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Hyperlynx posted:That's... not how that figure of speech works. They're saying this one atrocity was so bad that, by comparison, this other atrocity looks like nothing at all. Not that it WAS nothing at all. I know how that figure of speech works. It's lovely to use in the context.
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This isn't a funny or breathtaking tweet really, but as someone who enjoyed No Man's Sky even at launch, seeing it come so far and get one of the most violently angry receptions (not entirely unjustified!) I've ever seen to a launch turn into a story of stumbling but persevering, and just adding more and more free stuff to their game, winning over a lot of folks who scorned it initially, is cool. https://mobile.twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/1549777330167480325 Like the general sentiment went from "how can you like no man's sky, its trash" initially, to "man, I hear they really turned things around with that game, that's awesome!", and it's rare for something to recover like that on the internet.
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Jul 21, 2022 08:00
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:https://twitter.com/johndiesattheen/status/1549959522982236161?s=21&t=bfz61wN7Y0AU2SOApzpj7A Gee, I for one am absolutely shocked that Tucker Max turned out to be a mouthbreathing chud
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Jul 21, 2022 12:32
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I read Neuromancer recently which mostly holds up pretty well IMO but at one point it mentions 'three megabytes of hot RAM'
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Jul 21, 2022 12:43
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Hot RAM in your area.
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Jul 21, 2022 13:22
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:I read Neuromancer recently which mostly holds up pretty well IMO but at one point it mentions 'three megabytes of hot RAM' The movie adaptation of Johnny Mnemonic from 1995 takes place in 2021. Johnny had "cybernetic surgery" and as a data courier is now carrying 320 gigabytes of data in his head, exceeding his capacity. The kind of thing you'd put on an USB-stick these days.
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Jul 21, 2022 14:01
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that's basically the same as a drug mule holding a condom of cocaine up their butt, but with bitcoin.
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Jul 21, 2022 14:29
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https://twitter.com/Freddygray31/status/1550056892566839296 Monkeypox Georg identified
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Jul 21, 2022 14:34
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:I read Neuromancer recently which mostly holds up pretty well IMO but at one point it mentions 'three megabytes of hot RAM' I've been listening to Infinte Jest & it has the same issue. Like the numbers being dropped were insane in the 90s, but it's amazing how far everyone still undershot Moore's law.
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Jul 21, 2022 15:23
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Jul 21, 2022 15:37
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Seaniqua posted:that's not RAM 
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Jul 21, 2022 15:41
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thatbastardken posted:that's basically the same as a drug mule holding a condom of cocaine up their butt, but with bitcoin. Buttcoin
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Jul 21, 2022 15:49
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Silly Burrito posted:Buttcoin
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Jul 21, 2022 15:59
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I didn't know that David Lynch made a series of Twin Peaks themed commercials that only aired in Japan. https://twitter.com/ecto_fun/status/1549885857909334017?s=20&t=wV0qaFMx5tDBYlWeZbdcfQ
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Jul 21, 2022 16:47
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Dick Trauma posted:I didn't know that David Lynch made a series of Twin Peaks themed commercials that only aired in Japan. I refuse to believe this isn't one of those AI generated mashups.
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Jul 21, 2022 17:30
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It used to be a thing where celebrities would do weird commercials in Japan because the idea was it was good money and wouldn't affect their reputation in America because nobody would see them. Then the Internet happened.
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also twin peaks was huge in japan, like possibly more popular than in the united states - part of a general bundle i guess of interest in small town america, weird loving people, and occult bullshit, all of which made it an interesting media import the twin peaks movie fire walk with me screened at cannes but then was released in japan months before it was released in the united states, with a special promo push and everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gXLO5rzJ8U if you want to see more of david lynch directing commercials, which is a thing he did for a while until the world realized capitalism was too lame to let that happen, then look around for more of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5UVCuV6pzU
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:also twin peaks was huge in japan, like possibly more popular than in the united states - part of a general bundle i guess of interest in small town america, weird loving people, and occult bullshit, all of which made it an interesting media import "What kind of shoes do you wear? Puma? gently caress THAT poo poo! A! DI! DAS!" I wonder if Cronenberg ever did ads? Hoping some idiot art director got him to do a car ad around 1996. (Just found out Cronenberg turned down 'Flashdance', 'Return of the Jedi' and 'Top Gun'. Darth Vader would be a pretty good Cronenberg character, thinking about it. I'm not sure where Cronenberg's 'Top Gun' would have gone - maybe something like the 'Tetsuo: Iron man' films...)
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Dick Trauma posted:I didn't know that David Lynch made a series of Twin Peaks themed commercials that only aired in Japan. https://twitter.com/Peckinpal/status/1549940682923462657
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Jul 21, 2022 18:33
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muscles like this! posted:It used to be a thing where celebrities would do weird commercials in Japan because the idea was it was good money and wouldn't affect their reputation in America because nobody would see them. Then the Internet happened. For relaxing times, make it Suntory times.
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Jul 21, 2022 18:36
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Jul 21, 2022 18:39
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Japanese ads are great because you get big time Hollywood celebrities to do commercials which they basically can't do in the US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE21qQHlOLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK25AqxUVI8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCkI323J9K4
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Japanese ads are great because you get big time Hollywood celebrities to do commercials which they basically can't do in the US
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/ruralindexing/status/1550173761697202176?s=20&t=wV0qaFMx5tDBYlWeZbdcfQ I mean, if your town is named Bussey, you probably have a lot of Bussey so a Bussey clinic is a good idea
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https://twitter.com/missjellinsky/status/1549945206027452417 https://twitter.com/jeffvandermeer/status/1549939754518683648 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1549848928832499712 https://twitter.com/Lmsnow3/status/1549817606542045184
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zoux posted:Do we know who this is https://twitter.com/lauowolf/status/1549956032654241792 Apparently that's a satisfying answer but it doesn't really mean anything to me.
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zoux posted:Do we know who this is There may be more than one. One of them is horror editor Stephen Jones in a thread (now-deleted) mocking the pronouns of the person who told him he wouldn't be on a panel at a convention. https://twitter.com/ohsinnerman/status/1549338705323872256
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ultrafilter posted:https://twitter.com/lauowolf/status/1549956032654241792 File 770 is a news blog about SFF fandom. Stephen Jones showing his whole rear end online appears to be covered there.
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Zubat+Supersonic: Irritating the gently caress out of gamers since 1996. https://twitter.com/PTO1998/status/1549906020780105728
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Oh well I never heard of that guy, that's disappointing.
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Glad to find out via google that horror editor Stephen Jones is not horror author Stephen Graham Jones, whose works I enjoy
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i do like niche drama, but i don't like doing homework to understand niche drama, so if anyone figures out what this is about and feels like reporting back i'd appreciate it i've gathered that someone turned out to be a racist but i dont know this person's posting level or if the egregiousness of the racism is outside of normal parameters
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"Scifi/fantasy author turns out to be 1950s-style reactionary" is "dog bites man" news at this point.
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"a guy who writes bold exploratory fiction pushing the limits of human knowledge spent an hour insisting on twitter today that there are only two biological genders? sigh, ok, throw him on the pile, i'll call terry at the warehouse and see if we can change our purchase order to add another high capacity incinerator. this backlog is getting out of hand"
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