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BoringKate @boringkate.com · 15h

Seeing game devs take a "the customer is always right" approach to feedback is so sad because like I get it from a PR perspective, but...

1) The customer is always wrong

2) Your customers are gamers, so they're twice as wrong

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plainoldchair, last scion of the hollow earth @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 10h

damn jennifer connelly has had a strange career

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MotorRoach @motorroach.bsky.social · 10h

Putting Dante in everything: part 30

#pixelart #dante

Clock Tower: Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry™ Series

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

"The president is illegitimate and should be removed from office" is the minimum pitch for anyone nominally opposing him

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Stein Makes Games ➡️ #GodotFest @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 1d

There's really only two file formats

Calvin and Hobbes comic. Dad explains there's only two types of file formats: .txt and .zip

#programming #software #softwareengineering

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

And you, governor, should stop providing state cops to police protesters for ICE at Broadview.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

ICE is recklessly throwing tear gas into our neighborhoods and busy streets, including near children at school and CPD officers.

The Trump Administration must stop their deployment of dangerous chemical weapons into the air of peaceful American communities.

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Popeye Otaku @popeyeotaku.bsky.social · 1d

Hey wat if I told u in this movie where the crabs speak with the voices of their dead victims they've merged with, the crabs are completely bulletproof because they're made of free atoms so the bullets simply pass thru them

Goregirl @goregirlsdungeon.bsky.social · Aug 14

Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957, Roger Corman)

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plainoldchair, last scion of the hollow earth @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 1d

I had an issue with fluoxetine once where certain manufacturers' generics would, on a bad dice roll, cause me roughly 45 minutes of extremely agonizing heartburn. Good times!!!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

Periodic reminder: if you get a generic that is less effective for you, of any medicine, filing a Form 3500 with the FDA's MedWatch if you're able contributes to getting non-bioequivalent generics pulled from the market: www.fda.gov/safety/medic...

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 1d

I woke up with a WTF this morning. I dreamt that I was flying on Japan Air and they were trying to upsell me to a first class "Weebecutive" experience, including a full line of Kewpie based mayo cosmetics and perfumes in the complimentary traveler comfort bag.

I am scared to check if this is real.

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plainoldchair, last scion of the hollow earth @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 2d

If you're talking about what I think you are, the actual term for this is "tendril perversion", and no, I'm not kidding

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plainoldchair, last scion of the hollow earth @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 2d

yeah, I was thinking the materials themselves and not the whole structure. My brain's getting pedantic on me today

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Sane Retry 🍉 セイン・リトライ @saneretry.bsky.social · 2d

Last night I dreamt I was watching King of the Hill and Hank had mutated into a giant caterpillar man. No one wanted to buy propane from him, so he became a cage fighter. He was super strong and difficult to injure, so he fought multiple opponents. I thought it was funny, so I made a render of it.

A 3D render of Hank Hill from King of the Hill, a middle aged Caucasian man with brown hair and glasses, who has mutated into a half-man half-caterpillar. His skin is bright green. He wears a white t-shirt over a large belly. Below the t-shirt, his lower body is a giant green caterpillar body with small pointed legs extending from his underbelly in pairs. He stands in a fighting ring surrounded by chain link fence in a stadium. In the background an audience can be seen sitting in the seats. In the ring, Hank raises his arms in a fighting pose. He is surrounded by three opponents, muscular bald men in shorts and boots like boxers or wrestlers, all of them in fighting poses with their fists raised. Light pours down on this scene from above dramatically, the spotlights creating colorful lens flares and artifacts.

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plainoldchair, last scion of the hollow earth @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 2d

i want mdickie to see this just to see what happens

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plainoldchair, last scion of the hollow earth @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 2d

starting to realize from the replies here that when people say "elastic" they do not necessarily mean that, and that people think I don't know that phone cords were coiled

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plainoldchair, last scion of the hollow earth @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, that was pretty standard. My grandfather's house had an EXTREMELY long one for the kitchen phone that he managed to get because he worked at a company that did cabling. Sort of like the super long phone cord from the one in Napoleon Dynamite

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ramblingflan @ramblingflan.bsky.social · 27d

nah i'm good
thanks tho

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plainoldchair, last scion of the hollow earth @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 2d

You... can't stretch copper like that. It's not possible. Are you sure it wasn't just one of those coiled phone cords?

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plainoldchair, last scion of the hollow earth @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 2d

i'm sorry but how do you make a cord with a copper wire inside "elastic"

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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plainoldchair, last scion of the hollow earth @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 2d

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plainoldchair, last scion of the hollow earth @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 2d

whoever owns the italian bakery down the block from me

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2d

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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dial ë̈m̈ for 𝑴𝒖𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 🏳️‍⚧️🐍 @emmeline.bsky.social · 2d

figured it out

“random walling“ refers to a wall built from irregular stones, as opposed to one made from bricks or uniformly cut stones

it is its own form of specialized craftsmanship, so i could see why someone would say they were a “random waller“ rather than a bricklayer.

A black-and-white picture of a wall, made from stones and rocks of different sizes. They are generally larger on the lower portions of the wall, and smaller on the higher portions. Obvious care has been made to ensure that the stones pack tightly.

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