https://youtu.be/DUq0HlMvQw0?is=pidXzpEVA-TcDZHp

This scene is the only thing that I know about the entire live-action part of the franchise.

It’s an old joke. It was mocking parents of millennials who called every game system “a Gameboy” or “a Nintendo” and called protagonists of the game by the title, like Halo for Master Chief or Zelda for Link.

The joke is mostly played up. Most of the time adults just didn’t care or leaned into the cringe for fun, but that is my experience around it. Gaming has become so prolific since then that the joke has been beaten into the ground and resurrected elsewhere (see streamers calling their characters John Ring for Elden Ring or John Halo, as examples).

It’s just a silly joke about people not knowing about games. You can see other, similar, humor in people calling Tim Cook ‘Tim Apple’ for example, but that obviously has different origins, it’s just kind of a similar idea.

Oh shit. Didn’t he just do an interview thing where the guy asked him about retiring and his perspective on when he would “know” it’s the right time?

Big fan of my Kobo as well. I wish the software was swappable, if just so I could try other stuff out, but Koreader is alright when I don’t want the default setup.

It’s shit like this that would make me walk RIGHT into the ring of mushrooms and give them my name or whatever.

This would be enough to “radicalize me”, but I don’t think it’s all that radical to be against a system that treats people this way.

Genuinely, this was way more interesting than it has any business being.

That’s where I followed on as well, but it kept seeming like I was finding mixed results on the articles. I don’t know enough about which studies are funded by which groups, and I’m pretty sure I’m finding biased stuff. It’s okay, though, I’m not asking you to look things up for me, I just was curious if you had some kind of insight into the industry or not.

I’m having a bit of trouble understanding what it’s saying about how bad it is, but I get the impression less is just better always? Either way, though, you can for sure swap out Nutella with anything else vaguely in the same ballpark. What makes the sandwich so good is the cheese and vaguely chocolate flavor. If you do try something else out and decide it’s good, please let me know!

If the position’s open, I’m there! But alas, I am a rat for free at this time. :3

Is palm oil bad?

Honestly, if you add salami, I would say bump up the jam you put on it, too. The extra umami makes room for more sweet. I bet this absolutely rules.

I’m gonna catch hate for this, but I don’t care. I have a thing that physically looks awful, but also seems conceptually awful.

Sometimes, if I have the money and I wanna get a little treat, I’ll buy a block of cheese, Nutella, and bread, and make a Nutella and cheese sandwich. I do not know why or how I got to the point where I ate it, but I did and I love it.

Usually, I’d get like a pecorino romano cheese, cut a couple slices of dark (full grain) bread, and just paste it in place with Nutella, and that would be a little desert for me. If I have a lot of cheese on there, I might add raspberry jam (not too much or it gets waaaaay too sweet).

I just got into a habit. I listen to the same few playlists, sit with my coffee in the same chair, keep distractions away from me (out of arm’s reach) and I write. It was hard to keep up for a while at first, but now it’s not so hard even on ‘off days’. Usually, I just turn those into revision days. I also take breaks so I don’t burn out, toooooooo hard.

I would get into fanfiction, both reading and writing. Places like Ao3 are so batshit insane, that they sort of force you to recalibrate creativity for yourself.

Just write for fun, don’t carry any baggage about turning it into something serious or long term. You’ll randomly get feedback to improve (some good and some bad) and soon you’ll recognize what you value in feedback and what you don’t.

You’ll also start recognizing stories that you like and that you don’t like. Use those moments as opportunities to really sit and figure out why you like and don’t like those stories. Imagine how you would improve them or write them differently.

Eventually, you’ll find that you have your own ideas, your own voice, and opinions on what makes a piece good or bad.

N is for no survivorrrrrrrs!

Half-expecting it to become closed source ‘to prevent people from hacking it so easily’ as a result of the embarrassment of this sort of thing.

For sure, but in all those access tiers, they would presumably need to verify MY age as well to be sure of which tier I fit into, right? The only reason I can see that I wouldn’t need to use this app is if I’m on a site that isn’t age gated, I think.

Edit: sorry, I didn’t even respond to your second point. I think you’re exactly right about the issue being with them being harmful to begin with. Fixing those issues should absolutely be the first priority.

And I wanna be clear, the idea of a zero proof system is the best I’ve heard of so far in all of these concepts. At least with that there aren’t some insane security issues being overlooked. I’m just wary of the surveillance state future everyone seems to be pushing for.

This is being pitched as a thing for kids, but kids aren’t champing at the bit to prove they’re children. So, presumably this just means that any time you access a service, you’re gonna have to use this to prove your age, as an adult, right?