Because all the cool people are too busy homebrewing tabletop RPGs instead.

This might be controversial, but the new Denis Villeneuve movies are much better than the book. Maybe watch the movies and read the book or trawl the wiki after for more context.

Well, you know the old adage: “Good artists copy, great artists steal”

Ehhhhh, I don’t know if I agree with this.

American “culture” has had a whole bunch of definitions, usually changing with the decades. For most of the 20th century, you could point to something and say “That’s American”; things like milkshake bars and greasers, anything surrounding the hippie movement (that we actually probably stole from somewhere else), and… Whatever that strange design of random shapes the 90s had.

After 2000, there hasn’t been really anything that stands out, in part due to the rise of the internet, and in another, the dangerous build environment. In order to have culture, people need to congregate in a place and create something meaningful. Because Americans go to work and then go home, often with little-to-no time in between from long commutes, they have no time to create the next “culture moment”.

What about a max percentage of the valuation of the company? This would include other incentives such as stocks, vehicles, etc

This is it. This is the comment that makes me realize that I’m old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdD206eSv0

It’s kinda true, but less exciting than the person made it sound.

gargoyle (n.)

“grotesque carved waterspout,” connected to the gutter of a building to throw down water clear of the wall … from Old French gargole

gargle (v.)

1520s, from French gargouiller “to gurgle, bubble” (14c.), from Old French gargole “throat, waterspout”

https://www.etymonline.com/word/gargoyle

https://www.etymonline.com/word/gargle

This was my first thought as well

I feel like Vocaloid got pretty popular in the early 2010s for a couple years and then everyone moved on.

It might still have a small fanbase in Japan, but interest is nearly non-existant, at least here in the US.

They have a lot of practice from all the dropbears

Luckily I have 6 years of Electronics manufacturing experience, so the math and theory are the things I’ll need to learn most of. Unfortunately, those things are the hardest part…

it’s clicking non-stop Time for a new HDD, friend. Preferably an SSD

Me, whose going to start studying EE: 😭

Decent. Not as good as the bottomless pit guy, though

Probably. I’m too autistic to recognize when those prompts happen, so I usually play all my board games in silence.

Maybe he was confused? Most people just try on sweaters at or near the rack, if they try them on at all.

This once happened to me, thankfully for only a few hours rather than days. I woke up one morning to a fwipping noise in my ear, went to the bathroom to see if I could flush it out with water, and a spider just dangled on a line out of my ear.

It was strange, but not really scary. Jumping spiders are harmless to humans, and this one was only a millimeter or so big.

Almost certainly it originated from pen and paper shorthand. The internet has a lot of history in regard to it potentially being due to T9 slang, but I remember it being shown to me before cellphones were in wide use.

I was thinking the same thing. Anyone under the age of 20 has got to be scratching their head at this meme.