Speaking of great pieces of media that got done dirty. It's a D&D movie, so there's no telling how it would have done under normal circumstances, but Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast antagonizing its entire playerbase right before the movie's release was not a high IQ move. Check it out if you haven't!

I can confirm that The Mandalorian and Grogu is certainly a movie. Not bad, not great, just is. For my controversial yet brave opinion of the week, Mando was better back when Baby Yoda was just a McGuffin who was just kind of there and not an ever-present main character.

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

Buying Steam games and playing Steam games really are 2 different hobbies

Good rant.... gamers did Midnight Suns dirty.

I REALLY lucked out deciding that I wanted to upgrade 2 November's ago and got a banging Black Friday sale deal on a very high end system.... and it all happened right before AI and chip shortages and tarriffs and just everything in general going straight to hell.

I find this meme very sweet and touching 🥺 You guys growing up playing our games, it's wonderful

My new watch tracks something called "body battery". And while I have no understanding of what this metric means, it said that I only started my day at about 77%.... which feels legit.

Information security in cyberpunk looks so cool and then you get to do it irl and 90% of your effort is keeping an ancient man in accounts payable from wiring $300k to a criminal running a phishing campaign.

I always forget how my beard very much does NOT do masks.

You in your 30s mf time to play xcom

Pedro Pascal when his manic laughter turns to sobbing.

Nothing says that you're having a fun week in IT like sending an end is day email to your MSP saying, "Tell me every update you've pushed in the last week as soon as humanly possible because I have computers dropping like flies and I just don't have time to deal with this right now."

The more that I see pictures of rich people at rich people events, the more I realize I apparently have ZERO understanding of what fashion is.

I think about this all the time.

While it's nice my company has an outside IT provider so I have backup when I'm stuck or need time off, but I swear they're not use to companies with an internal IT guy. They make my life so damn hard sometimes. Will just change shit and I won't know until I'm troubleshooting the things that broke

"Bluesky will never be Twitter." Then how come I look at it every morning and it makes me sad, hmm? Explain that.

Every day, I'm more and more sure we're DEFINITELY in the Mirror Universe.

The fun part of last year's heart attack is it makes my doctors paranoid and twitchy, so I got to spend a rather dire 2hrs in the ER today just to get a clean bill of health and burn 4hrs of vacation time that I don't have.

Me trying to choose any of the mean dialogue in a video game.

After I started reading The Expanse books for the first time, I've gotten a hankering to play Nexus: The Jupiter Incident again. Looked it up and that game is 22 years old!! Guess we're going to see how much heavy lifting memory and nostalgia are doing when I finish my current game, haha.

This is not wrong.

How do we keep seeing stories like? You would think that after the first or second or twentieth lawyer got wrecked by a judge for shoddy AI legal filings, they'd start to learn this is a stupid idea.

Distribution licensing sucks. So many old Star Trek games simply aren't out there anymore because license deals expired, and yet another pretty good Trek game (only a few years old too!) is about to disappear. :-/

I hate the current state of media online these days. I shared a video of a cute animal on Instagram earlier today. And I just deleted it because after rewatching it again, I'm suddenly not convinced that it isn't AI. Is it too much to ask that I can watch cute animal videos in peace?!?

Playing Hades II this weekend. Trying to decide if it's an easier game, a longer game where the difficulty is ramped up more slowly, or if I just "got gud" from just finishing almost 100hrs of Hades. Took me A LONG time to get out of the 3rd zone in H1, nearly done it twice already in 11hrs in H2.

“The reason why the Artemis mission has everyone so fascinated is because it is a showcase for the efforts of people who are very, very good at their jobs, at a time when the news cycle is dominated by people who are not merely terrible at their jobs, but awful human beings as well.”

It brought me endless amounts of joy today to overhear one of my users in a meeting talking about how they were trying to get ChatGPT to calculate something for them, and ChatGPT just kept endlessly fucking with him. I have faith, they'll stop relying on that crap eventually.

My massage therapist didn't like when I said that I was pretty sure I live in a permanent state of tense. We then proceeded to spend the next 2hrs strongly disagreeing over whether or not I was relaxing various areas she was trying to work on.

Seriously, don't trust Google AI summaries. I only pay any degree of attention when I know enough about what I'm searching for to recognize blatantly wrong info, and it's almost universally wrong. Hell, it completely fumbled a nice easy one like the population of my city (rounded 60k up to 120k)

The Artemis II crew proposed naming a moon crater after Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife Carroll, who lost her life to cancer 😭

this was one of William Shatner’s best and most relatable moments actually. after years of going to pretend space he finally went to Real Space and it fucked him up completely. total existential crisis. like, “everything we love is down there on that blue pebble and we are destroying it for profit”

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

As an IT guy, there is nothing that I find more hilarious and more depressing than the fact that Outlook has made it into space (x2, apparently! ) and it still doesn't work for shit up there either.

I like that the guy who is covering the Artemis II launch for CNN is named Miles O'Brien. Good to see you're still keeping busy after leaving Deep Space Nine, Chief.

This looks sweet. With all the Star Wars games that have gotten announced in recent years and then promptly disappeared, I'm glad this isn't one of them.

Saw Project Hail Mary in IMAX yesterday. Such an awesome movie and a well-done adaption. Probably going to be seeing it again next weekend!

So, the counterpoint to Mass Effect then.

Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole

Finished listening to Project Hail Mary tonight again. Amazing book, even better audiobook. Even knowing how it all goes the last 40min still choked me the hell up. So unbelievably excited to see the movie in IMAX this weekend.

The only thing about being on mounjaro that's more annoying than the days where I just feel full all day long is those days where I exist in the liminal space between being really hungry and really full.... kinda feel like both and can't tell which feeling is real.

When Iran retaliates (or Venezuela or North Korea or, frankly at this point, Canada, Mexico, or the EU) against us by nuking DC, in that half second between the blinding flash and total molecular disintegration, I’m going to be SO smug.

Saw a promo for Project Hail Mary where they asked people who saw early showings to describe the movie in 3 words and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM missed a golden opportunity to say, "Amaze amaze amaze!" Humanity has once again failed me.

Very little Star Trek is better than Star Trek episodes with Tig Notaro in a significant role.

working on a theory that the pokemon company timed their release of pokopia to a moment of crisis. from which we can infer that the pokemon company is complicit in an illegal war in the middle east