moakley @ moakley @lemmy.world

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Any time someone can't tell the difference between centrists and fascists, I just have to assume that their stance is more about arguing than it is about a sincerely held ideology.

There was a Hubcap Grill in Houston that had the best burger in a city that has a lot of great burgers.

They say they named it that because of a method of cooking a burger on a skillet, where you place a metal plate over the beef as it cooks to reduce splattering. The joke was that the burgers were so big that they needed to use a hubcap instead of a plate. And it was pretty close to true. Those burgers were massive and incredible.

They still have a few locations, including one in Hobby airport. But the original, which was a hole in the wall in downtown Houston, was the best.

That doesn't bother me, and as someone who occasionally makes comics I always appreciate positive feedback like that.

So much worse is:

OP: "This [noun] is [adjective]."

Commenter 1: "This [noun] is [worse adjective]. FTFY."

Commenter 2: "[Noun] isn't [adjective]... BECAUSE IT'S AN INSULT TO [ADJECTIVE] THINGS EVERYWHERE! I am so clever! You thought I was defending [noun], but I pulled an Uno Reverse, which is also a clever thing to say!"

At dinner that night I imagine commenter 2 tells his mom all about how he's so funny on reddit. She doesn't really listen.

Or the opposite of that.

And eternal life of copyright is what has led to us having our current culture in decline media landscape of endless sequels, remakes, milking licenses, and reboots. Why risk a new IP when you own 3000000 “safe bets” you can endlessly recycle bullshit

That doesn't really track. You think that allowing everyone to use existing characters would incentivize them to create new characters?

A lot of the original works we do get are because not everyone has access to the "safe bets".

The typo makes the answer incorrect. The whole question would need to be thrown out.

That's an interesting perspective. The odds of correctly guessing any multiple choice question with four answers should be 25%. But that assumes no duplicate answers, so I still say that's wrong.

A lot of the game is scanning planets, gathering resources, and upgrading your ship. The upgrades allow you to gather more resources, explore further, and get better weapons so you can survive hostile alien encounters.

If you ever have the opportunity, I highly recommend giving it a try.

Does better reading comprehension get you a better answer?

B.

This is a multiple choice test. Once you eliminate three answers, you pick the fourth answer and move on to the next question. It can't be A, C, or D, for reasons that I understand. There's a non-zero chance that it's B for a reason that I don't understand.

If there is no correct answer, then there's no point hemming and hawing about it.

B. Final answer.

shitty.

You can say shitty.

I want to take all these censored memes and edit them so the bad words are in bold red font.

Then I remember the one time I saw a meme that for some reason had the bad word written in red, and my four-year-old daughter was looking over my shoulder and said, "Cunt. That word says 'cunt'."

Disco Elysium gave me this experience in a new context. But better, because it blurs the line between success and failure.

Star Flight. I played it on Genesis, and it's still one of the greatest games I've ever played.

One space ship, 270 solar systems, and 800 planets. The manual included a captain's log that was sent back in time from the future, but without that you'd just be scouring the stars for clues, interrogating aliens, digging through ancient ruins, and watching slowly as a rash of planet-destroying solar flares spreads through the galaxy.

So fucking good.

A tree stole my wallet and had sex with my wife!

As though they have some legitimate and non-random reason to name themselves "Dragon Lawyers"?

I'm not convinced some people aren't just statistical language algorithms. And I don't just mean online; I mean that seems to be how some people's brains work.

"Pull my finger."

Even with this information, it's fine if it's a small part of your diet. My kids aren't going to die because they eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every day.

Always having it available and the fact that they'll eat it mean it's the healthier choice.

You have to make tradeoffs. That's just how food works and how it has always worked.

Kellogg was never actually that influential. People mostly knew he was a crackpot at the time.

An episode of Adam Ruins Everything gave him way too much credit, and then people on the internet just keep repeating it because Kellogg was such a weird guy.

Honestly. It's horrible that he's sending people who are legally allowed to be here to his concentration camp, but it is also equally horrible that he's sending people who aren't legally allowed to be here to his concentration camp.

Immigrants are good. Immigration is good. Everything about this is fucked up and goes against the soul of America.