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Comment on Caravan Palace - Good Mouse (2026) | MOUSE: P.I. For Hire original game soundtrack in ~music
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Comment on Caravan Palace - Good Mouse (2026) | MOUSE: P.I. For Hire original game soundtrack in ~music
MimicSquid Link ParentIt's decent, but it's clearly a lower budget video than the ones they do for their own songs. Caravan Palace has some exceptional animation for their music videos, and this is ok. They make sure...It's decent, but it's clearly a lower budget video than the ones they do for their own songs. Caravan Palace has some exceptional animation for their music videos, and this is ok. They make sure to never show the singer when she's singing, the band has a single loop (solid, but visible repeats), and especially near the end of the song there's repeated clips like the one of a wall being shot up that are just there to fill time. Nothing terrible, and I wouldn't have thought twice about it if not for the normal incredibly high standards fo Caravan Palace.
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Comment on Donald Trump says it's 'not possible' for the U.S. to pay for Medicaid, Medicare and day care: 'We’re fighting wars' in ~news
MimicSquid LinkThat's a completely elective war you started, you asshat. And now you want to use the money fire you started as an excuse to hurt even more people? Fuck you, you asshole.That's a completely elective war you started, you asshat. And now you want to use the money fire you started as an excuse to hurt even more people? Fuck you, you asshole.
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Comment on University at forty in ~talk
MimicSquid LinkI went to university at 28, which while absolutely different from 40, still set me apart from the students who were undergoing the socially expected route. While I was there, there were students...- Exemplary
I went to university at 28, which while absolutely different from 40, still set me apart from the students who were undergoing the socially expected route. While I was there, there were students in my classes even older than I, though I didn't interact with them much. I hope that my thoughts on the topic help.
There's three major parts of going to university: the educational, the cultural, and the social. University isn't just to learn about individual topics, it's to provide a staging ground for forming young adults into a culturally similar cadre through shared experiences and information sources. (This isn't bad, but it is a thing that does happen.) As an older student, you'll get the educational portion, but the social and cultural parts will be harder. You will have had infinitely more life experience and different life experiences as compared to most of the students. Whether that would be a barrier for you in interacting with them isn't a question I can answer, but broadly my experience was that I did not get a social experience at university the way that it's obtained by people who go when they're younger. My wife had the classic experience of living in the dorms and then sharing a house with people the same age as her who were also going to university together, and those friendships have persisted for decades. Commuting to school while working and a decade older than my peers, I did not make any lifelong friends.
Those friends are also often the start of a young adult's professional network. Having shared experiences and a testing ground that showed what they were made of provides them a basis for networking and connections that will possibly help carry them forward. But this is again based upon social connections that may or may not form, and are less likely to if you attend at 40.
The education itself can be interesting, but if I were in your position I would ask myself what I was hoping to get out of it. Do you want a challenge that will play out over 4 years, expecting 20-40 hours of work a week for no immediate or concrete compensation? Do you want to broaden your life experience? Do you want professional challenges? University holds an outsized place in our cultural stories about bettering ourselves, and I'm with you on feeling the cultural weight we place on having a degree. I think it will be helpful to think about what, very specifically, you want to get out of it, and being very clear about what paths are most likely to get you what you want.
Ultimately, you will never have the experience your friends had when you were seventeen. It can be an experience you value, and it may be valuable to you, but it won't be the thing you heard about back then. Is what it is now something you want now?
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
MimicSquid Link ParentIf you didn't read spoilers you'd never know that you had missed the other options. It's also an incredibly niche weapon, useful in the vanishingly rare situations where you can stand in place for...If you didn't read spoilers you'd never know that you had missed the other options. It's also an incredibly niche weapon, useful in the vanishingly rare situations where you can stand in place for multiple seconds. No one is missing anything.
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Comment on Enjoying reading in the age of LLMs in ~humanities
MimicSquid Link ParentHandwritten and drawn 'zines will probably remain human-made for a decent while.Handwritten and drawn 'zines will probably remain human-made for a decent while.
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Comment on You can finally change the goofy Gmail address you chose years ago in ~tech
MimicSquid Link ParentAs someone who ran their own business for a long time, preserve that separation between your work and professional emails. You've got to be able to put the work down at the end of the day, and...As someone who ran their own business for a long time, preserve that separation between your work and professional emails. You've got to be able to put the work down at the end of the day, and having work email in your personal email box is a great way to never actually be not working.
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Comment on Megathread: April Fools' Day 2026 on the internet in ~talk
MimicSquid Link ParentIt will very slowly load the image one line of pixels at a time in a way that's very nostalgic for anyone who started browsing the internet and wanted to look at images while modems were still a...It will very slowly load the image one line of pixels at a time in a way that's very nostalgic for anyone who started browsing the internet and wanted to look at images while modems were still a thing.
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Comment on Megathread: April Fools' Day 2026 on the internet in ~talk
MimicSquid Link ParentThe grayscale/greyscale mode got me good.The grayscale/greyscale mode got me good.
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 30 in ~society
MimicSquid Link ParentHe can't. A law was passed by the Republicans that require the consent of the Senate to back out of NATO.He can't. A law was passed by the Republicans that require the consent of the Senate to back out of NATO.
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Comment on Pokémon Go players built a thirty-billion-photo map for AI in ~tech
MimicSquid Link ParentIt's voluntary, but highly incentivized, as the more locations close to you the more power there is for you to garner in game. It works well for everyone, though the player pay to play and also...It's voluntary, but highly incentivized, as the more locations close to you the more power there is for you to garner in game. It works well for everyone, though the player pay to play and also provide free labor. Not quite equitable.
