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IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY and karl marx's BUT ALSO MY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY, ME!!!!

lol, the Trueanon subreddit has finally banned the use of an ableist slur and unsurprisingly, there has been a complete meltdown by posters in reaction.

If I were in the cuck chair I'd simply just invite my girlfriend to join me as we make waldorf and statler commentary because I love her and like spending time with her us fr

Charlie kirk mii getting married to a mii with a gun for a face in Tomodachi Life

Sorry about manifesting the hantavirus thing, everyone. There's this family wedding later this summer that I'm obligated to attend for various reasons, and I really don't want to go attend. I accidentally talked out loud to myself last month "I wish something would happen so I could avoid it" and here we are.

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No current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee

Thoughts on McDonalds offering "dirty sodas" to misdirect Google searches about how filthy the soda machine tubes get

At least twice a year I am forced to listen to television commercials. They get noticeably worse each time but did something crazy happen since Christmas? It feels like we jumped forward a whole decade in awful, there's this thing where they make a joke and then like one of the characters explains it as if it were some Amazon show where the plot is explained in the dialog to catch you up but it makes no sense for anyone to say that, except in the case the event being explained just happened. Sorry to be so vague I'm still suffering from the trauma, it was some progressive commercial and some other one at least. What do regular sports watchers or whatever feel when they're staring at this shit, is inducing rage part of the marketing?

My dog is dying. She's very old, she's breathing heavily like something is hurting her, she has no appetite, she struggles to stand. I can't think about anything else

Randomly out of nowhere:

"Your FICO score has decreased" - Experian

got space invaders working in my godot game collection

Playing in widescreen makes this game feel a lot different. The early game progresses slower because there's a lot more time in between "down" steps, but the end game zips by much faster, because you get fewer chances to hit the lastt fast-moving Invader.

My version rewards "sniping" the backline before getting the invaders in front. This is a SUPER precise shot that I can't do consistently, but I like it as a high skill flex.

You can also see that sometimes Godot's physics will give you a "glancing" hit that doesn't fully register. This is because my bullets use the same body as everything else, I'll get around to fixing it by adding a proper hitbox to them eventually.

Next up is Tetris. I already have "version 1" working, but i need to scrap a bunch of what I did for it because it's really fragile and doesn't play well with the rest of my component ecosystem. Basically my big discovery while making Space Invaders was that it's much easier to "simulate" a grid using Godot's in-built collision system than it is to define a grid on the screen and attempt to have everything communicate with it, and now I'm going to rewrite my Tetris code to work that way too.

Question for the group. You know how some people say that when they hear a noun, they don't imagine anything in particular in their minds? And how some people see the named object vividly as if they were seeing a photo? The topic came up IRL in a friends and friends-of-friends group recently. I got called a liar and attention-seeker for saying that I don't really see the object, I instinctively see the english word in like a serif font in black ink on paper, like I'm reading it in a novel. But I swear this is true. I can't be the only one, right? Does anyone else here have an internal mind's eye thingy like that?

"Is it possible for a woman to be misogynistic, gay, homophobic, disabled, and ableist all at the same time?"

Broke: Capital is able to instill many contradictions in people so they do not act in their own best instance and uphold the current order.

Woke: I see you also enjoy the talents of the Canadian Vtuber agency, Phase Connect

i really don't understand why my partner didn't get screened for cancer when she went to the doctor months ago for unexplained weight loss (like 30Ib in a year, no changed habits, prior to quitting drinking, even), like, I thought that's what they did when they did blood work and said she was fine

I feel like thinking i know more than doctors is treading a dangerous line of arrogance but jesus fucking christ it feels like they do not give a single shit about her if all they did in response to her losing 1/5th of her body weight in a year without explanation was to draw some blood, shrug their shoulders and go "welp, you're fine!"

and now she can't fucking eat because she's so anxious because of the situation with her job and their response is to give her a pamphlet with "baby's first steps to fixing your appetite" as if neither of us had the capacity to think of "eat small meals" and shit like that.

The more i think about it the angrier i get, this fucking patronizing toddler "information" and a referral for a cancer screening they should have done months ago is all she gets? Eat small meals, fuck you, she can hardly eat anything without immediately burping and feeling like she's going to throw up. There's no prescription strength anti emetic they can give for nausea so she can at least try and eat a couple meals? Give her a fucking xanax or two, maybe? No it's just "awww poor baby, try eating less :) pay us $260 ($40 after insurance)"

I don't know if it's just doctors not caring about their jobs, not caring about women, or i'm just an asshole and this is reasonable medical care

Buster Keaton is so goated. I did not expect to love these silent comedies as much as I do. Sherlock Jr. might be the first good movie ever. The General is amazing despite the confederate romanticization because let's face it, doing unironically incredibly dangerous shit on trains is the type of entertainment that will never get old.

