Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

starting to think these were a bad idea

lol, didn’t know i was so close to finishing this one or i would’ve added .16 of a mile to my last workout oh well, i’ll magically complete it overnight whenever it auto credits my non-exercise steps, which is usually under half a mile but it’ll do this is it for Star Wars, no idea what to do next

enjoy your Daylight Satan's Time, sun worshippers. i'll be in my coffin until Halloween

thoroughly convinced that anyone who buys meta glasses should be put on a watch list

the real reason you feel like reality is a simulation is because we now primarily experience the wider world through algorithmically curated media and false narratives the internet puts layers of manipulated abstraction between reality and perception - that's the simulation and it's controlling us

disney is worse than ticketmaster with this nonsense i may never get to do a rundisney race, not for lack of training but simply because it's so hard to snag a spot at all unless, of course, you pay $700 a year to be in their special club with reserved early registration everything is a scam

your daily reminder, apropos of nothing in particular, i'm sure

no accounts no subscriptions no data harvesting no forced updates no vibe-coded updates no copilot nonsense no ai bullshit of any kind things used to be better

it's almost as if ~80 years of defining standards and divisions to optimize and predict human behavior through the subtle application of game theory across every aspect of our lives has led to unpredictable societal instability because nobody thought about what tiny variables do over time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How I arrived on Bluesky

why do so many indie rpgs feel like disco elysium reskins lately

we did! brisray.com/web/webring-... here's a bunch of them!

my brain will forever remain entirely incapable of ever accepting the simple fact that Half-Life 2 came out two years before my adult child was born

i've been working on going back to this, too limited hard drive space + installing from physical media + just having far fewer new games available really was the secret recipe to avoiding the "everything just feels like content now" burnout we all seem stuck in these days i guess i dunno i'm old

bring back webrings, you cowards

press x to doubt

always a good time for a babylon 5 rewatch

welp, there's my weekend sorted

Happy Twin Peaks Day! we’ve got some damn fine coffee over by the door, a cherry pie that’ll kill you on the dessert table, and dont forget to grab a fresh fish from the percolator on your way out

are people unaware that companies avoid the Sponsored label on social media content by running contests that say "hype our product, and we'll use your post as an ad if you win" only the "winners" get labeled; the rest seem organic every viral trend is fake every trend is an ad everything is a scam

we need a Benn Jordan for fitness tech and wearables because i need someone to prove it's basically Theranos all the way down there are bright spots, but most consumer tech is straight garbage that just algorithmically guesses and approximates and ai hallucinates its way into fabricated legitimacy

making pretty good time down Route 66 after a month, currently chilling by a Kohl’s somewhere in Rolla, Missouri i should pick up a few home goods while i’m here or maybe a puffy coat or some random bag of suspiciously flavored popcorn because Kohl’s is a grab bag of nonsense

finally found a combination of tweaks and mods that lets me play the resident evil 4 remake without wanting to puke my guts out within the first ten minutes only took two years, but hey, new game to play!

so basically this, but at a press conference

i don't care how people pronounce things, but if you're writing down your mouth sounds, please... hunger pangs, not pains champing at the bit, not chomping pique your interest, not peak wreak havoc, not wreck whet your appetite, not wet could have, not could of there are more, but you get the idea

you aren't actually nostalgic for however you think things used to be. you just miss how life used to feel before you started hating everything

first fat tuesday after leaving louisiana, and things are a lot calmer over here in texas i haven't even had to GPS an elaborate escape plan to avoid a single parade route this year, and i'm a little sad about it

magic and mystery are part of their history

Happy Supreme Chancellor’s Day!

perfect

Post how you’re feeling about the world in 2026 in Hitchcock storyboards

essential reading if you want to understand america

oh look, windows updated and copilot's back. again. time to remove it. again. until next time

i dunno what the rest of you husbands are doing wrong, but my wife got me a new lightsaber for valentine's day

loading up madden and letting the computer play both teams is about as close as i get to the super bowl

i'm very disappointed in you, internet

welcome to day 1,165 of ai being a scam

looking back, edutainment software didn't edu much and the tainment was pretty awful, too i feel the same way about the new trend of "productivity games" that try to recapture lost attention spans because it's just tech solving another problem tech created gamification is pretty sinister, actually

surely?

If you see this, post a character that starts with a D.

today's hot take is that video game RPGs shouldn't have their underlying numbers visible to players because doing min/max math is not the same as role playing, no matter how much you enjoy optimising every damn thing about your meticulous little life spreadsheets ruined the world

surely someone has a large collection of pc game screenshots from retro to modern that i can simply download all at once to use as slideshow wallpaper, right? SURELY

America

if you ever give any sensitive login credentials to an ai agent, you absolutely deserve every terrible thing it does to your life

things used to be better

the lies start in elementary school, when they teach you everyone is equal under the law

a tech company would add cameras, sensors, and ai to scan the dishes, pretend to "optimize the wash" by not actually doing anything but saying it did, then it'd monitor the interior for activity it'd constantly get wrong while alerting you via some smart home nonsense and it'd be a subscription

while they're shoving all this garbage ai tech into everything, we still don't have a dishwasher with a simple scale that weighs its contents at the end of each cycle and auto-changes its Clean display (that it also has) back to Dirty as soon as either all the weight is gone or new weight gets added

y'all are so concerned with individuals and their cults of personality that you've forgotten that the people who actually shape history rarely make history someday, humanity will figure out we don't need leaders