StormRider

Sadly the only good strategy seems to be do not try to plan international events in the United States until such time as competent government returns. Assuming it ever does. The damage from Trump and the GOP is generational in scale. (I have since learned that this LA event was cancelled.)

we all like to complain about the weirdness of various forms of social media but the single most unhinged site I've ever seen has to be Nextdoor

I realize most people stopped after the second film — for good reason — but this is literally the plot of Terminator 3

PayPal is bad enough, I certainly don't need a payment solution explicitly run by Ketamine Ubermensch

Well, Bluesky has managed to chase two important voices off its platform, either through berserker moderation or choosing to roll with pile-ons from shitty people. I'm not sure how much use this place is if it's gonna be just as bad as every other social media site in the aspects that matter.

Thankfully, YouTube, my experience is better than your survey widget.

I have had basically every generation of the Google Chromecast over the years (1st, 2nd, 4k, and now TV Streamer) and while I love the things, I don't think a single one of them has actually succeeded in initial setup without a bunch of arcane shit and arguing with the fucking broken Home app

My Junk Mail Theorem: With finitely many exceptions, the actual importance of a piece of mail is inversely proportional to the number of indications of its importance on the outside envelope

Bravo, internet. You did your duty.

This is week 7 of the saga of me trying to track down a lost package from Japan. If you're wondering, the previous part of this thread ended with... a suggestion that I utilize their tracking page. Every business that handed over their support to AI needs to burn in hell.

Between this and the all-in-on-AI shit, I will go out of my way to never purchase an NVIDIA product again. Of course, that may end up being a default position because NVIDIA has basically murdered the PC builder market.

here we have a typical WoW player engaging with the story

"...and we have become exceedingly efficient at it."

Once again declined for volunteer at SGDQ Double frustrating since they accepted me for stage manager at AGDQ and I had to cancel the trip

In an organization that puts forward being a safe space, this should be an insult and affront to the entire community. Fuck your NDAs. Silence is complicity. Name names. I don't care if it's fucking Cool Matty himself. If it's truly that bad, it deserves nothing but purification by hellfire.

Most important task today complete #SGDQ2026

now that "fuck Kansas" is popular on bsky I feel like pointing out that Kansas is/was a decent purple state until the GOP got the slimmest majority right on a redistricting year and then gerrymandered the ever-living fuck out of it, just like the minority-ruled Southern states we're all sick of it

fuck my state and its bullshit MAGA supermajority, that is all

Slightly diminish a game Region of Warcraft

so I'm a dumb privileged fuck and don't really care about the age verif stuff, so I was wondering where my line would actually be and then they partnered with a fucking Peter Thiel company fuck you @discord.com, Nitro is cancelled

Stonekettle deleted their account here and I feel like I have to tap the sign yet again

Teenager me: everyone in charge is so stupid Young adult me: politics corporations and science are incredibly complex topics that require thorough research and discussion and we shouldnt jump to conclusions Me now: everyone in charge is so stupid

Whenever some sanctimonious Dem announces that America needs a functioning Republican Party, I always think “I’d settle for a functioning Democratic Party.”

unfortunately it seems I have to tap the sign again

I have never been super invested in baseball, but this World Series has made a compelling argument

look, if the real human cops can confuse an acorn for a marauding armed black man, who are we to judge, really

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

After today on this dumb site... *wearily taps sign*

please, like I needed more reasons to hate the Yankees

I am going to start referring to political discourse on this site as "Claw Shrimp". An infinitesimally small handful of you may understand this reference.

Haru Urara is dead and motherfucking Donald Trump is still breathing dude, fuck this unjust universe

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

I have no idea what any of this is about or what I'll use these VST plugins for but I do like buying things out of spite

I left Twitter because I was very tired of unhinged right-wing people but having been here for a while now I realize I'm also very tired of unhinged left-wing people

They say to never speak ill of the dead, only good. James Dobson is dead. Good.

in case you were wondering if Polygon had been fully ground down to AI slop and/or the most useless writers alive, wonder no more they actually opened an article with this

I have read a lot of dumb unhinged shit about game dev I have read a lot of dumb unhinged shit in the New York Times but I think we've found the local maxima where the two wave functions are constructively interfering with each other

the worst thing about the horse girl game is that when I'm not otherwise occupied I'm now deep down this rabbit hole of IRL Japanese race horse lore