Today in #nomanssky, I completed a mission that I first accepted SEVEN years ago. I think that might be a Guinness World Book record.

Playing #nomanssky, I'm pusuing the current "Expedition", and one of the objectives is to be a passenger in another player's corvette starship. I reluctantly enabled multiplayer and visited the main hub, and there were other players there but it didn't happen. This is making me quite […]

I'm spending too much time modding and playing #nomanssky in spite of being angry that the game still refuses to map the explored parts of planets. Sure, I love playing planetary pin the tail on the donkey. Wait... no, I don't, so WTF am I doing?

There's ONE reason that Trump is demanding that the EU stop buying Russian oil: he wants his buddies in Big Oil to be able to step in and fill the void it creates, and of course Trump will get a huge "finder's fee" for making it happen. It's ALL about the grift.

It's not PROsecution he wants, it's PERsecution. He cares less than nothing for rule of law as the rest of us define it. To Donald Trump, "rule of law" means being able to persecute anyone who opposes him without restraint or restriction. And he doesn't actually want to execute his enemies, no […]

More often than not, when I "like" a post that makes some activist statement about politics, economics, sociology, or the environment, that like is best described as a "DUH!" response from me and not a "TIL" one.

Shhh. Trump is secretly Antifa. Pass it on.

"Smart people don't like me." Ergo: your legion of minions are delusional-stupid, and you like them that way... and they're apparently fine with that as they CHEER YOU for saying the above.

My install of Windows is so FUBAR that it takes 20 seconds for a command window to open after typing it into the Start menu. I sometimes have to wait 10 seconds or more for filesystem context menus. I want to start fresh, but the WORK to recreate an environment created over 20 years....

Still trying to work my way up to modding #nomanssky. I've spent the entire day reviewing the list of most popular mods that I winnowed yesterday. I've been dragging those that proved worthy of final consideration into #vortex. The #nexusmods "categories" for mods are typically poorly conceived […]

I'm convinced that in the history books we'll credit BitTorrent for having preserved a significant chunk of humanity's cultural production

Why aren't venture capitalist more correctly described as vulture capitalists? Most of the letters stay the same....

I've never heard any Mastodonian mention No Man's Sky. I haven't played in about 7 years; I quit because the game refused to map/reveal planets as I explored them. I had come to expect that as a minimum behavior because of Empyrion. I found this ludicrous because the game uses an algorithm to […]

you can twist perceptions reality won’t budge you can raise objections I will be the judge and the jury

I haven't played No Man's Sky since 2018. It doesn't seem like it's been SEVEN YEARS, yet it has been: the datestamps on my mod files don't lie. It's been such a long time because I was dependent on mods that altered crucial bits of the game, not using them would mean starting over, and I […]

@txtechnician Can I finally insult the Possum now and call them a snowflake? First they accused you of insulting them, and then got round to me. They can't be arsed to show any evidence of why they FEEL insulted merely because people questioned their ideology […] [Original post on autistics.life]

Today's mood: Bravado Lyrics: Neil Peart If we burn our wings Flying too close to the sun If the moment of glory Is over before it’s begun If the dream is won — Though everything is lost We will pay the price, But we will not count the cost When the dust has cleared And victory denied A […]

If I could wave my magic wand I’d make everything all right If I could wave my magic wand I’d set everybody free

This has been on my mind this year without being given much of a voice. My suspicion has been that unraveling the truly sweeping and catastrophic institutional damage caused by Trump and his cronies - if and when we even get to the point of considering it - will be an insurmountable task. Now […]

The United States Senate is the American version of the parliamentary House of Lords. BOTH are disproportionate representation for groups of people who don't deserve it. Both should be eliminated outright. Neither serve the Common Good.

I'm drinking chilled instant black coffee right now as an experiment, and it's a failed experiment. It's quite nauseating. There's bitterness in dark chocolate, too, but that is more tolerable to me. Dark chocolate also contains fats, and coincidentally - perhaps not so coincidentally - most […]

Kaliningrad Oblast should never have existed as a Russian exclave.

