Sergio @ Sergio @lemmy.world

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"Lemmings" is a video game from the 1990s/2000s. I was never really into it but apparently:

Lemmings has also been called a predecessor of the modern real-time strategy (RTS) video game genre. A 1991 Amiga Power article claimed that Lemmings "was the first major game to introduce the 'indirect-control' concept," an element that is now common in many RTS games.[117] Blizzard Entertainment developer Bob Fitch said that part of the inspiration for the first Warcraft game, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, was based on developing a competitive multiplayer RTS that combined elements of The Lost Vikings (which he had worked on) and Lemmings; Fitch said "We just went, 'Oh it's so cool when you see lots of Lemmings all over the place. Why don't we have lots of Vikings all over instead, and then the Vikings can fight each other."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)

The bonus comic isn't really that funny, I just think it looks epic. Like the second panel could be an album cover on !thrashmetal@lemmy.world or something.

(edit: I kind of regret posting this image for reasons described below, but I'll leave it up for context.)

I kinda like this variation on the theme:

They clenched around the world like a fist, each black as the inside of an event horizon until those last bright moments when they all burned together. They screamed as they died. Every radio up to geostat groaned in unison, every infrared telescope went briefly snowblind. Ashes stained the sky for weeks afterwards; mesospheric clouds, high above the jet stream, turned to glowing rust with every sunrise. The objects, apparently, consisted largely of iron. Nobody ever knew what to make of that.

For perhaps the first time in history, the world knew before being told: if you'd seen the sky, you had the scoop. The usual arbiters of newsworthiness, stripped of their accustomed role in filtering reality, had to be content with merely labeling it. It took them ninety minutes to agree on Fireflies. A half hour after that, the first Fourier transforms appeared in the noosphere; to no one's great surprise, the Fireflies had not wasted their dying breaths on static. There was pattern embedded in that terminal chorus, some cryptic intelligence that resisted all earthly analysis. The experts, rigorously empirical, refused to speculate: they only admitted that the Fireflies had said something. They didn't know what.

Everyone else did. How else would you explain 65,536 probes evenly dispersed along a lat-long grid that barely left any square meter of planetary surface unexposed? Obviously the Flies had taken our picture. The whole world had been caught with its pants down in panoramic composite freeze-frame. We'd been surveyed—whether as a prelude to formal introductions or outright invasion was anyone's guess.

https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

From 1980 onwards, he was gradually phased out of the main cast, with his appearances becoming increasingly sporadic; for instance, he did not appear in any strips between December 25, 1981, and June 27, 1982. He had largely disappeared from the comic by April 24, 1983, his last regular appearance, and his disappearance was not fully elaborated upon at the time. Lyman has made three cameo appearances in the comic since then. First, in the strip on Garfield's 10th birthday, June 19, 1988, where he appears in the title panel seated between Jon's father and Liz Wilson; he also appears in a flashback panel within the strip. The next two were on April 2, 2013 and June 23, 2024, in a picture on the newspaper Jon was reading.

According to Davis, Lyman's original purpose was to be someone who Jon could actually talk to and express other ideas — a role gradually taken over by Garfield himself. Once Lyman was no longer needed for that purpose, he was removed without explanation. Jim Davis has jokingly given explanations about Lyman's sudden disappearance and long absence from the strip; examples include "don't look in Jon's basement" and "he joined the Peace Corps and was never heard from again."
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After decades of absence, Lyman made his big comeback in the Garfield Show story arc, "Long Lost Lyman". In this continuity, it is revealed that he found work as a wildlife photographer. He had gone to Australia and searched for a mythological creature, but suddenly disappeared without a trace. When Jon, Garfield, and Odie went searching for him, they had found him dressed as that creature. Lyman explained that he never contacted them, because there was no way he could. Lyman decided to stay in the jungle to protect the wildlife from poachers, but promises to visit when he can.

https://antifandom.com/garfield/wiki/Lyman

Unexpectedly wholesome Garf.

Last I checked it was still catching up on federation... (checks again) Oooh, looks like it's caught up!

History is Patrick Stewart playing Lenin sitting in a chair giving orders.

For all we know you could be a victim in an abusive family. I'm sorry to see that people are blaming you without further asking about your circumstances.

FWIW I think it's a bad older-generation thing, to express your affection by criticizing someone and insulting them. I had one older relative tell me that if you wanted someone to know that you loved them, you had to be a little mean to them. There was even a saying "spare the rod and spoil the child" to justify physical punishment.

To be sure, sometimes you need to be direct and critical and rigid, but it should not develop into abuse. If you feel you are in an abusive relationship, please reach out for help.

Yeah... reminds me of a very valuable lesson I learned during my college years.

Killer song. The sound is very simple, but very deep.

I thought it was "okay"... Definitely not bad, but none of the songs really stood out either.

Guatemala is awesome. The countryside is beautiful and the people are descended from one of humanity's major civilizations, the Mayans.

I realize OP is only half-serious, but they still come off as really ignorant.

Yeah, I didn't realize that when I first heard it. I guess that's why it's a punishment. If they just hung a tiny parakeet off his neck, it wouldn't be much of a punishment.

If it's not in a song by Sabaton or Iron Maiden, it ain't real history.

Yeah, I didn't really like the genre for a long time either, until I was in a place where I kinda needed it.

Most people hate school. Even the "smart kids", what they really like is learning or knowledge, not school.

I see it as an example of cozy slice-of-life. Kind of like Azumanga Daioh but in a deli with a bear and a plant.

Rufus Sewell! Later played John Smith in Man in the High Castle.

much more fun than a plain flawless mirror.

yeah agreed! Back in the day I used to generate text for fun with n-grams and I never went higher than bigrams bc it was boring without those unexpected disfluencies. I thought of it being like an electric guitar, you want it to sound a little raw.

But Latin is the classy part of English. That's why "fornication" is not profane but "fucking" is. The first is descended from Latin (via the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror) and the second is descended from Anglo-Saxon (who were the conquered.) Everyday, the Romans still rule.