In his case it’d probably be an improvement over the original Chakotay dialogue.

I bought That Dragon Cancer ages ago because it seemed like an amazing and innovative idea for a game, and I’ve never had the guts to start it up.

Melted plastic, plastic fumes, and microplastic particles already aren’t great for you, and 3D-printing introduces a bunch of ways for them to be introduced directly into your body.

I worked in the 3D-printing industry for a long time, and I’m confident whoever does my autopsy is going to get a clown-style poof of confetti.

Fitting that it’s ending in (eternal) September.

That’s the scariest thing about this all to me. I’m middle-aged and happily married, but my own youth was a long battle with various mental heath struggles, social isolation, abuse, extreme loneliness, and having to figure out so much of my life without enough help. I have no doubt that if this bullshit were available to me back then I’d have been very susceptible to it carrying me off into far deeper unhealthy mental states and worse decisions than the ones I ended up with. I had my own poor decisions, hard lessons, and all-around awful shit to wade through, but ultimately I was able to learn, work, grow, and find myself somewhere better.

I have a very good life now, with a real human partner, family, friends, and others who appreciate my existence as I appreciate theirs. I’m not rich or famous or whatever, but I’m constantly grateful to be doing as well as I am. It absolutely fucking devastates me how much more difficult finding one’s way to a more positive future is now for kids who are dealing with anything like I was back then, with uncaring capitalist asshole-fueled bullshit like this getting in the way.

BEBOP COLA GOOOOOD!!!

So I ask everyone again, what business model exists for a software company to make money without ads or charging a monthly subscription.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-source_software

Speaking of WIkipedia, https://wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/financial-reports/

Scientists have since figured out that furthest possible point from “Robert” on the matrix of human names is “Genevieve Bujold.”.

Breathing through 3D-printed plastic would be bad enough for you without the cigarettes.

What’s easy for one person may be hard for another, and vice versa. Folks can find whichever they’re good at and share it.

I assume you hired that person for being clever.

You don’t even need the stick figures if you’re especially clever about it.

• ASCII art exists. MAD Magazine even had a feature in a few issues from the 1960s-1980s which were comic strips in which the art was made of characters typed on a typewriter, in a very early precursor to ASCII art.

• Fumetti (photo comics) use photographs instead of illustrations.

There are lots of ways out there to be creative without generating slop.

Awesome! Thanks for this decision.

In 2024 Texas’ general results in the Presidential election were:

• Donald Trump - 6,393,597 - 56.2%
• Kamala Harris - 4,835,250 - 42.5%

Kerr County, the place this article is about, swung proportionally harder:

• Donald Trump - 21,615 - 76.8%
• Kamala Harris - 6,315 - 22.4%

Source

Right now I’m really hooked on Lucky Tower Ultimate. I’ve never been this into anything like it before, roguelites mostly bore me, but this game has such a goofy charm and - for an Early Access game - surprisingly deep explorability. It’s my go-to game for picking up my Steam Deck and screwing around for 20 minutes or an hour. I’m still having a ton of fun with it.

“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member.”

Groucho Marx

Add some massive unregulated grifting and hideous environmental consequences to your idea, and you’ve just invented Bitcoin.

I grew up hating a lot of vegetables because my grandfather - who I’m sure meant well - used to boil the life out of them. Green beans or broccoli would be soft, mushy, and greyish (while the water became green), and taste like unseasoned sadness.

One day when I was in grade school in the year nineteen eighty-bad, the cafeteria served hot dogs which had gone greyish and we were all told it was fine. They smelled awful and made a bunch of kids sick.

The question is about the worst food you’ve ever eaten. Are you Steve?