MoonMelon

His health was so fucked it has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Charles_Darwin

It reads exactly like the kind of work that goes into growing plant crops, which is good. It's the sort of study that needs to be done if something is going to be considered for a possible major food source.

Yeah, I fantasize about moving "sideways" often. Wherever I am, I wonder what that location is like in the untouched East/West + 1. Then I remember I have some medical metal in my body. It's not critical, but it would be a little worrisome to jump back and see it sitting on the ground.

As someone who occasionally peers into the Bigfoot fandom, trans-dimensional, alien Bigfoot is a thing. As in, the reason we haven't found him yet is because he can disappear into portals. Sort of like "The Long Earth" but instead of Terry Pratchett it's poorly written youtube scripts with AI thumbnails.

Based and The-Unparalleled-Adventure-of-One-Hans-Pfaall pilled.

Investment money has basically dried up. Even indies need that, unless you mean the "one person in their garage working off Patreon" type of studio. For awhile Chinese companies were holding down the fort and trying to expand in North America, but they've largely withdrawn that strategy and focused on domestic production. That's why so many indie studios working on their first game shut down in the last two years.

For this to reverse itself interest rates will need to come down, but for that to happen without catastrophic inflation we would need several years of un-fucked monetary policy. So basically it's fucked for a long time and possibly will never exist again in the way it did. This is on top of all the other issues the vfx/game industries have with crunch, chaotic management, etc.

IDK, it's fun to think about because maybe the 128 bit UUID is still being used due to 40k-like levels of technical debt, and also weird edge cases that cause ID explosion. Like maybe the 4000 year old spec says we need to track micrometeoroids too, sorry.

TFW you live in a galaxy-spanning super civilization but your planet is dying because its ID in the central database has a UUID collision with another planet 80000 light years away.

New Year's Resolution: I'm going to "reform" my body by going from obese to morbidly obese.

I just remember it being really expensive. I think it was $4 to rent? Plus the looming potential late fees. Whatever it was, at the time it seemed like a fortune. So you couldn't really fuck around and rent "Mansquito 2: Womansquito" just for laughs because it really was a huge ripoff when a movie sucked, or was damaged, or something. Also the popular movies were never in stock. They would put hundreds of empty boxes on the shelves to make it seem like it was there, but the actual tapes were always gone.

I never noticed how caked up Neo's podneighbor is. Pretty good for having never used your ass muscles.

The marginalia of medieval manuscripts are often pretty wild. Just my personal theory, but I always thought it seemed like one of the places where the artists could inject a little of their own ideas, elaborating on the subject or drawing parallels, using symbolism, maybe little in-jokes for the client (hours books were made for one person), etc. Sort of like the extra panel of an xkcd comic.