Tarquinn2049

Hehe yeah, that is sort of what I meant. Gaming isn’t what changed. Affordability changed.

Simpsons created it. In the episode where jebediah springfields quote “a noble spirit embiggens the smallest man” is scrutinized for “embiggens” not being a word. They say it’s a perfectly cromulent word. Which itself was not a word, but given the context has a clear meaning. And people decided to start using it as a joke, and then enough people used it, it eventually became real.

Technically all words work that way, but this feels just that little bit more artificial. There wasn’t really a need for it, we have words for that context already, so it wouldn’t have naturally spread. But it’s still fun to have watched it happen over time, knowing it was probably gonna happen even though it shouldn’t have.

Edit: the details may not be exactly right, it’s been nigh-on 30 years now since I’ve seen that episode, but that’s the gist of it, from what I recall.

Gaming, is joining everything else at becoming harder to afford.

The ram in the system went from 200 dollars to 600 dollars. Not increasing the price of the console by 400 dollars would have meant scrapping it instead.

There is literally no choice, the ram would have been sold either way, just to someone else instead.

I don’t know what you trying to say should have been done. What else could have been done?

Ok, convince an entire crowd that they have nothing to fear and everything is ok and they can calm down. And do it quickly because the boy is being dragged around like a rag doll, which seems to be having the opposite effect.

The trouble and difference with the Harambe situation is that he was disobeying his handlers and riled up by what he thought was a crowd angry at the kid(he likely wouldn’t have thought the crowd was scared of what he might do, since he knew he was being helpful and didn’t have presence of mind to consistently realise others might have different opinions than his own). So he wouldn’t let go of the kid, and would have likely been defensive if handlers tried to come in and get the kid. He also was large enough that if they tranquilized him, he could have easily crushed the kid just by slowly passing out on him. They unfortunately had to take the only guarantee they had and shoot him at a moment when he was far enough from the kid that he wouldn’t fall on him.

Harambe also didn’t have any previous experience with taking care of kids, gorilla or otherwise. And believe me, that makes a huge difference. While the kid ended up mostly ok physically, he was dragged around by his ankle, through water and over rough terrain.

Nobody wants to kill a zoo animal. Especially not beloved ones. Especially not while they are trying to be nice.

Give Vedal987 the simulation, I want to see Neuro and Evil take on this challenge, ideally multiple times, add it to their weekly variety stream activity list. They would at least be entertaining while destroying the world, hehe. RIP BOZO, Earth.

The refund policy is that it is an automatic “no questions asked” refund if it qualifies by being under 2 hours played or 2 weeks owned. If it doesn’t qualify, you can still get a refund, there just are questions asked then. Their refund policy is pretty much the gold standard.

That is generally the impetus behind religious institutions disdain for it. Their best chance to increase their numbers is through indoctrination of the children of their current members. Conversions rarely occur, despite how much they are talked up when they do.

They are, of course, wrong to think that. Toys, in practice, generally increase intimacy and likelihood of a couple having children. But not as much as being raised your entire life being told that it is the entire purpose of life and if you don’t have as many kids as you theoretically could, you have done yourself a disservice. So as long as they conflate the results, they will keep assuming they are correct in doing both.

A wife massage with no funny business may often turn into a yes funny business massage, but only if the no funny business part goes well. And even then not always. But it’s always a good idea to take the no funny business part seriously. The worst possible outcome is that she just has a better day instead.

I will say, the colors chosen for the set do make it look a bit like a colorised photo now. Though it’s hard to say how much of that is the original color on set and how much was lost to the camera back then. It was tough to light/balance stuff well back then. Especially if they changed cameras, or if the set was made with a different camera in mind either way.

Behind the scenes footage always looks different back then from what aired. Not just from lack a of post-processing, like it would now, but also a lack of “pre-processing”, lol.

That’s interesting, just looked it up assuming I had likely heard the uncensored version at least once in my life, curious what could be removed from it. But yeah, turns out I have never once heard the full version. That is a very good example.

Well, specifically the plot is that she was gender surprising everyone on the force. The ending reveals that her gun had dug into everyones hip at one point it would seem.

Writing her as that kind of person is definitely demonizing trans, but their reactions were the normal overblown homophobia of the time. Not trans specific. It wasn’t just the idea of her being trans causing the reaction.

Also, the implication at the end is that she had been fooling around with many of them and they were all just realising her gun wasn’t digging into their hips either. It’s not just recoiling at the thought of a trans-gender person.

In real life, it’s normal to not ‘surprise’ someone with your gender. They should know full well and be accepting of what they are going to find long before it is revealed.

Of course writing her as having tried to trick most of the police force with her gender is for sure demonizing trans, and was also a ‘fear’ at the time. Like somehow trans people are doing it to ruin other peoples lives, instead of stop their own from being ruined.

Outside of that, it was the normal overblown reaction to homosexuality that was common at the time. Just in real-life cartoon style, which was Jim Carreys shtick. Plunger to the face is very much how a cartoon character would try to clean something off their face. Except it would probably pull their whole face off leaving it blank and they’d have a floating pencil draw a fresh one on.

They are legal by being buddies of the police, or by being the police while off-duty.

But they stop saying “now” pretty quickly.

And the store clerk was kind enough to quickly screen shot it for him as soon as it came in? Like, oh I know this guy is gonna want to remember this moment, and share it on the internet, cuz it’s clearly a really funny joke that I’m just not in on yet.

If you are ‘hoping’ to find one. The answer is more that you will find that in other individuals. Everywhere has some people that are personally averse to it. And it’s ok if you are too, you will have to advocate a bit, but most people will be accepting of it.

It might be about general knowledge of how colliders work, the sentence structure does it no favours, but half way through I realised it had to be intentional/beneficial due to knowing the only possible way a collider generates heat as a byproduct.

Where as someone that doesn’t know much about colliders might read that sentence and assume it’s like radiative heat or something.