There are useful group names, but they differentiate between some general types of animals, or by their collective movement. A pack of wolves acts very different from a herd of zebras, but much the same as a pack of hyenas. So if you’re looking at a group of dog-like hunters from a large distance, you could call it a pack without knowing whether they’re wolves or hyenas. That makes it a word with a proper function, communicating exactly as much information as you need and no more.

Species-specific is just a meme, no one in their right mind would ever use them in real conversation, because “a parliament of chimps” would technically be redundant if “parliament” already meant “group of chimps”. But it doesn’t, obviously, so you’re forced to specify “chimps” anyway, making “parliament” useless and confusing.

Telling people your age in response to a boomer joke is such a xoomer thing to do

I learned it by looking up a guide on how to win at the Mahjong minigame in Yakuza 0. The guide existed. It was a crash course on how to play Riichi Mahjong.

I also played a lot of Mahjong Soul after that. It’s a little easier to open a website than having to walk over to the Mahjong parlor every time, but a lot less atmospheric.

I’m running CF.Lumen on Android which lets me turn the color all the way down to 1000k and I’m still so used to it that it’s only “kind of” orange to me. Most people can’t help but comment on it when they see it though. The default “night light” on Android is so weak, I don’t even know why they bother including the intensity slider. It slides from “no effect” to “barely noticeable”. Is there anyone who sets it to anything but full power?

I also go full red-scale after midnight, which is noticeable even to me. Web designers, please check your UI with a grayscale filter to make sure every element has a decent contrast with its surroundings. In the meantime, I can easily switch back to 1000k when the red is hindering me.

I spent 40 hours in the Mahjong parlor, waiting for my businesses to drop off their monthly profits so I could invest it again. It is an accurate depiction of being a crime boss, dammit!

But on the other hand, over half my friends are queer and it rarely comes up. Maybe if your movie is a romance it would be relevant who is fucking who, but if you wouldn’t make it relevant for a straight person, why focus on it for a gay person? Like, gay James Bond would have to be fucking hot dudes left and right, obviously. But gay Robin Hood err Indiana Jones err Shrek err Barry B. Benson… Why the fuck do they all have romantic plotlines??

Tesla still got a bunch of scientific cred, more than Edison actually. Edison is known as the inventor of a consumer product, Tesla got the unit of magnetic flux named after him.

Actually, the comic names Lorentz, Minkowski, Hilbert, which aren’t household names like Einstein, but anyone who knows anything about relativity will still know their names and what they contributed. Who cares about being known as “some kinda smart feller” by a billion people if none of them actually know why you’re seen as smart. To them you’re about as significant as a character in a newspaper comic; an easy reference to make to show they’ve read a newspaper once.

You know 13000 of those comments were made by bots, so nothing of value was lost.

I am here for one reason and one reason alone: source anime is Watamote, episode 12 @18:36

Tomoko tries to approach a girl, but the wind confuses her and she runs away in embarrassment, even though the girl was really friendly and would have liked to talk to her.

In the meme, this scene is used to parallel the feeling of an external system blocking an operation that both participants would agree to.

A similar feeling could be memed with the “myth of consensual sex” format.