ur-mom is so foundational that entire civilizations derived their concept of motherhood from her
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
ur-mom is so foundational that entire civilizations derived their concept of motherhood from her
I love how people sometimes claim "oh the only reason people criticize this is *ideology*" as some kind of slam dunk to invalidate the criticism like yes of course your world view and opinions on things will shape your opinions on other things
December 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I love how people sometimes claim "oh the only reason people criticize this is *ideology*" as some kind of slam dunk to invalidate the criticism like yes of course your world view and opinions on things will shape your opinions on other things
laughing at the weeaboos complaining that a country not Japan has made a game which is like a JRPG but also very good when that country is France, the country which gave us Monet, is obsessed with Grendizer and City Hunter, and coined the term orientalism
December 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
laughing at the weeaboos complaining that a country not Japan has made a game which is like a JRPG but also very good when that country is France, the country which gave us Monet, is obsessed with Grendizer and City Hunter, and coined the term orientalism
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thing about graphical realism is that a lot of the games that cynically chase after it don't care enough about the visual language of film they are trying to copy to make the realism actually interesting let alone work in games. something as basic as colour palette and scene framing is a good one
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
thing about graphical realism is that a lot of the games that cynically chase after it don't care enough about the visual language of film they are trying to copy to make the realism actually interesting let alone work in games. something as basic as colour palette and scene framing is a good one
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It gets exhausting watching people race to find the worst takes from the most hateful people about things they ostensibly like. I want to see your genuine feelings about something, don't hide your excitement or disappointment behind screenshots of the most obnoxious bigot you could find crashing out
I don't know, man. I'm broadly out of touch with considering the "fanbase" of anything when evaluating a work anymore. I'm sure you can find a collective of fans for anything who are annoying or awful, but they're not in the room with me and I'm not going to go looking for them.
December 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It gets exhausting watching people race to find the worst takes from the most hateful people about things they ostensibly like. I want to see your genuine feelings about something, don't hide your excitement or disappointment behind screenshots of the most obnoxious bigot you could find crashing out
>click on review/retrospective of some NOTORIOUSLY BAD ANIME or whatever
>Presenter doesn't speak Japanese/guessed at context/relied entirely on internet hearsay
this happens perhaps too much
>Presenter doesn't speak Japanese/guessed at context/relied entirely on internet hearsay
this happens perhaps too much
December 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
>click on review/retrospective of some NOTORIOUSLY BAD ANIME or whatever
>Presenter doesn't speak Japanese/guessed at context/relied entirely on internet hearsay
this happens perhaps too much
>Presenter doesn't speak Japanese/guessed at context/relied entirely on internet hearsay
this happens perhaps too much
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(The original post was either deleted or the person blocked me.
But for posterity, the claim being responded to here is that American minimum wage workers are actually dramatically poorer than Bob Cratchit from A Christmas Carol.)
But for posterity, the claim being responded to here is that American minimum wage workers are actually dramatically poorer than Bob Cratchit from A Christmas Carol.)
December 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
(The original post was either deleted or the person blocked me.
But for posterity, the claim being responded to here is that American minimum wage workers are actually dramatically poorer than Bob Cratchit from A Christmas Carol.)
But for posterity, the claim being responded to here is that American minimum wage workers are actually dramatically poorer than Bob Cratchit from A Christmas Carol.)
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You might start with learning about the basics of household economics for the majority of humans who have ever lived, which is to say pre-modern peasant farmers: acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households
This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industria…
acoup.blog
December 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
You might start with learning about the basics of household economics for the majority of humans who have ever lived, which is to say pre-modern peasant farmers: acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c...
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And *historians* - be better than this!
I understand you may specialize in ideas, or politics, or something else but PLEASE equip yourself with a basic grasp of how material conditions change over time.
I had to learn Pindar and Aristotle and Hobbes and Rousseau, you can learn how prices work.
I understand you may specialize in ideas, or politics, or something else but PLEASE equip yourself with a basic grasp of how material conditions change over time.
I had to learn Pindar and Aristotle and Hobbes and Rousseau, you can learn how prices work.
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
And *historians* - be better than this!
I understand you may specialize in ideas, or politics, or something else but PLEASE equip yourself with a basic grasp of how material conditions change over time.
I had to learn Pindar and Aristotle and Hobbes and Rousseau, you can learn how prices work.
I understand you may specialize in ideas, or politics, or something else but PLEASE equip yourself with a basic grasp of how material conditions change over time.
I had to learn Pindar and Aristotle and Hobbes and Rousseau, you can learn how prices work.
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This sort of absurd, ultra-bleak reading of the remarkable prosperity of modern societies is not only embarrassingly wrong - and I saw a historian retweet this sincerely (!!) - but also helps fuel not materialist, left-wing politics, but rather reactionary right-wing politics ('RETVRN-ism').
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This sort of absurd, ultra-bleak reading of the remarkable prosperity of modern societies is not only embarrassingly wrong - and I saw a historian retweet this sincerely (!!) - but also helps fuel not materialist, left-wing politics, but rather reactionary right-wing politics ('RETVRN-ism').
