edit2: actually looking at the first pic again that footpath isn’t bricks; that’s the shadow from the railing; it’s just concrete

Yeah I noticed that too after writing my own comment. But still, the railing sits on a big concrete foundation, and it’s pretty clearly right on the water. Near Mrs Macquarie’s Chair the railing doesn’t have the metal wire, doesn’t sit on the concrete foundation, and is notably raised up above the water.

I don’t think I had seen him in anything before 99. But he really was great. Top 2 moments for me are the rant about etymology in The Box, and “yas queen” when he pulls the “gay card”.

Requires TPM 2.0? Wtf??

I binged this show like 3 or 4 times in one year shortly after it ended. It’s been a while since I’ve watched it. I really need to go again, because it’s so great. The whole cast is amazing, but Andre Braugher especially just brings another level. RIP.

I have no rational argument, but it feels like buffalo chicken is the top one. The bottom is a chicken buffalo.

I’m embarrassed to say that for me it took until the H in Human. It’s clearly an “It”. Which, considering how incredibly meticulous the rest of the sign was (itself quite suspicious in retrospect) is very jarring and out-of-place. The fact that the H is transformed not just into mess, but into a perfect rendition of two other valid characters is a very AI type of mistake to make.

There’s also, in retrospect, the question of where the photo was taken from. The photo shows an angle of the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge that I don’t think is possible, especially when you add in that brick footpath and metal railing. It resembles, perhaps, parts of the railing from Circular Quay, which is west of the Opera House, and thus cannot show both Opera House and Bridge in the same photo. The angle appears to be from near Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, but here’s what the view looks like there:

There’s also something just a bit “off” about the whole text. It looks digitally super-imposed. I’d be prepared to believe it was Photoshopped in over a blank board (or a board with a different message) even if it isn’t AI, long before I’d believe it’s 100% genuine.

It’s set in Sydney Harbour and it’s so Shit I can smell it here in Gosford

No offence, but in the grand scheme of things, that’s…not very far.

Still, I can smell it here in Brisbane. Which is still not that far on a global scale, but it’s a fair bit further. (Brisbane the city, that is, not the Brisbane Water that Gosford sits on.)

I don’t know anything about this Ratchet & Clank game, but as far as old mobile tie-ins to existing console franchises go, I remember 2006’s Daxter being really good.

Ludo? I haven’t played that since I was a tiny kid! I can’t say I remember much about how it’s played.

they are suing and therefore need to provide prove

What are they suing for? Defamation? Truth is a defence to defamation. That is: you need to prove that what you said was true. Burden of proof is not on the defamed.

If untrue (or not proven to be true) the burden of proof is (usually—see: defamation per se) on the plaintiff to prove that the statement was actually damaging to them. But that’s a separate issue from the truth.

Fun fact: nothing justifies genocide. Nothing.

That’s probably a big part of why this took so long to be described by science.

Googling that, it doesn’t look like it. The first one I mentioned was completely rectangular, not an odd shape. It’s the Bandai Digimon toy.

The second one I think may have been Scannerz, which I’m guessing used the same connector as the Digimon toy just because it was what was available. But it’s possible (at an outside chance) that I’m misremembering and it was the D-Scanner, a Digimon-branded equivalent to Scannerz. No useful data was being transferred when connecting the two together, just power.

A third possibility is that there was some third toy I’m forgetting about which is what I was able to connect to the Digimon toy to power it.

I never had a Tamagotchi, but the little rectangular Digimon versions of them were all the rage when I was like 8. I kinda miss those things.

And I recall a year or two later getting another toy…may or may not have been Digimon branded…that had the same connector on the top, but was more rounded in shape. I remember after my battery on one died, holding the two together to try and keep it alive through the power the other one was sending it. Of course it only worked as long as I was physically holding them, and would then reset.

No conspiracy here. That’s just literally not what that subreddit is for. It’s for open-ended discussion questions. Rule’s right there in the sidebar.

As a native English speaker, I like that our language is fucking insane and it just owns it. No attempt, ever, to actually be consistent or logical.

French, on the other hand… It’s technically consistent, but it’s consistent in the most bizarre, wild, nonsensical way. “Mangeaient”, “mangeais”, and “mangeait” are all pronounced exactly the same. And all very similar to manger, mangez, and mangé.

Oh, and “mangerai” and “mangerais” are pronounced the same as each other, will frequently be used in completely interchangeable sentence structures, and mean notably different things. “Je mangerai”: “I will eat”. “Je mangerais”: “I would eat”.

Not even auto-update. Just auto detect updates. Then you go and download it yourself manually.

Auto-update-detection meant that the software was calling out to a remote server, so they updated the TOS to reflect that, and people got upset.

From what I could tell when I looked into it after a comment someone left on [email protected], some people were very upset at the privacy implications of Audacity adding an update detection mechanism (which can be turned off, and which is not included at all in the default build if you build it yourself).

Watched last weekend.

On Nebula? [email protected] if you’re interested.

I’ll add, not me personally, but I do know two people who had a similar arrangement. I don’t know the precise details of the reasons, but I believe it had something to do with dysfunctional parents or finances. In both of those cases, the couple are now happily married and well-integrated into the broader extended family.