That’s actually a myth (it was quite successful in Japan), but a widely circulated one so I don’t blame you. Textbook example of “a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

Have you tried a cooling vest? I got one of those phase-change dealies this summer and it really made things bearable compared to when I was almost fainting after a 30 minute walk. I’m actually still wearing it now even though things have cooled down, since it’s more comfy and I end up sweating a lot less.

Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!

Prone to overheating
Uppies? Please pick me up!
Please hug me!
Overwhelmed easily
Social anxiety - please be patient
I don’t know what pronoun badge to pick (I know my flair says “any” but what it really means is “there’s a pronoun that makes me happier to hear but I’m too chickenshit to ask for it”)

One time when I was super depressed I randomly ran into a fursuiter in public and they gave me a big hug and a piece of candy and it really cheered me up, at least for that day. Honestly makes me tear up just thinking about it. It’s amazing what a difference a simple gesture of connection and kindness can make when you’re feeling so utterly alone and alienated.

Vineland Saga has a great dub. There’s actually two dubs–I watched the Sentai dub (the one on the Blu-rays), so I can’t comment on the Netflix one. They both seem to be praised, though.

The Kaguya-sama dub is good, but having watched the entire series in both Japanese and English (in that order) the narrator is actually the one thing I could never get used to—I prefer the mostly played-straight Japanese narration to the jokey American narration, since I think it fits more with the overall tone of the series where the silliness of the “war” is heightened by the melodramatic acting, direction, and music. That being said, the friends I watched the dub with similarly pointed to the narrator as one of their favorite things about the show, so I seem to be in the minority here, and obviously my opinion is colored by having watched the sub first.

Thanks for sharing! Grabbed a few GameCube games from this that I hadn’t considered checking out before

I’ll definitely be jamming out to “I have a bad case of diarrhea” in the nursing home

CVID (Common variable immunodeficiency), which is indeed a primary immunodeficiency

Thanks for reminding me, gonna go download it now. Prepared to be depressed but informed

Before you ban me, pls help me: I have this fuzzy memory of watching an episode of Digimon (most likely Digimon Adventure) where there was one of those fusion evolution things (maybe involving Ange(wo)mon?), and there was a Digimon that looked like a fuckin’ bathtub that shot purple rings out of its arms (possibly the result of said fusion?). Has my brain just melted in the intervening 25 years, or does that sound like anything that actually exists? Both is an option.

Was this like a 小便しょうべん vs 大便だいべん mix-up? I can totally see that. Grats on not having to grab your own poo!

also happy cake day!

Understood! All I can really remember is Wheatley being a goofball, GLaDOS being a potato, Cave Johnson bring Cave Johnson, and Wheatley bring an evil goofball.

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It’s been a while since I played Portal 2 and I genuinely don’t get the joke here, pls educate me (unless it’s just a non sequitur)

The way this is written feels like a parable…if only it were a actually a parable and not the hellworld we all currently reside in

Thanks for sharing! Much to my own surprise, I ended up reading the whole thing. Design has always seemed a little mystical to me as someone with almost zero aesthetic sense, so it was really helpful to have it broken down in such a straightforward and actionable way. Definitely something I will revisit next time I’m starting a project!

Also, the new design is a major step up in usability–I especially appreciate the prominent search bar and the improved information density/availability of information without scrolling. Aesthetically speaking, I think the replacement of the banner with just text and a logo makes the page a lot more elegant and also makes it so that the eyes are drawn more naturally to the actual content.