CodexArcanum

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I visited Ecuador several years ago and got to chew on coca leaves, but they also had coca leaf candies! Both were excellent for helping with altitude sickness, and I really enjoyed the flavor. Had a gentle mood lifting effect too, like a nice cup of tea, but in the form of chewed cud, haha.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I also got randomly sent this image from a matrix on the technics.de server. Aside from all the antisemitism and nazi stuff, I admit I was a little charmed by it. Reminded me of timecube and the good old days of how the Internet used to be a place for nerds, outcasts, and complete fucking psychopaths.

Edit: Link to proof ཚྒྷཚྒྷ

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

As a person who occasionally makes confessional asides "to the camera" I find it amusing to rhetorically ask "Chat" about things. "Ugh, I don't wanna cook tonight. How about it Chat, we ordering pizza?"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

IBM provided business machines (internationally, even) to Nazi Germany, probably a big help in bureaucratically processing those millions of murders they were doing. I can't (or perhaps, "won't" is truer) imagine how much cloud compute a modern genocide requires.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Several of these irritate me but ultimately evoke a solid

But fuck me playing with the person who came up with these would test my patience.

Pizza, V? I suppose cheese and meats are optional. One can. Some do. If we get into "It has minerals in it!" then we'll have to argue about what atoms are, so fine, pass.

Guitar (!) Strings, A? I know about catgut, for violens in my mind, but let us wiki it. Huh neat, catgut is intestenal fiber from usually goat or sheep, sometimes cat-tle, but never actually cat. And, while still preferred for concert harps and classical instruments, guitars all mostly switched to steel in the 1900s (and nylon or mixed later). So when was this game printed, how old are you imagined-ghost-of-the-author?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wouldn't silk be Animal though? Are worm by-products vegetables? Were plant fiber parachutes a thing?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's a cool board. I've been thinking about something in similar form factor, kind of missing old slide phones with physical keyboards. The idea of building out little mesh devices for a local emergency network is quite interesting. Maybe with a few supernode base stations built around RasPis to act as data-storage/relays/service-providers...

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've absolutely driven past a cop who was playing WoW on his laptop while sitting in traffic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My big brained billionaire coyote boyfriend wants to invite a roadrunner into the mix but I haven't worked through my feelings about casual polyamory yet and also I am a ghost bigfoot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't know who really got that trend going. I've enjoyed up to hour-ish long videos on more or less anything, but a few years back the first truly excessively long video I remember is Whitelight's 7 hour long overview/miniseries on Death Stranding. And to be fair, I did find that faster and more enjoyable than playing Death Stranding.

(Also I get why folks make them: more ads plus having that much watch time heavily biases the algorithm towards you so it's more money overall. And the kind of person that watches 7 hour long reviews in the background (or while sleeping), aka me, certainly help weigh the scales for super long videos.)

But also, I kind of like when shorts are like a minute long or less so I can watch one when I'm like, on the shitter and not accidentally end up with a video essay. I mean 10 minutes used to be the limit of every youtube video! Will they introduce a new, even shorter format? Bring vines or blips back?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Alright, I split the differance, I think that should make everyone happy.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Can't wait for 10 hour long reviews of Elden Ring, BUT VERTICALE AND LOOPS NOW!?!

 

Back around 2007 or 2008 I think, I watched a very cool animation on Youtube. I cannot for the life of me remember the name, and i doubt it's still up since it used a well-known song as the audio track.

It was a pretty standard (for the time) anime-style fight video, set to The Prodigy's "Smack my Bitch Up". It's cel-shaded CGI/3D, and starred a yellow-and-black Sentai-style character. I think he was like a robot superhero? The whole animation was basically a demoreel/pilot for an animator who wanted to launch a show based on the characters.

If anyone remembers this or can find a link, I'd be very grateful! It was a cool fight scene (for the time), and it always bothers me when I vaguely remember a neat thing and can find no trace of it.

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