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my house does this with castling. it definitely makes things that much more tense when you omly have one box left on the yahtzee scorecard

i think an album can be all masterpieces but the album itself isn’t a masterpiece. it’s very rare, but it’s happens! if the album just sounds like a playlist and not a cohesive whole, i can’t really call it a masterpiece. in a masterpiece of an album, each song elevates all of the others. sometimes that means telling a story, sometimes that means musical ideas pop up in multiple songs, and sometimes it’s an inexplicable quality that just glues the whole thing together. all of my favorite albums are like that, a whole greater than the sum of it’s already great parts

in the states, the de- prefix is either pronounced “dee” or just “d” without a vowel sound, and in both cases the emphasis is on the verb. whereas debra would be “deh-bruh” or “deb-ruh” with even emphasis

how could i forget Nigh Train! in jazz band in college we’d debate between playing it straight like James Brown or swung like BTTF (and presumably the original), both rule

The Locomotion - any version you can find, they all rule M.T.A. - Kingston Trio Last Train to London - ELO Moonlight Express (album) - The Ivory Heart Love Train - The O’Jays

stretches: Takin’ Care of Business - BTO ("if your train’s on time…) Rydeen - Yellow Magic Orchestra (licensed for the arcade game Super Locomotive. for a rerelease without the license, they wrote a pastiche called “Ryzeen”) Detroit Medley - Bruce Springstein (has a part about a train a-comin’ that IIRC has never been done on it’s own)

hard to pick just one. Flareon just barely eekes it out to the top but it has the unfair advantage of being my first starter, from Gale of Darkness on GCN. my fantasy team would be

Flareon Swampert Decidyueye Gallade Drampa or Altaria Alolan Dugtrio or Clodesire

intelligence is knowing the AI is the tool, wisdom is knowing the user is the tool

i would vote

“purity test” implies attention to detail which is the opposite of what i’m arguing. i’m advocating for a “stink test.” a lot of people here are arguing whether or not it should be ok to post art by a guy who stinks, but no one is arguing that he doesn’t stink. i don’t care if a comic inherently stinks or has the residual stink of it’s creator, i just want to open a window

that’s my whole point: regardless of if the comics were fine, later in life he was a jackass so who cares? we can look at every comic he ever made under a fine-tooth comb to see if those later values show up in dilbert at the risk of alienating the groups of people he hurt regardless of the comic, or we can just say “fuck that guy” and move on with our lives

i mean, yeah… let’s ban dilbert. even if adams was a saint when it was in serialization, posting it today platforms who he is today. we could pick apart edge cases all day but that’s a lot of work to maybe be able to post comics everyone has already seen, or we can err on the side of caution and spend all that time reading good comics by decent people instead

i thought you were kidding until i saw the wikipedia link. that’s fascinating, and very cool that they still have the penny

for longer drives i queue up albums or an audio book, but for shorter drives i always use the radio. there’s something fun about “fishing” for a good song and those morning talk shows are stupid but endearingly so in small doses

when i lived in buffalo, we had this amazing station WECK FM that was what an oldies station was back when what an oldies station is now was modern, so like all 50s and 60s early rock and pop. five years living there and i was somehow still constantly hearing stuff i’d never heard before

i absolutely adore this art style

emulate stadium emulating pokemon at 2x speed at 10x speed for u n l i m i t e d p o w e r

the obvious, surface level answer is that you can’t seperate supporting the art from the harm that the artist does. if you’re either forking over cash or simply doing free advertising by talking about ir, you’re supporting the artist and their ability to do harm. the end consequence of that idea is that you can ethically enjoy a bad person’s art if and only if you can source it for free and keep it entirely to yourself

i think there’s a deeper level to it, though. there’s a quote saying that “art holds a mirror up to nature,” and I think that’s half true. art isn’t a mirror image so much as it is an image seen through a prism, which naturally colors and distorts the image. if i remember correctly, Harry Potter doesn’t deal with gender transition or gender non-comfority at all, but it is an image of the world reflected through the lens of a cruel and bigoted person, and that manifests itself in other ways in the story (two obvious ones off the top of my head being the goblin bankers and the house elves). you can’t seperate art from artist because the artist shapes the art. the shape imposed by the artist is what makes art art and not merely information or a representation. none of this is to say that the mere act of reading harry potter is immoral, but what it is is dangerous. there’s no avoiding doing dangerous things in life sometimes, but trying to look at art in a vacuum is like driving a car with a blindfold. driving with your eyes on the road is a managble danger, an acceptable risk- driving blindfolded much less so!

i suppose in the most literal sense, he’s a good leader because he inspires his subordinates to follow. no matter how ill-advised or hairbrained a plan seems, his crew will always follow through. granted those same ill-advised, hairbrained plans are a reason why many would argue he’s a bad leader, but the Romulan episode goes to great lengths to show how he never makes those kinds of decisions lightly, despite making them often. the alternate version of that same episode in SNW shows that a more measured, Starfleet response there just wouldn’t have worked, so there’s also an element of Doylist logic there- he’s a good leader because the writers say so, and his actions aren’t the best course of actions for their own sake as much as they are because they’re his actions.

the movies definitely make him more fallible, and if Kurtzman-era Trek has one single theme, it’s the deconstruction and destruction of the infallible hero-captain archetype. but even then, Kirk being both The Greatest Captain and a space cowboy are load-bearing pillars of the Trek mythos at this point

TL;DR kirk’s intuition has plot armor and you can’t retcon that without basically retconning all of Trek because of his in-universe and real-life mythic status. he’s an exceptional captain, and the exception that proves the rule

The company shared that it would go “all-in” on the mobile version of the platform in February.

TIL there’s a non-VR version of Horizon. wasn’t the whole point that it was VR? what’s even left if you take out the VR, just voice chat?

take 'em, i ain’t using 'em anymore!

honestly, given the choice between playing on Real Hardware on an LCD or through Wii virtual console on a CRT, i’d go for the latter almost every time. it’s hard to overstate just how much retrogaming on a CRT rules