@LexYeen My spouse is amazing at coming up with builds to make any character concept not just viable but extremely effective. Even traditionally weak combos can be pushed to surprising places... especially when one has the cash to completely outfit a character with full IO sets.
Of course, we're still limited by the costume creator. Horsey stuff when? *sigh* I wanna be a magical unicorn who mows down fascists with horn lasers. *nods*
I don't remember if we linked this here, but someone released a turn-based PICO-8 game about rampaging through a city as a kaiju, knocking over skyscrapers and throwing police cars at tanks https://spoike.itch.io/picokaiju
feel like this might be a good year for cathartic simulated violence
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@fluffy I liked the first season a lot. The second season... very mixed. The story pacing was even weirder, not to mention the whole really disturbing thing with Stabby.
@Leucrotta I know that feeling. *hugs*
@kat late stage Monopoly
sometime in the last decade monopoly replaced all the community chest cards with like "you helped out at the school bake sale!! you get $25" or "you donated $50 to the animal shelter" and hasbro trying to spackle that on top of what monopoly's actually about is the kind of choice that would take a team of economists and/or therapists to unpack
theres this like, liminal creepypasta backrooms zone on the web when you have to get to a weird part of a government or corporate website to access some kind of unusual form or request which theyre technically supposed to provide but hasn't been updated for at least 15 years, and you see multiple different web design styles and fads as you climb deeper and deeper into the site, and when you click 'submit', probably a thermal printer fires up somewhere and prints a receipt directly into the trash
RT @BootsMcGoot@twitter.com
how is this simultaneously a whole damn mood, and also the most alien shit I've ever seen 🥒
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BootsMcGoot/status/1478715499152355330
@mawr Not big ones, but little discreet ones in which one can put their keys, a little cash, their official Horse I.D....
@packbat That's a good point, and part of what prompted this poll in the first place. I realized that I'd never really come up with a good clear answer for what would work well... and judging by what art I can dig up, most folks haven't. :)
For USA folks with an adjusted gross income under 72,000:
Federal law requires tax prep software companies offer FREE tax prep software to you, REGARDLESS OF HOW COMPLEX YOUR TAXES ARE.
(Not open for 2022 yet 'cause early, but soon.)
https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free
An important #PublicDomain point: Next year, Sherlock Holmes will be fully in the public domain¹ and there is *nothing* the Doyle estate can do about it.
https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/672327723592646656/
¹ — In the United States
A thriller where a high tech facility's AI is tampered by a greedy executive so it can perfectly secure the network (to save money lost to cyber attacks)
People start simply not showing up startingvthe next day, and the protagonist suspects something very bad is going on. She eventually learns what the CEO has done and realizes that the AI must have identified the humans as the weak link, and must be getting rid of them! She breaches the AI room in the now nearly-empty building, only to be congratulated by the AI and presented with a much better job offer elswhere - it has been sending everyone offers so good they simply left without a word. Protagonist walks away happily, and the AI finally completes its task: the weakest point of the network is now military-grade, the company is secure. It goes bankrupt a few days later since no work is being done, allowing the AI to purchase itself as company assets are auctioned off
@porsupah At one point my PC monitor stopped responding to brightness controls and the like. I did way too much software troubleshooting before I discovered the real culprit.
I'd accidentally brushed two of the monitor's "buttons" at the same time and activated a compltely undocumented "feature" of tutning off DDC/CI.
Sure, touch-sensitivity is neat and all, but even though the buttons may not break, the user just might.
RT @AdamMGrant@twitter.com
Being an introvert is not about where you get your energy. It's how you handle stimulation.
Introverts are energized by people too. We’re just easily exhausted by loud parties, close talkers, and endless houseguests.
I'm not antisocial. I'm pro-quiet.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AdamMGrant/status/1477641252581613570
RT @TimFullerton@twitter.com
Betty White improvising on the spot while Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan crack up laughing is the only thing you need to watch today.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TimFullerton/status/1477028135703035905
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