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son of a bitch, I want one

06.03.2026 16:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Okay I gotta know, how did you make this

06.03.2026 14:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A kitchen counter with a cursed square waffle and cursed waffle iron on it with that โ€œoptimally packed 17 squaresโ€ layout that is deeply unsettling to look at. The outer parts are aligned to a square but there are 7 squares in the middle at various angles and it looks like complete nonsense but it is in fact the most compact way to store 17 squares in a larger square. 

I have no idea where this came from and whoever made it should go to jail.

A kitchen counter with a cursed square waffle and cursed waffle iron on it with that โ€œoptimally packed 17 squaresโ€ layout that is deeply unsettling to look at. The outer parts are aligned to a square but there are 7 squares in the middle at various angles and it looks like complete nonsense but it is in fact the most compact way to store 17 squares in a larger square. I have no idea where this came from and whoever made it should go to jail.

You may not like it, but this is the optimal way to construct a waffle with exactly 17 squares.

06.03.2026 00:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 345 ๐Ÿ” 67 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

ooh thatโ€™s a pretty good idea

06.03.2026 02:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it is a bit

05.03.2026 22:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

lol. lmao

05.03.2026 03:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

yes...YES!!!!!

04.03.2026 17:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Surrendering Optimally - a blog by biggiemac42 We have toppled yet another Opus Magnum cycle barrier. A team of players has come together to bring the iconic Surrender Flare to 16.

While Iโ€™m on an Opus Magnum kick, this is the kind of blog post that ensures blogs will never die. biggieblog.com/surrendering...

04.03.2026 14:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The WORST

04.03.2026 13:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some personal news: My ass is in the jackpot now :(

11.04.2024 01:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Having watched Ponyo dozens of times now thanks to the boy being absolutely enamored of her, I do feel confident that the sequence where she busts out is one of the all-time great achievements of animation

04.03.2026 01:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Right?! Such an un-hoped-for blessing!

03.03.2026 13:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In other personal news, I finally came up with a solution to one (1) of the Opus Magnum bonus puzzles. The bonus content has always been way too hard for me but I finally got there.

03.03.2026 12:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have SEVERAL technical questions. Not least of which is if theyโ€™re โ€œlittleโ€ models theyโ€™re going to be much worse at exactly the kinds of things theyโ€™d specifically need to be good at for this.

03.03.2026 12:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oh boy. Never thought to put it that way but yeah

03.03.2026 12:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

9 years!!!!

03.03.2026 04:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a screenshot of opus magnum shows a warming tonic ALT: a screenshot of opus magnum shows a warming tonic

Opus Magnum is a great game that makes you feel like Salieri from Amadeus.

You make your solve, go to reddit and you see the face of god in the maddeningly elegant solves of your betters.

03.03.2026 00:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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haha wait there were some extraneous instructions in that last one...managed to get it down to 129 cycles from 141 with the same layout. Still well within the comfortable middle of the performance histogram though...

03.03.2026 03:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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aaaah its ya boy.... still mediocre as always.....!!

03.03.2026 03:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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with only marginal improvement.....

03.03.2026 03:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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getting my shape-rotating skills warmed up for the immanent Opus Magnum DLC....three solutions to the same puzzle...

03.03.2026 03:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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final ingredients for a stew ๐Ÿฒ

#voxelart #magicavoxel #lowpoly #foodart

09.12.2025 11:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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20x20x20 ๆ–ฐใƒใ‚ฑใƒขใƒณๅพกไธ‰ๅฎถ ่ฟฝๅŠ 
#magicavoxel #pokemon

xfolio.jp/portfolio/yo...

01.03.2026 09:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
an orthographic voxel render of a hi-fi stereo speaker setup with record player, tape deck, minidisk, and receiver, on a sheet of plywood on cinder blocks. There are a couple dozen records underneath the table.

an orthographic voxel render of a hi-fi stereo speaker setup with record player, tape deck, minidisk, and receiver, on a sheet of plywood on cinder blocks. There are a couple dozen records underneath the table.

an head-on voxel render of a hi-fi stereo speaker setup with record player, tape deck, minidisk, and receiver, on a sheet of plywood on cinder blocks. There are a couple dozen records underneath the table.

an head-on voxel render of a hi-fi stereo speaker setup with record player, tape deck, minidisk, and receiver, on a sheet of plywood on cinder blocks. There are a couple dozen records underneath the table.

