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You know what they call a Pig Mac in France?

I visited Ecuador several years ago and got to chew on coca leaves, but they also had coca leaf candies! Both were excellent for helping with altitude sickness, and I really enjoyed the flavor. Had a gentle mood lifting effect too, like a nice cup of tea, but in the form of chewed cud, haha.

I'm making fun of the common practice, exemplified by Bethesda, of leaving bugs in their games for the modders to fix. The joke, in this case is that Rocket Werkz is leaving an "unfinished feature" in that is a Hard Problem in physics. There isn't a general, easy solution to the N-body problem.

I also got randomly sent this image from a matrix on the technics.de server. Aside from all the antisemitism and nazi stuff, I admit I was a little charmed by it. Reminded me of timecube and the good old days of how the Internet used to be a place for nerds, outcasts, and complete fucking psychopaths.

Edit: Link to proof ཚྒྷཚྒྷ

I didn't get Hexcodle #448 :( Score: 57%

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Ugh, this one was annoying, couldn't quite hone in on those second digits.

One reachier goal is to add an n-body physics system. [...] RocketWerkz say there's a "small chance" of RocketWerkz developing such a simulation internally - they're currently trying to hire somebody with a PhD to apply the requisite high-density brain-magic - but it's likely this will be left for modders to figure out.

The next Bethesda game is just going to have a bug dependent on solving the Reimann conjecture, smh, always waiting on the modders to solve the company's intractable math mysteries.

I've expressed a similar sentiment as "it's easy to be enlightened up on a mountain." As in, big whoop to all the wise hermits who fled society to find peace: that's not being above the problems of the world (except literally), it's hiding from them and pretending that ignorance can be bliss again. The real work is maintaining peace and wisdom in the face of monstrous injustice.

I'm not posting a Snopes link or whatever, but it was Mussolini who allegedly got the trains running on time, and he didn't anyway. Improvements to the Italian rail system were begun under the previous government, and actually the trains weren't particularly punctual under his regime anyway.

I love how insane this guy looks and sounds, but he's always very committed to safety and explaining the safety measures. (Also, he sounds like the Ordinary Sausage guy a little? Is squeaky voice like an engagement thing?)

1000% chance it's Distributed Autonomous Organization (cryptoshit) and not the one and true Way.

I figured you might have read it, as your comment had evoked it for me.

I really like the reading of Waluigi as a kind of perfect symbol for our post-modern times. I don't think the article goes quite far enough. Mario is already a simulacra: a stereotype that doesn't really exist, certainly not anymore and never really did. So Waluigi is the reflection of an inverse of a simulation without a base reality.

It's very relatable, as you say, an apt metaphor for how our cultures treat the common person. Maybe the right Waluigi game isn't one that fleshes him out and brings him closer to the audience. Maybe something like Krusty's Fun House or Lemmings: burning through legions of Waluigis (1up mushroom clones? robots? one person somehow split into a multitude?) to accomplish trivial goals for Wario, the stand-in for the corporate overlords?

I regularly pull up Live at the Necropolis: The Lords of Synth and watch it for a quick laugh. The density of absurdity and how good the parody is are just unmatched!