Lamedonyx

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[–] Lamedonyx 11 points 1 year ago

Join the neolib orgy with Reagan and Pinochet.

Even Satan is turning his eyes away from that.

[–] Lamedonyx 12 points 1 year ago

And then there's Pluto, by Naoki Urasawa, which is what would happen if Philip K. Dick decided to write an Astro Boy story.

(It's a reinterpretation of "The Greatest Robot on Earth", and was supervised by Tezuka's son, 100% worth a read)

[–] Lamedonyx 8 points 1 year ago

"Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped."

Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

[–] Lamedonyx 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Show me the rare earth tree for solar panels, or the carbon fiber tree for windmills.

[–] Lamedonyx 1 points 1 year ago

I miss Brawl In The Family...

[–] Lamedonyx 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The OuLiPo is a French creative writing comitee created in the 60's that uses original constraints to foster original works.

One of their most famous works is A Void (La Disparition in French), which is a 300 page novel entirely written without using the letter E, which is the one banned by the instance. (And yes, there is an English translation that was also written entirely without the letter E)

[–] Lamedonyx 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't leave aside the fact that those typhoons were called "Divine Winds", or kamikaze.

[–] Lamedonyx 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Give it an extra 20 years and your meat will fall off your bones though.

[–] Lamedonyx 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Way way waaaay back on release (or was it in beta?), there wasn't any hero limit. You could pick 6 Winstons and go full monke on your opponents.

Then they made each hero unique, but you were still free with comps. You could pick 3 tanks and 3 healers, or 5 DPS and a poor tank who'd get flamed for letting his team die.

Eventually they settled on a fixed 2-2-2, which was extremely boring and basically killed any kind of interesting strat or just fun play.

[–] Lamedonyx 14 points 1 year ago

Plot twist: kiloueka is a robot who is trying to goad humans into solving captchas for them.

[–] Lamedonyx 2 points 1 year ago

The smallest living space you're allowed to put for sale/rent in France is 9m², and those absolutely are a thing. They're very common for example for student housing, but also former maid quarters, especially in older buildings.

The English Housing Act considers that one person living in a 70sqft room makes it legally "overcrowded", although there aren't any legal minimal sizes to sell or rent a flat.

[–] Lamedonyx 24 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Ummm, either you mixed units or your parking spots are very large.

15m² is slightly less than a 4m x 4m square, that's basically a small flat (larger than the smallest legal flat in a lot of developed countries, in fact)

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