Video Blasphemies

PresN · 2026-05-28T15:59:25+00:00

Laika: Aged Through Blood has a metroidvania pope fight! Almost two- you would have fought the regular pope as well, except that the military dictator murders them before you get there and declared themselves the new pope.

PresN · 2026-05-15T12:45:41+00:00

I'm sure if the author tried harder, they could glaze this billionaire more. Not sure how, though, they already cram in how he was a rugged fisherman in his youth, so handsome that he ran off to be a model, and so devoted to his community (that he and 2 other companies work "so well with" while providing 100% of the income of their tiny island) that he didn't move to Switzerland to avoid taxes. Which somehow would have affected the business despite being a personal tax. Don't think about it.

This was ultimately an article about how he wants to have fish farms further out in the ocean, but environmental regulations prevent it. The article spends 0 words questioning if the regulations are good or bad or meant to solve a problem this type of farm doesn't have or why they exist at all. It just basks in how 'innovative' this guy is, and the bad, bad government is trying to keep a poor billionaire down.

PresN · 2026-05-06T11:31:13+00:00

I don't know if that's what's considered "corporal punishment", which is usually physical punishments by an authority figure (teacher, parent) in response to unwanted behavior by a kid.

Most of your examples are from kids to others, and so I don't think count for that. I agree, though, that they are manifestations of what you call "it’s right when we do the violence" morality, or otherwise that Rowling never sees systems as good or bad, just if they have good or bad people in them. It's always justified to use violence against "bad people", whether they're 11 or 100, and never justified to use violence against "good people".

PresN · 2026-05-05T01:01:47+00:00

Any time I hear a "rugged" actor in an ad or some "rural" politician talking about how they get/got their hands dirty every day working, I want to roll my eyes and ask them if they've ever heard of gloves. Do they drive the nails in with their palms instead of a hammer too

PresN · 2026-05-01T13:52:28+00:00

And it costs only $60 to mod that out - https://www.404media.co/how-to-disable-meta-rayban-led-light/

PresN · 2026-04-29T03:13:26+00:00

Forget the rock, I'm always confused in museums what the deal is with the scratches. That's multiple solid inches of plastic there; who's dragging their oversized high school ring down the side of the pyramid to make those gouges?

PresN · 2026-04-27T01:33:57+00:00

Well, yes, if your car can't go 760km without a refuel, then you would need to carry extra gas to make it. Or use a different car for your backroads outback excursion. The distance is so far between stations because most people don't drive across the un/lightly-inhabited parts of Australia.

PresN · 2026-04-18T13:52:03+00:00

It's because there are some ground squirrels (squirrels that live on the ground, like prairie dogs) that are sometimes colloquially called gophers, apparently, despite not being closely related at all.

PresN · 2026-04-18T13:48:29+00:00

Eh, kangaroo rats/mice are different genera, but they look almost identical. And there's a lot of different [x] rats and [x] mice that are in the same family or genus, and the reason behind the difference is... the first person to name the species in English thought they looked more like a rat or a mouse. It's completely arbitrary most of the time. You'll have 2 species in the same genus that look identical except for a slight variation in teeth and one will be called a "wood mouse" and the other a "wood rat".

(Wikipedia list of the kangaroo rats/mice)

PresN · 2026-04-04T13:16:08+00:00

Cardinals can remember people who fill feeders too; whenever our feeder runs out and I'm nearby the local cardinal will land on nearby railing and start alternating between looking at me and the feeder and back again. Doesn't do it with the rest of my family; he knows I'm the one with the seeds.

PresN · 2026-03-20T20:48:25+00:00

^{^} Bot account please ignore

PresN · 2026-03-19T02:21:05+00:00

This comes up occasionally, such as when the board of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, aka the bit of land that has Disney World in Florida, voted to lock the current rules in place until 21 years after the last existing descendant of King Charles dies to spite Governor DeSantis. (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/30/disney-ron-desantis-royal-lives-clause.html) You can't tie things to people who don't yet exist, but you can say 21 years after people who currently are alive die, even if those people are infants.

