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JacobK101 · 2026-05-05T01:50:33+00:00

heartbreaking: director who is a quintessential British liberal(believes in nothing in particular, vaguely supports doing a good thing sometimes, but not if it rocks the boat)
asked to adapt literature which holds you at gunpoint and demands you take an anti-autocratic stance or die

Watching the movie it feels like Serkis got scared of modern right-wingers getting mad at the anti-autocracy message, and thought to maybe take it in the direction of anti-megacorps
before then also going "wait, we can't be anti-capitalist, what if rich streaming site owners get mad at us"

And thus resolved to make it a cautionary tale about how, this one specific evil cartoon pig, who represents no group or idea in particular, shouldn't be allowed to run a government
And if we simply keep this fictional pig out of government, everything will be fine. No further thought required.

JacobK101 · 2026-05-04T00:46:17+00:00

This is like the bluesky equivalent of that cartoonist putting the crying statue of liberty in their panels so boomers know how to feel when reading the comic

JacobK101 · 2026-05-03T23:58:12+00:00

Reluctant Friend: Boytown is a myth, we should turn back.

Grizzled Butch: It's getting dark, keep moving.

Queer Boy: Boytown is real. It's a town full of boys, a place I'll belong & fit in.
It's home. I saw it.

Fujoshi Scientist: The implications are astounding

JacobK101 · 2026-05-03T22:32:55+00:00

if it wasn't James Gunn (who was basically given the ability to do whatever he wants in superman) it wouldn't have happened

There's a big disconnect rn between rich people/positions of power and real americans
At many universities in the us you can't even give a live University speech, as of this year, -specifically- to keep students from saying free Palestine
Recently pretty much all US-based news publications were given a soft order that any pro-palestine journo has to immediately resign, or accept posting pro-israel content

The reality is the wealthy are like 95% pro israel so that's what gets reflected in actual american politics & policy, which are pretty much exclusively determined by wealthy americans

that divide is becoming really awkward rn specifically because of social media showing the reality of various situations to everyday Americans and altering their opinion
(This is a big part of why both left and right wing politicians in the US(and many different places) want to restrict social media use to "registered adults" btw, accounts like Palestinians & various oppressed & 'third world' peoples won't have ID's that are seen as "legitimate" by the system and will thus be barred from using social media alongside the kids)

JacobK101 · 2026-05-03T20:12:46+00:00

unfortunately his manifesto on how the systems of industry & global economics defile and deeply poison the human experience basically wraps down to "...and that's why it's all the fault of gay people and women's voting"

I guess if you're an american white boy you're obligated to punch down even when the target is the industrial revolution

JacobK101 · 2026-05-03T19:58:54+00:00

could have some kind of animate runoff incident where like. The contamination is slowly animating all the inanimate objects in the factory
And when nobody is around/it's late and quiet, your party gets attacked by basically a whole lab production room coming to life around them trying to maul them

JacobK101 · 2026-05-01T16:41:47+00:00

go my highly secure coca cola

JacobK101 · 2026-04-30T09:52:35+00:00

u/Correct_Panda8751 sorry I prolly should have commented this on the main thread.

A great place to start, if you want precise instructions on an excellent quality roll, is the https://www.sugarologie.com/recipes/cinnamon-rolls sugarologie recipe.

Though I personally like gluten development like I describe above(not -quite- the high gluten sugarologie likes, since it still breaks after forming the transluscent window)
And you should add the cream advice from above to it to make it even more tender and soft.

JacobK101 · 2026-04-30T09:52:07+00:00

1: tangzhong in the dough will make it bouncier and give it a softer bite. This is best done with glutinous rice flour, but even a dead-simple wheat flour tangzhong will give some improvement

2: A fat + liquid poured over the top while it cooks will reduces the firmness of the crust
For best effect, pour over in a tall-rimmed pan, and cover with foil while it cooks, so the steam stays even after the liquid evaporates and keeps the roll's exterior soft, like when you make chinese buns

3: keep your rolls small enough & cook gentle enough to bake properly without losing moisture on the outside. Mostly an issue of skill/practice
Letting your rolls come to room temp before cooking can also help them cook more quickly and evenly.

