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  1. Comment on ‘Backrooms’ sends Hollywood running to Reddit for new ideas in ~movies

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    There actually is a Today You, Tomorrow Me short film and I think it's really good.

    There actually is a Today You, Tomorrow Me short film and I think it's really good.

    4 votes

  2. Comment on Watch baseball games in realtime in 8-bit view in ~sports.baseball

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    I'm also a big fan of using playball to "watch" in the terminal. Baseball is perfect for this sort of thing.

    I'm also a big fan of using playball to "watch" in the terminal.

    Baseball is perfect for this sort of thing.

  3. Comment on The man who's spent a lifetime making one, giant map in ~games

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    I was so excited to see that title hoping it would be Jerry's Map. I've tried some JerryMapping of my own, but it's mostly been more like his "original" style of more-realistic cartography. Maybe...

    I was so excited to see that title hoping it would be Jerry's Map. I've tried some JerryMapping of my own, but it's mostly been more like his "original" style of more-realistic cartography.

    Maybe I should try that out again, it could be fun.

    7 votes

  4. Comment on Custom LED light frames in ~creative

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    You know, that's probably not a bad idea...

    You know, that's probably not a bad idea...

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Custom LED light frames in ~creative

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    I'm pretty proud of the custom LED light frames I made, and also figured they'd be a good topic for getting my new personal blog started.

    I'm pretty proud of the custom LED light frames I made, and also figured they'd be a good topic for getting my new personal blog started.

    5 votes

  7. Comment on When did your preferred fighting game franchises peak? in ~games

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    I absolutely think you could, though competitive Melee has a steep barrier to entry nowadays. Platform fighters are really something else - the fluidity of movement that you have available can...

    I absolutely think you could, though competitive Melee has a steep barrier to entry nowadays. Platform fighters are really something else - the fluidity of movement that you have available can feel more like a precision-platformer speedrun than a "regular" 2D fighting game.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on When did your preferred fighting game franchises peak? in ~games

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    As far as I'm concerned, Melee is The Beautiful Game. You really can watch someone express themselves in the way they play. And it's still getting better - we just had Link vs Luigi in the top 8...

    As far as I'm concerned, Melee is The Beautiful Game. You really can watch someone express themselves in the way they play. And it's still getting better - we just had Link vs Luigi in the top 8 of a major!

    6 votes

  9. Comment on Do you prefer chunky or smooth peanut butter? in ~food

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    I think it was more of "we don't care about anything except the golf course" - just nobody felt a need to spend the money on anything other than "crackers, spreads, and some fridges for drinks"

    I think it was more of "we don't care about anything except the golf course" - just nobody felt a need to spend the money on anything other than "crackers, spreads, and some fridges for drinks"

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Do you prefer chunky or smooth peanut butter? in ~food

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    Nope! Enjoy your can of Coke and cheese and crackers, then get back on the course. There was a full restaurant with fancy food in the clubhouse for after the round, but the halfway refreshments...

    Nope! Enjoy your can of Coke and cheese and crackers, then get back on the course.

    There was a full restaurant with fancy food in the clubhouse for after the round, but the halfway refreshments were as bare-bones as they could be

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Do you prefer chunky or smooth peanut butter? in ~food

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    Crunchy natural PB for spreading on bread and eating. Cheap smooth PB for one specific purpose - when I was growing up, I worked as a golf caddy over the summer. The course I worked at was...

    Crunchy natural PB for spreading on bread and eating.

    Cheap smooth PB for one specific purpose - when I was growing up, I worked as a golf caddy over the summer. The course I worked at was incredibly wealthy and exclusive, but was also super bare-bones for non-golf-things. When stopping for a break halfway through the round, the only refreshments available were coolers of pop to drink and Saltine crackers to eat, with your choice of cheese or peanut butter as a spread. Because of the timing of the round, there were plenty of days where "Saltines with peanut butter" was my entire lunch, and I can still absolutely demolish a stack of crackers when I'm hungry.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on GameStop preparing offer for eBay in ~games

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    Are they going to be picking up TCGPlayer too? When eBay bought them, it already made things worse there. I don't know if GameStop would be any better in that regard.

    Are they going to be picking up TCGPlayer too? When eBay bought them, it already made things worse there. I don't know if GameStop would be any better in that regard.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on Disney reportedly keen on buying Fortnite developer Epic Games in ~games

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    There's always a bigger fish. Makes me think of the internal memos that came out during Epic v. Google where some Google execs were throwing around "could we just buy Epic?" as a possible solution...

    There's always a bigger fish.

    Makes me think of the internal memos that came out during Epic v. Google where some Google execs were throwing around "could we just buy Epic?" as a possible solution to the app store conflicts.

    6 votes

  14. Comment on New accounts on Hacker News ten times more likely to use em-dashes in ~tech

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    Don't forget the rampant bigotry to go along with the AI-bro-ness!

    Don't forget the rampant bigotry to go along with the AI-bro-ness!

    17 votes

  15. Comment on Nova Launcher: An update in ~tech

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    I moved from Nova to Lawnchair with my last device upgrade and I've been very happy with it.

    I moved from Nova to Lawnchair with my last device upgrade and I've been very happy with it.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Reversing the technical interview in ~comp

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    Kyle does so much great work. As someone who's been working with various distributed database systems at work, the Jepsen tests are both invaluable research and also satisfying takedowns of...

    Kyle does so much great work. As someone who's been working with various distributed database systems at work, the Jepsen tests are both invaluable research and also satisfying takedowns of overly-bold claims about DB reliability. Then for something completely different, his article A Satisfactory Way of Building was a perfect distillation of a lot of my thought process for playing, uh, Satisfactory.

    Plus, I really appreciate his willingness to publicly stick with a "weird" part of his lifestyle (leather) in a time when it'd be all too tempting to minimize any possible target on yourself.

    7 votes

  17. Comment on Order of the Sinking Star | Official announcement trailer in ~games

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    This Bsky thread from yesterday doesn't have full receipts for everything, but has an overview of the Sokoban variant games that Blow used for his new game (with full permission, it would seem)...

    This Bsky thread from yesterday doesn't have full receipts for everything, but has an overview of the Sokoban variant games that Blow used for his new game (with full permission, it would seem) and also a TLDR of his latest attitudes:

    He’s adversarial to people talking about privilege and representation, is dismissive of diversity efforts, has dabbled in covid trutherism, and is pro-MAGA.
    Jon in February called [Trump] "the best President we have had in my entire life".

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Order of the Sinking Star | Official announcement trailer in ~games

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    It's a real shame - both Braid and especially The Witness are high up on my all-time favorites list. Blow used to just be ornery about technology (in a way that was at least academically...

    It's a real shame - both Braid and especially The Witness are high up on my all-time favorites list. Blow used to just be ornery about technology (in a way that was at least academically interesting), but he's moved on from there to outright bigotry. This will be a skip from me.

    6 votes

  19. Comment on System76 launches first stable release of COSMIC desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS in ~tech

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    Because it's run by bigots - it'd be my #1 pick if it weren't for that.

    Because it's run by bigots - it'd be my #1 pick if it weren't for that.

    5 votes

  20. Comment on System76 launches first stable release of COSMIC desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS in ~tech

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    I've been looking at swapping DEs to something new and Wayland-native (and not Hyprland) for a bit now, and I'm even on System76 hardware (an Oryx laptop from 3 years back), so maybe it's time to...

    I've been looking at swapping DEs to something new and Wayland-native (and not Hyprland) for a bit now, and I'm even on System76 hardware (an Oryx laptop from 3 years back), so maybe it's time to give COSMIC a try.

    3 votes