Top guilty pleasure album

So far Ghost of Yotei has the best in-game horse poop *and* the best in-game hangover except maybe the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text based adventure game, or Disco Elysium

*with a knife to John Schnatter's throat* any man who must say "I am Papa" is no true Papa

The correct, socially appropriate response to someone filming everyone everywhere they go and uploading it to the internet is actually to punch them in the face

Since the primary action in Last Christmas happens "the very next day" I would suggest that it is not a Christmas song, it's a Boxing Day song.

This is the first time I’ve ever heard Erika speak. If you’ve ever been involved in fundamentalist Christianity you recognize everything about this. This is power hungry shit.

Outed! At the Holiday Party

they tore down a strip club near my new house to build a Chick-Fil-A

Listening to my podcasts on vinyl like back in the old days

Been playing too many metroidvanias, briefly wondered when I would unlock double jump for my horse in Ghost of Yotei

Ghost of Yotei has little rituals you can do at each hot spring (light some candles, bow to the mountain, etc.) and the only difference is if you do them before resting a little critter shows up afterwards and you can pet it. Same stat boost, just there for vibes.

My cottage pie scoring game is improving

man I really like this album but I liked it more when I thought it featured Colin Stetson. It's pretty impressive to me she managed to find someone who sounds so similar to his distinct style, but I wonder if she reached out to him first.

I understand that artificial boundaries are inevitable in video game but I think it’s funny that your ability to cut through bamboo in Ghost of Yotei is a plot point several times - until you enter a bamboo forest.

new Jesse Sykes album is full of transcendent beauty www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B-7...

Rice cookers are great consumer centric design because yes, thank you for assuming I’ll want to keep this rice warm for 24 hours after it’s done

I've been moving gradually up the west coast my whole life and settled in Portland a few years ago and I love everything about it except the disgusting long-legged basement centipedes that chill on the wall unnoticed until they jumpscare you by suddenly dashing away

Made a mistake playing Death Stranding 2 before Ghost of Yotei, ruining myself for pretty much all current-gen open world graphics.

I agree he does look like a cartoon but I don’t mean that as a compliment

people talk about the confusing releases of Armageddon + Deep Impact, or The Illusionist + The Prestige, but in 2018 both Dylan McDermott and Dermot Mulroney played suburban dads whose children discover they’re secretly serial killers

Picked this up on a bandcamp rec primarily based on the artwork and the big jolly Plantasia vibes on the first track JEREMY DOWER / TETRPHNM - Computer Music 1997-2002

Came for the Miike mode, stayed for the Watanabe soundtrack

It should be standard for jobs with long interview processes to give you a hiring bonus of at least the pay you would have made between first interview & starying date. Would also encourage hiring managers to move quickly.

Happy Thanksgiving! Time to cook a feast for your entire family composed of dishes that you never make any other time of year. The centerpiece is a huge frozen turkey, and don't worry, it's really easy to undercook it and give your whole family food poisoning. But if you overcook it, it tastes bad.

There is no possible redemption plan for evil politicians that doesn’t involve retiring from politics and from public life. I’m sorry. That’s the bare minimum starting point.

this seems like an interesting lead… (from the jmail.world searchable archive)

Dude knocked me in ARC Raiders out after I crawled to the elevator to extract then sent me this message

If ARC Raiders had custom loadout presets and Death Stranding-style route planning it would get rid of most of the pain points of the game for me

I’ve never met a trans person who doesn’t have an unreasonable amount of hours in at least one roguelike deckbuilder

does benson boone do the song with the backflip at the beginning or end of the show? or does he do backflips throughout?

This was the appeal of forums. Conversation could happen over years, with people dropping in and out from anywhere on the internet. These forums also usually had IRC servers but it was rightly seen as a transitory social outlet for forum members, like a bar or a coffee shop.

When it's a Walgreens that looks like one you've been to before but the pharmacy is in a different corner than you remember and all the shelves are barren with only scattered off-brand items, that's when you've wandered into Whalgren.

A lazy morning classic

Settling in for this 4xLP monstrosity that’s also undoubtedly the peak of Swans/Gira’s expansive, ecstatic discography

Last night our dog froze in the middle of her bedtime ritual and fell asleep on the spot for about an hour. We joked that she’d shut down for a software update. Today she showed us she knows how to jump up on the new couch without any help. I guess she needed the new couch drivers?

get in loser

the far right came up with a new dance for one of the most stereotypically gay songs of all time and it looks like they’re jerking off two dicks at once

Next time he’s talking about healthcare ould love to see an interviewer ask Trump to explain what a deductible is. Give him all the time he needs.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Cybertruck with a passenger

I like how “America needs to be #1 in AI!”, a dubious goal to begin with, clearly just means “America has to spend the most money on AI”, and this is a position that is being pushed by AI company CEOs to get more money, and somehow it’s considered a position worth arguing and not just a racket.

The Shudder Samsung tv app loads immediately into their streaming channel and blocks the UI until the stream is good, and as a mobile dev for 10 years this makes me so angry.

Met a woman at a Halloween party last week who didn’t know what Frog & Toad was. She was 50 years old and was there for psychic readings. Did the spirits not tell you about this.

Battlefield 6 is getting a lot of criticism for being too Call of Duty-ish but honestly I think the new Strikepoint mode is a fantastic take on small-scale battles, even if the game doesn’t have the same massive battles as something like BF1 or 1942.

If you told someone 15 years ago you were into podcasts they’d assume you were talking about independent NPR-style radio journalism. But now it just means 4 hour long talk shows with some of the least informed or curious people you’ve ever met. I think we should just start calling them talk shows.

I’ve been a software developer through a number of tech trends but LLMs are the first time I’ve been told, during the interview process, that if I was hired I would be expected to make a specific tool I find unproductive the core of my personal workflow. Do you want me for my experience or not.

Marge and the Gundersons would be a killer name for a punk band

Call me Jim Steinman because I’m doing amazing things with meatloaf

Charlie Kirk spilling to Candace Owens about how great Nicki Minaj’s verse on Monster is one of those things that almost made him seem like a normal guy until you realize it’s 2025 and the only reason he finally listened to it was Kanye becoming a Nazi and Minaj being anti-vaxx and crypto fash

I feel vindicated in my opinion that Gravity is a terrible movie by the fact that they basically remade it in a 9-1-1 four-parter this season, and it was notably outlandish even by Ryan Murphy standards