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Band name of the day: total exoneration
serving size: one eighth of a cookie
Is there a language that actually stores booleans as offsets into a bitfield, instead of wasting 7 bits (or more)?
Lazyweb: do japanese buildings have basements? If not, why not? (For instance, water table, or soil quality?)
to make the world worth living in requires conspiracy
In case you haven't read the Oshiete Galko-chan manga & have only heard about it: it's gorgeous, in a really innovative style, heartwarming & funny, & also people's tshirts say things like 'camel toe <3' and 'snowman porno'
holy shit did the domekano anime cut like most of the literature club shit? i don't remember them going camping & hina getting stung by a wasp
"You like horror movies, huh? What are your favorite genres?" "Well, mostly gothic & art deco, but Burnt Offerings was a fantastic greek revival flick"
more movies about food and buildings
everybody get your fog machines and neon lights, we're gonna film buildings
hollywood: let's make horror movies about freemasonry; dario argento: DID SOMEBODY SAY MASONRY?? I LOVE STONEWORK
a supercut of italian-directed tracking shots of pretty houses with prog rock in the background and vaseline on the lens
Sort of unexpectedly, DC's Captain Marvel movie ended up being substantially better than Marvel's Captain Marvel movie, because DC decided to make a PG-13 Deadpool movie while Marvel tried to make a Superman movie.
Did the anime adaptation completely get rid of chapter 22 of DomeKano? I don't remember that whole sequence being in there...
Ghost stories are about return of the repressed, & to have the return you need the repression, so ghost stories are actually about trauma & reintegration. (Again, probably obvious, but shit feels more original when you've been awake for 30 hours)
The function of genre tropes is to provide a promise of certain kinds of things -- enjoyable to genre fans -- happening to make the thing enjoyable even if there's no other engagement. (Y'all probably know this but everything feels more original when you've been awake for 30 hours.)
I fixed my now-year-long semi-intermittent sound problem, & the explanation is compellingly stupid: sometimes when ubuntu upgrades sound driver modules it doesn't make the /dev/snd tree user-writable, & pulse runs as the logged-in user.
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia managed to be both a satisfying school harem comedy & a satisfying gothic ghost story. Highly recommend. Why the heck don't people talk more about this show?
I wasn't expecting Dusk Maiden of Amnesia to be this similar to Yuuna and the Haunted Onsen. I approve.
My online friends are very sweet & thinking about it fills me with joy <3
TFW you give yourself low-grade caffeine toxicity expecting to be productive at work but instead end up writing long twitter threads about strategic subculture destablization
GCU Very Important Heartburn
Committee for Supporting the Booking of Chapo Trap House on Joe Rogan
I tried really hard to give The Amityville Horror another chance but all I can think is: how the hell is a movie starring Margot Kidder this bad and this boring? Steven King came around on it but I guess I won't.
Never mistake your inability to richly imagine the outgroup for an actual general consensus among them. No matter how wrong they might be about the things they agree on, they define themselves by their minor internal schisms.
nothing is irrefutable for the sufficiently motivated
OK so one thing I don't like about the DomeKano manga is the way the plaid bottoms in their school uniform are so clearly done with a single sheet of overlay per frame (or maybe even per page). It's distracting, the way they don't match the fabric folds.
This, except unironically: https://makefrontendshitagain.party/ ; interfaces ought to be rich & individual representations of the underlying models, unless people are required/forced to use them, in which case all formatting should be able to be stripped automatically.
Lazyweb: please recommend me haunted house movies you think I haven't seen. It's for research. Good or bad doesn't matter, but I prefer original over derivative.
One thing the DomeKano manga has over the anime is that it plays up how much of a lovable dork Hina is. Anime Hina comes off to me as somebody you'd want to stay away from on the grounds of emotional instability, & is only shallowly charming.
Band name of the day: ornament and crime
Band name of the day: the oddly satisfying
keep throwing 'em away until throwing 'em away isn't scary anymore
Band name of the day: emotion mind
Hot take: Mondo 2000 should do what Fangoria did & release a very fancy very thick periodical like once a year for about a hundred bucks.
A lot of disagreements seem to come down to a gap wherein, when commercial success and apparent human flourishing conflict, some folks privilege the former over the latter. I'm wondering how much of this is about legibility / discounting self-reporting in favor of numbers.
if you're a wizard then all your hats are wizard hats
modern mobile development cons: the absence of hardware keyboards leads to a culture of passivity. modern mobile dev pros: nobody assumes you are running a supercomputer with a fiber connection directly to the data center no more than 5 ft long
Is there a convenient way to make your desktop browser pretend to be a mobile browser so sites don't try to allocate twenty gigs of memory for goddamned css animations?
i'm feeling nmesh more than oneatrix point never lately and i don't know why
Band name of the day: spectacular optical
why did they call it 'Web Prolog' instead of 'PlanNET'? was it just so that people couldn't say 'hack the PlanNET' every time a vuln was found? that's a bad reason.
We ought to be suspicious of business plans that resemble manifest destiny: expansion into supposedly-unclaimed regions, turning inhabitants into tools & discarding the resistant (who now have nowhere to go) or worse.
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by filling a truck with snakes and driving
Band name of the day: cloaca maxima
There are three kinds of haunted houses: the return of the repressed (the history-haunted house), the dressing room for werewolves (the house that just makes people crappier), & the house-that-is-monstrous (the amateur architect's place)
Hill House has stood for 80 years and might for 80 more. Inside, floors lay straight, doors sensibly shut, but why is there a dormer window RIGHT NEXT TO a stained glass one, and why don't the bottoms line up??
'hill house is the mcmansion hell of the soul' - shirley jackson, probably
Today is the ides of march. Celebrate by being ware.