Exactly. The tea was sitting in the harbor because it hadn’t been sold yet. The toilet paper warehouse fire was analogous to the Boston tea party, and they’re threatening the dude with the death penalty for it.

Also in stage spotlights. Old follow spots used these, because the huge output made them fantastic for throwing a beam long distances. And the good CRI made performers look really good, and meant it could be colored (like with lighting gels) very well.

Yup. The TL;DR is that the flame doesn’t really produce that much light. Instead, it heats limestone, which glows a bright white-amber.

It’s also where the term “upstaging” comes from. The back of the stage is upstage, from when stages used to be heavily sloped (so audiences on the floor could see the performers in the back). Jealous performers would sometimes fight over who could be in the limelight. Since the limelights were spread across the front edge of the stage, the closer you were to the front of the stage (downstage), the brighter you were. So if you were trying to be noticed, you would move downstage (putting the other performers upstage of yourself). By moving closer to the limelights, you would upstage the other performers.

This took on a second meaning though. When you took a performer’s limelight away, they could force you to turn your back on the audience (which is a big no-no in theatre, because you can’t express things with the back of your head, and audiences can’t hear you when you’re facing away from them) by interacting with you. An improvised conversation, for example. By forcing you to turn around, (and by drawing attention towards themselves), they were upstaging your performance. Literally taking your performance and directing it upstage instead of towards the audience.

Finally, limelights were also part of the reason why theatre was so popular with the masses. When performers fought over the limelight, while dressed in their delicate lace and linen costumes, there was a very good chance that one of them would get too close to the limelight. And you know what is really fucking flammable? Lace and linen. When you bought a ticket to the theatre, there was a non-zero chance that you were going to get to watch a lady abruptly disrobe on stage when her skirt hem lit on fire. In an era where seeing an ankle was scandalous, an actress catching on fire would be something that you’d remember for the rest of your life.

I mean, if you zoom in and actually read the text, it very quickly becomes noticeable as fake

Look at the numbers on the scale. Look at the “Downloaid” numbers. Look at the fact that “Syert” is apparently a data unit.

Or how about the fact that something apparently managed to “Uploaid” 97.70 Bytes? Not KB. Not MB. Bytes. You can’t upload .7 bytes, because a byte isn’t divisible by 10. A byte has 8 bits, so it is only measured in eighths. You could upload .625B, or .75B, but not .70B.

Denuvo has a 0-day bypass. It isn’t stopping pirates from playing the game. If you can follow a 5 minute YouTube tutorial, you can bypass Denuvo.

What if yucking yums is my yum? Stop yucking my yum-yucking yum!

Yeah, it’s interesting that the curriculum starts by portraying the American revolution as a just and righteous war, with ragtag bands of freedom fighters going up against a brutal and overwhelmingly powerful oppressor… And then as soon as the revolution is concluded, the messaging takes a hard turn to “but also violence is never okay and peaceful protest is the only acceptable way to instigate change!”

In the chapters about the civil rights era, Malcom X and the Black Panthers were barely mentioned in a footnote. And only really as a “oh also not all people were peaceful, and that violence only hurt the protestors’ message” warning.

And the sad part is that the propaganda works. Every time some politically-charged violence happens, you inevitably have people in the comments chanting about how violence is never the answer, and peaceful protest is the only acceptable way to change things.

Hello fellow human. I can confirm that I enjoy having soft skin which suitably covers my skeletons. From my research, nearly all humans prefer keeping their bones wet. How do you ensure your skeletons remain adequately moistened?

God I hate when apps don’t have properly marked fields. You can mark your fields as username/password/street address/phone number/etc and browsers will automatically be able to detect them. So they can suggest autofill for the respective fields. But so many sites just… Refuse to properly mark their fields?

I know autofill hijacking was a problem for a while. For instance, a malicious ad could have off-screen autofill fields. So your browser would autofill them and the ad would capture the data. It was super scummy, and is why browsers moved towards prompting for autofill instead of just doing it automatically. But this is no excuse for sites to break paste on their own fields. It adds nothing to security, and only encourages weak passwords.

