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Study Finds iPhone Lowered Birth Rate
A new paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the release of the Apple iPhone in 2007 contributed to a decline in the birth rate, especially among teens and young adults. What do you think?
It is kind of wild that the only thing Andrew Hussie got wrong about the ICP presidency was simply that Jugaloos were going to be involved. In every other respect, Homestuck nailed it.
Turning the East Wing into a giant hole and building a giant Beyblade-esque fighting arena on the lawn is, actually, maybe the only good thing Donald Trump has ever done. A hideous, slave-built plantation manner has been given a facelift to reflect its true character: a pit to throw money into, and a bloodsports ring. If Americans find it such an eyesore I would like, as a Canadian, to remind them that we are always ready and willing to come back to Washington and burn it down again.
i kinda love this response. just try reading my comment in a nicer voice and you'll feel better
No no, they said soot, not soothe. They want you to get dirty with it. Get grungy. Get positively filthy. Read that comment again in a tone like you've just spent a hot, sweaty shift in the deepest shaft of the coal mine. Read it caked in grime. Ah, no, my mistake, you seem to have read the above in a horny tone, if you read it again in a fretful voice you will see I was going for pearl-clutching panic.
magic sword that glows when is senses danger nearby, except the sword has anxiety and is almost constantly glowing
If you're in an environment where you constantly have the need to carry a sword, I think that anxiety is totally justified.
It's actually kind of impressive how the Nintendo Direct voiceovers manage to communicate via inflection alone which specific words in the script have a ™ after them.
You can take your Nintendo Switch 2™ anywhere you wish to play. I like to play it when I enjoy experiences at Disney's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: A Star War Experience®!
JRPG where the teenage firebrand protagonist is taken under wing by a wise older mentor figure in their twenties, as one does, except the third party member to join is in their thirties and regards both the protagonist and the initial mentor as dumb kids; the fourth is in their forties and thinks the same of the first three; and so forth.
Its a JRPG so the sour old curmudgeon should turn out to be the time-displaced version of the teenage firebrand protagonist whose sourness is in part because he thinks the future can't be changed and he is always fated to become sour when old.
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Slow-burn bleak comedy web series about a middle-aged man whose life is gradually destroyed by a personal conflict with the corrupt manager of a local pizza parlour, which at the end of an award-winning multi-season run is abruptly revealed to be the secret origin of the Noid.
"Momma always told me: Son, you let folk treat you as they please. Let 'em get angry. Let 'em get mad. Let 'em be crude and rude, it don't matter none, let it all wash away. Don't ever let it get to you. Don't ever let 'em getcha... annoyed. Momma told the truth. God rest her soul... I only wish I'd listened." ONE MAN ONE PLAN AND A PIZZA PLACE SUMMER 2026
Are princess bourgeois? Oh yeah... yes. But.... is a girl who pretends to be a princess for the cuteness a bourgeois fetishizer? Well, I cant deny I was born to be a somewhat evil latino-gothic empress of the dead. So, is a legion of undead spirits and corpses bourgeois?
Th-theyre bullying me for not understanding the structural differences between aristocracy and capital owners and thus are sending me to re-education. The dark princess of the paranormal shall not be talked down to this way!
Feels like dark princesses would get a lot out of a struggle session.
I like how the Kingdom Hearts IV trailer is wall to wall frowning anime boys, then right in the middle for exactly 1.5 seconds Donald and Goofy are just randomly there. They don't even do anything.
Hopefully the whole game is like that.
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If ever you get tired of responding to questions about "rp-forward" games with verbosity and pedantry (which, to be clear, heaven forfend you do, I love reading those posts) may I humbly suggest the (in my opinion highly entertaining) alternative of telling people "Good Society will probably work for you" and refusing to elaborate?
You know for a fact that if I ever resorted to a bit like that it would be Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine.
#I am only vaguely familiar with the game #why would recommending Chuubo's be a bit in this case? (via @moltensludeinbrainattack)
The structure of the game manages to hit a remarkable number of features that folks who think "RP forward" actually means something and isn't just a marketing phrase would typically regard as categorically excluding a system from being "RP forward", while looking nothing like the kind of game you'd tend to picture based on those features.
You don't want the mechanics sticking their nose into every little thing? Chuubo's is so intensely preoccupied with mechanising the mundane that forming intentions to do things is a rules-mediated action. There are specific target numbers for stuff like "do it correctly", "look like you actually know what you're doing", and "be happy with the result", and without a relevant skill or resource expenditure, the best outcome you can ordinarily achieve is "make everything worse".
