Ursa Minor!
Just listening purely to the prosody Yeats stands with the best for me :)
Wreckless Eric has a 2 chord song
Basically you have someone pursuing a dream despite opposition from someone else telling them it will never come to fruition.
I've enjoyed him since I read his horizon poem
"I saw a man pursuing the horizon"
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
“It is futile,” I said,
“You can never —”
“You lie,” he cried,
And ran on.
Especially when it's outside Zach's usual style. I read SMBC and I didn't recognize this as one of his.
I wonder ifhe stopped listening to Rage after they said they hated him
It didn't get great reviews but I enjoyed Pain & Gain
I signed up for a gothic class my frosh year that was described as American gothic-- vampires, werewolves, all that good stuff. I dunno if the prof didn't write the course description or if it got changed later but it was English gothic, which apart from the origins of the genre (Walpole, which ended up being hilarious because tons of modern tropes originated there, like the maiden in the castle using the subterranean staircase to flee from the mad king when a gust of wind blows her candle out) and some of the more satirical stuff (Austin), it was incredibly boring to read.
There was one called The Mysteries of Udolpho that's this meme times 10, where during a wagon trip there are literal 30 page descriptions of tress. I get if we'd been warned that this sort of thing was largely historical and we could pretty much skip the sweeping depictions of scenery that only existed because most people in the 19th century didn't get to travel much so it was exciting to read about exotic landscapes, but the assignment merely amounted to "Here's a 650 page novel, go read it for next week."
At least we got to do Frankenstein and I think there was one Poe story thrown in as well (despite being American).
Betteridge would say no, but the Star Wars holiday special exists.
Not sure why these articles are only coming out now. My work bought me a win11 computer a few months ago and I was surprised to learn that the first few things I downloaded to the desktop showed up on my one drive. I don't really use the account I have on it for much, and it was easy enough to turn off in settings but it was still a shock.
Just another invasion of privacy by a giant corpo that none of its users asked for
Aren't all (or almost all) memes famous randomly though? No one expected a sort of doofy photo of a teen to be famous for years for having bad luck, for example.
Hard to tell in the various shots how much eruption has already taken place, but at least some of the lightning might be generated by the volcano itself. Static electricity from the erupting particles causes lightning, which is known as volcanic lightning or a dirty thunderstorm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_lightning?useskin=vector
classic Sierrra sim game for DOS where you try to outdo your opponent(s) in achieving life goals
Links that open natively in Sync (like news articles) are often riddled with ads. Is there any way for the Sync shell to open through a Firefox based browser, which includes native ad block?
I'm not sure if this is related to what browsers I have on my phone. I do have one chromium based browser (kiwi) installed, and if getting rid of that would fix the problem I could look into deleting it and leaving only FF on my phone. But I'm not sure if it's related.
Play online Star Battle - play online the puzzle game
Puzzle game where you have to put 2 stars in every row, column, and shape. Smaller boards play with a 1 star variant
web version before it was released as Super Mutant Alien Assault
Ever wanted to understand where the phrase "needs washed" comes from? This is a good site to check out maps and explanations of local phrasings
(hopefully someone with more AI experience can pull this off better but I couldn't get it to replace all of a person's skin with denim no matter how many iterations I went through)
I was on a streaming site and fumbled some keystroke that popped up a menu where one option was "disable keyboard shortcuts". I accidentally clicked on it and now the arrow keys don't scroll, space doesn't pause, etc. I can't figure out where that menu is to restore functionality to the keyboard, even after a browser restart.
As far as I can tell, this is site specific, as the keyboard works for youtube and other streaming sites. Any ideas? If it helps, the site I was on is fmoviesz dot to
Was watching From (horror series from MGM) and one of the episodes had the credits listed in a strange order. I know there's some politicking in who gets listed in what order, but this was odd because it was for very minor parts.
There's a gaggle of 7 scary children who are basically there to look creepy, and while they technically have speaking parts, they all just say the same gibberish word over and over. In the credits for S02E10, after the one guest star, the next screen lists (among other cast) "ghoulish child" #5 and #7, then the screen after that lists #2, 3, 4, and 6 (one of the kids is called "ghastly child" and I guess is more main, though I couldn't really see a difference).
Any idea what could cause this? Could kids 5 and 7 be related to the director or something? What possible reason could there be for listing such minor parts out of order? And if they wanted a couple kids featured more prominently, why wouldn't they just call those kids 2 and 3 instead of 5 and 7?
edit: here's a link to the imdb cast page
I still don't really understand how the fediverse interacts very well, so this might be something basic. When I access this post through the original lemmy.world, there are (currently) 44 comments showing, but when I access it through lemmy.zip, only 9 comments show up. This entire comment thread, for example, doesn't appear through .zip. When I go to that thread's OP's profile through .zip, the comment is missing there as well.
As far as I know we're not defederated from lemmy.world, but that's the only reason I was aware of that a user's comments might not appear. Does it have to do with the fact that it's a new instance or something?
Apparently they won't sell you seats if you leave a single seat next to your order. Fuck this shitty monopoly
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