jonhendry

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Merriam-Webster says "marked by a wild irrational staring of the eyes"

Which sounds a bit more accurate than a mere physical quirk.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Weird that a young lesbian couple would be so anti-gay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Doh! Should have read the full Wikipedia article.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Pfft. Real hoopy froods play Heroclix.

I do not play Heroclix but I bought some about 20 years ago.

Jesus christ 20 years? Huh. Also I didn't notice but it was discontinued in 2008.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah that was my read of the game from my first exposure to it. "You have to buy cards sight-unseen hoping to get good ones? That's a scam."

It's like they looked at Dungeons and Dragons product churn and thought "No, that's not shitty enough"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The Auryn project has a sub-project called North Star, founded by a VC partner, and a Bain Capital veteran, among others.

The whole thing gives me the ick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Books would be really boring if the protagonists were all just the author speaking as themself but using various funny voices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Shovels that are less and less competitive over time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Perhaps that's part of why so many SV types are backing Trump. Grifting off Trump may be their fallback after the AI bubble collapses.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Welcome to Alcor Towers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Someone send Roko a copy of James K. Morrow's novel "Towing Jehovah" which involves the enormous corpse of God being towed, by a (much smaller) oil tanker, from near the Equator north to a fijord for burial in a cave. (I lost interest toward the end).

It's not strictly relevant - I don't think the crew sets up on the corpse itself - but it'd be fun to watch where Roko's head goes.

"Step One: We kill God. Step Two: We harvest the cadaver, plastinate it, and build our city."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

A million red-hot tungsten balls.

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