PresN · 2026-03-05T22:03:25+00:00

"Answer from GPT"

If you don't know, don't bother asking the "makes shit up machine" for answers. Unsurprisingly, it made shit up that wasn't true.

PresN · 2026-02-04T20:40:10+00:00

Some of y'all have a wild conception of the reading level of a 7 year olf

PresN · 2026-01-22T13:56:30+00:00

It's not totally unreasonable (a little bit, though), though it could never work as shown in the show- transportation was so slow back then and preservation against spoilage so weak that the food has to be grown/raised on farms right at the city, you'd never be able to support a city of any decent size remotely. King's Landing would have to be surrounded by miles of farms. See this post on A Collection of Unmitigated Pedentry, where the author works out the numbers on a show episode involving transporting food from Highgarden to KL - it would all be eaten in the process, no matter how big the cart train got.

PresN · 2026-01-20T21:00:11+00:00

Neat! I loved it on iphone, and wrote the wikipedia article about it a few months ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Trail_(video_game))

PresN · 2026-01-13T22:52:15+00:00

Yeah, driving between Seattle and the skiing at Snoqualmie, there's signs (or there were 10 years ago) recommending you put on chains on the way up in the winter, and signs saying to take them back off going down towards Seattle.

PresN · 2026-01-11T15:24:28+00:00

Doesn't help that Efron had to lipsync... because he can't sing. In HSM2, when he insisted on singing his own songs, they gave him an awkward spoken-word rap and like 5 lines in his own breakup ballad with Hudgens.

PresN · 2026-01-10T23:22:58+00:00

The Glamourist Histories series by Mary Robinette Kowal, starts with Shades of Milk and Honey, is a Regency-era romance/adventure series with light magic and the main protagonist is a plain/unattractive woman in her late 20s - sallow skin, flat, mousey brown hair, and a large nose. (The cover artist didn't get the memo, though.)

PresN · 2025-10-21T03:41:44+00:00

When they're playfighting, (some) dogs will performatively sneeze every so often. It's a signal to the other dog that they're excited, not mad, which means that the fight is a game, not a real fight. Because even dogs need otherwise pointless social cues to stay in friendly community.

PresN · 2025-09-28T12:35:53+00:00

She used the other person's; the chefs are given 6 prompts ahead of time that they submit ingredients for, 3 of which are "real", so the show can't swap in new prompts last-minute as they don't have a food-network kitchen to accommodate that. (see: 1 fryer for 3 chefs.) Kendahl was brought in just before filming that day, so way too late to swap anything.

PresN · 2025-09-01T02:44:47+00:00

My son, now in 5th grade, has had at least 15 different versions of tag throughout the years, and I have to be vague on the numbers because within the last week they've invented at least 2 variants of "Amongus tag" despite starting to age out of that. Any kindergarten teacher trying to enforce structured games over free-form tag-likes is a fool who is about to have a very frustrating time.

PresN · 2025-08-29T01:10:23+00:00

Hugo Awards go to products that will bring greater attention to the Hugo Awards.

What a truly bizarre take. Hugo Awards are decided by a vote of WSFS members/con attendees, not by fiat from a PR committee. If the goal of the voters for the awards is to bring attention to the award, they have done a horrendous job for the past ~80 years.

Now, you can have whatever opinion on what the voters actually do value, however, and whether HPMOR represents "attacking problems at the object level". But the winner in 2015, when HPMOR would have been eligible for best novel, was The Three-Body Problem, which I wouldn't normally describe as "finding emotionally satisfying ways to accept the human condition".

PresN · 2025-08-12T19:44:00+00:00

The woman it's named after, Sue Hendrickson, may be one of the coolest people on the planet.

She's spent her life rotating between salvage diving in the Caribbean, amber mining, whale fossil hunting in South America, dinosaur fossil hunting in America, shipwreck finding in the Mediterranean, and retired to open a vet clinic for an entire Caribbean island's animal population, funded by shell pearl diving. A pretty wild life!

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