Malgas @ Malgas @beehaw.org

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Don't even get me started about sex on the beach.

Oh. I thought they were saying they're good a drawing curly brackets.

Which, those are some nice curly brackets.

Fun fact: the traditional iconography of Mary with the infant Jesus was heavily influenced by earlier images of Isis and Horus.

I thought edge cases were the whole point of NNN…

First I misread the headline as "transgender cows" and then you're in the comments talking about straight people insulin.

I think it's time for bed.

You could calculate the spherical volume of the entire universe with the first 39 digits of pi.

What a weird thing to say. You can calculate any spherical volume with any approximation of pi.

I think they cut a clause like "to within the volume of a hydrogen atom" but without that it's vacuous.

Jojo Rabbit featured Jewish Maori Hitler and was very well received.

And 65 digits is sufficient to calculate the circumference of the visible universe to within a Planck length.

Jessica: He's a very naughty boy!

There's a running joke in the field that AI is the set of things that computers cannot yet do well.

We used to think that you had to be intelligent to be a chess grandmaster. Now we know that you only have to be freakishly good at chess.

Now we're having a similar realization about conversation.

It gets even weirder in terms of game mechanics. High strength and no armor is kind of an unusual combination. Barbarians and bards (buff or otherwise) both typically wear armor. As do fighters, rangers, rogues, clerics...

Wizards and sorcerers don't but also don't usually benefit much from strength. (Not to mention that bard is a strange multi for either.)

Conclusion: Terry as pictured is clearly a monk/bard.

I forget what this is from, but:

A man with a clock is content, and everything is right with the world. But when a man has two clocks, he begins to wonder what time it really is.

Of the games pictured in the image, only Outer Wilds has a mechanic like that.

"I didn't burn the toast, it just tastes "burnt" because I left it in the toaster until it turned black."

--The article author, probably.

The Joy of Cooking, fuck yeah!

But we're talking about that piece as the most powerful in the game, which happened in Europe, where it had been called a queen for hundreds of years.

The wazir only moved a single space horizontally or vertically.

The name change from wazir to queen started as early as the 10th century, but the current move set dates from the late 15th century.

I don’t think there’s much they could do to make the environment more interesting, since the setting is what it’s meant to be

The hell it is. According to the in-game book Provinces of Tamriel:

Cyrodiil is the cradle of Human Imperial high culture on Tamriel. It is the largest region of the continent, and most is endless jungle.

Emphasis mine. And when I say in-game, that book was literally in Oblivion.

I feel like this is one of those things that would differ between Resurrection and Reincarnate, but I'm not sure off the top of my head which would do what.

In an 1895 paper, Röntgen used "X" to label an unknown type of radiation. And the name stuck, despite his later objections. (Some languages do call them Röntgen rays.)