The “so famous” moment was so cute. I’m glad Kumial is able to take it in stride, I would feel so awkward.

Doing good does not guarantee rewards. Expecting rewards for doing good leads to disappointment, but doing good is absolutely rewarded sometimes.

There are plenty of gamers (myself included) who do actually like well-designed achievements, and they can actually really help you vary how you engage with a game. I’m sure that publishers also love the analytics, but pretending that they aren’t for regular people at all is silly too.

I didn’t know Seamless coop invasions were a thing at all! I’ve been wanting to do a coop run with a friend but also wanted to get invaded while we run through stuff, but assumed that invasions wouldn’t work properly.

Do invaders need to have the Seamless mod installed too or do you get Invaders from vanilla clients? I’m guessing it’s the former.

I played Red Room a decent amount when it first came out and hadn’t been completely taken over by children, and it was a great time! Apparently I had earned some fancy items, and over the last 8 years I’ve had like 20 people cold-messaging me on various platforms because I used the same username on Rec Room and they wanted the items.

Capitalism does not give incentives for self care and living like a human being. I see a lot of stuff like this in communities like this, and it’s because part of why our current system sucks is because it doesn’t give us time to just live.

There’s an annoying amount of people that believe that having fun and being joyful is not allowed when bad things are happening in the world.

They seem to know that bad things are always happening though…

The point is that humans are weird at evaluating risk.

Past a certain size, sample size stops mattering. You can filter the data to try and control for outliers and confounding variables, but with as much data we have on driving and flying, it’s just a fact that you are much more likely to be in an accident in a SINGLE car drive than you are in a SINGLE airplane ride.

And if you really think about it, it makes sense. All the pilots are heavily trained. They mostly don’t need to be constantly alert looking for other vehicles/pedestrians. The density of traffic in the air is much lower than a road, so you’re just way less likely to hit another plane and you don’t need to avoid pedestrians.

You are me! I can nap on my back, but something about night time sleeping makes me require laying on my side. Cannot go to sleep at night on my back at all.

Some people don’t get the same enjoyment out of eating than others. I’m honestly considering just starting to replace lunch with one of these meal replacements because I often find deciding on and making/eating food to be very draining sometimes.

That’s how I say it every time. Them and Alvvays.

I say this multiple times per week.

DARE programs were notoriously ineffective. Some studies found that students who went through it were MORE likely to try drugs.

I also had a fairly friendly cop come in for our DARE classes when I was a kid. They also basically just said “drugs are always bad, just say no, if you don’t your whole life is ruined.”

They didn’t talk about why people use drugs. They lied or exaggerated negative effects. They discouraged any critical thinking about it. It was not a good program.

I mean, isn’t showing that you can respond to a change in pressure request kinda a big deal? The person receiving the massage saying, “you’re not using the right pressure” shouldn’t be considered a negative mark at all, but ignoring it and them needing to repeat it over and over should be bad.

Pretending your peers are doing a good job just because they’re your peers doesn’t do them favors, especially when they’re learning something that relies on communication and responding to feedback.

That looks like some fucking good pizza.

Well done.

I’d also like to throw in

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off - anime version of the movie with all the same voice cast, with a major major twist at the first episode (hint - it’s very different from the movie and much more mature while still keeping the same vibes)

Adventure Time - Fionna and Cake - an excellent follow up to Adventure Time. Idk how comprehensible it is to non-adventure time watchers, but it is it’s own story that does some cool stuff.

Blue Eyed Samurai - just a great revenge story with gorgeous animation.

Have you seen Pantheon? I’ve only seen a few episodes of Vox Machina but Pantheon is legitimately great and very interesting, though also completely different tone and vibe wise.

Honestly this was my biggest “wtf” takeaway from this. There’s a Microsoft Copilot DISCORD SERVER? Are there other “official” Discord servers for other random Microsoft products? Why aren’t they using Teams or whatever?

To be fair, they lay everyone off even when the teams make a good game too.

Is there any data on how many actual people still regularly use Twitter? I feel like you’re assuming that that’s where the users are, and maybe that’s still true, but I don’t know a single real life person who still actually uses it.