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Comment on 'The report's so stupid': The DNC 2024 autopsy is roiling Democrats in ~society
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 18 in ~society
CannibalisticApple LinkTulsi Gabbard has resigned as director of national intelligence, citing her husband's health. Her husband has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. This might be the most valid reason...Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as director of national intelligence, citing her husband's health.
Her husband has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. This might be the most valid reason I've seen for a resignation from either of Trump's terms.
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Comment on What movies become better by having a bus suddenly come out of no where and hit someone? in ~movies
CannibalisticApple Link ParentAh, Speed. The most classic choice for any prompt with a bus. My one question: is the second bus also rigged to explode if it slows down or stops?Ah, Speed. The most classic choice for any prompt with a bus.
My one question: is the second bus also rigged to explode if it slows down or stops?
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Comment on What movies become better by having a bus suddenly come out of no where and hit someone? in ~movies
CannibalisticApple Link ParentAll those brief synopses got a chuckle from me. I'm just surprised Land Before Time didn't compound trauma by having Littlefoot's mom killed by a bus. Imagine how many kids would grow up hating...All those brief synopses got a chuckle from me. I'm just surprised Land Before Time didn't compound trauma by having Littlefoot's mom killed by a bus. Imagine how many kids would grow up hating buses...
Also that description of Saving Private Ryan reminds me of all the fun discussions about strapping knives to Roombas.
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Comment on May 2026 Backlog Burner: Week 3 Discussion in ~games
CannibalisticApple Link ParentKnocked off another square with Doki Monsters: Quest! Which I'm playing on my Switch , where it's called Doki Monsters on the home screen but the monsters are called Dokimon in-universe. Game's...Knocked off another square with Doki Monsters: Quest! Which I'm playing on my Switch
and thus blocking off my ability to launch Pokopia, where it's called Doki Monsters on the home screen but the monsters are called Dokimon in-universe. Game's name seems to have a minor identity crisis.It's a retro-style Pokémon clone, and is a very clear love letter to the first two generations of Pokémon (first town has a direct reference to the rumors about Mew being under a truck in Gen 1). It has its own distinct identity though, being set in a world where Dokimon first arrived 100 years ago and destroyed 70% of humanity. Society has settled into a new status quo by the story. Mostly.
One fun thing: the player character actually has dialogue. There have been a couple funny quips that got chuckles from me. The game isn't a comedy or satire game, but it has a sense of humor and I love that.
I'm also tempted to cross off "Has multiple playable characters" because there's a flashback near the very start where we play as our long-lost friend. It only happened that one time though and I'm apparently halfway through the story, so feels like it'd be cheating. Speaking of our long lost friend, this game has a big overarching mystery to it that could've gotten that square crossed off too. I'm eager to find answers on what exactly is going on in this world~
One last bit of praise: this game requires grinding, but it has a good system. You can rebattle opponents as many times as you want, and in these sorts of games trainers always give better EXP than wild encounters. At some point I noticed a counter appear in the upper corner counting the rematches, and then I noticed one more thing: they actually gradually increase in level. Realized this one enemy team went up in level from 17 to eventually 19.
Yep. Really good way to implement grinding.
Also I like the designs. They're all fairly original, with some small exceptions. Namely there's an Eevee clone called Kitsu, and its dark evolution looks like a black Fennekin, but I'm giving it a pass. Some of the names are also just normal words, like Luna and Eclipse, which is... Weirdly refreshing?
And while they're usually monochrome, there are color variants for all the palettes... including "Unique" variants with multiple colors. So that adds another layer of fun to wild encounters, though so far I've only found one rare variant.
So yeah. All around a good monster taming game, and I can heartily recommend it!
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Comment on What movies become better by having a bus suddenly come out of no where and hit someone? in ~movies
CannibalisticApple Link ParentI mean, with how messy the DC multiverse is (even has a "dark multiverse" with negative-numbered Earths), wouldn't be too weird to have some Bruce's who go the bureaucratic villain or Busman route.I mean, with how messy the DC multiverse is (even has a "dark multiverse" with negative-numbered Earths), wouldn't be too weird to have some Bruce's who go the bureaucratic villain or Busman route.
