Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

@lambdagrrl Same. As I understand it: The headphones press the ear back against the skull, and the bent shape compresses some blood vessels. The lack of circulation over time can cause pain.

https://www.polygon.com/2021/1/7/22214717/capcom-vs-snk-an-oral-history

This is a very cool look into the development of Capcom vs SNK 1 & 2. I only played a bit of 2, but it was a strikingly stylish game with nothing else quite like it.

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@lambdagrrl I think this was a Redwall book

"'Ostensible', which descends from the Latin word 'ostendere' ('to show'), suggests a discrepancy between a declared or implied aim or reason and the true one."

..So what you're telling me here is that Romans thought lying was moé

Finally made a pun so bad to get a partner to groan and make a face of despairing disappointment for a good 5 seconds

Hawoo

A bizarre bit of trivia I will always treasure is when a colony of leafcutter ants escaped inside the Millennium Dome

https://www.tes.com/news/leafcutter-ant-invasion-millennium-dome?amp

istg anytime someone posts a problem on r/adhd there will be 3 people piping up to say they've had that problem, and it's actually the best thing that ever happened to them

(There's Slay the Spire filling a lot of that time too, I just tend to assume most people into such things have already heard of it)

Recently been spending a lot of time with turn-based roguelites. Griftlands is very good. Renowned Explorers is surprisingly deep. Both have multifaceted gameplay that goes indepth into non-combat options, which is cool.

Griftlands has an excellent snail mom-friend and a lot of emergent "that rando you bought a drink for/beat up earlier is suddenly really important" character stuff

Renowned Explorers has a luchador lady delivering crushing verbal putdowns on passing sheep

Both are good