I definitely wouldn’t know what a gesamtkunstwerk was without having been introduced in Brian David Gilbert’s perfect PokéRap. https://youtu.be/2cT6ULpScZA

I think that’s fair considering they reach 40 km/h.

I absolutely love using https://movielens.org/. The more I’ve rated, the better its predicted ratings have gotten for me. It doesn’t seem to be popular enough to be as gamed as some of the others. Be honest with your ratings, and it will steer you in the right direction. Don’t give Rashomon 5 stars if you didn’t like it. If Wedding Crashes is your favorite movie, that’s 5 stars for you.

When I’m trying to find a movie that my mother-in-law is going to like, I start with That Thing You Do or a Knight’s Tale and I check Similar Movies.

I’ve been playing pretty regularly since 2017. It’s the only multiplayer game that I play, since I normally don’t like letting my teammates down. I enjoy seeing the puzzle pieces of a random team and trying to figure out how to play in a way that will make them work. At its best, the matches are close and you feel like “It was winnable if I had…” They’ve spent a lot of time giving people the ability to avoid players you don’t want on your team, report trolls, and stick to the game modes that don’t make you angry. They’ve never known if the game should be competitive or fun, and so it’s never quite been successful at either. Most of us who play the game would not recommend it. If you start a match and say, “Anybody here ready to have some fun?!” Everyone will say “No, this is Overwatch.” And they’re right, and that’s okay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retard_(pejorative)

Yes, it is a price increase, but the inflation has been wild. For context, the Switch in 2017 for $299 is equivalent to $389 in 2025 dollars. It’s really been insane. The Nintendo 64 from 1996 was $199, or $404 in 2025 dollars.

That closing line is brilliant.

https://youtu.be/QqRLVFRe9AU

If the stakes were lower, it wouldn’t be an issue. It’s not fun to get close to someone, then suddenly realize they don’t think the rest of your friends should get to live.

Yeah, we’ve got to get rid of all of this Bronze-age crap they’re teaching our kids.

My pollinating, proboscis-prone friends are offended.

When the IRS is under-funded, they’re less able to go after the wealthy and are left the poor who won’t be able to fight it.

It’s the subtler version of hostile architecture. You know how they designed benches to be impossible for homeless people to sleep on? They do not want a customer to stay at the building after they have made a purchase. It is more efficient if the children do not come inside and a new customer can take their place. The building is not made for humans, it is made for money.

I wish I had known when I was young that you can stealthily flex muscles like hamstrings and glutes to end an unwanted erection. It draws blood to those muscle groups and away from the erection.

My local library has Nintendo Switch games to rent for two weeks at a time. Just got to play Link’s Awakening and Kirby and the Forgotten Land all the way through for free. I think I’m going to go ahead and buy Triangle Strategy based off of my play experience.

So this might be worth considering: https://youtu.be/qBRaI0ZeAf8

Work within the constraints of the first past the post voting system you have while working toward ranked choice or something more functional.

This Nerdwriter video helped me understand his approach to speaking. https://youtu.be/_aFo_BV-UzI

This is the most heart-warming comic about infanticide.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5%3A29-30&version=KJV