“Image Playground” is truly one of the dopiest things Apple has released in recent years.
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The color grading on “Carol” is just bonkers
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There’s a Miller commercial where a guy is playing “Deck the Halls” by striking a series of beer bottles that emit specific pitches.
The note from the last bottle is flat, so he drinks from it, and the pitch *rises*.
This is not difficult to get right!!
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There’s a lot wrong with the Cybertruck, but one thing I never hear people asking about it is, what the hell is “cyber” about it??
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The Hyrule of BotW and TotK is roughly 31 square miles, about the size of Miami.
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Pulled my copy of “Here Come the Warm Jets” off the shelf and the CD case is empty, I hate it when that happens
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#RowbotRally is just about a perfect #Playdate game — true pixel art; a novel, clever, and meaningful use of the crank; pick-up-and-playable; in-game leaderboards. It’s masterful. It’s not cheap as Playdate games go, but I really recommend it: https://play.date/games/rowbot-rally/
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“The Gremlins Duology”
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Few people make me wish I *were* them as much as Cate Blanchett does
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Because the Switch 2 will play Switch 1 games, will that mean the quality will be improved on those games? The waving banners in TotK flutter at like 2fps.
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Anybody have any recent favorite point-and-click games?
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This is a free, 4.9-star, editor’s choice game that has no in-app purchases and doesn’t collect any personal data. What?? #WereCleaner https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-werecleaner/id6478448519
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“Time Enough at Last” always makes it into these #TwilightZone marathons, but I don’t really care for it that much, I think it’s in the B pile for sure.
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People who are old enough will remember that if you texted or called people at midnight on New Year’s Eve in the early 2000s, *you might not get through* because the cell networks were so overloaded. Sometimes you’d get an SMS hours after it was sent.
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Crazy to me that you can’t send “Happy birthday” or “Congratulations” or “Happy new year” in iMessage without an “effect” being added. This is automatic and there is no way to disable it.
You could turn off iMessage and send these as SMS/RCS messages, I suppose, but that’s a pain in the ass.
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The freaky rise of AI horrorcore https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/65760/1/freaky-rise-of-ai-horrorcore-will-smith-root-people-dongcrawlers
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Whoa there is a recipe-sharing webapp using #ATProto: https://bsky.app/profile/recipe.exchange/post/3ldmgaozkhk2m
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I’m having major Baader-Meinhof with the Fugu fish
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Fill in the blank: “______ is like CocoMelon for adults.”
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I said to a friend the other day that the hipster was not one thing: there were (very roughly) “cocaine hipsters” (Parliament Lights and LCD Soundsystem) and “pot hipsters” (American Spirits and Devendra Banhart) — and others, I’m sure, that differ from and overlap with these.
But I was always uneasy about the “cocaine hipsters,” myself.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/26/2010s-indie-sleeze-music-culture