O.G. San is such a good name.

Ah so he’s just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

Ah yes, the movie where they cast a French person as Scottish, a Scottish person as Spanish, and an American as a Russian.

I think it’s that category of essential employees who are working without pay that this would be most intended for.

Hey, some of us are 35-year-old edgelords

I don’t know the full ins and outs myself, but most of these VTubers are managed by agencies who own the rights to the characters they portray. The people behind the character get paid for their work, and they can choose to take better jobs elsewhere, but they don’t get to bring the characters with them. Basically like how Tom Kenny (voice actor for SpongeBob) can’t just decide to be SpongeBob somewhere else, he doesn’t own the character.

When a VTuber decides to retire or if they take a better job with a different agency, the character “graduates,” which I think is just used because it’s a softer word than “retire.” The fans just get to imagine the character is off doing bigger and better things, not that they’re euthanized or locked in a storage unit somewhere gathering dust. In theory I guess the agency could continue using the character for merch and promo material, or even recast, though I have no idea how well that would go in an industry with fans as obsessive as theirs.

I’m not a marine biologist, so I can’t speculate on what the best alternative is for these whales, but I would like to imagine there are more options than the binary of “kill them” or “throw them to the wolves sharks”.

Marineland is just parroting the euthanize option because they’re upset they couldn’t make a quick buck by selling them to China. It’s a hissy fit tactic to try to un-block the sale.

If the whales are not able to be released in to the wild, I’m sure there are plenty of other facilities out there that would be able to care for them. Marineland might need to pay them to take the animals in, but it should be their obligation to do so if they’re unable to support the quality of life they need themselves.

C’mon Ottawa, force them to rehabilitate and release them, even if it kills the park.

A lot of animals cannot be rehabilitated and released. If they were born and raised in captivity, they have effectively no chance of survival on their own. I don’t know what the situation is for these animals, but I’ve been to plenty of zoos and aquariums in the past that have rehabilitation programs and even they have a few “lifers” who will never leave.

Shit. I was about to quip “Your intern is only 8?” before I remembered what year it was.

Do serial killers normally break out the tape measure before cutting into a victim?

Mostly healthy for Daniel Radcliffe at least. He did develop an alcohol dependency during the later Harry Potter movies that he worked to overcome.

For a lot of celebrities I can only really guess at how well adjusted they are. Sometimes they seem normal until they have some sort of psychotic break and all of the skeletons in their closet come out, and sometimes they just put on a brave face while masking years of abuse and trauma.

At least as far as impressions, there are a few other names I can think of. Zendaya is a former Disney channel kid who seems to be doing well for herself. The Sprouse twins (Suite Life of Zack and Cody) also seem like they developed into normal adults and now just don’t spend much time in the spotlight. Kenan Thompson also has a good career as the longest serving cast member on Saturday Night Live, and he started as a child actor for Nickelodeon.

But I have no idea how much of that comes down to luck or just having better support from family (or again maybe just burying some skeletons/trauma). A lot of other child actors who worked alongside the names listed above ended up messed up in one way or another.

Exactly.

When it comes to phones at least, I also try to keep mine for as long as possible because there’s honestly no point in upgrading just for the heck of it. Companies don’t release meaningful “must have” features anymore like they did back when people felt it was normal to upgrade every couple of years. No need to contribute to e-waste when it can be avoided.

I’ve been using my current phone for 4 years now, and the phone I had before that I used for 6. I upgraded only because I received the newer one for free from work, but I gave my previous phone away to a friend who needed one because I wasn’t going to throw away a perfectly good phone that I was happily using just fine a few months prior. Sure, the battery life was no longer quite as good, but I didn’t really care (nor did my friend) because we at least remember the days where you were lucky if your phone made it more than 8 hours on a single charge. You just learn to deal with it and bring a spare charger if you’re planning to be out for a while.

Shutters are less commonly used here, usually found more on older homes. Their intended purpose is protection during storms, but sometimes people install “fake” ones just as decoration.

For light management/privacy, most houses I’ve seen have adjustable blinds inside that you raise or lower to let more or less light in.

A steel “grating” (not sure how it’s called in English) for safety and a twin casement window.

Grating or grates is right, and sometimes people just call them window bars.

Yeah if you have those crank style ones it’s possible at least. I’ve only seen one which was a push to open window with screen on the inside that opened on a hinge, but it seemed like it had a pretty poor seal with the wall as a result and bugs would have an easier time crawling through.

Honestly having the screen on the inside is probably more convenient too. If you’re cleaning both sides of a window where you’d have to remove the screen either way, I imagine it’s easier to remove the screen from inside than outside just given the elevation differences.

Almost all of the Links between different games are different characters, but they were all still left handed until the Wii era. That includes Wind Waker Link, Twilight Princess (GC) Link, Oracle Link, and even NES OG Link who are all distinct from OoT.

BotW Link is right handed either because they forgot he was originally left handed before the Wii era, or because it was a deliberate choice to break convention from older games (like also having BotW link wear blue instead of green).

I wouldn’t be surprised by either possibility, just given that BotW deliberately had relatively few series veterans working on it.

Weird that they never bothered to swap him back to left handed for the Switch games, though.

Isometric Link (Link’s Awakening remake) remains left handed at least, but Switch era 3D Link is right handed.

I’ll just chalk that up to the Switch games wanting to switch (heh) it up a bit, with his primary color association also switching from green to blue. Maybe if they decide to make an older style 3D Zelda again, they’ll go back to left handed Link.

Sash windows are the common type used for American homes, though you’ll find a good mix of casements (typically the ones you have to crank to open/close).

The only deal breaker for me would be casement windows that open outwards. The area I live gets a lot of bugs in the summer, and so our windows have screens to help keep pests out while windows are open. Sash windows and casements that open inwards work fine with screens, but casements that open outwards typically don’t.

This is what I do, along with a few other devices I’ve owned. Sometimes I’ve been able to give perfectly decent devices away to friends/coworkers/family who had a sudden problem with theirs and have a hard time affording a new one.

But unlike the old video game consoles that I do the same thing with, I am always a bit worried about long-term storage of devices that use lithium ion batteries. I know failure rates are rare but I’ve heard the horror stories and I know the risk increases each time I take another device and put them back in a box up on the shelf.

Hopefully some day, people will look back and laugh at us using lithium ion batteries like we laugh at lead paint, nitrate film, and asbestos.

I know they’re sisters, but it is interesting just how much they look like Elizabeth Olsen now. I keep mentally separating them because the Olsen twins were child stars who have been out of the spotlight for a long time, while Elizabeth’s career didn’t really take off until she was an adult.

I will say I don’t like the direction imgur went, but to play devil’s advocate, I don’t think there was any way around it.

The problem is that being an image host used by millions of users is incredibly expensive, and between needing to pay for the infrastructure, content moderators, and (in this case) regulatory compliance, it all adds up.

The only income model they have is ads, which is why they needed to re-tool the UI to hinder users’ ability to direct share images, and converting it to a more social media type of format keeps users on the site so they can cycle in more ads for more revenue.

An ideal internet would not need to rely on ad money to work, but I’m struggling to think of what else could be done at the scale imgur operates, as donation models can barely even keep Lemmy instances above water. If ad money wasn’t a thing, would sites like imgur be able to exist? Maybe they shouldn’t, I don’t know.