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| Suzie Yeung 👻🐚 | @SuzieYeung |
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Saw ppl call Yuffie a cringe weeb and I agree, she would absolutely shout dattebayo in a cafeteria
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4·15 hours agoFor years, any embedded images/videos not directly hosted on Hexbear would get replaced by something like
https://hexbear.net/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fthing.jpgIt appears to be a built-in feature of Lemmy, and I’m not sure why it has been disabled—I don’t remember that being announced, at least.
Wait, I thought Hexbear automatically proxied embedded images and videos for privacy reasons. Is that not happening anymore?
Thanks, this is super useful! I’ll use it right now to paste in a COVID PSA:
COVlD outbreaks span 33 states/territories. Find your local levels at pmc19.com/map
Stay safe with layered precautions:
-Get boosted
-Wear a well-fitting N95 respirator, such as a 3M Aura, available at most hardware stores
-Increase air hygiene by flipping the HVAC from “auto” to “on,” opening windows, or adding air purifiers
-Test before gatherings, if exposed, or if experiencing symptoms; the Flowflex brand performs well and can be accessed quickly through an Instacart search of local stores or delivery via Amazon and others
-Stay home when sick and test daily
-Move events outdoors or onlineMere handwashing and coughing/sneezing into one’s arm are insufficient against a virus with at least 99.99% airborne transmission. An infected individual exhales virus into the air by breathing, it lingers in the air, and people become infected by inhaling the virus deep into the lungs. Cumulative infections continue to cause long-term health conditions, disability, and excess deaths via downstream heart attacks and other proximal processes. An exposure need not mean infection if one uses layers of precautions.
video hidden in spoiler because it shows up massive
- Source: @michael_hoerger via 🐦 Twitter.
3·2 days agoA deck prism, or bullseye, is a prism inserted into the deck of a ship to provide light down below.
For centuries, sailing ships used deck prisms to provide a safe source of natural sunlight to illuminate areas below decks. Before electricity, light below a vessel’s deck was provided by candles, oil and kerosene lamps—all dangerous aboard a wooden ship. The deck prism laid flush into the deck, the glass prism refracted and dispersed natural light into the space below from a small deck opening without weakening the planks or becoming a fire hazard. It required just a 4 inch opening.
TIL!
TIL that the software that
used to delete her emails is GPL-licensed! Always assumed it was some random proprietary software.
the devs called her a newhalf in the 90s
wild, I hadn’t heard about that
松岡洋史・グラフィック担当
① 生年月日： 61年6月25日
② 出身地： 兵庫県
③ 代表作： メトロイド、ファミコンウォーズ、マリオランド、ゲームボーイウォーズ、マリオペイント
④ 今回の仕事内容： ＢＧ作成
⑤ 映画、音楽などで好きな作品： あまり映画は見ないし、特に音楽も……車の中でＦＭ聞くくらい。
⑥ 自分だけが知っているサムスの秘密： サムスは女ではなく、じつはニューハーフである。
⑦ クリアタイム： 3:30
5·4 days agoThanks for the tip—that’s so much nicer to use than eBay! I hate how much whitespace there is and how giant everything is on modern websites—give me density or give me death!
I was gonna suggest McMaster-Carr as the only good site but you beat me to it lmao. These tech bros are always waxing poetic about “reducing friction” yet they make these bloated-ass websites that fail the most basic usability standards. Love to have to make a uBlock Origin filter to prevent Amazon’s dogshit “AI” popover from taking up a third of my fucking screen
Beat me to it. It’s one of those games that really shows what the medium is capable of, and I feel like I’m always going to be chasing that high. Not to mention, it shows that you can make a game that values player freedom and gives you a genuine sense of exploration without needing to spend $500 million making a game world the size of Texas that ultimately just has a bunch of procedurally-generated foliage to fill up the empty space. And in fact, the intimacy of the world is what makes it feel immersive—as you play the game, you naturally begin to learn the contours of the solar system and how to navigate over and between planets, and it’s small enough that you can hold all of that in your head.
Quite a different sort of game, but I played Ocarina of Time for the first time recently, and that same quality is one of the things I really loved about it. By the time I fought Ganon, I knew every nook and cranny of Hyrule and every last NPC, and it was a bit melancholy to leave it behind. I think that intimacy is also what makes the time skip so effective. It was genuinely shocking walking into Hyrule Castle Town as Adult Link for the first time, since it’s a place you get to know well as Young Link.
8·6 days agoOdd Taxi
K-On!
