Pokemon Sleep is currently doing this to me with a premium ticket to the new island and I'm seriously considering not playing the game for a whole week just to check if the end of week overview event will override the tutorial.

Hyper-specific gaming pet peeve: When a tutorial makes you use a limited resource before letting you proceed, often that would normally be more difficult to get but they gave you it just for the tutorial. I will do absolutely everything I can think of to get around the requirement.

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There's a mythical perfect place to crop that pic of Spain. Cutting Trump out entirely is too clean, it needs to be obvious it's him and he's been removed intentionally, but not enough can be left that that it feels like looking at him.

Mathematicians and scientists claim that they are motivated by curiosity, the desire to understand the world, the intellectual challenge, etc but they are actually motivated by the human urge to find weird little guys.

an underrecognized annoying thing is when someone uses an internet personality's real first name and expects you to know who it is. "joey said that one was a 6.5/10" and somehow you're supposed to just know that joey is The Rectangular Gamer

There's something about certain drawings, not that they're outright traced or anything, but they look like drawings of reference photographs rather than how people would typically be drawn? I don't know how to explain it, but it always sticks out like a sore thumb for me.

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So authors mostly hate this because: 1. We can't take back our rights and reissue the books ourselves with cooler covers and updated text. 2. Everyone hate the big, awkward size and gross, crispy paper. 3. The book doesn't match the rest of the series. 4. Readers rate the book lower because ^

A fun publishing fact: If you go to buy an author's book and the paperback is $24.99, chances are that it is print on demand-- because it is out of print-- and it will be a weird size with weird paper, and this is not the author's choice or fault. This is how publishers avoid giving our rights back.

We’ve hit a point where electing a Weeb President is theoretically possible and I think it’s one of the best shots we’ve got at instituting high speed rail in America.

the early webcomic scene is so quaint to look back on. social media metrics have totally ruined our perception of audience scale and success. found a 20-year-old interview asking dave anez how it felt that bob and george had *over one thousand* daily readers. that was a medium-defining hit back then

friends, please: don’t use transreads dot org they claim to support trans authors, but take our entire texts, post them for free, fundraise off it, and have the gall to claim it’s about preservation they are literally taking money from trans creators and make it harder for us to keep creating

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

lol imagine being a spanish fan tonight staying up all night to party, flying back home tomorrow, and then having to go back into the office 2-3 weeks from now

r/RelationshipAdvice My (23f) boyfriend (25m) keeps saying I “emit Beavis particles”

I need everyone who drives a car to understand: when people say they want public transit to grow and individual car use to decline, they mean that you personally are the entirety of the problem. If you think you have a reasonable excuse to own or use a car, you don’t, and you should be stoned to dea

everyone posting pausa memes and your alt text is just “pausa” i am looking at you

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I like how Sabrina Carpenter looks like a Bruce Timm drawing that he wished to life.

i can't believe how little christopher nolan cares about historical accuracy or adaptation. he doesn't even mention the soggy bottom boys once in the whole three fucking hours.

Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.

New: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

watching a japanese movie and every single line of the subtitles starts with [in japanese]

6/26 Bratwurst implies the existence of angelbest 🔁0 ❤️1 6/26 Going up to a lesbian couple and asking which one is the master and which one’s the commander 🔁4,826 ❤️13,441 6/27 Going up to a lesbian couple and asking which one is Blossom which one is Buttercup 🔁2 ❤️2 6/28 Going up to a gay coupl

it still boggles my mind that not a single device manufacturer has brought back the real millennial aesthetic. if my next phone could look like a gameboy color I would be frothing at the mouth

Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. You were killed by DARK WIZARD!

Good news, for once! The saliva test for endometriosis is available in the UK. I assume it’ll be more of a fight to get it available here because OB/GYNs make more money doing surgery to find out if you have it. people.com/endometriosi...

Verdict: not offensive, but definitely not worth the price You also make it like mac and cheese, with almost no liquid, not like ramen. Which makes sense I guess but still came as a surprise somehow.

Look. The grey thing was not misplaced on our generation. It was just a different social class that was doing it. Do you not remember the horror of the countless social media videos of people our age painting over hardwood floors?? That's what people *our age* but who could afford houses did.

Anyone else notice that as other movies get duller and more drained of color Horror movies seem to be getting more colorful.

We gotta make it socially embarrassing to use AI detectors. It just feeds people's work into AI to have the machines that can't spell strawberry guess if it's AI.

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Something dark and funny about the implicit possibility here that A24 didn't know it doesn't own the backrooms. Liminal Property. www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

I remember hanging with a friend of mine, a writer from Obsidian. Reading news on my classic G1 Android phone. I read that Fallout New Vegas broke a major sales record. I ask my friend if that came with a bonus. He said he was quitting his job because it didn't pay enough to live in California.

The problem with X-Men is that at its heart it is a TV series, but because it is such a moneymaker, we keep getting films. Let that joint be the Game of Thrones it is supposed to be.

I was going to make a joke about this looking like someone trying to offload some unsold sex dolls. And then I reached the end of the article:

Hey thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately you were super condescending and now I can never take this good advice.

If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you

My mom's not much for electronics, especially now that she needs glasses, so she hadn't finished my first draft yet. But now she has printed out and had coil-bound multiple copies of the book to share with random people. 🥹

CDs don’t make you listen to 10 minutes of gambling ads before playing 3 songs.

Creators at Silver Sprocket have released a public statement regarding longstanding concerns with the business practices of the company which alleges issues around payment of royalties, poor treatment of staff, and lack of professionalism. Please read their statement: cartoonist.coop/sprocket-art...

Hey this thing where they try to jingle keys in your face with new project confirmations to distract from the layoffs is very transparent and sucks.

not the point at all, but one of the few measures of real technological progress over the last decade is the fact that you can now charge your laptop, phone, vape, sex toy, and chainsaw with the same cable

"I'd kill for my child" okay but would you put aside your preconceived notions of gender or sexuality for your child? would you apologize to your child when you're wrong? would you tell your child they can be whoever they want to be, and mean it? your child doesn't need more killing in their name

Jenna found these at the grocery store. I feel nauseous just thinking about it but she apparently wants to try one so I might get roped in! Wish me luck!

A whole lot of people with otherwise progressive views suddenly get real mad when you talk about doing anything at all to address the scourge of speeding drivers killing people

See thats not something you want your TV to tell you youtu.be/Q9uefFYe6bM