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Comment on What movies become better by having a bus suddenly come out of no where and hit someone? in ~movies
CannibalisticApple Link ParentOh my gosh, that scene is brilliant and the perfect tone for this question. I looked up the film since I'd never heard of it before, and I'm shocked it's not a comedy. Based on what I'm reading,...Oh my gosh, that scene is brilliant and the perfect tone for this question. I looked up the film since I'd never heard of it before, and I'm shocked it's not a comedy. Based on what I'm reading, this scene may have been the high point of the film.
To you or anyone else who's seen the movie, is this scene supposed to be serious? Because some of the comments indicate it was, which makes it even funnier to me.
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Comment on What movies become better by having a bus suddenly come out of no where and hit someone? in ~movies
CannibalisticApple Link ParentYep. Was tempted to bring it up by name in the post since that's obviously the one that inspired the whole question~Yep. Was tempted to bring it up by name in the post since that's obviously the one that inspired the whole question~
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Comment on What movies become better by having a bus suddenly come out of no where and hit someone? in ~movies
CannibalisticApple Link ParentThis makes me realize people shoving someone else into the path of a bus can add a whole new dimension to potential outcomes. Revenge shoves, business shoves, accidentally tripping and knocking...This makes me realize people shoving someone else into the path of a bus can add a whole new dimension to potential outcomes. Revenge shoves, business shoves, accidentally tripping and knocking someone into the path of a bus... So many new options for comedy and/or drama!
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Comment on What movies become better by having a bus suddenly come out of no where and hit someone? in ~movies
CannibalisticApple Link ParentBrilliant. All of these are brilliant. With A Nightmare on Elm Street, gotta wonder what happens if a bus crashes through a bedroom wall and hits someone while mid-murder dream...Brilliant. All of these are brilliant.
With A Nightmare on Elm Street, gotta wonder what happens if a bus crashes through a bedroom wall and hits someone while mid-murder dream...
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Comment on What movies become better by having a bus suddenly come out of no where and hit someone? in ~movies
CannibalisticApple Link Parent...For some reason, I specifically imagined that the bus hitting Darth Vader's fighter was the Magic Schoolbus. Do with that what you will....For some reason, I specifically imagined that the bus hitting Darth Vader's fighter was the Magic Schoolbus. Do with that what you will.
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Comment on What movies become better by having a bus suddenly come out of no where and hit someone? in ~movies
CannibalisticApple Link ParentAppreciate you offering some more serious and dramatic answers! Frodo getting hit would be even more shocking since only because buses definitely don't exist there. I feel like at least one person...Appreciate you offering some more serious and dramatic answers!
Frodo getting hit would be even more shocking since only because buses definitely don't exist there. I feel like at least one person would have a breakdown over the fact he was stopped by some metal contraption none of them could identify. Alternatively, perhaps the impact sends him and/or the ring careening towards the fires, still leading to a happy ending.
I can actually see there being some tour bus present at Jurassic Park that gets accidentally taken on a joyride by some curious dinos. I mean, given there's barely anyone on the island, it wouldn't be too strange to just leave the keys in the ignition for convenience, right?
Buzz and Woody getting hit by a bus... Now that's just evil. Reminds me of the tale of a movie theater where Toy Story 3 cut out at the climax, at the exact moment the toys were on a conveyer belt to their deaths and accepting their impending demise. Honestly, adding a bus to most Pixar movies would be pure evil.
Most. The Cars franchise could have some fun with it, and the second movie does have an actual kill count anyway...
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Comment on What movies become better by having a bus suddenly come out of no where and hit someone? in ~movies
CannibalisticApple Link ParentThe Waynes getting hit by a bus would change everything. Could be a villain backstory for why he grows up to dismantle public transportation, or alternatively why he champions the subway or...The Waynes getting hit by a bus would change everything. Could be a villain backstory for why he grows up to dismantle public transportation, or alternatively why he champions the subway or monorail and Not Buses. Or maybe we get Busman instead of Batman.
