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That design document predated the decision to exclude gay relationships in the game. Its pages described a web of social interactions, in which every kind of romantic relationship was permitted. That week, Barrett confounded the expectations of his disbelieving boss. He successfully wrote the basic code for social interactions, including same-sex relationships.

“In hindsight, I probably should have questioned the design,” Barrett, who is gay, said. “But the design felt right, so I just implemented it. Later, Will Wright stopped by my desk,” Barrett said. “He told me that liked the social interactions, and that he was glad to see that same-sex support was back in the game.” Nobody on the team questioned Barrett’s work. “They just pretty much ignored it,” he said. “After a while, everyone was just used to the design being there. It was widely expected that E.A. would just kill it, anyway.”

In early 1999, before E.A. had a chance to kill the design, Barrett was asked to create a demo of the game to be shown at E3. The demo would consist of three scenes from the game. These were to be so-called on-rails scenes—not a true, live simulation but one that was preplanned, and which would shake out the same way each time it was played, in order to show the game in its best light.

One of the scenes was a wedding between two Sims characters. “I had run out of time before E3, and there were so many Sims attending the wedding that I didn’t have time to put them all on rails,” Barrett said.

On the first day of the show, the game’s producers, Kana Ryan and Chris Trottier, watched in disbelief as two of the female Sims attending the virtual wedding leaned in and began to passionately kiss. They had, during the live simulation, fallen in love.

TIL i learned that the team behind The Sims had originally decided to leave same-sex relationships out of the game until a newbie on the team by the name of Patrick J. Barrett III coded all basic interactions of the game due to one of his senior team members being on vacation, TIL Barrett unknowingly had been given an old design document and everyone just assumed someone else had reversed their previous decision and rolled with it, and TIL that all that plus a rushed demo led to the team’s presentation at that year’s E3 featuring an unplanned lesbian kiss

justcatposts

Don’t judge her, she probably couldn’t afford adoption papers

woodfin-deactivated20211110

I work at a humane society shelter, and this does happen occasionally. usually cats won’t “steal” the kittens, they’ll hear them crying and stick around and if a momma doesn’t come around they’ll take them somewhere safe and try to care for them

we recently had a very confused lady who called that her cat was trying to take care of an astounding 8 kittens and brought them in

the kittens were obviously malnourished, and we looked around her neighborhood and sadly found the dead mama, she got hit by a car

it’s a really useful thing that cats will do

sometimes the mom will just have gotten lost and will come back to try and find her kittens and so that can be frustrating, but considering how rough it is for stray kittens, it’s a lot better for them to be in a household and cared for where the parent cat can get guareenteed food and shelter

I can’t tell you how many abandoned kittens we find that can’t make it

it sucks a lot

anyway tangent done

I just 😭😭 I love cats a lot

hyperactivehedgehog

Your cat isn’t a kidnapper she’s an ADOPTIVE MOTHER don’t be rude

lynati

…..Cats are Mandalorians.

galemalio

My most fave comment so far.

benedictsvestcollection

This is the way.

swingsetindecember

where the superhero and villain have a common friend that they have to hold it together for

“claire is getting married next week”

“i can reschedule the death ray”

“OH CAN YOU?”

cheeseanonioncrisps

“Aha! I have foiled your evil plan! Now the restaurant will be sa— wait, is this that place that fired Hannah?”

“Yeah, and they were all dicks to her about it.”

“Oh, right. Well… guess I can let you destroy it a little.”

lasrina

“I’ve defeated you! Now tell me where you’ve taken Matt!”

“What? MATT’S MISSING?”

“Wait. You’re not the one who trashed his apartment?”

