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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

When life seems hard

and you're stuck in a rut

there's no better help

than a face full of butt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Exactly. There's no moral dillema here. I'm keeping the switch in the "left" position and welding it in place, just in case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And mine. And probably everyone else's since the only banking app I can find on F-Droid is something called Varengold.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

To be clear, XMPP is the name of the protocol, not the app. If an XMPP app with a Discord-like UI is what you're after, then Converse.js is probably your best bet. Here's what it looks like.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (14 children)

"It has a gradient so you know it's AI." <- Uh, what does this mean?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

omg, how is this scene still being taken out of context after 10+ years? In the scene mentioned, Tidus, the protagonist of the story, is feeling depressed and Yuna, the summoner who Tidus is guarding, tries to cheer him up. One of her methods is forcing(!) yourself to laugh. It looks ridiculous, it sounds ridiculous, heck, the other characters watching the scene think it's ridiculous and even Yuna herself at some point tells Tidus he should probably stop. The laugh sounds forced, because it is. And intentionally, at that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I wanted to add Invasion of the Booby Snatchers, but then I realized that in this context the aliens aren't the ones doing the snatching.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

How about a pet rock?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What, no Microsoft Word?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Nah, I didn't forget. It's just that Pitchford's list of screw-ups is so extensive that if I wanted to list of each and every one, we'd be here all day.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Good. I hope that sleaze Pitchford loses a mountainload of money on this. I absolutely hate the guy, he's a liar and a thief. And arguably, depending how you look at it, a pedophile.

As a short reminder: Borderlands was originally meant to look like this. Then, at the MTV Asia Awards 2006, an artist by the name of Ben Hibon premiered a neat-looking animated short by the name of Codehunters. You can see it here. Witchford saw this and wanted to use the artstlye for his new game. He and Ben had a back-and-forth for a while and then, radio silence.

2009 comes around and Pitchfork's new game Borderlands is released. And to say that it looked familiar to Codehunters would be an understatement. Kitschford, being an upstanding and virtuous citizen that he is, straight-up aped Codehunter's style. No discussions or agreements were made with Ben and as such, despite Borderlands becoming hugely profitable, Ben didn't see a cent. And that is why I will always hope for the Borderlands IP to crash and burn. Or, at the very least, for someone to actually pay Ben Hibon for (unknowingly) creating the game's artstyle. Anyway, rant over, thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

omg, you're right! The "hand" on the left looks like a foot.

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