a game many immortals enjoy is to build houses and cities and then watch them grow and change and erode over the centuries, much like watching rivers or fires
Are there any free AS/400 emulators floating around that would give a feel for what itâs like to use the system? (Support for running arbitrary IBM binaries optional)
a church just like a gothic church but without a roof, because through divine intervention or just clever weather manipulation, no rain ever falls in
One thing that Pet Sematary (2019) has over the 1989 version is that it actually looks like it was shot in the north country & people actually dress, act, & decorate like thatâs where they are.
Hey, does Amazing Stranger share staff with Battle Programmer Shirase or is there just a lot of accidental style similarities for, like, budget and format reasons?
âSasuga Keiâ is like, the most absurdly dad-jokey pen name Iâve heard.
idea for a sense: decode emission/absorption lines of celestial bodies into smells so that one can identify atmosphere types at a glance/whiff, maybe make hot blackbodies smell like ovens and free oxygen like rain
I think DEVO might have got their math wrong in Weâre Through Being Cool. Have I met 2 dozen members of any social group? Thatâs like 20% of my dunbar allocation.
You know, Desert 2 is probably the best static Mojave wallpaper. It has enough light parts for the daytime, yet it also is generally dark enough to work well in dim lighting. Not many photographs are like that.
Philosophical writing should read like a letter written to oneself | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/philosophical-writing-should-read-like-a-letter-written-to-oneself
she wears a necklace of raindrops, has hair like spiderwebs on a dewy morningâ”â”eyes like the gaps between far-away trees, and a smile like the sun between branches
Hot take: language is like sculpture, in that each word acts as a constraint that cleaves off parts of the infinite space of possible meaning.
OK I canât fault the DomeKano anime for dropping a younger girl who looks almost exactly like Hina & is tsundere from a scene that would be in the last episode but if she doesnât become a repeat character I will be shocked
The most unrealistic part of Super Dimension Fortress Macross is the way that the translated ancient pop song could be broadcast on the radio. All the ancient sumerian pop songs are shit like âletâs cover each other in honey and lick it offâ
People whose dating profile consists entirely of their nationality are incomprehensible to me, but not quite as incomprehensible as the ones that are blank or have some useless placeholder like âaskâ. The point of a dating site is that you get to see compatibility before starting a convo, yâknow
Reading the DomeKano manga, I keep running into stuff where itâs like, I donât remember them happening in the anime but they must have, but at the same time I would have thought I would have remembered them. Maybe the constant bombshells produced twist fatigue.
despite the temporary break of last weekend, i still feel like iâve been going at full power
Analogue Mega Sg Review: Sounds Like a Winner https://tedium.co/2019/03/26/analogue-mega-sg-review/
the pattern on charmin toilet paper looks like eyes & even though itâs almost definitely accidental i sitll find it wonderfully suvbersive
In case you havenât read the Oshiete Galko-chan manga & have only heard about it: itâs gorgeous, in a really innovative style, heartwarming & funny, & also peopleâs tshirts say things like âcamel toe â and âsnowman pornoâ
holy shit did the domekano anime cut like most of the literature club shit? i donât remember them going camping & hina getting stung by a wasp
âYou like horror movies, huh? What are your favorite genres?â âWell, mostly gothic & art deco, but Burnt Offerings was a fantastic greek revival flickâ
OK so one thing I donât like about the DomeKano manga is the way the plaid bottoms in their school uniform are so clearly done with a single sheet of overlay per frame (or maybe even per page). Itâs distracting, the way they donât match the fabric folds.
I want to like exa, but its default color choices are hot garbage. Donât these people who use purple ever try using a terminal with a black background?
Hot take: Mondo 2000 should do what Fangoria did & release a very fancy very thick periodical like once a year for about a hundred bucks.
most of my professors prefer that students leave computers in backpacks anyway so itâs not like classes will be harder
Five Principles for Thinking Like a Futurist | EDUCAUSE https://er.educause.edu/articles/2019/3/five-principles-for-thinking-like-a-futurist
This Is What Itâs Like To Wake Up During Surgery - Digg http://digg.com/2019/waking-up-from-anesthsia
A good user interface is a lot like a standup routine: you take the deep knowledge of an audience and twist it in creative ways so that they now understand something they couldnât have imagined on their own.
Other ways in which UX is like stand-up comedy: if you omit the setup, the punchline wonât land; reading the room is a vital skill
@kas@enotty.dk I wanted to like Kakoune but I liked having my option key not be an alt key more. Shame, really.
The only outright negative review my game has gotten thus far starts with the reviewer saying making a VN should be a crime against humanity. Like, thanks for leading with the admission that youâre not part of the target audience & your opinion doesnât matter.
