Birb Queen of Shonen Mountain

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

Not about Marathon, but one thing you learn real fast while teaching is that nobody has ever plagiarized once.

It's a pattern of behavior, and they get caught because they get comfortable doing it and keep getting away with it. Right up until they don't.

With Fire Red and Leaf Green on Switch now, there’s probably people playing Pokémon who have never played a classic 2D Pokémon game before, so just some advice: remember that holding down and B when throwing a Pokéball will help increase the odds of catching the Pokémon

i turned the doujinshi guide into a doujinshi

I want people who are a part of making (supposedly) mid or bad games to still be employed.

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

More info:

if anyone would like to throw some bucks my way to help with the money i've had to spend on diagnosing/treating my severe strabismus, i still have wuk lamat, sphene, and koana charms!

That one tune in Castlevania III... does it sound like a squeaky hinge, or maybe a plastic straw in a disposable cup?

Denshattack!, the train-tricking adventure by @fireshinegames.bsky.social, launches for Nintendo Switch 2 on June 17. #IndieWorld

Hiring the dregs of Liberty Law School for the DOJ is the legal equivalent of drafting 13-year-olds into the infantry

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

After 9 yeareals, it's finally my turn to post the "a thousand cereals" clip, seeing as how I'm the idiot who made it.

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

We’re just innocent men

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

schools are never valid military targets, on or off base

if someone bombed a DoD school in Okinawa and killed a bunch of American 4th graders, that would be a war crime.

The murder of Iranian schoolchildren is a war crime.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller. First panel, Nancy talking to a logger sawing a tree and pointing to a carved piece of trunk. Nancy: Can I have that piece? My boy friend carved it. Logger: Sure. Second panel, Nancy is watching the log burn in the fire place. Nancy: I'm mad at him.

Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.

having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you:

you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.

The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI
aftermath.site/gameshub-click...

Scan and translation by Flickr user "MiloScat" Panel 1: Mario: "LUIGI! YOU'VE BEEN EATING MUSHROOMS AND HIDING IT FROM ME AGAIN, HAVEN'T YOU?" Panel 2: Luigi: "SORRY, BRO... I JUST COULDN'T RESIST..." Panel 3: Mario: "I'M NOT SAYING EATING MUSHROOMS IS A BAD THING! JUST DON'T DO IT SECRETLY IN THE TOILET!" Panel 4: Zoom out to reveal Luigi is too large to exit the toilet. Mario must go urgently. Luigi: "I'M SORRY, BRO... I'M SORRY..." Mario: "IT'S ALRIGHT, JUST GET OUT OF THERE!" Please note that the original comic was already in Western left-to-right reading order. The panels are specifically numbered in the comers to indicate the correct order to readers only familiar with Japanese manga right-to-left order. Source: flickr.com/photos/miloscat/44060649174, book: Super Mario World (APE), Japan, 1990, ISBN 4-09-104192-2

"Mushrooms are drugs" jokes are a staple of Mario humor on the Internet. Not even Nintendo themselves are strangers to this, with a comic in the official Japanese Super Mario World guide using "Luigi is consuming mushrooms secretly in the bathroom" as a setup.

Most of the footage of the famous 2000 "Super Mario 128" tech demo was recorded with handheld cameras by the audience, with the presenter drowning out the game sound. Only 10 seconds of direct feed footage exist, which reveal that the sound was a cacophony of Marios screaming.

commissions open, looking to draw your pets, your dnd characters, your favorite videogame shops, and whatever else we both think sounds sick

haha space warlord baby trading simulator is so wild, imagine if we monetized suffering to that degree? crazy stuff

well now to take a big drink of coffee and read this news article about kalshi

Every Cartoon Pitch and Writer's Bible on Archive.org · Joi Massat Resources are out there...they're just not always organized in one list!

Anybody putting together a long pitch for a commercial project should check out Every Cartoon Pitch and Writer's Bible.

Unbelievably useful to see how shows move from concept to screen, esp. how writers frame characters within their settings.

I strongly encourage people feeling too much of The Doom to emotionally regulate themselves, very deliberately, if you start dipping into the despair. Being overwhelmed can quickly turn into learned helplessness and we absolutely need people to do what they can to positively impact what they can

Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees?

Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey.

The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.

roughly once a decade America ignores every single lesson of history to start a doomed, insane war with the promise of swift, overwhelming victory and ends up spending a trillion dollars on war crimes that accomplish nothing