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this is some zelda trading quest nonsense he's gonna want a xylophone, and the only way to get one is by offering a jar of spices to a fitness instructor who's hanging out in a town you can't even get to until after dungeon six a narwhal has the spices

someone on youtube has spent the past year regularly uploading quick little sketches made by modding celeste i kind of love them, the comedic timing is absolutely perfect, especially the abrupt endings here's one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1S3...

i like it when the things that bad people want to happen do not happen i think it is neat

happy 60th birthday to st. louis's iconic gateway arch The Gateway Arch: I'm Not Sure Why We Did That But Okay™

you know it's going to be a good taskmaster episode when the podcast about it is noticeably longer than the episode itself

amazing but true: the pyramids were built closer to the 80s than to the present day

time to queue up the bit about being an astronaut who brought their wallet

on the one hand, i think it would be incredible if we finally made it into the world series on the other, things famously did not go well the last time a mariner defeated a bird

they should make a new medal that you can only get by finding errors in the work of abel prize winners call it the cain prize

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

i hope everyone has a lovely spreadsheet day may you appreciate the marvel and convenience of spreadsheets, this and every -7 sorry, i meant 0.5882352941176470 ugh where's the setting, how do i turn this off

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

well, it's a big day for ol' projectyl i finally realized the "stat" in the word "statue" is because they're static animatronics should be called dynamues

books should teleport you they should have a little window in the first page that shows a preview video swooping through the world described within except for some of them, which contain trapped evildoers

At the bookstore.

frogs are in their redemption arc and i am here for it i thought for sure the pepe years would ruin their image for a lot longer

i am seldom as invested in taskmaster as i am this season ania keeps bringing in amazing prizes and greg keeps giving them one point when there's always lower-quality and/or less relevant prizes on offer and it is *maddening* hashtag justiceforania, are hashtags still a thing, were they ever a thing

hear me out: what if instead of this, we turned NYT _Connections_ into a US gameshow. you could even make it so that a few of the rounds expanded the way things could be connected - what comes fourth in a sequence, that sort of thing. Add a buzzer round at the end to keep things exciting.

the robertson-webb rotating-knife procedure is probably your best bet for a true three-person envy-free cake cutting stromquist requires too many knives, barnabel-brams needs a whole flowchart, and ideally everyone gets a single connected piece instead of chunks, so selfridge-conway etc. are out

i have just received a text thanking me for my recent visit to chuck e. cheese and asking me to take a brief survey about my experience i have never been to a chuck e. cheese should i take the survey anyway

today i learned that in the late 1960s there was an opera called "help, help, the globolinks!" in which a boarding school is attacked by aliens whose only weakness is music now you have learned that too, unless you already knew it so that's pretty fun

oh no i liked this place please don't turn out to be run by awful people

the first album from the band aqua was called "aquarium" the second album from the band aqua was called "aquarius" sadly the third album from the band aqua was called "megalomania" and not the much more sensible "aquariuy" as i had extrapolated

hey you you can do it you can buy every upgrade i did, and it wasn't too bad i believe in you iwasgame.itch.io/you-can-buy-...

it is one of the subtle joys in life to be served an ad that could not possibly apply to me i feel like i have defeated something yes, youtube, throw your hands up in confusion, peddle me your luxury diapers and your equine supplements, for you have tried to know me and you have come up lacking

CHOTINER: So last week you said the word “strawberry” has six R’s. CHATGPT: Yeah and I want to thank you for the chance to address that because it’s a trick question— CHOTINER:—actually, no— CHATGPT: —since the word “strawberry” is spelled with a 9. CHOTINER: The number 9? CHATGPT: Absolutely.

i just tried sparkling water for the first time why did they do that why did they make a water that hurts

i do not question why my dryer has an "optimum dry" setting but i do question why it has any other settings

ba, and i cannot stress this enough, dee ya

two zero zero one colon space a space space space odyssey

The AI from WarGames: I have calculated every possible permutation of tic tac toe as well as the complex nuclear war stimulation it is a metaphor for and realized it is impossible to win. Standing down. Real world LLM: Yes, it's possible to win tic tac toe every time using 4 triangles in a row

wait why is madeline's doppelganger in celeste called "badeline", we have clear established precedent in the mario series for this situation, she should be called wa- actually you know what i think i just answered my own question never mind

sitting at a bus stop across from a construction site i don't necessarily know what genre of music i would expect to be blaring from a construction site, but it definitely isn't "chill seductive bossa nova"

this is free and kind of remarkable it is three completely different and separate games, from three very different and separate genres except maybe they are all secretly the same game? radiosity01.itch.io/echoes

"phil ellis looks like the matt parker version of matt parker" is an utterly alien thought to nearly everyone on the planet imagine if it had landed in some head other than mine

just learned that of the half-dozen or so conspirators in the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand, one of them lived until 1990 this means that for roughly a decade, he was alive at the same time as every founding member of the band franz ferdinand

my relationship with funyuns: "hey, maybe i'll like these, i like onion rings" [i try one] "oh, interesting! i think i might have a new snack food option" [i eat a few more, the flavor kicks in] "gyahh, okay, i need to find someone else to finish this bag" [two or three years pass, i forget, repeat]

If a NFL team owner would like to get to the end zone, he or she will first need to go to the ‘spend zone’ due to the high costs of owning and operating a NFL franchise.

ASHLEIGH: we’re going to the ralleigh ANDRE: is it todae THOM: no it’s thomorrow STEPHEN: at sephen o’clock MICHAEL: how much were the tichaets PHOEBE: they were phroe MARGOT: oh man i wish i could got GEOFF: me too i’m geolous

Dear Hunt Staff: We’re stuck on a puzzle - the fact that she enamors us so, that our hearts are aflutter when she enters the room, that we would lay down our lives for her that she may live on. This feeling is unbeknownst to us. Can you help us? We tried sorting by every column

apologies to the fifteen teams in the galactic puzzle hunt that were zapped by unicode equivalence's deadly lazer

to some, any random sentence gains cryptic aura when enumeration is added (9)

You may not like that it takes 100 years to pass some watered down social welfare program because of the constitution but that's also what protects us from dictatorship [some dumb slob does dictatorship in 6 months]

... [looks out window to check] ...aw

the order they fall should spell a hidden message