One that’s big enough to cuddle us. They also should get along fine in the increasingly small environments we are being shoved into. Having a newly domesticated animal that is limited to the ultra rich with giant estates is pointless, right? Bonus points if we can make it an environmental win as well.

Just about everything ‘big’ fails at being in an apartment though. Big cats, even the smaller ones among them, need more room. Same with bears, moose (cooool, dudes, am I right? Imagine lounging with a moose), elk, whales, dolphins… bah.

My idea, then? Giant birds. Big enough to lay on you when on the couch, but could be let loose to fly around while you’re at work. It would take an incredible amount of domestication to get them to go and come back, but if we’re talking hypotheticals and theoreticals and blue fantasy, I think giant birds would be the way to go. Take your pick of them. The steller’s sea eagle and especially the phillipine eagle speak to me, but I wouldn’t turn my nose up at a swan, a goshawk, or a red kite. Feed them well at home, pretend that during the domestication process we made the nesting area easy to clean, and imagine being able to set it loose on stupid fascist leaders.

Heh, the amerikkkan answer is simple: don’t let them rent next to you. They’ve accomplished it by ridiculous rent prices, charging inmates to be in jail (so they come out with debt), and shackling them to low paying jobs.

We stand on the shoulders of giants. I don’t know how many of us repeated the experiments in our chemistry textbooks to prove that what was claimed was correct. A few piddling things here and there, but when did I get to build a nuclear bomb?

Thank you for helping trigger the memory of rogue squadron, a game I spent far too much time playing. I always thought the energy/ammo were contained together in the equivalent of magazines. I vaguely remember the shadows of the empire game, and maybe the jedi knight series, having ammo packs that look a lot like boxes of ammo you’d find in a store today.

Bah, scientists who care about the phosphorus cycle are screwy in the head. Real sciency types are all about the nitrate cycle!

-paraphrased from a microbiologist

I hate you so much right now.

/said while brushing legs off repeatedly

I think the impact, if any, that it has on the viewer depends on their answer to that question. I enjoyed the movie, but thought the characters acted like emotionally rife teenagers, and that the decisions they made were wrong. I’ve never felt like rewatching it. I’d make a bet that all of the others in the comments who absolutely loved the movie agreed with the characters’ ultimate decisions.

Doubtful, eh, though a humorous take. I had the notion that the reason you see yoda, anakin, and obi-wan was because they had left such an impression on the force. Super powerful jedi, lots of effects on the galaxy. What you as the viewer (through the lens of the character) are seeing is the force itself, in its ‘mysteries’ and movements, with the image of those people, rather like if you were looking at a pool of water and see a shape of a person on the surface after a person shaped rock had been dropped in.

data science

Oh god, just imagining having to tweak the spectroscopy algorithms again in R has me whimpering.

I think that’s it! It looks just as I remembered.

Ah, but you see, he didn’t accuse. He was merely asking questions.

It’s obviously sarcasm, but people can get more upshits by pretending to not know and write a pissy comment ‘reproving’ the sarcastic comment.

I can’t quite make out, but are those the fancy ones with the filters? Maaaan do the penny pushers get upset if they see you using those for anything, even their purpose.

You’ll have to decide for yourself, but there are plenty of people talking about it in these threads:

• Minecraft
• Baldur’s Gate
• Hollow Knight

There’s an addon called libredirect which will point you to open source alternatives for many nasty websites out there. Fandom has at least two ‘mirrors’ that you can get to by replacing fandom with breezewiki or antifandom in the url.

Everyday I thank god for breezewiki and antifandom, and curse people who give any traffic to that shit. I remember when wikis for games were amazing, and informative. I think the game that broke me when I saw the most popular wiki for it was fandom was elden ring.

Ah, thanks, that’s what it’s called in the program seller on the phone. It just appears as ‘skiing’ on the desktop underneath it’s button.

Damn, yeah, now I feel old. I remember that was the first time my brother and I came to a formal agreement on sharing the computer so we could each play.

Someday I need to go back and replay that without the cheats (no ammo depletion or collision, I think were the ones I used).

There’s also a really nice skiing game called ‘skiing’ (no joke) by featherweight games. The ads aren’t too bad, and I think they did a really good job of capturing the rhythmic back and forth of slaloming.