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just tried to reference the xkcd "today's lucky 10,000" comic but I wanted to explain xkcd first, so I was like "you probably know the one about experts in the field overestimating their audience's familiarity with the subject matter" and uh. he didn't. love me some irony

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

Taylor Swift does this

no she doesn’t

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

the problem with visual novels is that they are novels, but they are almost exclusively sold on video game distribution platforms, which means that they're novels being read by gamers who are by and large entirely unequipped to critique that medium

gamers are by and large unequipped to read

I have just combined all rice in the world into a single rouse

party games as a genre are doomed to fail until we standardize a guest pass system for online play. Imagine if you were playing a board game irl and everyone who wanted in had to buy their own copy. That's ridiculous. The genre peaked when couch co-op was still supreme and now Dokapon Kingdom has been on steam for years but it doesn't matter cuz it's like $40 a person or some shit and nobody wants to do that