The text actually really doesn't go into the title question but I couldn't be arsed to substitute my own either. It's not what you'd think it is though.

People have this weird tendency to fuck up humor when trying too hard to be humorous. Mix this with a ritualized deception and you get the worst of two worlds.

This was a great piece, tying a lot of commentary into an almost heist story.

Whether caffeine is a diuretic is dependent on the dose and whether you ingest it regularly. If you're in the habit, you need to drink quite a lot of tea quite fast for the effects to kick in. (Over 5-8 cups of tea.) If you've got a situation where dehydration is a concern (renal disease, diarrhea, working outdoors), then the research might not apply.

NHS happens to have a page on media reports about coffee being just as hydrating as water.

It's not more diuretic than water though.

please, negative

I think that it's inspiring that no matter how bad a book or a movie is, it can inspire excellent commentary.

I sort of view this kind of thing as a bit pointless since the purpose of gaming is fun and just making AI better has been so far a bad way of making it happen. It's more of an interesting thing, something I'd watch from afar rather than see as good for gaming.

He gets kinda lonely in the end, gets into a mild existential crisis and before that briefly considers whether humanity will survive for a thousand years or will it nuke itself first. It's quite innocent, just ridiculous.

This is the real golden age imo

Sorry, The Journal of Sonic Studies is real though.

Actually jfc there are so many scientific conferences it's mindboggling

I recommend The Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Sonic Studies

Honestly I thought this was a somewhat shit article, but I thought it might spawn some thoughts about the cartoon and fandoms and shit anyways. Here's my rants:

Honestly I feel like this is a pretty shallow reading of the show, which is ironic given that this piece considers it dumb. I've yet to see any rise in "I'm a piece of shit" defenses either, it's not like the trumps, weinsteins and abu bakr al-baghdadis of the world are openly flaunting their flaws. Lastly, I'm not sure that the piece has identified what drives the "bad fandom", since things like Steven Universe, My Little Pony and Undertale, while advocating very different values and the first one a conception of masculinity incompatible with Rick's, have had notoriously toxic fandoms as well. The biggest difference seems to be the god damn Szechuan sauce debacle, which couldn't have happened without the help of the McDonald's itself and will probably remain one of a kind event.

The problem with R&M is mostly how it makes Rick both cool (on shallow reading at least) and practically indestructible in face of his own poor judgement. He's free in a way that the mediocrities of the family Sanchez can't compete with and must appeal to those as well who are trying to find salvation in technological progress (the future lanyard types). It's sort of like war movies, anti- or prowar, might do more to solidify the idea that violence is the answer or that it's meaningful. The reality of being blown up by a roadside bomb after a few months of low level activity would be terribly anticlimactic and contrary to the demands sense of drama.

I think the edginess of the show is kind of an original sin of animated sitcoms from The Simpsons onward. Rick is sort of a dark Lisa Simpson, the citizens of C137 and Springfield are both fumbling, incompetent morons. Both shows have gratuitous violence (in a way that I guess supposedly satirizes it but fails to do so), family members abusing each other without much of a consequence, plots that are homages to past media (classic film with Simpsons, classic scifi with R&M), celebrity guests. I wonder if a good reading of the things at hand is that adult animation needs some fresh blood and explore new territory.

My favorite Tumblr content is melodramatic panels taken out of context from romance comics since by God are they hilarious. So I must like this too a lot!

I suspect it's some difficulty on the part of Tumblr since that happens with deleted Tumblr blogs as well.

I'm not sure how important being Vegeta was to this miracle, but I'm glad that he's getting better.

Once in a while

Life is like a fairy tale

You tell your dreams your hopes your feelings

Even if no-one's around you

And there's many other things to do

Odd pauses, ziczacs and diversions

Or talk so concise it's like a haiku

Things like these with much gusto

I hope to see you posto

I think Emacs must count for being very idiosyncratic, at the very least, even if it's well known. I wish it was more robust though.

CoqIDE is for the Coq theorem prover and using it has this weird video gamey vibe to it. When you're proving a theorem in Coq, you're essentially manipulating equations until they "match" the target one. In essence, you write a "sentence" in Coq - commands actually do end with periods, then hit the next step command and Coq checks whether your command compiles or not. If it does, your reasoning was valid in a way that Coq could verify. I think it would be possible to write a very good puzzle game along these lines, actually.

There's this fantasy video game console called Pico-8 that actually houses a development environment in itself, including a music sequencer, sprite editor and an editor. It uses Lua, which is honestly a bit too quirky a language for me.

Also any time there's an actually usable repl, it's both weird and quite welcome. Weird because they're rare, welcome because it's such a fast way of trying out things. But I do feel they could be loads better if they weren't subject to the idiosyncrasies of terminal emulators. Like setting up a custom prompt for each language is a lot of work for such a little thing. For GHCi (for Haskell), I have the current working directory, loaded modules and a pink lowercase lambda as my prompt which is cool since now I can distinguish between terminal windows at a glance, but of course I had to assimilate a bunch of tutorials all around the place to make it happen.

If only could I figure out what people watched Marvel movies for before Black Panther.

Facebook wrote a blogpost on the topic, it's four years old by now though.

Mi parolas Esperanton malbona.

I'm pretty sure that some /r/buttcoin thread predicted exactly this.

Facebook uses Mercurial because Git was too slow.

My controversial opinion: what Git does is valuable enough, but the way everything works is super convoluted.

I think I conceived a cooperative sailing game back on the old site, where's my money, Rare? I actually watched another stream (by accident, I think) in which a bunch of easily excited bois do silly stuff.