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I grew up in St. Louis. Place is very Catholic. Now that it's likely the Pope is a Cubs fan, I wonder if a lot of folks in STL are having their faith shook.

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Just listened to a thing about how even more companies that are often advertised on Youtube/podcasts are pretty much always trash if they aren't outright scams. I've heard this so much about so many of these that my default position is that anything advertised by anyone (no matter how otherwise awesome that creator might be) is not worth buying.

But this one was interesting. He compared Factor_ meals to Lean Cuisines you can buy at your supermarket and it really brought into stark contrast how bad a deal you're getting with Factor. It made me wonder why normal-ass products can't just give money to these folks to advertise for them instead.

Let my favorite podcasters tell me about the newest variety of Fruit Loops. "This episode brought to you by Hillshire Farm turkey. You don't have to subscribe to it indefinitely, it's at your grocery store right now. Put that shit on a sandwich. Now with sodium levels slightly lower than a lethal dose." "This podcast brought to you by Folgier's fake coffee. And now, ladies and gentlemen, Rockapella!"

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What if Severance ended the way Newhart did?

Mark gets knocked out by something in the final episode, then wakes up in a bed, turns on a light and we see him laying next to Amy Poehler. He's all "Leslie, I just had the weirdest dream..."

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I used to work Nintendo Consumer Services, and some of the old stuff they had in that database was wild. One thing that stood out to me was a note in their database for the Game Boy Camera. It had a strange feature marked "Run" that would just show a somewhat unsettling image on the screen accompanied by appropriately unsettling music with the text "Who are you running from?" Odd stuff.

Naturally, folks would have called in wondering, "what the hell is this?" The response from the rep should just be that it was just for fun and displayed a "humorous" photo. But underneath was a note just for the reps asking them if they find another use for this feature to please report it. That suggested to me that even the folks at Nintendo of America were a little puzzled as to why this feature was included.

Only hotline veterans can handle the wiggling penis calls. (Electronic Gaming Monthly #181, Aug. 2004)

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Rare officially licensed 2017 "Mario and Luigi in pocket" T-shirt from Japan. The pocket is styled after a Warp Pipe, which the Mario Bros. are emerging out of.

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Welcome to Jakob's apt. He painted it and made most of the furniture himself. The living room furniture and shelving are amazing.

This is fantastic. I love the colors.

He also made the lamp.

The dining area- love the table.

Pretty kitchen.

So many beautiful pieces.

And, finally the bedroom. What a cool bed.

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>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

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Artist: TVERD lo-fi

Motion loop art

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I told u idiot 🐈😺

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by Howen

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Various audio snippets of my childhood that I've collected.

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artist: cameos

Hear my new vaporwave song here

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artist: dreamfibre

Hear my new vaporwave song here

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Hi everyone, I don't know if this will actually reach anyone, but I figured I'd give this a shot. I host a podcast called SNEScapades where my friend Emmy Zero and I are trying to talk about every SNES game that came out in North America. We've actually been at this awhile. We didn't put out a lot of episodes the last few months, but we're getting back into it. We're talking about Clay Fighter, Out to Lunch, and Ranma 1/2 Hard Battle this time.