Don’t bite the pubes.

But they’d have written it in alienese. That’s why I say dolphins - without a formal writing system of their own, they’d naturally default to a human one for the purpose of studying humans.

I’ve been enjoying this on Xbox but kept wishing I’d gotten it for Switch instead. I’ll probably pick it up again!

dimensions.com

It’s the weirdest shit I’ve ever seen. Before I get into it, I want to point out that I’ve been using this site for years, since before LLMs were a thing, so this is definitely not generated by AI.

It’s just like, generic outline drawings of things. Objects, people, places, everything.

So sometimes I like to draw, and I need a model to work from for the pose and the proportions, and this site has a ton of them. Child kicking a ball? Yes. Adult man sitting on a bench? Several options to choose from. Woman carrying a box? Three different poses.

Pointing, pushing, protesting, thinking, vacuuming, raising one’s hand to summon a waiter in a restaurant, it’s all there.

I’m sure there’s some kind of industrial use for it, like for diagrams or blueprints or something, but then we get to the descriptions. Like on the page for people carrying boxes, it says:

People lift boxes either in their personal lives or at work. People lift boxes to move residences. Mailmen or delivery truck drivers lift boxes everyday as part of their job. Some jobs may require their applicants to be able to lift a certain weight of box. When lifting boxes, it is important to lift with your knees instead of your back to prevent back injury.

Then there’s always three questions, which they provide answers to. For carrying, those questions are:

What is a carry on bag?

What is carrying capacity?

How much can a horse carry?

Why? Whom is that for?

Under the pictures of elderly people it asks things like “What are the best exercises for maintaining mobility in seniors?” and “How can seniors adapt their homes for safety and accessibility?”

Is this for dolphins? Did a dolphin learn to read English, and they want to understand human society?

I’m struggling to find the weirdest examples, because honestly it’s the breadth as well as the depth. Someone clearly put a ton of work into this, and I love it, but I don’t understand it.

It’s so good. It’s actually even better without the Muppets talking, but obviously that’s part of the video’s charm.

https://youtu.be/oiMZa8flyYY

I used to only buy name brand snacks. I like the consistency, and I can afford it, so I’d spend the extra few cents. And honestly I just didn’t even pay attention to the price.

But $6 for a bag of Cheetos? I can still afford that, but I won’t because fuck them. I’m buying store brand for life now. If they put the price lower than it was before and fire someone for being so disrespectful to their customers, I’ll give them another shot, but that’s not going to happen.

No, but I’m very familiar with the mid-quel tv series, Lion Guard. It was my 6-year-old daughter’s first real info dump. She’ll go on about the lore for an hour, explaining about Scar’s return, the Roar, and why Kion doesn’t show up in Lion King 2.

What about a scorpion?

Yeah, my kids are obsessed with it. It’s… not great.

Kovu

Like from Lion King 2?

It’s weird to sell a new game only in a bundle. Makes me think it won’t be good enough to sell on its own.

But I’ll consider buying this just for the original Ecco. It remains one of the most atmospheric games I’ve ever played. That music, and the feeling of claustrophobia, just incredible.

When I was a kid, Big Blue freaked me out, so I rarely made it past him. I know you don’t fight him or anything; I just used to get scared and stop playing. I’ve always wanted to revisit the game as an adult.

I actually talked to all of the players, and they all agreed with the reviewers. They said NV is actually a little overrated. 🤷

Metacritic says 3 and 4 were both better reviewed than NV. Took me like ten seconds to look it up.

Doesn’t sound like they’ll necessarily be honest about the situation either then.

Same.

Possible I’ll pick it back up if there’s a worthwhile game on it. But it would take multiple releases to convince me, and I’m more likely to cancel again right after.

I used to just have it on auto-renew. Oh well.

If I was walking through the woods and saw a bike standing against a tree I’d think, “Hey, that’s someone’s bike.”

If I was walking through the woods and stumbled across a bike on the ground under a bunch of leaves, I’d think, “Hey, someone must have abandoned this bike. Free bike!”

Seems like you know a lot about it. That was interesting enough that I almost forgot who you are. So maybe it’s that AI knows a lot about it.

I said they didn’t need to take a TARP loan. They did take it.

It was explained to me that this was because the government requested for them to take it, because it would help legitimize the program if all the banks took it.

But it wasn’t free money. It was a loan that was paid back with interest. As much as I hate and disagree with the concept of “too big to fail”, the US government made a huge profit on the TARP program.

A modern day Jabberwocky.

Don’t worry if you understand it - the point of Jabberwocky is that we can figure out so much nonsense through context.

No way. A strong response against COVID would have been an easy win.

Remember at the beginning of COVID, when Trump was asked “What do you say to Americans who are scared?” A softball question so soft that it would melt in a cup of hot chocolate. Literally any president ever would have a historic soundbite as an answer. George W. Bush would have sounded like the most presidential motherfucker you’ve ever heard.

Trump said: “I say you’re a terrible reporter.”

So I think Trump’s response to COVID was uniquely disastrous to him on every level. The fact that anyone ever took him seriously will continue to be a national and historical embarrassment.