I’m not writing fic or anything but the way I know I’m slightly too deep into Pitt fandom is that I looked up the “official” ship name of Mel/Langdon (Kingdon? fine I guess) specifically because I hate it so much I want to explode, which I guess is ALSO a MINORITY opinion you psychopaths! 1/3

I liked that last episode of the Pitt, but, for both better and worse, that’s how you end a season when you know you’ve got a hit on your hands.

“AI” is just the latest front in the argument that the problem of labor can be solved with enough bare metal compute. The fatal flaw with these systems as constituted is that the “generality” they seek is the polar opposite of what they’re designed to do, which is be both specific and accurate.

First time using a butter bell resulted in some salted kerrygold butter developing a smell identical to blue cheese and attendant mold. Obviously didn’t use any tainted butter and sterilized the whole apparatus but is that something to look out for or just user error somewhere?

I dunno, it just seems like if the criminal president gets to have a fun night at the UFC fight while his underlings commit more crimes, I should get, like, one free tax fraud, right? Like “oh my, oopsie, I diddun pay my Ipsy dipsy twaxes dis time. I pwomise iew be a goood goood bowey next yeah.”

I wish I better understood the politics around the development of the US-Israel relationship in the last 70 or so years. At the very least, Israel became a regional superpower. How and why did that happen? Any books that address this?

Insane night trying to sleep for a 5 AM wake up in a foreign country in a bad bed shot through with stress dreams of playing Marathon (2026), a game I do not own and have never played but I now think I need to get into to exorcise it from my system.

Might sound dumb but I went to a bar in Bogota named “Charonte” (Charon) where the signature drinks were themed after famous dead folks and if you could guess them all they gave you a secret menu with more drinks themed after more dead folks and it fuckin ruled. Drinks were great too.

Met a bunch of monkeys today. They were nice but really wanted to steal everyone’s sunglasses.

Naptime 💤🌙 #Deadlock

We are not god’s favorite creatures he has been making increasingly excellent birds for millions of years.

Made it through another week so time to fuck up HBO’s AWS fees.

I am TRY-ING not to Pitt-post on main but after tonight’s episode, literally everybody’s getting slapped (except for the nurses who are perfect angels and you’re getting a broken jaw behind it if you disagree).

You do gotta give the new Scrubs season some flowers for absolutely nailing the millennial sincerity of the OG series, complete with indie pop music stings at the end of the episode.

Truly believe that the failures of many recent “AAA” games is down to a failure of imagination when it comes to the value added by QA. It’s easy to write off b/c it’s a double cost: salary of the tester plus dev time on bugs logged by tester.

I played the Titanium Court demo for about 30 minutes and even with that little time, I can’t tell you why it’s so incredibly funny because it’s kind of a spoiler and I hate nothing more than spoiling a joke. That said, the demo is free and you should go get those good jokes yourself. It’s fun.

Flavor Flav being one of the more vocal boosters of women’s sports was abso-fuckin-lutely not on 22-year-old me’s bingo card for 2026 but here we fuckin are.

I have a distinct memory of hearing about a period in American history (I want to say Great Depression) where they clearly said “this crisis was 100% brought on by speculative investment,” in high school so that was a Bad Thing. And now it’s like, “LOL, not if you’ve got enough money to lose.”

Getting back to MonHun Wilds and it’s such an interesting mixed bag. I realize that I really loved having my room in the base at Astera that I could expand and decorate, as well as the chef who got new animations as you progressed. Keeping you “on the road” for the first 30 hours really hurts.

Okay so this one time some dudes in Bavaria accused the Jews in their town of fucking with their holy bread (which, if true, would be uncool, but it wasn’t) and so they rounded them all up and burned them to death and then CELEBRATED IT EVERY YEAR FOR OVER 600 YEARS.

Kinda obvious but it bugs me more lately as the reaper breathes down my neck: videos of artisans and craftspeople played at anywhere from 3 to 10x original speed. It’s got to be so corrosive to one’s sense of material reality for young ppl to see hard, extractive labor appear easy or comfortable.

If you’re going to eat any form of pork loin cut, give it a few hours in a lightly acidic marinade then do a sous vide. I’m honestly not sure of a different more efficient way to an actual juicy pork chop.

