One thing I have discerned about crutches is that the metal shafts of them seem to have been intentionally created so that the damn things are almost completely incapable of being leaned against anything without sliding off and clattering to the floor. Personally, I consider this a major design flaw

Since I have a lot of spare time at the moment, I have decided to jailbreak my PS Vita. #retrogaming #psvita

Just watched S1 of Heaven Official's Blessing with my youngest. It's gorgeous, interesting, and very gay. I'm ignorant on the topic, but everything I've seen/read of how the afterlife works in these Chinese mytholog(ies) just looks really awful to me. But afterlifes in general just seem bizarre...

Happy birthday to the Sega Saturn, released in North America on this day 31 years ago and still one of my favorite consoles next to the Dreamcast. #retrogaming #sega

This is a really interesting video about why Carbon Fiber PLA (and PETG) is a scam for those that are into this sort of thing. #3dprinting

Finally started scanning in my physical media movie collection. I have a lot of movies, including a lot of 3D movies, which makes me a little sad because no modern TV can play them. I liked 3D when it was done right. It truly enhanced the movies where the director actually cared about exploring it.

Since I'm basically on forced vacation because management refuses to let me work from home, I'm doing what little gardening I can with a broken leg this morning. Transferring some seedlings to their next growing homes.

Well, this looks fuckin' magical.

I use a Logitech G502X mouse on my PC and I can't say who those stupid buttons on the side of the mouse are for (where my thumb is supposed to rest), but it's definitely not me. They're just something for me to keep accidentally pressing and then getting annoyed about.

What I mostly remember about Mass Effect, as a whole, is that I liked it and I keep thinking I might like to replay it. Also that EA should release it on the Switch. Seems like free money for them really. Oh, and that Seth Green fucked the spaceship in the second one, which is a trope I hate.

I got my Vita out for the first time in probably years to charge it and generally check it out, maybe mod it. At the time I bought it, it seemed a lot larger, but looks so tiny now compared to what I've gotten use to. It's a brilliantly designed device and easily the best looking portable ever made.

While I'm bitching about #movie things that bug me. Years ago, I recall talking to Criterion about their upcoming LD release of Lawrence of Arabia and how it was filmed not just super wide but in a way where both foreground and background were sharp and it's bugged me ever since that's not the norm.

I don't go to theater much anymore and I'm no expert on filmmaking, but I get annoyed at the thought of Nolan filming entirely in IMAX, a term I'm coming to believe is worthless. if it's true IMAX, then it has an aspect ratio slightly wider than old TV shows, which sucks to watch on modern TVs.

Why is every non-fighting game JoJo's Bizarre Adventure video game ever made just abysmally awful? My eldest is super into this series, so we've been checking out the various games that have hit between the PS2-PS4 era and wow, they're just mostly unplayable messes.

Happy Birthday to someone I've long considered one of the coolest people on the planet. So glad he's still here at 100. Between him and Dick Van Dyke, they give me hope for being ancient while still being decent human beings.

I'm reading @adapalmer.bsky.social Inventing the Renaissance and it's the most engaging delightful history book I've read since Irene Vallejo's Papyrus. These are the sorts of books where I have constant weird questions about stuff and wish I had historian friends I could poke for more answers.

Look, maybe Bioshock was a game of its time and that time has passed, and that's ok.

My 12 yr old suddenly hyper fixated on Sonic the other day, so we're watching the movies. We're on the second one and if nothing else, it has surprisingly clever use of music. To be fair, I don't hate it.

I don't know... Maybe watching Zebraman 2 will cheer me up. But it's in the basement and I'm not doing stairs right now. Have you seen this movie? I reviewed it back when in hopes it would spread (like a film virus), but I don't think that's been the case sadly.

My neighbor, for reasons I'll never understand, has several small goats for outdoor pets. So, the aural background here is pretty much the constant ever-so-soothing tones of a group of toddlers either crying or screaming.

Hey, Arranger, a delightful puzzler with RPG elements, is free on Epic! It's a really lovely game.

I've never been a particular fan of the Mortal Kombat series, so maybe I'm biased, but a Street Fighter-MK crossover sounds like the worst thing. I think they're incompatible on just about every level.

Without stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.

Now that I'm mostly stuck in a chair while my leg heals, my cheap bastardness is hitting me over the head since I didn't shell out for the Pro Controller 2 for my Switch 2. I'm happy with the original pad, but damn Nintendo for not letting it turn the damn console on.

Got a cast put on my leg this morning and told I can't do much of anything for the next 4-5 weeks, but at least I don't need surgery. Not sure how this will work with my day job. My daily commute is about two hours of driving total to a place that can do work from home, but doesn't like to.

