A suspended monorail in Japan, it looks like an upside down train
How I solved the trolley problem with this one simple trick;
SUSPENSION RAILWAY!
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A suspended monorail in Japan, it looks like an upside down train
How I solved the trolley problem with this one simple trick;
SUSPENSION RAILWAY!
People tend to think of functional illiteracy as just being unable to read words aloud or such.
What it *really* means is such as not being able to perceive subtext, context, understand who the audience of something may be, etc.
Media illiteracy is fundamentally part of functional illiteracy.
Think about all the boomer replies you've seen where someone angrily replies to everything that drifts onto their timeline as if it is personally addressed to them.
"But I don't have a dog"
"Why am I seeing this?"
"It doesn't mention cats at all."
54% of US adults read below the 6th grade level
Part of functional literacy is being able to understand, on your own, the concept that the writer is writing for a specific audience. That the thing has a specific context.
Like, an article about dog grooming is addressed to dog owners. It does not need to include cat grooming.
Think about chuds constantly going "man I used to love this band but they turned woke by putting politics in their songs" and the band is literally Rage Against the Machine or Bruce Springsteen.
54% of US adults read below 6th grade level. 20%, below 5th grade level.
Think about authors having to explain that they should not *have* to have the villain stop periodically and go "what I am doing is wrong, I am doing a bad thing. I am the bad guy, here" because being able to figure that out is part of what it means to be functionally literate.
Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level.
You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext*
www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...
A screenshot of OpenRCT2 showing a theme park in the desert way zoomed out. You can see several large roller coasters and a free fall tower.
finished my second park!
*james hetfield voice*
CASTLE! MASTER!
"Then earth and fire and air and watery rage Then tree and flesh and stone did understand And know the law of Magister, shaman and sage Lord of the Old Time, ruler over beast and man." Castle Master has some deep lore written fully in verse by the odd and enigmatic Mel Croucher (often best know for the 1984 Deus Ex Machine), talking of ancient times in England where the omnipotent Magister ruled over everything, then the rise of mankind and their many civilizations that never last, and the Normans who built a mighty structure named Castle Eternity, made out of the very rock and soil that is the epicenter of the Magister's power while he slept for centuries and, after waking up, unleashing his magical fury and turning the king and all subjects into ghosts and beasts to haunt the halls of the castle. You choose your character, a prince or princess, as your sibling is imprisoned in Castle Eternity and your first task is to figure out how the hell you're supposed to enter the castle and avoid the deep moat with no more than a shark swimming in it!
Entering one of the huts full of hay bales, a pitchfork and a spirit in the form of a cute black bat with triangular red eyes. The earth shakes (or perhaps that's just you) when you encounter one of the inhabitants turned ghost and critter by the Magister with the message "SPIRITS!!" shown in the bottom part of the screen, and the only way to be victorious is to sling a rock with your slingshot at the spirits, probably because they're just not used to the idea and just flee.
Outside the castle is the Wizard's Hut, the home of a dirty and smelly old wizard that everyone ridiculed but in eventually learned was the Magister himself, risen back from his slumber. We see a the lowest of polygons (this game has very primitive but charming graphics) with a table and a chair with a six-pronged star and some cheese on the table. Let me tell ya, this game has A LOT of cheese to much on throughout the castle.
The castle stables, with a beautiful pinkish-red horse made out of like ten polygons, being a good boye. You open the gate of the stable so the horse can go free if it wants, but it kinda just looks like it wants some food and a pat on the head.
Castle Master (DOS) (1990)
1/4
Am I the only one who can’t concentrate on what a person is saying if their septum piercing is crooked?
the hair is very cool!
Insane Clown Posse V @icp •• • I Don't care what we've said in our raps, woman come No 1. We all owe our lives to wemon.
Happy International Women’s Day
A screenshot of a park in Rollercoaster Tycoon, fully zoomed out. You can see some rollercoasters, a ferris wheel, and an observation tower.
Being nostalgic and getting back into Rollercoaster Tycoon thanks to OpenRCT2
FIFTEENTH???
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I would not be interested in that movie in pretty much any other case
I did not figure out until yesterday the Wii Shop Music YouTube video guys were the Nirvanna/Dirties/Blackberry guys
Guess I'm a marionette now.
Watching YouTube and this ‘tuber says “I used to hate school even in elementary school and couldn’t wait to get home and play TrackMania.”
That’s the game my friends and I used to play in COLLEGE.
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One terrible thing about the modern world is how because every video game designer just cribs from occult sources, in doing a search for spells to banish the demon Chrononzon, I learn that if he is hit with all four element spells he goes to half HP.
I go into detail at the link but it does contain spoilers for the movie and the game since the story is the actual thing that made me most mad.
They're calling it the most healthy industry ever.
In a way, yes.
Just glad to see he’s getting work outside of Resident Evil
Ironically, it came up in a Half-Life mod review I watched and the premise of the show sounded intriguing.
I thought that was the case, but I wanted to check for sure. And, as I suspected, someone (you) responded faster than it would take me to do the research lol
