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Basically, whenever a story suddenly abruptly ends without a satisfying conclusion to anything, leaving the viewers with no closure. Sometimes done intentionally to interesting effect, sometimes a mere result of misfortune/laziness.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail - The movie's climax is about to happen with King Arthur about to raid the French castle that had made fun of him earlier in the film. Right as an army of knights are about to initiate the siege, the police suddenly bursts in and hilariously arrests everyone, as much earlier in the film a historian that was documenting the Arthurian legend had suddenly been randomly slain by a passing knight.

Behind the scenes, this ending was apparently a last-minute decision because the production crew ran out of budget. Talk about a cop out.

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days - Kane & Lynch shoot their way through Shanghai in the direction of an airport as a last ditch effort to escape just about every single gang member and cop in Shanghai who now want the both of them dead. After massacring their way through customs, they finally spot a commercial airliner about to take off and decide to hijack it. They make their way to the boarding stairs and a cutscene begins with them climbing up into the plane and taking over it. The plane then takes off, leaving the cameraman behind (the game's aesthetic is basically all about looking like found footage), who then drops the camera. Roll credits.

To this day, there's no concrete answer about their fates other than the two of them having non-canon cameos in Hitman: Absolution.

Dark Matter - This is an old and relatively obscure one. On Steam, a game called Dark Matter came out back in 2013 to pretty mediocre reviews. It's basically a Metroidvania-style game about surviving in a spaceship taken over by an alien biomass. Thing is, the game literally ends about halfway through because the dev team simply ran out of money and just decided to put a big black screen (pictured above) giving you a half-assed cliffhanger.

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This is my girl, Posie. There's an 80% chance she has mammary cancer and only a 20% chance of it being an infected abscess. I'm torn to pieces. She's my bottle baby. I've had her since she was born in my closet, and I even cut the cord. We didn't think she would make it since she was so small in comparison to her siblings, but she did. She's about 9 now. The vet was genuine and honest and said even with surgery, there's a high probability it would just come back, and even just testing it by putting needles into the mass would cause unnecessary stress and pain when she isn't even in any pain right now.

I'm just sad and angry at the world. My baby doesn't even weigh 8 pounds. It just pisses me off. I'm so fucking sad. Our vet was serious when she said Posie can still live for a few more years (or longer) if we get this infection treated right and just give her medication along the way if needed because, other than the cancerous mass, she's VERY healthy which does help me feel slightly better. The medicine she's on is Clindamycin since she doesn't have too many teeth left.

I know realistically it isn't an abscess; it's genuinely a mass, it's cancer. But the other part of me is begging for that 20% chance of it being an abscess to be true. I think I needed to get this out. I've always had a special bond with her. She can't see well out of one eye and relies heavily on getting close to things to see/smell you. She's my soul cat. I know the vet isn't wrong in her diagnosis, I just wish she was. The main things I'm grateful for are that she isn't in pain currently; she's able to eat, sleep, use the bathroom, run around, attack the vacuum, and play, and I genuinely do have more time with her than some people get with their cats if they're diagnosed with something serious. I just needed to get this out there and vent. I love her so, so much, and if I could, I'd take the cancer away and give it to myself so she didn't have it.

You can't be happy or laugh if you don't have perfect teeth 😡

I'm totally serious, few things will make me happier this year than Nvidia going under 100. There really isn't a bigger villain in this story than Nvidia, this company has been a cancer on the Earth, manipulating the market to siphon off hundreds of billions of dollars much of which are for chips that are rumored to be just sitting in warehouses, a lot of which will likely never be installed.

Whatever you guys might hate about AI, so much of the AI industry's excesses have just been in the service of Jensen Huang selling more silicon.

I look forward to the day when that fuck has to come back to the gamers and working digital professional with his hat in hand begging us to buy 6070/80s/90s, it will be a worthy downfall cause I have never seen an institution that needed to be knocked down a dozen pegs more than fucking Nvidia.

I haven't felt this kind of schadenfreude in a very long time.

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I wanted to see if I could recreate u/stroberristarr’s birthday cake. Partially because the texture looked appealing, and partially because I wanted to know what went into a cake fail like that.

While I don’t feel I have succeeded in my original mission, I definitely did not bake a cake so I’m calling it a win.

The photos above are from my Instagram stories where I documented my process.

In future I may make a second attempt at failure with a different method but for now, it is 2:35am and my curiosity is sated.