Yes, I am telling you a honey nutted in these cheerios.

fuck it i'm getting tomodachi life, i wanna make my characters

Explaining Black Metal to an American

So, imagine Dimmu Burger

I can't believe the nerve of the Cincinnati Zoo to put out a children's book with no acknowledgement of What Happened

Just overheard my grandma talking to my mom about Israel. She's a German woman in her 80s, not online in the slightest and not too interested in politics, and she talked about how she watched a documentary and was so shocked and appalled when she learned how poorly Israeli settlers treat the Palestinians.

No matter how many millions the entity pumps into hasbara, the reality of the situation is becoming more and more inescapable. When even retirees in Germany are learning the truth, despite our media's best efforts, it's truly over from a PR perspective.

Oopsie poopsie we had a twiny dwata bweach, and all your pwersonal dwata is now on the intwernewt

You still have to use two factors authentication with three separate apps seven times to get to your email

I'm just going to curl up under your bed for a while. Hope that's cool

i am straight up not ready for summer this shit sucks

edit: it was like 80f at 9 am today i want to peel my skin off

A former roommate of mine is posting about how her brother is in some art contest which is voted for online. Im not voting cause A) it's affiliated with Johnny Depp, maybe he's the final judge or whatever and B) his art fucking sucks, its as close as you can get to AI art in analogue form. He traces photos and then colors em in with paint. His submission was a fucking Heath Ledger Joker, in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty six.

Sitting in a train on a sunny day, listening to my music.

A way to play dota: Pick techies and immediately spend the whole game mining your own base. Your team can't win cause every fight is 5v4. The enemy can't win because they can't push into your base. You are no longer playing a video game, you have trapped 10 people in purgatory. You are both an inmate and the warden.

Some Techies have a plan, all Techies have a philosophy.

lol the guest on Trueanon asking yungchomsky “are you fucking dumb” when he misheard her. We found our new Liz.

Talking about how i befriended some people and they asked me along to a social event

i did everything right and they invited me

the tooth hygienist was so nice and complimenting my voice when she was cleaning my teeth and i was very bashful and like trying to say thank you when i was like this

She was a skater grrrl

And she was a skater grrrl

They were gay skater grrrls

They said see you later boi

Eh whatever dude. Sometimes you just need to type something out in a post and then delete it to feel alright.

Anyone ever teach in China? I'm tired of my life

I have zero debt and i paid down my student loans by myself, i have nothing keeping me here

I just canceled my plasma donation appointment for today.

I keep throwing up and passing out, it hurts to get stabbed, I can't do any lifting for 4-5 hours after, I'm scared the whole day before (am I eating enough protein? enough carbs? enough electrolytes? drinking enough water??) and it's so exhausting.

Maybe next Saturday.

"<CURRENT_USER>" fucking killed me

Did my first door dash "shift". Wound up being cash positive (i.e. fuel costs did not drown me), but less than minimum wage here. Roughly 1 AUD per km. ATM, it's basically money that goes back into the car. The most stressful part so far has been trying to read people's house numbers from the street as I crawl past. The biggest time hog is restaurants not having food ready, but door dash doesn't penalise me for that.

I've now blocked the trans and empoc community. Not because they're bad, but because I have almost posted in their megathread by mistake an uncountable number of times.

me when money is tight Idk I guess I'm just in my soup arc rn, I'm major stewcore vibes all week

it is may 3 and stalin saved the world from fascism

Liberals will be like "you're being a purist, you need to adapt to LLMs" and then go on an anti-piracy rant. Really shows what side they're sympathetic to.

ok nerds. sell me on pathfinder. i kinda hate dnd, but i want to run a pirate-themed campaign for players who have only ever played dnd. my main goal is for combat to feel cool and dynamic and exciting, rather than a 1-hour slogfest of dice rolls.

It's weird to be in the exact position that I told myself would be my cue to myself to fake my own death and go live in the woods

I'm sitting here listening to a coworker completely cooking her brain with the most deepfried brainrot I've ever heard. It's a bunch of AI voices saying a bunch of dramatic stuff. Like "You cheated on me you slut!" and "if you go near her again I'll break your legs" Interspersed with dramatic musical stings. It's just an endless string of what you'd get if you told an AI "create a dramatic soap opera moment" 100 times and then stuck them together

What the fuck is going on