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Without looking it up, how long ago do you think the OceanGate debacle was? I'm curious how bad everyone's sense of time these days is. I know it was pretty bad for a few years there...

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@hikari You're getting me back into watching anime with these recommendations, I'm gonna check this out

been playing around with rendering strange attractors recently :P

Question for the wider fediverse; where did academic Twitter end up? My wife has pulled the plug on the network formerly known as Twitter and would like to reconnect with the academics she was engaging with on that platform but it appears they’ve been scattered to the four winds.

The world’s most powerful military force mistook a woman and a child for a man in rural Somalia, killed them, and decided their deaths were no one’s fault. continent.substack.com/p/a-us-

to be totally clear, i don't think there's anything wrong if you like stuff to look real, totally valid.

like, if i have a take, it's that we shouldn't forget these are artistic decisions and shouldn't be assumed as a default

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there's a stylistic choice in games that puts me off, and that is realism. Which nowadays means pretty much any AAA game, since "good graphics" tends to mean "looks real"

But it *is* a stylistic choice. I'm not saying it's enough to make me totally disinterested but like..it makes me less into balder's gate 3 for example.

Just got an email saying that they're discontinuing Google News and any magazines I purchased or subscribed to will no longer be available, which is why I don't buy digital media from most stores, because you own essentially nothing

Finished watching Oshi no Ko, and I can't wait for the next season 🤩

scottish girls 🤝 swedish enbies

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remember, kids:
HDMI is like RS232: the more adapters you use, the better it works.

(taskmaster voice) your next task is: find true happiness. most meaningful and fulfilling life wins. you have (checks actuary tables) 60 years, god willing. your time starts now

[tom scott voice] i'm here in my yard to talk about a milkshake. my milkshake, specifically. as you can see i'm surrounded by boys. all sorts of boys the world over come to experience my milkshake, "it's better than yours" they tell me, and i'm inclined to agree. but how is it better than yours? well, i could teach you... [politely folds hands in lap] ...but i'd have to charge.

[remarkably foreign guy voice] ah yes, here at Boybringenmäschinen ve are engineering revolutionary milkshake technologies, our company vas founded in 1842 by Hans Dairy, who could not run a farm vith a single cow vithout attracting the attention of ze locals, and vas forced to turn his home into a tourism hotspot

Boys! It seems that SOME of you are unable to take it. Do you FEAR the cake? Well, there will be no mercy here. If you can't handle the SWEET, get out of the kitchen!

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stereotypical sergeant guy voice Listen up, boys! This is no place for the faint of heart. You aren't at the butcher's any more. You can't retreat into your tender meat cut. No, we are here to make REAL food. The stuff of champions! We are here to make CAKE! AM I UNDERSTOOD?

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