[-] IggyTheSmidge 7 points 3 weeks ago

D'you think we can get Ricardo Montalban to hypnotise one of the sportsball players?

[-] IggyTheSmidge 7 points 3 months ago

I'm just picturing one of those episodes of M*A*S*H where they leave Frank Burns in charge.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 39 points 3 months ago

I remember reading an article in the early 90s where they opined that 'the thing that would really date TNG was the presence of a therapist on the ship'.

Mental health - a total 80s fad, right?

[-] IggyTheSmidge 16 points 3 months ago

England - never been a line. The only thing I've ever had to wait for is for the bod manning the polling station to find my name on the list and hand me a voting slip. In and out in a couple of minutes.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 6 points 3 months ago

It comes from bonehead, iirc - a boneheaded mistake.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 11 points 4 months ago

I had a hunch that the original image would be Nyarlathotep related, aaaand:

I think someone's been feeding them Call of Cthulhu game module plots. I hope they do Beyond The Mountains of Madness next.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 54 points 4 months ago

The problem with knowing any amount of history is that any time anything happens you're just like:

'Oh. This again'.

It's somehow both tedious and horrifying.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 7 points 6 months ago

I saw an early screening of that episode at a post-con event at a Star Trek pub in London.

When that scene came on a ripple of 'FFS - really‽' laughter went round the room, just because of how blatant it was.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 14 points 6 months ago

Clearly they used methane.

Crowds of farm labourers during flood season, all lined up just waiting for their turn to fart into the balloon.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 10 points 8 months ago

That's Fergus Wilson - frankly, I'd prefer the leech.

[-] IggyTheSmidge 7 points 2 years ago

I think that was definitely the impetus - I first read about the changes in this article back in April: https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/18/reddit_charging_ai_api/

The closing statement is interesting:

The spokesperson we talked to also wanted to make clear the Data API was still freely accessible for appropriate use cases through the Reddit developer platform; hopefully app developers and other small-scale operators won't have any surprises ahead this summer.

I suspect they ran the numbers and started seeing dollar signs - they don't care about the third-party apps (which don't make them any money directly), they're just trying to cash in on Microsoft etc.

I have a sneaking suspicion they're going to end up back-pedalling, but it will be too little, too late.

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