With Jaws, I feel like a bus hitting someone would change a lot. If it hits a human, that likely changes who'll be present for the final confrontation. If you mean the bus hits the shark though, I can see the scene going two ways:
1: "How the heck did a bus drive through the ocean and hit the shark?"
2: "How the heck did a bus drive through the ocean and hit the shark? And HOW THE HECK IS THE SHARK OKAY AND TRYING TO EAT THE BUS!?"
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Comment on What movies become better by having a bus suddenly come out of no where and hit someone? in ~movies
CannibalisticApple LinkThe one that inspired this question was the original The Devil Wears Prada. At the end when Andy and Miranda see each other on the street from afar, I joked "and then she's hit by a bus" and was...The one that inspired this question was the original The Devil Wears Prada. At the end when Andy and Miranda see each other on the street from afar, I joked "and then she's hit by a bus" and was struck by how funny that could actually be.
If Andy (the protagonist) was the one hit, I could see Miranda (the boss) watching in shock for a moment before going "Well, alright then" and telling the driver to just go already. Would fit with a lot of the earlier scenes and how callous she generally acts about others.
If Miranda was hit, I could see Andy staring in horror for a moment, before muttering "Huh, karma" and walking off to live her best life while everyone else fusses over Miranda. That would probably be out of character, since a major part of the film was about Andy recognizing how human Miranda truly was and developong empathy for her, but... Honestly, would've made for a very memorable ending compared to them just going their separate ways.
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What movies become better by having a bus suddenly come out of no where and hit someone?
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Exactly as the title says. What film becomes better if someone suddenly gets hit by a bus?
Could be at the very end for an unexpected laugh at the sheer suddenness and absurdity. Could be some karma against a much-hated antagonist. Could happen earlier in a film, and abruptly cut off an otherwise bad movie by just ending it then and there. Or maybe even change the film's trajectory by changing focus to the recovery and aftermath.
Can be played for laughs, can be played for drama. Could be fatal, could careen the story (and sequels) in a totally different direction. There are infinite possibilities, and this seems like a fun question to explore. I can think of so many slasher films that could be hilariously cut off at an early point by a bus just appearing out of no where to hit the killer.
And while I want to restrict this to settings with buses, I think I'll open the floor to other settings. Buses don't really exist in the Star Wars universe to my knowledge, but it's fun to think about the changes to the franchise from a bus hitting Jar Jar Binks in the first film (or not hitting him and revealing the Darth Jar Jar theory to be true in the process), along with the investigation into what the bus was and how it spawned on an underwater planet.
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Comment on What's your favorite personal gaming memory? in ~games
CannibalisticApple LinkI've spoken before about playing Pokémon Moon and how it became my most personal journey in a game thanks to Mulaku, my Muk. I'm a lifelong Pokémon fan and been playing since Gen 2 (and Gen 1,...I've spoken before about playing Pokémon Moon and how it became my most personal journey in a game thanks to Mulaku, my Muk. I'm a lifelong Pokémon fan and been playing since Gen 2 (and Gen 1, because I did get those games after Gold/Silver), but Pokémon Moon remains the most personal experience—the one time I felt like it was my journey, not some character I was playing—because the developers decided to make Grimer happy about getting any single touch in Pokémon Refresh.
...But since I've told that story before, I'll tell about another fun memories: basically, the entirety of my time playing Mitadake/Pyrce/Misuterii High on BYOND.
Mitadake High is an anime-inspired multiplayer game that looks like an RPG Maker game where up to 16 players are trapped in a school, with one of them being a killer. Your goal is to either survive for twelve in-game hours (with hosts setting hours to usually be 5 or 8 minutes), or to kill everyone if you're the killer. And of course, LOTS of role-playing. It had a normal mode, a Death Note mode, and a "Nanaya" mode based off the Tsukihime visual novel series (which... typically just served as a free-for-all).
