requiring a new piece of hardware for your new operating system in the midst of an unprecedented computing hardware shortage caused by the technology underpinning said new operating system is such a profoundly stupid no-win strategy it could only come from microsoft

this is, without a doubt, the most unpleasant website to go even moderately viral on. the most odious, cynical, unoriginal people have been in my replies for 12 hours straight.

in 30 years this will be every american high schooler's most hated section of us history too much bullshit happens zero rationale behind any of it it's just going to be a list of unhinged things and thin pretexts you will NOT be able to guess what happened next you WILL memorize the whole chapter

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

hauling a gpu across san francisco amidst a hardware shortage induced by corporate greed wearing all black blasting the glitch mob maybe i need more piercings my life is more cyberpunk (derogatory) every day

it's pretty cool having a skill i used to be totally scared of attempting that i can now do like, most reasonable levels of with ease 12 year old me would be stoked about the idea of being able to actually mod an xbox

oh yeah he’s 100% going to kill an astronaut.

maybe i should go to a sharks game and watch men hit each other in tactical ways maybe it will soothe me

crazy how everyone who was right about israel's warcrimes are sounding alarm bells about trans people in the united states receive the exact same patronizing tone

group chat traditions i love; letting each other know the sunset looks sick photos of neighborhood cats photos of on street parking where bumpers are kissing “i baked this thing come over and eat it”

Lmao

i love being a woman and being treated like i have no expertise or experience until proven otherwise

sometimes u must simply be in awe of the geniuses you team with @lydz.bsky.social

watching queer gamers do gamergate talking points again a decade later is so fucking depressing who taught you to hate a game for its engine? why? you don't even know the pros and cons of these pieces of software WHO GAVE YOU THIS OUTRAGE??????

i wonder how long before we see a data center heist like whole shipping containers of compute handed to a shady contractor purporting to install it that just vanish overnight

automated phone menus collectively drove us mad but this new version of talking to the computer will be good for you promise

new evangellion? recession indicator

*watching a gaming clip a friend recorded of me* i'm proud of how stupid i was there

lost the link to the book i was suggested before my queue had to get interrupted and now i'm haunted by the specter of the book that might've been...

the lighting in my bathroom might actually be homophobic i love how i look in front of literally every other mirror in my home and then i go in there and i'm like "what wretched swamp creature skulks in this mirror"

mobas are hysterical because your reward for playing smart for the first 2/3rds of a game is being the most ignorant person alive and killing everyone

every time i discover a new way the internet allows someone to parade a personal failing as an entire personality i develop another nemesis i need more offline hobbies

arduous, depressing non-fiction reading break is over time to resume my depressing fiction reading habit

lost in the synth vortex at 1am again

i think i need like a lot more skulls in my wardrobe

fighting games offline remains untouchable

anyone in the Toronto area familiar with any locals that actually have casuals/tournaments for retro titles rather than just SF6/tekken8/smashult etc? particularly trying to find an actual IRL 3rd strike scene #fgc #TorontoFGC

caves of qud outsold cybertruck by like 5x in 2025

do NOT play deadlock with a bunch of fighting game trans women someone WILL say “oh that enemy is not even a person” about an 0-8 hostile carry and then half the call will start flirting with each other

the computer music professor who taught me how to recognize low audio bitrate audio at a researcher party has done nothing but make me less happy in life

sent someone an original piece of music earlier and they said it reminded them of philip glass and i'm still not over it

“hardware synths are so impractical no one accomplishes anything with them” WRONG i just made a sick bass patch AND kept my office warm in this chilly norcal winter analog stays winning

the speed with which my mental health has turned around after 3 hours of sunlight would be upsetting if i wasn’t skipping down the street cheerful right now

the speed with which my mental health has turned around after 3 hours of sunlight would be upsetting if i wasn’t skipping down the street cheerful right now

realizing i’m showing my age by thinking of a piece of physical media it’s so over

baristas trying to interpret their own fucked up late art to me might be my favorite thing

i know progress is nonlinear and sometimes you just have off days but jesus taking ONE SINGLE DAY off some fighting game exercises and then having two days of just like, awful results feels like it's teaching me the wrong lesson

can someone with a gen alpha kid leave a copy of napoleon dynamite laying around and report back to me on behavioral changes? i have a hypothesis i would like to test

i swear to god social media feeds are destroying how we relate to and our capacity for thought about media we engage with and it drives me up the fucking wall i just want to be able to talk to people about our shared interests not hear regurgitated ragebait from youtube or whatever

all the hardware news over the last month has me seriously considering replacing every piece of compute in my home now before things get worse i hate living like this

maybe kim stanley robinson is right and the entirety of LA is just going to flood one year

three days without sunlight and the thoughts are getting grim

two BSODs in a week on a 5 year old computer while parts are insanely expensive is absolutely 100% not anxiety inducing at all

man why do i feel like this thing i've been working on so hard has stagnated *looks at my own posts about not working being helpful* oh hey maybe i should take a break after doing a thing every day for 30 days even if it's a hobby

these are *not* the kinds of vampires i think fondly of ftr

test run with an unfinished kit

we need to go back to the tech sector thinking they would be more productive by taking LSD at work, it was funnier and i think pissed off bosses more

wow the discover feed browser replies have not improved at all in the last year and change

i think one of the reasons 80% of the most effective engineers i have worked with have been gay is because they prioritize doing gay shit outside of work instead of working more. it’s good for you. it’s also good for your productivity. we have mountains of evidence for this. ai bros won’t listen

i used to think software engineers were unique in their tendency to arrogantly speak about topics they have no expertise in then i started interacting with modern online gamers and i'm convinced that it's the computer that does this to us