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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • This is pretty disappointing to me. I know it’s kind of an unpopular opinion these days, but I really enjoyed Outlaws. It was just different enough from other Star Wars properties to be novel, but recognizable enough to be convincingly in the Star Wars universe. Sure some characters were a bit flat, missions were repetitive, and it didn’t invent a new revolutionary mechanic or anything, but does every game have to be groundbreaking? I got solid enjoyment out of it, and was looking forward to how they’d continue the story.



  • “Gender war” might have been too strongly worded. But I, and clearly lots of other Lemmings, are especially sensitive to users who try to stir up unnecessary controversies about gender, or bring it into comments where it isn’t relevant. You might not have been trying to do that, so that’s my bad ratcheting up the rhetoric with “gender war.” But I read Arkouda’s comment and I didn’t even notice their use of “they” until reading your comment about it.

    As others have said, I think you parsed the language a little too far. It’s perfectly acceptable, and sometimes preferred, to use generalities when offering advice. Re-reading it again, I frankly can’t see how it’s disingenuous at all.




  • Yeah, even UNESCO knew he would pull out again, and they prepared for it this time.

    From a different article:

    “I deeply regret President Donald Trump’s decision to once again withdraw the United States of America from UNESCO,” Director-General Audrey Azoulay said, adding the move contradicted fundamental principles of multilateralism.

    “However regrettable, this announcement was expected, and UNESCO has prepared for it,” she said.

    In recent years, Azoulay said, UNESCO had “undertaken major structural reforms and diversified our funding sources”, including with private and voluntary governmental contributions.


  • I hope everyone can see now, that higher ed in the US is only concerned with profits and maintaining its connections to those in power. It has been this way for decades, maybe always, but Trump’s terrorism against immigrants and anyone with a moral compass who can see what Israel is doing, has exposed it to the point that it has never been more obvious.

    Harvard and Columbia, at the very least, have laughed in the face of academic freedom, shat in the face of morally justified outrage, and have made it perfectly clear that they have no business being in positions of academic, moral, or cultural authority.

    Truly shameful.





  • This is exactly it. Unless we get really specific, this shit is more of the same middling platitudes, and different audiences will only hear what they want to hear. Seriously disappointing, and not at all helpful.

    Ex-politicians like Obama (but not just him) need to shut the hell up unless they have PRACTICAL ideas that we can use. Someone like Obama should understand that his words have gravitas (love your username btw, fellow Banks fan I presume?), but his rhetoric goes straight in the garbage unless it’s backed by actionable ideas.










  • They’re both really really close to perfect, and any native speaker would understand exactly what you’re saying with no problem, but I’d say them like this:

    “I won’t be at my computer much today, I have to be somewhere.”

    and

    “It’s incredible how time flies! It will be Christmas soon!”