“The data” was an early version of “ChatGPT says” except it was mediated through human brains. You could say it but everyone knew you were spinning in some sense. Now these idiots think it’s automatically true because computer said it and we kinda *teehee* don’t really fully understand computer.

I’m not a “retvrn” guy but I prefer all time announcements in the US to follow the “tonight at 8/7 central” format. I know it’s a relic but also I don’t know which sites telling me the time a thing happens have adjusted the time for my location vs not. Explicit is better than implicit or obscured.

I spent a lot of my life thinking that Lassie from the show/book was called that because Lassie was a dog’s name and not, you know, a generic Scotch term to refer to a young girl.

It’s soooooo funny youtu.be/gWqnz-7iQbY?...

The AI tools they’re trying to cram down our throats are the actual physical manifestation of the “lies, damned lies, and statistics” theory from Twain/Disraeli/whoever.

I’m beginning to think the Bears and Rams are both playoff-caliber teams.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

I’ll go to the mat for Dark Cloud 2 even if it’s so obvious that they put 90% of the best ideas in the first 15% of the game. And it never quite spools out the same execution of those ideas but then they go and add a golf minigame and you’re like “Well, I can’t be mad about this.”

A variant on this: the best night of gaming I’ve ever had was pass the controller Worms 2 while watching the Relic in the other room.

Getting RPG sourcebooks for Xmas is such a treat. I don’t know that I’ll ever play LANCER but there’s something so cozy about curling up with a huge tome and dancing around exploring the art, mechanics, lore, and setting. The exact kind of recreation you want on a holiday.

I already made dinner so it’s whatever but does the “Chinese food on Xmas” principle also apply to Thai food?

NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

What’s funny is that Roko’s Basilisk is a pretty silly thought experiment which fairly dumb people regarded as a cognitohazard that has now been embraced as a very serious thought experiment by idiot oligarchs whose products actually do produce thought-hostile objects. Torment Nexus achieved!

We got a new manager this year and I had my first annual review with her today and it went well given *waves hands at everything in healthcare* but she made a point of saying she thinks our current salaries are out of band (low) which, like, that’s what I’m trying to hear from a manager.

I’m about 10 hours into Q-Up and it’s still in the process of telling its best jokes. Playing the medic and I am howling when my rank busts down not just several levels but entire medallions. And also, you can actually try to play well and be rewarded (maybe).

Really nice of both teams to let Diego Pavia play all the football in this game.

I think there’s something unique in games where there’s a knife’s edge between high difficulty *per se* which is internally consistent (big man in armor hit hard) and something that feels more ergodic and abstracted (comprehension/completion will come by more rigorously interrogating the text).

Okay okay got over a low key anxiety/confusion I’ve been having for a couple weeks because I legit thought Dracula Flow was like deep internet magic from early YouTube and I was like “damn, how’d I miss that?” but that shit came out 2 years ago.

Sitting here fucking locked into being in my 40’s as I consider which Ken Burns projects I need to make sure I knock out.

I don’t have all the context for this and I don’t care.

i love this quote and earnestly think it is one of the most beautiful and resonant things ever said about why we make art as people and what it means to live and share. and also, i think of it every time i instead of that choose to watch 15 youtube videos in a row

If we re-branded it to the Butlerian “Crusade” would the fence post-sitters finally come down on the side of humanity?

Legacy media crashing out. Even @npr.org is running the near-landslide Mamdani victory as a triumph of social media savvy and smart electioneering, about 40-50 words on policy.

I gotta hand it to the dedicated Jays fans that hung around to do a little polite booing.

Kojima’s going to make an awesome MGS-alike about this in 10 or so years.

Can’t remember if it’s part of the movie but I just learned that the setup of 101 Dalmatians (the book) is that the owners were granted “lifelong tax exemption” and a house bordering Regent’s Park. Like, I get fantasy in children’s media but that’s a weirdly specific sort of economic security.

I know there are few standards for PC graphics settings but is there some form of universal software signal chain in Windows for display outputs?

A whole generation where the “max” price of a game being $60 has had their concept of value for money irreparably warped by it. Look at old Toys R Us ads with super nintendo games at upwards of $80 before adjusting for inflation! More specifically, 1/2