With Valve pumping all that development money and effort into proton, I will finally be able to go full Linux before Windows 10 ends it's life. I only needed it for gaming, but those days are finally gone! Thanks Valve! ^_^

It's funny, I was thinking the opposite. Lol. The design reminds me of the Dreamcast controller. I remember the first time I held a Dreamcast controller and how insanely comfortable it felt compared to NES, SNES, Genesis, N64 and Playstation. Granted, modern PlayStation and XBox controllers are also much more comfortable than all of those too, so the Dreamcast one might be uncomfortable by modern standards, but I don't know since I haven't held one in 25 years.

I'm hoping this new Steam Controller is as comfortable as I remember the Dreamcast controller being.

Sadly, Chester grew up being horribly abused and then using a lot of drugs. He was super close with Chris Cornell, who had also killed himself some months prior to Chester. Chester had been sober for a time but ended up staying the night alone after traveling and drank a little and hung himself on Chris's birthday.

Mike Shinoda has stated in interviews that when he and Chester would write lyrics, they would focus on the emotion and not necessarily just the exact experience. So the lyrics would slowly evolve until they both could sing them truthfully while relating them to their own separate lived experiences, which is part of why they can be so universally related to - because none of their songs are truly only about one specific thing, but rather about the feelings people experience.

Protect British wildlife.

Saying "Oh boy" in the way you would say "Oh my" or "Oh wow" is not gendered in the sense that you aren't calling anyone around you "boy", but rather saying it to yourself as an exclamation; just like how religious people say "Oh God!" or "Oh my God!"; if you said "Oh God", you wouldn't be calling the other person "God".

Mad World

I was shocked when I finally heard the original after hearing like 3 or 4 covers of it first. Tears for Fears' original version is just... It's not bad, but it's the least good version of that song. Lol.

Someone already revived Winamp in the best way years ago with Winamp 2.0 in a browser, complete with all the skins they could salvage: https://webamp.org/

I am also using Voyager on my phone and because of how it loads pictures,I legitimately thought those were still two separate posts on my screen rather than one hmmmmm post about two posts being back to back. >_<

Around the time that the 2010s My Little Pony was getting super popular, my manager was really annoyed by it because his kid LOVED it and he had to watch it and be exposed to it constantly. He didn't mind that his kid liked it, but just like one of those songs that gets played waaaaay too much on the radio, he was just super sick of MLP at this point.

He had a little shelf on his desk with a bunch of little figurines for various nerdy things that most of us on his team were also fans of - Batman characters, horror movie characters, etc.

One day while in Walmart, I passed by an end cap display that had bins full of blind bag, tiny MLP figures for a dollar each. I immediately bought 5.

I slowly started adding them amidst his figurines on his shelf, about one per week. It took until after I placed the third one before he finally noticed and immediately came storming over with them in hand, stopped near my desk....and then turned to my coworker and just went, "Dammit Gary!!!"

A few months later for Valentine's Day I saw a bunch of small MLP valentines cards that were all connected accordion style, so I bought them and then taped them along the edge of his desk like a little table skirt. That time he knew it was me, obviously.

I don't remember the differences (and there aren't many) but Ridley Scott himself was asked to make a "director's cut" of Alien for the Blu-ray release and he did... But he said something along the lines of "It was hard to figure out what to change. The theatrical cut already is the director's cut. I made it the way I wanted it to be the first time around."

Dice.

KDE for sure. The modern versions look exactly like how I want a desktop environment to look out of the box, and they keep the full range of customizability that a desktop should, IMO, allow it's users to have. Which is something Windows just kept slowly getting rid of over the years.

I also prefer to have a taskbar that is ever present with a traditional start menu that's cleanly organized by category rather than the current full screen pop up "activities" search thing gnome does nowadays.

Fun fact: that speech was a first draft. The writer made himself a note to revise it, but got busy enough with other stuff that he forgot. He remembered last minute when they were prepping to shoot the scene, but it was too late as Bill Pullman had already memorized it and had also spent time listening to unedited recordings of presidents giving big speeches throughout history to make sure it had the correct tone (this is also why he has the kind of awkward start).

I don't think that's the case here. This is an old webcomic that has been offline for many years called Pictures for Sad Children according to OP and Wikipedia. When I do a general image search for it, virtually none of the images I see appear to have a byline (except for one that appears to be a book cover), so it's looking like the original author published the individual comics without one.

Endtroducing by DJ Shadow

It's his inaugural album and there's never been anything quite like it. Even his follow up albums, with his unique sound, feel a bit different than this one (not in a bad way, but I don't think they meet your unicorn criteria).

Also, I think this easily goes in my top ten albums list.

Apologies, this is a rant. Please ignore if you are an em dash fan and know that I am not ranting at you, but at its creator.

As someone who has had to deal with comparing text output via automated tests, this thread hurts. I hate Em Dashes and whoever invented them with a burning passion. They make text comparison a nightmare.

"Let's invent a character that looks exactly like a slightly longer hyphen, but isn't!" Brilliant. Well done.

Why not just make the hyphen longer instead so people can just type it, like they do with every other character? Nope, instead, let's invent a different character that can only be typed if you know the Unicode ID.

Even worse is the fact that there are also En Dashes. Because we definitely needed both and couldn't just type multiple consecutive hyphens to make the line longer...

The worst part is that if you are writing physically, and you're not a robot, there is no way to distinguish between these at all; they are all just hyphens.

Nope. That song came out when I was ten, so I had no clue it was about anything like that until probably a decade later.

Yo, wtf? And I quote from that wiki article:

"The first known vending machine, created in the 1st century CE by Hero of Alexandria, dispensed holy water. This invention predates the modern concept of vending machines by nearly 2,000 years, making it seem anachronistic in ancient history."

You might think your apps aren't worth sharing, but I think most tabletop GMs are constantly looking for the perfect set of tools for their purposes and I bet yours would probably be just what some people need! I mostly end up just using Obsidian and keeping notes in markdown files, but I know some people want/use a lot of other tools.

Congrats on bouncing back from such a hard thing with such vim and vigor! I hope your recovery continues to go well.

I'm not saying they didn't use any LLMs in coding it, but the name is not indicative of that given the software they are mimicking.

Winamp famously always shipped with one MP3 file with its install of a guy saying their slogan: "Winamp - it really whips the llama's ass!"