Conservatives are irreparably tribal, intolerant, and exclusive. They can never ever serve the Common Good because that demands an egalitarian ideal that they rejected out of selfishness. Let that sink in for a moment: conservatives can never serve the Common Good. NEVER. This is why […]

I want to play a game as a distraction, but there's no game I'm excited to play. Can't watch any media now because I somehow UTTERLY DESTROYED the Plex Media Server setup on the NAS in the aftermath of their latest password breach. I don't know how I'm going to revive it without […]

Our cat was pestering me when I had a sandwich, so I proffered some of its pseudo-turkey meat. She showed disdain to my offer, so in mock offense I gently draped the sliver on her head. She took violent reciprocal offense, flinging the sliver onto the wall before fleeing the room in terror.

> We’re all supposed to just put up with it while the right unleashes nonstop vitriol and hate. But when a Democrat offers admittedly provocative pushback—albeit something that doesn’t come close to routine right-wing rhetoric—it’s taken as this enormous affront, as if the Earth has been knocked […]

Over the decades since the '70s, about 3% of American political violence has been leftist. A third Muslim, 2/3rds NatC. It's not "most violence is right wing," it's *overwhelmingly* right wing, of Christian or Muslim flavors.

There's only even one other #gamer here likely to care, but I'm planning some rigorously consistent changes to the #drills in #Empyrion, after experiments a couple days ago revealed some unexploited opportunities to make them behave better for casual solo play […] [Original post on autistics.life]

Plex was just breached AGAIN today, barely more than three years since the last breach on 2022-08-25. These fools cannot be trusted with personal data. Can someone PLEASE point me at a thorough migration tool to migrate all my Plex metadata to Jellyfin instead?

I rotated my 3840x1600 38--inch monitor 90 degrees to portrait mode, but the central post of the monitor arm isn't tall enough to let me keep it vertical, it was already at max for the normal landscape mode....

I came. I read. I left.

Blocklists are just another form of walled garden. The effect of exclusion is exactly the same regardless who controls the mechanism.

I want to die in my sleep. There, now the universe knows my desire.

Watching Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning today against the backdrop of current events, I truly felt the emotional gravity as if it was indeed the final reckoning for us all. Pray that it isn't.

@claralistensprechen5th Ya know I'd likely follow you were it not for the hashtag games that you like to post! It's too much silliness for my stuffy noggin.

We have an entire government now staffed - STUFFED - with grifters, each one of them committing their own special brand of thievery. Even were the Judicial system not fully complicit now, it lacks the resources to be able to track and prosecute the sheer volume of crime being perpetrated by an […]

This speech is now TWO YEARS old. It's even more obviously prescient now than it was when Milley first spoke the words. How much has changed in those two years? Did we listen? https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/29/milley-farewell-speech-trump-dictator-00119130

Trump and his cronies are fully erasing the notion of "public service", replacing it with grift ala Tammany Hall. It's long been an unspoken joke that public service is really about the enrichment of those allegedly serving, but now the unspoken part is voiced out loud and in public. Americans […]

Not that it would have changed a decision or outcome, but I would have preferred to be warned about the effect of "Paxlovid Mouth" before I started taking it. The bitter - sour? - taste is overwhelming! Virtually nothing tastes pleasant except a strong citrus acid flavor in seltzer. The […]

I just quite randomly bumped into an old IT coworker from three decades ago on Mastodon. I seem to have adopted Mastodon slightly earlier than him (not obvious given my host swap). Perhaps that sort of small-world phenomenon is inevitable given enough time?

Is everyone's Home feed like my own, with so many posts per day that I can't effectively read each one much less respond to all? Is everyone else so expert with crafting their six degrees that each day they get a neat package of posts that they can consume with ease and no more?

As far as I can find, only one major journalism organization -- the Guardian -- published an accurate and contextual headline describing Trump's illegal executive order on voting. What made the difference? The Guardian added the word "unconstitutional". Come on, journos, do your damn jobs.

Does anyone else do this? Waste not, want not....

That's what she said.

Sitting in the ER with nothing to do. At least it's nearly empty.

I want to see Ukraine use its new ordnance to utterly and irreparably destroy the Kerch Bridge and then cut off Crimea and reoccupy it. Save the Tatars.

My wife infected me with COVID! We both just tested positive, at my insistence that we obtain test kits. I've been worried that her virulent coughing for most of this year was due to mold in the house, but no, it's COVID! I've been asking her to talk to someone about it, and as an ex-nurse she […]

20% relative humidity isn't great for my raw throat. Hopefully the humidifier misting at my face will help.

The not-so-effervescent slimy history of Alka Seltzer advertising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alka-Seltzer#Marketing #capitalism