If you add a second hand (or get really flexible) you can give it eyes that move. It’s 8am for me so no sharing, but my kids like that one. It’s super creepy projected into the ceiling, too.

:o

Time to do another run later tonight, too, I suppose… lol. Thanks!

Most recently, Slay the Princess. It’s a VN, and I typically do not play VNs, but wow. It’s actually quite amazing and I can’t actually tell you why because it’d spoil it.

I get pleasantly surprised all the time though, since I like to use a randomizer to choose my next game sometimes. I think one of the other experiences was the Rusty Lake games. I got them in a bundle and since it was a puzzler, I had my friend join me in comms and it was… very strange. But we will use references from those games as insider nods to one another.

Yes, but when I had a 7 recently it was hard to aim. The whole shower looked like a Jackson Pollock.

Given that I will sometimes reflect for a whole day on just a comment getting a couple down votes, I can’t imagine how someone who actually posts stuff feels.

But hey, it’s the world wide web, you’re bound to get a few people like that just like driving on a freeway, there’s always a possibility of someone brake checking you because they disliked your coexist bumper sticker or something.

It uh… It actually gets considerably worse? But sure, faster, around halfway.

8 chapters of open world, remaining is more like FFXIII linear gameplay with a story that obviously was written by someone else. The pacing changes dramatically, too. You’ll know the halfway mark because you will be warned you can’t go back to the open world.

The DLC has it’s moments, I guess. You kind of need it to fully get the story.

For what it’s worth you can also use a magnifying glass to create designs in wood; it doesn’t have to be for ant murder.

My add to this is a graphing calculator because you can put games on it and parents simply didn’t (and probably still don’t) know. You thought I was doing calculus? Ha level 19 in Tetris.

Interestingly, many skip that first step. Iirc, it’s about 30% who don’t get more awake but rather start to relax under caffeine. About the same % who also need to poop right after, but not the same people. Lol

Significantly better, actually, but it helps that I didn’t spend my teens and 20s doing hard drugs. Uhh… in the US.

Of all things I have in common with people outside the US, somehow that’s one of my favorites, haha. I think your comment made my day, lol

Whoa! Is that why I hate Hershey’s? I don’t mind their dark but the milk one is awful lol

Reminds me of my own issue with parmesan cheese in things; I taste a vomit smell and just a little will make it bad to intolerable. I followed a recipe that added a sprinkle to a large pot of soup and to be the whole thing just tasted like vomit soup. My wife didn’t notice at all. I think I’m sensitive to butyric acid, the shared factor between the two.

I’ll use your stink bug example in the future when cilantro comes up, though, especially since so many people I know love cilantro and can’t imagine (and to be fair it’s very good without said gene, lol)

I still doomscroll to stay a little informed but my recent salvation has been free ebooks on my phone. Same phone strolling action but instead of doom, I get fun little mysteries.

Every morning, instead of pouring ourselves a bowl of cereal, we get a bowl of war crimes.

NPR yesterday mentioned quite clearly in an interview with John Bolton that economic sanctions are the biggest factor in Iran, and very much on purpose. It is a US strategy, even pre-Trump.

He acknowledged the cultural upheaval that’s been going on years ago, too, and also that negotiations with their regime is a “waste of oxygen.” But sanctions were definitely central.

Though I suppose NPR isn’t really sensationalized… you wouldn’t interview John Bolton if you wanted sensational news.

Yeah… That’s a violation of FERPA and is reportable offense that’ll get ya fired or sued. Lol

I love the idea of someone trying this stupid question irl only to realize it wasn’t even plugged in. That’s … well fuck, that’s most IT work. The convoluted approach is definitely the wrong one. Lol

Santa already extrapolates data for children without lists but with generative AI, we’re going to see new and exciting ways to disappoint children this Christmas!

It’s a lot of individual tables because Santa’s excel struggles with anything past a few hundred thousand rows. It’s not just names, but addresses, lists of desires, and so on.

There are around 2 billion children. If you wonder why he skips so many children, it’s not religion or poverty, it’s because Santa’s files got corrupted.

Ah, my teenage hero. Good chance I direct downloaded something; the Internet was so much better back then, lol.