Nah I realized years ago without anyone telling me that that quote from Monty Python sounds really close to the n-word if you just mumble a little bit.

Never heard about the shorthand for carabiner though.

As a Star Wars fan, it’s a fun tongue-in-cheek joke/reference to The Clone Wars show and Dee Bradley Baker’s absolutely amazing performances as every single clone in that show.

Other than that, I’ve seen it online as a sort of ironic/unironic “derogatory” term to refer to AI and things created by/with AI.

I don’t think it could be classified as an actual insult until the day fully sentient AI is a thing and can think and have feelings for itself.

I had an LG phone for a few years until one night it literally just died on me. I was messing around on it one night, just scrolling randomly, then I set it down for a few minutes to play a game. When I went to check my phone again, it wouldn’t turn on or anything.

I really liked the Fear Itself comic from Marvel about 10-15ish years ago. It’s just a big dumb blockbuster event that’s fun to read with all the craziness that happens.

Odin has a long lost brother who’s evil, and creates magic hammers which he distributes around the world to a bunch of villains (and a couple heroes like Hulk and Thing) to bring chaos and destruction to herald his coming to take over the world. Iron Man and Captain America put up a “last stand” for Asgard, which crash-landed outside of a small town in Kansas. Iron Man goes to Odin’s dwarves and makes weapons and armor to give to a group of heroes to counteract the villains with their hammers.

I also like the flashback to one of Meg’s birthdays:

“You are muh-huh going on ermeher”

“So Meg, you’re a flag girl now? That’s good, that’s good.”

“Yes, yes… Now you can be somewhere else when the boys don’t call!”

Idk. Over on Instagram you have fitness influencers and shit who will run up mountains for an advertisement. There are so many “teach your kids to dirt bike as soon as they shoot from the pussy” accounts on there it’s insane.

Like streaming, I’m sure someone could monetize it somehow.

A little unrelated, but I used to live like a block away from a McDonald’s. Which fucking sucked when I was high late at night (they closed their lobby at 7, so “late” for this Christian-family-owned franchise that blasted Christian worship music literally all day every day was any time after then) and I couldn’t just walk my ass down and get some fuckin nuggets.

And fuck me, or any other pedestrian during the pandemic, because at one point they didn’t even have their lobby open, so you could only order through the drive-thru or the app, and fuck you if you don’t have a car but use the app

I had multiple people leave it at the door across from mine at an apartment I used to live at. Once, someone left food at my door, and knocked which is surprising where I live, when I hadn’t ordered anything. That time it was for the person across from me, and they opened their door because they were waiting for a knock.

Other times, I had people just straight up leave the food at my door, no knock of any kind, and they wouldn’t even mark it as delivered. I found out later after going looking for my food and seeing it cold on the floor.

Once, a driver actually stole my order. They picked it up because I saw them pull into the restaurant on the map, then a minute or so later cancelled the pickup. The next person who went to grab the order messaged me saying the restaurant told them someone picked it up already, but thankfully they were able to make another for me. I was pretty pissed that time.

My team is the Padres, but I live in the Midwest. I’d have to buy a subscription to the MLB app just to watch them, but I’m such a casual fan that I don’t care enough even though I do find them fun to watch.

Is that graphite encasing it?

A lot of that same stuff could be said for a lot of other games. Even in the exact same genre (Ori and the Blind Forest?)

It’s still just another Metroidvania. I honestly don’t understand what makes it stand apart from others like Metroid or Dead Cells (aside from the fact Dead Cells is a roguelike)

Damn. Try some more stuff

I meant Hollow Knight.

Sure, but there are other games that have worked with that gimmick before. Maybe not as directly, but still.

I’m reminded of Kreia from KoTOR 2, with all her bullshit about free will and chaos.

Silksong Hollow Knight and Undertale

One is pretty much just another Metroidvania, and the other is way too indie/hipstery for my tastes.

I need to be able to kill things in video games without having to feel bad about deleting pixels, thank you very much.

Edit: I meant Hollow Knight, and I stand by what I said.

It really is just another sci-fi game. But that’s okay.

I’m the first game, you play as Andrew Ryan’s younger clone/son, who is apparently only like three years old by the time the game starts (accelerated aging I think), coming back to Rapture even though you have no memory of it. It’s all weird and convoluted.

I think people like it for the whole spiel you hear in the recording on the way down: “‘No,’ says the man in the Vatican; ‘it belongs to *God.’ I chose Rapture.” or something like that

Like devil horns style?

I’m not into tarot that much (I just like the art usually, doubly so if it’s from an IP I’m a fan of), but if she is or ever was into Neopets, the Neopets Tarot Deck on their merch site is only $22 and is pretty nice.

It comes with a guidebook in case you need tips or instructions on how to start, or just need a refresher on things. The art on the cards is fantastically done, with each card representing what it is extremely well with just the picture alone. Plus, each card is packed full of lore and little nods to different NP plots/characters from over the years. The guidebook tells you what each card represents/means, plus a description of the art and how it pertains to the card, and a bit of fun lore/callbacks (like the Game Graveyard being the representative art for the Ten of Swords card, or Tor being the Knight of Pentacles)