twitter is going to be shut down. half of reddit is locked or completely unmoderated. the entire first page of google search results are ads. tumblr does not and will never have a functioning search system and their content moderation is 100% automated. youtube only shares ad revenue with people who make snuff films for Youtube Kids. facebook is selling your grandma’s social security number under the table for like $5. web 2.0 is completely dead right
I heard reference to something about how all anime are required to have good looking cabbage because of That One Time. So simply looking up “anime cabbage” I found the source.
Some harem anime way back in the day had an episode where the characters cooked, and they animated cabbage so terribly like this it left a bad mark on the anime community forever. Apparently this is part of the reason why all food usually looks good in anime, even moreso than the regular show sometimes. With cabbage being especially well drawn.
A complaint, apparently in a paper.
The first show when released internationally was reanimated in this part.
And high quality or low quality cabbage is sometimes referenced.
I learned of this because the most recent Hologra episode has noel eating cabbage, tearing apart a fine quality cabbage into two low poly halves.
i love learning about other cultures’ memes, especially like this
I’m going to share with you my casserole recipe. My casserole recipe taught me a few things. It will teach you a few things. Making a casserole is not a big motivation for me but it’s America to make a casserole. All women do it. Some men do it but mostly women. It’s American culture. So let’s make a casserole. If you have to cook, I will share with you my casserole recipe.
Man I have had a rant queued up here on the weird false relationship people have to physical media and DRM and here’s a good place for it. This person isn’t entirely wrong. You Used To Buy Games, but Online DRM has existed since a long time ago and having a DVD doesn’t save you.
Steam came out in 2003.
You cannot buy a Left 4 Dead (2008) DVD. Yes, I know you saw them in the stores. You also mostly can’t buy a Bioshock (2007) DVD. Both of these shipped (at least partially) as DVD’s that install Steam and ask you to license the game with the code on the manual. You can find people kvetching about this in forum posts.
You cannot buy a DVD for Star Wars Battlefront (2015) or copies of Starcraft II (2010, 2013, 2015) even though those are on my shelf too. Those are all just fancy licenses and installers for the Origin and Blizzard launchers.
(You can buy a copy of Star Wars Battlefront (2005) and Starcraft: Brood War (1998) though, those are also on the shelf.)
You can’t even buy a Halo 2 for Vista (2004, 2007 re-release) DVD anymore, I know because I have one on my shelf and it no longer works, you have to get the Project Cartographer crack for the now-defunct Microsoft LIVE games network.
I actually have a great example of this. I bought Dishonored (2015) on disk. One thousand years ago when you bought games on disk, the disk wasn’t in the case, you brought an empty case to the counter and they would fetch a disk from the back and put it in. The guy at the counter accidentally put a Darksiders (2010) disk in my case instead of a Dishonored disk. Guess what: I own Dishonored and I do not own Darksiders, that disk is useless without a Steam key. I just put the Dishonored key into Steam and it downloaded the game, using up a quarter of my download cap that month.
Physical media doesn’t mean shit on its own and hasn’t since the early 2000’s.
At the same time, true software ownership isn’t dead, GOG and itch.io games are DRM free and if you really want to keep a game you have there safe you can just download its installer and keep it yourself, it’s as safe as any copy of Brood War. You can give it to friends, I have absolutely carried a USB drive with Pyre to a friend’s house to show them the cool basketball game that gave me brainworms. You also do this if you buy DRM free ebooks.
My digital copy of The Witcher 2 is DRM free because I got it on GOG and I have the installer on a hard drive somewhere and even if GOG crashes and burns I can install The Witcher 2 from that. My copies of Pyre and Spelunky and Celeste and Night in the Woods are DRM free even though they’re digital copies from Itch and GOG. You can buy a DRM-free copy of Horizon: Zero Dawn in the year of our lord 2022. You can give it to all your friends and as long as you don’t literally post it online no one will stop you.
Hell, hilariously if you buy a digital copy of Skyrim on GOG it’s actually less locked down than the physical copy on my shelf, which is Steam only.
If you allow yourself to believe that disks are DRM-free you will make bad decisions and not understand what you are doing. Digital can be DRM free and physical can be locked down to hell. If you do want to own DRM-free software (I don’t always! I sometimes buy games on steam because it’s cheaper than GOG and that’s a tradeoff I’ll take sometimes) you have options a lot more often than you might expect.
every gym leader is like “I lost!?! UNBELIEVABLE!” buddy you live in a world where every ten year old child has always been offered a free fire breathing monster at least once and you brought nothing to this fight but anthropomorphic flowers
gym leaders’ whole job is to provide a specific challenge, a battle of a certain type and difficulty level. if you’ve brought the tools and skills to complete that challenge, you’re going to win by design. the pokémon in that battle are probably not actually the strongest pokemon they have.
when gym leaders go “argh, how could i lose??” they’re acting to give your victory legitimacy because you’re 10. they’re like a villain cosplayer letting a baby knock them over. they’re being nice!!
I was a cheerleader at university, this was in the UK so not serious at all, but we did go and compete at Nationals which were being held in Bournemouth, a fair distance from our uni in London. One of the girls was like “omg you can stay at my house! My parents live like 30 minutes away.” so all 25 of us got on the coach with a blanket and pillow and clothes, expecting to like, stay at a house.
Her house in the New Forest. They had a pool and hot tub, a pool house, and I think 4 or 5 bedrooms and 2 reception rooms. I say “I think” because we weren’t actually allowed to stay in the house. Our coach and 2 male members stayed in the pool house, which had a very small room, plus a bathroom which all of us were to share. The rest of us had to sleep in a big tent gazebo thing in the garden. In May in England. When none of us were prepared for camping. It was about 10°c in the night, not comfortable at all.
I very briefly saw the inside of the house when I asked her mother if there was another bathroom because we were running late and i needed to put my contact lenses in, and she shooed me into a cupboard under the stairs. The living room I caught a glimpse of had enough space for all of us to sleep there.
The next day when we got back from the competition, we were given a BBQ dinner! Which consisted of 1 chicken leg and 1 potato each.
For the privilege of staying at her house, we all had to give Nadine £5.
Every time I see a post like this, I think of that time, freezing my ass off, in a mansion garden.
