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In honor of the start spooky season (yay!), I have a question about an apparently beloved spooky meme/skit. What about "David S. Pumpkins" is so funny? (lemmy.world)

How the hell did the character get so viral? I’ve tried watching the skits several times to see if maybe I’m missing something, but for the life of me, I can’t seem to see it. Is everyone just biased because it’s Tom Hanks? Or is it actually hilarious, and I’m just struggling to understand the humor? Fall/Spooky season...

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It’s basically just what my humor is like

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Once again we see how DRM only punishes paying customers

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I mean, Twitter’s blocking policy goes way too far… but axing them completely? I dunno about that one chief.

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How many L’s is this man giving himself?

A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. (www.niemanlab.org)

When German journalist Martin Bernklautyped his name and location into Microsoft’s Copilot to see how his articles would be picked up by the chatbot, the answers horrified him. Copilot’s results asserted that Bernklau was an escapee from a psychiatric institution, a convicted child abuser, and a conman preying on widowers....

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It’s a fucking Chinese Room, Real AI is not possible. We don’t know what makes humans think, so of course we can’t make machines do it.

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We’re not making any progress until we accept that Penrose was right

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When we finally stop pretending Orch-OR is pseudoscience we’ll figure it out

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James “JD Vance” Bowman is either the dumbest man alive, or it’s a 7D plan to sabotage the Trump campaign

Either is possible

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This. I actually drink water now beacuse soda is too fucking expensive

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Danny Phantom caused Covid?

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What I find most amusing about this is he built the ark to prove it could be done, but it is not docked due to not being sea-worthy on account of being too heavy.

‘It scared them off’, Kansas City shoppers report less crime thanks to security robot patrolling strip mall (www.kctv5.com)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A sight previously thought to be science fiction is very real at a southeast Kansas City shopping center. Instead of a police officer, a security robot has been patrolling sidewalks and shoppers are taking notice....

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Remember the movie “Chopping Mall” ?

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Kick his ass Pocketpair

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Israel and Kyle Rittenhouse can agree on one thing, it’s totally cool to kill people and then pretend you were defending yourself

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I’m not trying to make it about me, I’m trying to say that what Israel was doing was not self-defense

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God, I wish God would actually just end this cringe already.

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Good

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No shit

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I consider myself a misanthrope, but, Reddit showed me my opinion of humanity was STILL too high

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TikTok literally got people to commit check fraud

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Not really considering Youtube will nuke your fucking account if you promote criminal activity, TikTok will not. Therefore TikTok is liable.

TikTok also lied and made it seem like it wasn’t a crime

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Apple: As long as we can gaslight you into thinking we’re classy, we can do whatever the fuck we want

Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race?

Kamala Harris running a damn near flawless campaign, with just a month 1/2 of campaigning. She’s been holding rallies nonstop with Tim Walz & not making her talking points about her race or gender like Hillary. She’s offering expanded healthcare, reinvestments back into public housing, wants to take on corporate greed,...

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The GOP’s desperation for relevancy in a world where literally every problem can be blamed on Republicans

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A wonderful Gerudo King

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Sounds like a Rape Threat to me

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He came right outside and said he would “Give her a baby”, either he’s adopting a kid and dropping her off there… or…

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As someone with CPTSD in the midst of a panic attack that I already know to be irrational and just trying to stable my mind so I can get back to writing…

You’re the devil

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Translation: He wants Russia to win the War and for America to be signed over to the Kremlin, but he knows he can’t say that aloud

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Forgot the context of what you were responding to when I saw it in my list of replies I’ve recieved, so I thought for a second that someone was trying to fight Dracula… and I’m like “Them Belmonts are at it again aren’t they? Didn’t think Drac was gonna be back for another 11 years”

Choose Option (beehaw.org)

[alt text: text that says, “When your girlfriend says, ‘it’s either me or runescape’”. Below the text is a stock photo of a man and woman sitting next to each other on a couch and looking away from each other. Between them, there is a floating screenshot from the crafting menu in Runescape, and the cursor is...

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I vibe to this because my BF recently got into Runescape and he was like “You play this?”

Then I walked him through various quests and kept hooking him up with new armor and like a shit ton of Rings of Life.

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Jesus Christ

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People say Rockstar just “Isn’t a rockstar anymore”

No, this is pretty much how I expect from washed up rockstars who’ve sold out and only care about reliving the glory days. Constantly shouting “Don’t you know who I am?” when anyone gives them any grief.

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I miss the forbidden R-Word

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Is that why we don’t call it Asperger’s anymore?

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To be fair there are a lot of factions that accept Climate Change as a reality, they just think it’s a good thing because the end of the world means they go to Heaven and their enemies go to Taco Bell

Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots (futurism.com)

The songs that the AI CEO provided to Smith originally had file names full of randomized numbers and letters such as “n_7a2b2d74-1621-4385-895d-b1e4af78d860.mp3,” the DOJ noted in its detailed press release....

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Based

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Indeed, this is what we called “Okay, now that you’re using the loophole against us instead of the other way around… We don’t like it anymore.”

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Reminder: Jack Black broke up Tenacious D to try to save this thing

and…

“Oh, no see, you’re mad, but you see this version of the franchise isn’t for you. It’s for a new crowd that was alienated by the previous version and you need to be nice and let them have their…”

Shut the fuck up, if it’s a version of a thing made for people who are defined by not liking the thing, it’s not going to get the other crowd to like the thing, it’s just going to piss off the people who do like it…

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He got a lot of money to be Bowser in a movie that made a lot of money, desperate film makers wanting to get in on the “Video Game Movie” trend thinking it’s the next “Super Hero Movie!” trend hire Jack Black thinking he’s the sole reason for Mario’s successful movie and not just a component of it.

