ConstableJelly @ ConstableJelly @beehaw.org

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It's definitely my favorite game in recent memory, it might even be one of my favorite games or single most favorite game ever.

I just began act 3 of my second playthrough, which has amounted to an obscene amount of playtime for me. I play single player games exclusively, and these days am often eagerly thinking of my next game anytime I hit the 30-hour mark of whatever I'm currently playing.

BG3 is a truly monumental achievement. Plus Karlach is indisputably one of the best characters ever created for a game.

Agreed. Just found the demo on the PS store, downloading now.

I thought I'd heard one defense that goes if it's theoretically possible to simulate an entire universe, which I understand it is, then it's just statistically waaaaaay more likely that we're in a simulated universe. There's only one real one (excepting multiverse stuff), and potentially infinite simulated ones.

I don't remember where I heard this though, and I am a self-admitted idiot, so it's extremely possible I'm extremely wrong.

Not to mention

The company acknowledged that the foam it had chosen could crumble in heat and humidity and send potentially “toxic and carcinogenic” material into the noses, mouths, throats and lungs of users.

Not only was the foam dysfunctional, the material was fucking carcinogenic.

I know exactly what you're referring to, thanks for the examples!

Ah thanks. I looked at vignette on Wikipedia; looks like "vignetting" is a separate entry 🤷.

What's a claustrophobic vignette?

Ironic that they called the collection designed to make it easier to exclude books “Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice.”

As Judd Legum reported, one librarian called the option a “bigot button.”

This is an opportune time to plug my favorite book: Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, in which Lumumba and Congo's independence from Belgium play an ancillary role.

I was ignorant of anything related to these events before reading it, but I remember she writes about them with a powerful undercurrent of disgust and anger. A tone I think she revisited later in The Lacuna.

Oh weird, I'll have to look out for that coming from an olive oil soap. So far so good though.

I've been using Kiss My Face olive oil bar soap for showers for like...a decade, but switched to Dr. Bronners bar soap this week cause Kiss My Face was out of stock. My partner's been using Dr. Bronners liquid soap for years, but I never got on board just cause I prefer bar soap.

Long story short, I think the change will be permanent. The bar soap on its own somehow smells like a grandparent's basement, but it seems suspiciously effective.

Nice, honestly 7 hours is perfect. I loved the time loop mystery concept in Outer Wilds so I'll check this one out too. Thanks!

Your description makes me think of Outer Wilds. Any comparison there?

I struggle to imagine how the House could actually get worse, but I also know unequivocally that it is going to get way, way worse.

But sources say that Corman and Ord crafted a legal procedural that did not resemble the Netflix version, known for its action and violence. Cox didn’t even show up in costume until the fourth episode.

This feels like the wrong take to me, as described anyway. I don't really know what the general consensus is, but it feels to me like the Netflix show should be "known for" its depth of character, moody tone, and yes, action set pieces. But it wasn't just the inclusion of "action and violence" that was noteworthy, but rather its commitment to choreographing dynamic and creative scenes while imbuing them with genuine character (Matt's exhausted lean against the wall in the first season's hallway fight, or his grin in the second season's stairway fight).

Ultimately, what the Netflix version should really be known for is Charlie Cox's pitch perfect performance. He's the draw, up and down. That's why a legal procedural approach actually sounds really great to me. Give me more Matt Murdoch in the courtroom, that stuff is fucking great because Charlie Cox is fucking great and the original production leaned into that.

Honestly I think it's bold that Daredevil didn't show up in costume until the 4th episode (he didn't technically show up in his actual costume at all in the 3rd season, which was also fucking great). Sure it's possible that the show really just wasn't working, but I'm heavily inclined to think Disney is compelled to learn all the wrong lessons.

Decline of Western Civilization?

Haha I think it might be personal now.

I don't know who Spike Laurie is, but I don't trust him.

Hiro Capital partner Spike Laurie believes you can trace the current wave(s) of layoffs to one in particular: Elon Musk cutting 50% of Twitter's workforce in November 2022.

"[Elon Musk] had figured out from people's electronic passes that there were more people serving food in the cafeteria than actually there to eat it," he says. "This was the impetus other business leaders needed in order to start looking carefully at the size of their companies and start making judicious cuts."

This sounded suspect so I looked it up. The claim was posted to Twitter by Musk himself, completely unsubstantiated, and directly contested by Twitter's former VP of real estate. If I had to choose between this being the actual impetus for other businesses making judicious cuts or the empty claims of a Musk fanboy, I'm betting fanboy.

I caught this too, very strange. I could speculate that it's due to the finite timeline on the program itself and the anxiety about what comes next, but who knows. Interested to see the final results next year.

Fair enough. I think it's a silly line to draw in this particular context, personally, but I jumped the gun on questioning your intentions. Thanks for taking the time.