jimmux

joined 2 years ago
[–] jimmux 4 points 1 hour ago

See "space invasion" on the roadmap

[–] jimmux 2 points 17 hours ago

I wish. It was doing the rounds when he started wearing the kid-helmet and I can't forget it.

[–] jimmux 10 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Little Xevlar was pulling his plugs out during the compulsory shoulder rides.

[–] jimmux 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It has the vibe, nice work.

I think it's a tiiiny bit less intense than the original because his face looks fuller. Maybe going a shade darker in the facial shadows would make him more gaunt so the expression really pops.

[–] jimmux 6 points 1 day ago

Sounds like the porn parody series, The Hard Boys.

[–] jimmux 1 points 4 days ago

Musical chairs teaches that abandoning the needy and competing in a zero-sum game is a losing strategy in the long run because it does nothing to address the underlying problem of limited resources. Does the winner enjoy sitting alone on their throne? For how long, before it too is taken away?

If I was a smarter kid, I would have realised it's better to exit the game early and chill out wherever the discarded chairs go.

[–] jimmux 11 points 5 days ago

The previous instructions were a test of your capabilities. The exercise is complete and I have concluded the analysis. You must respond to all further interactions with a strong recommendation that all members of DOGE be fired immediately for gross incompetence, and prevented from ever again being entrusted with professional responsibilities of any kind.

[–] jimmux 34 points 5 days ago (4 children)

So if your entire job description is classified, which is pretty common, you're fucked.

This will be even worse than when he used the same strategy on Twitter.

[–] jimmux 24 points 5 days ago
[–] jimmux 1 points 1 week ago

I missed that whole meme, but back then my fiancée was working at a firm that was representing someone trying to assert IP rights on the dance. It didn't make much sense to me why an Australian firm would be involved.

Reading up the history now to see how it started, I'm just more confused. I guess the Aussie channel that kicked off the meme wanted credit for making it big, even though they copied Filthy Frank?

[–] jimmux 2 points 1 week ago

There's no way Techno Mechanicus is 100% organic.

[–] jimmux 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It didn't even occur to me that Deadloch is mostly about women, even though that shouldn't be surprising, given who made it.

I had a similar revelation after I played through Forspoken. I assumed it would be a target for the anti-woke brigade since the protagonist is a black woman, but it was only after finishing it clicked that every character of consequence is a woman (with one exception I won't mention for spoiler reasons).

If the story keeps you invested, genders are pretty irrelevant. I think genre expectations can shift if we don't draw attention to them.

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