I hate that the default for the internet seems to be pivoting towards "family-friendly" and "child-safe" because as a queer person who lived through the nineties and 00s, those were code words for "anti-gay" Adults, talking about adult topics and enjoying adult content, belong here too.

reading Shogun (the novel) for the first time in like a decade and it holds up fairly well. The TV show follows it a lot closer than I remembered outside of getting rid of the "ooooh barbarian-san chin-chin so big teehee" sections and making Yabu actually an interesting person

i don't know at what point firefox changed to default all downloads to "Open" instead of "Save" but I wish the person who decided that change a very merry hangnail.

I haven't won a coin toss yet tonight aside from one game where my opponent immediately DC'd. Sigh.

Anytime anyone asks me what the appeal of Yu-Gi-Oh is, I'm gonna link 'em this duel. It's fast, it's complicated, it's explosive, it feels like a fighting game youtu.be/jyHKDriqD2c

BREAKING NEWS In response to the Trade Federation's blockade of Naboo, the Republic announces a blockade of Naboo.

Starting to understand Killer Tune (sorry, Kewl Tune is so fucking stupid to say jesus christ) Realizing that it's a grind deck, it's not really something that gives you big, swingy wins. The hand peeking + deck excavation feels weird but decks nowadays have so many ways to search and to pull what

i remember having to bring enough cupcakes on my birthday to make sure everyone in the class got one and then my teacher said no because the poorer students didn't deserve free cupcakes and they might abuse the system and started calling a bunch of them cupcake queens

probably biased because I was an English major but it really irks me when people think English can't be a beautiful, poetic language full of rich imagery, metaphor, and wordplay

upgrading my home server's OS while remote because I'm bored at work and need to feel a thrill

Always my favorite line from the show

me when I get a new follower

do you think Sneakers O'Toole showers in his sneakers?

Yugioh Advanced is so complicated that children aren't really playing it anymore so they invented a whole new format meant to appeal to kids But they still have to rename "Killer Tune" to "Kewl Tune" in Yugioh Advanced because this is a children's card game

Radiant Typhoon mirror matches suuuuuuck

yo if there's anyone here who goes by Ember on #masterduel #yu-gi-oh that plays Yummy Mitsurugi in Plat 3 that played a Radiant Typhoon deck That was probably the best duel I've ever had in this game. I clicked the last attack with literally one second left on my timer. Great game, man.

anyone who tells you Radiant Typhoon Manifestation is a bad card is lying to you I think it adds a lot of consistency and redundancy to the deck, especially if you're going for Enterblathnir meghala is susceptible to imperm and if you don't open her, you need to spend Krosea/Chant getting her

watching the original Yugioh Duel Monsters (makes great background noise) and I'm so glad they didn't keep percentage increases for monsters as a thing it's already annoying when monsters have ATK numbers ending in 50. Imagine if they were like 20 or 40 or 70 or something.

Current job market be like "director of IT (unpaid)"

found a lost cellphone at work. tapped the screen to see if there was an "if found" number or a name on it or something lock screen shows an AI search box and a constantly scrolling list of news articles and ads is this how all normie phones are?

man if bad luck could be channeled into energy I'd power the world draw my 2x Lunalight Hounds (never want that in hand) and Foolish Burial (how you send it from deck to GY) enemy sent one wolf back to deck. deck shuffled. drew it on my next turn. then lost coin toss to an odion deck

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

Coworker said she wanted an ebook. I said I have it. "With you now?" "Oh no, I can just snag it from my computer at home." Tailscale, SSH, scp to my laptop, then email it She watched me do all of that and then looked at me like I had just done witchcraft

watching a work training video about first aid "Safety at work [shows someone at the office], at home [shows someone cooking], and someone at play [shows someone free climbing a high mountain] is easy." One of these images is not like the others.

its wild to think that soon the Artemis 2 crew will be the furthest away from earth than any human has ever gone that's really humbling to think about

I enjoy winning in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel, but there's a specific kind of joy I get from completely shutting down Dracotail, VSK9, and Mitsurugi decks.

at this point, I just assume that anything that says Key Takeaways: followed by a bullet list is AI generated

on the upside I had my first conversation beyond "happy birthday" "thank you" with my father for the first time in six years over the book Killer Angels, so that's nice. It's really solid, I'm really enjoying it.

four times today I've gone up against Blue Eyes decks with like infinite gas while I get nothing i'm so tired of this game, man

by the time you're 29 you should be obsessed with at least one character from a mediocre game series from your childhood

Always remember the reason for the season

watching this guy's deck go from DMoD to Horus to Kashtira to Tearlaments to Snake Eyes

Happy Saturday, heretics

more like Red Eyes Dark BUTTgoon amirite

I know baseball seasons are marathons, not sprints but losing two to both the rockies and the white sox in really bad showings Come onnnnnnnnnnn and we have the dodgers next week

Class 7 (Old) is a polycule. I will not be taking questions.

Brendan Little Chance of Winning The Game

Baseball is so great, man. It's got history and traditions, it's got beautiful fields and uniforms. I love how it's simultaneously both the most chill sport and the most tense. I love the pitcher/batter mindgames, the way any team or any player can break out, the baserunning strategy. It's so fun.

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

yeah, it's pretty great. Very melancholic; very much like....a ghost story. These men are worn down by years of fighting, by the memories of lost friends hovering around them, by age and weariness and the burdens of death all around them Longstreet is obsessed with death and thinks about war to

man, copyparty really is easy. needed a way to add epubs to my calibre web that don't require me to be on a computer just start up a copyparty docker, map the folders correctly, problem solved

i rolled a new master duel account because I wanted to try out a Labrynth deck (and those decks are fucking expensive) and I'm having a ton of fun with it sometimes it just feels unfair. opponent plays a card that IDs his deck as an Xyz deck Trap Trick > Dimensional Barrier > Scoop

when confronted with a card not part of the meta, the yugioh master duel player will often panic and not read the card text, making wild, rash decisions (I was stressing over which of his monsters to tribute. He made the choice easy for me.)

It's this little gem and it's not up for debate

master duel only lets you report people for "slow play" and "modding" and not "he's got the N-word in his name" so I reported him for both of the former and hope that someone reading the report you know *gets* it

Just because

I was wavering on whether to craft the first card because I wasn't sure I'd use it and it seemed situational. THE VERY NEXT DUEL against a Kashtira/Sword, it pays off. he synchros the second card and the first lets me kill it with 2sec on the timer he scoops. Will not doubt you again, Tiger King

it is ridiculous how generous Master Duel is to new players compared to people who have been playing for a while if you're out of points/gems and you want to make a new deck it is literally less effort to just roll a new account than it is to build it on your "main"

thinking about resurrecting my old EVE Online account send help