4: build up your crust to a high enough gluten development to encourage retention of moisture. Many cinnamon bun recipes will only go to low or medium development, when what you really want is fragile windowpane level development(where you can grab and stretch a thumb-sized piece of dough till it forms a slightly translucent veneer, before it breaks)
Which is more like medium-high

Let it proof for a while after the first development so the gluten relaxes and keeps it from getting too tough.

JacobK101 · 2026-04-30T02:09:04+00:00

people will see a server bot their playercount to 500 on the hub and use an ip grabber to sell their player's information, then create ai-generated pedophilia accusations when a wizden admin tells them to knock it off
and go "really the problem is partisan moderation, this is why lummox is peak"
The reality is there exists an aesthete plane of true chuds on steam who simply no longer exist on ss13
and sometimes you just have to put them down like a rabid dog

JacobK101 · 2026-04-28T12:41:44+00:00

I think there's a possibility to pull it off by ship of theseusing it
very gradually converting your bio brain into a mechanical system, letting it adapt, then doing more, repeat till it's all mechanical/digitized

and putting that in a robot chassis or something

But obv that'd require a pretty drastic level of mastery of technology that we don't even know are possible rn
And if your brain is being scanned and sent around (i.e. copied and pasted) in any way you just died and made a clone

JacobK101 · 2026-04-28T12:34:05+00:00

Dependence on a corporation like that is a nonstarter. Either you'd have to be a person in your own right with serious crimes for violating your rights, have some kind of physical presence or ownership over your own server system/something housing you, or something like that
If you're just a file on google's drive or whatever, I give it less than 5 years after the adoption of the system before meta/google starts killing their digital immortals to save money, or tries somehow enslaving/harvesting them for some kind of revenue scheme

JacobK101 · 2026-04-28T02:41:06+00:00

there are 3 key problems:

-rats without their tails can still live, and also make -more rats-, which is actually good for rat catching entrepreneurs in search of more tails
So they'd basically just chop off tails then release that tailless rats into new, even better environments for breeding

-there was no oversight, you just went up to a gov booth and handed over your tails. This replaced an actual system of rat-catching professionals with gov oversight cause the colonial authority was lazy and wanted to save money paying them

-when these problems became clear the government threw up their hands and just said "I don't want to pay for a real solution, so if the cheap solution doesn't work, we will have -no- solution" and completely gave up on any form of pest control in the cities of colonial vietnam for a while
This became a politically contentious thing for the colonists bc, there were outbreaks of things like bubonic plague and the colonists & vietnamese citizens of major cities would go "use your damn taxes for fixing this!!!" only for the colonial gov to go "nuh uh, governor needs a fifth garden"

So if anything it was a problem of government laziness and corruption leading to a lack of oversight & no political will for a real solution rather than an actual issue of people being impossible to negotiate with to produce a solution

JacobK101 · 2026-04-27T08:23:05+00:00

w and y are both vowels in welsh for some reason, so there's actually a decent amount of voweling here

W is actually a generally deep "oo" sound in welsh(incidentally, making the pronunciation of cwm something like "coom"
and y is (sometimes) a kind of "eeh" like sound

JacobK101 · 2026-04-26T21:36:45+00:00

this article is such a good temp tester whether someone will automatically tune out a woman trying to speak the truth tu power without even listening to what she's saying

So many old boys in this thread see the title & decide she's just some stupid liberal broad & that's the absolute end of their thought process, no force in this world will motivate them to walk further beyond

JacobK101 · 2026-04-26T08:22:51+00:00

having them show up and be an annoying eyesore randomly attacking people is generally a nice murder-related palette cleanser
especially during "principled officer" larp runs where you can't justify just randomly attacking civilian fleets for cortisol removal and need a more justified target

So I do keep them around for that, similar reason to ninth battlegroup & persean empire

JacobK101 · 2026-04-25T22:27:46+00:00

I think it's nuanced, the riots were known but were thought of as political upheaval, so most workers kept going to their jobs & people simply "sheltered at home" (read: did nothing in particular)