Ah yes. Super addictive. So addictive, in fact, that I regularly need to refill my 30 day prescription like 45 days late.

I think it’s just poor wording. It says they released tracks that were scraped from Spotify via BitTorrent. I think the punctuation and sentence structure is awkward. I think what they were trying to say was more along the lines of “they scraped millions of tracks from Spotify, and released them via BitTorrent.”

Still not technically correct, because you don’t release things via BitTorrent. But it at least clarifies that the songs were first scraped, and then released via torrent.

Why did they offer no contest at all?

Likely because contesting it would require doxxing themselves. The site’s admins survive on anonymity. And you can’t exactly be anonymous in court filings.

I think they meant that even when you have AI disabled, the top search results are still mostly AI slop.

I’d disagree with that definition. It’s a little like saying that a pedestrian who got hit and dragged by a car was “driving”. At best, it’s someone else forcing their usage upon you. In the cases you mentioned, it is someone else (usually a company looking to save on customer service) who is using AI. The users are the pedestrians in this case, and the companies using AI are the car.

The same could be said for required parenting classes or anything else. Not saying we shouldn’t do it, but it’s not nearly as easy as setting up some courses and making people take them.

Also, how would enforcement work? Not only would it predominantly affect lower income families, (who likely don’t have the money for required classes, and don’t have the time to take them even if they’re free), but what would be the penalty for refusing? There is no good answer, because every single answer will adversely affect the children that the program is trying to help.

You fine them? Congrats, that’s less money for the kid’s care, and is going to make poorer parents struggle to afford basic necessities even more than they already do. It’s going to disproportionately affect poorer people, because they’ll have less disposable income and will be hit harder by fines. It also means richer families can just buy their way out of the classes; if a fine is the only punishment, it’s only a punishment for the poor.

You jail them? Congrats, now you have deprived a child of their parents during their most formative years.

You take their kids away? Congrats, now you have flooded the foster system (which is already on the brink of collapse, and rife with abuse) and institutionalized a “poor family to rich family” child trafficking pipeline.

Additionally, lots of the “parents who don’t want to be involved” are likely too burnt out from working two or three jobs, or actively resent their kids because they had them too young. For instance, lots of teenage parents end up resenting their children in their 20’s, simply because they’re seeing all of their friends go out and party while they’re struggling to afford a babysitter. If you want to make that resentment a thousand times worse, start penalizing the parents further for not having the time to take parenting classes.

Finally… If your answer to the above question is “just make them stop having kids before they take the class…” How? I want to really think about that question. How? Are we going to surgically implant AFAB babies with fallopian tube switches, which only get unlocked after the parenting classes have been taken? Maybe every AMAB baby gets a vasectomy by default, which then gets reversed after they take the class? Because outside of mass-mandated surgical procedures, (good luck getting any surgeons to agree to this, by the way…) you can’t stop biology. The old conservative “abstinence is the only way to stop pregnancy” arguments have been disproven more times than I can count. But every other method requires active effort on someone’s part.

“Guys stop being mean to the Nazi’s husband! We have no way of knowing what his personal views are! He only married a Nazi, supports the Nazi’s actions, and continues to be married to a Nazi even though he could file for divorce whenever he wants! He didn’t actually say he was a Nazi himself, so we can’t assume he is one!”

I like both for different reasons. The older SOTN style ones are great for small detailed movement. Dodges are measured in individual pixels, not perfectly timed I-frames.

But I also love the faster paced movement on display here. Ori and the Blind Forest, Afterimage, Metroid Dread, etc are all great examples of solid movement-based games. Where if you’re sitting still, you’re not playing the game right. Fights are determined by your ability to time attacks and abuse counters/i-frames, quickly closing to striking distance and retreating before the enemy can counter.

Navigating in the latter games often feels much better. Simply walking from A to B tends to feel like a chore in earlier metroidvanias, because it’s a pretty simple thing to move around. At most, you usually have a double jump or dash, but that’s about as far as your movement options go. But with more movement options (and faster, more fluid movement,) going from A to B feels like its own part of the game. The Spider-Man games are a good example of how simply navigating can be entertaining.