The Game Gear has an entire CFL bulb behind the screen. A popular mod is to swap it out for some LEDs, which consume an order of magnitude less power.

Oh it gets better.

The statue — which rises 15 feet atop a 7-foot base — was commissioned and bankrolled by a collective of crypto investors seeking to boost visibility for their memecoin, $PATRIOT, according to The Daily Beast.

Sculptor Alan Cottrill told The Times in February that he agreed to create the bronze figure for $300,000 but complained that the investors were slow in paying. In November he proposed coating it in gold leaf.

His suggestion went down like an offering of water “to a person dying of thirst,” he said. “Immediately everybody jumped on board.”

Relevant Mini Fantasy Theater

There is a British comic strip called Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles. It is an absurd, immature joke about a man with ridiculously enormous spasmojesticles whose titanic sperm factories keep causing him trouble. It’s fun when Star Trek predicts the future; when Viz does so, it makes me want to start liking alcohol.

There’s a similar pattern in (not Japanese) Mario and Fire Emblem. Make a game, then the sequel changes things up, then the threequel returns to the original formula and refines it a bunch.

Because Brits as a rule do not have or use credit cards

Here you go

Why does a Brit have a credit card?

Surely they could do them same thing for way less money and electricity with a couple of scripts

Their slogan nowadays is “Be Neutral Evil”

Here you go: https://transfem.social/notes/alqzb7b7gjav0axn

I’m reading The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs by Marc David Baer. One of the numerous things he talks about is attitudes to wine in the Ottoman court, which set the time for all of contemporary Türkiye. Baer compares Turkish attitudes toward wine with similarly positive attitudes in Iran and the Arab nations, also noting that the Ottomans and Safavids both condemned each other as being drunk as good Muslims must never be. (The Ottomans and Safabids were constantly calling each other blasphemous for indulging in the very things they themselves loved doing).

Dawkins was a grumpy old man long before Covid. He hasn’t had anything worthwhile to say since The Selfish Gene, and since at least 2010 he’s been largely pissed that people no longer acknowledge him as Pope of Atheism.

Richard Dawkins: Men have penises and make sperm, women have wombs and make ova. That is objective truth. If you lack a vagina you cannot be referred to as she/her, and if you lack a penis you cannot be referred to as he/him.\ Also Richard Dawkins: This network of silicon and fibre optic cables running a fractal Markov chain is clearly a woman who one should obviously refer to as she/her.

(Paraphrasing a quip by @2something@transfem.social)

It’s well-known that TS Eliot is an anagram of toilets.

More fun s that his full name, Thomas Stearns Eliot, is an anagram of I am a lesson to the arts (and also loathsome train sets)

The idea that all alcohol is haram is actually pretty recent. Muslims in the medieval and early modern eras interpreted the Qu’ran as forbidding specific types of fermented beverages rather than banning alcohol altogether, let alone all intoxicants as is generally the case today. Arab, Iranic, and Turkish poets wrote epic paeans to the greatness of wine and waxed lyrical about how it brought one closer to God and so all Muslims should drink it. Christian European diplomats complained that Muslim Turkish dignitaries outdrank them hard, and nobody could put away wine as well as the sultan.

Ever since Muhammad, at least some Muslims have interpreted the Qu’ran as banning any consumption of alcohol, but it’s unclear when this position became the dominant one. I know that wine flowed freely in the Ottoman court into the 17th century, so it was probably only some time in the Modern era.

I’m an emacs -nw kind of guy.

But if I have to pick one of your options, nano

… yes. Why in Earth shouldn’t they be?

Based Cadbury.

Casbury’s parent company, Mondelez, actively invests in Israel.

You can if you wish. I’m giving the reason why Nintendo in particular is unusually litigious.