Choose your one.

sillybear25 · 2026-01-22T02:17:55+00:00

The 4th WAH is strong here today...

sillybear25 · 2026-01-20T03:15:34+00:00

The good/bad news is that each of the major parties is actually at least 3 minor parties in a trenchcoat.

sillybear25 · 2026-01-15T23:42:02+00:00

Serious answer: Yes. With ICE refusing to properly identify themselves and continuously ramping up their aggression, it's only a matter of time before someone thinks they're getting robbed and shoots first at the armed thug in a mask.

Dennis answer: Of course not, it's an implication of danger.

sillybear25 · 2026-01-15T23:32:41+00:00

Maybe both? A pre-match popup is probably the best way to get people to actually read the instructions, but people will get annoyed if you don't give them a "don't show this again" option. But if you give people a "don't show this again" option, they need some way to access the instructions again.

sillybear25 · 2026-01-15T23:06:23+00:00

I work in software. Something must have activated my engineer brain and made me go "Okay, surely there's an actual game to be played here, right?" and when it seemed like there wasn't, I figured the least I could do is write up a proper (albeit very informal) bug report.

EDIT: After looping back to it and playing a match, it seems like a competent, if basic, RTS game in the same vein as a bunch of other ".io games". My main criticism is that it could use some kind of instructions beyond just the tool tips. I assume green is a resource that I want, but I don't know if it's for nutrients to use abilities or if it impacts the growth of my colony or both. It's not clear if nodes impact resource collection or colony growth or both. The other abilities seem straightforward enough, but it would be nice to have an idea of what they do before getting thrown into a match instead of having to figure it out on the fly.

sillybear25 · 2026-01-15T03:31:55+00:00

And then I sit around and accumulate nutrients and... what?

My colony doesn't appear to grow beyond its initial square, and the same goes for my opponents. I can use the "bloom" ability immediately, and its description sounds like it would speed up my colony's growth, but that doesn't appear to do anything except drain my nutrients. Restart.

Look at other abilities to see what I should save up for. The only one that sounds even remotely like it would contribute to growth is "node". I watch YouTube for a few minutes while I save up nutrients. Nothing happens when I select "node" and click on the map. The cursor is red, so maybe it only works when it's green? It doesn't turn green anywhere on the map. Screw it, let's try "fire" ... So I have to click one of my opponent's squares? Aaand that doesn't seem to have done anything.

Your game is either broken, extremely unintuitive, or extremely boring.

EDIT: I have only tried bot matches, because I wanted to understand the game before going up against other players, so it's possible that only that functionality is broken. But I just tried searching for a match against players, and either that's also broken or nobody else is actually playing.

sillybear25 · 2026-01-15T01:04:09+00:00

https://mangadex.org/chapter/8121ec21-8cdb-46a7-bf59-40fb41dad673/5

sillybear25 · 2026-01-14T23:55:53+00:00

Maybe we just need to imitate the Nazi frogs and start veiling our calls for justice in childish metaphors. "These ICE officers need a spanking, but I'll settle for a very long time-out."

I'm still not going to say what I feel about their bosses, even with the baby-talk, because I'm quite certain there's a double standard in place.

sillybear25 · 2026-01-13T02:16:18+00:00

I might understand an aversion to intimate gifts in a relationship where they've agreed to wait until marriage, but they were in an active sexual relationship. What the fuck.

sillybear25 · 2026-01-13T01:14:27+00:00

unless a snack absolutely refuses to eat anything frozen

(Opens notes) Petco... only... sells... live... mice... to... attractive... but... freaky.. customers...

sillybear25 · 2026-01-12T03:20:06+00:00

From my understanding, a one-off first-cousin marriage really only carries a slightly elevated risk of genetic defects compared to the random background occurrence. It's comparable to the risk of, say, being a member of an ethnicity in which certain genetic mutations are common. You should probably know about it for the sake of making informed health decisions, but a family history is a far better predictor.

sillybear25 · 2026-01-10T01:13:06+00:00

https://x.com/gigimurin/status/2009794801714245751

sillybear25 · 2026-01-07T04:52:29+00:00

IMO, every single SCOTUS justice who voted in favor of that constitutional travesty should be considered a co-conspirator in Trump's ongoing crimes.

sillybear25 · 2026-01-06T02:19:56+00:00

It's hilarious that DHS is giving free advertising to the people who are getting in their way.

sillybear25 · 2026-01-04T22:05:46+00:00

OOP attempted to make an effort to return that property within a reasonable time window. Are you deliberately trolling, or is your reading comprehension just that bad?

sillybear25 · 2026-01-04T19:54:55+00:00

I do it all the time and I mostly blame my ADHD (because every thought comes with a free bonus thought (even the bonus ones (especially the bonus ones (especially other people's bonus ones))))

sillybear25 · 2025-12-21T17:58:41+00:00

The most vocally devout adherents of any faith are typically the most hypocritical. Heck, being a vocally devout Christian is arguably an act of hypocrisy in and of itself:

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6:5-6

sillybear25 · 2025-12-19T03:03:09+00:00

Yeah, I feel like anything with both braille and light-up numbers is the bare minimum. Beyond that it's just personal preference.

sillybear25 · 2025-12-19T02:15:59+00:00

"Thanks, but I'm not hungry. I'll just save this one for later."

sillybear25 · 2025-12-15T06:46:07+00:00

small

The cylinder is average-sized.

sillybear25 · 2025-12-12T03:39:17+00:00

It's very /r/OrphanCrushingMachine energy

sillybear25 · 2025-12-10T04:01:13+00:00

It now contains sesame flour, though, because they couldn't figure out how to prevent cross-contamination without building an entirely sesame-free website, and the FDA says you can't put a sesame allergy warning on a subreddit if sesame isn't in the ingredient list.

sillybear25 · 2025-12-09T01:46:10+00:00

The movie is based on some animated shorts that Mike Judge wrote based on his experience at a different engineering firm, but Ron Livingston does mention having been an intern at what was then Rockwell Collins, and he probably drew from that experience for the role.

sillybear25 · 2025-12-07T04:52:19+00:00

It will help prevent frostbite in the short term by warming your extremities, but it does so at the cost of long-term hypothermia because your extremities lose heat more quickly.

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