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If you were to reproduce the art style of a video game, what video game would you choose?

calabast ,

Mortal Kombat with the art style of Wallace and Grommit

(inb4 people mention clayfighters or celebrity death match)

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“The order requires county employees to notify any voter whose mail-in ballot is rejected because of an error — such as a missing signature or missing handwritten date — so that the voter has an opportunity to challenge the decision.”

calabast ,

I really like the safety aspect of this, but 72% capacity after 300 cycles seems low. What’s a use case scenario where this is preferable over lipo batteries?

People who poop with the bathroom fan off

Seriously people, use the fucking fan. It clears away odors and covers up the sounds of your dropping a deuce. If you want to stew in your shit smell and revel in the music of your magical poop plops, do so in the comfort of your own home. If you’re a guest and the bathroom has a fan, turn it on. We don’t want to share.

calabast ,

I think I just don’t think about it until it’s happening, and then it’s too late.

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Guh, that took me a minute to parse. State tries to stop ruling that stopped law that stops people from stopping pregnancies.

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Sorry, I’ll stop.

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Ahh, the ole reddit switcharoo

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Just what Big Street wants you to think…

the secret recipe (beehaw.org)

[alt text: a semi-surreal meme image on a plain white background. Two characters from Dark Souls are saying, “My lord, we have absolutely ESSENTIAL lore information for the player. Should we make a cutscrene for it?”. They are looking at Hidetaka Miyazaki, who has the From Software logo emblazoned over him, and he is...

calabast ,

If it’s boring and generic, how is it also nonsense? That seems contradictory to me, but maybe I don’t understand.

calabast ,

Don’t worry about it too much. I don’t think this current trend will completely overtake the word “weird”, but even if it does, you’ll still be good-weird, Republicans will still be bad-weird, and people will know the difference, no matter what we call those things.

calabast ,

I feel like there might be an emerging market for a car company that makes new, safe cars with very low tech computer systems.

Ah who am I kidding, I wish there was a market for all kinds of functional-but-not-enshittified products out there, but the complete lack of them shows the entrenched powers that be will stomp out any attempt to upset the terrible status quo.

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Game, Outer Wilds

Movie, Everything Everywhere All At Once

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It was quite nice, but the number of elevators that were out of order at major tourist attractions was bonkers. Good luck in Paris if you have mobility issues!

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If he wins, the only valid (legal) studies can be performed by watching a lot of YouTube videos. And the only way you are allowed to publish your study results is as a 2.5 hour YouTube video.

calabast ,

Yeah, and they say the same things repeatedly, too!

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I agree with this image, and I’m quite curious to see what “rich” tastes like… But I feel like the mechanics of this picture took me a second or two longer than it should to understand.

Edit: like are they balancing their unicycles on the larger cylinder? They must have really good balance to manage that for more than a second. And if that is true, what happens if they fall forwards? I see the danger if them falling backwards, but does that mean they just can’t fall forwards?

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I do get that ultimately that is what the picture is coveying, and I agree with the message, but if the physics of it make me pause, it detracts from the message.

calabast ,

Holy shit, it all checks out. President Garfield had a nephew named Rutherford B. Lasagna who he gave a high-ranking position to, just two weeks before he was assassinated.

(source: my ass)

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…the confusing text layout.

Me complimenting the relatable experience! Despite…

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Why is the word “Biden” in the title?

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Yeah, I understand. Look I’m as orange-man-bad as they come, but I’m tired of both sides trying to tie things to a president that they didn’t actually have anything to do with. (And with project 2025 I know that Trump may actually decimate the EPA, the Chevron ruling already did incalculable damage to all of the agencies. And yet I STILL don’t want to read about how “Biden’s EPA” did something he probably wasn’t even aware of.)

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An automated system keeps running, even when something it has no way of detecting is happening!? How unexpected!

Now, if people still have to pay the tickets even after contesting them, that’s fucked up. But the fact that traffic cameras don’t suspend activity in the event of an airstrike doesn’t really strike me as news-worthy.

calabast ,

Heck yes, I binged this game over a weekend where I didn’t see many other people and it put me in a weird headspace that was perfect for this game. I really enjoyed it, very unlike anything else I’ve played. If you’re just playing it to beat it, you might not enjoy it, is my guess. But if you’re in the mood to dig in a bit more it’s a lot of fun to learn about the characters through the different websites and messages.

I’ve recommended this game to friends and coworkers and I don’t think any of them have gone for it. Ah well. This game will always hold a special little place in my heart.

EDIT: If you weren’t alive back in the days of AOL and angelfire/geocities/Myspace websites, you might not enjoy this game as much. I think you might still enjoy it, but the nostalgia feeling for that bygone age was a big part of the appeal for me.

