In the game "Control", there is a sequence where (late-game spoiler) to navigate a particular maze you need the elderly Finnish janitor (who may or may not be a demigod)'s Walkman, which blasts a song by "Old Gods of Asgard" while you kill a long series of enemies. Very satisfying. Does that count?
If my kids listened to Realms Unknown and saw this prompt, they would be screaming "K-Pop Demon Hunters" at a volume known to cause permanent aural trauma
The experimental hip-hop group "clipping." have a concept album "Splendor & Misery" which tells the story of an enslaved person on a cargo spaceship in the far future, largely from the point of view of the ship AI. It was nominated for a Hugo award.
I don't understand this comic. Unfortunately the subject matter of the comic means I don't want to ask my go-to expert on ploidy, namely my mother-in-law.
I just made a commit relating to a Bluesky TXT record in our infrastructure repository. #jj-vcs gave it a change ID beginning "skoot". 👍
I'll have an hour or so to kill near Edinburgh Waverley tomorrow morning. Where should I go? (e.g. coffee; cool book shop; ...)
@alicefraser.bsky.social after introducing yourself as "podcaster and published author" I was hoping you would introduce @andrewhunterm.bsky.social in the same way! (The Last Day was solid.)
Great episode. Absolutely worth the risk of going right up to the wire with this one.
@alicefraser.bsky.social perhaps Realms Unknown might like to cover scp-wiki.wikidot.com and the media that has grown from it (e.g. qntm's There Is No Antimemetics Division, currently out of print pending republication by a "real" publisher; pretty much the entire vibe of the game Control)
@robbotron.bsky.social perfect review. I can't wait for the day when our disco alien that sings back whatever you say can mysteriously migrate to the charity shop.
I got some custom-made ones from ACS. Much more comfortable than any off-the-shelf ones. Pricey but they should last 5+ years.
Even when it's two of the worst people badmouthing each other, I still don't want to see or hear about either of them. Surely there must be more important topics to be top of the front page?
Favourite moment of the video
His substack is not hard to find. He has some colourful opinions based on, let's say, incorrect prior assumptions.
Screaming at my phone after reading the punchline of @londoncentric.media's latest piece. How is “redact a PDF” not a solved problem? Is “select text and hit Ctrl+C” really such arcane knowledge?
Igalia, with funding committed by all the orgs who ship Chromium-based browsers? (One can dream.)
I see the opposite: with www. works, without www I get “Error code: SSL_ERROR_INTERNAL_ERROR_ALERT” from Firefox.
The parents’ WhatsApp group for one of my kids' school clasess is discussing kids (not) having smartphones, and specifically Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation. What's the right way to drop a link to a 2-hour @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode about that book into the chat?
So who else is at the Death Cab For Cutie & The Postal Service instance of All Points East?
Literally everything I know about Vance I learned from @ifbookspod.bsky.social and I intend to keep it that way.
@hollygramazio.bsky.social not sure if you host it or the gallery does, but at the Young V&A on the House Rules exhibit there is a qr code for bit.ly/yva-houserules which redirects to houserules.website which gives 503 Service Unavailable
TFW you get a letter addressed "TO LANDOWNER / OCCUPIER" from the local council, explaining that they are planning to designate your area as a Conservation Area, and the letter begins “Dear Sirs”.
So the the distinctive local character is that… only two or more men may own or occupy a house?
TBF I also do this and am considerably older than your 6yo
Reintroduced my Eldest Child to Katamari Damacy today. Wow, it's hard if you're new to it, and wow, the King of All Cosmos is a real dick.