Imma bout to rip holes in my wall to get a cable upstairs. WiFi is simply awful.

That would require not just going to Reddit, but visiting /r/conservative on Reddit. Honestly, I’ll just not believe it since we won’t have real numbers anyway (there’s always people somewhere, the real drop would need to be measured).

As infuriating and dangerous as MAGA is, just remember who the true enemy is. There is no war but class war.

I think of those things as additional challenges, but it kind of depends on the game. RTS, Dune 2 definitely hasn’t aged well compared to Starcraft, for instance. To be fair, Dune 2 is like the first major RTS, though. Lol

But that’s partly what I meant by my post, True Random time with my friends is more of a “suffering is content” moment, haha. Playing an FPS with tank controls is infuriating!

I’m personally looking forward to RetroAchevements adding support for MSDOS sometime in the next year, though, because I like the challenge of jank ass games. I’ll probably play Dune 2, after I finish all Heroes of Might and Magic 1 and 2, haha.

It’s a very good collectathon but I had more fun doing it alongside RetroAchevements. One advantage was the comments on the specific mini games helped because there was sometimes a trick to it (one was literally unplayable on my version, you had to abuse pause to win).

I’m glad someone mentioned survivorship bias. I used to do a fun little “True Random” roulette with some rom packs I had (basically every game ever made prior to PS2) and a vast majority were pretty awful. The challenge we had was to play at least 30 minutes, but that was so rough sometimes.

That’d make a good T-shirt.

Emotional recommendation of the year: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of the Sky.

It’s almost upsetting having a 2009 pixel game have more emotional charge than a AAA with mocap and voice acting.

They somehow got me to play a ton of Wii and collectathons this year with events and… some retro games suck but they suck less with RA.

Thanks, I’ll look through it!

It certainly matters on who they put in your algorithm. I get more of the basic feed of political stuff and it’s like… Gavin Newsom with AI abs or some stupid slop and liberal boomers going heart eyes, lol.

I wouldn’t mind the artists and creators more, though. It did trickle in for a bit then uh, a few nsfw popped up unblurred and for some reason saying no to that made them all stop popping up. If I really cared though I’d probably actually follow people more, lol

To give a non Fediverse answer (we’re awesome), of the mainstream-ish platforms I’ve found Bluesky very non-toxic-- perhaps, I dare say… not toxic enough? You’ll get really dumb takes or sloppy AI posts without a hint of pushback.

But I’m with people in these comments, I like this place most. Call outs aren’t always considerate, but at least it keeps it from being utterly stupid. Polite corrections though are a treasure. That, and Never Slop kitties.

Well shit, now I need a fanfic about a medical research trial on the usage of silver in vampire surgery. It’d be hard to get ethical approval from a board of vampires though if it’s believed to be that they never heal, so… idk, vampire rats, first?

It’s kind of amazing that Oglaf, even with their SFW comics, frequently gives punchlines I’ve never seen or considered before. Lol

Pretty solid landing page, honestly.

Tell this to the heatwave we have in LA right now.

Actually don’t, a little rain is just going to produce even more mosquitos!

At least it shouldn’t be like this forever.

Two weeks I finally was getting over a 2 month long series of sinus infections; second day of me feeling better, my drain pipe ruptured and shit water drained all over my car. We got that resolved after a week of very careful water usage and three days later, my aquarium leaked. On a Monday, no less!

Why can’t I just have a normal fucking week. I feel this meme in my bones.

In a college classroom with only women, we did a student survey that asked how many believe in astrology. It was 50%.

I’m curious how that boils down in a coed institution, or a research 1 school or something.

That’s about what I remember last time. If I remember right, part of the issue arises when you’re a bit undecided, because there’s not a good reason to lie blatantly to someone who knows what they want (risking AIs reputation) but there is plenty reason to convince you you don’t need Medicare for all if you’re not already considering it.

Boy, I could really use another global lockdown in my life… 2027, let’s go!