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I read "Mr Gorillawhale" and I imagine this gentleman

Y'know Dracula got lucky with the fact that his name is still reasonable backwards. Imagine if Godzilla, Frankenstein, or Mothman had to do that shtick? Allizdog, Nietsneknarf, and Namhtom would not be very inconspicuous. Any you can think of that could pull it off?

I can't come up with a cogent response because I'm stuck on the mental image of Godzilla needing to adopt an alias in order to buy real estate.

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Tardigrades being known for their absurd resilience is so weird because it's like, imagine for whatever reason you were walking back to your house from the grocery store and you hurt one of your feet so bad you couldn't put it down but you decided to go on anyway because you had something important or whatever so you skip all the way on one foot; you never do this ever again (your foot heals fine) but for whatever reason this ends up on the local news, or instagram/tiktok and now you only get job offers that require you to walk on one foot only

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I think more people should suggest that he demonstrates that by sucking an exhaust pipe in his mouth with the car turned on, if we call him chicken he might even agree to it

Our president says car exhaust is safe to stop regulating, maybe he can demonstrate that for us and hot box it? :)

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Apparently some people really need to telegraph that they would shoot you if you accidentally stepped on their lawn someday

"you don't owe anyone anything" You are a tar pit. Speak for yourself. I personally owe the cafe employees my dishes put away and my friends a listening ear and small scared insects a cup and a gentle trip outside. Hyperindividualism is a rancid infection borne of capitalism and willfully misinterpreted therapyspeak and I will defy it by continuing to be kind regardless of whether or not it benefits me personally

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I don't remember who is it that once said that movie criticism has this tendency of thinking that human culture was born like 100 years ago, and video games are even more recent than that, so...

I feel really weird about Deltarune because on the one hand it is A Game rmthat Exists and therefore is to be played, but it also explicitly tells you that it doesn't want you to play it.

I think the fact that a video game criticising its own audience is perceived as bizarre and outside normal boundaries points to the fundamental immaturity of video games as a medium. (n.b.: "immature" in the sense of "undeveloped", not "childish".) It would rightly be regarded as absurd to be having this conversation about literally any other artistic medium.

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I don't know if you do know already, but this is a scene from Alluda Majaka, a movie that is probably best known exactly for this scene (which is part of a long pursuit that involves a lot of cars, and horses, being totaled in the process of capturing this man)

There are people on my dash discussing horse microaggressions.

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I can't believe they made a game about Do You Like The Color of The Sky, smh

Oh, hey. What? No, you're not interrupting – we were just about to go misinterpret the thing a meme is referring to as a reference to that meme. Did you want to come with?

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We could go on a long tangent about how bee sex and bee gender are definitely different things and the proper pronoun for workers is most likely "worker", but let's instead realize that most bees are queens who are Assigned Worker At Birth

this little freak keeps sneaking into my garden and rubbing himself all over my flowers??Hello?????

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We might be facing the future equivalent of the Voynich Manuscript already...

Realistically, the Digital Dark Age hypothesis doesn't entail a complete loss of media from the affected eras. Even if the overwhelming majority of digital media is lost, the sheer volume of digital media that's being produced means whatever tiny fraction survives in some retrievable form will represent a very large corpus. The trick is that, the ambitions of archival initiatives notwithstanding, exactly what survives in this way is likely to be a mostly random subset of all digital media, which may pose interesting challenges for future historians.

Of course, generative AI has inserted a new factor into this equation with its ability to crank out widely distributed digital content in much greater volumes than any human creator. It's unclear at this stage exactly how this is going to affect the archival situation, particularly with respect to that portion of digital media which survives by random chance, but I have to confess the idea of historians hundreds of years from now attempting to reconstruct the culture of the 2020s from a corpus of surviving digital media which consists entirely of AI-generated clickbait is at least a little bit funny.

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The narratives that best emulate the Dark Souls aesthetic are those in which you realize, in hindsight, that most NPCs who deliver exposition and explain what the hell is going on actually have no idea what they're talking about.

Typical Soulslike: You have no idea what's going on because every single person you meet is weirdly cryptic for no obvious reason.

Ideal Soulslike: Everyone would love to explain what's going on, but the first person you meet is a conspiracy theorist, the second treats all sources as equally credible, and the third is like, okay, we'll definitely get to that, but first we need to establish some context...

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As of this month I’ve been doing illustrations for the NoSleep Podcast for five years! Here are all 28 pieces of episode art I’ve done for them over the years

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"the three dots on the side" call her by her REAL NAME.. Meatballs Menu

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Hmm, yea, "foreign literature" does tend to get thrown into its own category, as if that made any sense... I've seen that and also seen foreign books get categorized "properly", so in this case these reviews are, indeed, useless. In fact, it'd be very much the same for games that are categorized by platform instead of genre (usually the case for any console that is not the current generation). Good luck figuring out what Phalanx for the SNES is about.

Who are those kind of book reviews *for* though. Who is buying just blindly buying any old book a reviewer called "brilliant" and "gripping?" Is there just like a prose fandom and they just don't even care whether what they picked up is romance or horror or autobiography or what?? Is that the literary version of people who judge a video game on the technical specs first and don't even want a storyline? It is isnt it. "The author's mastery of prose kept me glued to the page" is book speak for "I barely noticed any framerate issues"

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It is, but one must remember that the people who are persuaded by reviews of framerate issues and LODs (or, at least, those who claim to be) are not really interested in playing mobile games or walking simulators even if they are technical marvels. Books, like games, are organized in genre for commercial reasons, and readers are already going into the shelves for their expected tropes. The "gripping narrative" is basically just fluffing on top.

Who are those kind of book reviews *for* though. Who is buying just blindly buying any old book a reviewer called "brilliant" and "gripping?" Is there just like a prose fandom and they just don't even care whether what they picked up is romance or horror or autobiography or what?? Is that the literary version of people who judge a video game on the technical specs first and don't even want a storyline? It is isnt it. "The author's mastery of prose kept me glued to the page" is book speak for "I barely noticed any framerate issues"

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We could have had it all

Rolling in the deep

Like a hot dog on the ocean floor

https://fb.watch/mjDHL25iin/?mibextid=Nif5oz

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Doug Dimmadome as a lovecraftian entity

“eldritch horror beyond your comprehension” and it’s just a generic monster with tentacles and eyes