Me too. Every night without fail.

yeah needs to match on both sides either “the americans and the chinese” or “americans and chinese” not this weird othering mix.

meanwhile, I’m buying another sundae at…

because…

I only wish I had such a cool name.

You would think that this would be part of it but people sure don’t drive like it is! People tell me I drive like an old lady because I’m actually cautious and go the speed limit. I’m not young and the people saying this aren’t young, either. These are people old enough to know better.

Like all tools, the human mind actively views the tool as an extension of the human body. When you use a hammer, your mind sees it as an extension of your arm in order to be able to use it effectively.

When you spend too much time in your car, you begin to really treat it as an extension of yourself, and stop treating it as the two ton death machine on wheels that it obviously is.

I’ve also read that the more you personalize your car, with bumper stickers and such, the more you view it as a deeply personal part of who you are, and think of the inside of your vehicle as a deeply personal space, and as such, also view an invasion of your cars “personal space” as an invasion of your personal space.

Short story: humans are fucking dumb and we built a society where we spend entirely too much time inside our cars to the point that we form emotional fucking attachments to them.

frorts

I’ll be busy looking my gift horse in the mouth.

I don’t even like my own name for various reasons but I couldn’t make a different choice for my own gender even if I wanted to.

I would end up depressively renaming myself something like Rat Bastard McFuckwit

Suzy Eddie Izzard - The Twelve Days of Christmas

twelve monkeys mating, eleven donkeys dancing, ten pygmies farming, nine socks a-swimming… FIIIIIIIIVE GOOOOLD RIIIIIINGS

Also, Murder City Devils - 364 Days

Oh, and Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis

I know the second two aren’t “classic” songs but they’re my favorite Christmas songs.

Thanks for doing this and being so kind as to spread joy to fellow Lemmings!

I don’t actually want any of these games, the ones I want I already have, I just wanted to say thank you for being giving.

I mean, sure. But corporate democrats have been fighting for what amounts to a band-aid on a system that is bleeding out and needs 50 stitches and hospitalization while the conservatives are basically fighting for shooting the patient in the head to end their misery.

Sure, they’ve been fighting for better than the Republicans have, but… that’s not a whole lot better. Medical costs have been one of the top reasons for bankruptcy for literally decades now. Michael Moore’s film “Sicko” came out in 2007, (when it had been a problem fr a long time already) almost 20 years ago, and the ACA has barely moved the needle on medical bankruptcies. I’m not saying the ACA is bad, I’m saying it’s never been close to enough, and we need to stop patting democrats on the back for sucking up to the corporate stooges that fund them to give us half-ass solutions.

Once again, sure, it’s better than the bullet in the brain that the Republicans want to give people like myself, whose medical costs without insurance are over $18k a month. But other countries literally don’t let the pharmaceutical companies gouge their citizens like this to begin with, nor do they allow medical insurance companies to make profit from denying care. Those are purely American issues, and ones that the democrats consistently bend over for corporate interests to leave on the table instead of going as far as they can to make sure people like me aren’t stuck in financial limbo because of a disease I didn’t ask for and certainly didn’t do anything to get, just that random ass cancer in my forties that was unpreventable.

I’m glad for not having a bullet in my brain, but let’s not pretend we can’t ask for better than what the democrats offer.

I feel it in my heart that short form content is damaging everyones attention spans

The Silent Generation Boomers said this about us watching half hour TV shows.

go on 67 Wikipedia and it literally says “It has no fixed meaning.”

Maybe go back and read some Jacques Derrida, because the idea that meaning of words and ideas isn’t fixed isn’t exactly new.

Its full of gooner porn bait visual novels

You take that back about Dispatch right now!

But more seriously, content changed. Young people just don’t watch scripted television and movies in the same form or capacity that we do. Due to this, the budget for that kind of entertainment is slowly receding, because why would companies pour money into a type of content that isn’t really making the returns on investment they want because all the old people who enjoy it are slowly dying? It would be like people who grew up in the early 1900s complaining about “talkies” in the 1930s because they preferred the old silent films of their youth. It really isn’t for us to say which is better or worse, as much as it is for us to find what’s good out of the new stuff that is being produced. There’s more content than ever out there, which means you have to sift through more to find good stuff.

Like I mean, that’s just part of getting older, the things we enjoy become less popular, and by extension, less money is invested in making good products that cater to that audience anymore.

Also, counterpoint: Baldur’s Gate 3 was a return to 1990s western CRPG style and it fucking dominated financially. No other game of that style has come close to that kind of popularity for a long, long time. No, Bethesda games don’t count because they don’t actually lock you out of different outcomes from the choices you make. The Witcher games also don’t count because there’s not a real RPG, build-your-own-character aspect to them, you’re just Geralt whether you liked it or not. When classic styles of media are done well, people still respond positively to them.

Finally, corporate enshittification dominates all of this, leading to a feedback loop of companies putting less and less money into anything quality at all ever because they don’t think its valuable to invest in anything except stock buybacks and firing employees to pump their stock prices.

There’s a lot of aspects to it, and a lot of it has to do with markets and how we’re no longer the target market, the coveted 18-24 demographic that made our own brain rot television such as Aqua Teen Hunger Force so popular in the early 2000s when we were in that target demographic. Brain rot media has always been there, in the form of absurdist comedy. You go back farther and you had stuff like Mr. Show and The State. When I think of my own high school graduating class, I think most of them were dimwitted fucking idiots, and I don’t think it was because they watched short form media: I think it’s because most humans are genuinely dimwitted fucking idiots.

Anyway, I’ll stop rambling, but yeah we’re just getting old and we’re not the audience that is being catered to anymore.

You’ll have to ask Donald Rumsfeld.

Isn’t Cisco also moving away from IOS towards web-based GUI-centric administration? I forget what it’s called, but it’s not the same as IOS

As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.

I have had great luck with a 6600XT myself, but your mileage may vary. There seems to be a fair amount of variance in terms of which AMD cards have solid footing in Linux and which games they work well with. I haven’t had any issues but I generally don’t play visually demanding games.

Also, if you ever want to roll out your own local LLM, you’re just going to have better performance with an Nvidia card, as ROCm just seems to not be quite up to snuff at speedy work.

That’s a fair take. I deleted it promptly after playing, but anyone who is willing to fund empress’s insanity is a fool anyway. Yet, sadly, a whole lot of fools out there.