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I've been letting the guy play Thank Goodness You're Here, which is an adventure game brilliantly designed to keep the humor delivery flowing and not be frustrating, which pretty much all humor adventure games have a problem with. It is, in general, incredibly smooth.Comments
This, though, is maybe one time I should have checked the ESRB rating? It is rated M for mature for crude humor. It wouldn't have changed my decision, I think but I wouldn't have been surprised by the uses of "shit" and various innuendo.
There's Britishisms that will go over American kids' heads. The convenience store is called Price Shaggers. Then, there's grown-up-isms like the fish monger's face turning red and "saying Reggie's wife could learn a thing or two!" when you spin around a phallic-looking fish. And I think there is a "I couldn't walk straight for a week" joke in there.
Anyway, the important thing is that there isn't any nightmare violence. Although there is a creepy meat-world and lots of surreal gentle grossness.
Back to the way the game plays, it's very skillfully designed so you don't feel like you're pressing A to advance a pre-scripted movie, but you also don't feel like you have to stop enjoying the characters in order to solve a disparate puzzle, whether it's well-designed or poorly designed. -
This change is a relief. It lets me refer to files downloaded and decoded by filename instead just by the order I requested them in. I thought of doing this years ago, but then thought, eh, I can live with the inconvenience of indexes changing every time I add a file because I'm almost done with this project.Comments
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24-minute run with the guy. It’s very sunny, pre-snowstorm. Back workout, five slow deadlifts.Comments
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I spent a lot of time struggling with various electric charging station map web sites that were either confusing or were very aggressive about getting you to sign up before I realized that Google Maps will just show charging stations near your route and let you add the as stops.
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Well, it is 2025, and the New York Times has decided to interview Curtis Yarvin, the “Dark Enlightenment” guy who is explicitly against democracy and pro-totalitarian. He’s not implicitly against democracy. He actually says we should do away with it.Comments
I’m not going to bother to click because I’m 90% certain they put no tough questions to him, journalist style. Tell me if I’m wrong, but I bet it’s like when they interviewed Richard Spencer. “Huh, what’s this dapper guy got to say? Maybe he’s more normal than we think!” -
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New Small Findings: Differences between South and North American colonialismComments
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30-minute run on treadmill, with two breaks because th YouTube queue either didn’t work or doesn’t do what I think it does. Eight pull-ups. I think my tennis elbow is over! Which is fortunate because it could last 1-2 years. Eight normal speed deadlifts.Comments
I ran a bit extra because I want to de-aggravate myself. The situation with little of our heat staying on the first floor bothers me not just because of the situation itself but also because we seem to get a bad outcome every time we pay someone a lot of money to do something, no matter how careful we are. This time, we thought being part of a group buy would protect us somewhat.
Hiring a contractor is like a monkey’s paw wish, except that you pay for the wishes and their twisted outcomes.
I suppose it isn’t every time that we get cursed. The guy we hired to patch up the walls where the radiators used to be did a good job. The electrical work was good. The fence is good. Maybe it’s just when we go over $5K.
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The moment I wrote “you have a guarantee” in my email to the HVAC contractor that we’re not in a great situation.Comments
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Costco's site stopped responding after a certain point. Why?Comments
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Nice job, guys.
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Whoa, there's a general strike in Georgia. Though I guess they're not as uncommon as I thought.Comments
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I happened to find the Medford Public Library Board of Trustees meeting minutes. Librarians here get paid a little over half of what they get paid in Arlington.Comments
Less sad excerpts:The Library switched to a smaller company. The new company weeded, trimmed plants, and removed 68 dead plants. The dead plants will be replaced with new ones better suited for the space.
You can practically see the landscaping manager telling the landscapers to count the plants pulled for the metrics.Baby Animal Day was a hit, attended by a goat, a pig, a kitten, chickens and a big crowd of people.
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Vanuatu's got so many viable political parties! There's also 300,000+ people, which is a lot more than I expected.Comments
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Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is preparing to cut about 5% of its global workforce, as the company looks to drop "low performers faster".Comments
On a recent podcast with Joe Rogan, Mr Zuckerberg said he thought companies needed more "masculine energy" and discussed taking up martial arts, which he said he enjoyed because he felt he could more fully express himself, than in his corporate role.
As much as I respect jiu-jitsu technically, the laissez-faire ethics leads to stuff like this. Some jiu-jitsu gyms aren’t like this at all and are about helping people get better and encouraging them to help others. But because the martial art overall doesn’t say anything about this, some of them are about tough guy posturing. Certainly, BJJ coaches paid to make a billionaire feel tough aren’t even going to try to instill any sort of help-each-other-out attitude.
"When you're running a company, people typically don't wanna see you being like this ruthless person who's just like I'm gonna crush the people I'm competing with," he said. "But when you're fighting, it's like no."
"I think in some ways when people see me competing in the sport they're like oh no, 'That's the real Mark."
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Bird flu has the potential to get out of control now. Why are pandemics always ready to go when the worst possible president to handle them is in office?Comments
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There was a point at judo today at which I thought, hey, my health is decent! The class was a lot of uchikomi and nagekomi, which isn't the most intense workout in the world, but I think it would have wiped me out a month ago.Comments
I was actually feeling OK after the first round of randori. Then, kinda did a lot of unconscious drag down stuff in the second. I was barely walking in the third.
Technique-wise, I didn't make a ton of progress, but I felt like I was getting better at positioning during randori and generally being more aware.
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