I just want to know why Jack Napier from Batman’s 1980s flashbacks has a podcast?

Okay, who let a Ferengi become the CEO of Delta?

Will the dog be in the back?

Yeah, the dog will be in the back.

Ray-Ban is owned by Essilor-Luxottica, a truly evil conglomerate. Worse on Purpose has an excellent piece about them that is well worth everyoneʻs time to read.

Look, all of us have different sleeping habits, okay

Mint user and the image is perfect. This is because Mint allows me to rest like a baby that has all their needs met, free from anxiety.

I’ve installed Mint on a few MacBooks. Was in need of a better laptop, got a decent deal on a Costco-special Lenovo IdeaPad and immediately put Mint on it. The process took twice as long as with the Macs and because this laptop has a Copilot key, I imagined that there was something akin to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind going on inside with the “AI” trying to hide and dodge deletion.

Had me in the first part, ngl

My wife, who’s an accountant, never really played video games growing up. When we got married, she liked to hang out on the couch while I played various Zelda titles (I think WindWaker HD was the first one she got really into with me, and she’d become a second set of eyes). She was the one who helped me understand how a video game is maybe the most value for one’s money of all the entertainment options. For a long time, games were still around $50 (which was even the price when I was a kid) and she was kind of blown away at the notion that you could pay $50 for something and have like 80+ hours of enjoyment when going to a movie was like the same price for only two hours and going to a play was often even more expensive. An album is still pretty great deal-wise because you can get years of enjoyment out of that. But in terms of a story-telling medium, a video game is still an amazing value for what you get (even at $80).

My problem with what is going on with this game and Sony in general is the idea that they want me to pay $80 for something that, due to DRM, I’m not actually owning. If they want me to pay that kind of money for something that I feel like I have actual ownership of, with a reasonable expectation that I can play it for years to come (like I can with my SNES and Saturn and whatnot), then I’m still happy to pay $80 for it. But I am not given that assurance. I thought Tears of the Kingdom was worth the price (and still do). But I have the card on my shelf and so long as I have a Switch I can play it.

Saw an article a few weeks back that said something about how Rockstar was ensuring availability for the game. Availability? For a download?

Also, why bother pre-ordering? The whole idea of pre-ordering is so that you can ensure you have the game when it comes out because there are limitations on supply meeting demand on the printing of a disc. Again, this is a download. Other than some artificially limited exclusives (which, again, are downloads and will probably be made available again at a later date) there is no reason to pre-order. Unless you want the game to just automatically install for you, I can’t think of a real reason for pre-ordering this. (Disclosure: I am old and I practically never download big games–not at launch anyway)

I found GTAV at a thrift store for $4.99 several months back. Bought it. Still haven’t played it lol

I once had a friend tell me that steampunk is what happens when goths discover the color brown and I’ve never been able to get over that.

I’d argue that both Black Panther films fall within solarpunk (at least when it comes to Wakanda–which, yes, I know that it is also afrofuturism, but there’s clear overlap at times). And both films deal with “negative” elements: isolationism in service of creating a paradise and monopolizing the technology that makes such a paradise possible are themes in both of the films and which could be further explored in other solarpunk fiction.

THANK YOU!

Went to a moving sale a few weeks ago. Dude had a ton of computer and gaming related stuff. But what caught my eye was the translucent purple Drop mechanical keyboard. I was never a keyboard girlie. But I became one for that beauty.

My grandfather straight up told this to my aunt when she was a kid. Even went so far a few days later to tell her that he could see leaves starting to sprout when he looked in her ears.

This right here.

Grok, is this true?

Legit ethical question: since LLMs are trained on stolen knowledge and art, is stealing an AI book theft? Also, given the current US laws about how an AI “work” cannot be copyrighted, what’s to stop me from taking someone’s AI “book” and just slapping my name on the cover and reselling it?

The 80s version of The Blob is terrifying.