Pyrce High and Misuterii High were spiritual successors that expanded on it, with the admins/devs adding more modes and character sprites. And man, was it fun. I wrote up a bunch of guides for the new modes as they were implemented, and remember our excitement the first time players successfully killed a witch in the mode based off Umineko. We had a lot of good times. (I still laugh remembering the line "Drugs lead to cannibalism" after one particular RP.)
Probably my favorite memory of those games came when we were testing out Zombie mode, which was fairly buggy. I think that, at least at the start, the first zombie would be an AI-driven one that would constantly walk towards players and bite them to infect them. Simple but highly effective since ranged attacks weren't really a thing. The very first attempt had a hilarious bug where the initial zombie was just automatically spamming empty text, so we had to quickly end the round since "Zombie says ' '" popped up in bold every three seconds.
In one of the next rounds, I roleplayed a girl who was very early in her pregnancy just to add some drama. So after a point I and the other few survivors (all male) holed up in a classroom, and had been blocking the door with desks when a zombie opened the door and stepped inside with another zombie directly behind it. The desks and door only let it get inside on one tile, so the guys cautiously attacked the zombie from below with hit-and-run tactics while I hung back as the Vulnerable Pregnant Girl who Must Be Protected.
And at this point, for whatever reason the zombie stopped responding. Best we figured, the player must have disconnected, but disconnecting doesn't kill you. So the zombie just stayed there. With another non-responsive zombie directly behind it. Blocking the only entrance.
The position of the zombie and the open door meant we could only interact with them from below or in front of them. While there's a push command that I think works on players, the door and the second zombie blocked off the two directions we could have shoved them. You can also forcibly move players by killing or knocking them out and dragging their bodies, but for whatever reason, the attacks weren't doing either. And the zombie behind them must have been the AI one, because it was not moving or doing anything.
As the guys cycled through attacking the zombie with no response, we quickly realized that the player was offline. The positioning of the two non-responsive zombies created a weird softlock, as even other zombie players couldn't do anything thanks to the AI zombie standing in the door and blocking the other zombie. And sure, the game's all about roleplaying, but there's not much fun in just being stuck in a single room.
We all talked in the meta-chat about the admins possibly force-ending the round while continuing to attack, hoping the player would either come back online or we'd damage them enough to drag their body. The game has stamina/energy so they'd basically take turns attacking the zombie while waiting for the energy to refill.
As the guys cycled through rounds of futile attacks, I was getting a bit bored just standing around, but the Vulnerable Pregnant Girl wouldn't want to risk her and her baby's safety needlessly. And then I got a brilliant stroke of inspiration on how to join in while staying in-character.
"Wait a minute... THAT ZOMBIE LOOKS LIKE THE ASSHOLE THAT GOT ME PREGNANT!"
If we had voice chat, I'm sure the others would have been howling as I charged forward to take my turn attacking the zombie, ranting about him being a good-for-nothing deadbeat who left me behind and had the nerve to then get zombified. I know I was laughing pretty hard, and there were plenty of people laughing over text in the meta chat and cheering me on.
In the end an admin shut down the round because it was deadlocked, but it still stands out as one of the most fun rounds I remember. Makes me sad that the heyday has long passed and the game will likely never achieve that same sort of activity again.
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Comment on ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ reviews mixed: “Boring and lifeless” vs. “best Star Wars in years” in ~movies
CannibalisticApple Link ParentI know a lot of people think they got it and didn't, but I also know whatever hit her school was bad. I looked up our initial conversation, and she said the symptoms that everyone experienced that...I know a lot of people think they got it and didn't, but I also know whatever hit her school was bad. I looked up our initial conversation, and she said the symptoms that everyone experienced that autumn and winter matched up with the first strain of Covid in 2020. She was hit particularly bad compared to everyone else, and brain scans in February 2020 showed lesions in her brain thanks to her immune system attacking her brain as a result of whatever she had. Technically possible with the flu, but much more common with Covid.
The biggest sticking point really is how early it was. After checking again she said that the outbreak of whatever actually started around the third week of September, so it would've had to already be present and spreading in China in late August/early September. And like you said, the global spread would've looked very different if it was around that early. The main reason I don't write it off completely is just because she's been a teacher for many years and is thus very familiar with flu and other outbreaks, and isn't the conspiracy theory type or type to jump to conclusions without supporting evidence (actually quite the opposite). So while the timeline is shaky, altogether I'm disinclined to dismiss her suspicions compared to many of the other 2019 claims.
