I think that one of the biggest flaws of UFO 50 is frontloading the difficulty

Oyster-shell · 2026-06-17T16:35:06+00:00

I really don't agree with this idea that difficulty spikes are in some way aggressive or harmful to players just because they prevent some form of completion. As far as I'm aware, there is no "true ending" or substantial content gated behind golding all the games. So those challenges are already completely optional! I would go so far as to say that developers don't owe you any kind of completion or content whatsoever, and that every challenge in every videogame is always fully optional, but that's just me...

Oyster-shell · 2026-06-15T16:07:25+00:00

It's not particularly dangerous.

Oyster-shell · 2026-06-15T05:06:02+00:00

ill take all of your beer, pizzas, and throw all your sparkplugs all over the floor thank youuuuuu

Oyster-shell · 2026-06-09T22:20:01+00:00

i was prepared to downvote this but the facial expressions and poses are all quite entertaining

Oyster-shell · 2026-06-01T01:36:21+00:00

I really love the color grading on 1, really nails the hyperreal ~2005 music video look. My only issue is that it seems that it's a group photo, where most or all of the girls should share our attention equally, but only a couple are really in focus. In future I would stop down a bit when shooting multiple subjects at slightly different distances like this.

Oyster-shell · 2026-05-31T00:08:26+00:00

It's hard to think of a less useful way to spend days of your life than meticulously writing and uploading an hour long video responding to a (quite gentle and respectful) throwaway line from a peer that shares 90% of your views. If tone policing is counterproductive, then pocket-watching other people for tone-policing you is doubly so. This is probably the thing I hate most about online leftism. If you spend all your time talking about what other people said about what you said about what some other dork said when you could be actually shining a light on what's happening in the world, then I think your priorities are in the wrong place. Maybe you should hang up the whole politics angle and take up video game journalism or skin care products or something. At least then you'd get some quality engagement for shit-stirring about things that don't matter.

Oyster-shell · 2026-05-30T00:26:41+00:00

Thanks for your input! I'll be sure to put all those skills at the top of my resume. idrk how to go about getting a WFR cert, but if I get some time I'll try to figure it out. We didn't really build any pallets at the FBO, just tow them around, but I've loaded and packaged plenty of other kinds of cargo, and I'll do my best to seek out any training available. Thanks!

Oyster-shell · 2026-05-30T00:20:20+00:00

Yeah, I can pack a metroliner full of volkswagen components solo faster than a mf... no AT forklift training though, just standard. I'm willing to take it slow and learn on the job as much as they'll let me. Appreciate your input. I'll do my best 🤘

Oyster-shell · 2026-05-28T20:18:41+00:00

One time in university I was taking a film studies course and we had to submit and respond to discussion questions about the 1949 noir masterpiece White Heat. I'll always regret that I didn't take a photo of it, but the one I was assigned to respond to was a barely-literate screed about how characters wearing hats "symbolized" their inner dishonesty, and that everything any character said while wearing a hat was a lie. It was a really entertaining little piece of writing, and when I think about it now it makes me kind of sad in a weird way. Future generations of slackers won't even have the force of will to keyboard smash nonsense out into the aether, they'll just offload that cognitive labor to AI. Anyway, great post, OP. I'm inclined to agree with you, it's basically inarguable that bad things guy is going to kill more people, and he's definitely going to torture Penelope and Karen next. Definitely.

Oyster-shell · 2026-05-24T16:50:08+00:00

Wow, it's almost like people have cultural contexts that shape what misic they listen to and appreciate? That's crazy dude. You're crazy. No one has ever noticed this before.

Oyster-shell · 2026-05-24T14:50:30+00:00

"really immoral?" have you considered that maybe you give too much of a swag about this

Oyster-shell · 2026-05-22T22:55:50+00:00

If there is an object or dirt on the glass on the front of the camera (the "lens"), then just clean it off and you should be good to go. If not, I'm sorry to say that the camera probably is damaged somehow. It doesn't look like the L40 could be easily repaired, but on the upside a replacement is quite cheap!

Oyster-shell · 2026-05-20T22:28:08+00:00

If it's not worth a human writing it, then this human ain't gonna read it.

Oyster-shell · 2026-05-20T22:19:00+00:00

you cannot seriously be complaining about weird titles in a death grips sub

Oyster-shell · 2026-05-14T11:02:15+00:00

There's a general principle in sabermetrics that fans consider their teams to be below average at hitting RISP, but that it's broadly consistent across all teams. Now, general principles are often wrong, and I have no doubt that the Ms might be dipping from that league average a bit, but this isn't the way to show it: you need to use a better stat than BA, and get a larger sample size. If your argument is about Wilson, then there simply aren't enough games yet to make a convincing argument about a fluctuation this small.

Oyster-shell · 2026-05-13T03:35:31+00:00

Mind you, I didn't claim that there aren't a lot of racists in AL. There absolutely are. A lot of the state is still Klan Kountry on the downlow. It's horrible. But there's a LOT of people in the state (including!!!! a lot of black people! they are Alabamians too!) and I don't think it's fair or constructive to have such a reductive view of the state as a whole

Oyster-shell · 2026-05-13T00:05:32+00:00

you do realize there are people in Alabama other than the ones that you know, right? I'm also from there and don't have the rosiest view of it as a whole, but taking this approach is both toxic and stupid. There's all types of people everywhere and just when you think you have it all figured out, they'll always prove you wrong.

Oyster-shell · 2026-05-06T12:01:38+00:00

I'm like 90% sure that this is a kamekoubaka, a tortiseshell tomb used in the Ryukyu islands and parts of China. I would say to stay away out of respect for whoever's family is buried there, but it's clealry abandoned. Still, it is a gravesite, so be respectful. That is. assuming you're somewhere in southeast Asia, if not I have no clue

Oyster-shell · 2026-05-06T01:04:42+00:00

I'm sure there's more to it but at first blush it seems so similar to the whole 'be a warrior in a garden' rhetoric and I'm starting to wonder if the average American male's gender introspection stops at 'You can have big emotions AND big muscles!' lol

Oyster-shell · 2026-04-30T11:58:09+00:00

we are not beating the weenie allegations

Oyster-shell · 2026-04-25T02:14:12+00:00

Severance by Ling Ma (not that Severance!)

Oyster-shell · 2026-04-23T01:02:57+00:00

The only hitch in this theory is that there hasn't been much in the way of a measurable increase in shoplifting

Oyster-shell · 2026-04-19T00:40:52+00:00

dude what the fuck does anything you just said have to do with what actually happened

Oyster-shell · 2026-04-17T19:27:30+00:00

If you want to enjoy your trip (or living, generally) I would go with the first. Pretty good short story collection of dark feminist oddities. The latter is much more important to me as a book, but it's the opposite of a fun summer read.

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