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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

You may find more discussion over in [email protected], for what it's worth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know the exact neuroscience behind it, but suspect this relates to the fallibility of memory, and whatever goes in in the brain during learning and reasoning.

So you know of multiple bands and songs, you attempt to relate a specific band and song, but because of some murky memories and rough recall, you briefly relate the wrong pieces of information, recognize the mistake, and correct for it. How that process works precisely may vary across people and their methods of recall and knowing.

In a way I suspect that the false-positive you mention may be a sort of synaptic shortcut to the correct information through whatever systems are at play in the brain for this reasoning. For some it may be that this process of rapid error correction is sometimes faster than immediate, accurate recall, or may be more of an unconscious aspect of accurate recall.

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

Hell yeah buffalo! Buffalovival!

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I'm of multiple minds on it, but the short of it is, I don't feel out of the pop culture loop, I know I'm out of it being around here.

On one hand I don't mind that, as I'm frustrated by pop culture essentially being mass market culture. It's not typically something that arises from people interacting and creating together from shared passions, it's produced and pushed by big businesses. Nothing novel about this observation or frustration, but it's a vibe I resonate with.

On the other I know if ever you want people to shift into a popular culture produced in the alternative manner mentioned, you gotta accept the transitional situation of entertaining the mass market culture alongside what you're trying to cultivate. It's too jarring for many to switch over entirely, and frankly there's not enough contemporary non-commercial culture to keep people's interest to justify any attempts at a complete switch.

So in a way, yeah, but also I'm more bummed that it's so difficult to create an alternative non-commercial pop culture.

obligatory'cause capitalism trying to monopolize everybody's time and make everyone feel they gotta make everything make money

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

DAE is short for Does anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago
 

It's a short series about a Japanese forensics group that conducts "Unnatural Death Investigations", as well as regular autopsies. If you're into medical/crime drama types of show, you may enjoy this somewhat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

So people don't care as much when you leave your small indie label and join a major. In fact quite the opposite. Good on you for winning against the system.

That's integrating with the system, not winning against it. Which may be taken how one will.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The game the article is about is FlyKnight.

 

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Trump on the left pointing and saying, "Quit your jobs!" Federal Aviation Administration emblem on the right responding, "No u!"

 

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Gotta love an abandoned place offering free hugs!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Scrambled egg but presented orderly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Certainly striking!

 

An ill-tempered woman serving an afterlife sentence to help 100,000 souls does so while acting as a bartender, and frequently flips between charming and harsh. However she's given a final deadline to complete her sentence or be put to a much harsher punishment, and just happens into someone with an ability that may help her in completing her task.

It's a sort of strange, but mostly fun show I thought.

 

Rebuilding his life as a fake shaman, Nam Han-joon also uses this guise to try to uncover who was behind the murder of one of his friends. With the help of a couple friends and his hacker sister, they con some rich people and try to get close to suspects to unravel the mystery.

It's an alright show that balances out silly and serious pretty well, would recommend checking it out!

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Three panel comic with a dog looking expectantly with a ball in their mouth in the first panel going, "Pls post??" In the next a hand reaching for the ball and dog scowling going, "NOT THIS!!" Ending with only the dog's scowling face with ball still held in mouth growling, "ONLY POST"

 

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Man holding his hand with yellow circles radiating out from it with a strained expression on his face, with text added saying, "Fighting the urge to post only about the fediverse...on the fediverse."

 

Open RSS is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides free RSS feeds to the public.

Thought some might be interested in this.

 

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A headshot of Tails the Fox from Sonic Boom saying to Sonic after he wiped out on his hoverboard, "You look cool even when you're making a complete fool of yourself!"

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