Cardcaptor Sakura (the original series, not Clear Card)
Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica
Neon Genesis Evangelion, specifically the TV ending
20·6 days agoI just watched the trailer, and what’s baffling is that in the first scene in the Great Hall, the food appears on the table magically as it does in the books (albeit with some superfluous jumping), and all the kids have is their individual plates and utensils…but in the next Great Hall scene (which is where the screencap comes from) they’ve got trays, and you even see someone walking with a tray which does imply some sort of buffet setup. Very strange.
Anta blockhead?
7·9 days agoThe first thing that comes to mind when I think of “women stomping grapes” is that old video of some local reporter doing a puff piece at a vineyard where she falls off of a raised platform while stomping grapes and gets the wind knocked out of her, resulting in these odd, strangled yelps
(CW: non-graphic injury) https://youtube.com/watch?v=-RVyoAVgeyI
3·11 days agoDamn, he just dropped what feels like a master’s thesis worth of analysis on us—an embarrassment of riches. Easily one of my favorite YouTube channels. He’s never gonna get the popularity of an Adam Neely (who I also like, to be clear), but I’ve learned so much about music theory through watching his videos, as well as a deep appreciation for the craft of composition (not to mention, he’s put out some great records, himself—his arrangement of “Today’s Results” from Pikmin is so lovely). When I finally do a full playthrough of Super Mario World I’m going to be listening to those tunes with a totally different perspective.
Oh, he’s also been doing weekly transcriptions of music from Wind Waker, so I can’t wait to see what he does with all of that material.
I feel so called out…I’ve ruined so many games for myself like this. The best kind of game for me is something like Outer Wilds, since you do basically end up seeing everything during a normal playthrough, there are no numbers to min/max, no unlockables, no achievements (that I’d care about), and so on and so forth. Another good one is The Case of the Golden Idol—really only one path through the game, just use your noggin and a notepad, and nothing to really miss out on. Puzzle-type games aside, I also like simple genres like platformers where even the “extra” content is just more of the same kinda gameplay, and it’s pretty straightforward for me to decide whether it’s too hard for me or if I want to give it a go. But give me an open world game like Breath of the Wild and I will waste hours of my life trying to hunt down every last Korok Seed even though I have no practical need for the extra inventory slots or whatever. Did this to myself with Elden Ring too, except even worse because I cleared out so many of those damn copy-paste dungeons but never actually beat the game because I got stuck on an optional boss (Malenia) and was too stubborn to use summons or anything like that because that would be “cheating”.
Ocarina of Time was a much better fit for me than BotW—yes, there are a few Pieces of Heart and Gold Skulltula Tokens that you have to go out of your way to find—and you can bet your ass I got every last one of them—but generally you can collect the vast majority of the items just by paying close attention as you play through the game normally. Majora’s Mask…I’m struggling with a bit. I played a few sessions of it a few months back and felt really overwhelmed by all the different villagers’ routines and stuff, to the point where I barely ventured outside the town because I was trying to figure out everything I could. I’ll probably finish it eventually, and I do think it’s admirable that they took such a daring approach to a sequel, but I don’t think it’s tailored to my particular neuroses.
While there were certainly issues with unaddressed sexual harassment at Blizzard (which you’ll see in the quote below), that particular thing is a nothingburger, and it damaged the careers of people that had no allegations against them but had the bad luck of being in that photo. The photo and name predated the Cosby allegations gaining widespread public attention by a year, but this was lost in the subsequent lawsuit and sensational coverage.
From Chapter 28 of Play Nice by Jason Schreier:
Extended quotation, emphasis mine
Nothing was more illustrative of Blizzard’s cultural changes than BlizzCon, where the alcohol flowed and fans perceived employees as rock stars. Sometimes this was harmless. “It was hard to walk through there without fans hugging you and wanting to take a picture,” said designer Greg Street. Other times, it was surreal. “There’s a picture of me and Dave Grohl signing boobs together,” said artist Joeyray Hall. “If a girl puts boobs in your face and says sign them, you sign them.” And every so often, situations would get so out of control that Blizzard would have to tell employees to stop sleeping with fans.
Michele Morrow, an actress and writer, was attending BlizzCon in 2013 when she got a glimpse of the convention’s uglier side. The night before the show, Morrow was out to dinner with Dave Kosak, a top designer on World of Warcraft, and his wife Crystal when a drunken man stumbled over. “He was super wasted, and he was hitting on me with wild abandon, saying ridiculous, embarrassing things,” Morrow recalled. This was particularly uncomfortable because the man was Kosak’s boss.
