma or your lease through a profile they have on you, with you paying a fee to have each relevant document authenticated

Yeah this is more likely. My hope is that in the event this happens, it is so ghoulish that people would disengage/look for alternatives/tell Google to go fuck themselves.

I find it unlikely that anyone would be able to estabilish web3 as it's currently envisioned. It might be a desperate bid for new markets, but I can't imagine the slow speeds and wildly fluctuating costs not crippling regular economic activity.

Maybe if they ditched the blockchain tech and only kept the finacialization aspect? But the tech mumbo jumbo serves an important purpose in obfuscating web3's actual purpose, so anyone wanting to make it happen would have to work out a new way to sell it to people. Silicon Valley is having a serious problem in general selling the public a believable, positive version of the future (apart from :melon-musk: and his bazinga brigade)

The NFT bros are primed for some fash shit for sure though. Not remotely as scary as christofash (which are already chomping at the bit for some mass violence) but still a problem.

Why does she always put "milk" in quotations it sounds cursed as hell. And what's with the blue shrimp??? Why would you do this?

Though tbh if it weren't for the price, I wouldn't judge people that like this kind of stuff, and it sounds like she had a good time because her Large Star Wars Husband had a good time, so that's fair enough. On the other hand a two night stay at the Star Wars LARP resort costing 5200 is demonic.

That's a good point. I think what bugged me is treating "it'll cost money tho" as a valid argument in and of itself

fun facts:

In response to Free­dom of Inform­a­tion Act requests, the George W. Bush Pres­id­en­tial Library turned over to the Bren­nan Center more than 500 pages gener­ated during this review and subsequent reviews in 2006 and 2008. (Another 6,000 pages were with­held in full because they are clas­si­fied.)

. . .

As with any archival exped­i­tion, the silences are often the most telling. William Arkin, a noted expert on PEADs, reviewed the new mater­i­als disclosed by the library and observed that they relate primar­ily to civil agen­cies—few, if any, touch on the role of the milit­ary in times of crisis. He suggests that this "black side" would have been discussed at a higher level of clas­si­fic­a­tion. By implic­a­tion, the most daring claims to pres­id­en­tial power may have been entirely excluded from this tranche of docu­ments.

So, what does Hexbear think are the chances Musk goes the way of Elizabeth Holmes? I'm already giddly anticipating the future documentaries making fun of him. On the other hand, nothing good ever happens so...

Not to dunk on the article too much, but it's a little disheartening that a good portion of the text is devoted to people talking about how expensive changing schools to fit these clowns stupid ideas would be. Yeah I'm sure winging about the cost is a great look when talking about a school shooting.

There's also actual points like talking about logistics, the fact that the place has to function as a school rather than an impenetrable fortress, etc. but it takes until the last fucking paragraph for someone to say the obvious, and even then it sounds so toothless:

We’re just not going to the foundation of the issue. We’re just planting a Band-Aid solution

My point is that ideally journalists should just quote Ted Cruz verbatim and follow that with a large sequence of clown emojis and call it a day, instead of taking him seriously.

I'm glad I didn't care enough even to finish the first season. The characters were annoying and the 80s setting does nothing for me.