Let me say, as a person who worked at a company that used to silently disappear people, it sucked finding out in Thursday that so-and-so has been gone for a week and a half and wasn’t coming back.

So I, at least, appreciate the idea that they get to communicate at all.

News still sucks, but I wanted to throw that in

No, they’ll leave during church service!

Do all Christians call it mass, or is that just a Catholic thing…? 🤔

Smoke up, Johnny!

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Nah, respectfully, I think you’re wrong. Or at least you and I don’t agree on what’s the funny part.

In the original the comic introduces the guy died, we learn about the tattoo, and then the joke is that Death is bashful or whatever. And the extra panel doesn’t really move that joke forward at all, or enhance it or build on it. It kinda undermines it by leaving us with a feeling of “none of that mattered though” rather than leaving us with the image of embarrassed Death. It’s still in there, but it’s no longer the final image that lingers.

But the thing I find interesting is that you’re not alone… I’ve seen jokes and comments before that I felt were just one panel, or one line, too long. We had the punch, and then there’s just something more after. And it’s happened enough I feel like it’s got to be like a “kind of person” or “sense of humour” rather than just “skilled vs unskilled”, you know?

Because your version does have a kind of subversion to it, a sort of second twist… but I think for me it’s a twist back to where we already were, so rather than feeling like it’s adding to the scenario, it instead feels like it’s unconfident in its punchline. Like the comic equivalent of asking someone out, but then hedging with “as a joke”, because you wouldn’t want to be seen taking a risk and failing. But by not sticking to your guns you’ve also weakened your initial pitch. In this case they made the joke that Death is excited and shy, that’s the bold premise, and the new panel instead says “but whatever though he’s still cool and unmoved and the same thing would have happened whether the guy had the tattoo or not, and the joke is actually that you’d think it would even matter nevermind”

Well, that’s my unsolicited critique! Sorry I just happened to read your comment while I had time and was feeling “typey” 😛

Maybe the couch is the first kid? Sex with your kid is one of the principles of the administration, I believe.

Yeah… that’s why it’s allowed to expire now. We don’t allow people to use useful or relevant things! 😛

Right, that’s where the other definitions come in. I’d say itch is a distributor rather than a publisher, but even if you don’t care about that distinction, it is definitely the case that itch doesn’t tell the developer to do anything. So publishing on itch doesn’t affect the vision for the game.

Nintendo… I mean kinda yeah. They’re a weird one. Some of their games they’re just the publisher, and there is another developer with a different name. But some things they do actually develop and self-publish. And some of the games have surprisingly few people working on them…

There may actually be a few Nintendo games that are kinda indie, oddly enough.

I think the most accurate definition is “produced without a publisher”. That’s the thing they’re independent of.

Where it gets grey is things like “okay it has a publisher, but they’re tiny and cute and only publish indie-feeling game”

So the “feeling” of indie is “made by a small group of people with a shared cohesive vision and minimal outside influence”, where publishers tend to be large sources of outside influence, and teams larger than, like, 50 people tend to be unable to all have a truly shared cohesive vision. And a single person, by definition, always has a shared vision no matter what they make. But if a publisher is low-touch, or brings a game that’s basically done to market without asking for changes, and the game feels cohesive and personal, then that’s good enough.

As soon as The Muppets and Lucasfilm were both owned by Disney, my friends and I spent a lot of time taking about how a Muppet Star Wars just makes sense.

Now, it’s a bit of a crowded space, with Blue Harvest and Space Balls already doing a lot of parody work in this area, but I think there’s still room. The only problem is that I think the normal formula would have Luke be played by a human and everyone else be Muppets, but Kermit feels like he’d be a great Luke. So you’d need one of the other key roles to be human to balance it out.

I don’t know, I haven’t seen the scene or heard the vocal delivery, I’m not sure what kind of anime it is, or what kind of tone it’s trying to strike. If the mood is “she has discovered a dark secret and is scared” then yeah, “I didn’t realize you were a pedophile” would work great.

But if instead she’s found some porn that isn’t necessarily naked children, and it’s played off as deadpan funny or awkward or misunderstanding, then I think “I didn’t realize you were a pedophile” might not come across light heartedly in the way “I didn’t realize you were a creep” or something similar would. Even if it’s an accurate “word for word” translation, it might not sound right in the scene or match the character’s delivery.

But I don’t know this anime or what it’s about, so I don’t know what the tone should be. It just sounds like there’s disagreement with the line as chosen.

If the term isn’t meant to be so “heavy” in the original usage, and there isn’t an equivalent “light” term here, I wonder if it would’ve been better to just translate it as “I didn’t realize you were a creep” or something else that misses the nuance, but gets the intended feeling and tone across.

Cancel subscription, the headline:

Millenials are killing subscription-based businesses!

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Oh those are just inverted toes! They’re more common than people think, but if you stimulate them they might pop right out.

But if your toes are not inverted normally, and then one day they suddenly are inverted, you should talk to a doctor because that can be a sign of foot cancer.

*Doo doo doo doo doo… *

I’m not sure I know this use of the term ethic, but it sounds interesting. Care to define or illuminate?

Having the bios able to see the disk, but a live boot can’t, makes no real sense to me. If a partition was messed up I’d get that, but to not even see there is a disk to partition, doesn’t feel right. I know it’s probably a dumb question, but you didn’t happen to be messing around in BIOS settings or something right? Is it possible you changed some settings a while ago but haven’t rebooted in a while, and this issue was waiting for you this whole time?

If you don’t have any other slots on the mother board to try the disk in, you could buy an external adapter for whatever kind of disk you have, which would allow you to use this thing as a USB drive. That should at least allow the live boots to see it.

Also also, is it possible you have two disks, and grub is on one and your data is on the other? Again, kinda weird question, but it’s a kinda weird situation…

I’ve spent a lot of time with Open Source Programmers and other nerds, including in person, and I believe at least some of the issue is that some of them feel grooming and hygiene is purely aesthetic, bordering on “shallow”. Like the way many of us think about Looksmaxxing or cosmetic surgery.

Like, you spend a bunch of time and money doing your hair or washing your clothes? That time didn’t improve your card playing, it didn’t teach you anything new. Shouldn’t people be judged by what’s inside instead of what’s outside? Shouldn’t people be judged by their skill or merit rather than their looks?

And I intentionally wrote that last one to feel borderline, because I think a lot of people do feel that way, and do believe those things, but not to the same extent. Their boundary for “hygenic enough” requires clean. And maybe the folks I’m characterizing don’t know that it’s actively unpleasant to be around someone who smells bad? Or maybe they’re so steeped in it they don’t know how bad it is?

Tangentially, this is one of the reasons some fem people struggle in these spaces. Any amount of eye-shadow, nice shirt, or hair-style is deemed as “superfluous”, and so any person who spends their time and money on such things is regarded with suspicion. They’re an idiot who wastes their time on looks at best, not to be trusted making other decisions, or a charlatan trying to trick lesser men with their wiles at worst. Those are the only two choices, because there’s no other imaginable reason someone could do these things.

On March 27, 2018, Tenor was acquired by Google. The company has continued to operate as a standalone brand.

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Huh, well if you couldn’t see a way to make money with it, maybe you shouldn’t have bought it…

For me Jellyfin’s strength is that it can keep track of my wife’s place in her shows independent from mine, and also that the metadata and watched state and progress is synced between phone, tablet, and TV.