Alex Afrasiabi, who had started as a quest designer during the early days of World of Warcraft, had always played a starring role in Blizzard’s whisper network. Even though he’d joined the company with no industry experience—Blizzard found him because he led a successful EverQuest guild—he proved to be a capable designer and rose through the ranks to become the creative director of several World of Warcraft expansions. He was handsome, charismatic, and brilliant at using the game’s tools to implement new content. He also had a reputation for drinking heavily, insulting subordinates, and engaging in questionable behavior with female employees. Now he was drunkenly proposing to Morrow and promising her career opportunities. “He told me if I married him, I’d have the keys to Blizzard, whatever the fuck that means,” she said. After some back-and-forth, Kosak stood up and guided Afrasiabi away from the table.
The next night, Morrow and the Kosaks were preparing to head to Afrasiabi’s hotel room, at which Blizzard staff would convene during BlizzCon evenings to get away from the chaos of the Hilton bar. They called it the “Cosby suite” due to an inside joke that had started some time earlier, when the carpet in one of their hotel rooms looked like legendary comedian Bill Cosby’s sweater. On a group chat with several other World of Warcraft designers including Afrasiabi, Kosak wrote that he was “gathering the hot chixx for the Coz,” referring to his wife and Morrow, who were standing with him. When they arrived at the suite, Morrow again had to fend off unwanted sexual advances from a drunken Afrasiabi, but the night was otherwise uneventful.
A year later, in October 2014, a stand-up routine by comedian Hannibal Burress resurfaced oldremoved accusations against Bill Cosby that led to widespread press, new allegations, and criminal proceedings. “I guess we won’t be calling it the Cosby suite anymore,” Kosak recalled joking to his wife.
But the name resurfaced in 2021 when the California lawsuit declared that “Afrasiabi was so known to engage in harassment of females that his suite was nicknamed the Crosby suite after allegedremoved Bill Crosby.” This was not true, and the misspelling added to the overall sense of carelessness, but the allegation went viral. A subsequent article on the gaming website Kotaku shared a photo from Afrasiabi’s Facebook showing a group of eight smiling Blizzard employees on a bed, gathered around a framed picture of Bill Cosby—a photo that had seemed harmless when it was taken that evening in 2013 but was horrifying eight years later. The article, which also published a screenshot of the group texts, reported that Cosby had been accused ofremoved in the early 2000s but did not mention that the allegations only became widespread knowledge a year after the photo was taken, nor did it specify that the “hot chixx” text was referring to Kosak’s wife and friend. “It was just surreal,” said Morrow. “Everyone was being unknowingly offended for me as the subject of this text when Dave is the one who protected me and did exactly what any man should do when their boss is being a creep.”
Kosak had left Blizzard in the fall of 2020 to become a creative director at a small company called Deviation Games. When the Kotaku article hit, several of his colleagues complained to management and said they no longer wanted to work with him, according to a person familiar with what happened. The studio hired an attorney to conduct a four-month investigation and although it turned up nothing else, Deviation fired Kosak. In an interview for this book, Kosak declined to comment on the circumstances of his departure but said he had faced professional repercussions due to the Kotaku article. “When negotiating for jobs I still hear about how I have ‘a PR problem,’” he said. “Nobody actually accused me of any wrongdoing. But my value as a person—at least in the corporate world—has gone down.”
Paul Cazarez, who spent fourteen years at Blizzard before leaving in 2019, was also depicted in the Kotaku article posing alongside the framed photo of Bill Cosby. He said that his employer, ZeniMax Online Studios, put him on leave in the summer of 2021 after the article went live and then let him go a few weeks later without explanation. He said he had tried to explain that none of them knew about the Cosby allegations at the time but he was told that a teammate felt uncomfortable working with him. Later, when applying for new jobs, he ran into awkward situations—like recruiters canceling interviews an hour before they were scheduled, as if they had just been googling his name. “When I talk to friends and family, it’s baffling to them,” Cazarez said. “A photo has caused this much disruption in your career—in everybody’s career.”
The “Cosby suite” became a catchall term representing everything that was wrong with Blizzard, much to the frustration of people who had been there. “I can’t speak for everyone else’s experiences, but when I was in that room, there was nothing nefarious except for Alex,” said Morrow. Yet at the same time, women at Blizzard felt like the lawsuit was correct about one important element of the story: Afrasiabi was allowed to remain in a position of power despite his misconduct.