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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 01/10/2026

.@penny-arcade.com This one has aged like milk. But in a good way? So, like kumis or tarag? www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/0...

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re: RE - Penny Arcade

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 09/09/2026

Research on these "flashbulb memories" actually suggests they're extremely inaccurate, despite high confidence. That said, Trump's been spewing these same lies for years. Plus I'm pretty sure he rewrites reality in his brain on the regular.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 21/05/2026

100%. It was the only edition to fully lean into what made D&D a stronger game than FATE or World of Darkness or any other roleplay-focused TTRPG. 5th edition tries to be everything for everyone, and the result is that it's just adequate at all of it, instead of having exceptional combat.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 21/05/2026

It arguably handled high-level play better than any other edition, though, which cracked like eggs. There's a reason there are hardly any modules designed for levels 16+, and most cap out at 11th-13th.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 21/05/2026

D&D had also just sort of fallen out of the zeitgeist at that point. The brand had fallen out of pubic recognition due to terrible handling: It had recently gotten some awful movies, several bad D&D-branded games that didn't use the D&D mechanics, and Actual Play hadn't taken off yet.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 02/04/2026

I thought for sure that was an AI-generated April Fool's joke, but no, it's real! www.jmaw.org/passover-mat...

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Passover Matzos Advertisement in Portland, Oregon Newspaper, 1916 – JMAW – Jewish Museum of the American West

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 20/03/2026

I switched from ChatGPT to Claude, for the obvious reasons, and was just about to start gushing over how much better it was working for me over it and Gemini... and then @anthropic.com suspended my account! No idea why. And apparently they have a huge backlog for appeals right now. Bad timing!

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 10/03/2026

Do you? Do you really appreciate my time, "Miller?"

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 30/01/2026

I kinda... hate all the actual entries? And a couple of them don't even meet the criteria. I'd have voted for Juice Woman in an instant over any of them.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 06/01/2026

This is also how LLMs do math (without invoking an external tool).

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 09/12/2025

He'd be a solid partner character, too. I can practically see the dialogue in my head. He and Neku would get along great.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 09/12/2025

God, yes. Vizier is a fantastic example of how to play a character using just mannerisms. Voice actors who rely on silly accents can learn a lot from it.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 09/12/2025

The "straight man" is very much a part, so that would be sufficient, but even then it's not true. Despite not being a voice actor, every one of your characters has a distinct "voice" that's often more clear than just changing your accent and vocabulary.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 20/11/2025

I, a human being, have made the exact same mistake in the days of paper maps. Meant to take an underpass in San Francisco, ended up on a dead-end street trying to make a 7-point turn on a 40-degree incline.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 14/11/2025

About time. I don't know why everyone with their own domain doesn't do this; it's very easy. Makes you better than the White House (as if you needed another reason).

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 07/11/2025

He looks like a kindergarten bully who just punched another kid and is trying to look cool about it.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 04/11/2025

And mine is that even in cases like that of Samus, who wears full, practical body armor, the reason for it is often to titillate the male gaze. (And also that male characters aren't exempt from being objectified, if less commonly.)

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 04/11/2025

One conceals her femininity, which exists only so that there can be a titillating bikini shot as a reward for beating the game quickly. The other one is bishonen fan service. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 18/09/2025

For me it was Vampire Killer, Bloody Tears, and Beginning from Super Castlevania IV, and Samba de Chocobo from Final Fantasy II (IV). My first exposure to VGM remixes, other than Super Mario World's Special World.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 20/08/2025

Probably, but that doesn't alter the truth value of his assertion. Replace any real-world group or organization into that sentence in place of "demons" and it still makes sense.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 24/07/2025

@ign.com If your writers are going to use AI to write their articles, you need to make sure someone is fact-checking them. It looks really bad when hallucinations sneak in.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 02/05/2025

"Lossless" -> applies a hard limiter Someone needs to repeat audio production 101.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 02/05/2025

Aw heck yeah. Just finished listening to season 4 in podcast mode a few months ago, then Seattle by Night after that. Can't wait for this to pop up in my RSS feed.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 08/04/2025

Concerts almost seem like a cop-out, but I can't argue how powerful they are. I was at More Friends in L.A., and when they played the Main Theme of Final Fantasy, I literally had to fight the urge to stand and put my hand over my heart.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 08/04/2025

My own wedding. I wasn't in the room, but one of the groomsmen charged into the the bride's dressing room, shouting "That man's playing Final Fantasy!" (It was Aerith's theme.) A few minutes later, I was backstage with my best man, who was trying not to laugh at "Theme of Love."

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 17/03/2025

Yep, only his head has a hitbox. However, if you're standing in the wrong spot, he can hit you with a fireball or crush you if he breaks through the blocks next to you and hits you with his head, so it's not foolproof. I found those out the hard way, back in the day!

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 26/02/2025

No mention of Cidolfas "Thunder God Cid" Orlandu. Disappointing.

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MindWanderer @mindwanderer.net · 18/11/2024

"You know, Summoning Salt is posting some interesting stuff on Twitter. I should probably check him out on Bluesky now that I'm there." <sees nothing but cat pictures> 🤷‍♂️

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