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‘Jersey Shore’ Airs as ‘Macaroni Rascals’ in Japan? | Snopes.com

The Japanese translation of “Jersey Shore” is more nuanced than the meme suggests, but the core of the claim holds up. When the Japanese title, “マカロニ野郎のニュージャージーライフ,” is translated to English using Google Translate, it can be read as, “Macaroni Guy’s New Jersey Life.”

However, when that same title is translated using the Cambridge Dictionary Translator, it reads “Macaroni Bastards' New Jersey Life.”

I love Japan 😆

Conservatives tried to start a boycott of LGBTQ+ friendly businesses. Their efforts backfired.

Several small business owners in Lancaster, Ohio, say they saw an increase in new customers after a local anti-LGBTQ+ group tried to start a boycott campaign against them.

I work in Lancaster every once in a while and it’s a pretty backwards, back woods kinda town. I always feel a little uncomfortable there because of all the jacked up trucks with Trump flags, LETS GO BRANDON stickers and even my customers who come in wearing NRA shirts and MAGA hats.

Here’s what a County Conservatives member and director of the local Family Forum has to say:

“None of us have called for anyone to boycott these businesses; we were just trying to figure out who was supporting [the events],” Burgoon said. “Our downtown has suffered greatly, and it has come back now. We don’t want to lose that again, so we haven’t called for anybody to boycott anyone.”

Yeah okay.

But the owners of businesses on the list aren’t buying it. Brandon Love, owner of gift shop Bewilderment argues that the list was always meant to discourage people from patronizing the businesses on it.

“We’ve probably had at least 200 people who have never been to Lancaster that have come to town to support the boycotted businesses,” Love said. “People from, not just Columbus, but out of state have been visiting us on the daily now, and so it’s definitely something I didn’t expect.”

It’s nice to see the LGBTQ+ community standing their ground to all the hate coming from the shit head conservatives who want to run them out, or at the very least force them back into the closet. Even more heartwarming to know people are flocking to this forgotten little town to show their support. I’ll never understand why some people are so hellbent on dehumanizing other people who are a little different than them.

The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds

I was reading a post by Toxicka Shock about this disturbing homebrew Gameboy ROM this morning:

One of the great unsung stories of video gaming in the 2010s was the explosion of high quality homebrew releases. The success of games like Undertale and Cave Story are proof that you don’t need millions of dollars and humongous staff to create an unforgettable title, but where thing get really interesting is when it comes to retro console releases.

It hit me right in the face with a blast of nostalgia and reminded me of my console modding days.

Back in the day, I had a soft-modded original Xbox loaded with emulators and ROMs from all the big 90s consoles. It was my first and, frankly, my best experience with emulators as well as community built, homebrew games and ROM hacks. The 2000s and 2010s were definitely a golden age for unofficial ROMs.

My absolute favorite to this day is still The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds;

The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds is a fan overhaul of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past using new graphics, new music, a new overworld and underworld, and a new storyline. It is for the SNES. As of 2008, the game has been in production for 4-5 years and has had a demo release, a 1.0 release and a 1.1 patch to fix many bugs as well as minor changes in dialogue. A 2.0 release is planned and has been officially announced. This overhaul is infamous for its high level of difficulty

When you picture a homebrew game you probably picture something with lots of bugs, and sprites made in MS Paint. Or maybe the old NES Zelda hack where they make everyone look like South Park characters.

This is definitely not that though. It feels like an authentic Nintendo title. It truly feels like an insanely difficult official sequel to A Link to the Past.

It’s over 20 years old, but it’s still worth playing if you’re a die hard Zelda fan. Especially if, like me, A Link to the Past is your all time favorite in the series.

Autopsy of 78-year-old man reveals he had three penises

Interestingly, it appears the urethra first grew within the secondary penis but failed to entirely develop there, forcing it to change its route and grow through what became the primary penis.

Because of this internal arrangement, medical researchers explained in their paper that it’s possible the man spent his entire life unaware of his situation.

Imagine having not one but two extras and not even knowing it lol

Man blames bellyache on street food — but no, it’s a live cockroach

Cockroaches are known as hearty insects that can survive just about anything: sewers, decapitation, radiation after a nuclear war. And to prove the point, one cockroach was just spotted alive and well while wreaking havoc inside the stomach of a 23-year-old man.

Dude wuuut 😳

BlueSky knocked offline after mass exodus from Elon Musk’s site

Elon Musk, X’s owner, announced that the site would be changing how its “block” button works. That option previously allowed users to hide their profile from certain accounts – but will no longer do so.

“One of the biggest functions of blocking is giving women the ability to stop weird men from constantly making them uncomfortable and scared,” one user wrote. “So of course Elon had to change that.”

Always heartwarming to see more people leaving Elon’s Hellsite

Jerry Seinfeld No Longer Believes the “Extreme Left” Is Ruining Comedy

“I did an interview with The New Yorker, and I said that the extreme left has suppressed the art of comedy,” Seinfeld said. “I did say that. That’s not true."

“Does culture change, and are there things I used to say that I can’t say [because] everybody’s always moving [the gate]? Yeah, but that’s the biggest, easiest target…The accuracy of your observation has to be a hundred times finer than that to just be a comedian.”

He had a terrible take and realized it was terrible. Good for him

Maybe It Should Be Illegal To Instantly Delete A Website’s Archives - Aftermath

A few months ago GameStop wiped Game Informer off the face of the earth without notice. This kinda thing is why the Internet Archive is so important.

How Digg helped invent the social internet

So many of Digg’s features, from its voting mechanism to its commenting system to its occasional teeming toxicity, are omnipresent on the internet now. But in 2004, when Kevin Rose was working on the first versions of his new news platform — back when he was best known as a host on the TechTV network — it was all brand new.

Awesome interview with Digg’s founder Kevin Rose. They recently rebooted Diggnation and he says he’d be open to buying the website back if he could get in touch with the current owner.

I spent a lot of time there back in the day 🫡 I doubt there would even be Reddit if it wasn’t for Digg paving the way.

One personal website is enough for me – disassociated.com

Not everyone wants to post content on social media though. In that case then, I can see the point of something like Micro.blog. I don’t know a whole lot about the platform, but it seems similar to the likes of Mastodon, Threads, or Bluesky: it’s basically for micro-blogging. But even with something like Micro.blog, you still come back to the problem of content ownership, and the concern such platforms, like the social media channels, could close-down just like that.

I battled with that idea at first but you can definitely export all of your data in a matter of seconds if you ever wanted to go somewhere else. And it’s based on Hugo so it’s possible to export everything and convert it to a self hosted Hugo setup if you wanted to.

It’s kinda like a hosting provider in itself, in a lot of ways. You get a website and a micro blog platform all in one.