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redhorsejacket

@ redhorsejacket @lemmy.world

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  • Refrigerator ads are finally here!

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  • Could be I'm the minority here, but touchscreens stopped feeling like a value add years ago. Somehow I've wrapped back around to a good button or knob being the marker of quality. One of the reasons I chose my current vehicle was because they let the most common controls (climate, radio, etc) stay tactile.

  • Devastating Report Details How Underage Homeless Girl Allegedly Had Sex With Matt Gaetz For Money to Buy Braces

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  • Brb, updating my grindr profile...

  • I Wrote Task Manager — 30 Years Later, the Secrets You Never Knew

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  • Sorry man, I'm not knowledgeable enough about computers to provide a summary, but I'll mention this fun tidbit: apparently, the shipped version of task manager contained thus guy's home phone number in the code by accident. He commented it out, but left the phone number in there, which means he can find instances of the source code being hosted online by reverse searching his home phone. Which is still a number he maintains, and he asks people not to call. Which is a bold thing to leave in the video imo

  • Can anyone suggest me offline games for making kids practice control over the mouse ??😃😃😃

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  • Tyl what til means!

  • "Yes, I would LOVE it if you just took my son to some far-off hellhole that doesn't even share my faith to learn your ways. Fuckin' dumbass."

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  • The Frankish knight, who knows that tutoring his infidel friend's kin is the chivalric thing to do, but who really just wants to crash out on the setee after his long work trip, maybe catch up on any illuminated manuscripts he missed while he was away, breathes a heavy sigh of relief after his friend departs.

  • I finished all (current) main quest content for Death Trash

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  • Man, if they aren't putting "It's David Cronenberg's Kenshi, more or less" on the metaphorical box, they're making a mistake.

  • Rage Against The Machine - The Ghost Of Tom Joad

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  • Not relevant to the Tom Joad specifically, but I want to share a couple more Woody Guthrie tracks that I discovered over the past week. I'm sure many people are aware he is much more than just "This Land is Your Land", but I wasn't.

    Tear the Fascists Down

    All You Fascists Bound to Lose

    And a bonus cover in a modern bluegrass style: The Bootstrap Boys - All You Fascists

    And finally: The Almanac Singers - Which Side Are You On? - this is like a supergroup of leftist folk artists, including Guthrie, who recorded a whole album of labor songs in 1941.

    Sorry for the tangent.

  • Do you brush your teeth in the shower or the sink?

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  • I typically turn the water off if I'm brushing in the shower. Hop in, shampoo, rinse, apply conditioner, turn off water, brush teeth, scrub body, turn water on, rinse, done. Makes use of otherwise dead time I'd spend waiting for the conditioner to work, and is comfortable enough with the residual heat from the walls and steam.

  • Who wants Housing?

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  • Fwiw, not that you're under any obligation to care as a non-citizen of NYC, his name is Zohran Mamdani. Not Zohani.

    I figure the man is about to have every two-bit piece of shit out there fucking his name up, whether intentionally or not, because it "ain't American". Least we can do is get it right.

  • ROOMBA WARFARE

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  • Silver lining tho, most Russian warships get stuck underneath the Black Sea.

  • For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?

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  • Are you insane, or have you achieved CHIM?

    Not that there's an appreciable difference...looking at you, Michael Kirkbride.

  • The Bible but TTRPG

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  • Idk what to tell you man. Trying to achieve a sense of intellectual superiority over a religious person by pointing out how the literal text doesn't make sense when the entire purpose of an allegory is the SUBtext seems just as silly to me as cursing a fig tree for not bearing fruit.

    I'll allow that you're free to use this tactic to dunk on proponents of Biblical inerrancy, but most mainstream sects of Christianity don't subscribe to that doctrine.

    Take religion out of it for a second. Someone says, "when I was a kid, I had to walk to school for 5 miles, through the snow, uphill, BOTH ways!". Obviously, this is a statement which doesn't make much literal sense. However, you probably understand that the person is actually just trying to communicate that they had it hard growing up, and that their words are not meant to be taken literally.

    this video comes to mind. It's not about the figs, it's about Israel.

    Now, think of the message what you will. I attended a lot of Catholic school, but I'm staunchly irreligious, so if you want to keep dunking on believers, you go girl. I just think you'd be better served (and more likely to get a believer to consider their beliefs more critically) by engaging with the text the way the believer does, lest you wind up just talking past one another.

  • The Bible but TTRPG

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  • well, first of all...

    Not saying you're wrong in a practical sense, but carrying practical sense into an allegorical story from a culture and time not your own is, if not folly, at least ill-advised.

  • The Bible but TTRPG

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  • I mean, I feel like making Jesus a samurai is as authentic to history as making him a blond white dude.

    Also, wandering the countryside, helping out the peasants and tweaking the nose of the establishment, gathering a crew of like-minded friends/followers, and culminating in an act of self-sacrifice which results in the protagonist's willing death? I can easily see how someone could imagine, "what if Jesus, but ronin?".

    Shit. Im gonna end up buying one or both of these at some point...

  • What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?

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  • TIP TEAM!

    Try these cool moves, like, playing the game!

  • [UnReal World] has been in continual development for 33 years, and its creator doesn't think he'll ever stop updating it: 'When I accomplish one feature, I always have two more waiting'

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  • ...God I miss forum-based let's plays. I was never a SA member (Something Awful, not Sturmabteilung, though there's probably some degree of overlap there), but I did browse the lparchive website once upon a time. Some folks put so much effort into their presentation, I want sure where the game ended and the LP narrative began.

    There was one in particular that was an LP of the Blade Runner adventure game. That's a game I had watched my dad play on our family Compaq back in the day, so I thought I knew what I was getting into, but the combination of the game having secret narrative branches (that change based on a random seed when you start a new game, I think) and the posts being written in a first person, hard-boiled noir style, made me think that we had played different games.

  • The Bible but TTRPG

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  • There is a convenience store I stop at which has a self help / religious book rack. On it, there is a copy of "The Action Bible", and, given it's cover, I assume this is the DMG for OPs campaign.

  • Let them eat cake

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  • The post is not literal. Marie Antoinette's gender has nothing to do with her position in pop culture as the poster child of the casual detachment from reality that wealth brings (i.e. "Let them eat cake"). Given that this situation is over the expiration of food benefits, THAT is why Trump is being compared to Antoinette (and also why the comparison point is her, and not King Louis, for example).

    To mollify you, yes, I'm sure that a minor element of the "joke" here is that Trump is wearing a dress, but hewing in on that over the clear historical allegory is comically missing the point.

    If a man cut off the penis of his lover and threw it from the window of a moving taxi, and I posted the "they're the same picture" meme of his mugshot and a photo of Lorena Bobbitt (look her up if this reference is making no sense to you), would that be transphobic for equating a male and female? I don't think so, because the point of the comparison is their actions, not their undercarriages, same as it is in the OP's meme.

  • "The King" (Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon)

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  • For sure! You've convinced me to give it another look after unfairly writing it off. It sounds much more interesting than I originally anticipated.