East Bay what now?

Adapting to living my life on cat time, where we all sleep in a big pile on the bed during the afternoon and then zoom around at dawn and dusk.

Proposal: Above a certain level of wealth, you are no longer allowed to be in any group chats.

A regular at the karaoke bar is into Marathon so I'm going to impress him with my T-shirt.

I didn't know before today that this is a song about how much Dave Grohl loves eating pussy but it does make sense in retrospect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ04...

If you read them from the beginning they're the words of a dog who desperately wants you to come over because they've seen a frisbee

The MacHall > TPS > your twitter feed pipeline is what got me on social media, and what I feel to be a better understanding of my world and my place in it. It led me to others like Iron Spike and Nina Matsumoto. So my hat's off to you and Ian for making and sharing the things I needed.

Fuck me, really?

A purrbeast approaches.

I occasionally go to the San Francisco library and pick up some records without knowing what they are, and sometimes I find some good stuff. I'll post a few of them here.

Yeah if you start talking about the Scoville scale to the right white person they will run to their hatchback & bring back something that will have your jaw hanging from your face like Javier Bardem in Skyfall

I love how in Slay The Spire 2, the Architect is always like "I know your deepest secrets and the hidden shame that has brought you to this terrible place" except for the Regent, who just happened to be wandering by, and he's just like "Bro, what the fuck is your PROBLEM?"

I see the Bezos editorial page has its finger on the pulse of the nation.

Well, there's SOME action on guns. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

I really need to do an expanded talk on that one of these days. I think about it all the time. Games that don't have it and are high intensity, like Marathon, always remind me of poor Alec Leamas. I think to myself "The spy who came in from the cold... and then went back in to the cold."

I like it better when it's all in my head/ the doctors know that I have money to spend youtu.be/ndRXwAqjAIQ?...

I'm not playing much Marathon lately, but it's not because I'm bored or unhappy with the game. I'm still very positive on it. I'm not logging in because Marathon doesn't have a "home" space the way Destiny did, to crib a term from a @nickpopovich.bsky.social GDC talk.

The unreleased Star Fox 2 (available on the Switch library) has the sickest intro animation ever played on an SNES, and after that you're kind of like "Yeah, I see why they had to can this."

"Clearly this global sex trafficking operaration was socially acceptable. Otherwise, how could I, Alan Dershowitz, be fucking all these Russian teenagers all the time?"

speaking of webcomics I still think this Hark A Vagrant panel is like. the single funniest image of all time

Nethack v5.0 is out. https://nethack.org/v500/release.html

"Spices are drugs for your tongue" might be the most Pentecostal thought I've ever had.

Money can buy happiness but there's a soft cap.

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Game idea: Marathon but it's not incredibly stressful to play after smoking weed.

I think May 4 has surpassed April 1 as the day to not be on the Internet.

The wait is finally over. Oni is here.

Me: (extremely high at 1:22 PM on a Sunday) "There's just... a lot of layers here, man."

Apparently my "ethics in pinball consumption" line lies somewhere between Harry Potter and Foo Fighters. Can't bring myself to touch a JK Rowling property, but I'll put some quarters in the latter despite the band's regrettable support of an HIV-doesn't-cause-AIDS group in 2000.

It's funny that people immediately start running with this exact discourse in the replies.

I don't believe in IQ tests but I do believe that someone on a higher ascension level than me in Slay The Spire 2 is both smarter than me and a better person in general.

Opening up the Stern Pinball app to find:

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

My favorite trivia about this is they did multiple takes and the math got more complicated each time. Also, Samoa Joe is off-camera trying not to die of laughter.

see the thing is, allowing and encouraging this is the *explicit argument* that prediction markets were making in favor of themselves as information sources

It's weird that every time I read news from the Supreme Court I start singing "first of all, fuck the fucking law" from RTJ's Ooh La La in my head.

Marathon is a roguelite

This Wednesday!

Now who could have put that there

The apathetic reaction on my feeds is basically "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."

weird how the clouds didn't move at all over 20 years anyway I hate this timeline and as a journalist I see no value whatsoever in doing a big fancy dinner with the architects of this timeline

You know, from this angle, it kind of looks like, instead of a halo, Jesus has a cartoon fly head.

I don't like to participate in ARGs but I do like to read articles about them. Passively participating in someone else's narrative, like sports, you know? aftermath.site/marathon-cry...

I feel like I've seen a surprising number of people in Marathon with skins from the paid season pass.

Hey, if you're in Oakland and you want to go to this next week, it'll make me look good if you get a ticket on Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/knockout-karaoke-fundraising-party-with-c4c-tickets-1986469038368?aff=oddtdtcreator

Class notes.