I mean…a down payment is anything you want it to be. The 20% rule isn’t manditory.

Just gonna leave this right here…for no reason

Oh.

I might not be the one to buck the trend. When I was 15 my mom went to london for 2 weeks, and left me at home. She said to watch the fish, and feed the cat.

Well, the cat meows when she’s hungry, and generally exists in your same space. The fish…exist. The problem is, I forgot the fish exist. So I didn’t remember to feed them for almost 2 weeks. Then 3 days before she came back I was watching TV, and suddenly remembered. I was like “OH FUCK!!! THE FISH!!!” And then instead of feeding them with a light sprinkling, my thought process is that they need extra food. So the problem is, they were still alive, but really they were already doomed. They weren’t eating, and they were dead within a day. When my mom saw how much food I put in there, she said it was as if I put a dump truck worth of food in their water for 1 day.

So maybe I won’t get these fish. Granted, yes, that was over 25 years ago, and I’m a lot more responsible in my 40s, but still. Maybe I’m not the guy who should be responsible for these exotic fish.

Minecraft? MINECRAFT??? OH GOD NO!!! YOU WOULD NEED A $4,000 TOP OF THE LINE PC!!! 512GB RAM, 8 CORE, 16 THREAD AT 20GHZ EACH!!!

Gaming is too expensive. You should sell a kid.

Heeeey, it’s me! Your sibling! You got any of that sweet sweet ddr5 ram??? Don’t hold out on me, boy!

It may be possible to jailbreak an older, end-of-support Kindle and continue adding books to it. But doing so carries risks.

Yeah. The risk of being able to use your device without corporate oversight.

I’m not usually a fish person…but I want an aquarium with one of these!!! Are they hard to care for?

Like what?

I watched a youtube video which talked about a 2015 study into piracy.

The study was conducted by a collaboration of movie, music, television, and video game studios.

Movie and television showed that the piracy rarely affected legit purchases. It did not help, but it did not harm.

Music had a slight negative dip, where sales among piraters sometimes prevented sales.

But video games is what was really special. They found those who pirate at least 1 game a year are up to 100x MORE likely to not only buy the game, but buy it in multiple forms. So maybe you bought GTA:V on release day on PS3.

Then a few years later you bought it on PS4. Then later on PS5. I think it’s also on PC so throw that in too.

Only a pirate would love a game that much. And is probably pirating because it keeps their physical copy unopened.

The only way to get to the bottom of this is by giving our personal information, buying those VR glasses, and living inthe metaverse.

Should we do it? No? Oh. I guess that’s what they mean by “ignorance is bliss”.

I’m not defending this guy. I know nothing of him, nor his story. I haven’t even clicked the link, or seen the screenshot.

All that being said, I can absolutely believe some service (in this case discord) would ban him without just cause or recoarse.

Back in 2018 I got banned by twitter BEFORE musk bought it. A pro-wrestler posted a funny video of herself. I replied “Oh man, that killed me!”

As in…that was very funny.

Twitter bots mistook that for a threat of violence. Banned.

In 2023 I was awarded on reddit as being in the top 1% of karma earners for 2022.

Then, later in 2023, they offered me the chance to buy reddit stock before it went public. Well, I was dealing with cancer at the time, and had $0 income. So I couldn’t.

Then after I declined they gave my account a strike for a comment I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Like nothing about the comment even made sense what they were flagging.

Then it did it again the next week, just as the reddit IPO went public.

Then again a day later. Which banned my 10+ year old account. Someone on lemmy speculated that it was because I didn’t buy the IPO. Someone else speculated it’s because I used a VPN.

Either way, reddit’s official stance is that I was harassing users. When I asked what part of any of my 3 messages was threatening, the reply I got didn’t even address my question. Instead it just said my comments were reviewed by a team of humans who deemed my comments to be harassment.

To this day, I still don’t believe any human actually looked at my comments.

Netflix plan to bring even more ads to even more parts of it’s service…and I plan to continue not being a customer.

Oh man! The 2003 blackout was AWESOME!!! I’m from Cleveland, and I thought I caused it. Local time power went out at 3:45pm exactly. I know that because in those days I worked at a regional grocery store, and we used physical plastic time cards that you swipe, and then it beeps and you click the button that says “In” to clock in after it beeps.

