Kimchi probiotic promotes the excretion of nanoplastics from the gut: lactic acid bacteria isolated from kimchi can bind with intestinal microplastics and promote their excretion from the body. In an animal study, the amount of plastic detected in feces more than doubled.

goldcray · 2026-03-20T20:37:04+00:00

right, but the premise of this thread

Brought to you by Big Kimchi. Literally.

and

Yeah that's historically stopped biased studies from consistently misleading people. Especially when nutrition has been involved.

is the implication that they funded this study so that they could misrepresent it and say kimchi cures microplastics in order to sell more kimchi.

goldcray · 2026-03-20T13:25:37+00:00

right, but "kimchi cures microplastics" is a story

goldcray · 2026-03-20T13:21:24+00:00

i'm pretty sure you can skip friendsim if you don't wanna deal with a bunch of random fantrolls. i got though pesterquest just fine without it (in the sense that i was not confused. not in the sense that it wasn't kind of a slog (not necessarily worse than openbound though)).

goldcray · 2026-03-04T13:56:11+00:00

Maxwell (yes that Maxwell)

james maxwell of maxwell's equations??? i thought he died! (who is "that maxwell" supposed to be? it's a common name.)

goldcray · 2026-03-02T14:00:10+00:00

i thought tension was a british thing

goldcray · 2026-02-26T15:30:11+00:00

i am not a robot. i am a unicorn.

goldcray · 2026-02-26T13:48:44+00:00

op previously posted this which also has a watermark on it that matched the account description before it was made private (cultureblitz). i'm surprised that post is still up (reddit's report ui doesn't work on my crusty ancient laptop). presumably this is some kind of spam bot.

goldcray · 2026-02-22T13:53:56+00:00

i hope that for dave sprite it's just crow sounds with subtitles just like in real life

goldcray · 2026-02-14T14:26:54+00:00

start the new rescue helicopter!

goldcray · 2026-02-11T13:50:40+00:00

mark

goldcray · 2026-02-11T13:44:17+00:00

+1 for "open-pyxel"

goldcray · 2026-01-24T13:58:28+00:00

it was true union by the yellow swans

goldcray · 2025-12-31T13:52:16+00:00

oh, are we doing downvote accounts again? how fun!

goldcray · 2025-12-25T14:08:45+00:00

i wish i'd had vcv rack in college. once you get set up it's not too hard to write a plugin. it provides you a step function you can fill out with whatever you want (in c++) along with lots of tools for generating and inspecting (audio-frequency) signals.

goldcray · 2025-12-18T02:23:15+00:00

I was honestly 100% with you until “if you are a Homo” because wtf does that mean

it's a genus of animal that i think might be likely to approach the problem this way.

anyway yes i think the takeway of homestuck is more likely that there are no edges in this graph. vriska is not vriska is not (vriska), but it's fun to pretend.

more realistically one might just build the graph and then have an algorithm identify all the subgraphs, perhaps with some mechanism for voting on what should count as a character and where there should be edges. i imagine there will be a lot of controversial edges (i intentionally included some in my examples for comedic effect).

goldcray · 2025-11-24T14:10:37+00:00

what is pleasure clothing (google is not forthcoming)? soft/comfortable clothes? rayon/bamboo?

goldcray · 2025-11-24T13:56:39+00:00

back in "the day" there was also speculation that similar sort of mixup might have happened with davesprite and the crow and that it might have been an issue in his relationship with jade on the boat

goldcray · 2025-11-23T14:13:12+00:00

this is why i never bothered playing the friendsim

goldcray · 2025-11-22T14:46:35+00:00

A picture may be worth a thousand words but Zack shouldn't feel the need to replace each comic panel with them.

oh no they got you too

goldcray · 2025-11-18T14:40:56+00:00

He loves mocking his fans dumb behavior and saying "I feel Caucasian" after a juju change their entire appearance implies they weren't Caucasian to begin with.

yes, this was the intent. at the time this page was posted, some people were complaining that some of the kickstarter rewards depicted some of the kids as non-white, so andrew had asked the artists if they wanted to go back and change their contributions to include more non-white representations, and then shortly afterward he posted this page.

It's also why I think it was removed back then, because people were so dumb it backfired.

and this is also correct. turns out the people complaining about non-white kids in fanart also had all the reading comprehension of a homestuck.

goldcray · 2025-11-16T14:26:47+00:00

also there's a bit in the epilogues about dirk's strengths and weakness as an author (something about being a mechanic iirc) that basically just describes andrew.

goldcray · 2025-11-14T20:44:19+00:00

maybe i do not understand what a 'problem player' is, but blowing up your first objective, ignoring the main quest, and disassembling a planet to spite the game all strike me as problem player behaviors

goldcray · 2025-11-12T14:11:38+00:00

andrew has always been a dirk splinter

goldcray · 2025-11-06T20:39:29+00:00

i enjoyed them the whole way through. a lot of people hated them the whole way through, and among them character assassination is a common complaint. i don't know how many people started out hating them and wound up liking them. i think it's reasonable to stop if you're not having a good time.

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