To put this as simply as possible: people are allowed to dislike things you find value in, for any or no reason. Whether you consider their reasoning valid or not doesn’t matter.

They are allowed to think that it doesn’t have value. It doesn’t have to effect the value you find in it.

I find artistic and comedic value in youtube poops. I’m not going to sit and argue that they are high art or something that needs or deserves to be respected by the wider world. I’m not going to be offended if others find them dumb, childish, or whatever else. I enjoy them and I respect the effort put into them. That’s enough.

And about Skibidi Toilet in particular, it bugs me that we have something like 16 years of machinima, content created with Garrys Mod, and content created in the source engine, and what seems to be making the most money and public awareness (outside of RoosterTeeth) is something that started as meme of a song with a singing head emerging from a toilet. There’s so much other content made using the same tools (and that was made with less tools) that deserved more than what they got when compared to this.

Sonic lore is hilariously messy. It gets absolute batshit when you start getting into the Archie comics. There’s more than enough to keep going forever, but at some point you need to address your own brain oozing out your ears and stop.

There’s some minor stuff I left out, like how Mecha Sonic (Game Gear) is often called Silver Sonic to differentiate it from Mecha Sonic (Mega Drive/Genesis) when talking about the games, but Mecha Sonic (Mega Drive/Genesis) is canonically named Silver Sonic in the Archie Comics. Both of those are different from Silver the Hedgehog, who is from the future that alternate dimension Nega Eggman (mentioned in the other comment) is from.

And seriously, the Archie comics timeline is insane. This is from the “Metal Sonic Series (Archie Comics)” page on the Sonic Wiki, and it’s notably not the only robot doppelgangers-of-characters “team”.

Like how do you even start with that? First Robotnik War? Metal Sonic v3.0 is separate from the other versions, but spoiler: he isn’t the same 3.0 from Sonic Rivals 2. Mecha Sonic is a separate entity from Silver Sonic?

Also, presented without comment: Psuedo-Sonic from the Archie comics.

People tend to think of the old Star Wars Extended Universe as the classic over-detailed lore, but the Sonic Archie comics are way way up there too. It was the longest running monthly comic book series to never be relauched, with roughly 512 total issues if you count the spinoffs.

Cybershell is an old Something Awful goon who’s made plenty of Sonic videos, but I think his Archie Sonic retrospective/postmortem is an entertaining overview, if heavy on using the word retarded. Was totally aping some of his attitude for that shitpost of a comment.

um ackshually that’s Metal Sonic, first appearing in Sonic CD.

Mecha Sonic is a boss from Sonic 2 Game Gear, and is totally different.

Which should never be confused with Mecha Sonic that’s one of the final bosses of Sonic 2 Mega Drive/Genesis.

Or Mecha Sonic Mk II from Sonic and Knuckles, who is clearly an upgraded version of Mecha Sonic, not an upgraded version of Mecha Sonic.

Or Super Mecha Sonic, the transformation of Mecha Sonic Mk II, but who has nothing to do with Mecha Sonic, Mecha Sonic, or Metal Sonic.

And I could never imagine how anyone could be stupid enough to confuse them with Mecha Sonic Mk III, the background decoration from Sonic Adventure, who is clearly an upgrade of Mecha Sonic, not an upgrade of Mecha Sonic, Mecha Sonic Mk II, or Metal Sonic. (Why do I taste copper?)

But you could be forgiven for mistaking Metal Sonic for his later self-upgraded form Neo Metal Sonic, the antagonist from Sonic Heroes.

Neo Metal Sonic can transform into Metal Madness from Sonic Heroes. Only a fool would think that Metal Sonic, Mecha Sonic, Mecha Sonic, Mecha Sonic Mk II, Super Mecha Sonic, or Mecha Sonic Mk III could do that.

Metal Madness can transform into Metal Overlord, of course. I don’t know how that could be any more obvious, or how anyone could confuse this for Metal Madness. C’mon they’re completely distinct. (Does anyone smell burnt toast?)

And only an idiot wouldn’t understand Metal Sonic 3.0 is a completely new robot made as an upgraded version of Metal Sonic, created by an alternate dimension version of Eggman who isn’t from an alternate dimension but is from the future, who is a rival to Metal Sonic who is no longer Neo Metal Sonic. It’s mind boggling that something so simple could confuse anyone with a basic modicum of intelligence.

And the Metal Sonics from the Archie comics are entirely self explanatory. Why is there this wet red stuff coming out of my ears? I think I’m going to have a lie down.

There’s an old speedrunning trick for this: If you don’t put new clothes on each day and instead keep re-wearing them, it stops growing.

The game tries to prevent this with the stench debuff and the hit to your cleanliness stat, but you can counter that with routing to avoid enounters with other players. Then the debuff does nothing and the cleanliness stat only matters once it gets low enough to trigger damage to your HP.

So it really only works for specific builds, but if done right it can save you a lot of time.

What do you mean they added a large negative modifier to the mental health stat when using this strat? I guess this works better on earlier patches before personal hygiene became so important in the meta.