You want to do stuff because it "makes sense for your character", and not because it gives the most points? As far as Chuubo's is concerned, those are the same thing. Just living your everyday life is framed as a kind of quest, with milestones and XP triggers and whatnot; this is a game where you might actively look for excuses to "have a conversation in a poorly lit place" or "gaze contemplatively over a large body of water" because your personal quest line awards XP for doing that.
You want a game that will let you make up whatever character you want and doesn't expect you to faff about with "classes" and "levels" and such? Not only does Chuubo's effectively have both of those things, it's so strongly opinionated about what sorts of characters are appropriate that it recommends you use pregenerated characters until you get a good feel for the milieu. One of those pregens has a character sheet that's twenty pages long – and you might assume that means most of it is just a big tedious lore dump, but it's not.
And on top of all that, it's not combat focused (because it has no formal combat system) and doesn't ask you to roll dice all the time (by dint of the technicality that it's a diceless system), so it can't readily be dismissed as "not RP forward" on any of the usual grounds. It's a slice of life game about adolescent gods attending high school. The kid who owns the titular Wish-Granting Engine can turn into a giant snake.
@caseyuptobat replied:
The only reason to actually play this game beyond novelty is if you have a supreme case of writer's block and are running behind to turn in a manuscript of an azumanga-esque 4koma chapter
Not true.
It's also a very solid choice for running Homestuck.
@bobafloutist replied:
Would you say the game is fun?
I certainly have fun with it. Take that for what it's worth, in light of what you know about the kind of person that I am.
"Oh of course, of course," we say, smilingly pleasantly. "Do you mind if we write that down? Had... fun...with..."
Behind prokopetz the burly men in the white jackets make a gesture, silently asking if they should intervene. A subtle shake of the head in response, a negation. No no, he's harmless, really he is, and we're learning so much today...
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I must have seen dozens of fictional astronauts come to grief in EVAs gone awry and float away into eternity when this has literally never happened in reality, although I did read this terrifying story of an Italian astronaut on the ISS:
In 2013, Luca Parmitano experienced one of the most dangerous EVA emergencies ever. During a spacewalk, water began leaking into his helmet from the suit's cooling system. The water eventually covered his eyes, ears, and nose, making it difficult to see or hear. He had to navigate back to the airlock partially blind. Had the leak continued longer, drowning inside the helmet was a real possibility.
I thought space was the one place you wouldn't drown, damn
Was wondering how it could cover his eyes and nose but not his mouth, his mouth is lower down... oh, right, they're in orbit
scuba diving is so nice because you can just lift your mask and blow your nose into the ocean when this happens.
If you read any writings by or about astronauts, you will learn that the fact that nobody has died on an EVA appears to be down to sheer dumb luck and the benefits of drilling people on basic response actions, because essentially every astronaut whose done an EVA has a horror story where death was literally millimeters away—a safety line that didn't clip properly, a hatch that wouldn't close properly, a valve that would not open or close, a moment of intense vertigo that had one almost just miss a handhold and, while technically not an EVA, that time Mir caught on fire, which we don't talk about enough. There's lots of reasons why humanity's future is not in space, we are never going to have space colonies, and any billionaire and/or Nazi who is trying to convince you otherwise is doing so because they know that the work that is required to save the earth requires them to diminish their power and they'd rather fantasize about the impossible than have basic humanity — but one key reason is the sheer staggering hostility of space to human life. You can die a hair's breadth from a door to safety, fruitless flailing around in a space suit that can impart no momentum to your panic in an environment that will boil your blood and flash-freeze your corpse with a second's error. The real miracle of human space flight is that the death toll has not been higher, and I think a lot of that has to do with how rarely random schmucks have been allowed to just go up there on a whim. Sure most former test pilot astronauts had the sort of selfish egoism of your average billionaire, but their day jobs required them to actually work and take meaningful risk with material consequence, and for all their numerous personal failings they were not reckless cowboys when it came to driving the hardware or opening the door. The 'commercialization' of space (which should be read as the privatization of space by the very rich) is the next space mass casualty event waiting to happen. The next Oceangate will be a Moongate or Lagrangegate—and if we're lucky it will only take celebrities and nepo babies with it, and not end up deorbiting anything into a major population centre, another risk for which the statistics gods have been unreasonably kind.
So there's that post making the rounds about alternate search engines, and it ranks them based on various criteria such as privacy levels and customization and so on, and that's great, but what I would have found most useful was ranking based on "not being dogshit at being a search engine," which, personally, is the criterion I find most immediately important most of the time.
