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Any time I stumble on news of upcoming Windows changes, my only thought is "how do I turn this off?" Just an endless stream of garbage now.

Funny how the FPGA C64 still has two sockets for real SID sound chips. I still don't really see the point of FPGA over emulation, as if it's some perfect recreation when it absolutely isn't and cannot be. If I can't have perfection, at least give me convenience instead. FPGA gives neither.

Warning is good on big purchases, but I wish all media releases were stealth drops. I am already sick of hearing about a bunch of upcoming albums, games and movies that aren't even out yet. Having months of hype just makes them feel old by the time they're actually out.

This is how you do it folks

Dumbest timeline. The crash can't come soon enough.

Every morning I lift my arms to the sky and pray, "please, <random professional musician from a more obscure but also more respected musical genre>, react positively on YouTube to the song I like to validate my choices!", and every day I am answered with a bountiful harvest.

Do they have no concept of how many children there are in a big city?

(It's really satisfying but other people can do it a lot more often than me.)

I'm always surprised by how good the graphics in Pole Position were for the time. The cars in particular look really 3D. (IDK if they are sprites or voxels or what.) The lack of scenery made it feel really dated when things like Out Run existed, but what it does it does really well.

Great video on Pitstop I & II on the Commodore 64 by The C64 Appreciation Society — play it today via oneload64.github.io! Pitstop II being a personal favorite. And, those box covers are gorgeous! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm6L...

Pinball got me, a big manly man, buying nail polish, like the woke mind virus. (To repair playfield chipping.)

Has anyone tried making an e-sports team-based rowing game?

Can we have Suzanne Less instead of Moore?

It won't be a real Fallout pinball experience unless they abandon the code while still full of game-breaking bugs and leave it up to the community to fix. This is an essential part of the Bethesda RPG experience that mustn't be overlooked. Bonus if they do a Remastered in 15 years that's worse.

As a total pinball n00b, it's been game changing to discover that if you don't make it all the way up Godzilla's left ramp, you can usually dead flip off the left flipper to safely return it to the right, cradle, then try again until you make it.

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Danny Carey rules

Elite Overproduction! It was literally just the medeival version of hiring too many VPs or giving out too many law degrees!

There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors www.politico.com/news/magazin...

We had a cat who's nickname was Chef. He had a stool to perch on and over see the process. He had to sniff all the ingredients before hitting the pan. He had no other interest in human food than the process and oversight. We miss that sweet boy.

lmao

If the people who say junk food is bad know so much about food, why can't they make good food that tastes that good and is equally convenient?

*opens door* "Wow, you could fit about 8 pinball machines in here!"

my one cat sits on the counter to supervise the making of dinner. doesn't try to mess anything up, just sits on the counter, out of the way, and stares at me while im cooking. he is my sous chef

I've seen a lot of shit and respect for very few politicians, but the way a guy can be a child rapist sex trafficker, and everyone fucking knows it, but still president is fucking wild. No one with any power to remove him can ever claim to care about any god damned thing.

2007 federal grand jury testimony shows that girls who came forward to Palm Beach Police were told they could be charged with sex trafficking because of their participation. They literally sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating. Trump knows why.

I bet cats would cook for us more if the counters were lower.

Did the United States really spend trillions of dollars on winning the Cold War, only for its president in 2025 take orders from a Russian dictator? This is an earth-shattering humiliation for America of which its reputation may never recover.

Right the Tolkein estate really needs to get someone doing damage control here, this is ridiculous

Colombo could do multiple lines of questioning given Ms Bondi's changing take on the files.

“Just one more thing, Ms Bondi… … If The Epstein Files are a hoax, why the redactions?”

Updating the "sorry I'm like this" email i have set to autosend after every event in my calendar

Back when pirate ship games were all the rage, why the hell didn't anyone start making ship sim rigs? Where's are the big wooden wheels with an 8020 mount? And ropes you can pull and stuff. And a periscope you can pull down, with old phone or VR headset in it or something.

"git bisect" seems like a more complicated way to do something that's trivially done by hand. Am I missing something? (I would like to bisect some gits, though.)

I'm not sure the sun has even come up today here. Who stole it? Are AI datacentres now being given all the sunlight because they need it more than humanity, who they supposedly serve?

It’s not often I read something that changes how I behave at once but this is it. I love my Apple CarPlay and… “when using Apple CarPlay by touch reaction times were nearly five times worse than when a driver was at the drink-drive limit, and nearly three times worse than when high on cannabis”

Anyone know if Big Balls was named after that AC/DC bit?

I often look at YouTube and have no idea which feed I'm in, because the way they highlight the active icon looks like a normal icon. Home is active here, because it has a solid fill. But it being filled in doesn't look special with this icon style. Surely Google can afford competent designers?

Blanket censoring the word “gambling” is literally a pro gambling move. Gambling platforms avoid the word for obvious reasons, so YouTube eliminating its use under the pretense of combating gambling is the best fucking cover a gambling platform could ask for. It’s pretty disgusting.

The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

If anyone knows where this screw and spacer come from on Metallica Remastered, please let me know, lol. I think they came from the rear playfield or maybe even the backbox, from where I found them in the cab. Also noticed some gnarly chipping under the newton block. Posted details on Pinside.

How Elon unloaded his cybertruck surplus. Mysterious donors gave a fleet of 10 of the vehicles – which have had a number of recalls – to the police earlier this year. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

PinMonk didn't have to go so hard on the packaging (and air freshener!) for these little metal brackets.

I specced out a new PC in May 2025, and jotted down all the prices. (Didn't buy it.) At the time, 64GB of memory was £91. Now, the same memory is going for £505. A 2TB SSD was £98. Now, the same SSD would cost me £169. My hypothetical £900 May 2025 build would come to over £1,500 today. Crazy!

Wish there was a way to specify why I clicked dislike on a video. The maker might misinterpret it as me not caring about the subject their video was about, rather than because, half-way through, they for some reason boasted about using ChatGPT to process their data into charts which are now useless

What that Australia trade deal that was going to save Brexit and not keep the trade deals we had with the EU as a member that protected British produce. Nice to see farmers seeing consequences to Farage's lies, but you farmers still vote for Reform I bet.