All that said, I wouldn't be surprised if Covid was around for a bit before being identified as... Well, Covid. The symptoms are similar enough to the flu that it wouldn't stick out as something else without a proper test. The biggest differences I can find are the incubation period, the contagiousness, the severity, and Covid causing a loss of sense/smell. So I do wonder if some of the "bad flu" cases from 2019 were actually an early strain that wasn't quite as bad. We'll likely never know for sure though.
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Comment on ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ reviews mixed: “Boring and lifeless” vs. “best Star Wars in years” in ~movies
CannibalisticApple Link ParentFunnily, I recall some higher-up in production explicitly stated the reason they didn't tell anyone in marketing/merchandising about Grogu was because they wanted to keep it a surprise since many...Funnily, I recall some higher-up in production explicitly stated the reason they didn't tell anyone in marketing/merchandising about Grogu was because they wanted to keep it a surprise since many leaks and spoilers originate from toy leaks. And I think that was the right move for the show's success. The internet exploded with talk of "Baby Yoda" when the show launched and gave the show a huge boost among even non-Star Wars fans. If Grogu got leaked weeks or months in advance via a toy, I think the hype would've lost momentum by the time the show actually released.
Also, interesting that you think your workplace got hit with Covid. I have an online friend who I suspect got Covid in Canada back in I believe October 2019. The school where she worked got hit with some mysterious super bug that went beyond the typical flu, and later matched up with a lot of Covid symptoms. Her area had some Chinese families who'd visited relatives in Wuhan around that time, so my guess is someone brought back one of the earliest strains of Covid.
Whatever it was screwed up her sense of taste and left her with a myriad of lasting health issues that she's still dealing with, so hopefully no one at your work had long-lasting effects.
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Comment on Was the creepypasta subculture as a phenomena already dead by somewhere in the mid 2010s? in ~talk
CannibalisticApple Link ParentAs someone active in character-focused parts of the creepypasta community in the mid 2010's, that tracks. I was in college when I got really active writing reader inserts, and the thing that stuck...As someone active in character-focused parts of the creepypasta community in the mid 2010's, that tracks. I was in college when I got really active writing reader inserts, and the thing that stuck with me was how young everyone else was. I don't think it was just my specific niche, I think creepypasta generally tended to attract kids and teens.
Heck, same applies to modern internet horror like the backrooms or all the mascot horror games. I think something about horror and spooky stuff just particularly excites teens, maybe because that's the age when we first become really aware of morbid stuff.
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Comment on Was the creepypasta subculture as a phenomena already dead by somewhere in the mid 2010s? in ~talk
CannibalisticApple LinkAs someone who was very active in the community during 2014-2016 (granted, mainly in the reader insert niche on DeviantArt and the roleplaying scene on Tumblr), I'd say it was very alive in the...As someone who was very active in the community during 2014-2016 (granted, mainly in the reader insert niche on DeviantArt and the roleplaying scene on Tumblr), I'd say it was very alive in the mid-2010's. The communities I ran in were more focused on the characters than writing/reading brand new stories (well, unless they were trying to make an OC), but I recall creepypasta.com tended to get a lot of story submissions, too. I think they might have had to have open submission periods...? And the Creepypasta Wiki had a contest to rewrite Jeff the Killer in 2015 after removing the original for being badly written. I remember a lot of people being up in arms about its deletion, honestly I'm still split on that just because of the original's legacy.
Ah, such good times...
I remember back in 2016, I marveled at how close the election would be just because both candidates were so bad. Like, if either had been up against any other candidate, that other candidate would've had a clear edge. Both were pretty contentious even within their own parties. But each one had so many bad qualities that they were on even ground.
I think it was that dumb email scandal right before voting day that pushed the scales in Trump's favor at the last minute. The election genuinely seemed able to go either way.