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Comment on Disney reportedly keen on buying Fortnite developer Epic Games in ~games
MimicSquid LinkBecause Disney can no longer do anything but acquire other, more successful companies and attempt to extract every bit of nostalgia or goodwill anyone has towards that company and turn it into...Because Disney can no longer do anything but acquire other, more successful companies and attempt to extract every bit of nostalgia or goodwill anyone has towards that company and turn it into profit to allow it to continue to devour anything of interest.
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Comment on Can we talk about rice cookers? in ~food
MimicSquid LinkMy experience is that rice cookers that also do other things are not as good at cooking rice. I have an 8 quart Instant Pot that I use for stews, chili, and other slow-cooking and pressure cooking...My experience is that rice cookers that also do other things are not as good at cooking rice. I have an 8 quart Instant Pot that I use for stews, chili, and other slow-cooking and pressure cooking tasks, but it makes fairly mediocre rice, and so I have a dedicated Zojirushi rice cooker as well, which makes fantastic rice. It also means that I can have the main dish and the rice cooking simultaneously without any fuss.
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Comment on UK government blocks Chinese firm’s plans to build wind turbines in Scotland in ~enviro
MimicSquid LinkSo, I can understand national security concerns if you start to depend on a competitor nation's corporate interests for energy infrastructure, but it does seem like a failure in messaging to not...So, I can understand national security concerns if you start to depend on a competitor nation's corporate interests for energy infrastructure, but it does seem like a failure in messaging to not have an alternative lined up when you reject the big offer that seems so positive upfront.
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Comment on Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing -- colonies surged fifteen-fold in ~science
MimicSquid Link ParentIt's cheaper to ship them than maintain them on site for the 11 months of the year they aren't needed for a given crop's pollination.It's cheaper to ship them than maintain them on site for the 11 months of the year they aren't needed for a given crop's pollination.
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Comment on AI software for smart glasses wins £1m prize for technology to help people with dementia in ~health.mental
MimicSquid Link[A scientist in dementia studies unconnected to this technology said] more carefully controlled studies or randomised trials were needed to test whether such devices delivered meaningful benefits in everyday life, while there were also ethical considerations over consent, given the technology will collect data from the wearer.
He also said a challenge for assistive technologies was whether people would really use them. In particular, he noted the battery life for the smart glasses was only one hour, meaning a portable power bank was required.
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Comment on Ottawa's big bet on world's largest cricket farm ran into a simple problem: the 'yuck factor' in ~food
MimicSquid (edited )LinkReally, what it reveals is that the business didn't prove that there was a market at the price they could provide, nor that they could make their system work at the scale they thought they could,...Really, what it reveals is that the business didn't prove that there was a market at the price they could provide, nor that they could make their system work at the scale they thought they could, but were able to convince people with money that they had the answers to a novel problem. If this wasn't cricket related, there would be no story here.
Back during the height of the cricket craze in 2013, I was doing initial review of financing proposals for small farming enterprises, and had a couple of different organizations ask for money to do smaller scale cricket farming enclosures for large scale farming. Every one of them was more thought out than "stick them in plastic bins." I don't know what techniques have developed in the last decade, but it does sound like Aspire Food Group wasn't using them. Pity.
I'm broadly enthusiastic about novel food sources, and think that crickets have a place in the array of things people would benefit from being open to eating. Personally, as someone with a mild shellfish intolerance (itchy mouth and digestional upset), I found that crickets triggered the same reactions. At least from my perspective, that makes them a poor candidate as a protein meal inclusion in other dishes, which is the commonly proposed way of hiding the fact that there's bugs in the food.
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Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes
MimicSquid Link ParentYou can label anyone's posts without engaging in any other way with the thread.You can label anyone's posts without engaging in any other way with the thread.
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Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news
MimicSquid Link ParentNo one would buy all of it, but you can resell food so easily. Any smaller store will buy a couple of cases without question, and it's likely that plenty of smaller wholesalers could buy a pallet...No one would buy all of it, but you can resell food so easily. Any smaller store will buy a couple of cases without question, and it's likely that plenty of smaller wholesalers could buy a pallet or two without it being noticeable unless their books were specifically audited.
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Comment on Interesting material types for fantasy resources/macguffins other than crystals or metals? in ~creative
MimicSquid Link ParentA little bit? spoilers answer What I've described is a synthesis of tiny fragments and clues spread across a 40 hour game. Some of the pilgrims express this odd helplessness, where they've got to...A little bit?
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What I've described is a synthesis of tiny fragments and clues spread across a 40 hour game. Some of the pilgrims express this odd helplessness, where they've got to climb without ever explaining why, and there are some notes that indicate that the Weavers regret having perpetrated the system, but they're all dead or fled. Hornet, the protagonist, is literally the granddaughter of the aptly named Grand Mother Silk, the daughter of one of the Weavers who fled. The different endings of the game offer her the choice of overthrowing GMS and perpetrating the system that led to such suffering, or casting GMS down and freeing the Kingdom from her sleeping tyranny without placing Hornet at the top of the pile. So the options do leave you with the ability to break the cycle, but it's very much in the subtext rather than discussed in detail.
The look is classic rubber hose animation. Some of it may be from cutscenes, but the actual gameplay is first person shooter.