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If I see a gap between two lines of text, and that gap vanishes when I commit the document to the web or save it to a file, then it's not 'WYSIWYG'. But this has been my experience with 100% of such editors.

I propose a new acronym to replace 'wizzy-wig':

WYSMBWYGIYLBIACWBFRTWNBMCTYSSIYUC

What You See Might Be What You Get if You're Lucky but it Almost Certainly Won't Be For Reasons That Will Never Be Made Clear to You So Suck it Ya Ugly Cunt

Not as pithy, but at least it's accurate.

Could be something peculiar to Nvidia GPUs, or maybe it's just Firefox, but I never see this colour anywhere else, only when something causes a glitch in the rendering of video content. Sometimes it's not just the video player that goes green, but the entire viewport of the browser window. I'm mainly curious why it's that colour, rather than just black or white or something like that.

• HEX: 004d00
• RGB: rgb(0, 77, 0)

Cheers!

For example, have you ever come across a piece of stock music that actually slapped the face off ya? Or a stock image that could easily make it onto your wall in a mahogany frame if it wasn't for the Shutterstock watermark?

On the one hand, it seems obvious that they would, to ensure that the digitisation worked. On the other hand, they'd probably get through 1 customer per month if they did that. So either they just dump the material to a file and send it, or they check every 10 minutes or so and watch a few seconds, but no more than that. Does that sound about right? 🤔

I have some stuff from 30+ years ago I'd like digitised, but I don't know how I feel about a stranger watching 9-year old me be disproportionately excited to the point of tears about my Christmas gift of a life-size cardboard cutout of Wesley Snipes that my dad almost certainly stole from the video rental store. Some memories should stay memories.

Is anyone else completely over this tedious shite?

I understand the cases where it's used to hide the fact that the game is loading in the next section of the level, but surely there are better solutions to that non-issue. Like a loading screen.

Regardless, it's almost never the case that these shimmy squeezes have anything to do with slowing the player down for under-the-hood reasons (think of games like Sekiro, Hitman, Assassin's Creed or Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order). They're apparently there to provide the player with 'gameplay', I guess because they're free gamey gameplay shit that you can just pepper into a level randomly to embloaten the experience a little.

It's like a dog bowl with lots of nooks and crannies in it, designed to make the dog eat slower, but is presented as "enrichment". I'm not a colicky dog and the rest of the game is providing ample enrichment, thanks. It would be even more enriching if you'd stop interrupting me to make me walk sideways through a fucking bookcase.

#CancelShimmySqueezes

Set up like a traditional funeral, with a grave, a coffin, eulogies and large photos of the animal in various stages of its life cycle. The speakers could be biologists who give mini-lectures about the animal and its evolutionary history and climate experts who can explain why they died out. The gravestones could be giant stone sculptures of the animal, with the lifespan of its species' existence written in place of the "Born - Died" years, maybe with lots of other info carved into it for posterity, like its home regions, mating and familial behaviours, etc. Maybe local politicians could [be shamed to] attend. Maybe even celebrities who could come and sing or whatever.

A "wake" could be held before or after, where we can mingle with the experts and chat about their respective fields while we get drunk. Charities and green activist groups could fundraise amongst the revellers. Kids could draw or dress up as the animal for a competition. Basically anything fun for everyone who might come.

A celebration of the creature, and a hopeful plan for how to prevent further extinctions. And a party, because no cunt wants to go to an actual funeral where everyone's miserable and hopeless, certainly not if that's all that's planned for the event.

If all over the world, we agreed to do this on the same day, it could have an impact. The graveyards of lost lifeforms would remain a constant reminder, and its sadly ever-growing cohort would show everyone who sees it how fucked things are getting.

/cope

You can take "justifiable" to mean whatever you feel it means in this context. e.g. Morally, artistically, environmentally, etc.

I've always been under the childlike impression that my tap water is clean clean, but when thinking about it today I realised that it's unlikely that tap water is completely sterile, certainly not by the time it reaches my house through miles of pipes. So, just how unsterile can it be and still pass muster with the local government?

If we accept a certain number of rodent hairs or cockroach shells in each helping of our processed foods, I can only imagine what's considered acceptable when it comes to tap water.

For reference, I'm in N. Ireland, which is, regrettably, the UK. But obviously the island of Ireland is where my water comes from. From this nightmarish swamp, to be precise.

Stay moist, hydrohomos.

I recently posted a thread about an old movie from the 1950s (12 Angry Men), and provided spoiler warnings. More than one person replied jokingly that they were grateful for the spoiler warning for a 70-year-old movie. I've heard the same comment in one form or another many times over the years, and I really don't get it.

What's the expectation here? That we're all LLMs who've been trained on every movie released prior to 2010? It would be literally impossible to watch every film - even excluding obscure or foreign films - that humankind has produced since the beginning of cinema. I'm a huge movie fan who watches 2 or 3 new (to me) movies a week from pretty much every era, but I had only watched this very famous movie from the '50s in the last year, because I'm not a magic space baby with a brain containing all of the film scripts in history. The more films that are made every year, the less they will be watched by future generations, because time is a straight line and we haven't figured out how to pause the fucker yet so we can all catch up on 100 years of film.

I'm grateful that this old movie hadn't been spoiled for me, because I wasn't even an itch in my father's nutsack, nor he in his, when the film was first released. But the jokes in that thread would seem to imply that I would have had no right to be annoyed if the film had been spoiled for me, because... what? I should have had the good sense to be born during the depression instead of the '80s? I should have a working knowledge of every story every told prior to my birth? The fact that this very famous and very old film hadn't been spoiled for me shows that even very famous and very old movies don't automatically weave themselves into the fabric of your reality by the mere force of time itself. I had no clue what the movie was about beyond the very basic premise, because even spoilers for old movies are hard to come by when there're so many movies in existence. The jokes would only make sense if the opposite were the case.

If you care about spoiling films for other people, then there is really no time frame for a film's release that makes it 'fair game'. People have varied and unpredictable lives when it comes to the media they've consumed, and more often than not they're busy watching the current output of Hollywood rather than watching their grandparents' favourite films featuring actors who are all long dead, and before colour image was even technologically possible. The noble spoiler warning should be eternal.

And all of the above also applies to novels, plays, TV shows, video games, and anything else where spoilers might ruin one's first taste of it. Spoiler warnings are free, but they can conjure great cultural value seemingly out of thin air for those who are protected by them.