i really like the music that comes thru on bandcamp daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/07/01/best-new-ambient-on-bandcamp-june-2019/
Looking for a reason to use Firefox more when developing sites? on macOS it’s the browser that smashes into the least horizontal space. Good if you like having a browser window running all the time. Doubly good if you like running it in Split View.
the year is 2119, the first antarctic city is being built with the assistance of sentient utility fogs, protestors are waving signs like “At the Mountains of Madness was not meant as an instruction manual
, at which point she reaches out to the horizon (a trick of perspective, sure), lifts one of the trees to her lips like a chalice, and drinks the light that’s collected in its crown
It’s not like YHWH is dead, but these days he’s just hopelessly outclassed by Science: Recursively self-improving doctrine, a steady stream of mana from animal and sometimes human sacrifices, a priestdom of millions
The 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐱 (𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑥 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑟) is a passerine bird of medium size known for spreading bushfires, which is a vital part of its reproductive strategy since its eggs will only hatch when cooked. It is a likely inspiration for the greater phoenix myth,
In spring, they rematerialize from the leaves, like slow-motion whirlwinds flocking in the canopy before touching down
MPEG1 Single file C library
If you want to play videos in a native app or game you basically have three options:
Looks like these liberapay guys are not really open to criticism about their usage of third parties: https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/102234891507030801
That looks like my local Apple Store. I wonder how similar the normal ones are to each other.
This is the kind of nerd thing I’d like for my working out, especially since I’m getting into cardio a little bit more.
Never thought I’d see a night-owl-pride thingo like this.
@mdosch@mdosch.de I’ve tried to play games on my phone and iPad but none of the games I’ve ever played on them seem to stick. I’ve had fun — briefly — with Threes and FTL and Really Bad Chess and so forth, but I don’t seem to stick with any one game on my iOS gizmos like I have with, say, FTL-on-Steam, much less TF2 or Dota 2.
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 it’s 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 that’s 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?
‘Sasuga Kei’ is like, the most absurdly dad-jokey pen name I’ve 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 We’re Through Being Cool. Have I met 2 dozen members of any social group? That’s 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 morning↵↵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 can’t 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 doesn’t 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 ‘let’s cover each other in honey and lick it off’
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 ‘ask’. The point of a dating site is that you get to see compatibility before starting a convo, y’know
Reading the DomeKano manga, I keep running into stuff where it’s like, I don’t 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 i’ve 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 it’s almost definitely accidental i sitll find it wonderfully suvbersive
In case you haven’t read the Oshiete Galko-chan manga & have only heard about it: it’s gorgeous, in a really innovative style, heartwarming & funny, & also people’s tshirts say things like ‘camel toe ’ and ‘snowman porno’
holy shit did the domekano anime cut like most of the literature club shit? i don’t remember them going camping & hina getting stung by a wasp
“You like horror movies, huh? What are your favorite genres?” “Well, mostly gothic & art deco, but Burnt Offerings was a fantastic greek revival flick”
OK so one thing I don’t 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). It’s distracting, the way they don’t match the fabric folds.
I want to like exa, but its default color choices are hot garbage. Don’t 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 it’s 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 It’s 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 couldn’t have imagined on their own.
Other ways in which UX is like stand-up comedy: if you omit the setup, the punchline won’t 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 you’re not part of the target audience & your opinion doesn’t matter.
People love to talk about the potential security impact of exotic state-of-the-art shit like GPT-2 and deepfakes, but they’re neither convincing nor the lowest-effort effective way to create disinfo. Spinners scale better than GPT-2.
April 19th: Shitty Campbell vs Cocaine Lacan. (It’s obvious who will win, but it’s equally obvious that the loser will just claim to have won & his fans will believe him, just like they did every other time.)
What It’s 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 ‘big in america’ is like a punk band being ‘big in japan’: 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.