Dude I get pumped for even a few upvotes here, especially if it’s something I’m enthusiastic about. That shit goes far with me 😊 I love you dorks

I have nothing to add to the conversation, except that that cat is freakin gorgeous!

Value gained, actually.

Just gonna pitch in here, but I’m no expert. I was reading people’s reactions when that TLD was introduced, and they raised concerns over the possibility that a bad actor could spoof an address that actually downloads a .zip file to your device when you click the link, even though you may assume it’s an address to a page. No idea what a hypothetical virus could do from a compressed environment, but thats what I remember reading.

Sorry to any experts if I’m muddying the waters with a dumb take!

Could have been the blowoff valve for the turbo! Or a shitty muffler delete on a nearby Infiniti

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Pun intended? But I agree. Something like this was inevitably going to happen.

I played the trumpet for several years and I love that instrument. It’s bad enough that the names coincide; please don’t make it worse 😭

That just means that those who care about humanity should never ever stop or ease the diplomatic pressure. Show him what it means to be an actual leader, not a despot.

I’m curious, on a legit/fanservice spectrum, where would you place Kill La Kill? It shows tons of skin, but it’s a legit part of the story. Of course it’s a dumb premise, but they lean into it anyway, and it does drive the plot in several instances.

As an aside, I enjoyed it a lot because I absolutely love Studio Trigger and their art style, but I’ve stopped recommending it to anyone because the conversation always goes in one direction. I’m not surprised, of course, but I wish people had the ability to resist fixating on that one element and appreciate the cinematography, character development, music, voice acting (including Nobuyuki Hiyama!), and all the other things that make it great…

Technically it was never released, but I was invited to a closed alpha (or beta?) for a game called Chroma, by Harmonix, the OG Guitar Hero people. It was a lot of fun and I’m still sad that it was canceled…

I’ve always been very curious about this technology, but I imagine that they wouldn’t be as good at transmitting high frequencies. I’m no audio engineer so it’s only a hunch of course. Do they sound comparable to a decent pair of buds in the ear?

It would be nice if journalists would describe the amount in a quantity related to the food itself, i.e. “xyz tons of food destined to help people stricken by poverty.”

By labeling it with the dollar amount it only helps the message of the scum who claim to be saving the taxpayer money while stomping on the most vulnerable.

Amen. Haven’t cooked eggs in several years. I like them, but I definitely don’t need them. We Americans are so fucking spoiled all the time.

I hope it doesn’t come to it, but maybe a Great Depression 2 will teach us to resist the call of instant gratification for once in our lives.

Conservatives love to control the narrative by forcing people to deny their ridiculous claims, so do it right back.

Force them to keep denying that they owe France the statue so the admin will never stop legitimizing the idea with their pissbaby tantrums.

I couldn’t agree more with everything you said. It’s an indisputable masterpiece.

Oh I agree 100% on your point about using a guide, but I have this weird fixation on beating it as if I had gotten it on release when I was a kid. The only thing I’m allowing myself is a PDF of the manual that came with it, and no save states. I finally played and beat Super Metroid just recently with the same restrictions (on my childhood SNES and a real cartridge!) and it felt very satisfying.

As for my long-term patience, I have a second monitor and countless hours of long-form YouTube content to keep me entertained through the mundane moments.

I’ll definitely give Samus Returns a try as well. Thanks for the recommendation!

Metroid II, the original one for Game Boy. I want to play AM2R eventually but I want to properly appreciate the work that went into it. And I’m trying my hardest to do it, so far successfully, without consulting a map.

So far I have:

• bomb
• spider ball
• spring ball
• high jump boots
• Varia suit
• wave beam (replaced the ice beam)

After more than seven hours I’m starting to go insane, but my stubbornness knows no bounds. I’ve seen every room of the game at least 20 times and probably bombed every single tile. The only place I know for a fact is new is, well, entirely submerged in lava. I’m at an impasse 😞

Lancia

Sad to see that name here, but they’re nothing like they were in the Group B days. At least my ultimate dream car will never have ads, even if I’ll never be able to afford the car itself 🥲

Do we have a phrase for this yet? Like, we have “bit the onion”, so would this be “planted the bulb”?