Best Buy is great. They have this thing called a “store”, which I guess is what they use to store all the products? Anyway, you can just drive there and they ship the product directly into your hands! It’s crazy. I hope it catches on.

Somehow I doubt it’s that easy.

At first it was on Sunday mornings.

If you’re reheating a pizza without an air fryer, you’re just plain doing wrong.

2-5 minutes, no preheat, and it tastes better than the night before.

The English language is capable of endless nuance. If you can’t convey tone, just get better at writing.

You also shouldn’t get in the habit of undercutting everything you say. It’s ok to say something and mean it. If you don’t take yourself seriously, other people won’t take you seriously.

Besides, when you are joking, it’s funnier when you don’t wink. Winking is for suckers.

You improve nothing and create nothing.

Weird. There wasn’t any attribution for you to remove, and yet you edited it anyway.

You know we’re on the internet and you can just look stuff up instead of making it up.

Thumbnail looks like a bloodhound.

You guys are making me want to try karaoke again, which is not something I’ve ever felt before.

I think UBI would give us a lot more artists.

My Minecraft survival world is awesome, but I think in this context “productive” is usually referring to, you know, farming and stuff.

Personally I think Ass World is overrated. Don’t

You’re supposed to put your mouth on the parts that don’t have hair.

In some cases he has used AI to remove watermarks. It changed other details of the comic. Pretty gross.

Someone needs to send this to that guy in the Comic Strips community who keeps cropping out artists’ signatures because he thinks they’re “ads”.

He hates ads so much.

I couldn’t get through Tolkien. I tried reading the Hobbit but gave up when it started talking about blue beards and gold belts. It felt too arbitrary to hold my interest.

But the LotR movies are needlessly slow. It’s Peter Jackson’s directing style, which only works in that very specific context where a large portion of the audience is ready to fill in the blank spaces, and the rest of the audience forgives it because they expect it to be a rambling epic.

Every shot is one second too long. You could cut an hour from the runtime just by cutting out the lingering reaction shots. Every time Sam or Frodo says something, it’s followed by two seconds of them staring longingly into each other’s eyes. There are so many things to love about those movies, but they’re basically unwatchable to me.

As for Rowling, I think her success is mostly due to accessibility. They’re easy reads in a way that fantasy books almost never are. The reader doesn’t have to put in any work to get to the world building.

She follows a classical plot structure. She establishes motifs early and only subverts them when subverting them becomes the obvious choice. There are many blue beard/gold belt moments, but they’re propped up by easy-to-understand structures like the house system.

But yeah, then there’s no depth to it after that. I always thought it was overrated.

I’m reminded of a story from Oliver Sacks, where one of his patients had some kind of vestibular issue that made him unable to tell that he was always tilted about 20°. He couldn’t correct it alone, because that felt level to him.

The patient had been a carpenter, so his solution was to mount a spirit level to his glasses. He watched it out of the corner of his eye and constantly corrected his posture. Eventually it became second nature to him.

It’s not a race!

Meh. It’s a bit slow.