lol 7 part time cops for a tiny village of 1,000. gimmie a fucking break. I like that one lady who said, “they were never around when we called for help BEFORE they quit.” lmao. cops rage quitting is always going to backfire.

this comment is darkly hilarious:

ever since I realized the original lyrics were

Pants off: I’ll suck you off.
Head’s strong: I’ll suck off anyone.

that’s when I knew it was the best Father’s Day Rock Anthem.

haha, reminds me of when I realized I could buy 2-buck chuck by the case at trader Joe’s, so I could have an entire bottle of wine for like $2.30 or whatever it was.

I got pretty wrecked on the front porch every day for a while. felt classy too.

lol, damn could get pretty lit up for a buck.

very true. a bunch of years ago I was suddenly too broke to stay on the bandwagon and fell off for a few years.

I got into that whole “patient gamer” community, where people would stumble across 5+ year old games on deep discount and share those titles.

nowadays I am on surer footing, but see no reason to chase the eternal hype wagon. not only are older games cheaper, they don’t require me to upgrade my shit and any stability or compatibility issues are long sorted.

I just got Far Cry 4 for $5. it’s pretty fun and runs great lol.

meanwhile my gaming friends–who game are all fucked financially–and are tripping all over themselves to give what little cash they have to these asshole companies for hardware upgrades and/or to download buggy betas and spend the afternoon trying to to get all the cutting edge DRM and driver updates to load some game that they’re probably just going to get mad at and quit playing after 20 hours.

of course, there are also all the Indy games that are cheap and fun too.

there’s something really sad, stupid and insidious about how consumer commodification has degraded the pursuit of a desirable gaming experience to be less important than the appearance of having had a gaming experience aka FOMO. far too many people are out there, completely miserable in their gaming experience, so they can represent themselves as consuming games correctly.

the notion of asking oneself what one wants to get out of a gaming experience and then seeking satisfaction is somehow eccentric.

I just noticed the parental advisory sticker. spare me.

thanks for reminding me of this subtle scene. i was a little kid when i first saw it and didn’t understand its weight until i got older, but it stayed with me anyway. the orderliness of an oppressive political economy, the way passersby purposely look away or ignore it not wanting to be “pulled in” by their empathy. heavy shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7oglIAdnJM

man accused of being cool in Texas, a state that has spent its entire corrupt existence stealing and pooling resources to obliterate everything cool.

real shit, i was summarizing my lived experience as a multi-decade bidet enjoyer. having been to the middle east and the far east as a younger person, and having had family live in the middle east for many years it was something we all adopted straight away. because once it is realized how affordable and easy it is to live a life without a be’shitted asshole, it becomes the standard. like bathing regularly, brushing teeth, or washing dishes. you can’t just go back. not to mention, a typical entry level apparatus pays for itself in TP cost savings in a few months for a single person.

i gave up on evangelizing to the westoids very early on, because the majority dismiss it with some invective from one of (or both) of the two camps: “i can clean feces perfectly by blindly smearing it with paper” / “you are a sexual pervert”. these being responses to me having one in my bathroom and them seeing it. maybe 1 in 10 or 1 in 20 would see it, try it, and become converted. the rest were upset and confrontational.

consider that many fields, including the humanities, have a need for people with your skills. and you could find out more about those specialized needs by furthering your formal education in the humanities and how they interact with digital archives/preservation, or some other point of convergence.

I, too, started in “computers” but after a few years I figured out that it’s more of a skillset and knowledge base than a mature discipline, so it’s kinda boring unless you’re doing something interdisciplinary and novel with it. and most shit just isn’t. it’s monetizing fart apps.

so I went back to school for something I was really interested in (and completely unrelated), having “computers” in my back pocket. it helped me immensely in school/grad school and then again later in getting to work on novel projects with organizations I wanted to be a part of, because usually people aren’t combining “computers” and another discipline in a single head.

anyway, all that to say, you’re allowed to keep learning. as it turns out, solving the problems of tomorrow will require interdisciplinarity.

silos are for the academy. specialization is for insects. chase the knowledge you want and your mind will connect the dots later.

people will think you’re a warlock when you do.

ego and homophobia/sexual propriety. those are the kneejwrk reactions I’ve heard from non adopters.

they “know” their asses are clean because they’ve smeared shit into their balloon knot for decades and it was “fine”. got some peanut butter in a keyhole…? just use some tissue paper. totally hygienic. to consider otherwise is to consider one has been living with low standards for personal cleanliness despite full access to all the necessary technology and infrastructure of empire.

when they finally consider that maybe dry paper doesn’t really clean feces off of skin effectively, they lash out about how the desire for a clean anus is some kind of sexual perversion they are “above”.

act now, provide me with 10 referrals, and if at least 3 sign up for the Gold package, you will receive a free Diamond upgrade and I will have a wizard bless your filtration system using magic scrolls that will prevent and protect everyone in your household from intrusive thoughts about having gay sex with their dad.

based on the readings I’ve been getting my crystal powered ultrasonics device for thought capturing ($125 USD, patent pending), you can’t afford NOT to buy this filtration system.

lol, Jesus Christ why was he so animated right then, besides alcoholism… what was the context?

trump sitting in a darkened room at Mar a Lago in sweat pants eating fish filets with wet eyes and a lump in his throat, this playing on his bluetooth paired speaker on loop.

yeah, it’s a waste of crucial resources to send katy perry into space. but the unforgivable part was bringing her back.

lol, it was. i pre-ordered it and took vacation at work so i could play the shit out of it right when it launched.

after every early mission i would check the gym until i finally unlocked it and then minmaxed my guy into a total beefcake territory. max strength, zero body fat. like a pro-wrestler on HGH.

it made cut scenes hilarious.

i was pretty disappointed when they took that feature out of GTAV. and how they reset your clothes in GTAV periodically, and more or less keep your appearance within some guardrails. i like tweaking my appearance in those games. in San Andreas at one point i was running around barefoot in cargo shorts, no shirt, and had a light blonde mohawk. like some background character from a Mad Max flick.

i have a real fondness for games that let me lean into the custom character cut scene phenomenon:

wow. if judges don’t grow a spine here and start having their bailiffs detain some of these fucks on contempt charges as soon as they enter courtrooms in response to their extrajudicial b.s., there is no constitutional crisis… it’ll just be unitary executive ruling by decree.

I’ve watched some UK TV programs so I consider myself on expert on British culture and I can’t figure out why they are so shitty about this issue in particular, even compared to Burgerland.

i really dug it, even some of the mechanics that others found dumb/tedious. i liked doing the workout shit so i could make my dude completely, borderline-upsettingly jacked (and demolish people in a fist fight), and i liked the gang territory mechanic of being able to take over neighborhoods with gang wars. then my dudes would spawn on the corners, wearing colors. if the cops came into an area where i was strong, my guys would start lighting them up which was helpful when trying to finish something because your guys shooting cops doesn’t give you additional wanted stars. also, i could recruit them to run around and ride with me, shooting cops or rivals.

i also liked how each big city had a fighting style you could learn with its own combos. probably the san francisco-style dojo was the most useful, because you could do a roundhouse and take down multiple enemies, but the las vegas style was funny because you could knock people down and then sit on their chest and repeatedly bash their head in.

I’d refer you to competent authorities.

yeah, we don’t have those. would like to import some.