Can i make a ufo out of this?

Etymology of ascii characters is something I never even considered. New hobby unlocked

Cooooollllllll! It’s like computer morse code

I’ve been using them for nearly 2 years no and have no experience other than saving money and getting reimbursed for bad products without needing to send them back. I appreciate your anecdote, but since brick and mortar stores are dead and I don’t make much money paying Amazon to import the same products for me at a premium just makes no sense. Temu is fine.

I read your comment 3 full times and I still don’t understand how anything explains why they wished for a white Christmas.

Edit: after thinking about this more, this reads like one of those stories that gets passed around without much evidence. It doesn’t really make much sense when compared to the lyrics of the song. 3 weeks is not long enough to establish “just like the ones i used to know”, and if they were jewish and wanted to write a song about remembering their late nights infant child…why be confusing and reference a holiday you don’t even celebrate?

Here is a sample lyric: “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white”

This is a regular Christmas song. If anything, it’s simply a coincidence his child died on christmas, and had very little to do with the creation of the song in any way, but gets passed around as for some reason probably just cuz infant death is dramatic. It might sound harsh in 2024, but 100 years ago losing a child at 3 weeks was sadly much more common and likely not as traumatic as we consider it today.

Edit2: i looked it up on Wikipedia:

“Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song.[7] One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer-director-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims the song was written there.[8] He often stayed up all night writing. One day he told his secretary, “I want you to take down a song I wrote over the weekend. Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it’s the best song anybody ever wrote.”[9]”

The Wikipedia states they had a son who died in infancy, but makes no claims anywhere about it being on Christmas day so who knows about that even.

Yup.

If i know China, it’s the same as Bluetooth but with code tweaked enough to be distinct, while also funneling data into shady servers.

Wait, we had networking like that in the 70s? I’ve never heard that, do you have any other specific information I can look up? A computer at a school talking to another school remotely to use its processing power in the 70s sounds like alternate reality. That’s literally just the internet. What were they pushing the data over? Surely not phone lines?

Temu is rocking, too

I loved irc 20 years ago…i have no clue how to get back into it. How do you even find a cool server in 2024??

Isn’t soda stream also very pro trump?

Same. I beat that entire game and put at least 40 hours into it I’m sure, and I couldn’t tell you a single plot point. It’s been a few years for sure, but I haven’t played Mass effect in like a decade and I could tell you the entire story from beginning to end.

Can i make a ufo out of this

My best guess: The thought processes required to ponder the possibility of a simulation are too important to the goal of the simulation itself to disable.

I have sunk so much time into Voices of the Void it’s honestly crazy

I didn’t like it, myself. I played through to the end and found it incredibly tedious for what you got out of the story, which was basically just a tale about a macguffin in the ocean with sea monsters. The biggest complaint was how painful they made navigating the memory scenes. Every time you want to do anything, you first gotta backtrack all over the ship and you gotta wait through these intro and outro cutscenes and music, and it got old very fast for me. I also got tired of the entire gimmick about 25% in, as there is no variation to the puzzles in the game, they are all set up the same—try to identify people based on surroundings and descriptions, 60+ times. The art direction was really impressive at first, but quickly became dull to me around the time the gimmick started the wear thin.

Tl;dr: it’s admittedly a very creative take on a mystery game, but unfortunately playing through to the end is tedious and lacks needed QoL features.

“Counter-protesting” things like george floyd always blows my mind. It’s like booing if someone tells you they beat cancer.

Voices of the Void.

Oh, wait. It’s free right now??? Go get it!

Isn’t he Jesus in that movie? Is jesus immortal? Tbh i dunno i don’t believe in magic

Two words technically, but “Nothing doing!”

Sort of an old fashioned way to say “no way”