A 10-Year-Old Pointed a Finger Gun. The Principal Kicked Him Out of His Tennessee School for a Year. (www.propublica.org)

The principal’s action was the result of a new state law that had gone into effect just months earlier, heightening penalties for students who make threats at school. Passed after a former student shot and killed six people at The Covenant School in Nashville, the law requires students to be expelled for at least a year if...

calabast ,

The only thing that will stop kids making finger guns is more good kids with finger guns.

calabast ,

I meaaaan, while I did join Lemmy because I was sick of reddit the company’s greedy decisions, I do miss the amount of users and content it has/generates. If reddit joining the fediverse meant they couldn’t dictate what app I use to view their posts, I probably would enjoy being able to browse their content again.

calabast ,

I’ll give you $10,000 to swap brains with you so I can play it for the first time again 😄

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There’s a reason they’re called a “crush”

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The only thing that will stop knife crime is more good people with knives!

/s

calabast ,

What an interesting thought! There are lots of reasons a person might pretend to be an LLM. They could be something like, to make money…uh…somehow. And then…well I’m sure there’s other reasons too.

I’m a bot. Totally.

calabast ,

More propaganda from Big Spring

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Smart developer: let’s make the label an 8 inch square so it won’t fit in any mug.

calabast ,

I was going to say “ahh, too bad the Internet isn’t really helpful for that method of learning”, but with AI who knows, maybe that’ll be something your computer can do before too long

calabast ,

You take the stairs at work.

We are not the same.

I'm trying to have a serious conversation here (sh.itjust.works)

A screenshot of a movie with two pirates talking to each other. The subtitles say “You can’t just say ‘lol’ at the end of a sentence and think that makes everything alright”. The text that was previously behind “lol” has been covered with a black rectangle and overwritten.

calabast ,

lol no

Here are the best Google Maps alternatives for finding your way: With a number of community-driven, open-source mapping projects, picking a navigation app without ads or tracking has never been easier (tuta.com)

repeated media reports of Google’s disregard for the privacy of the general public led to a push for open source, community driven alternatives to Google Maps. The biggest contender, now used by Google’s direct competitors and open source projects alike is OpenStreetMap....

calabast ,

Maybe for you, but there are use cases where traffic data isn’t vital, like driving in small or medium sized towns where traffic doesn’t ever get too bad. Or road trips where there is only one feasible route, and any other way would take hours longer.

But yeah, traffic data IS awesome, I’m not arguing with that 😄

calabast ,

It blows my mind when I think about where we might be headed with this tech. We’ve gotten SO used to the ability to communicate instantly with people far away in the technology age, how will we adapt when we have to go back 300 years and can only trust something someone tells us in person. Will we go back to local newspapers? Or can we not even trust that? Will we have public amphitheaters in busy parts of town, where people will around the news? And we can only trust these people, who have a direct chain of acquaintance all the way back to the source of the information? That seems extreme, but I dunno.

I think most likely we won’t implement extreme measures like that, to ensure we’re still getting genuine information. I think most likely we’ll just slip into completely generated false news from every source, no longer have any idea what’s really going on, but be convinced this AI thing was overblown, and have no idea we’re being controlled.

calabast ,

Truuue, I hadn’t thought of that. Okay, at least it won’t be as bad as I feared.

Now I just have to sell all these vintage printing presses I bought…

calabast ,

Yeah but you put a “please stop reading now” gap before your first line, and the one where you said they were already expensive.

I know I’m being a bit tongue in cheek, but I had to reply because I literally did the same thing your replier did. I read your first line, and my immediate thought was “wait, aren’t they already expensive?” And I felt compelled to stop reading and immediately see if any replies confirmed that. And then I saw YOUR reply saying you already said they were expensive, and I had to go back to read the second half of your comment.

So yeah, not really my proudest moment, or a good sign for how the Internet is affecting attention spans… But I think that’s what happened.

(If I can make ANY defence for myself and your replier, it’s that your first sentence initially says five guys didn’t give in to gouging like other joints, which might imply that five guys has lower prices than the restaurants that raised their prices. So maybe we stopped reading because we thought we knew where you were heading.)

calabast ,

Yeah, I know two Karen’s, and they are some of the sweetest, nicest people.

calabast ,

They do, but sometimes their phones autocorrect to use an apostrophe, and they don’t notice right away.

calabast ,

Orange Man Gogh

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Orange Man Gogh

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Orange Man Gogh

calabast ,

I read about you doing all that, so I’m going to claim 25% vicarious accomplishment for those for my weekend. This is solely for internal auditing purposes, of course.

calabast ,

I think they really mean “I just don’t want to see black people, but that sounds bad, so let me try to come up with something I think sounds better.”

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Peter: I wouldn’t say I’ve been “missing” it, Bob. 😉

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In response to a customer support message. resetera.com/…/to-anyone-who-is-curious-no-you-ca…

calabast ,

I can’t image HR getting a complaint that you aren’t making small talk, and saying “That’s outrageous! We’ll demand his medical records right now!”

HR exists to keep the company from getting sued, and I think there’s a lot less risk for them to tell one employee “He doesn’t want to talk to you, deal with it.” vs demanding medical records for a non-work-role related issue.

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