“For God’s sake, Caroline, you should’ve just texted me about this. Gimme my phone, I gotta make some calls.”

drawyour-otps-ocs-squad

Which of your ocs are like this?

blondejaneblonde

The sum of these posts makes it look like they have multiple friends in common, and I’m wondering what the group chat is like.

atonguetiedwriter

Matt, Hannah, and Claire’s groupchat: Why don’t they just fuck already???

thestrawberrydreams

alberto-balsalm

link to the relevant section on Wikipedia

tyrantisterror

Man I hope they cancel standardized testing, any education professional can tell you it’s a bunch of useless horseshit that does nothing except make students and teachers miserable while utterly failing to accurately gauge understanding.

harriyanna-deactivated20221223

“why yall gotta make everything about race?”

because everything is about race. you just upset cause we’re talking about it.

penglue

i took standardized test preparation classes as a kid and i shit you not the most useful part of it was learning how to game the scoring system. a kid with identical knowledge to my own but without coaching on how exactly the test is scored would have definitely had lower results.

themessyoracle-deactivated20230

themessyoracle.com

wordswithkittywitch

Okay, I know how bullshit this story sounds but bear with me:

My mother used to do fortune telling at renfairs, mostly palmistry and tarot readings but she would bring a crystal ball for set dressing (apparently crystal scrying “takes too fucking long”). It being outdoors meant the sun was shining and managed to refract through the crystal ball in such a way that one of the cards began to smoulder slightly. I’m not talking spontaneous combustion “oh god the fortunate teller’s tent is burning down”, but more a noticeable plume of smoke rising from one of the cards. The customer was very surprised and asked, “Whoa! The card’s burning! What does that mean?!” and my mother said, “It means I shouldn’t have put that crystal ball there.”

budgiesmuggled-deactivated20210

Butch.

"SD Holman self-identifies as “butch,” a label that they and others in their community have reclaimed. Their inspiring story has challenged traditional definitions of masculinity and femininity in surprising ways."

quasi-normalcy

'Star Wars' and 'Harry Potter' are two franchises that try to claim, textually, that it doesn't really matter who your family is whilst showing subtextually that it unequivocally does matter who your family is.

yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20

subtext isn't a thing dude

quasi-normalcy

Welp, there’s my entire literature degree disproven.

floating-goblin-deactivated2021

the unholy trinity of piss-poor caretakers, tag yourself:

tomboy, meaning "this child is clearly queer but let's hope it goes away"

sensitive, meaning "clearly neurodivergent and often distressed but let's keep going until they grow numb"

mature, meaning "traumatized but let's ignore that"

starei

idk about soulmates but those people who eat parts of the food or candy that you don't like and you do the same for them.....we've lived a hundred lifetimes together probably

skylorde

this is just wild

partychance

*walks into bar* *sits in a booth with ppl in it* dont yall love being cis? i love to be cis, its good. (whispering to small lizard under the table: what do cis people drink? milk? you said milk?) yall got milk at this bar?

partychance

whitepeopletwitter

sindri42

So I looked this up and the whole story is wild.

Basically, market research for japanese bakeries determined that a) they sell more breads and pastries the more different varieties they have, and b) japanese bakery customers prefer items which are not wrapped, because individually wrapped things give the impression of being like, preserved or something instead of fresh and good I guess? So the obvious solution is to sell as many different kinds of unwrapped breads and pastries as you can.

But! In actual practice, that’s a nightmare. No packaging means no barcodes to scan, so the cashier needs to know all like 200 different (often very similar) items by heart and add them up manually, which means training new employees is a slow and painful process and customer service in general suffers badly. And having a person handle all those un-packaged foodstuffs to count them or examine them, in addition to being slow and clumsy, is unsanitary as fuck.

So one bakery chain owner approached this computer guy in 2007 asking for a system to automate the checkout process. It took five years and the company barely survived a financial crisis in the middle, but long story short they developed a highly specialized AI that will look at the pile of bread a customer picked out and automatically identify everything, tally it up, and charge them correctly, while the live cashier is free to make small talk or help people out or whatever. The whole process is simple, fast, sanitary, and pleasant for customers and employees alike, and to an outsider it looks like fucking magical bullshit.

But then in 2017 a doctor saw an ad for this bakery scanning system and it occurred to him that cells under a microscope don’t look all that different from weird loaves of bread. And it turns out that yeah, you can use almost all of the same code to analyze a tissue sample and pick out any potentially cancerous cells in it. Other people have started buying the same program for everything from analyzing the readout from big physics experiments to labeling charms and amulets for sale at shrines to detecting problems in the wiring on jet engines.