I'm still hung up on this, maybe even worse so. The universal affection for Project Hail Mary and my own enjoyment of the book & film has such a sour taste knowing that so much of the positivity and humanity we read in it was unintended, if not the opposite. Weir is a profound disappointment.

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Konami 2001)

nearly every living thing on earth deserves the certainty of a tomorrow, and that equivocation I make is direly narrow. we have climbed an arc from farcical incompetence, to cartoonish bloviating and then absurdist villainy. now we are regularly dealing in cruelty and existential threats.

how the fuck have we reached this point of total historical revisionism that this is all happening because of "the undecided movement"? "Undecided" was a dem primary movement. And Biden still won it. *And* they replaced him with Harris. So which part of that caused all this?

a lot of people are criticizing the astronauts for not publicly condemning Trump's genocidal bullshit and I'm going to state the obvious; he would happily leave them to die in any number of ways and he has plenty of sycophants who will make it happen. stop pretending there are limits on his mania.

do not go to protests to make friends do not go to protests to hang out do not go to protests for the photo op go to protests to disrupt regular activities if it's got refreshments and official hashtags and everybody feels safe and uplifted, you're at an HOA block party, not a protest

A majority of police "investigations" are actually sting operations where police push people to do things they wouldn't otherwise do. And no, that's not entrapment. Opsec isn't weakness, it isn't shitlibbery, and it isn't privilege. It's literally keeping yourself and your friends safe.

Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

"communism means no Funko pops" is the best endorsement of communism I have seen in my adult life

show me a Fiercer message on a hat, I'll wait

Yo Spyro! Do a sweet kickflip or I'll continue to hold the eggs of your kin for ransom

california games II, game over screen, amiga (1992) www.mobygames.com/game/1826/ca...

JOHN BROWN: if I burn in righteous hellfire so be it. But I believe it is my sacred duty to cleave you in two with this here blade. JOHN BROWN AVATAR GUYS: being impolite to the police is the main problem in the country

Claude is down :/ so I’m just running my sink

God I can hear it bsky.app/profile/dave...

I know I'm an elderly person that lives permanently in the 90s and and only wants to play retro "classic Sonic" games, but early 2000s Uekawa Sonic is the actual best the characters ever looked. Sega hit peak personality in the Dreamcast era and this art really embraced it.

another wave of "RIP Twitter all time posts" is going around so I'm gonna share my personal favorite

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you design a system and 50% of its users are using it wrong, that is not user error. You cannot blame users for that, you built a terrible system.

When someone uses my driveway to turn around

text: fast food subtext: the collective mood ring of a nation

can't believe that being a pathetic little self-loathing toady doesn't earn you any job security anymore. we used to be a proper country

hear me out:

make incompetence shameful again

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

RIP Trek Twitter. You made me who I am today.

final fantasy 12 is such an amazingly beautiful game that people all over the world could appreciate if actually fun to play

Many More Should Have Also Been Prosecuted….

I am so stressed out for these astronauts I can barely contain my existential terror when riding in an American-made *car*

someone posted this screenshot in a groupchat today I looked at the corner and realized that's my 3DS that's my screenshot that has somehow traveled the world and returned to me

Now is a good time to revisit 1991's Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special. ...a moment very much at the height of what people like Andy Weir consider the "good" Star Trek of their childhood.

Penny Arcade for March 19th 2004, 22 years ago today is a classic. www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/0...

Now is a good time to revisit 1991's Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special. ...a moment very much at the height of what people like Andy Weir consider the "good" Star Trek of their childhood.

That's right

I cannot stress this enough, we have too long spared the STEM majors from judgement on the Dunning-Kruger scales. We've got people who are amazing at math, who comprehend profound depths of applied and theoretical physics, and yet are fully media illiterate and think art/lit is "Pretty Gay."

"...as a lifelong Star Trek fan, it’s always bothered me that there is a presumed ‘responsibility’ within Star Trek shows to talk about social issues. I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other.” Andy Weir is pretty fucking embarrassing.

this is the apotheosis of what American capitalism and anti-labor has promulgated for generations: the total fungibility of human beings. Nobody is useful, nobody is unique, nobody has valuable skills. Human resources are simply a mass of warm bodies. Human targets are just pieces of meat.

Imagine having this amount of contempt for the fans of your product. "Consume our slop and shut the fuck up."

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

the justification behind so many peoples' cowardice is also telling- that it's not about "her" anymore, that its a "bigger product of many artists." Correct. It IS a product. And they will happily *admit* that it is not an artistic work to them, simply a Manufactured IP Product they crave.

they call it foe-hammer and it's not even a fucking hammer more like faux-hammer

2016 was 30 years ago. Feel old yet?

some of those that Sonic Forces are the same that burn crosses

as somebody who is theoretically middle class and theoretically has good health insurance, let me tell you something; if you have children with any medical conditions at all and you DON'T despise living in this country, you're either rich, stupid as hell, or just both.

what was announced in today's Xbox direct? let's ask somebody who watched it

Yet again r/roadtrips is valiantly trying to save a European from their carefully planned itinerary

An underrated Miyazaki classic #LGM