I learned today that the term “fullproof” is incorrect and it’s supposed to be “foolproof”, and I feel like the entire fabric of reality is unraveling

girl dinner —> gal fed

I hate the term “enshittification” because the term perpetuates a myth that tech platforms get worse just because they lose sight of users, that it’s an entirely avoidable problem if tech platforms just put users first. I think this is unequivocally false, and an extremely childish idea.

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A confirmation dialog is a tool to ensure users are aware of an action’s destructive consequences. When an action has none—or is easily reversed—a confirmation dialog is pointless. This seems obvious, and yet there are so many “Are you sure? There will be no consequences” dialogs in games.

48 hours into invisalign, and i only have one thought: this is an unholy affront to god and i am being personally punished for our hubris

been trying out chaos zero nightmare after the pitch of “slay the spire + gacha” cut through the endless noise of extremely polished high-budget new gacha games, but this game’s character gender ratio is absurd there’s only like 3 male characters, and 2 of them are named Luke & Lucas???

so you’re telling me that when I stay inside all day and only get indirect sunlight I develop a vitamin D deficiency, but when my books stay inside all day and only get indirect sunlight they yellow significantly. make it make sense

no other media franchise is operating on Digimon’s level

was pretty disappointed when I realized a book I’d seen widely described as incredibly dense and academic was just a novel (with a very casual YA tone) that happened to be set in college. only a tiny bit horrified by what this means for how we as a whole discuss “difficult” media.

recently watched a video from a creator I used to follow which, among other things, talked about how difficult it was going from being a gacha-game-specific creator to a general variety streamer thinking about that made me realize why I just can’t get myself to care about streaming as a whole

crunchyroll, man…

if only we had a word to describe people who are anti-anti-fascist

I think one big thing that this misses is that there IS actually one big pro-consumer argument for standardizing subtitles over bespoke text hard-encoded into video files: allowing the user to customize size & style to their liking

I know I’m 3 years late to this, but I was baffled to realize Cyberpunk Edgerunners was hetero Promare

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The amount of time between the announcement and release of Metroid Prime 4 is longer than the amount of time between the announcement of Metroid Prime 1 and the release of Metroid Prime 3.

do I actually want to get selected for jury duty or am I just nostalgic for The Good Wife

the irony of spreading early leaks for series that have extremely affordable(/free) and accessible simulpubs being the one form of manga piracy I find absolutely morally despicable and that being the only form of manga piracy I actually see on an extremely regular basis

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indianapolis fine dining: waffle house ★★★★★ white castle ☆☆☆☆☆ steak ‘n shake ★★★★★

Part of me worries because I’m not really familiar with anything else he’s done series composition for (www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia...), but also Savers/Data Squad is probably my favorite Digimon series so this gives me lots of hope

Digimon Beatbreak main PV

i admire that final fantasy x's first hour is more or less a what if scenario of "what would happen if we isekaid lebron"

are you fucking kidding me. the lens flares in DK Bananza are in the shape of a bunch of bananas

there’s a new round of manga piracy discourse, and the new take this time seems to be that tension between official industry folks and scanlators is silly when they both face the same existential threat of being replaced by AI localization. 🤔

I've realized recently that my love of HGTV stems from the same core storytelling principles as any shonen battle series. a beautiful, affordable house with a pool and a gorgeous lake in walking distance? that’s a Chosen One narrative.

all the love for donkey kong bananza better result in adding dk64 to the nso catalog

logically, I understand that the human mind vastly underestimates its capacity for healing from grief. I always hope that hearing that reassures people that things inevitably WILL get better. but also part of being human is thinking “is this the one exception, the one time it will never heal?”

first piece of media I try to load up to take my mind off of grief (I can’t fall asleep) is metroid prime. realized I’m in the section where you revisit the space station from the opening sequence, but crashed and underwater. couldn’t have said it better myself, samus.

early this morning we said goodbye to Pixel. he was only 13, but he’d been battling cancer and its effects for a while. I included a photo of him in his favorite spot, burrowed deep under some blankets. he was the cutest, sweetest cat I’ve ever seen. so thankful for all the years we got with him.

fun anecdote about FFT’s character select UI: the first battle where you get to select characters is supposed to be very easy, but when my friend and I played it together we didn’t notice the L1/R1 indicators, so we thought it was a grueling solo battle until we looked up an FAQ 😆

It's got enough room for me & the whole squad ⚔️

people born after The WB turned into CW are old enough to vote

I feel like we’re not that far off from people associating complete sentences with genAI and accusing anyone who can form a coherent thought that wouldn’t get underlines in Word 2003 as being an LLM

so bizarre that metroid prime 2 had tons of hype and a very positive reception at the time, but as more and more time passes people just think of it like a direct-to-dvd sequel

i’ve entered my novelty cube era

kind of sad that I have to throw out the super basic, minimalistic laptop sleeve that I’ve used for 14 (!) years— mainly because it’s always been one of Pixel’s favorite places to sit. but, then again, I only have to throw it out because he peed on it 😆

thank you, squid game s2, for making me realize that my neighborhood growing up had such a large korean population that what I grew up thinking of as jacks was actually gonggi

alternate reality where the kingdom hearts “spinoff” titles went into wildly different genres: Kingdom Karts Kingdom Darts Kingdom Smarts Kingdom a la Carte Kingdom Hearts is… FIGHT!

i will not elaborate

I love how the crux of this person’s “evidence” that the sprites are redrawn and not just a filter / AI upscale boils down to “see, it still looks pixelated when I zoom in, that means it’s a sprite”

been rewatching parts of death note in the background while working recently (it’s for an actual work purpose, I swear!!), and man the original japanese voice acting is great, but I just have a gut feeling ryuk would be more interesting if voiced by willem dafoe. if only

skimmed through Yasumi Matsuno’s twitter, and 99% of his posts are camping, cats, or playing mahjong in ffxiv. truly an icon

OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT

a couple years ago I bought myself a magnet-based rubik’s cube after seeing it on some xmas stocking stuffer list finally got around to trying it out last week and learned the basic technique, so here goes— progress thread:

I don’t think there’s actually *that* much difference between how libraries and media piracy work, in terms of the raw numbers of direct compensation & spreading awareness. but, to be blunt, there is one HUGE difference: good faith & bad faith

back in the neighborhood I lived in 2012-2018 for a doctor’s appointment today, posting about manga piracy for the full 2018 immersion

discourse around manga piracy is always the same talking points repeated ad nauseam. at the end of the day, the only thing that actually matters and moves the needle is cultural norms & expectations