williamray.bsky.social
Author, attorney, man unabout town.
Fan of Star Wars, Transformers, D&D, &on. Writer of Gedlund (and other Tales of the Verin Empire).
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It's older than that! It's the same reason old trains used to feature cowcatchers... a solution proposed by none other than Charles Babbage in 1830.
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People cower before Trump's threats, abasing themselves in an attempt to appease him. It never works. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but ... But it might work for us...🤔
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The touch controls are so frustratingly imprecise. Touching the screen might turn forward, back, open the home menu, or open the options menu. The button didn't have that problem.
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I typically assume a lot of them are personal deflectors. If everyone has some sort of minor forcefield on their belt, suddenly all the missed shots and lack of railings on stairs makes sense.😄
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It doesn't even work worth a damn. Its writing is inferior, and its Internet summaries wildly inaccurate. The only thing making it seem worthwhile is the Silicon Valley scamming to make it temporarily cheap -- when the costs catch up, any reliance built upon it will become a massive liability.
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It's not even hard!
It's not like learning a whole new language; hell, most of the time all you need to do is find an existing email that sounds professional and copy that, with a few tweaks to match the new topic. People were doing that before we even had computers to copy/paste it.
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Merz says they owe us for freeing Germany from a Nazi dictatorship, so maybe this is really a golden opportunity for Germany to finally pay us back in kind..?🤞
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Starting a SCARED STRAIGHT style program where pro athletes visit high schools across America to make parents realize their kids have no chance
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Oh wow... I definitely had a set of those Robolinks as a kid! For some reason, as a kid I kept the foam insert but tossed the box, so I had no idea what those things were called until just now.😅
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Ooh, cool Quickstrike! He was one of my favorites from that series -- the Beast Machines line had some amazing basics, and I was always a little sad none of them ever made it into the fiction.
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I sympathize, but then, I never really understood being a fan of particular video game consoles, or political parties, or stores, either.🤷♂️
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On card Parasites?😲
I don't have anywhere to put such a thing, but I'm a little jealous, and yet also happy they still exist out in the world somewhere.
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At long last, some new programming for the Gorilla Channel!
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I've had mine hanging up. It's cool looking as a bit of pop-art, and every now and then I open it (to show someone that it opens) and it works right and I look cool, or it doesn't work right and I look like a doofus trying to awkwardly wrangle the sliding bits without knocking it off the wall.
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The techbro culture is a nesting doll of scams, always chasing financing for far off horizons they never mean to reach. It should come as no surprise that an 'artificial intelligence' birthed from that environment is really only good at creating empty simulations of utility.
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Hard to believe it was already 20 years ago when a bunch of my friends wouldn't stop talking about this dumb wiki they found, and how they were going to take it over and make it a useful resource for the fan community. Cheers, fellas!🥳
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Dang. I think that's also about as far as I got through the books before giving up... I was kind of hoping to finally finish the story by watching the show.😅
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I still don't understand why any media outlet still reports on Trump directly. It's long since ceased being useful, and his fight to repress gets harder the less he's discussed. Talk about movements and other politicians. Divorce his disastrous policy from him; just discuss its impacts.
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That really only works as a comparison if someone is talking about those things. Analysis of Ms. Havisham's politics, or Pigsy's Buddhism, or the Alchemist's scams, isn't relevant when you're not interjecting into a discussion about them in the first place. But when you are... 🤷♂️
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I'm not really that enthusiastic about the song, but I really love Miriana Conte's whole attitude as a performer. The ridiculous pre-song outfit with curlers, the over-the-top ego on display, the absolutely dazzling confidence.😄
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They ended with, "join us," so I'm pretty sure that's the plan...😲
(My 5yo has declared they're the winner of his vote.)
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A strange juxtaposition of song and style to put after the UK, but JJ's voice is absolutely gorgeous.
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I just imagine them, Veruca Salt style, demanding Daddy put them in Eurovision.
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A few years ago, I had a vague notion the contest existed, but had never paid any attention to it. Then Space Opera came out, and a while after that the Will Farrell movie, and now I'm taking my kid out of school early so he can watch it live.😅
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I want a new set of Special Edition versions where they add Kleya to the background of various Rebel base scenes, sighing and rolling her eyes.
"It'll be just like Beggar's Canyon back home!"
*cut to Kleya, in the control room*🙄
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That whole, "I am your father," bit was such a shockingly compelling twist in 1980, but the unforeseen consequences of that on audience expectations is just wild. Now everyone is secretly someone else!😅