There are now 6 basic tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, umami, chalk

It is 2032. The last Beatle has died. Kingdom Hearts IV has an Abbey Road level.

The depression flows strong tonight

How to get yoga stains out of a Recaro car seat

Americans are demanding Matcha Tea from Japan. They are swimming across the Pacific and throwing their bedraggled forms against the "Torii" (the entrance gate to Japan) and the customs agents stationed there are shouting at the Americans to leave, but in Japanese, which the Matcha demanders can't un

Basically the con of being a Borrower (4" tall person with normal intelligence but proportionally smaller strength) is the cats eating you. The pro is when you steal pills you can get seriously fucked up for a long time.

Black Mask (1996) starring Jet Li is a product of its time and it kinda sucks. I think I had confused it with a different, better movie in my head. I watched a lot of Jet Li movies as a kid.

Blue moon time

Here's a maybe familiar-sounding #ItaloDiscoFriday track. It's a cover of "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" by Ryuichi Sakamoto, but it's been covered/sampled/etc many many times. One of those is an Italo cover, so I can post it. "Theme From Furyo" by Clock On 5 (1984) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsGs...

If I knew Trackmania had a community back when I was playing it 15+ years ago, I never would have stopped. Ignoring the esports aspect of it, the game has never been better. The amount and *quality* of community content is insane.

I got world record on a modded under-10-second map. Uses snow car instead of stadium, needs to get past a pool of water. Solution is to get lucky and plastic bounce off the bottom corner to jump like a dolphin with massive speed and then drive in a straight line to the finish.

I often take photos that I can't post on here because I don't want to be doxxed. Lots of my photos are bad, but sometimes they're good, and I feel sad I cannot share them. Here's some consolation clouds and critters.

"The noises coming from somewhere under his mustache sounded like a very fat, very sweaty motor trying to turn over but without any fuel."

I've seen these camera repair shops bring out their Industrial Design Shutter Tester Machine that probably costs $10,000 to flex and I'm just thinking to myself... that can't be hard to build with like an Arduino? And lo, projecthub.arduino.cc/hiroshootsfi... I shall be doing this

Boring, bad comp, etc.

Thank you everyone so much. Everyone for tuning in and everyone in the pit crew for being so incredible at putting this together so smoothly. That was truly such an incredible experience and im so happy to know the people I know. 75k+ holy shit.

Pit Crew Trans Am already defeated last year's goal and we still have the rest of the weekend! $60,600 raised for the Trans Lifeline and more content comin' See the on-going schedule here! arcadep.it/transam/

We can do an #ItaloDiscoFriday today. I have chosen this one that seems to have all the markers of an Italo classic, but I've not heard anyone play it. It's Bryan Baker's "Niagara Falls" from 1985. Perhaps it's the way he sings "I FEEL THE PAIN IN MY HEART" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdNe...

Starting in 5, the Pit Crew Trans Am begins with Pitmaster, a very original task-oriented show! Tune in live at www.twitch.tv/tietuesday!

Just putting it out there that if you're looking for a backend engineer with a wide variety of experience in games, tools, and build/release, I'm available and very fun to work with.

Choice banger quote from today I saw: "long conversations are a major anti-pattern for LLMs"

SINCE APPARENTLY ITS GETTING MENTIONED ON PODCASTS (thank you to whoever did this lmao) Hey yeah big event memorial day weekend! We're doing it again!! I'm subjecting streamers to, absolutely horrible ideas but its good!!!

Kickstarter has reverted their policy changes on Adult Content! They issued an apology, siting Stripe as the reason. The pressure we put on them worked. This is a step in the right direction. But the threat of Stripe remains. It’d be great to see KS end ties with them & process payments elsewhere.

I’ve done an inexplicable thing.

I think of this clip every time I see someone use the word "ya'll" who definitely only picked it up from being online:

The Long Goodbye is such a fun movie. It's chaotic and messy, ambling and confused, but it's weird and interesting all the time. And it looks gorgeous.

Grogu just started vibrating at 60hz and then burped, releasing a tiny mushroom cloud but the top was shaped like a skull. Now he's just staring at me what does he want

"this upgraded version of porygon is designed for space exploration. it can't fly, though."

Infrared from today (720nm filter, old Pentax 28mm lens)

When I was in India, the live-in cook made chai by putting the teabags, water, and milk into a big plastic bowl and microwaving it. So I think the bar for tea ceremony is very low and you can make the tea however you want if you enjoy it that way. Same with coffee.

Listening to the infinite italo station has an element of danger to it. Every so often, you get jumpscared by either a remix/cover of Popcorn or the specific song Baby Crys (Original Baby Mix) by the band Baby Rock.

I've been watching some noirs recently. Most recently, I watched Chinatown for the first time yesterday. Today I think it's going to be The Long Goodbye. It might be my favorite in the genre.

watching one Robert Altman movie all way through without their phone would send these people into a full-on dissociative coma

I fell off the wagon. Couldn't resist the siren call of The Iron Fairy (liquid mercury for those who don't know).

I have ordered another step up ring to make another solar filter with for the long telephoto lens. I'm kind of excited.

As I navigate the parking lot to leave the supermarket, camera dollies up to show the sun rising over the TJ Maxx. Moby's Extreme Ways starts playing. Credits.

If you really believe in AI, you'd just have it generate the machine code directly. Generating code in high level languages is the coward's way.

Cool bug I saw and didn't have a lens that was able to take a decent photo of it...

If you really want to annoy me, give me an antique spoon as a gift. Especially silver spoons or special commemorative spoons, awful! I don't collect them and I can't stand the sight of them. Yuck! No more spoons!

Dam pics today

before and after smoking a big explosive cartoon cigar

happy casual quanchy friday everyone

The sun is quiet today.

Chort

I am not a Star Fox fan in general but I hope it's good, even if I think some of the character designs are very ugly

Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. StarFox

Happy May Day!