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the neat thing about the bouba-kiki experiment is that it's now practically impossible to perform in its original form, because everyone is so primed on it
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@artemis@vulpine.club "What would you do for a klondike bar" "I dunno, pay like a buck fifty at a gas station?"
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@trysdyn DMs only ever federate to instances where their addressees are, right?
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@owashii@plush.city @SteelWool by that definition, we've never beaten the game at less than 100%
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@owashii@plush.city yeah dolphin's pretty much the only game in town when it comes to gamecube or wii emulation--it's extremely good

(it does both because the gamecube and wii are basically the same hardware in a different package)
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re: old radar attitudes from what i can tell 

@heatherhorns masers were invented long before lasers, and the first lasers were actually called "optical masers", as they were the same principle but operated on visible light insteead of microwaves/radio waves
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re: old radar attitudes from what i can tell 

@heatherhorns look if it's a laser you can shoot
- that's called a maser, lasers weren't invented yet and didn't have a name
- radar is specifically the use of radio waves for detecting things and sensing the distance to them. use of radio waves for anything else is not radar

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re: old radar attitudes from what i can tell 

@heatherhorns "x-ray vision"
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@heatherhorns yeah i would think people would know better by then too but apparently they didn't
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@heatherhorns giant ant? sure, that's fine

killing things with radar? do you have any idea what radar *is*
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@heatherhorns i wonder how long it was between the 50s and when the average person would understand just how much that entire concept is nonsensical
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@heatherhorns i just made this up as something that would be utterly ridiculous for a trivia quiz to ask
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@heatherhorns exactly how many instances of the word "the" are printed in the full run of comics

counting multiple copies of the same issue
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@owashii@plush.city the medallions were originally going to be usable items too, like bombos, ether, and quake from alttp
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leaving work for lunch today, we saw a building down the street that was *pouring* out smoke

we didn't stop to offer aid because there were already a ton of emergency vehicles there and we'd just get in the way before we'd manage to do anything useful

i hope everyone is okay, though

that's the first time we've seen something like that actually happening in real time, in person
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