Happy belated anthropomorphic home-invading rabbit day to all who celebrate.

And that kind of says it all about the two of them, doesn't it?

Oh come ON.... spoiler alert!

God damn it, now I know that Gosling can act. Fucking ruins the whole twist.

A children's entertainer who choose NOT to speak out about kids in concentration camps isn't a children's entertainer, they're Baby's Frist Propagandist.

Motherfucker probably had money on "when will the CFTC sue Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois for their efforts to 'outlaw, regulate, or otherwise restrain' prediction markets."

Funny, it doesn't look that picture was taken in the back of a van.

That's not a classic "laugh track" as much as it's a fucking creepy-ass attempt at generating the creepy-ass AI cats' creepy-ass laugh.

Can we coin "uncatty valley" for the inevitable deluge of AI-generated cat videos?

Uncatty Valley. You heard it here first, folks.

When I started reading this webcomic 20+ years ago that is exactly what I pictured.

That's a problem, and it's compounded when the eventual rope turns out to be a string.

It's a special kind of fucked up that I would be utterly unsurprised if the president of the United States further disrupted global physical and economic security in the service of a shitty, low-effort April Fool's Day gag.

I actually bought a second Steam Link when they were on that fire sale for $5 in case my first one died... but it just. won't. quit.

Just realized that my OG Steam Link has been a tireless game streaming workhorse for over a decade now. My Steam Controller doesn't get as much use as it once did but that, too, is still entirely functional ten years on. Well done, @valvesoftware.com

It's not dead... it's simply remained as it always was, a dream.

Hell, plenty of the "starving artists" we romanticize may have been the latter but were decidedly not the former.

I don't expect this take to land well here, but I kind of think that he's simply naive. He's writing adventure stories featuring generically appealing, innocently optimistic heroes solving problems with science. If his naivete helps with general science communication, I'm OK with it.

If he was in a place where it was anything but, you could build a bridge out of the bricks he'd shit.

Or maybe the gun is incidental and he just has a somewhat reasonable fear of traffic congestion.

Even if you hate them, you have to respect the effort it takes to be so stunningly incompetent. Waking up, every morning, asking, "what's the stupidest thing I could do today," and then following through, day after day... that's commitment.

In his mind, yes.

Oh no, the children might be embarrassed. Whatever shall we do?

The problem with "financial" counter-culture is that the culture it's "countering" is one of concern for - or at least awareness of - vulnerable individuals. So they're not semantically wrong, just morally wrong. Sadly, that's probably a Very Important Point to them.

Respawn timer suuuuucks.

I hate it when AI compliments me.

No, CLAUDE, I don't "have good instincts," I have decades of experience and know what bad code smells like.

Well, I do have good instincts, that's just not relevant right... look, just fix the damned code already. You're supposed to be good at this.

It's more the suggestion of direct causality - the "delusion" is the simplicity, the notion of "it just is." Simply knowing the truth is not enough - it may be a catalyst but alone it is not necessarily reactive.

I get that, and I don't begrudge them this opportunity. They're all talented people, and the characters they portray are still interesting and evocative. I'm sure it will be good.

I just feel like they may have pre-Serenity stories to tell, but there's more that they could say post-Serenity.

Gen X children saw "truth change the world" with Watergate, the end of the Vietnam War, the end of the Cold War... it's not surprising that this idea took root. I mean, arguably the early internet existed as it did BECAUSE Gen X held this idea so firmly.

I mean, I get the desire to make a milquetoast "interstitial" series because it'll probably be a shitload of fun for everyone involved... and that's great! Live your dream, Serenity Crew. Not everything has to be relevant.

I just kinda, you know, wish it was. There's a lot to say right now. 4/4

... "the truth" does nothing to dissuade True Believers and, in fact, can cement their position EVEN MORE.

So, honestly, there's a place for a post-Serenity Firefly that basically takes "the bad ending" and fucking runs with it. Use it to comment on the bullshit happening now. It's all there. /3

... cemented this idea. It was cliche and borderline silly in ... holy shit 2005? Fucking shitburger that was a long time ago. Fuck. Ok, sorry... ok, so it was cliche in (holyshit) 2005 but now, in the fever dream of 2026 it's outright ridiculous. We know - with science! - that learning... /2

So here's the deal - Firefly was one of the last gasps of Gen X's Great Delusion - every generation has one - that "the truth matters, and people will care about it." The climax literally centered on an antagonistic True Believer surrendering after learning The Truth. The denouement further... /1

The Expanse: A Telltale Series on Steam Take on the role of Camina Drummer and explore the dangerous, uncharted edges of the Belt. From scavenging wrecked ships in a zero-g environment, to combating fearsome pirates, you make the difficult ...

Not a show, but close...

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They knew the game was good, and they knew a shitload of people would buy it and play it - they just wanted that to happen AFTER the bonus payout deadline passed.