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Games of All Time: the list
by platform, then roughly in the order I played them PC - Alter Ego - Age of Empires II - Petz 4 - The Sims 2 - World of Warcraft: the Burning Crusade - Dragon Age: Origins - Skyrim - Mass Effect...
PSA
Every time someone says something like, “there’s absolutely no reason for a child or young teen to have anything in common with an adult, unless the adult is using this as a pretense to a molest ...
Henry Kissinger is dead 🦀
dead to me
your last gift, a box it was a beautiful box now coffin for you
They just made it up to sell more cynicism
I’m gunna be clear. All holidays are made up. All the days and the divvying of time, made up. The calendar is made up. September and October were supposed to be the 7th and 8th months, they are n...
a guide on old displays for retro/vintage gaming
Revised for helpful video explanation Gamers looking at childhood games as an adult might think nostalgia remembers games looking better than they are. But they actually did look better then, an...
Let them eat cake
They are a bespectacled individual in their thirties, somewhat bookish, standing in a brightly colored vest over a patterned oxford shirt. Quirky, but professional. In the shadows behind them, an...
synapse on mastodon - LETS b FRENZ
https://tech.lgbt/@synapse just droppin this link for yall, I’m going to get more involved in mastodon. I think JoinMastodon.com might be the easiest way to get started. It definitely presents a ...
what if Monkeypox (and/or COVID) were terrorist bioweapons?
Smallpox vaccines offer as much as 80% of the immunity against monkeypox as it does vs smallpox. and the US to made millions of smallpox vaccines in the 2000s after 9/11. Then, the millions of 20...
bureaucracy by design is like a firing squad
Everyone is just following rules/orders. No individuals are personally responsible.
the Russian citizens
So I know the Russian government is the aggressor in the conflict and I believe in taking the side of Ukraine HOWEVER it’s important to keep in mind that the Russian people did not decide to go t...
bombs away
I just feel like I should mark this moment TRIGGER WARNING a picture of smoke and fire from a building under fire
Sci-fi FYI
I am OBSESSED with The Expanse and currently watching season 4/6. I used to discuss scifi and Star Trek quite a lot on PB & OD so if you had those discussions with me (where my DS9 fans at??)...
Woke Culture Ass-Wagons
Dune is just the latest in a series of franchises that receive some new property or adaptation and what follows is a wave of easily offended reactionary conservatives leading unexamined lives. A ...
The Matrix: retrospective
SO, THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS. TLDR: good ideas, bad execution. My rating: MEH. The worst Matrix film ever. But before I explain, let’s take a look back at the “original” Matrix movies, as our lat...
let's not normalize disaster
So I recently got into an auto accident and since I’ve been worried about the effect of this accident on my future, multiple well-meaning people have basically been like: shit like this happens a...
AAPI links & donation suggestions
AAPI: Asian American & Pacific Islander I learned this abbreviation today. so I decided to do a little research & following on social media so I can start to learn. Asian Americans/Pacif...
COVID-versary
things that were happening to me this time last year I was sanitizing the counter every hour, people thought I was insane. We were sold out of sanitizer, then TP, and I was encouraging people wh...
my Prius exausts rainbow farts
Cis boys taken in by car culture & “my car is faster than your car” love to feel sorry for me & my slow-ass1 Prius. It helps my memory is long enough to remember these guys being jelly th...
antinatalism thought
People really do be like “how could you think about buying a designer dog instead of rescuing?” and then go make multiple custom human beings from scratch.
Vaccine news!!
It is SO FRUSTRATING that I can’t read it all but it’s amazing news. With success in vaccines, scientists turn mRNA on autoimmune disease The technology used in a pair of pioneering Covid-19 vac...
anybody who wants to deny that the Trump supporters are fascists or use the “bad apples” argument to describe them is an apologist for fascism, full stop. anyone involved in this who is truly dis...
the vaccine is untested
I wish I had more time to do research and link sources on this. Bear with me, or Google it, or maybe standby for me to get the chance to add links. But PSA: Latent viruses are a big deal. Survivo...
Justice for Tamir Rice (the one where I ask you to do stuff, please)
I’m just trying to post more, “quality” less. My personal practice of grammar anarchy is getting very absurd. I do need to clean it up for the masses, at least a bit. Part of shutting up in the l...
the thing to fear is fear itself
ok this is overdue, please don’t feel like this is personal, but if the shoe fits wear it. how much do you support medical authoritarianism? are you a fucking narc? do you think drugs that ge...
Book Description
I am an American nerd who lives in the midwest