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Dungeon Crawling [ToothyBJ]
Why is he dig? Why the metal man is dig?
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Dungeon Crawling [ToothyBJ]
Why is he dig? Why the metal man is dig?
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CAH at it again
Statue should be based on this picture:
Maybe by the same artist who did the Ronaldo statue:
Plaque should be:
"What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
'Pedo Guy' Elon Musk, 2012
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The guy she told you not to worry about:
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The tram was originally in Fallout 3, the broken steel expansion, not NV. The tram hat was used because of limitations in the engine. I assume the obsidian Devs just copied the existing solution for NV. Also more fun, it wasn't an NPC, it was you, the player character and the tram wasn't a hat it was a technically piece of shoulder armour.
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My time has come guys 😔
Congratulations on your masters that's something to be very proud of! What kind of career are you interested in?
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It's true
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I thought so too so I checked. The plague came in many waves (famously the black death was in the 1300s which may be why we were confused) but there was a major plague outbreak in 1665-1666 which is when Newton was doing his work on optics.
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What's the most interesting fringe group you've learned about?
I've always found puritanical groups quite interesting. They seem to evolve out of any subculture be it religious or not. Take the 'straight edge' culture, a group of hardcore punk kids who rebelled against the excesses of the punk underground and swear an oath against drinking, drugs and casual sex.
On the religious front you have groups like the shakers. An offshoot of the quakers whose utopian vision prohibited all sex. As a consequence the movement all but died out as they couldn't reproduce to create new members!
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What YouTubers have you watched for a long time and still find worth returning to?
Most of my favourites have already been mentioned but here's a few that I haven't seen:
Chris Spargo - Documentarian 'Answering life's little questions' (in his own words)
HowTown - Well researched, slick documentaries on science and sociology
Useful charts - Family trees and history combined with some nuanced religious history
Map Men - Somehow both an incredible geography channel and very funny skit show
ToldInStone - Regular and endlessly fascinating ancient history content
Captain Disillusionment - A one man special effects genius makes funny deep dives and debunks on special effects topics
Nile Red - Chemistry wiz kid makes alcohol from toilet paper - The closest thing to a modern alchemist I can imagine
Joel haver - Inventor the rotoscoped paint cartoon, funny, creatively driven and refuses to sell out
Patrick Boyle - Educated, nuanced and cuttingly dry humoured takes on popular economics issues
Steve Mould - High quality science demos and explanations with an engaging and humble host
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What's your entirely unimportant and inconsequential hot take?
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Ah young one I was once like you until I realised, that by not making the bed, your fitted sheet ends up absorbing more dust and moisture during the day and you have to change them more frequently. For truly optimal laziness it's best to at least throw the quilt over.
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Does anyone else find 'pseudoanimation' annoying?
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Very fair. If you watch the start of this video you can kind of get an idea of the style I mean. In particular the unnecessary head swaying when it could just be a static picture.
Not throwing shade at the channel or its content, it's just the animation style really grates on me.
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TIL the difference between Possums and Opossums
This article is not a good source.
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If You Know, You Know
I knew I had arrived when I could finally add all of the chilli sauce sachet. I'm still riding that high ten years later.
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What do you think of the posting of easily searched questions here?
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Not to mention, a lot of Google's 'answers' link right back to threads like these anyway
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Reddit is currently boiling the frog with ads and forcing log ins. I was a rif user and signed up for Lemmy during the app-ocalypse, but I was weak. I ended up going back to Reddit with the official app despite how much worse it was. Now the official app is so bloated with auto-play video ads that it takes up more than half of the scroll feed! I finally hopped out of the pot.
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So true 😭🥀
This too shall puss
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Never sleeping again
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Archaeologists are not dinosaur experts you shame of Lemmy commenters. They had a paleontologist comment,you can't even recognise them in your own post.
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Sight reading musicians of Lemmy, do you hear the notes in your head as you read?
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Interesting thanks. It seems like it takes a lot of practice! It makes me wonder if it's possible for an "earworm" song to get stuck in your head if you've only ever heard it with your "mind's ear"
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ich🤤👻iel
Ich spreche zwar kein Deutsch, aber ich möchte euch, meine lieben Leute, wissen lassen, dass „Spuktober“ mein neues Lieblingswort ist.
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Pls tag moth posts
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I blocked all posts containing [HC-DUMB] but now I don't know what your post said. Can you post it again please?
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Column 1 straight down for me.
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The 3rd party app-ocalypse made me create an account here but it was the reddit ads that eventually made me quit the Reddit app. At some point I realised more of my feed was taken up by autoplay video ads than actual content. The slow decline in intelligent conversations really accelerated after they killed the apps too.
So far I like it here, there's less content and that can be a bit disappointing but it's probably healthier that I can't scroll endlessly. It's also nice to feel like your posts don't get buried under a torrent of other content the moment you make them.
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What would your pokemon gym theme be?
I always wanted to have a full team of glitch Pokemon:
Ash is wading along the beach on cinnabar island when suddenly he falls over onto the hard ground. Bright light comes from all around as he looks up in shock to see a strange emtpy wireframe space.
As he gets up, a piercing noise shatters the silence, it seems to come from inside his own head. A shadowy, pulsating form fades and crackles into view. An 'arm' extends and throws a ball, completely black like a void. Exploding from within is a pokemon...? No It can't be! Ash stares wild eyed at the strange rectangular form, a chunk missing in its top right corner. It shrieks as it ripples with strange patches of incomprehensible randomness.
Ash's vision flashes for a moment back to the beach, he's staring up at his friends as he lies on the sand. They're saying something but he can't hear it. He can't speak, his eyes are portholes and he's trapped inside. Then he's gone, back to the broken liminal space.
The pokemon is approaching. Or is it? It doesn't seem to exist properly, a 2D form in a 3D space that only seems to grow in his vision. Ash looks down to see pikachu by his side, hair standing on end. They exchange a glance and he knows what to do.
The fight is a blur, each new opponent more incomprehensible and impossible than the last. As the final entity is destroyed. Ash falls to his knees, his mind shattered by the infinite cosmic chaos. The strange 'gym leader' begins to fade and the world starts to crumble to blackness. A bright light is shining. A voice emanates from all around. "Wake up ash you'll be late for school."
Ash opens his eyes and looks around, he is in bed. The world seems so much more detailed, so much more real. A handheld gaming device rests on his chest, white light flashes from its LCD screen as a pixelated title cutscene plays. A single word appears. PoKéMoN™