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So what you have *actually* discovered is that an American family working at minimum wage is *meaningfully better off* in terms of access to real resources than someone on the lower runs of Victorian Britain's educated *urban middle class.*
Quite the opposite of the intended implication!
Quite the opposite of the intended implication!
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
So what you have *actually* discovered is that an American family working at minimum wage is *meaningfully better off* in terms of access to real resources than someone on the lower runs of Victorian Britain's educated *urban middle class.*
Quite the opposite of the intended implication!
Quite the opposite of the intended implication!
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Moreover, we need to understand that when the Cratchit's are described as 'poor' this is relative to their social station (urban middle class) not the population at large. Bob Cratchit is an educated clerk, his eldest daughter an apprentice at a trade.
They are not working/lower class.
They are not working/lower class.
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Moreover, we need to understand that when the Cratchit's are described as 'poor' this is relative to their social station (urban middle class) not the population at large. Bob Cratchit is an educated clerk, his eldest daughter an apprentice at a trade.
They are not working/lower class.
They are not working/lower class.
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I went over the 'grain wage' conversions, which are more relevant here: bsky.app/profile/bret...
In calories, a modern minimum wage worker has something like 17 times Cratchit's buying power.
In calories, a modern minimum wage worker has something like 17 times Cratchit's buying power.
A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.
Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.
Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I went over the 'grain wage' conversions, which are more relevant here: bsky.app/profile/bret...
In calories, a modern minimum wage worker has something like 17 times Cratchit's buying power.
In calories, a modern minimum wage worker has something like 17 times Cratchit's buying power.
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No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
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Someone has shown me what has to be both the most expansive yet disorganised title selection menu I've ever seen. And yes, you can select a row of dashes. At some point surely it's easier to just let people type it in?
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Someone has shown me what has to be both the most expansive yet disorganised title selection menu I've ever seen. And yes, you can select a row of dashes. At some point surely it's easier to just let people type it in?
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The original article this article is leeching off of and voiding of context for ragebait points.
It's a nothing statement, Aardman isn't switching to ai. The kind of "ai" here is the same automation stuff we've had for years, but renamed ai to attract investors.
www.radiotimes.com/movies/walla...
It's a nothing statement, Aardman isn't switching to ai. The kind of "ai" here is the same automation stuff we've had for years, but renamed ai to attract investors.
www.radiotimes.com/movies/walla...
Wallace and Gromit creator reveals whether Aardman Animations will use AI in future - and what they won’t compromise on
Two iconic animated pals reunite on the Radio Times Christmas cover, as Nick Park brings festive clay magic to life.
www.radiotimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The original article this article is leeching off of and voiding of context for ragebait points.
It's a nothing statement, Aardman isn't switching to ai. The kind of "ai" here is the same automation stuff we've had for years, but renamed ai to attract investors.
www.radiotimes.com/movies/walla...
It's a nothing statement, Aardman isn't switching to ai. The kind of "ai" here is the same automation stuff we've had for years, but renamed ai to attract investors.
www.radiotimes.com/movies/walla...
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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I think that reading well and deeply makes you a more interesting person, gives you a language to speak with, and allows you to see things that might otherwise be missed. Deep interest in anything can do this, but some traditions are richer and wider than others.
December 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I think that reading well and deeply makes you a more interesting person, gives you a language to speak with, and allows you to see things that might otherwise be missed. Deep interest in anything can do this, but some traditions are richer and wider than others.
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You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
You will be visited by three spirits
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you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
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I remember the Olden Days when T0ky0P0p had the Sailor Moon license and they put out a whole pile of "novelizations", which were NOT APPROVED BY KODANSHA OR TAKEUCHI. This was why the Sailor Moon manga were out of print for over 10 years until Kodansha started their own US localization dept.
December 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I remember the Olden Days when T0ky0P0p had the Sailor Moon license and they put out a whole pile of "novelizations", which were NOT APPROVED BY KODANSHA OR TAKEUCHI. This was why the Sailor Moon manga were out of print for over 10 years until Kodansha started their own US localization dept.
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Rin Tohsaka... the Red Comet?!
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Rin Tohsaka... the Red Comet?!
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My freelance right now is mostly interior concepts which are harder for me than large scale structures or ships. So I took a 30 minute break to noodle on my Remora Class Carrier
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
My freelance right now is mostly interior concepts which are harder for me than large scale structures or ships. So I took a 30 minute break to noodle on my Remora Class Carrier
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K'eeg's thread here is pretty thoughtful and it's one of the reasons why I generally fall on the side of not particularly believing that simplifying inputs actually makes fighting games more approachable. One button DPs only partially alleviate getting out-mindgamed, after all. (1/4)
I feel like Street Fighter 5 and games in its wake were made with this idea that "fighting games are hard for beginners because there are too many things players can do, so if we let the player do less it'll be easier"
which is a pretty reasonable assumption. but I think it might be wrong as fuck?
which is a pretty reasonable assumption. but I think it might be wrong as fuck?
December 3, 2025 at 6:41 AM
K'eeg's thread here is pretty thoughtful and it's one of the reasons why I generally fall on the side of not particularly believing that simplifying inputs actually makes fighting games more approachable. One button DPs only partially alleviate getting out-mindgamed, after all. (1/4)