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@PaprikaChcknbby @FitMarshmellow Shadow is Batman

@FitMarshmellow Superman is like sonic the hedgehog…. in the sense that he’s a very straightforward easy to graft character that kind of breaks people’s brains. depth & complexity are right there, but for some reason, it doesn’t register because 9/10 dude has a smile on his face.

He's insanely easy to figure out but nobody likes what they see when they dig deeper

@FitMarshmellow youtu.be/gnHBfa2cNVM?si…

@catb0icarti I just teach my kids about Godzilla

Goodbye Godzilla fans, Hey guys, I just wanted to thank you all for the great memories that we’ve shared during my time in this fandom. Unfortunately, I lost my virginity and therefore I am no longer qualified to be a Godzilla fan. I’ll miss this community and its art greatly.

@TiredActor In high school the art kids made bullying art of me.

Sometimes I randomly remember people have made fanart of me and that is just insane to think about

@SouthwestAir If I wanted to select my seat ahead of time I would have booked with a different airline.

The seat-selection scramble? Extinct.

@EmCohen_ I also remember the joke that 2020 was a decade and time is proofing that right

everyone feels like this because they refuse to grapple with the material reality that the pandemic never ended.

@thegrayfruit Super smash bros. Melee

Im crowd sourcing some info, please don't google anything for this, off the top of your head, what is the earliest game you remember having achievements/trophies? preferably looking for things predating the modern steam/xbox 360/ps3 wave of achievements

@owenbroadcast The zoo we go to has a whole barnyard section for cows horses and goats.

explaining to a child why they do not have cows at the zoo. “cows arent really an exciting animal”. well, this isnt true for her. many people probably would be excited if the zoo had cows. perhaps we have all been misled

@CocoGoofyAhh @keysmashbandit Dunno. Based on Lego pieces I found.

@Rafnar354 @keysmashbandit What that

I remember the exact first time I saw this image on Facebook in 2014. Where I was and everything. I thought it was almost unbearably strange. But now it's just another picture, and I never see anything that gives me that feeling anymore

@pupzasha @ItsHappeningRN @GrantSlatton @utenafan338 Like in space jam

@ItsHappeningRN @Rafnar354 @GrantSlatton @utenafan338 When my sister was a little kid (like 5 years old) she thought there was actual tiny people/cartoon characters acting behind the TV in real time. She would check behind the TV to try to catch them and thought they were just hiding from her when she checked and didn’t see them.

i know so many parents whose kids watch Frozen or some other movie literally every day, for months at a time feels like this was not a thing among kids in the 90s obviously pressing 'play' is so easy, but rewinding a VCR isn't hard either what explains?

@TheOXGod Stinky cheese man

but are you this old?

@SOPHONTSIMP How many large super heroes battle shave there been outside the avenger movies?

Maybe this is stupid but something that has always bothered me in large battles with superheroes is that there often doesn’t seem to be any broader strategy or coordination where they use different powers for different purposes, it’s just one blob smashing against another.

@lymanstoneky I will add that python is probably on of the better languages to teach. It enforces readable styling and is among the easier languages to learn. And moving to a new language is easier then picking up your first. So yeh probably the two worst examples.

i strongly suspect in 15 years computer skills actually will still include microsoft excel, but probably not python. i believe excel will still exist because the graphical user interface approach to tables has been in continuous use since 4,000 BC.

@blightersort Oh yeah I remember the monthly block buster keep two movies at a time deal. Was great.

this is true. the reason Blockbuster failed was not that they were too stupid or slow to change, it is that the business had been looted by its parent Viacom in precisely the same way private equity does to everything nowadays. Blockbuster had a good approach to a changing marketplace and a good lead with their huge brand name but they had absolutely no capital to make their plan work because all their cashflow was pledged to pay extremely high debt levels, all of which debt was extracted by Viacom prior to spinning Blockbuster off to flounder and die on its own, rather that providing working capital for the on-going Blockbuster business. one of the last Blockbuster CFOs has an illuminating appearance in the documentary The Last Blockbuster explaining this. the existence of this wildly profitable enterprise well-positioned for success as the market evolved was effectively ended by its ownership looting it to take all value out immediately. this has become the story of huge swathes of our economy now due to the rise of PE.

@KeyTryer Depends on the game but sometimes yeah

Who has EVER wanted to quit to the Title Screen?

@janecoaston The beat Star Wars movie

I watched Return of the Jedi like three times a day for years as a kid

@ClaireMax I have a random riding jacket that I got to go ice skating in. It felt like a lesser version of this description. I would say it’s still worth it to try and get a cool coat to replicate.

I am not going to attempt to make the coat. No coat made by human hands could compare to the dream coat

Last night I had a dream where I had an amazingly cool coat. Like a long swooshy coat that flowed behind me in the wind dramatically. I need this coat

@tlbtlbtlb @kareem_carr I mean the discredited uk doctor that contributed heavily to it was actually just trying to get people to take 3 shots instead of 1 shot for 3 vaccines because he had financial interests tied to it. But it kinda grew out of control from there.

@kareem_carr The claim was that a common preservative in vaccines containing mercury causes autism. Which isn't wildly implausible. Elemental mercury in young people causes various brain development problems. However, consensus is that this particular mercury compound is metabolized safely.

Vaccine skepticism makes no sense to me because vaccines are such a simple concept. You expose people to a small, harmless piece of a pathogen so they build an immune response to the real thing. Also, why would any of that lead to autism?

@Daractenus @TobiFrenzen The cyber truck reminds me of the h2 (hummer 2). In that seeing a small model of it looks kinda cool, but actual human size is off putting.

@TobiFrenzen On top of that, probably the ugliest thing to ever to move.

Theres a very long list of US products that cannot be sold in the EU thanks to EU regulations. Since the favorite pastime of the Trump regime and every US oligarch is now to demonize EU regulations, I thought it would be very much worth going through some of those products.🧵