It’s aspirational

I still can’t quite believe people voted for 4 more years of headlines like this

When you read with an awareness of the source and the larger context in which it was written, and you’re trying to actively decide what to believe based on what can be substantiated, that is at least a part of reading critically.

It’s not taught well in schools, and most people nowadays are simply reading headlines and reacting based on their gut feeling. Such people are easily swayed for the worse, but difficult to help.

Does air popped corn count as low calorie? If not, it’s gherkins for me

This is beyond mildly infuriating. I’ve been stalked and it was a bit traumatic, even though I don’t fit the profile of an easy target. I wish you had some clue who they are or some way to fight back.

Because tears are stored in the brain

The character who died in Sea of Stars made me and my kid cry. Not saying more.

The winning or losing was almost always secondary. The main thing is to spend a load of money on wars. We’ve never failed at that.

Well it’s never so bad it can’t get worse.

I think you might be better at this than me - I just glanced at https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ like some kind of chump

If they airbursted one of those on Edinburgh, people in Glasgow would get third degree burns.

It’s not gonna happen, but your comment got me thinking so I checked. AN602 is an egregious fucker.

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…I should really get on that self-hosted Wikipedia copy

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I have a friend who’s really into RP1, and it is taking an effort not to ruin their day with this

Mine has served that long and is now a hand me down for my kid’s first Linux box.

Because AAA is the sound you make when you realise that your favourite game franchise has been rendered creatively irrelevant by boardroom executives who hold no stock in the company they’re being paid fuck-you money to ruin, the game itself will cost as much as a day of cocaine and multiple concurrent sex workers, you’ll be squeezed for subscriptions and rereleases for the next decade at best before the next uninspired trend-chasing sequel, and it won’t even work on launch.

Alternatively, it’s the sound you make when you contemplate that your favourite game hasn’t even come out yet because it’s being made by a legendary but somehow underfunded indie developer whose uncompromising creative integrity rivals the 1994 lineup of Gwar as they snubbed a distribution deal with Warner Bros. just to keep the song “Baby Dick Fuck” on the album, and the game has already created an online community of toxic fans who hate it before it even launches, and you realise that the only way you’ll ever have satisfaction is by becoming a game developer yourself.

Ah jeez, what can I say but 12 years old is the perfect time to be given a Megadeth album. I think it was Capitol Punishment.