Well, I start my shift at 4pm, and I was allowed to clock in 15 minutes early, but not 16 minutes early.

So at 3:44 I’m waiting. And waiting. And then 3:45. Swiiiipe! power dies

What’d I do? Oh fuck…what did I do? It didn’t even beep. I swiped my card, and then everything went black…

These were the days when your phone didn’t have a flashlight, but the nokia phones of those days were bright enough you could kinda use the screen itself as a source of light.

So once I made my way out of the office, I realized the whole BUILDING had no power. Now I was less sure I caused it. I thought one breaker had somehow gotten tripped, but that would just be a small portion of the building.

Then a coworker came running in, and said the whole block was out. So now I knew I had nothing to do with it. We turned on the radio, as we waited to figure out what to do. The music got interupted a half hour later saying the whole city was out. Within another hour we found out it was half the country.

So we got sent home before it turned dark. And thats when the day got fun. We sat on the sidewalk with lanterns and candles at our apartment building. We then watched in pitch black as a single headlight came flying around the corner real fast. A motorcycle that was then followed by about 3 cop cars chasing him. We’re all drunk on the sidewalk, sitting on folding chairs. We see the motorcycle go flipping and there is no way for me to describe the weird light show we saw. It lasted forever, and also onlu about 2 seconds. We had no idea what it was.

Turns out the motorcycle hit a curb at 70mph in the dark, went airborn and was flipping through the air, before crashing through the window of a house.

It took police 90 minutes to find the rider. Because they thought he ran on foot. Turns out he hit the wall above the window, died on impact, and his body fell to the ground behind a bush.

But we were all laughing not knowing he was dead. We were just imagining being inside that house, in candle light, before randomly a motorcycle crashes into your front window.

We just thought he did a magic trick, and vanished. Suddenly cops were descending on our block, with ambulances, and for some reason a fire truck. So we took that as our cue to go inside and smoke weed, and have sex all night.

Next day is when we found out what we saw. We didn’t know he had died. We eventually had figured out the light show was the motorcycle flipping end over end.

Ah, it happened in 1634. That’s why I hadn’t heard of this. I wasn’t born yet for a few more years.

I find myself playing more retro stuff.

I bought the Retroid Pocket Flip 2, which is exactly the same everything as a Retroid Pocket 5, with the exception of form factor. With apps like game native, I can play older PC games.

But like…have you ever played Super Mario Bros 2 at 2am, while smoking weed? The game holds up.

I guess I’m not a fan of the greyscale realistic graphics of a dystopian future, and everybody is shooting guns.

Yaaaaaaaaaawn.

But Stardew Valley?

The Survivalists?

Those games are amazing! Colorful graphics. I don’t need realism. I need escapism. I need worlds that make me feel SOMETHING positive in my life.

But ever since PS2, it’s been guns guns guns, rainy grey skies, post apocaliptic worlds. I don’t need that, and it’s been industry standard for 25 years it feels like.

I’m loving my Flip2 though.

I guess the PS3?

I felt like I begrudgingly bought it, out of spite. Like I HAD to buy it, or I was no longer a modern gamer.

And then it just fell flat for me. I played GTA, and maybe a handfull of other games, but mostly GTA.

I guess the PS4 is actually the same story, except I just never played it. To this day I have a PS4 that I never really used. But I also had no excitement for it.

And I guess the same for PS5. I bought it to play GTA 6, thinking it was coming soon. That was 4 years ago. I’ve watched dvds more than I’ve played games on it.

But with PS3, I actually had excitement brewing. I expected big things. It just never materialized.

I’ve already decided I’m not buying a PS6, and I’m not buying GTA6.

Two things…

1. Is…is Cleveland known for high energy usage? I don’t get the reference.

2. Tulips had a bubble? I’m so confused.

Heeeey, don’t feel bad. It could happen to anyone! You’re not stupid. I’m stupid. I don’t even have a grasp of what you’re talking about or how you did it.

Computer boo-boo!

Computer boo-boo!

I think 10 year old me was the coolest! That was clearly my peak.

42 year old me now wonders why I can’t wear boxer shorts, and drain chains as a necklace, with a yin yang charm on a bracelet anymore, while drinking a capri sun.

3. Maybe even 2. I’d have to see it in person.