My family probably wouldn’t be surprised about anything I own. They know the kind of guy I am.

A stranger might be a bit concerned about a certain wooden chest in my dining room. Large enough to fit an adult man (yes, we tried) but filled to the brim with swords, axes, pieces of armor and a 3 foot wooden spoon.

Edit: second place to a glittery pink princess themed friendship book filled with entries from adult millennials who like retro games, horror movies and metal.

Ich hab immerhin Arch auf meinem ThinkPad X61T zum Laufen gekriegt. Inklusive funktionierendem Stiftinput.

Ich hätte noch ein bisschen Elektroschrott, auf dem Linux laufen würde, aber ich bin faul. Was zahlst du?

And hungry dog in the bottom right

Depends on your needs. There are a whole lot of great games for the PS5 (my partner finished Blood of Dawnwalker just a few days ago) and most of them run really well but let’s be honest, 95% of what you want to play is also available on PC.

If you are looking for something to just plug into your TV, sit back and play a game, go ahead, buy a classic or slim PS5 they are great. I wouldn’t recommend the PS5 Pro. Sure, it has a bit more power but so far I haven’t encountered any game that would have needed it and I doubt many will come out before the end of this generation. If you have enough budget for a PS5 Pro, you probably have enough budget for a Steam Machine instead.

I got “picking up abandoned cats at the shelter” vibes.

Here in Germany we had an event where all movie tickets cost 5€ over the weekend so I took that as a chance to see the Odyssey in IMAX. The first half was a bit long-winded but towards the end it got more and more interesting. Still wouldn’t have paid 19€ for it but for 5€ I had a good time.

Good to know, thanks!

This is part of an ongoing fan comic, so you might be missing a bit of context. See this archive for a link to the post that inspired it and all 13 comic strips so far.

The characters are Calvin and Susie from the Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, imagined as adults. Notice Hobbes in stuffed animal form in some of the panels. Calvin now uses the name Panthera and identifies as neither male nor female, using fae/faer pronouns, which are rather unusual, even for non-binary people. It started as a joke that Calvin hates being normal so much that if he ever transitioned, he wouldn’t just be a girl (whom he has always found gross) but something as far outside the norm as possible.

Okay, let me break it down step by step.

• When Susie sees Panthera, she notices faer boobs and assumes Calvin has transitioned to being a girl.
• Panthera explains the band name which doesn’t fit Susie’s assumption so she remarks “But… you’re a girl!”, hoping to get an explanation.
• Panthera in typical Panthera/Calvin fashion doesn’t give a clear answer but a flippant “What gave you that idea?” which Susie interprets as a no.
• Being accustomed to binary genders, Susie sees only one other option and tries to confirm “Then you’re still [a boy]?” but gets cut off.
• Now, Susie is completely confused and apparently can’t think of a third option besides male and female. In her confusion she circles back to the one thing she can be sure about: the person in front of her has boobs. She asks about that.
• Panthera still doesn’t give a clear answer to what fae identifies as, prompting Susie to spell it out: “Well, what do I call you then?”
• When presented with the business card, Susie accepts the name and pronouns but still struggles with the concept.

So in short: Susie is familiar with the concept transgender people but still thinks in binary genders and can’t quite get her head around Panthera being non-binary. Hope that helps.

Not a boy/man anymore but not a girl/woman either.

This tumblr thread explains it

I think we might need a Calvinball community (mainly because I’m too lazy to make a tumblr account and they limit how much you can read without being logged in)

Edit: the archive is also available on Neocities

To me that sounds like they don’t understand the license. People aren’t (too) worried they would keep others from making SCP stuff. CC BY-SA means that the movie itself must be released under the same license, meaning everyone can distribute it for free or make their own derived works, including reusing entire scenes.

Clearly you meant 3 ABY 22 AFE and not 1980.

Statistical models are not technically algorithms

Which makes “opt out of algorithms” even more wrong.

They should define a bare minimum baseline of data points that should be made available to users to control the content they want to see

I’m not a fan of specifying too much here. Many platforms don’t track location while other fields that we can’t think of in advance might be useful. Finding a more general rule that still gets the intent across might be hard but I’d rather have it a bit under-specified than suddenly requiring a social media site to track my location every time I post because someone wasn’t careful enough when writing the text of a law.

Other than that, I agree 100%.

I really really REALLY hope this is phrased well. Otherwise it is impossible to implement. People don’t know what an algorithm is.

Sorting by date uses an algorithm. Filtering by tag uses an algorithm. Even counting out a number of posts uses an algorithm. An algorithm is not some magic oracle but just a list of instructions like a cooking recipe.

Regular One doesn’t support 4k BluRays but One X, Series X and PS5 do.

Luckily I got a used Xbox One X for 50€ when the local Gamestop went out of business. I‘m not very interested in Xbox games but it makes a good 4k BluRay player

I think OP misunderstood it because the first few sentences mention Trump multiple times, then switch to “The White House”. If they are not familiar with the concept of using “the White House” as a synonym for “the president (+staff)” or if they are not a native speaker, that might seem like the White House might be a separate entity able to comment on the president’s actions.