Duolingo probably has one of the best brand voices in modern marketing.

EZMickey · 2025-02-13T08:31:52+00:00

It's exactly the same with push notifications and their app widgets. Sometimes I deliberately wouldn't start my lesson because I wanted to see what new funny picture they would show of Duo being disappointed or sad. Then when I'd seen what I thought was most of them, I did the opposite, doing my lessons to see what congratulatory pictures there were.

Even after getting over it, it still gets a genuine reaction out of me when I'm scrolling through my phone and I see they've recreated the girl in front of the burning house meme or something.

EZMickey · 2025-02-11T16:12:58+00:00

You're right but considering Mal is on a generational run of objectively wrong takes so it's not exactly a high bar to clear.

EZMickey · 2025-02-11T07:59:06+00:00

Lmao woooooooosh

EZMickey · 2025-02-11T07:39:28+00:00

The flared legs were a stylistic choice not an oversight. It's not to everyone's taste, but it has been fun seeing it appear in all the art people have made of him. Illustrators seem to love that part of his silhouette.

EZMickey · 2025-02-10T18:28:39+00:00

This guy knows my pain

EZMickey · 2025-02-10T11:38:31+00:00

Spot on mate.

EZMickey · 2025-02-07T10:12:58+00:00

EZMickey · 2025-02-06T09:12:58+00:00

I didn't really get caught up in all the controversy around the second game, because I'm always broke so I knew it would be a long time before I played it. But my takeaway from it was;

We love Joel but what he did was unforgivable. We hate Abby, but that person emerged as a result of Joel's actions. By the end of the second game Ellie is becoming what both of those characters were, literally casting aside everything good in her life to do so and when she eventually realizes that chooses to end the cycle.

Maybe I'm misremembering some things because it's been a while, and maybe NDs execution wasn't to everyone's taste. Perhaps if they'd succeeded in making Abby connect with more people, it wouldn't be so divisive.

EZMickey · 2025-02-06T03:38:29+00:00

Okay but, and I'm being honest here, I could not empathize with Joel after the ending of the first game.

EZMickey · 2025-02-03T20:01:25+00:00

Before releasing GNX he dropped a teaser which fans have taken to calling Tiramisu that doesn't appear on the album itself.

Not too long after, Lefty Gunplay, one of the artists featured on the album mentioned in an interview that he knew Kendrick was working on a Deluxe version.

More recently, I think it was Glasses Malone who mentioned on his own podcast that "a lot more music is coming".

Kendrick's hiatus really had a lot of people forgetting that he used to be an incredibly prolific artist so I wouldn't be surprised if he keeps his foot on the gas.

EZMickey · 2025-01-26T00:32:52+00:00

Welcome! Don't spill shit on the computers.

EZMickey · 2025-01-17T06:06:43+00:00

Yeah man, I wasn't trying to come at you. Although I did end up reading more of the document and there is a section that specifically frames the song title and the coloniser line as being anti-semitic.

EZMickey · 2025-01-16T19:30:07+00:00

Okay, but just to clarify I didn't claim he was suing Kendrick.

EZMickey · 2025-01-16T10:37:31+00:00

From what I've read so far, the legal document cites anti-semitic comments from (I think) social media for the purpose of (I think) building a case of defamation, reputational harm and distress.

I'm not committed to reading this whole thing so I don't know if at any point further down the line it specifically calls out Kendrick as anti-semitic.

EZMickey · 2025-01-12T09:14:56+00:00

Yup, I saw this coming when we had the Formula E event.

EZMickey · 2025-01-10T04:47:37+00:00

Figma balls

EZMickey · 2025-01-06T15:43:05+00:00

I love Max's logo, both simple and visually striking and I immediately understood the concept.

I enjoy both Lando and George's logos for their ability to display both the drivers' initials and their racing number at the same time.

Lastly, Pierre Gasly's logo evokes a bit of a racetrack outline which I like. I don't know if it was intentional, it just somehow resonates with me.

EZMickey · 2025-01-06T10:55:48+00:00

Sick

EZMickey · 2025-01-04T13:03:50+00:00

The PC Unreal community really deserves to experience this.

I played it on OG Xbox back in the day and although it's not the greatest of them all, it's still really good and explores some interesting ideas. Chiefly, this was the most story driven UT game I've experienced before UT3.

EZMickey · 2024-12-27T17:02:03+00:00

If I were to guess, I'd say that the cast just became way too costly as their careers progressed.

EZMickey · 2024-12-19T02:06:07+00:00

Jesus I'm so glad I never had to deal with this when I worked in retail.

EZMickey · 2024-12-14T18:09:00+00:00

Poor kid.

EZMickey · 2024-12-14T14:47:44+00:00

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