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This pu'er is like ink, but tastes way smoother and less better than the color would make you expect. Thanks to @mandelaefectype!
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Patrick J.B. Simmons
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Patrick J.B. Simmons
@HobBramble
Roman Catholic, dad, Eagle Scout, IT guy, tea junkie, board gamer, dungeon master, skier, podcaster, and sort of an ass.
Cincinnati, OH Katılım Mart 2008
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@LaFluteSki I'm all down for hating Nolan's Odyssey (I did it before of was cool, because I hate his films in general), but yeah, prior to this I don't remember anyone actually liking Troy. I think the most positive review I ever heard of it was a chick saying "well, Pitt was hot at least."
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Not until people started inventing reasons to pre-hate Nolan’s Odyssey had I EVER heard a SINGLE person say something positive about out Troy. It was a blockbuster event 20 years ago that was immediately swept under the generously salted earth.
Robby Starbuck@robbystarbuck
No one should go see the Odyssey film. Go rent Troy instead. It’s timeless. Majestic. Strong. Hollywood has to be sent a message about forcing wokeness on us. This film is a test to see if they can get away with it as long as they use A list actors and one of the great directors of all time. They must be shown contempt for this. The film will do well overseas and it will make big $ but we can make enough of a dent to send a message. So we should.
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Patrick J.B. Simmons retweetledi
The aiming reticle, auto-aim on the cards, the jump indicator, and lots of other design features were meant to ensure that anyone could play American McGee's Alice. And the conversation during development around difficulty and what made "a game a game" was one of the more contentious topics.
There was a programmer on the project who felt strongly that more demands should be made on the player - that ammo should be made scarce and that enemies should be harder to knock down. At one point, the game was tuned this way - since this guy controlled the code that dictated the tuning - and the enemies became damage sponges.
If I recall correctly, we waited until this guy was out at lunch one day and re-tuned things to feel more casual. When he returned, we told him not to change it back. There may have been some additional words said to make that request stick. He wasn't happy.
So when I see people talking about how difficult the game is, I wince. That is the opposite of what I had in mind. Though it should be noted that some of the notoriously difficult spots (looking at you 'river through the vale of tears') had more to do with physics/engine limitations and less to do with intentional design choices. Sometimes, even the tech will fight you to make things harder 😂
As I said in another tweet on this topic recently, different people have different ideas of what constitutes a "game" for them. And even within a given development team, not everyone is going to agree. It's also the case that even when this is "my" game, I was not able to get a 1:1 translation of my intentions into the final game.
Memory Card@MemoryCardFiles
American McGee's Alice (2000)
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After making this joke, Nolan had to head home. It was meatloaf night, and he wanted to finish eating before Jeopardy came on.
🪺Nolan 🌷LaFluteski 🌻@LaFluteSki
Coworker “you know they can tell art created by 90’s kids because they put the sun in the upper corner. Coworker no.2: really? Kids don’t put the Sun in their picture anymore? Me: 😂no, kids today paint an iPad in the corner 😂 Coworkers 1&2: 🤨🤨
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@wholesomefujos Nah, we are trying to stop the horrible mistake of a comb over, because we've seen too many people try it and it never works.
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I don't mind what others choose to do, but I wouldn't bring my kids to Adoration - at least partially because I wouldn't even be able to focus myself - until there were a bit older.
Fr. Gabriel T Mosher, OP@lukei4655
Here’s why I bring this up. How does this insistence on absolute silence accommodate young families with small, active children? Because, it seems as if this same insistence carries over from Adoration to Mass too and it’s not realistic to expect children to maintain silence.
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Patrick J.B. Simmons retweetledi
Debussy: Music is the spaces between the notes
Miyazaki: A film of nonstop action—with no pauses to breathe—is just a commotion
Lao Tse: We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that is useful
Tiktok creators: Finally, we can remove all pauses from everything
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And if you’re not best friends with couple where the husband is a useless buffoon, I’ve got some bad news for you.
Fesshole🧻@fesshole
As I enter my 30th year of being very happily married to a woman way out of my league, I have a message to young men: there is a secret to a successful relationship, it's being best friends with another couple where the man is a useless buffoon
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@LaFluteSki Siding with my old man against me? This treachery will not be forgotten.
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Everyone in my kindergarten class watched T2. My parents wouldn't let me. I still hold it against them. I still haven't seen it.
Got pretty good at the pinball machine for it though.
The Blessed Salt 🧂@theblessedsalt
Movies my parents let us watch that were way less appropriate than I would allow for my kids at the age I watched them: T2, Spaceballs, The Lost Boys, Blues Brothers, Highlander, Ghost, Weekend at Bernie’s, The Stand (TV), Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Joe vs. The Volcano, Big, Short Circuit, Kindergarten Cop, Problem Child… There are a lot more. More than a few also that I would never allow my kids to watch, nor watch again myself. Including some I think it’s absolutely a mortal sin to watch.
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Patrick J.B. Simmons retweetledi
These anti-homeschool arguments always compare homeschooling to to a perfectly functioning public school system that only exists in their imagination.
Meanwhile in the real world, 54% of American adults read below a 6th grade level.
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
Right, if homeschooling is actually super high quality, then homeschooling families should not object to being evaluated, tested, and checked-in-on to make sure their kids are actually learning.
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Honestly it just looks a bit performative and fruity to me.
That Catholic Guy 🇻🇦@Catholic_bro
What’s your honest opinion on hand-holding during the Our Father?
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Patrick J.B. Simmons retweetledi
I would take the people who lecture me endlessly about conservative principles more seriously if they cared about this in the slightest
But they never do, conservatism is about losing and sending money to foreign countries
Those are the real principles
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Patrick J.B. Simmons retweetledi
@bnoomfy Muh "decent freaking human Catholicism" is worse than atheism.
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We all use Twitter on the terlet. We all have moment where we think about making a tweet like this. But only the truly brave or truly foolhardy tweet them. Godspeed.
Barflugnarven🇻🇦@barflugnarven
You ever drop a deuce so bad you want to throw your plunger away afterwards?
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@raptros_ You could just take the boxing gloves off, no one is making you wear them.
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@FrDylanSchrader As the replies show, you are not alone at all, Father. Lots of other people are wrong with you.
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Am I the only one who prefers to make mashed potatoes with the skins still on and to leave some minor lumps in?
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@barflugnarven Honestly if I had a wee in someone's dresser I'd probably consider that maneuver, and I'm not Japanese at all, so good on Ko for still being around.
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Ko did not hurt himself after that, and he is doing well to this day. My family and his are all still FaceBook friends
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In the 1980's, my grandparents hosted a Japanese exchange student, I will call him Ko. My dad was only 8-10 years old when he stayed with them, but Koichi was in his late teens. My grandparents had very little experience with Japanese culture, but because of the kamikaze...
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