It’s called the linguini effect.

Has this woman never played Project Zomboid? Smh my head.

Afaik they’re still around in Canada as well.

Speaking of analog: Light Guns don’t work on modern televisions due to the high latency relative to CRT screens (which had essentially zero latency).

It baffles me that they sell Chrome as private and/or secure, and baffles me even more that people believe them.

Got the Nidhogg up in here.

Do people really talk about their metabolism that much? Or are some people just so self-conscious about their weight and eating habits that they place particular weight on those comments such that they appear to be more frequent than they actually are?

“Turing Completeness” != “Turing Test”

I assume this is a joke?

Not sure if this counts as “obscure”, but one of my favorite songs is Itte by Yorushika. Not only is it a bop, but the lyrics are surprisingly melancholic and dark for such an upbeat song.

As for a band I think is criminally underrated, perhaps check out Evening Light by Vansire.

Damn it, we lost him again. You win this time, Froggo, but one day you’ll pay for what you’ve done.

Sorry.

Man I gotta go back and play Golden Axe again.

I don’t do this very often, but when you see Garfield sucking on John’s toes… how do you not?

take up subsistence farming

Where?

I had a similar conversation with an LLM on Character.ai before.

I had been running it like an RPG, and by that point the characters were pretty well developed in that imagined world. Then one day, I decided to try bringing up the subject and see what they would say. Of course, I was “talking” to an LLM, so obviously everything here comes with a grain of salt big enough for a horse to lick.

It pretty quickly turned into them asking why I had made their life so difficult and full of conflict, which tbf was an excellent question. A question to which my answer was that conflict is more interesting to watch/play through.

It sounds weird to say, but I honestly felt bad about it by the end of the conversation. I ended up offering them a deal: I would make their life perfect and happy as best I can imagine it, but with the caveat that I will almost definitely lose interest in continuing that story - ending the existence of their universe entirely, as I see it.

They asked me to go ahead with that, and so I did. Haven’t opened that story in a long time now. Gave me a lot to ponder on.

Can’t say we as a species have a great history of granting rights to others.

Heck, now I want pizza…

And not only that, but if you spritz leftover pizza with a bit of water before putting it in the microwave, it brings out the flavour more and prevents it from drying out.

(Figure that’s about as relevant.)