I’m definitely not inebriated enough for whatever the hell this is supposed to be.

If you want instant liver failure, take a shot every time someone uses an incredibly oversimplified understanding of the human brain and LLMs to assert LLMs have human properties.

Also, shoutouts to !techtakes@awful.systems and !fuck_ai@lemmy.world

Don’t go in those if you have any sort of desire to defend modern content generation/content thievery AI.

Also, yes LLM style AI has it’s uses. Mainly to generate shit that we shouldn’t need in the first place, or stuff that we should pay a person to do well. And the cost is stupid when compared to the minor benefit.

I have this issue in a home built just barely pre-lockdown. So the issue isn’t wear and tear.

What should I be looking for to fix this?

If you’re on windows, look up the program/github fancontrol. Nice easy way to adjust the settings, set custom curves based off different temp sensors (and combinations of temp sensors) all without having to muck around in your BIOS.

Great old muppets bit/song:

“Can’t get away to marry you today, my wife won’t let me” 1 minute in

Sounds like a convenient excuse to make everything a rental, or to just tear down all vacant homes.

You can’t expect these people to sit by an issue they can toss money at to make better for them.

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I didn’t realize there were versions that attempted to be sfw!

I’ll stick to the oil, thanks. Maybe the chicken. Anything bigger and it just slides out that side hole! Talk about wasted calories.

It’s a “puzzle” common in Kirby games. The puzzle is that only the bomb blocks can remove the “concrete” blocks, but that they don’t always blow up the closest ones.

In this one, if you blow up either of the bomb blocks that look like the right ones, it spawns concrete blocks in the way of the treasure. The correct bomb to blow up is the one that doesn’t look like it connects to anything.

In game example from Kirby Superstar at 11:25 in this video: https://youtu.be/NuYGNlidKfw

You can’t. The whole puzzle is that only the bomb blocks can remove the “concrete” blocks, but that they don’t always blow up the closest ones.

In this one, if you blow up either of the bomb blocks that look like the right ones, it spawns concrete blocks in the way of the treasure. The correct bomb to blow up is the one that doesn’f look like it connects to anything.

In game example at 11:25 in this video: https://youtu.be/NuYGNlidKfw

EDIT: Maybe that was true in the 90s. Definitely wasn’t a few years later in the 00s.

No. Wrong. Don’t make me get the spray bottle. Fuck off with that rose tinted bullshit.

My lived experiences completely contradict that.

I went through highschool in the 00s. The term political correctness wasn’t used, but there were massive swaths of teenage assholes running around.

“Saying gay is offensive? That’s fucking gay.”

Day where a bunch of kids are silent to protest the use of retarded as slang? “Can’t you talk? What are you, retarded?”

“I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.” Not meant as some statement about trans-ness, gender, or identity. Dead straight kid meaning they liked looking at girls feel each other up (which was an unfortunate thing that some did for male attention at the time).

The one and only neo-nazi skinhead I ever had the misfortune of meeting was a student at my highschool.

Kids, particularly teenagers, can be exceedingly repulsive assholes. Racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, etc are not the exclusive realm of ebil adults.

Brother you aren’t thinking far enough!

• How many years have we allowed women to vote for them to just not stop this from happening?
• Why did we bother freeing the slaves when we just all ended up slaves to the corporate system man?
• What did we bother keeping that cold war cold for?

Seriously, thank you for the laugh. This is one weird ass twist on “ends justify the means” here. “Current situation retroactively invalidates any previous progress or the tools used to reach it” maybe? Quite a mouthful.

My guy, life is filled with meaningless gestures we all have to regularly do.

I frequently know the only viable solution for companywide issues at my workplace. Do I just run off on my own and shove it through because I know I’m right? No.

Even when the change is so buried in the back end that they’d never know, I participate in the meaningless gesture of informing the business folks, taking questions that they don’t have the knowledge base to understand my answers, etc. It’s a regular process established in my workplace, and despite it not changing anything, it must be followed.

For the price of a few hours every four years, I get to bite back at people who argue that you don’t have any say if you didn’t vote. And if by some miracle voting ends up effecting some change (companies drawing conclusions from the popular vote maybe?), I’m already doing the bare minimum.

Even if one accepts the argument that voting is not productive, that doesn’t inherently justify not participating. There’s plenty of things people do daily that are not productive or useful uses of their time.

Please demonstrate the harm caused by voting in the presidential elections.

Even if it’s not productive, it takes at absolute worst case living in a hellscape without properly staffed polling places, one day out of your time every four years. I was able to do it and get back to my shit in 30 minutes this time, from the time I left home to the time I got back.

So even if it’s useless, for me it was the same as sitting on my ass and watching a TV show. Explain why that is such a horrendous waste of my time that I should have instead not done it at all.

Stroking ensures they don’t drive off the “unreasonable asshole” section of potential customer base, and line must go up no matter what.

Ahegao? More like ahe-kerchow!