Found a boss fight in Silksong and I'm laughing my ass off because the soundtrack only got past the intro and the first two notes the first five attempts before she shredded Hornet. Looks like it could be a fun fight actually, but I might have to come back later for this one.

Hm, I think his speech could have been delivered in much shorter time with the same diplomatic impact if he just stood there and shat himself.

It's actually more of a perpetual anti-rapture in which the ghosts of Assholes Past rise from their graves and spread the same hateful fallacies to the living that have poisoned culture since the paleolithic.

i don't profess to understand too much of this stuff but does it seem like they're just cycling the money back and forth here to keep the scam going

Having an Arrabbiata with Carolina Reaper / Trinidad Scorpion / Habanero. Works really well flavor-wise, Reapers go with the garlic and the light sweetness of the other peppers complement the tomato acid. Also added a smoked Chipotle for flavor, but I think it doesn't even need it.

Columbo Board Game Where is the 'Just one more thing' card.

Abduction of Proserpina, Bellini 1622

Ok, The Unravelled might be my least favorite boss design in Silksong so far. On par with Beastfly 2 and Broodmother. Annoyingly long first phases and then spamming random bullshit isn't for me. I have way more fun with bosses like Cogwork Dancers.

I think Starmer invited Trump to try and look competent by standing next to someone more cringe than he is, and somehow even failed to manage that. Starmer failed to aura farm by mogging on Trump, as they say.

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

Can any of y'all recommend me some recent metal that will make the graphic equalizer do this

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

This came up in a random playlist and for a brief moment, the world turned 320x200x256

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My (late) two cents for the Silksong difficulty discussion: I wouldn't recommend it to someone who didn't play Hollow Knight. In HK you broke through difficulty ceilings and were rewarded by knowing your skills improved. Silksong is relentless and offers far fewer moments of respite.

The winning strategy of the times is to present so absurdly idiotic that it creates a natural cloaking field as people's minds refuse to accept the affront to reality. I'm part of the lead poisoned generation with flexible views on reality and even I think people are going absolutely apeshit.

Meanwhile, in the 1910s

Replaced the Batterieblock in the Rauchmeldegerät to re-establish Brandschutzverordnungskonformität 👍

Good news item today where NASA found a cool rock. The world should focus more on finding cool rocks (metaphorically).

I always thought that Banksy's metaphors were too on the nose, but they somehow managed to make it even more blatant. Not sure if he anticipated the removal and used paint that creates this effect, but if so props to him.

🔭 Up from the Earth: Gigantic Jet Lightning Image Credit: NASA, Expedition 73, Nicole Ayers apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25090...

Beekeeper

Cheap-ass rubber spring in my gamepad has a cut and now the jump button gets stuck in down position. -__- Second time I had this problem, is there a gamepad that doesn't cheap out on the stress parts?

Gate needs some tweaking, but I'm still liking the rich tone I get without any post EQ.

The one guy who set up a script to finish the transaction before the DDOS.

bro steam just went down LOL

cosmic ray egg case

I got this one bc the takodachis sussed it out as Ina's fav sauce. If that sounded like gibberish to you, I won't explain. Flavor is nice and peppery, honestly a lot better than anticipated. Heat... it's Reaper, Scorpion, and Habanero, and delivers. Slow Reaper build-up, stingy Scorpion. 4/5

First of Dave's I got, I wanted another Naga sauce and thought why not. Is it hot? Yes. It also tastes like a chemistry class. Stop ruining sauces with extract. Hard pass. 1/5

Playing around with making distortion effects. One based on inflection points sounds pretty interesting, since it preserves some wave form characteristics that simple overdrive usually destroys.

Forest Bug smiley eggs! #eggs

*finger of monkey's paw curls* "Our necromancers, they did a GREAT job. We have the BEST necromancers and the MOST advanced lich rituals. I don't usually talk about my health, and the radical left so-called "scientists" will tell you it is not possible, but Bobby Kennedy Jr.'s worm method [...]"

my favourite Radiohead album

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blowing some dust off this one

Happy birthday to my eternal muse 🩵

Found these at the grocery store and wanted to give them a try. I'm a bit disappointed. Uptick in heat is not all that much, your lips will buzz a little longer. And I honestly think the original has more flavor.

Missing him, a Single Strand of Spider #InverteFest

The new No Man's Sky update introduced custom ship building for medium size (ie able to land on planets) ships that support multi-player crews. You can even do spacewalks. As usual, the new systems need more depth and I'll wait for the patch, but this is pretty huge if you like space games.

Genuinely curious what's going on here. The way he holds the staff looks more for balance than striking. Stretching? Clearing packed snow from the geta?

If Trump dies they'll just prop up Vance, and Vought et al. can continue to progress through the fascist playbook even faster because they don't have to babysit the narcissist vanity projects anymore. They got this far in only half a year with the idiot doorstop in place.

Shiny

When you make Thai Curry

"The error log doesn't have milliseconds, so we can't get more precise information." "Nu uh, the summary I made in ChatGPT has milliseconds!" fucking hell

It's Friday evening and if you ask how ready I am for the weekend: my brain, unprompted, started blasting the Eläkeläiset humppa version of Weezer's Buddy Holly.

Balcha indica, a massive (10mm!) eupelmid parasitoid of Agrilus jewel beetles. Third one I've found in Oregon so far