…and Jack Black’s just taking the check and not correcting them.

Don’t blame him, he’s just grabbing that bag.

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Yes actually

“The new X thing isn’t meant for YOU!111”

Is a common line the media pulls out when the product is failing or have poor reception. Don’t take responsibiliy for the company fucking up, that implies the company is capable of doing wrong. Just shame fans for liking a property and wanted to see it respected. Call them bigots and say the problem is the thing they like is bigoted!

It’s… absolute bullshit.

Sadly it works, people who aren’t well-informed think of the fans of X are just assholes and the new thing is good actually…

It also doesn’t work because the people who aren’t well informed weren’t fans of X, so they’re not seeing/playing the new X thing…

Meaning I guess the The New X thing wasn’t really for anybody… “Literally no one” is a strange demographic to market it to.

See: Skullgirls censoring their game in order to “appeal to a wider demographic”, outlets claiming Skullgirl fans who hate the changes are “secretly pedophiles”, aaaaand… Now the game has a dwindling player count, the Steam forums are reduced to asking when the game will be fixed, and the original creator who was not involved with the censorship has a defamation lawsuit going because a lot of people called him a diddler…

It also works the other way around, when something the big corporations DON’T want to be popular is, just slander it as bigoted

See Also: That time Cuphead fans shat on a game journalist for not being able to clear an overly easy tutorial, so the oulet he worked for tried to save his street cred by… claiming Cuphead was racist and a front for antisemitism… Which the Cuphead fanbase just kinda laughed at because it’s an asinine claim.

It really sucks because as somewhat of a social justice activist and a gamer, well… “Clowns to the right of me, Jokers to the left of me…”

Sidenote: Can we stop the trend of neutering female characters? Seriously bought a fucking Avengers comic the other day (I mostly read Sonic, but I’ll pick up the occasional Marvel from time to time if I think the story looks interst) and I didn’t realize till after I paid for it that the “Thor” on the cover was actually Captain Marvel… all I saw at first was “Blonde, Masculine Face, Masculine Build. I guess that’s a new Thor costume? I dunno, don’t keep up with it.”

Got to reading it in the car and realized “Oh shit, that’s actually Captain Marvel. Sorry about that Carol.”, this didn’t impede my enjoyment of the book mind you. I like Captain Marvel and Thor, so it’s all good…

Look she doesn’t need to pull a Power Girl and have tits the size of her head hanging out of her costume, but I feel like the de-sexualization of female characters has gone far beyond combatting the male gaze and is now reaching the “Dear God, can’t let people see her ankles!” stage, which is actually more sexist than keeping the ridiculous chain mail bikinis in the first place, as it implies that traits we consider feminine are inherently sinful and should be hidden from view.

I mean, I know the example I used was a comic, but this shit is happening in games too. I’m a woman and a gamer, games are my power fantasy, me being highly attractive is PART of my power fantasy. Stop making me not hot damn it!

Sorry it’s just… Kotaku’s complacent for creating the environment this happened in, and we’re talking about Kotaku so I felt like airing a grievance of mine.

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So, people who would have no interest in seeing the world of Borederlands adapted to a new medium?

“Hey guys, wanna buy my new Indiana Jones game? It’s meant for people who don’t like Indiana Jones, or games for that matter… What no? Why not”

(Note: The new Jones game actually looks good, it was just the first IP to come to mind)

These people do realize that the Mario movie had an entire segment dedicated to Mario Kart, which is like… the most popular Switch Game right? And the Sonic movies stayed true to the characters and had tons of little easter eggs for Sonic fans, even had some comic book tie-ins for the movie?

Just saying, when you cater to fans, fans will buy a product and show it to their friends and family saying “Oh hey, you know I’m a big fan of X. Well this is a good entry point for it if you wanna see what it’s like.”

Seriously I got a friend of mine who “Was too old for video games when Sonic came out” but had “Seen some fanart here and there he enjoyed” (I’m a furry, inter-generational friendships are kinda normal in that fanbase), but he saw the Sonic movie on my recommendation and it had him asking me for recommendations… Before I knew it he had purchased Sonic Adventure DX on Steam to learn more about Tails and Knuckles’ characters to get ready for the second movie, and Sonic Generations as well to get a quick run through of the hedgehog’s history in general.

This man is a Catholic dad who’s always busy with work, his kid, and his faith, but he found the time to love that Hedgehog, because they made a good movie that catered to fans. (Yes, Christians can be furries, the Christian Fur demographic is actually pretty big. Fun story, the fanart he’d been talking about was a comic about Tails becoming a Priest and later trying to help Sonic stave off Chili Dogs for Lent)

What I’m saying is, if you’re good to your fans, they’ll be good to you, and if people see a happy crowd they’ll want to join that happy crowd. Love makes the world go rounder than money does, and as a chubby chaser I do like round things… I forgot the point I was making as now I just have the Queen song “Fat-Bottomed Girls” stuck in my head.

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Based

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Unsurprised

I.would have no problem with AI if the shit actually worked

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Ugh. .

I’m white but I have enough nonwhite friends to know racism is still very much alive.

Sorry that happened to you.

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Because it was based on the anime

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Seems legit

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I refuse to believe that Amazon is real anymore.

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I remember when James Randi “debunked” meditation.

Yeah that’s aged well…

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