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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Mmmmm yes daddy billionaire business mogul, feed me more headlines, tell me what to think! Seed and manipulate my entire worldview harder! I love it when you twist my point of view! Twist it harder! Oh, you’ve brought vague state-sponsored talking points to double team me? Yes. Yes! Make me your sloppy anxiety ridden mess daddy! Let me slurp up your scum! Make me forget about how innacurate articles about my field of expertise are while I swallow every other article you give me! Fill me with your news daddy! ❤️


    Dropping the shitposting though? (Not that you really deserve it with the blatant patronizing)

    There are so many better targets for your effort than people choosing to not be led around by corporate interests through intentionally emotionally charged news.

    There are fucking 20 year old studies that show that over exposure to news media causes people to overestimate crime rates to a ridiculous degree, and even more so with violent crime rates. The news has only become significantly more polarizing and emotionally charged in the many years since.

    Save your efforts for careful organization and planning locally. Understand that 90% of the news will have no impact on you and those around you and is only meant for shifting public opinions. Not for actually informing. Shut the fuck up online and stop painting a target on your back. Practice fucking OPSEC if you have absolutely any seriousness about this, otherwise admit to yourself that you’re just larping or not going to take any action yourself.

    I sure as hell aren’t taking any action that could put the people I care about at risk before shtf. It’s not a judgement or impugnment of your character, it’s just that you should stop being so damn openly judgemental if that’s the case for you.


    Most importantly, as I called out in my first fucking sentence of my last comment responding to you, it’s a massive fucking false dichotomy. It is entirely possible to stay informed and up to date on events without fucking wallowing in the nonstop deluge of “sky is falling” headlines.

    And even if this black and white dichotomy was in any way valid, your insistence that only “duh libruls” do it is even more absurd. Get outside and meet people. I’m fairly introverted and I still regularly meet and see people from all across the political spectrum multidimensionalhypercompass showing the full variation of news awareness from “What do you mean ICE has built a Guantanamo on US soil for illegal immigrants?” to “I read every headline from 6 different news sources and cross reference each article”. Yes, that means I see fucking MAGATs that are absurdly tapped into the vein of fresh news but somehow still deluding themselves into MAGA. One is a relative of mine unfortunately.






  • Way to ruin it! I can only get off if my Shrek x Sonic is outside of wedlock.

    Now on the other hand, if this is Shrek trying to move forward with Sonic after their bastard-affront-to-god hybrid shreknic baby died due to m-preg birth complications, and they have a poor marriage trapped in the shadow of that loss until Shrek starts an affair with Shadow?

    Well then I’m back in.


  • Time for a rewatch, it’s kinda worse.

    Simba: I killed my dad, was exiled on penalty of death, and almost starved to death.

    Chucklefucks: Have you tried eating bugs and positive thinking?

    longer write up

    Simba thinks he killed his father. Then some killers chase him away from his home and everything he’s ever known. Then he nearly starves to death.

    These two fuckers charge up on a lark, just looking for kicks by scaring buzzards, only barely stopping to care when one notices he’s still breathing, and only then because they want to use him as their personal bodyguard.

    Then they tell his starving carnivore ass to eat some bugs, and finally the “have you just tried shutting the fuck up and ignoring your trauma?”







  • As a relatively new father (my daughter is around 2.5 years old), you have plenty of time. They’ll be a loving little lump for a while.

    What she has loved so far:

    • Bluey (a beautiful show about parenting in disguise as a kids show)
    • Mister Roger’s Neighborhood (all episodes available on archive.org, but they have to be reorganized/renamed at least for Kodi tagging)
    • The Mhppets Show (and anything else muppets)
    • (Modern) Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (cg show, and Clubhouse+, the short renewal)
    • Dragon Prince
    • Sesame Street
    • Moana (2 to a lesser extent)
    • Finding Nemo/Dory
    • Lion King
    • Little Mermaid
    • Bedknobs and Broomsticks
    • Mary Poppins
    • Aladin
    • Frozen (and all the spinoff stuff)
    • Mickey Donald and Goofy: Three Musketeers (this is her current obsession, probably watched it 10 times in the last week)

    I’ll come back and edit this with my own shows later.


  • They took the completed game and worked backwards to the underlying code that makes all of it work. They confirm it’s an exact match by using the code they worked backwards towards to make the game again and confirm they have an exact match to the orginal game file(s).

    Once this is done, it is possible to change literally anything about the game, as you have access to the code that makes it work. One of the most popular things to do is to replace the parts of the code that are specific to the console it was originally made for with code that can run on PC. This results in an accurate PC version of the original game. After that, other coders usually dig into the PC “version” to add all sorts of easy modding support.

    This has already been done with Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and Star Fox 64, and they all have easily moddable PC versions now. This has resulted in things like Render96 and Ray Tracing support for SM64, a bunch of bug fixes and an insanely deep randomizer for OoT, and discovery of cut levels and entire game modes partially left in the game code that had only been mentioned in interviews in Star Fox 64.

    It’s also worth noting that similar projects exist for a whole bunch of other games. The Pokemon Emerald Reverse Engineering project has allowed all the absurd new romhacks with new features like Mariomon and Too Many Types 2, with Pokemon having 3 types and a total of like 70 types in game. Similar (but technically different under the hood) projects for Sonic Unleashed and the Jak series on PS2 have resulted in great moddable PC versions of those as well.


  • Does he really, or does he employ people who have this knowledge?

    Even giving him the biggest possible benefit of the doubt, ignoring his politics, and ignoring just about everything else negative about him… so many of his projects miss their announced release dates with little to no technical discussion/disclosure on why.

    On top of that, we only need to look at his short lived attempt to style himself as a particularly skilled gamer. If he was so clearly lying and cheating (by using an account built by someone else) on something that inconsequential, it should cast significant doubt on his other claimed skills and accomplishments (if none of his other shit caused that doubt for you yet).