Part of what sucks about lying is that the lie lives in the world as a factual claim even for people who know that it’s a lie, and acts on them accordingly

If I go to your website and immediately see full-screen 5 second clips of people having a good time or a building under a dark background, I’m leaving your website.

A Sten, surely?

A particular big left account who's kind of a lightning rod for chud attention said it smacked of eugenicism albeit possibly unintentionally, and there were a handful of Tiktoks of very Tumblr-flavored criticism circulated. Otherwise I saw almost nothing but metadiscource.

Very concerning 10 seconds before arriving at "wait surely this is actually a video game"

one of many ironies about this is that, in Japanese, walking as a form of exercise is commonly referred to as ウォーキング, which is simply a transliteration of the English word “walking”

Replika sort of timidly gestured at it but never quite committed as far as I could tell

Felt exactly this way trying to shop for life insurance this week.

That's just one of the many valid ways to refer to butter chicken.

Not that I think it has much of anything to do with the change of admin, but eggs have actually cooled off quite a bit in DCland over the past few months. Unsure about other regions in the US.

Very concerning.

(Btw heads up in case you're not aware: these reel links are leaking your IG profile)

Still one of the most reliably available ways to get lossless music.

"Alberto san, you're like egg Sushi that came & went."
"Egg sushi that came & went?"
"Yeah, your brain left you a LONG TAMAGO."

Jack Dorsey working on Bluetooth messaging app, Bitchat | TechCrunch Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wrote in an X post on Sunday night that he spent his weekend creating an app called Bitchat (presumably a

I have been looking for an app that allows me to bitch at random people over Bluetooth my entire life, thank you Jack Dorsey for making me whole

<taps earpiece>

Hold on, I’m being told that I’m mispronouncing the name of this app

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Not unless you count the orcs as such

one of my interests is shirley temple's 1967 congressional race, which she entered with millions of dollars and higher name recognition than the pope, and lost because she was really off-putting and campaigning as a viciously pro-war candidate at the exact moment the war was becoming a big liability

Ahem, *sama*

Happy fourth!

Critically, the law isn't allowed to make evaluations based on content, but social norms absolutely can and should.

Sure but the moral/social side of things doesn't need to categorical in the way that the law does. Holistically speaking we can think of free speech as a social value served by both hard legal protections and soft norms promoting openmindedness and setting a high bar for shunning.

I would love that, especially if it included an official translation of Boktai 3, but unfortunately it sounds like the exact inverse of typical Konami behavior.

Most unique was that it took avantage of the fact that game carts have full blown ciruit boards to integrate a UV sensor that made you go outside to affect the in-game sunlight.

These days if you're emulating you can set the light level, but at the time I got to know the neighbor kid from it.

Post weird games that you love.

One of my favorite GBA games is the oscure Kojima Productions title Boktai. It has a unique apocalyptic setting that isn't overexplained, and plays very much like a 2D MGS except after every boss fight the boss needs to be hauled out of their lair and destroyed.

My best guess is he's imagining something like the debates around e.g. whether lesbians should be expected to be open to dating transwomen.

What the fuck are you talking about this shit just sucks and at no point do we have to accept that. We should absolutely be bullying companies that do this because they suck and their products suck and it all sucks

type of guy who builds an llm chatbot that responds to R questions with “learn python” and python questions with “learn R”

a man with blonde hair is wearing a white shirt with black stripes . Alt: Brandon Routh as Todd in Scott Pilgrim: “Chicken isn’t vegan?”

I mean look at Brandon Routh here before he is summarily taken down by the Vegan Police, this movie is a hoot

Brother did a fairly low key one with a ballon and confetti that was mostly an excuse to get a family party together

I think the headline editor probably half-remembered the phrase "magical thinking" but got some wires crossed and didn't double-check.