Regarding your question: While I did note the recurring theme of artfully applied smoke, I have yet to find it dull or repetitive. Expanding on physical effects couldn’t hurt, but the smoke never fails to add something in each instance.
I look forward to these and check your history occasionally to make sure I am caught up. Thanks again!
The entirety of bbno$ can only be pronounced if you already know it’s “baby no money” or whatever. When you replace an existing s with a dollar sign, it’s usually (not always) pronounced the same as it had been.
I thought that until I was downvoted a bit back for calling them “M$” in reply to someone’s post about how they don’t want to switch to 11. I can’t imagine where that’s coming from, but it was a good few accounts.
I was told it came across as “unserious” and childish. I think it’s neither: I’m adamant that M$ is garbage and I’m quite serious about the advice I had given in my post to prioritize getting off of 10 before the hackers manage to find something worth exploiting.
M$ managed to make hating on them uncool somehow. Boggles my mind.
I dunno why the dollar sign version lost favor with anyone. It’s perpetually true, easy to type, and communicates far more succinctly than any screed about M$’s greed and enshittification.
This isn’t a hill I’m willing to die on, but here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_(genre):
Bara is distinct from yaoi, a genre of Japanese media focusing on homoerotic relationships between male characters that historically has been created by and for women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys%27_love:
The term yaoi (/ˈjaʊi/ⓘYAH-oi; Japanese: やおい [jaꜜo.i]) emerged as a name for the genre in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the context of dōjinshi (self-published works) culture as a portmanteau of yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi("no climax, no point, no meaning"), where it was used in a self-deprecating manner to refer to amateur fan works that focused on sex to the exclusion of plot and character development, and that often parodied mainstream manga and anime by depicting male characters from popular series in sexual scenarios. "Boys' love" was later adopted by Japanese publications in the 1990s as an umbrella term for male–male romance media marketed to women.
I was joking about the picture
GNU cat blesses us with a 25-year-old CRT monitor
Has anyone checked in on the status of the meme coin?
https://lemmy.world/comment/21903620
Bonus info: the alien-looking creature on the right is his girlfriend.
The Sorcerer’s Heir by Paula Volsky. Cover art was by James Warhola. It’s the second book in a trilogy from the late ‘80s.
I have this book and that’s her son
Get Kali out of the Chad tier, please.
Thank you for this series! I’ve been enjoying it.
Regarding your question: While I did note the recurring theme of artfully applied smoke, I have yet to find it dull or repetitive. Expanding on physical effects couldn’t hurt, but the smoke never fails to add something in each instance.
I look forward to these and check your history occasionally to make sure I am caught up. Thanks again!
There was a meme coin based on it. I think it’s a crypto pump-n-dump.
The entirety of bbno$ can only be pronounced if you already know it’s “baby no money” or whatever. When you replace an existing s with a dollar sign, it’s usually (not always) pronounced the same as it had been.
It’s just pronounced like an s.
This reminds me of a gag in a music video where someone called Ke$ha “Kay - dollar sign - hah”
“Micro$oft”
I thought that until I was downvoted a bit back for calling them “M$” in reply to someone’s post about how they don’t want to switch to 11. I can’t imagine where that’s coming from, but it was a good few accounts.
I was told it came across as “unserious” and childish. I think it’s neither: I’m adamant that M$ is garbage and I’m quite serious about the advice I had given in my post to prioritize getting off of 10 before the hackers manage to find something worth exploiting.
M$ managed to make hating on them uncool somehow. Boggles my mind.
They didn’t spend eight years in moneybags medical school to be Mx/Mr/Ms/Mrs, thankyouverymuch
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BlueSky login wall. Please use screenshots.
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I dunno why the dollar sign version lost favor with anyone. It’s perpetually true, easy to type, and communicates far more succinctly than any screed about M$’s greed and enshittification.
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This isn’t a hill I’m willing to die on, but here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_(genre): Bara is distinct from yaoi, a genre of Japanese media focusing on homoerotic relationships between male characters that historically has been created by and for women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys%27_love: The term yaoi (/ˈjaʊi/ ⓘ YAH-oi; Japanese: やおい [jaꜜo.i]) emerged as a name for the genre in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the context of dōjinshi (self-published works) culture as a portmanteau of yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi("no climax, no point, no meaning"), where it was used in a self-deprecating manner to refer to amateur fan works that focused on sex to the exclusion of plot and character development, and that often parodied mainstream manga and anime by depicting male characters from popular series in sexual scenarios. "Boys' love" was later adopted by Japanese publications in the 1990s as an umbrella term for male–male romance media marketed to women.
So it depends on where you look.