many inventions…. must continue research

I was curious about this because it seemed like a wild thing to do and questionably possible on the hardware. After some research I found this article:

Is that what you're referring to? If so I just want to clarify that--while this is very cool!--it does not say that the game is pathfinding all the way from the pizza place to the player. That would be a truly miraculous feat on the SNES. More likely it's just trying to find a path between the player and the edge of the screen. This seems especially likely because I can find clips of the pizza delivery guy appearing out of room corners and other dead ends.

Entry-level baddie in an indie Legend of Zelda clone: *uses an elementary pathfinding algorithm to walk around a one-tile obstacle rather than rubbing its face against it trying to take the shortest path*

Me:

More stories from hell (retail) today I was ringing up this lady and she goes oh I want to do part of this on a gift card and the rest on normal card and I go ok and then she hands me a folded piece of paper. I think oh OK it must be folded around the gift card, right? Wrong. It is a folded sheet of 8×11 printer paper with "$40" written on the inside in ballpoint pen. I go what is this. She says a gift card. I say this is not a gift card. She says yes it is. I say this is a piece of paper with "$40" written on it. She says "well it's a gift card." I say it absolutely is not. I am grinding my teeth. She says well I want to use it. I say you physically cannot do that bc it is a piece of paper. I cannot scan or swipe it. I apologize, as if this is my fault, and not because she is completely insane. I hate it here

That may well be the most execrable bit of onomastic wordplay I have ever seen, and I think I love it.

A brutalist arcade in New Zealand.

had an au thought and ran with it o/

This stuff is lint:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(material)

The fluff that gets left behind when fabric rubs against fabric a lot.

Idle curiosity has struck me.

Note that I'm not expecting the color to be vibrant! I'm just asking, if there's a visible tint, what is it? For example my own lint is a purple-y light gray, which in this poll is a vote for purple.

its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea

Idle curiosity has struck me.

Note that I'm not expecting the color to be vibrant! I'm just asking, if there's a visible tint, what is it? For example my own lint is a purple-y light gray, which in this poll is a vote for purple.

dunken.mp4

after i put my pants on in the morning i stand at the center of my room staring at the wall with my eyes glazed over for about ten minutes regardless of the time. I am constantly late

I figured out how to draw mr. teeth-eyes! 🥳

[video by tommcgovern27. original caption: this one's going out to anyone living in a studio apartment rn]

Like, pronounce it any way you want! You don't need an objective reason to prefer one pronunciation over another. But if you're going to claim that one way is right and the other way is wrong, please use an argument that doesn't break down under 30 seconds of scrutiny.

Look, I'm not saying anyone has to pronounce "GIF" with a soft G just because that's the canonical pronunciation according to the guy who designed the format. Death of the author and all that.

I am begging you to learn how acronyms work, because if I see one more person argue that "The G stands for 'graphics', which has a hard G, and the letters in acronyms are always pronounced the same way as the letters in the original words" I am going to turn into the joker.