September games. Starting to play a few on BGA, which I'm counting since they're people. I don't track games against computerized opponents.

Friend "only has one mic, and so it’s ironically terrible at the one thing it’s supposed to do best: listening." https://www.theverge.com/column/791010/optimizer-friend-ai-companion-wearables

This is almost certainly going to be recorded as the most blatantly corrupt administration in US history, assuming that we have any history lessons in the future.

Among the problems with the anti-trans obsession among our current government (I'm in Texas, so amplified), is that most of the proscriptions they are trying to implement will also affect non-trans people. "No pronouns!" Good luck speaking like a human. (1/3)

Great article about the Hawaiian game that I just recently discovered via Lemery Games' new pocket edition. #boardgames

It's the Keystone Kops of administrations. https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine-panel-realizes-it-has-no-idea-what-its-doing-skips-vote/

Rand Paul - unlikely voice of reason.

No Man's Sky has a new update, so I am back at it. Here's my first Corvette - it's what they're calling the new fully custom ship type.

When your code works but no idea how

I've long gotten over nobody ever carding me at the bar or liquor store. But, yesterday was a new low - the girl at Wienerschnitzel gave me an unasked-for senior discount. Yes, I am 55, but I don't want to admit that anyone can TELL THAT.

"A leaked memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research shows research from a web panel testing 21 Democratic messages, and short version, what the panel 'found' most effective to talk about was tariffs and Medicaid. Messages about the authoritarian takeover of Washington DC did not test well."

"China intelligently went and they sort of took a monopoly of the world's magnets, and nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20 years ago, let's all do magnets." "There were many other ways that the world could have gone." What a fucking moron.

The intelligence community is deeply devoted to accurate information. We tell the decision-makers what is real, or as best we can assess. This administration hates objective reality. This won't end well. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...

It's somehow always about immigration. "We have an emergency because of crime (which is at a 30-year low), so let's round up all the brown people!"

Literally unconstitutional. The Constitution clearly declares that each state will conduct their own internal decision-making on who to put forward at the Electoral College. For the first century, the people didn't even get a vote on it.

The GOP really likes kidnapping people.

Such a comedian. people.com/trump-jokes-...

Mr. House and Caesar's Legion and Deathclaws? Looking good. youtu.be/7TsP09cZA7o?...

Oh, Quora - you just keep being fucking ridiculous.

The FBI Deputy Director is traditionally a seasoned FBI officer with decades of experience in the Bureau. Bongino is woefully unqualified and clearly out of his depth, so they've assigned a "Co Deputy Director" who is also unqualified. Cool cool. Everything is fine.

"The report builds on federal data collection efforts that the White House is eliminating. Their study could be the last comprehensive portrait of the nation’s trans population for a decade or more as trans people are erased from vital US surveys, including health reports and crime data analyses."

For every person saying the current AI companies are legit and not at all scammy, there are a slate of news stories proving that they're almost entirely grifters.

It's the pro-pollution admin. Seriously, does anyone actually spend a lot of time thinking about gas cans?

Just finished the series finale of Resident Alien. Considering they didn't know they were getting cancelled, it was a really great ending. Every major character got a goodbye, and there is no looming cliffhanger. Still room for more story, if they get to do a movie or something in the future […]

"[V]iolent crime in Washington hit a 30-year low in 2024," but Big Balls got carjacked, so time to bring in the jackboots! Well, the Park Police. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Every passenger at the airport in Cities Skylines 2 is either moving away or moving in. That seems unlikely. Nobody goes on vacation in this game?

July was a decent month for gaming. Mandala and Jaipur battled it out for best "new to me."

July games played. Jaipur was a great new one, as was Mandala.

DoJ had a press conference to announce the shutdowns, which happened in 2022. The leader of the ring was sentenced in 2023. There is no news from the last YEAR. WTF, DOJ?

"Cambodia and Thailand have reached a common understanding over an immediate and unconditional ceasefire, following mediation talks hosted by Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim." Obviously, the US felon in chief will take credit for this, and claim he is now owed a fifth Nobel Peace Prize.

CNA - Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to an "immediate and unconditional" ceasefire, following talks in Kuala Lumpur mediated by Malaysia’s prime minister. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/thailand-cambodia-peace-talks-malaysia-hun-manet-phumtham-wechayachai-border-conflict-5262066

"Nobody even said thank you." Fuck you. Maybe they've got more important things to worry about, what with the constant bombing and starvation.

Romanticizing VHS is weird enough. Duplicating the inconvenience of one piece of physical media at a time, but using that physical media to play a file on a home media server, feels insane. Like, dude - just use Plex or Jellyfin or something. The cartridge adds nothing useful.

The Klan is an MLM? That seems about right.

Rewatched V for Vendetta today, and it really reinforced the notion that there's no room for a "good cop" in a totalitarian regime. Personal loyalty always beats actual competence […]

How is that allowed? From: @digyoursoul https://universeodon.com/@digyoursoul/114841026319494234

Dude co-created a web browser in 1993, so his opinion on anti-white discrimination is vital. https://wapo.st/4eVNahl

I use the click-to-cancel FTC rule all the time to explain why the war on the admin state matters. The whole "shadowy deep state bureaucrats!!!!!" characterization really loses momentum once you flesh out what the shadowy deep state bureaucrats do

Paramilitary assholes assaulting peaceful farm workers and children and folks literally in immigration court doesn't play well? Who would have thought?

She cancelled the contracts DURING the flood recovery? The entire administration is sociopathic.

First half of 2025 gaming.

Six years later, I am reminded that we knew what we voted for in 2024. To be clear, I voted for Harris.

June games played. Splendor was the best "new to me" game, but GHQ was an interesting piece of history.

I was annoyed listening to a summary of the entire 75-year history of Fort Ord (ironically the year before it closed), while standing in uniform with fixed bayonet. I don't know how I'd handle this cheesy campaign rally being forced on me […]

No more TV, but a pretty cool-looking video game. Shades of @fatsam - "They never look up." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyXGm8JCBrk

If "police" are just showing up masked, no name tapes, and in random clothing, how do we know they aren't just random violent assholes looking for a fight? Or is that redundant?

So much winning. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/a...

In all the times I went to Disneyland over the years, I can only think of two food items that stick my memory. Churros on a chilly day are awesome, and the Dole whip at the Tiki Room is nostalgia made manifest. Apparently they have decent food outside the Bayou now?