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I think it might just be for the sight gag of the snake’s skeleton, but I could be wrong.

It’s hard to think of something sillier than having a snake skeleton as a jumpscare from a closet, while also making it somewhat straightforward to draw.

After holding the line on prices for several months, companies—big and small—have begun a new round of increases, in some cases by high-single-digit percentage points. 

Companies had raised prices last year after tariffs hoisted costs. Yet starting in the fall, many firms held off on increases and sometimes offered discounts to capture holiday shoppers.

Starting in the fall. It’s not even spring yet. So by “several” months you mean, what, three?

Prices on the most affordable imported goods are up by 2.3% since dipping at the end of November

Less than three months works as “several” for the Wall Street Journal. Yikes!

I was somewhat interested before, but I have zero interest in supporting anything Ethan Klein has been involved in. Yuck.

In their defense, they say it in the very next sentence.

NBC perhaps didn’t want to deal with controversy that could arise while they are televising this games and trying to make viewers hungry for Los Angeles in two years.

I genuinely didn’t get it, but the Disqus link helped.

Knut Døsen Lunde (the Disqus commenter) said:

Pack up all your cares and woes
Here I go singing low,
bye bye blackbird.
(Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon)

Bye Bye Blackbird is considered a popular “standard,” which makes a lot of sense for a The Far Side.

It’s the fucking people from Wyoming again.

Thank god they get as many senators as the other states, right?

Canada in hockey is a lot like U.S. basketball (in the summer Olympics).

If they don’t win gold, everyone is going to be very surprised.

Someone created a group (a nonprofit, a political action committee, or something similar) with basically no public presence except for a bland website and a few tweets. It has launched millions in pro-ICE ads, and, at least so far, no one behind the venture has been willing to talk about it.

Ideally, in a democracy, we’d know who is spending millions trying to change public opinion on the secret police. But, in the American system, that’s just not how it works.

What’s fascinating about this franchise is that I always thought it was just a vanity project! It happened to be profitable when it came out because it was kid-friendly.

James Cameron is the king of “why did so many people care about that at the time?”

The public’s obsession with Titanic in 1997 seems eyeroll-inducing now. I remember going to used media stores and copies of Titanic on VHS were everywhere.

Sadly, we do have evidence that there has been a coordinated campaign to purposefully and maliciously damage Build A Rocket Boy’s reputation and undermine confidence in MindsEye," a spokesperson for the studio told GamesIndustry. "We are working with our legal team and taking steps to address this."

Maybe your game just sucks?

It’s so sad when people can’t admit they’ve failed.

The police person quoting him back

So I have got, I Robert Richens, on the 30th of May 2025, said the following. I accidentally killed her; at least I admitted to it. I am going to miss GTA. I am going to get life.

It’s honestly crazy to me that that’s what someone is thinking about. GTA V wasn’t so good to be this obsessed over GTA VI.

I laughed out loud when I finally realized what band was saying this.

Humorously, the lead singer is named Jim (Adkins), but the band’s name comes from the backing vocalist/guitarist Tom’s brother, also named Jim.

The band's name came from a crayon drawing made after an incident between [Tom] Linton's younger brothers, Jim and Ed Linton, who fought frequently. Jim usually won, but Ed sought revenge by drawing a picture of Jim shoving the Earth into his mouth; Ed captioned the picture "Jimmy eat world".