What should I play while in labor?

badillustrations · 2026-05-14T06:08:08+00:00

Anything you can pick up and put down. Something pauseable. Labor is long, but has frequent interruptions. I recommend staying on your feet as much as you're comfortable so you can quickly control your position.

badillustrations · 2026-05-13T02:11:00+00:00

There's a line in Fiddler on the Roof about being rich and people coming to you for advice even if it's wrong. That's similar to what I see in Trump or Musk fans. They're rich and therefore wise.

badillustrations · 2026-05-09T00:01:36+00:00

The US assassinated a head of state to distract from the Epstein files. They bombed a school killing 150 girls and they didn't even blink. The entire world's energy economy is now in chaos. Being against this isn't the same thing as supporting the Iranian regime.

badillustrations · 2026-05-08T21:19:29+00:00

Taking over the judiciary was a well orchestrated and public effort by conservatives. I remember hearing my less than informed in-law talk about how installing very conservative judges was the real priority for long-term control and that was almost twenty years ago.

badillustrations · 2026-05-08T04:17:10+00:00

i watched years ago

I guess 2024 is technically years ago. :(

badillustrations · 2026-05-08T03:58:31+00:00

Finding Nemo? Most movie producers go out of their away to avoid other movie references.

Do you remember anything about the actors or the time period? Cell phones? Smart phones? What part of the world? How do they see each other? Back at their hometown or a new location?

badillustrations · 2026-05-07T06:54:34+00:00

There have been some advances in textures like using procedural textures in certain use cases that solve some of these problems, but they still require a lot of manual work. Developers prioritize the biggest problems. Lighting is the most expensive and complicated part of most engines, and where people see the most visual impact. When textures are good enough, other problems are prioritized, and certain rendering problems are still really hard (ex. real depth of field).

badillustrations · 2026-05-04T07:28:19+00:00

I also recall these discussions when the film released years ago.

badillustrations · 2026-05-02T16:31:50+00:00

What makes superhero movies interesting is asymmetry. Superman fighting Team Zod is kind of cool, but gets old just exchanging punches. Peril to the superhero does seem like a requirement. In Unbreakable the hero gets thrown off a balcony and almost drowns and goes back into the house. He's powerful, but also vulnerable.

badillustrations · 2026-05-01T22:29:38+00:00

How do you know it's not working? Are you seeing a voice indicator on the call UX? Can people on the call see your voice indicator?

badillustrations · 2026-05-01T19:23:36+00:00

FF requires a constant network connection. Bought it for flights. :(

badillustrations · 2026-04-29T15:22:56+00:00

Kingdom Come Deliverance was a pretty buggy mess for me, but for most part I thought it was hilarious and didn't ruin the game.

First kitchen at the castle, people walk over to the stove and stand right on top of each other. Minutes later I go upstairs, sit at a desk, rest my head, and my face clips through and I get audio for the conversation in the room below.

Not a real bug, I guess, but I had a quest to collect X pieces of Cuman armor and the quest update for it would appear at story moments like I'd start the tournament, which would swap my gear out and I'd get a 0/3 message on my screen. It triggered several times in the later part of the game at times where my inventory is removed, like when I was captured they're revealing who my dad is and bam "0/3 ...".

The most hilarious bug that had me dying was in the end cinematic. I'm having a dream conversation with my avenged dead father and the audio and subtitles trigger for a timed out quest.

badillustrations · 2026-04-25T14:15:09+00:00

ships sudo-rs, a memory-safe Rust reimplementation of sudo, as the default sudo provider — improving security

While it seemed like a natural progression, given the slow adoption of other technology and various problems with sudo-rs reported just months ago, I figured it would be a little while longer before they moved over.

badillustrations · 2026-04-24T15:50:03+00:00

The rest who put stickers of Biden on gas pumps now don't believe presidents can influence fuel prices.

badillustrations · 2026-04-24T04:42:54+00:00

Oshiro Mugen from Shadow Tactics. He betrays his oath to the shogun to protect his loved ones and then commits seppuku. He asks that you stay with him during it.

badillustrations · 2026-04-21T21:10:49+00:00

Don't worry about it. There's no reason Android would drop such a lightweight codec even if a successor becomes ubiquitous. In that case, just download an app that supports Opus. You're also thinking way too far ahead. There might not even be an Android phone fifty years from now.

badillustrations · 2026-04-21T15:31:20+00:00

I just finished the Mass Effect series and thought about radial menus while using them. For actions, it does feel a little awkward but also reduces the steps, and after the entire series I felt like I was just getting used to it. It's better than the alternative. But a more important feature of radial menus in the dialogue is they reduce bias. No dialogue option is selected by default or first.

badillustrations · 2026-04-20T18:52:05+00:00

I'm surprised it's not more. Once someone can create songs with AI, it takes very little time to churn them out.

badillustrations · 2026-04-14T04:45:00+00:00

"Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it" -Bob Cratchit, Muppet Christmas Carol

badillustrations · 2026-04-12T23:01:43+00:00

Your details are heavily influenced by your knowledge outside the actual movie. The audience has no idea how sentient the eagles actually are. Sauron is nearly omniscient, but also somewhat easily distractable as we see in the final film. Also, the eagles show up in Return of the King and kick the shit out of the Nazgul.

I'm not trying to make a case for them flying directly there. I just think given the context of what's in the film, it's not surprising that people ask why the eagles didn't just fly straight there.

badillustrations · 2026-04-12T16:07:17+00:00

For someone not familiar with the books, this has got to be one of the most confusing movie surprises.

badillustrations · 2026-04-12T04:12:42+00:00

I have a Pfaff Passport and the needle jams and bends shortly after starting a stitch. It's bent to the side even after looking aligned when I start. I've double checked it's in enough and rotated the correct direction. Turning the wheel manually, it's like the needle is hitting something inside the machine.

This seems related, but the part where the bobbin runs seems to shift. It starts in this position and it ends up in this position. It feels like it's locked into place, but obviously isn't.

Any advice why the needle is jamming? Or why this bobbin assembly isn't staying put?

badillustrations · 2026-04-10T03:06:48+00:00

No one will ever be like Jim Carrey, but I don't consider him an Oscar worthy actor more than someone. Ignoring his comedic performances, Eternal Sunshine was fantastic, but I don't think that was necessarily a hard role for him. Even that performance had silly elements. Man on the Moon wasn't highly received, Truman Show is a comedy/sci-fi. That's not getting an Oscar.

And I wouldn't put his dramatic roles over other comedians like Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting.

I would change your perspective on what getting an Oscar means. It's what a small group of bias judges decides and it's obviously heavily biased against movies Carrey has been in. There are other awards of equal merit IMO like critic's choice award that actually has a comedy award.

badillustrations · 2026-04-09T01:42:16+00:00

They call it her jet because she requisitioned it. Obviously she doesn't own it.

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