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if i had a nickel for every time a formerly Japan-only RPG featuring historical figure Sakamoto Ryoma was given a remake with a Western localization, i'd have two nickels

which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice

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The carbon footprint of a single Bitcoin transaction easily exceeds the per passenger carbon footprint of a direct flight from New York to London.

On top of that the average e-waste generation per Bitcoin transaction is also equivalent to throwing away an iPad.

For daily updates on this data and more background check: digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energ

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having a “reconstructing the news from the archaeological evidence left by our ancestors’ memes” sort of morning

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I decided to make a calculator app, except I'm doing it on pico-8 so that's gonna be interesting.

I got the last 4 letters of PEMDAS down so far!

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I have found myself in the _most bizarre_ conundrum today my friends, where i bought a second copy of Samurai Warriors 2 for Xbox 360, because my first copy doesn't work anymore for some reason, even though the disc looks totally fine and we gave it a good clean a while ago. …

… Only to find the second copy can't be read either!!

My X360 reads every other game I've thrown at it just fine – installed games, games from the disc, original Xbox games, discs in much worse condition than these ones. And I've tried both of my copies of SW2 on a different Xbox 360 and they don't work there either.

I can't just keep buying X360 copies of SW2 until one works. And we do have the PS2 version (and Xtreme Legends) if I want to play it that badly.

But this is just _so weird._ There's nothing visually wrong with either of the discs, and as far as I can tell the other PS2-era musou games I have on X360 work fine. Very strange situation.

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every time 3F800000h appears in this binary's static data I deserve to be paid 10$

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I had occasion to refer to this page online today, so I took a quick photo.

"Gore, and Hazards of the Course" from Barbara Ninde Byfield's _The Glass Harmonica_. (Also reprinted as _The Book of Weird_.)

This is a strange literary treasure which really deserves to be available online somewhere.

#Books #Lexicons #Fantasy

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on linux everything is a file, which means you do everything through normal file operations like read, write, and ioctl(fd, DRM_IOCTL_MODE_ADDFB2, &drm_fb2);

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the cool part about mastodon is that you cannot kill me in a way that matters

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Dystopian science fiction story where someone makes the observation that a bunch of classic internet memes are now old enough to vote and an edgelord-packed Supreme Court subsequently rules that this is true. The next year internet memes begin voting in increasing numbers

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I'm so glad I gave Strange New Worlds a try. This episode is doing things I can't imagine seeing on any of the other shows.

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INTERNET RATIONALIST: Consider the following thought experiment. Imagine a hyperintelligent artificial intelligence–

ME: No

INTERNET RATIONALIST: What

ME: I am declining to imagine the hyperintelligent artificial intelligence.

INTERNET RATIONALIST:

ME: I'm thinking about birds right now

INTERNET RATIONALIST:

ME: Dozens of crows, perched atop great standing stones

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Coming up on 70 years of person A going “You see, software will never be able to do X!” and immediately being proven grotesquely wrong, then person B going “You see, this software is basically a person!” and immediately being proven grotesquely wrong, and so on like the world’s most evenly matched and annoying game of table tennis.

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