LOL, are you trying to keep me from derailing a shitpost thread where I’m rehashing the boring online debate that inspired it! How dare you!!! What are you? Some kind of Michael?

Huh. Not much a part of my identity these days, but in a yes/no sense, yeah I guess so, LOL. Of course, these days most gym bros are doing some gaming too.

You provide physical inputs, which are sensitive to timing and agility, to a rule-based competition. It’s at least as much a sport as golf or curling or bowling. And I say that as someone who doesn’t find eSports particularly compelling. It requires a sophisticated technal infrastructure and doesn’t require superhuman levels of strength or endurance (though the latter in particular could be helpful), but those are merely “sliders on the configuration screen” for whether a certain sport is to your interest.

Michael probably agrees.

Kit Secord from the one-season Rocketeer reboot for little kids.

Kipo (And her dad) from Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts.

Nemona from Pokémon Violet (and Friede from Horizons), plus a talking Pokédex that ended up too clunky to bring anyway.

Various levels of authenticity versus ease of assembly/comfort, and I’m proud of them regardless, but I’m tired, boss. Thank fuckin’ Christ that Nene Kusanagi from Project Sekai actually has a factory-made costume.

I haven’t, but it looks interesting and even more bonkers than the movie.

Because it’s mildly transgressive to a certain demographic, and tools and internet speeds of the day allowed for visuals that were close enough to the inspirations for people to find them interesting. Subverting “innocent” characters has been a trope since at least Tijuana bibles of the 1920s and I assume much longer. Specifically portraying beloved animated characters as adult and jaded would also have been directly evocative of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

Eventually, most of that demographic comes to realize that the transgressiveness itself is only so interesting and there is usually something of value in the interesting property that distance lets them appreciate, so a spoof needs to have other things going for it to hold an audience’s interest (e.g. Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which is still brilliant). That said, there is a certain durability to the low-hanging fruit when the subjects of the satire remain popular to continually cycling cohorts of kids who have the unmitigated gall to begin growing up. :-)

Slurm is still better.

That is certainly the highest “setup complexity to punchline payoff” ratio I’ve seen in a while. I’m not laughing exactly, but I am impressed.

I absolutely adore my kiddo and find meaning in my role as a dad that I did in very few other things I’ve done in life.

That said, it definitely does change your life in a way where you will not be able to prioritize the things that are just for you anymore. I am both deeply happy to have become a parent and simultaneously very glad that my wife and I waited and got our finances in order and traveled and lived our life as a couple for almost a decade before we decided to be parents. For parents whose story wasn’t quite as deliberate, I can imagine a lot of conflicting feelings.

wHaT dO yOu MeAn I dOn’T hAvE tO rEaD tHeM!?

99.99% sure it is. That looks like the old classic: Lasso Select, Adjust Hue.

One. It already looks like the sugar spoon my kid always picks first for her meals anyway.

Peak Thomas horror has already been achieved…

Unfortunately, Xena has got to go. There’s no phonetic difference with Z. Xavier might be your best bet, but that’s a tough one.

Edit… Quebec and Kilo in the NATO one give me pause, though. Maybe Xena can stay after all.

This is already settled science.

I certainly didn’t mean to imply they’re actually incorrect, just that presumably working to fix it was part of their mandate, and the frank admission that they didn’t magically fix everything is kinda darkly funny.

I did particularly like this:

“We did not make this organisation insolvent, it was already insolvent,” the management committee said on Sunday.

Saying that in an indignant Australian accent makes it feel like it came straight out of some antipodean cringe-humor sitcom (FYI “Fisk” is pretty good!).

That fat PP looks a little on the short side.

Most likely, yes. I think most people do end up finding one or two smaller boards’ worth of “unicorn barf,” which is to say everything is the right shape and 95-99% have the right thing written on them, but the colors are totally random and visually jarring. I also have a few ideas that might benefit from some of the weirder caps, (like a big square that uses four keybaord switches… people seem to end up with some of those) and occasionally you’ll land on something that someone in the hobby actually does need and you can help them out. A lot of it is simply indulging a certain need to examine and categorize.

Despite the site screaming left and right that one should not count on a proper keyboard’s worth of keycaps at all, much LESS a matching set, and despite years of forum and reddit posts declaring their underwhelming nature, I still bought a 5-pound (2.27kg) sack of random keycaps from Signature Plastics in Washington state.

I just have to know, and I’m kind of unironically looking forward to sorting them like so many Lego bricks. I may even get a few that are useful for my projects.