Not OP, but coming from the same place: less annoying (I hope!) atheist.

Most Shrikes are like this. Their genus is Lanius, Latin for “butcher”.

(Also a fun piece of trivia for FTL fans.)

“Do cheap tickets encourage public transport use?”

What kind of question is that? Obviously they do??

Subnautica

Related: Alt + ., to cycle through arguments used in previous commands

Could you uh… elaborate a little?

Instant sub, cheers.

STORM CLOUDS, FIRE AND STEEL

DEATH FROM ABOVE, MADE THEIR ENEMY KNEEL

SHINING ARMOR AND WINGS

DEATH FROM ABOVE, IT’S AN ARMY OF KINGS!

Or the original plot of The Matrix, before the studio execs decided audiences were too stupid.

“Boy, I sure wish some megacorporation would dump a massive codebase on me to maintain without any financial assistance!”

• No one, ever

This reads like an ad written by an LLM, wtf is it doing here?

Cats make for pretty poor insect control. They mostly kill spiders, not “pest” insects.

Was not prepared for the Diablo II reference lmao

Yeah, I’d like to see a source for this. There have been many proposed theories for why cats vocalize to humans, especially because “meowing” is not common between cats except for kittens. How do we know that it isn’t a request for food or attention?

“Allow us to introduce ourselves”

San Francisco had an emperor.

(He even “decreed” the construction of a bridge or tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland on the other side of the bay, predicting the existence of the Bay Bridge and Transbay Tube!)

As long as I don’t have to maintain it.

(Who tf downvoted this? The “legacy code” lobby?)

Sigma Star Saga for the GBA. Really creative mashup of an RPG and a side-scrolling shooter, with a cool weapon-configuration system thrown in. Definitely suffered a bit from platform limitations, but there’s absolutely more that could have been done with the core concept.

Shockingly good writing, too.

Good lord yes. Overwatch is just a corporatized TF2 ripoff, but Battleborn was a creative, unique game with a soul.

Anyone who hasn’t seen it should watch the game’s intro cinematic, which gives a great sense of just how much character the game had.

FYI, “anthropomorphizing” doesn’t strictly mean “viewing as human”. I never meant to imply that people see a spoon as a human being.

Anthropomorphization is the act of associating human qualities with non-human entities.

My point is that humans are remarkably good at doing this, even as far as, e.g., ascribing “unhappiness” to a spoon simply for being unused.

This kind of behavior is why we must be extremely wary of the Turing test and other measures of machine “intelligence” - humans may see intelligence even where none exists simply because it’s our nature.