Yeah, just ask the paramilitary goombas nicely if they could start enforcing your rights, that always does the trick

During the remote work era it was a bit of a bummer that there were no more snow days

Now that we’re in the return to office era, does that mean we get snow days again? Fuck no, you can work from home those days (but only those days)

Makes sense, standards are typically lower in dictatorships

I read it this way too. It’s like how your biggest friend might be nicknamed Tiny

I don’t know that you can pin down the origin, but a quick search suggests it was early 20th century American English. That makes sense to me, it sounds like the sort of slang I’d hear in an old gangster movie

If you updated the slang for modern times I don’t know if it would have the same impact. If somebody told me I had a dummy thick chance, I’d think my odds are pretty good

Whether you worry about it or you don’t: it won’t help so no need to worry :)

Be careful what you wish for

@majormajormajormajor@lemmy.ca Posted this before I read your comment lol

I think you would probably like Flesh Made Fear, it’s a recent favorite of mine that captures that old feeling. It was clearly made with a lot of love for the genre

There’s everything you love and hate about them: two characters with multiple endings, tank controls, inventory management, backtracking, limited saves, fixed angle perspectives, bad voice acting, judicious conservation of ammo, and you can even do a knife only run (but good fuckin’ luck)

There are a couple of goofs, and the voice talent for the antagonist clearly loves his job and could have been a major villain in Saturday morning cartoons. But the humour doesn’t distract from the mutagenic horrors that turned everyone you ever knew into a ravenous shambling low-poly corpse

Lying about the AI disclosure is a huge red flag and sadly common. I’m a fan of the emerging Organization genre that’s blowing up in popularity, and it’s just as rife with undisclosed AI usage as it is with… disclosed AI usage.

From a business perspective it makes sense: people don’t want AI in their games, so if they disclose AI then people won’t buy that game. From the perspective of a gamer, it sucks donkey balls and if you lie about that then I’m never buying any of your products again.

The thing that’s really kind of frustrating about it though is that those are the perfect kind of games for low quality asset-flip shovelware before the advent of AI. It’s basically the one place where that kind of approach to development wouldn’t really bother me. It’s truly a crazy timeline when I’m looking back fondly on asset flips

I’m lovin’ it 🍔🤡💀

When I was in school we had to watch a documentary on our election process in Canada which included an interview with the speaker for the house of commons. He was fairly unique at the time because instead of screaming for order like his predecessors he would just keep calmly asking for it and not continue until things settled down. His rationale was that if he’s yelling at them, that’s just more yelling that teaches people it’s okay to yell. He made a remark something along the lines of “you’d be surprised how many techniques for raising children carry over to adulthood.”

Anyway seeing how our government was operated by a bunch of screaming (elderly white) men acting like toddlers was really an eye-opening experience about governance.

This movie’s an underrated gem. In so many fairy tale fantasy flicks the fates have to conspire to teach the hero a lesson by the end. But Gurgi’s like “You want a lesson about how friendship and sacrifice can overcome fascism? Hold my beer while I do a flip.”

Honorary mention to Leia, but my favorite Disney princess was probably Mia Wallace

First point is quite important. In some cases it’s merely nuisance, but in the extreme it could cause a fatal error. Reminds me of a parable:

An astronomer keeps a subscription to a newspaper, and uses it to keep informed about politics, world issues, etc. One day the astronomer is excited to see that their paper is running an article on space: planets and stars and black holes and shit. Excited, they flip over to the article to see what they have to say and how they’re educating people. They’re shocked at the contents. They had expected that the paper would dumb things down with metaphor or layman’s terms but it’s worse than that - key parts of the article are factually, demonstrably, and completely wrong. Maybe not “Sun revolves around the Earth” stuff, but easily verifiable things and common misconceptions.

Realizing how badly the paper does within a field they know intimately, the astronomer cancels their subscription. If the newspaper reports about special interests are so wrong, they clearly aren’t a good source of truth for the things that matter.

AI provides the output of that newspaper dialed up to a million percent by volume.

Step 1: Pick

Step 2: Grin

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Profit!

Your ex is bonkers and you deserve better.

Ignoring for the moment that he’s an asshole who made fun of you (don’t ignore that, but do ignore him), the whole ‘angels called to heaven’ thing is bizarre. It’s easy to label this as religious fruitcakery, but practically all churches demonize suicide. After all, if the afterlife’s so cool that everyone is tripping over themselves to get there, then there wouldn’t be anyone left on earth to exploit.

If he had a religious upbringing, then maybe he’s messed up because of internalized homophobia or trauma. Often those families and communities pay little regard to mental health. But that’s entirely his problem, he doesn’t get to treat you like that.

What if they’re not wearing a tie at all?

You can compare this with a couple instances where felons serving life sentences had to be resuscitated and then went on to appeal that since they had temporarily died they had fulfilled the terms of their ‘life’ sentence. Benjamin Shcreiber and Jerry Rosenberg are notable examples if you want to read more.

In at least one story I’ve heard, a judge has dismissed an appeal on similar grounds because “if the defendant has served their life sentence, then they must be deceased, and the deceased are unable to file appeal.”

Basically they argued over the letter of the law while ignoring the spirit. That kind of thing only works if you’re a billionaire, and the rest of us schmucks have to accept that the spirit of a life sentence is that you are removed from society until you’re dead for good (or granted clemency or whatever).

I’m against capital punishment, but the spirit of the law is that Christa Pike is to be permanently removed from society and given her case history that’s something I agree with. But even if you want to argue the letter of the law: she was sentenced to execution and if the state failed to execute her, that means she hasn’t been executed.

I’m not a lawyer, but to my understanding the only legitimate avenue to appeal she has, and it’s still a stretch, would be on the grounds of her botched execution being a “cruel and unusual punishment.” However, if released today she’d have to go through life in the USA - which is also cruel and unusual