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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cslu7zFmPjM

I cannot express how happy this wrestling match between two invisible men makes me. 😂 It's so good

Does anyone have any recommendations for indie gamedev servers or communities?

I really miss the queer indie scene on Twitter, but the thought of going back to Twitter makes my soul try to crawl out of my body to escape

There's "simplify for general consumption" and then there's "simplify to the point yr biases become the dominant message". Primitive/developed distinctions definitely fall in the latter category.

Everything evolves! Some species just refine or develop different traits from others, settle on traits that are more recognisably distinct from the rest of the group, or are more recognisably distinct from their ancestors.

Like, a rat 'looks' more like an early mammal than a bat or a kangaroo, because it fills a similar ecological niche to many of them. That doesn't make the rat more 'primitive' or the kangaroo more 'developed', and it doesn't mean the rat's been twiddling its genetic thumbs while the others evolved 'past it'.

It's a way of introducing evolutionary concepts that carries a whole lotta baggage that's false and encourages an outdated view of Natural Heirarchies and all that Aristotlean jazz.

Oooh

This pop biology book on ants uses "primitive" and "developed" species unironically and without caveats

I am having some Strong Opinions here

"Jack Evans really showing that training from Calgary.. What they call 'The Dungeon', where they'll stretch you in many different ways."

I love how every heel who promos against Orange Cassidy has to just go with "His laid-back, cool guy attitude annoys me!!!"

I suppose when you only have one character beat for people to riff on it forces them into a limited range

But it does make a lotta guys suddenly come across like a highschool principle from a 90s sitcom

Oh no your queer curiosity has dragged you into a subterranean subculture of weirdos

Surprise, you were one already and that's cool as heck

Hackers is Nightbreed with computers

Nightbreed is Hackers with puppets

Been putting a lot of time into Pokemon Shield lately. It's so good, the new games are real huge steps forward from Sun/Moon in a way I wasn't really expecting, in terms of making it easier to get into and getting rid of a lot of excess faff, and new features that feel like meaningful additions.

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I am trying to follow an American pattern for some clothes, and it is frankly worrying. Who measures things in 'eighths of a yard'? No-one else's tapemeasure has those on. Just say it in inches.

All my shoes are way too shallow for insoles. D: Or at least for these insoles, they have pretty sturdy pads on the heel which push my heel way too far up in my Vans, and squish my toes in my (more Converse-shaped) ankle sneakers.

Getting shoes that just fit normally is hard enough, I guess I shoulda figured I couldn't cram something else in there too.. orz

Will be getting some probably-slightly-too-big walking shoes soon, hoping the two balance each other out. 🤞

That feeling when you run out of your favourite fabric and spend the rest of your days mournfully browsing "almost, but not quite it" alternatives

Hoping to someday be reunited..

Every time I catch a Goldeen in Pokemon Go, I get earwormed with 'Jolene' by Dolly Parton for hours afterwards

Just, yknow

Sung to a cartoon fish

Seem to have damaged the tendons at the bottom of my right foot, and a little on the left. Need to give that time to heal. Started off as a pinprick pain at the bottom of my foot, has spread and become a more traditional sort of 'area of pain' and also weird stabs of pain in my middle toes (Which makes it sound increasingly unlikely to be Plantar Fascitis, which was my first bet).

Almost certainly from going on regular 3km~ walks after barely walking anywhere. Doing so in shoes with no arch support probably contributed some as well. Vans are comfy but not walking shoes.

Realising just how much sitting posture is reliant on how much of your weight & balance is going through your feet. How weight much you place on your feet completely changes the tilt of your hips and lower spine.

(Also how much being tall messes with all the good-posture stuff in ways that rarely ever get brought up)

Tired: Evangelion is a Jesus metaphor
Wired: Hey Duggee is a Jesus metaphor

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.

"'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