People love to talk about the potential security impact of exotic state-of-the-art shit like GPT-2 and deepfakes, but theyâre neither convincing nor the lowest-effort effective way to create disinfo. Spinners scale better than GPT-2.
April 19th: Shitty Campbell vs Cocaine Lacan. (Itâs obvious who will win, but itâs equally obvious that the loser will just claim to have won & his fans will believe him, just like they did every other time.)
What Itâs Like To Write About Race And Video Games https://kotaku.com/what-its-like-to-write-about-race-and-video-games-1832886047
An anime being âbig in americaâ is like a punk band being âbig in japanâ: a common but rarely intentional side effect of globalization, notable mostly as trivia.
DomeKano is like the Mayoiga of harem-drama and I love it.
A lot of people are going to start watching Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, and then say âthis looks like trashâ and stop watching it. Theyâre right, and itâs a shame. Higurashi had the same problem.
I really like the concept of Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka: a mahou shoujou show where the focus is firmly on the combat PTSD of child soldiers. Itâs a shame that the production Quality was melting from frame 1.
but i still feel like iâm not super good at directing all this productive energy that i now have towards actual school
i feel like iâve been getting a lot more done with the radio station than i ever have been able to doâŠ
Lemurs are like catfoxmonkeys
A lot of large software projects are so bad that liking them should automatically disqualify someone from working on them, unless you like them in a masochistic semi-sexual way.
This movie is fuckinâ wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYeJfYso9os Itâs like Contact meets The Parallax View with Charlie Sheen
Public service announcement: markets & capitalism arenât the same thing. You can have non-capitalist or even anti-capitalist markets (ex., cases where progressive taxes actually make rentseeking infeasible, or markets without private property). You can have capitalism without markets (like inside a corporation).
I feel like the simplified and cliched ideas about slashers that informed Scream kept me from discovering the strange and wonderful world of actually-good slashers like Sleepaway Camp, Happy Birthday to Me, Tourist Trap, etc. Like, a lot of them are surreal and moody and great.
All of the negative reviews of Alita are like âit follows the manga even when it shouldnât, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & it fits 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movieâ
All of the positive reviews of Alita are like âit follows the manga even when you donât expect it to, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & does the best job it possibly could fitting 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movieâ
It looks like OpenAI has announced their marginal progress on the coherence problem in narrative prose generation in the most clickbaity possible way again: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47249163 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction
The most important operation in QNX is MsgSend, which works like an interprocess⊠| Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872640
Today is St. Valentineâs day. Celebrate by ressurecting vats of minced and pickled children, like St Valentine is most famous for doing
Fragments of a Dream-like City: Collages by Tali Bayer â SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2015/11/28/fragments-of-a-dream-like-city-collages-by-tali-bayer/
An enormous presence, like the shimmer of heat in air | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/an-enormous-presence-like-the-shimmer-of-heat-in-air
MfoM is like Groundhog Day meets The X Files, while Happy Death Day is more like Groundhog Day meets Scream. (Actually, less like Scream than Happy Birthday to Me, but nobodyâs seen that one.)
Iâd like to play a horror game thatâs lit like Suspiria is during its most extreme moments: backgrounds & characters in bright monochrome washes, a cypher of harsh shadows, as though lit by single-point neon.
a technology like writing but for body movements: little stick-and-thread figures that show you how to dance, rope-and-pulley gloves you can wear and that guide your movements to teach knitting by example
COOKING TIP: if you are frying literally anything, fry it in a lot of butter and then add like a sip of beer (preferably dark beer, like a tripel or a double-ipa). It makes the flavor a lot more complex
Are there sports video games that, RPG-like, allow a user-created character to progress by getting access to better personal trainers & medical support by winning games while in constant fear of breaking their legs?
Occasionally, a sunray escapes the inner layers of the matryoshka brain and blesses the outer orbits like rainfall a desert, a single piercing life-giving flash that decides the fate of whole societies
Digi & Geoff fighting is like Grant Morrison & Alan Moore fighting. Their criticisms of each other are accurate but comical because they make basically the exact same mistakes.
Nadesco is a cynical mecha parody about how genuine & unironic straight mecha is good & cool actually, because exactly the things that make it cheesy make it valuable. Wholesome themes like solidarity in the face of difficult odds are cheesy because they should be obvious (but arenât).