Why doesn't every console let you categorize all your games? Like I want all fighting games in fighting tab and all horror in another just when I feel like browsing one genre. They all kinda suck about organization when you have a large library. #videogames

My ADHD absolutely hates the fact that I now have to stay still and in a chair for long periods of time thanks to the broken leg thing. But I at least can work from home for this week, which is quite a thing where I work. In other news, HBO's show, Rooster, is just terrific.

Randomly booted up Killer Instinct on Xbox and I'm not sure if this revamp of Rare's original ever caught any traction,but to me at least, it feels like a very weird variant of 90s-era fighters, mixing MK and early Tekken together, but very button-mashing centric. It's fun, but definitely not great.

Since it's Star Wars Day, and as someone just old enough to have seen the OG in the theater (one of my earliest memories and prob the first movie I ever saw, period), as an adult I truly feel SW is the greatest universe of potential with a staggering amount of the worst execution.

Fell badly today while walking the dog and managed to break my fibula, a smaller bone in my right ankle/foot(?). I cannot overstate how much I hate this situation. It's going to screw up all my gardening plans for the next two months and the movement limitations are causing much anxiety.

Laying in bed doomscrolling and browsing weird cheap shit on sketchy Chinese stores when I should be and would love to be asleep is my weird weekend morning custom. Everyone does this, right?

This funky white turkey hen has been hanging in my yard all day but seems to be particularly attracted to perching on my car. I'm sorta fond of her over all the other wandering fowl that wander around the place.

Quite a few years ago, I used to do holiday gift guides for places like Paste, which I loved because I got to play with all manner of gadgets that wouldn't otherwise warrant a whole review. One of the best things out of the whole lot was this pepper grinder, which if you do #cooking is amazing.

Randomly put on the Street Fighter animated series from the 90s. It's amazingly awful like I remember most American Saturday morning cartoon-style stuff, but I appreciate Ken and Ryu sorta being slacker losers. Anyway, it's on Crunchyroll if you feel like a laugh.

This is Faye. She is a very catty cat. When we walk the dog down the road, she likes to come, but since,as a cat, she's largely incapable of moving in a straight line or not becoming distracted by whatever, she ends up behind and then yowls loudly at us to complain.

Huh. Working in the places I have, I've meet an alarming number of women who just seem to hate other women and think nothing of spewing out incredibly stupid and offensive shit like this. It was bizarre, yet, after a while, uncomfortably predictable.

Someone put a copy of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations in the bathroom at work, which is certainly some kind of choice, but if nothing else I am laughing at the idea of Shitter Stoicists here in the cubefarm. Thank Marcus they don't talk to me.

Damn! I fully support Humble Bundle (of all places) getting "political". I'm sure over on that other site and under various rocks on the internet certain types are suddenly calling for a ban on those damn woke charity people.

The older I get, the stupider I find the US fraction-based system of measurements. Why tf do we label a sheet of plywood as 23/32-in thick or 15/32? Now, I have to bother with processing that to something that makes some kind of sense.* *yes, I suck at math, especially fractions. Ok?

Prusa's printables now tags slop with an "AI" icon and lets you easily exclude it from your searches and has an option in user settings to just exclude it outright.

I already didn't think much of the Russo bros. I know everyone loves Winter Soldier, but I find their work clumsy, pedestrian lowest common denominator level, but this just takes their utter mediocrity to a whole new bottom of the barrel. Fuck these soulless assholes.

For #3dprinting folk out there, there's some really good deals on PETG today at 3dprintingdeals.com

I'm not about to suggest I am not, in fact, a dumbass, but my adult life has taught me there are so many more rungs on the ladder of dumbassery below mine in which one can descend.

Been watching Netflix's live-action One Piece with my kids and it's surprisingly entertaining for the most part. But one thing bugs me a lot. Luffy is simply not at all a pirate. He's obsessed with them, but seems to have no concept of what they are, even though he's constantly faced with them.

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For anyone interesting in #gardening or even just climate change, this is a fascinating website to check out. For instance, in my location we changed from zone 6b to 7a thanks to global warming.

Alien Isolation 2 is finally an actual thing! Best gaming news I've heard in a while! #videogames #alienisolation

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm finding Rooster on Max incredibly entertaining. Possibly as much as I did Space Force, so I'm just going to assume this too will die an unfortunate and unjust death.

Everytime I see this thing it strikes me as someone calmly and methodically, yet maniacally murdering the laws of good game controller feng shui.

Today, I am researching how to grow grow mushrooms on logs. Apparently, it involves fun tools, which is obviously the reason to do anything.