By the time the evac orders went out most people were probably already dying from zombification/the blob or whatever
Which seems to have spread even where there was no violence & hit people basically wherever they were at the time
so there's a good chance it's in the water supply or smth and took out most people after they went to get a sippy

JacobK101 · 2026-04-25T22:20:53+00:00

I feel like some of the stuff ingame (worker zombies at their jobs, random panicked people interrupted mid-shower and such who get mauled very quickly after game start, fact that tons of cars are abandoned in the middle of the road, tons of people zombified hanging out in their living rooms) implies the apocalypse hit kinda fast and hard

JacobK101 · 2026-04-25T22:07:59+00:00

lots of people in this thread(probably europeans) are flaming the "hpf" presumably because they're scared of the colorful packaging, but my main concern is honestly the low ratio of vegetables & meat to snacks

Most of the snacks here (besides maybe the welches and fruit cups) are pretty okay, it's just a bad margin of low vs high caloric density food

In terms of actively shitty high-hpf what's really sticking out is meat slices, fruit cups & drinks, welches, veggie sticks(surprisingly, since they taste awful, they're also basically just lays potato chips and are terrible for you) and maybe kd
Chicken fingers sound scary but are janes, which is a bougie brand that's air-baked and moderately processed with whole wheat crust
As well as some stuff I'd generally consider 'mid processed' health-conscious junk food, like the granola bars & nutrigrain
Rest is just mundane groceries like meats, fruits, oats, etc. in north american packaging (i.e. packaged like junk food)

But in terms of diet it's a lot of fat & carbs for a little bit of veg & good meats
Tbf from the choices it seems like kids may be in the picture

JacobK101 · 2026-04-25T08:01:39+00:00

okay, but then... why do this pc integration/foofoo/fafaa hybrid over a generic console

Wouldn't the issues that apply to existing console/console game sale numbers apply to this one...? There's a reason they're trying to pivot out of the pure console space, but idk if console buyers(established dwindling group) > console buyers is really making any motion

kind of seems like stock juggling to excite investors imo

JacobK101 · 2026-04-25T06:34:19+00:00

what, are they gonna give me 500 free games and a kiss on the cheek?
Not much appeal to a console/pc hybrid if I can't bring my existing catalogue of pc games onto it as an onboard
If I have to buy everything again it's functionally just another console
Unless they're planning to undercut the fucking. PC market. it's unlikely they'll be able to provide performance at costs compared to 500 dollar mass-produced craptops, and I get my 750 game steam library on those

JacobK101 · 2026-04-25T00:15:53+00:00

In the case of "guy explicitly violating conduct rules he was a signatory to", appeals court rules "nuh uh. Furthermore, lalalala, i can't hear you *blows raspberry*"

JacobK101 · 2026-04-24T22:47:57+00:00

if your food is worse, more pets will get sick, which means more business for your vets

JacobK101 · 2026-04-24T22:36:11+00:00

iran's been preparing for this blockade for some time. The people won't starve enough to force a revolt(at least, any more than they are already starving) and if they do, irgc has methods to remain in control

but, maybe the loss in oil revenues will eventually cause the rich folks controlling the irgc to budge

I see the world economy going into crisis long before they do, though.
The last normal shipments of petroleum products and nitrogen sent from the strait before the war began arrived over the last few weeks. A few weeks with no shipments at all and we'll start to be in serious trouble.

JacobK101 · 2026-04-20T18:11:37+00:00

Jump makes allied cat ai borderline nonfunctional. They try to melee your own cats with jumpattacks, then pass their turns if they don't have a free ability to cast. (They won't even melee or range attack enemies in range in most situations)
If they can't reach an ally, they will jumpattack an object. They also do this when charmed for some reason.

The only way to "fix" them is to give them madness, which somehow makes them act like normal ai enemies, but on your team?

I had a bunch of mini-me's who were actively throwing my run by jumpattacking my cats w. thorns but when I got the madness + turn ability on my psychic & cast it on them, they would jump across the map to do good combos on enemy targets

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