New commission: a Muppet version of John Carpenter's THE THING featuring Kermit, Gonzo, Beaker, and a Yip-Yip! Mixed media on 9 X 12" watercolor paper. #MuppetMonday
The thing I resent most deeply about modern billionaires is that the thought of humanity exploring space used to feel exciting and now it fills me with dread.
It shouldn't have been the worst of us who first get to greet the stars in the sky.
in 2013 I saw a man get a 100,000 hour probation on the SomethingAwful forums and today I saw him come off probation and immediately pick up the same argument, quoting a reply from 2013, absolute next-level hater, I can't even imagine, my man is the Count of Monte Posters
When I got jumped in March 2016 at a Trump rally by Neo Nazis and Trump cheered it on from the stage the Democratic mayor issued a statement about violence on both sides and the ACLU supported Trump’s right to yell at people to attack me. Stop looking to institutions to protect you from fascists.
modern dating is like the game hades, consider:
-you gotta keep starting over
-it's difficult
-different characters keep being introduced and some are probably evil but it's not always clear at first
-it's in hell
-sometimes there is a dog
"liberal" transphobia is dangerous because it creates a political consensus. no, it's not going to move a lot of median voters, but it creates a space for bipartisan anti-trans policies. i watched this happen in the uk.
it’s wild how much of the left’s anger on this site is devoted to the NYT. media criticism is good and healthy but anyone who really thinks a newspaper that’s read mostly by coastal elites is the main obstacle to progressive policy goals in america in the year 2024 is living in a bubble
I keep reflexively taking on all of the zealots and chuds I encounter on the street in my neighborhood and I should really learn to fight if I'm going to keep acting like this
Now we finally know the “sugar bear” who saved Elton’s life in “someone saved my life tonight” was a human sized gummy bear who had gained sentience after being wished alive by a very magical young boy named Theodore
Mech game but its a biomech and its like armored core plus tamagochi and you gotta keep your mech fed and happy and it texts you little messages about how it loves you
Ayn Rand is tgirl coded
let her cook
"To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned & undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake and that is a real tribute of love."
Elden Ring Horse is a far worse traversal method than Sekiro Grappling Hook.
Grappling Hook:
- goes up and down
- makes it easier to add dynamic verticality to levels
Horsey:
- goes side to side
- have to make everything wider to justify this, but levels don't get more interesting, just bigger
[onboard the HMS Discourse] men, listen carefully. when operating the subskeet cannons, you MUST make sure that you clean the muzzle of any residual context so that the context of the new post is properly collapsed. failure to do so may result in a critical misfire in which YOU post about YOURSELF.
types of computer software:
1. small units, hard to get tests to pass
2. small units glued together, passing less difficult
3. a large monoltih with flakes
4. like a sausage or snake
5. well defined microservices
6. poorly defined microservices
7. entirely liquid
i call it "the bristol tool chart"
I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless
