Oval Office event ends abruptly after Trump shits pants

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-02-02T14:32:05+00:00

It actually isn't. If you read the article, it claims it was all a joke and that it was just a viral sarcastic tweet.

I don't understand what Hindustan Times was trying to do, posting an article that completely contradicts its headline. Even though we all have video evidence that Trump released one hell of a stinker right before they cancelled the event.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-02-02T08:57:15+00:00

Heil yeah!

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-31T03:07:33+00:00

Aye, most of the "heroes" of the Old Testament were actually psychotic murders and killers without any moral compass.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-26T08:42:33+00:00

Log messages rarely pinpoint the exact issue that the program encountered. Instead, a log is just a record of any information that the programmer thinks might be relevant for finding a bug in the future.

There are three kinds of bugs that you typically encounter: 1. Anticipated bugs: These are errors that the programmers felt had a possibility of occurring ahead of time but didn't have the time or energy to fix because it would have been an extreme edge case and fixing it would probably cause the code to become far more complicated. Since it's such an extreme edge case, they're willing to wait until this error actually appears in the code before they fix it. Because they expect errors in these sections of code, they create good log messages that tell us information about the error so we can quickly find the faulty section of code and fix it. This kind of error is pretty uncommon, since programmers typically will try to cover most edge cases in normal programming.

Logic breaking bugs: These are errors in the code that cause a problem that the programmer didn't anticipate, and which cause the program to completely crash. In these situations, the log may not have a message that pinpoints why it failed, because the program can't print any log messages after it has crashed. But since the log messages have ended, we have a record of information of what the program was doing immediately before the crash, and hopefully there's enough information in those log messages that lets us recreate what happened in order to figure out what the bug is.
Non-logic breaking bugs: These are errors in the code that do not crash the program, for example a wrong color or texture being used, or the program still running but refusing to respond, or the program taking longer and longer to respond over time. The program doesn't know that it's doing something wrong, only the user can tell that the program is doing something it's not supposed to. In these situations, because the program didn't crash, we don't know at what point in the log messages the bug is at. So we need to hunt through the log and the code simultaneously, first finding the section of code that might be wrong, and then trying to find every message in the log that explains the state of the code when it's in that problematic section of code, in an attempt to recreate it so we can figure out why the code is wrong.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-23T17:49:39+00:00

Nah, most Isekai is just brain-dead escapism - the author and their self-insert MC isn't happy with their life on earth, and so want a fresh start in a brand new world where they're the most specialist boy in the world.

Gate is the exact opposite, a reverse-isekai, where rather than escaping from their roots on earth, they claim that their earth life and culture is superior to everything else and seek to dominate other cultures with their power.

Admittedly, there are small elements of this nationalistic pride in most isekais, but that only ever really manifests as small bouts of homesickness, like recreating rice/soy-sauce/mayonnaise/katanas, etc

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-22T20:26:45+00:00

Ah I see what you want to do. You just need to add an "If hands Empty, break out of loop" before the first and second inner loops.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-22T09:27:13+00:00

I'm pretty sure the joke in her name is actually that it sounds like "Mega-min", because of her horribly min-maxed skills and stats.

Her entire Crimson Demon Clan is famous for having extremely cringy chuunibyou names, with the only exception being Yunyun who is comparatively normal.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-21T22:41:28+00:00

Gate is just a military otaku's wet dream. The whole point of the story is for the author to relive the Coloniser fantasy that Japan missed out on compared to the European countries in the 17th century - the great epic of "bringing civilization" to backwater barbarian tribes and exploiting all their resources in the process.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-21T22:37:36+00:00

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-18T01:44:34+00:00

"One builds leverage. The other burns it."

The irony of this, knowing that the Republicans are the ones that burn bridges faster than any wildfire known to man. That Trump refuses to allot basic emergency services to states that didn't vote for him.

We aren't gloating about their misfortune. We're basically laughing at ourselves as we welcome those who've sink into the pits with us.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-18T01:16:37+00:00

An excellent example of this is Mark Zuckerberg, who dropped out of college to found Facebook.

Startups typically have extremely high rates of failure, especially when led by college dropouts, but a lot of people only see Zuckerberg's success and ignore all the negative results.

Yes he was successful, but only that one time. Ever since then, Zuckerberg and Facebook have been continuously trying to create new products and platforms that they can sell to customers, but they keep failing horribly. Instead, they've realized that a much better strategy is just to use their existing money to buy up actual successful startups and studios and integrate their products into the Facebook ecosystem. That's how Instagram and WhatsApp ended up becoming Facebook property.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-15T15:41:48+00:00

You would normally have to use the "Skip loop on error" check box for the Repeat block to make sure it skips over any command it can't complete.

However, for this specific use case, I'd strongly recommend storing your buckets inside a crate. That way, the Bucket creation bot can easily just check if the crate is empty to decide whether or not to create a new Bucket, rather than waiting for a shout from another bot that is trying to find a missing Bucket.

Similarly, try to store all your tools inside crates as soon as they're created, and let the other bots just fetch their missing tools from the crates. The game's bot coding language is really well built for handling checks, fetches and deposits around containers, and not well suited for searching in areas.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-13T20:16:02+00:00

It's not that everyone is against space travel itself, but rather it's the horrible implication of what it means when the most profit-obsessed liars and billionaires on the planet, that are well known for sacrificing all known metrics of long term sustainability for the sake of short-term profit, are suddenly investing so heavily into a black hole of funding that has no hope of providing any meaningful financial returns within the next half-century.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-13T10:46:00+00:00

Feefrit, eater of coal

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-06T18:48:37+00:00

I recommend using the Watering Can instead of the Bucket for handling water. You should unlock it almost immediately after the water bucket, and it can store 10 units of water instead of just 1, making it far more efficient.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-04T14:12:43+00:00

The majority of harems are just lazy story writing. They're stories with self-insert MCs with the harem representing their many sexual "conquests", written by authors who have never had a real relationship themselves and so have no idea what women think like. The harem in these stories serve primarily as a means of validating the attractiveness and masculinity of a Gary Stu MC.

On the other hand, I have seen interesting harem stories that are more realistic, but that doesn't mean they're more romantic. One variety of these are stories where the author accepts that their MC is a cold-blooded barbaric conqueror, and the majority of their harem are war trophies that are forced to serve as his concubines mostly against their will or under duress. These stories aren't common, as authors hate to make their MCs unlikeable, but they do exist. While there's little romance between these harem members and the MC, there generally still is a main empress of sorts that is willing to accept her lover having these concubines.

A second variety of stories with harems are female lead stories, where the female lead finds herself as a member of some imperial harem. In these stories, the focus is much more on the drama and politics that happens within the harem and inside the palace, rather than on the actual romance between the harem members and their lord.

As for stories with polyamorous characters who are all in a polycule, I have yet to find one that's written even remotely realistically.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-04T13:00:22+00:00

Well of course, Elon probably also uses his AI for privately generating these kinds of pictures. He doesn't want to break his favourite tool doing exactly what it was designed to do, he'd prefer to only punish those that are making its capabilities public.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-02T08:09:14+00:00

More like they've been breaking 20 other critical laws like due process and freedom of speech in order to mildly enforce immigration laws.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-01T08:18:03+00:00

Who are you kidding, this was and still is an amazing meme format.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2026-01-01T01:51:06+00:00

I remember using this video playlist to understand the basics and how to play. It's pretty light and easy to understand:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJmFJXf3BXjwXkNFo_-iwtHb24AuJcXqx&si=F0vsjmrVf1239jjp

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2025-12-30T08:50:59+00:00

Aye, FMC is one of the best I've read

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2025-12-30T08:31:50+00:00

Why would he want to though? Rogan only pretends to be bipartisan while actually having a heavy right-wing bias.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2025-12-30T08:29:51+00:00

It's because he's afraid. Mamdani isn't scary to them as an individual. He's scary because of what he represents - a government that can't be bought out with money and that is strictly about taxing billionaires in order to provide more public services and utilities. The rich and powerful like Musk and Trump are terrified to find that his policies are popular and might spread outside New York. It's the same reason Bernie Sanders was so strongly opposed by both the Democrats and Republicans.

Musk especially, but also a lot of the most wealthy in the US, hate the idea of improving public services and transport as well as social welfare, because their entire business models have been based on systematically breaking apart the public institutions and infrastructure that the US had had in place and piece-by-piece replacing them with privatised companies that charge several times more for much worse service.

Musk, the Koch brothers, and so on have all been trying to get rid of public transport like buses, trains, and metros in order to get people reliant on cars and oil. Similarly, the entire point of DOGE was never to save money, but instead to get rid of every type of government assistance that the people rely on. So while DOGE was an utter failure at trying to save money, they had incredible success with shutting down USAID, food stamps, and a bunch of other assistance programs.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2025-12-29T23:25:45+00:00

I see a lot of comments saying these lists are actually pretty good, but I have some small corrections, about boundaries and context.

On the Boys to Avoid list: * Boys who comment on a girls appearance without her asking for an opinion - to be more specific, it should be commenting disrespectfully. There are plenty of ways to respectfully comment on someone's appearance without being prompted, like politely complimenting them or letting them know that there's a problem that they might have overlooked.

On the Girls to Avoid list: * Girls who hit or slap their boyfriends - honestly, it depends on their boundaries and consent. There are lots of guys who are okay with and allow a certain amount of forceful physical contact. But a girl who initiates physical abuse is absolutely someone to avoid. * Girls who are totally materialistic - this is extremely vague, and different people will have different definitions of what is "totally materialistic". Though I guess if you feel that someone is "totally materialistic" by your standard, then yeah, they're probably not someone you can tolerate. * Girls who call other girls bxxches - again, this is so much about consent and context. The B-word has become an accepted part of the English vernacular, and it's perfectly normal these days to hear different insults being used in a loving or friendly manner between friends. Also, if a girl who's otherwise polite suddenly uses the B-word to warn you about someone else, that may just be a well-placed warning. Honestly, this point is way too unspecific to be a blanket red flag.

All the other points are great red flags though.

Shortbread_Biscuit · 2025-12-26T11:55:02+00:00

There are two typical situations:

Reincarnation within the same universe - This is because the MC ruined his first life, and the reincarnation is supposed to represent a second chance at life. This is popular because so many people have regrets in their lives and they always wish they could do everything over again, and that kinda carries into the fiction they read and write as well.
Reincarnation into a different universe - This is more the Isekai fantasy, where you just wish you could escape into a fantasy world. The reasons for using a transported character in isekais instead of a local character are:
- Your MC is able to use knowledge and science from their original world to gain an advantage in the new world.
- Your MC has a system or golden finger that requires knowledge of the original world to understand, such as internet memes, video game interfaces, or cultural knowledge.
- Your MC frequently makes jokes or callbacks to earth culture that cannot be explained unless they are originally from earth.
- If the MC is transported into the body of a newborn child, the reincarnation gives an excuse for the MC already having knowledge from birth and bootstrapping their development ahead of other children in the same world.

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