Yeah, that’s what I thought.

Feels like the ending of Melancholia as the planet approaches.

Chinese Asmonogold with his phD in entomology.

Ahh, thanks.

baseball

Has anyone here ever played through a game series? Like, not over the years but as a concerted effort? I did that for Zelda like 12 years ago, but I haven’t done it since. I kinda’ want to do it with Final Fantasy or something, but IDK. Not sure what series I should do another one with. Oh, I guess I did it with Silent Hill, sorta (up to SH Shattered Memories).

Also their defence of Platner. Jacobin sucks.

Play Settlers.

Pirates: The Legend Of Black Kat.

Yeah, it’s depressing. The 3/DS is such a good device for new types of games. The Playdate looks kinda’ neat (if stupidly expensive). We If we’re going to pump out generationally obsolesced e-waste it should at least be innovative e-waste that expands the medium or solves different problems.

I found a screenshot of the original video, or at least seems to be compared to the cropped image that gets shown. The door is wide open and he’s half-naked with a blanket or sweater on while on a couch that’s visible from the front door pretty easily. I think there are two front doors, one opens inward and the outside one opens outward, which makes it seem unlikely she barged in at all.

In hindsight she should have left to her car and called the cops, saying it might be a medical emergency or some kind of indecent exposure, but we have to weigh that with her being a doordash driver woman who probably doesn’t want to deal with that shit, especially when there’s maybe some guy-freak in the house nearby.

Edit: Also, she shouldn’t have posted about this stuff. It both doesn’t help her at all until maybe after the fact (if she got fired, maybe then try to get public sympathy). And it’s so fucking unpleasant watching someone express what she’s expressing in I think the 2nd or 3rd video that she posts after the first doxxing video she took and says she got fired, where she’s speaking in that exasperated Tiktok voice/countenance that’s hard to describe but comes off as ambiguously unwell and/or smug. My anti-Tiktok stance continues.

The only good Jedi do is mindtrick-rehab people into not wanting to do deathsticks and go home to rethink their lives.

People who make deathsticks their whole personality are so tiresome.

What if we lifted the batteries in the sky?

Psycho Stalin: Beyond Holodome

Possibly infrared cameras with a layer on top that’s more transparent to infrared light?

It was a humane kill and I’m disgusted that the meat was wasted.

People who’ve been inside prison for longer periods of time come out better adjusted than what melodramatic rightoids pretend to be because of phantom lockdowns that never actually happened. It’s crazy.

Spishak gave me a few stated reasons for his pornosexuality. One is a fear of STDs; another is standard-issue performance anxiety. These both make a degree of sense: gooning compilations can’t give you chlamydia; a zip file can’t impugn your virility. But what a zip file also can’t do is lie to you—and it is this element of Spishak’s pornosexual philosophy that seems to me most striking, and most emblematic of the Gen Z gooner mindset writ large. It turns out that what most frightens Spishak about sex is the impossibility of ever knowing what’s really going on in your partner’s (or anyone else’s) head. What if she’s bored by what Spishak’s doing but too polite to tell him? Worse: What if she’s uncomfortable with the entire situation? How could Spishak possibly know? “I just feel like it’s exhausting,” he says. “For both parties.”

I think it’s telling that they get this fear of fakery and solipsism when they watch something that’s entirely fake (and everyone knows it) and one-sided (male-gaze-based, POV-heavy, mysoginist-coded). These worries wouldn’t have come about if they were able to have human relationships prior to watching pornography, or at least the explicit kind they’re consuming now.

AKA the Kamino plan.