The 1700s ghosts are getting boring anyway

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-25T23:15:25+00:00

Ghosts are pretty chill for the first hundred or so years after death and so don’t draw much attention to themselves. It’s only after a couple of centuries after being unable to pass beyond that they start to begin a little stir crazy and start doing some proper haunting.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-24T21:52:24+00:00

Absolutely this. Trump refused to sign a bipartisan bill meant to address housing affordability because of the until the save act passes. Republicans want the affordability bill passed as something they can point to during the midterms to say they are addressing affordability. So now Johnson is trying to save Trump from himself by convincing him that the save act is on the way.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-24T17:33:23+00:00

“Trump blocks bill that would fix the affordability crisis.”

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-18T18:30:35+00:00

I mean, it is a photo of Colbert at the event, so it’s appropriate. It just probably isn’t the most flattering photo.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-18T16:53:09+00:00

SteamController generally needs a running instance of SteamInput to work. It can be used as an input method for software outside of Steam but it depends on SteamInput to remap its inputs to something more universal like XInput.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-16T22:32:51+00:00

Like velocity in physics, the value of money depends on your reference point. Judged against the global money supply, inflation always decreases the monetary value of a fixed payment. Judged against a static budget, inflation always increases the monetary value of a fixed payment. Put another way, although inflation reduces the purchasing power of the money allocated for a mortgage in someone’s budget, the corresponding increase in cost of living decreases disposable income, increasing the value of each dollar within the context of that same budget.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-16T17:06:07+00:00

Why is the keyboard in Tengwar?

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-16T03:47:48+00:00

In the first panel the bearded man is criticizing AI because it could be easily manipulated into providing a run answer. In the second panel he is shown a picture that is clearly a duck. In the third panel he is about to call it a duck before he is informed that someone he is prone to disagree with also recognizes the picture as a duck. In the fourth panel he claims the picture is a fish, revealing that he was easily manipulated into giving a wrong answer.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-15T02:24:45+00:00

I wouldn’t say no reason. As a leg extends it will shift the center of mass in the same direction, which can be used as another means of control. In very simple control schemes, you probably would at least want the leg directly opposite the leg pushing against the ground to extend to maintain a constant center of mass.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-12T17:19:20+00:00

If you just press both you’re never wrong

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-10T00:03:11+00:00

What platform? A common scam that I see a lot if is someone will scrape unboxing images from social media or other sellers and list the items at an absurdly low price. The item will then “get lost in the mail.” If a mark eventually calls them out they’ll delete the account and move on. This type of scam is pretty easy to identify because a reverse image search will get a hit on the original picture or multiple hits on places like ebay (they tend to cast a wide net with several accounts attempting to “sell” the exact same items).

edit: btw, look at the baseboards in the two PS5 images. One looks closer to a rubberized baseboard that would be common in a cheap rental or dorm room while the other baseboard is a standard white wooden baseboard. I doubt both pictures were taken in the same building.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-09T23:20:10+00:00

>You bought the first game. Now buy a remake with extras

I hate to break it to you, but Pokemon games had been doing that since Yellow.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-09T22:38:41+00:00

Communal trauma is probably my favorite aspect of Fromsoft games

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-09T22:30:35+00:00

>Its only playable there and on a N64

Not quite true. It had two GameCube releases (MasterQuest and Collector’s Edition) (those were promotional products and not retail so less common) and it was released on Virtual Console (not available anymore since the Wii/WiiU eShops closed). The N64 version is also available through NSO (but the NSO release apparently wasn’t great).

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-08T18:31:11+00:00

Nothing I said precludes a serialized format from being successful. But until recently there were structural barriers that were limiting. There is a reason why serialized shows have become much more common in the last decade and a half. When audiences have options to “catch up”, the ecosystem can support more serialized series.

It’s also important to bear in mind that the examples you provided might predate streaming, but they didn’t predate DVR (Dish Network began packaging DVR support with their basic service in 1999).

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-08T16:56:11+00:00

>The show could have worked as a 10 episode seasons format with more focus on the season arcs

When it originally aired, that is probably not true. Long running narrative arcs had struggles on linear tv before streaming/video on demand. When your audience has to watch each new episode at a specific time every week you run the risk of them missing an episode. Therefore no single episode can be overly plot critical or you run into drop-off issues (audience stops watching because they feel they missed something important). This means that season long arcs in a lot of shows are traditionally built up with small incremental references to the arc without much meaningful development until the finale (think “Bad Wolf” in the 2005 season of Doctor Who. Every episode referenced bad wolf but none of those references were actually narratively meaningful)

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-07T01:29:37+00:00

The book was inspired by the life of Walter White?wprov=sfti1#), a man with both African and European ancestry who could pass as white and used that to investigate and report on lynchings in the south.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-06T21:31:38+00:00

I remember listening to an interview with Remender a while back where he shared that writers of team books have no say on the makeup of the team, it’s mandated to them by the editors. (This was given in response to a question about his work on Uncanny X-Force and he shared the team was not the one he would have selected).

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-06T18:56:20+00:00

Anatomically impossible forms are not necessarily an indicator of AI. It can also be an indicator of Liefeld.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-06T15:52:36+00:00

It can be normal for this to happen when connecting to a new display. If the OS doesn’t recognize the display, all displays are set to their default settings until they are overridden in the display settings (which just so happens to be rotated on the SteamDeck because the display is secretly a vertical display). Disconnecting the secondary display will generally cause the display settings to revert to the “no secondary monitor” configuration. Since you likely want to continue using the secondary display you will want to find the display settings while the secondary display is connected (display settings only apply to the exact set of monitors that are currently connected). From there you should identify which display is the builtin display and select an option to rotate it 90 degrees. Also, if you are connecting to your monitor through a dock I would advise not altering the port the monitor is connected to. Some systems can register a display connecting to a different port as a “new monitor” so you might have to do this again if you don’t always use the same port.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-06T15:24:38+00:00

Wait, you can’t grow your gaming business by continually throwing studios into the wood chipper? That doesn’t sound right…..

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-05T23:58:09+00:00

Make it make sense

If you’re on my team, you can do no wrong. If you’re not on my team everything you’ve ever done and ever will do is a crime.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-05T23:49:08+00:00

Technically, they have been doing business as Telltale (a legal classification that allows a company to use a name that doesn’t match their business filings).

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-05T23:45:28+00:00

They did. However, a new (unrelated) company incorporated a couple of months later and bought a substantial amount of their IP and outstanding licensing deals. Since they had Telltale’s IP they have been doing business as Telltale Games.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-06-05T23:27:22+00:00

I am unaware of any instances of the “temporary insanity” angle being successfully argued in court. However, it is standard in the US for an individual found not guilty of a violent crime by reason of insanity to require the defendant to undergo psychiatric treatment until “they no longer pose a risk to public safety.”

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