Witnessed Challenger live in the 5th grade; our teacher was a NASA nut and one of the applicants for the educator in space program. Still cannot watch any space launch of any kind.

If you were wondering how retailers would react to the PS price increases, GameStop: * immediately went OOS for new PS5 Pro systems, likely to hold them until after the 4/2 increase * raised used prices of Pros to $850 right after the announcement * did not raise the trade-in value of the Pro

Happy impulse buying something PlayStation while staring into the abyss of skyrocketing prices across everything day to all who celebrate.

Just got a new Nest thermostat for, uh, $1 direct from our utility company. (okay it was $1.10 with tax)

1200 miles in the Subaru would have been $350 of gas. Instead it was about $44 of electricity (not counting a few small L3 charges to test out the capability and the NACS adapter).

Spring Cleaning and by Cleaning I mean Recycling Dead Laptops, Throwing Away Two Bags Of Too-Large Clothes, Power Washing The Grill, Accidentally Ordering a Large Coffee Instead of a Small, Playing Three Games of IIDX and Quitting My Job.

Best railcar graffiti I've ever seen

At this rate there won't be any developers to make the games for the console no one can afford!

Sometime in the last two days Google changed results for "oil price" and similar searches to no longer include the ticker at the top of the results. It's not even on the page. Even if you try CL=F, no chart is displayed. Other ticker symbols work fine. 🤔

surreptitiously "borrowed" my father's Dune books and devoured them at eight years old; can't quite figure out why I love beaches, concubines and tyranny so much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just gonna leave this piece I wrote in 2019 here lol 😂 this was not the representation I wanted but here we are I guess. gizmodo.com/my-dad-was-a...

We are at the point where a child born today will have enough media available at this moment to sustain them for 100 years. They will never need to ingest a single ounce of AI slop; there are millions of books, films, albums and games already there for them to consume.

I need to update the software on my dishwasher is a sentence that should not have to exist in the English language

Holy shit, it works

Finally, some good news youtu.be/2-ed3rcnmuw?...

Half-Joking conspiracy theory: Chuck Norris memes were a psy-op. He was a far-right conservative christian homophobic crank. Making him look "cool" to a generation always felt weirdly inauthentic to me. I don't speak inaccurately of the dead.

Replace your $15,000 in legal bills with just $45,000 in legal fines! Ask me how!

Nothing. All music is beautiful and should be treasured. just kidding; it's Smells Like Teen Spirit

Have been trying hard to be more positive this year so of course I reactivated my NextDoor account. That'll do the trick.

I just heard a political analyst reason that there was no way the Trump administration didn't evaluate the risks of the Hormuz debacle so there must be some political goal in play and, buddy, I know living at the whims of an irrational king is scary but at some point you need to analyze reality.

idk I did see this meme today which made me laugh so hard. lol

Happy 12th birthday to these two absolute terrors

Been playing this for years but never managed to get a Sequence guess...out of sequence.

FFXII does many things right, but I contend that it offers the perfect JRPG battle system. Automate everything, some things, or nothing at all. ATB or fully turn-based. Complete role flexibility, which IZJS/TZA then perfected. Far and away, it's my favorite game of all time. Need to run it again.

🎉20 years of the best Final Fantasy🎉

Was at the mall yesterday, walked by GameStop and it's....an LGS now? Tables, card displays and cases, all videogames pushed to the back and thinned out.

My favorite part is how the preview cuts off so it looks like he's being endorses by a group called "showing up for racists"

Search your camera roll for "hell"

Thinking real hard about the rando last year who screamed at me for daring to suggest that the FCC could pull licenses when a network aired something the regime didn't approve of. Not sure how you're doing now, lady, but hope your errant smugness keeps you warm at night.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Apropos of nothing, digital gas price signage in America is generally not equipped to reflect pricing above $9.999 per gallon

This color is disgusting. I love it.

The cohort of videogame people who consider Final Fantasy VI to be a work of literature on par with Shakespeare (who they've never read) are the exact target audience for this technology. And I mean that as disrespectfully and pejoratively as possible.

Used to be, opportunistic politicians supported gay equality in everything but marriage.

1000 percent back on my bullshit.

F1 new regs opener, thirty minutes in and a quarter of the field is already out.

We'd been thinking about moving to an EV for awhile, but grabbing a year old Ariya in flawless condition for under half of new MSPR was just too good to pass up.

Windows 14 rumored to have a free trial with no limit on playtime all the way up to level 70, including the award winning expansions "Heavensward" and "Stormblood," sources say.

NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED

Genuine question: have only played Resident Evils 7 and 8, and the first hour of the 4 remake. The missus (we play these sorts of games together) wants to go ahead and play 9. Worthwhile/necessary to finish 4 first?

I hate to break it to you folks, but you're in your thirties and forties and Nintendo has been clear that pokemon is a My First RPG for every generation of children, and will stay that way. You are not the target audience, you are just a guaranteed sale.

Genuine question: have only played Resident Evils 7 and 8, and the first hour of the 4 remake. The missus (we play these sorts of games together) wants to go ahead and play 9. Worthwhile/necessary to finish 4 first?

I only have 203 bones

Sound Transit unveils new Orca card design

Apple, 2025: we're bumping all of our machines to 16GB to better handle Apple Intelligence Apple, 2026: just kidding!

trump on truth social rn: "If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as soon as possible." good luck with that. could just scuttle the ships now to save time