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I had to explain this one to a young when I casually used it at work and it actually took me a while to realize it originated with the Simpsons and wasn't just something that was used by the Simpsons.

What's a Simpsons-ism that you use regularly that you barely even think of as Simpsons-ism anymore? Mine is using "the fireworks factory" as shorthand for narrative payoff, and the tension felt when it takes too long to get there. But really anything; any answer is cromulent here.

Colourful cartoon illustration of a blue building labeled “Fireworks Factory” beside a winding river, surrounded by rolling green hills beneath a bright yellow sky and a setting sun.

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AH, I read that as "watch THROUGH season 6." My mistake

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Why would you start DS9 with TNG season 7 and not season 6 like when it was airing?

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Guess they ran out of military drone parts to repurpose

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Very interesting that this appears on Amazon.com, but does not appear on Amazon.ca

I feel like one of the implicit things that maintains "trust" in steam is that if valve messed with the steam value prop or software access in an egregious enough manner, piracy is always sitting there, viable (if perhaps not ethically correct). Similar state not there for PS.

We Raced The Entire Length Of Japan

With the latest season of Jet Lag: The Game (Japanorama), I feel like the team has now fully succeeded in their aim to elevate what they're doing from being a "youtube" show to a full-on, high production value competition reality show. Excellent stuff, and good lordy did it make Japan look beautiful

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YouTube video by Jet Lag: The Game

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Reminds me of my mom. Came here in her mid-20s for school. Now 76. Never became a citizen haha.

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I saw a talk from a VC once where he laid out quite plainly "To be worth investing in, something has to perform better than an index fund. And to be worth the increased risk, it needs to perform exponentially better." Was a really succinct way of explaining "how we got here"

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I honestly wonder if they've pushed the start back so that they have more runway to pivot in response to how the audience reacts to Doomsday

It's honestly absolutely wild how much "reframe what you're asking to do in terms that speak to the listeners needs" is alien in a lot of progressive circles. It's kind of infuriating. And it really exposes a lot of contempt for certain audiences.

It's honestly a mode I wish more progressives everwhere would take on: many conservative shibboleths are totally fiscally irresponsible. There's a knee-jerk response in a lot of progressive circles that practical messaging this way is somehow dirty and moral messaging should be enough ... but tough.

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This might be pointing out how much better those first-party games are selling now that it's more difficult to get them day-1 on gamepass.

Haha yeah. Remeber the giant robot with wrecking balls for testicles?!

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The wild contempt these movies had for their audience was honestly thrilling. It was almost palpable. Hell, in the fourth movie Mark Wahlberg practically turns to the screen and almost explicitly says "you are contemptable for watching this, and a lesser person"

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Yeah, the race was supposed to be progressive (NDP) in Miller versus centre-right (Liberal) in Rocco Rossi. The first four or five months was Rossi talking about the war on the car and trashing bike lanes. So when he had to run to the left Ford ate his lunch.

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I also think people forget the weird dynamics where every single candidate had spent years building a campaign apparatus to run to the right of David Miller and then when he didn't run had to do a 180 spin to run to the left of Doug Ford and they looked like ideological carpetbaggers for doing so

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I legitimately think that the public square where most of this stuff was organized in the past moving to places that have a paper trail has had more of an effect than people think.

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My gut says that this is going to be more like HIDDEN AGENDA, the shorter Supermassive horror/thriller that everyone forgets about because it had a Jackbox-like "everyone plays on their phone" gimmick.

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This isn't a QA team going for a little union nibble. This is the golden goose.

For context, Studio X is responsible for, basically, the entirety of Hasbro's profitability (without exaggeration or hyperbole)

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Oh this is going to be a FIGHT fight.

This week Valve's Deadlock had 228,208 concurrent players. It's a game in closed alpha and there is no public-facing way to download or buy it. (If you are in the alpha you can invite friends, which is the only way to get access as far as I can tell)

The only one I'm really aware of is that big Ford EV truck, and I'm mainly aware of that because of how they've set it up to work as a primary HOUSE battery that has 2x or 3x the capacity of most house battery setups and can bank a bunch more solar than most setups can.

That's probably tapping into their memoji generator which, of course, uses full 3D acceleration.

Mexico is for sure a country where Mercator warping really skews people's perceptions of how big and geographically diverse it is

A map of the "true size" of Mexico showing the country superimposed over Canada where Mexico covers several provinces and most of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut

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Yeah, it was, I don't know how to put this ... ~aesthetically~ good storytelling? I think that's what was so frustrating to me about it. It would have been less notable if everything about it sucked!

The fact that you could remove the entire multi-season-long "they got trapped in 1977" arc with basically no overall changes to what happened in the "main" story and final season you kind of go ... okay, so why did you spend 30-ish episodes on that?

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Or the fact that the "it's all an intricate plan" aesthetic of the storytelling is undermined when they pretty transparently and viciously killed off the characters of actors who had pissed off the producers?

I feel like I'm the only person who thought latter day LOST was neither brilliant nor terrible, but just interesting and flawed? Like the fact that about 2/3rds of the plot action/character time in the last three seasons was focused on stuff that ended up being meaningless red herrings?

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I think generally the issue is that the form of a comic book was designed around the idea that you weren't really going to keep it. Ideally a book with the purpose of being read more than a couple times can sit on your shelf.

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The problem is that the primary costs of producing comics isn't the paper and printing anymore, or, at the very least, a comic printed on crap paper/ink is still going to be, say, $3.50 to a nicer one's $5.

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I do think it's silly to be putting this premium art, at a premium price, and releasing it in the shape of something designed to be only slightly less disposable than a newspaper, and not really expecting it to be read in that shape because it would lower its value.

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(Of course I know why the economics of creating 20–30 pages of comic art each month and distributing them would necessitate a $5 price point these days. It's still an absolutely unprecedented value-prop ask for the end consumer.)

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If not primarily as a collector object, how else does something you can read end-to-end in less than 10 minutes make sense at $5? Which is bizarre, because the entire medium of the no binding/simple staple floppy issue is predicated on it's disposability! That's a FEATURE of the format, not a flaw

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"Single issues" (or more derogatorily "floppies") have such a strange audience these days. Basically, they are MAYBE read as comics the week they come out. After that they are almost exclusively collector objects and those stories are subsequently almost always read as parts of collected volumes.

Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Randomly remembering that the year-late port of the mediocre mid-aughts Godfather game was somehow one of the best selling games on the Wii.

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I still wonder how many people watched 8 seasons of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and didn't realize that Captain Holt was Andre Braugher doing a self-aware parody of himself from Homocide: Life on the Streets.

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Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That feeling when you take out — and replace it with -- to let everyone know a human wrote it