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Len @len.bsky.social · 6h

If it gets above 80 at any point, summer isn't over yet.

Len @len.bsky.social · 6h

My new benchmark for "it's actually fall" is when we have a 10-day forecast with no highs above 80 F, which would make this the first day of Actual Fall.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 22h

It seems to be a really common thing with Gen Z especially to take inclusion of content as an endorsement of its real-world antecedents and expect not just the author but the world and characters they create to reflect a certain set of values, and this is Bad Actually.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 23h

bisexual as in attracted to women and whatever this is

Grid @isbergillustration.bsky.social · 1d

Omen
#inktober

Ink drawing of a beefy faceless minotaur sort of a guy

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

I don't miss a lot about public school but I do miss my weekend being everyone else's weekend in sort of a shared celebration sense. There are advantages to just having random days off though because you can like go get all your errands done when the shops aren't going to be crowded.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

when you work a frontline service job or freelance and you see everyone posting "it's friday night" and "ladies and gentlemen: the weekend"

a close up of a man 's face with the words `` not to me '' written next to him .

Alt: Star Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 saying "Not to me!"

media.tenor.com

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

"Wait! There's a good reason this person is a dick! I don't want you to just think they're being a dick for no reason! So I must have that character explain to you exactly why they're being a dick in a very self-aware way and allow you to immediately turn a mirror on them."

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

I completely agree, and I think there's probably some level of fear from writers that if they make characters act the way you're describing, the audience will just see them as straightforward assholes. Like they don't want you to get the wrong idea about the character and they're hedging.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

where i come from, all milk is business milk

Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

In English if I just waved at you and said, "Len" while we were introducing ourselves, you would probably understand that I mean, "I am Len." Similarly, in Japanese, "Len desu" would have that implication. But just waving at you and saying, "Milk," you might need the added context, "I am Milk."

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

Technically correct. I think you could probably lose the obligatory 私は, though in this case I suppose there is an argument that you want to make sure they understand you are in fact saying the very stupid thing you just said so there is no possibility of trying to make better sense of it.

Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 2d

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

"there are assassins and templars on both sides of every major normie conflict" has been creating stupidity as long as the series has been around

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

I tab out of a work thing because I need to look something up relevant to the assignment. I am distracted by unread messages on discord and slack.

45 minutes later, I have not looked up the thing. I tab back in. It takes me 0.2 seconds to remember the question I meant to look up. I tab out again...

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Three Moves Ahead @3ma.bsky.social · 2d

This week, @len.bsky.social and @mhwilliams.bsky.social are joined by Ruth Cassidy and Sin Vega to discuss Endless Legend 2's Early Access launch and a bunch of other stuff we've been playing in this chill variety chat.

www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes...

Three Moves Ahead: Endless Legend 2 & Friends

Episode 640. What Really Is A Strategy Game?

www.idlethumbs.net

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

Skyines 2's first major DLC finally has a release date - more than two years after the release of the base game. Asset modding support is still in development.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve39...

Bridges & Ports | Announcement Trailer | Cities: Skylines II

YouTube video by Cities: Skylines

www.youtube.com

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

LLMs should be sold in a pack of 4 (with one more FREE if you call in the next five minutes!) on QVC at 11:48 a.m.

No I mean when this whole craze started I did say that at least, unlike say NFTs, it does have valid use cases that exist. They're just marginal compared to the level of hype. It should be like a gadget they sell on QVC during a weekday. It does a few things that are neat and very specific.
The ShamWow did not completely revolutionize every industry forever, but yeah I'll get a couple for the specific tasks they're good at. This is like someone saying ShamWow is going to reduce the need for human labor significantly.
And unlike the ShamWow, it also does some things that seem cool if you don't understand it but are actually really bad for you, such as using it for any kind of research. Like if the ShamWow for some reason tasted really good but was still just as toxic to ingest.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

Also that guy's gonna be in a textbook. What are you doing this weekend?

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

Portland Frog has redeemed amphibians in the broader culture after more than a decade of pepe dragging their image through the mud.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

It's still bad! But it's average "leadership doesn't want to listen to the userbase" bad and not "one guy basically turned one of the internet's main forums for everything from local extreme weather warnings to celebrity culture, which will never exist again, into a nazi bar"

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Len @len.bsky.social · 2d

For as much as it sucks when the admins turn out to suck, this is not a repeat of twitter. And I only say that because it's almost impossible to overstate the disaster that was Musk's twitter. It has almost no precedent. This is like when everyone got mad at spez for fucking up the API. Ordinary.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 3d

ubisoft 🤝 andrew johnson

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Len @len.bsky.social · 3d

There's no T in the word "mountain."

We're going to the mou'ns

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Len @len.bsky.social · 3d

I think both things were true: Square's sales expectations were destructively outlandish, and the title did this game no favors.