@[email protected] In Jackie Chan's Gorgeous the character in this role actually states he's now a commentator for sports matches​; he likes being behind the microphone because with his knowledge from training 'he sounds like he's invincible' but he fell so far behind the lead character's skills he now hires people to fight him and comments on the fight instead of trying to fight him himself. So I think the film makers are pretty aware of the similarities!

I'm not quite sure how, but somehow this video manages to be a mind blowing display of skill, a hilarious display of grown men making fart noises into microphones, and an absolute banger of a tune all at the same time. Well played, Hiss and H-has. Well played.

youtube.com/watch?v=zdTzaWIc...

@[email protected] @[email protected] I second this message, and basically everything else in this thread. Realising you're badly dehydrated and need to pee and then going back to what you were​ doing before you manage to do anything about it is... well. It is, I suppose.

@[email protected] vlc added its very own anti memetic? ​

Brutal political commentary from a madlib generator.

chaos.social/users/weirdunit... ​

Even great stories start from humble beginnings. In the first session of a new round of Coding Games with a Story, some of our authors (9-11 year olds) successfully got a story up and running with a scene, background music, images of the person speaking... and a decision point.

#writing #interactivefiction

@[email protected] @[email protected] arrrgh. That would have made a vastly superior punch line and I missed it. tips hat​

@[email protected] yeap. Unless you think that young children should be responsible for reading and perfectly understanding the implications of the t&cs, and the elderly, and the people learning the local language, and the expert carpenter who happened not to get a formal education, and... oh, anyone who's vulnerable in pretty much any way, and everybody who isn't better at lawyering on the fly than a corporate legal department with as much time as they want @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] ​

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"See, the Staircase of the Monarchs!"

"So if you make it to the top it proves you're the rightful heir?"

"​No, no. But we gave it a name that makes it sound like that to filter out the stupid and those vulnerable to peer pressure. And it's pretty."

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Isn't there basically no mathematical difference between ​GMI and UBI if you have a means based income tax system (which nearly everywhere does)? It seems like as long as you're calculating both things at the same time, you'd end up with the same answers. The only "bad" option would seem to be assessing income given and income taxed with two different systems which might be politically necessary in the short term, but is self-evidental more expensive to manage.

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​(for context, NextCloud can be self hosted and is open source but the fact they offered paid for enterprise options to schools and universities suggests they think it can take the place of classroom in at least some ways)

@[email protected] @[email protected] To get the ball rolling, NextCloud do offer an education product (including a hosted option) and are based in Germany, I believe. That said, I haven't used it and I don't know where the hosting happens. nextcloud.com/education/

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​# LibreClassroom sounds good, it doesn't seem like a thing that would need to be EU only (as long as solutions are able to be hosted in the EU). I'd be interested in this as well.

@[email protected] hmm. I think there's a difference here in that the cave was explicitly a story​ for teaching purposes, while the Babylonian exile was a record of historical events (of whatever accuracy, but it definitely wasn't considered made up to teach a specific point). No arguments with the commentary on the hypocrisy of effectively exiling people and then being surprised they find more truth in the old testament than your 'helpful' theology though...

@[email protected] all those ghouls cursed with empathy are out there looking for the unsavoury savoury people​

Made university life a lot cheaper too...

One thing I'll be forever grateful for my mum teaching me is not to be afraid of turning ingredients into food (and some basic rules for helping the results not be disgusting). We've opted for a rather more planned take on food than my family of origin in general, but sometimes you're tired and you haven't had time to shop and it is so powerful to be about to just grab a handful of ingredients and make 'a meal'.

To all of you who love your old school parser based #interactivefiction , the smack talk in this 1-1 game jam style competion over at the IntFiction forums is why the chef's kiss emoji exists... intfiction.org/t/iron-chif-s...

That’s not a verb I recognize.

@[email protected] I don't actually know the context of the emails, but from the quote it does seem that the exact wording is both second hand and ambiguous; is it the poorness that is suppose to go away, or the people?

Not that I'm feeling generous enough to the people involved to assume the nicer option, but I'd feel dirty to not at least acknowledge both exist.​

New round of courses for under 18s interested in #writing #visualnovels starts next week, so it's time to start releasing the improvements to VisualInk that we discovered would be useful in the last run through of the course.

bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects... ​