Rang dang diggedy dang di-dang

Our long national nightmare is finally over. I can now safely think about the game.

wew lad

I mean, the music snobbery of acting like we weren’t cool if we didn’t listen to the right bands, and the slacker attitude that eventually grew into “got mine” Boomer Juniors… yeah, fuck em, worth forgetting.

Yep, and if I recall correctly, it usually hit cable TV first (usually HBO, I think), and then edited-for-broadcast-TV versions later.

ACKSHUALLY, 1980 is the end of Gen X and 1981 is the beginning of millennials, the oldest of which would have been 18 in 1999.

So the oldest millennials would have been having their first birthday.

We got em years later on cassette at Blockbuster, and we would re-rent and re-watch our favorites sometimes.

There also weren’t as many movies to choose from, nor was it all available at our fingertips all the time.

Too much ibuprofen use can lead to ulcers, please limit use to the worst days.

Source: have cancer, can’t take acetaminophen or naproxen, they conflict with my meds, I can only take ibuprofen.

“Tittes” (sic) instead of tiddies?

*Internal screaming

I did the math when this happened, they were absolutely banking on losing customers, but they misplayed their hand. They figured they would still be making money with the price increases even if they lost nearly third of their US gaming audience. By my back of the napkin numbers, as long as they lost less than 30%, they would be making more profit.

They must have lost more than they planned if they pulled a reversal or the price increase was a trial balloon to gauge response and whether people would come back for reduced prices.

These companies are of course happy to treat their customers like one big psychological experiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Industrial_Ramirez

Mexico has been making automobiles since the 1960’s and used to having a booming auto manufacturing sector of their economy, including many foreign automakers having factories there. Ford was building EVs there 10 years ago.

This EV is a very cool development, but Mexico and South America in general already has a history with converting older vehicles to EV standards since most of the country has older vehicles. I am having trouble finding the article from a few years ago, but there was a whole cottage industry dedicated to converting classic cars to EVs down there.

Finally, we’ve been exporting labor to Mexico for decades to reduce labor costs, most of it in manufacturing. To act like they don’t have such industries already flies in the face of the history of American and Mexican industry, and how they’re intertwined.

Don’t use corporate services.

The vast majority of the ethernet, cable, and fiber that connects people is owned by a corporation.

I hate this argument because it misses the bigger point that the infrastructure of the internet is not publicly owned but is privately owned by corporations.

Build community LANs that aren’t connected to the internet. Use sneakernets to share information via USB. Use encrypted LoRa for messaging among community members.

It’s not supposed to be an image, it’s supposed to be a link? Weird. But I also like that it shows failed to load, that works too! I am so used to putting image links I accidentally made it an image link first before I made it a normal link, maybe the edit hasn’t propagated to your instance yet.

My muscles: “I remember nothing”

Nah, the pinch hitter was the pipe, the dugout was the little wooden case the pinch hitter went back into after their hit.

Both aspects are baseball metaphors, just like a batter goes back to the dugout if they strike out or get a home run.

Why do I know this I don’t even like baseball.

less accidental renaissance and more accidental non-euclidean space

I grew up in Washington surrounded by apple orchards. We grew chest hair from smoking out of those apples and then eating them to remove the evidence… and then we got cancer from smoking and eating the pesticides on the apples, turns out the chest hair was an early warning sign.

(I do actually have cancer, but it’s not actually this, this is a joke)

Fuck yeah weed brother!

We walked toked so they could run vape!

I am basically a script kiddie and Anthropic Claude helped me design a small app for myself that was way beyond my own capabilities and it even went as far as documenting in comments what each bit of the program did for me, to help me understand the logic.

I only have access because I got a free year of Perplexity.ai because I had a paypal account (barf, had to have it to get paid for gig work).

I see it as very useful for anything technical, it helped me through some troubleshooting a hardware issue with my monitor I was having trouble pinning down by browsing forums.

I would never purposely divulge personal info to an LLM, anything that’s shared has had personal info stripped.

I died laughing at this trailer.

“No one believed me when I said the newest Belmont would be a giiiiiiiiiirrrrrl.”

Was this written by a twelve year old? I’m fucking dying. This is clearly an adult woman. To have that as an actual line in the game, let alone the trailer itself. It even trails on the word girl like they’re going to follow up with “ewww cooties!” I’m fucking dead.

EDIT: Especially because most Castlevania fans are in their fucking forties and fifties (I’m glaring at you Adi Shankar)! Oh yeah let’s call this adult woman a girl because this game is totally aimed at *checks notes… the 40+ demographic.