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by paweluchorczak

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Three facts about me:

Like most people, my email address does not include my name, but some random words that seemed fun when I made it many many years ago.

When prompted to name the player character in a computer game, I will usually default to a name I actually use; either Derin, or some other name I've used online.

I have a soft spot for "meta" games.

Fellow players of these games have probably already seen where this is going, but for those who don't play them, these games have a handful of tricks that they use when they want to be all artsy and play with the game/IRL wall. One of their favourites is to have a character reveal they know who you are by addressing you directly by name, not the character.

Which they acquire from your account that you're playing the game on.

Which, if you're like me and never bothered to set up your Steam profile properly, is NOT a name you actually use (you gave that one to the character, they've already been calling you a name you use) but defaults to the random silly phrase in your email account.

Which means that I am constantly in situations that are basically akin to sitting across the table from a mob boss while he says very seriously, "it's good to know that we can do business together, Samuel... or should I say... flibbertygibbet?"

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love that game changer just keeps bringing in more people at every opportunity. hi yes these people are here to yell at you and then breakdance if you succeed. we just like paying people

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i’m sick and tired of people pretending that burger isn’t delicious just to clown on americans. america deserves the ridicule, but why’s burger catching strays? burger did nothing wrong

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LUFFY vs. CROCODILE ONE PIECE fan animation in risograph, by animator & illustrator, Zack Lydon

A tribute to ONE PIECE in risograph, with 354 frames of animation printed in Mahogany, Sunflower, Mint, and Fluorescent Orange ink on 15 sheets of Mohawk Superfine paper

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"What do you want from a remake" I DON'T WANT THEM. I DON'T WANT ANOTHER SOULLESS NOSTALGIA-FILLED CASH-GRAB. I DON'T WANT ANY OF THEM. I DON'T WANT ADAPTATIONS THAT KILL THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE OF THE THING THEY WERE BASED UPON NEITHER THE SHOT-BY-SHOT DESATURATED RECREATIONS. I WANT ORIGINAL STORIES!!! NOT REMAKES OF MOVIES THAT AIN'T EVEN 30 YEARS OLD!!!​AAGGGGGHHH

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One of my favorite historical tidbits is that Arab traders, for centuries, fooled Europeans into thinking cinnamon came from a rare, vicious and fearsome cinnamon bird.

The belief was so prevalent, in fact, that the mythical cinnamon bird shows up in the writings of Herodotus and Aristotle, all the way into medieval European manuscripts where it’s illustrated in all its fierce, cinnamony glory:

Pliny the Elder expressed skepticism of the bird in his writings, rightly assuming that it was a tale invented to keep control on the trade and prices by reducing competition, but the belief was already so widespread that it persisted in many areas into the early 1300’s.

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cant sleep because im thinking about this tiktok

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A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"

"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.

"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.

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Being the only bi cis guy amongst almost exclusively trans friends and peers is wild because in theory its like im living in a horny manga where all of a dudes friends turn into hot babes, but in reality they are hunting me like the last bison on the prairie. 5 years ago I mentioned bionicle and one of them asked when I was starting estrogen.

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the years have made me weird and strange to talk to. but still i must post

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The Bacchante, 1853 Jean-Leon Gerome (detail)

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screaming

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american puritan names have nothing on the first name of this 17th century dutch woman artist i just read about. my girl Tesselschade ('texel damage') named after the shipwrecking of her father's 44 trade ships on the coast of the island Texel in 1593.