Basement sounds. #magicavoxel

02.03.2026 18:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Poem Guides Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

I know it is a small thing, but, in these dying days of the open web, it is lovely that such a large proportion of famous poetry is online, mostly due to a $100M gift from Ruth Lily, who loved poetry (even though she never got any of her own published) poetryfoundation.org/poems/guides

01.03.2026 23:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 110 ๐Ÿ” 15 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A series of tweets from @JennyHolzerMom:

DON'T GIVE YOUR HEART TO JUST ONE BRAND

NO ONE CAN PROTECT YOU FROM YOURSELF -- I'M NOT NAGGING, I'M JUST SAYING

A VAGUE AWKWARDLY EXPRESSED HOSTILITY IS FUN FOR A BIT BUT THEN IT GETS OLD

ARE YOU GOING TO GO OUT AND DISMANTLE THE MEANS OF OPPRESSION OR ARE YOU GOING TO SIT AROUND THE HOUSE ALL DAY LIKE A LUMP?

A STRONG NARRATIVE CAN BE AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE BUT IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PAUSE THE DVR WHILE I'M TALKING TO YOU WHY DO WE HAVE A DVR?

I SAW YOU ACROSS THE MALL AND I CALLED YOU AND I WATCHED YOU TAKE YOUR PHONE OUT AND HIT IGNORE

OH IT IS SO FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT TO THE WELLBEING OF THE PROLETARIAT THAT YOU KEEP PLAYING THAT GAME ON YOUR PHONE
RIGHT NOW

YOU CAN FOLLOW ALL THE RULES AND STILL GET BURNED WHICH IS WHY I PACKED YOU SUNSCREEN

A series of tweets from @JennyHolzerMom: DON'T GIVE YOUR HEART TO JUST ONE BRAND NO ONE CAN PROTECT YOU FROM YOURSELF -- I'M NOT NAGGING, I'M JUST SAYING A VAGUE AWKWARDLY EXPRESSED HOSTILITY IS FUN FOR A BIT BUT THEN IT GETS OLD ARE YOU GOING TO GO OUT AND DISMANTLE THE MEANS OF OPPRESSION OR ARE YOU GOING TO SIT AROUND THE HOUSE ALL DAY LIKE A LUMP? A STRONG NARRATIVE CAN BE AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE BUT IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PAUSE THE DVR WHILE I'M TALKING TO YOU WHY DO WE HAVE A DVR? I SAW YOU ACROSS THE MALL AND I CALLED YOU AND I WATCHED YOU TAKE YOUR PHONE OUT AND HIT IGNORE OH IT IS SO FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT TO THE WELLBEING OF THE PROLETARIAT THAT YOU KEEP PLAYING THAT GAME ON YOUR PHONE RIGHT NOW YOU CAN FOLLOW ALL THE RULES AND STILL GET BURNED WHICH IS WHY I PACKED YOU SUNSCREEN

I was ABOUT to post "The Jenny Holzer, Mom account on early twitter was a real gem and it's totally gone" but no, it's still there and it's solid gold.

01.03.2026 15:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They just donโ€™t think the rest of the world is real. People they donโ€™t know, people theyโ€™ve never metโ€”not real, donโ€™t matter, can never matter. I canโ€™t square it any other way.

01.03.2026 02:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
PANEL 1: Two adult ducks are putting away chairs in a classroom. STEVE: "You don't actually believe that stuff though--" BLAKE: "'Course I do. We're animate corpses on a dead world birthed from the sin of God's longing. We're damned to suffer, y'know?"

PANEL 2: STEVE: "If you start from the premise that existence itself is a kind of sin, well then nothing matters. Nothing can matter at that level!"

PANEL 3: Blake leans on the teacher's desk. STEVE: "You can do anything because your predamnation means your actions have no meaning!" BLAKE: "Steve, buddy, we talked about this, okay?"

PANEL 4: BLAKE: "God doesn't owe you, okay, meaning or logic or like a schema of-of rules. God doesn't even owe you life, buddy."

PANEL 5: BLAKE: "But this isn't an owing thing, this is a-a definitional problem with the idea of choice, let alone morality!" BLAKE: "Sounds like that big brain of yours is trying to give God homework, buddy."

PANEL 1: Two adult ducks are putting away chairs in a classroom. STEVE: "You don't actually believe that stuff though--" BLAKE: "'Course I do. We're animate corpses on a dead world birthed from the sin of God's longing. We're damned to suffer, y'know?" PANEL 2: STEVE: "If you start from the premise that existence itself is a kind of sin, well then nothing matters. Nothing can matter at that level!" PANEL 3: Blake leans on the teacher's desk. STEVE: "You can do anything because your predamnation means your actions have no meaning!" BLAKE: "Steve, buddy, we talked about this, okay?" PANEL 4: BLAKE: "God doesn't owe you, okay, meaning or logic or like a schema of-of rules. God doesn't even owe you life, buddy." PANEL 5: BLAKE: "But this isn't an owing thing, this is a-a definitional problem with the idea of choice, let alone morality!" BLAKE: "Sounds like that big brain of yours is trying to give God homework, buddy."

after the meeting

49 minutes

www.noncanon.com/comics/2026-...

28.02.2026 22:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 73 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oh son of a bitch

28.02.2026 21:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Treasure chest with teeth updated for the extraction shooter era

28.02.2026 12:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0