I really didn’t understand the comic until I saw this version. Thank you.

That’s cool. It’s also quite lossy.

It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.

For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said, ‘I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle,’ a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of a frightful interstellar battle.

The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time.

A dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Vl’hurgs, resplendent in his black jewelled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the G’Gugvuntt leader squatting opposite him in a cloud of green sweet-smelling steam, and, with a million sleek and horribly beweaponed star cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, challenged the vile creature to take back what it had said about his mother.

The creature stirred in his sickly broiling vapour, and at that very moment the words, ‘I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle’ drifted across the conference table.

Unfortunately, in the Vl’hurg tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries.

Eventually, of course, after their galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realised that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own galaxy—now positively identified as the source of the offending remark.

For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across—which happened to be Earth—where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.

Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the universe say that this sort of thing is going on all the time, but that we are powerless to prevent it.

‘It’s just life,’ they say.

Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 31.

Nothing stops anyone to press that mix onto a CD, especially if it was produced digitally anyway.

I heard about those and I hate them with a passion.

Who does this! :'(

Who does… what? What am I missing here? Somebody took some butter… weren’t they allowed to? Was it yours and they used some without asking? I’m really lost.

fem guys already relate to content targeted toward women since their lived experience is closer to that than to the typical man, so no exclusion.

Shit like this makes my blood boil… “oh, you’re struggling with acceptance and your identity? Well, people ridicule you for not adhering to what boys should be, but the best we can do is offer you stuff targeted at girls because, you know, you’re essentially a girl anyway”. Fuck that. And then telling me about misogyny. Ridiculous.

we don’t have a duty or obligation to include men in every single conversation.

This isn’t a female safe space. Posting something here that deliberately leaves out half the population and then complaining that people bring up the stupid line you’re drawing between boys and girls where none is necessary is laughable.

If you think boys aren’t ridiculed (for literally anything) you’ve never been to school.

So, boys, might as well do what you want.

Why would this apply only to girls?

IIIIII- is the new loss now?

That’s… a weird sentence? That “until” at the beginning doesn’t really work, does it?

Things like […] “are concentration camps okay?”

And yet, you registered on .ml. But let me guess, China doesn’t do that. It’s not a concentration camp if it’s a Gulag, right?

You still explaining your analogy implies that you still think it’s applicable though. My point is that it isn’t.

So, I had an snes, which I loved, but my taste in games wasn’t great and my parents objected to violence, which means my collection is a bit weird.

One game I loved which wasn’t universally acknowledged to be great, was Clayfighter. It was essentially a Street Fighter clone, but the assets were all modelled in clay and animated using stop motion technique.

I think it got a lot of flak for being not well balanced and a little slow, so it kind of just didn’t stand out beyond the obvious classics of that genre, but man, I loved it. I couldn’t get Street Fighter because of my parents, but they were fine with clayfighter’s look and more humorous approach. At the same time, it still was a good beat em up, so I spent hours with it. Also, it kind of gave me an edge as SF2 was just the game everybody had, so at least I had a fun game to spend an hour with that people hadn’t played to death already.

The samples will remain burned into my memories forever. “The Blob Wins!!” Good times.

It certainly made up for its shortness by being hard as fuck though.

Except that in your analogy, the carpenter was working on his own passion project for free.

This is Wear OS, right? The Google smartwatch OS. That’s the company that made it a business to aggregate all the data in their cloud so people wouldn’t leave their services for convenience alone.

And you’re telling me that you think that the only way to get data off that clock is to take a picture of it before Sunday?

Europe was mostly Christian, too?

It’s not.

I work in software. We recently banned that shit. “It’s not going away” my ass, so far all I’ve seen LLMs do is produce a lot of crap nobody could maintain afterwards while seemingly making the people using it dumber in the process.