Unusual core features for a dream language for small computing: MUMPS-style disk persistence of otherwise normal variables indicated by sigils, go-style piping between coroutines or greenthreads, message passing & guards like erlang, parsing backtracking like icon, constraint solving like prolog
Something that people keep forgetting about GitS: in every iteration of the franchise, full-body prosthetics are extremely rare. Cyberbrains are common, but suggesting that everybody with a cyberbrain has a prosthetic body is like saying everybody with a modem has full home automation.
it seemed like the static twtfile setup i used for âmoonâ fucked with twtxt cachingâŠ
Editions https://qz.com/1533143/the-best-way-to-use-social-media-is-to-act-like-a-19th-century-parisian/
Responses to my essay âTechâs Masturbatory Historiographyâ make me think that most people reading it donât know what âhistoriographyâ means. (Itâs exactly what it sounds likeâŠ)
This is math-heavy but the idea that âkeys are meta-taxonomic dimensionsâ reminds me of ZigZag & other elements make me think of parallel prolog-likes like mycroft â should re-read carefully later: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009002_qod.pdf
No Title: A play like No Exit by Sartre, but four strangers have to agree on how to tag a moderately complicated CD in iTunes
I kind of want to use SILE (http://sile-typesetter.org/) for something, but I need a PDF generator like I need a hole in my head.
Bad idea of the day: train chess engines to play like specific historic players
GitHub - StevenBlack/hosts: Extending and consolidating hosts files from several well-curated sources like adaway.org, mvps.org, malwaredomainlist.com, someonewhocares.org, and potentially others. You can optionally invoke extensions to bl⊠https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
What could a Clojure/LISP editor be like? - Rakhim Davletkaliyev - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edQyRJyVsUg
I ate banana pancakes and now my burps taste like banana
What Itâs Like to Be Allergic to Corn - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/what-its-like-be-allergic-corn/580594/
Why Professional Magicians Donât Like Magic Kits https://tedium.co/2019/01/17/magic-kit-controversy-history/
Live every day like you are a background character in Mob Psycho 100.
Live every day like you are a credited but unnamed character who appears in exactly one scene in a David Lynch movie.
What would a world without pushbuttons look like? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-would-a-world-without-pushbuttons-look-like
Can a bat know what itâs like to not know what itâs like to be Thomas Nagel?
Lately Iâve been seeing a lot of cold takes by people who think theyâre hot. Like, long-form explanations of how âyou arenât required to agree with film criticismâ and âreading should be a pleasurable, low-pressure activityâ. Am I just disconnected?
Picture of corpus collosum labelled âyou may not like it but this is what peak performance looks likeâ
Progress report: the current build of Manna for our Malices should actually be playable to completion. Gotta double-check, but in theory everything should be reachable. Remaining work: fill in fluff like the rest of the school day.
Party like itâs 1943. #fireworks
Periodic reminder that, by using third party trackers, you are paying somebody to grep their http access log instead of greping your own. So, like, maybe roll your own analytics if you need them?
Re: code â keep throwing it away and rewriting from memory until implementing it doesnât seem like a big deal anymore. At that point, it might be marginally OK. (Or maybe youâve just acclimated to your failures.)
Angus Scrimm looks like a guy whose name is fucking Angus Scrimm
Why Your iPhone Selfies Donât Look Like Your Face - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/your-iphone-selfies-dont-look-like-your-face/578353/
What would space exploration look like if it starred more women? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-would-space-exploration-look-like-if-it-starred-more-women
Teleconferencing is like being on IRC, if everybody was a noob, two people typing at the same time made both of their posts into gibberish, and half the channel has a cat on their keyboard the entire time.
Telekon has a piano cover of Down in the Park & it makes me laugh ever goddamn time I hear it. Itâs like having a muzak cover of Bulls On Parade.
Is there a term for absurd euphemisms constructed for censoring dialogue for television â like âmelon farmerâ and âthis is what happens when you meet a stranger in the alpsâ? Is there a database of them?
Thread by @Aelkus: âStrange Days is seriously underrated The aesthetic of the movie, like Blade Runner is, very good and timeless due to its combination of futu [âŠ]â https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1069354595527344128.html
81: normal. except, if you pop off âescâ, thereâs an actual key under it. like, metal. I think it fits this keyhole in my screen?
Hot take: like most things that are good, Cowboy Bebop is mostly good because they stopped making it before it became bad. (If you donât believe me, watch the movie or read the tie-in manga.)
Remember: if a family member asks about your politics this thanksgiving, tell them youâre an anarchist & would like to abolish the concept of money. Itâll shut them up and itâs probably even true.
Why your Netflix thumbnails donât look like mine - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axCBA3VD5dQ
Conspiracy theories are the result of the same legibilitization process described in âSeeing Like a Stateâ: it replaces actual mechanism with a simpler one & drops details that donât fit, for the sake of ease of representation
Beware parasitic spells: Drawn to conduits of mana like practitioners, they attach themselves to larger spells to hitch a free ride, force themselves into invocations as intrusive thoughts
Why Thereâs No Place Quite Like the American Garage - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-architecture-of-garages
Easy XMPP with WhatsApp like contact discovery via phone number: https://quicksy.im/ #xmpp #quicksy #conversations