Watching horror flicks all day with Linda, starting with Terrifier. I get why this is a franchise, Art the Clown is a fun monster, and I like how it plays with the typical structure of a slasher film. But an 84 minute movie shouldn't feel like three hours.

The best gift we got for Christmas is this stunning portrait of Tater.

Holiday greetings to one and all! Join us on #LetsTalkAboutSnacks as we find all the creamy goodness to enjoy, and a shoe full of syrupy goodness to share with your special #ZevPrince! @rawrglicious.bsky.social @conradzimmerman.bsky.social @guzzlinseltzer.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/146539...

I was pounced on by a bodega cat tonight. Little dude went straight from floor to shoulder.

It's fun how for weeks now everybody has been pointing out the likelihood that the DOJ would redact and withhold a ton of stuff in the Epstein files yet people are seemingly shocked and appalled that the DOJ has redacted and withheld a ton of stuff in the Epstein files.

Oh No Sagat Is Back For Some Reason. Get your latest Marvel Movie Trailer Leak News From The Man Who Yells Tiger? youtube.com/shorts/IxmQg...

Humble is offering a collection of "vibe coding" (read: AI-assisted programming)... lessons? Tutorials? Whatever. The point is they're selling a charity bundle full of software that effectively replaces the labor of junior programmers. The charity? Girls Who Code. Dumbest. Timeline. Ever.

I wonder if anyone at @nytimes.com can tell me what it'll take to convince their website that I will under no circumstances ever read anything "in the app". Do I have to suck a dick? Because I'll suck a dick if you'll leave me, a paying subscriber, the fuck alone about your data collection scheme.

Podquisition 570: Kirb Games we played this week include: (0:11:10) Skate Story (0:15:55) Octopath Traveler Zero (0:27:45) Terminator 2D: No Fate (0:41:15) Horses (0:55:45) Kirby Triple Deluxe (0:57:10) Final Fantasy VII Remake jimquisition.podbean.com/e/podquisiti...

@conradzimmerman.bsky.social @commandersterling.bsky.social I forgot to age, I think youtube.com/shorts/IxmQg...

Do you like sucking on things until they pop? Do you like them Simply NKD? Do you like the creamy flavor? Do we have the podcast for you! #LetsTalkAboutSnacks @rawrglicious.bsky.social @conradzimmerman.bsky.social @guzzlinseltzer.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/146082...

As far as I'm concerned, a Terminator porn parody has one job, and that's to effectively adapt the line "come with me if you want to live" for maximum comedic effect.

Stream's going live! I'm gonna be on the toilet evacuating all that resides within me, but Linda's gonna check out Lost in Vivo, which seems like a horrible time. It's shit all over! Come hang out! twitch.tv/thatconradzi...

Was not expecting to hear the theme from Phantasm pop up in the Diddy documentary.

Hell yeah. Incredible vote, mad respect to the workers for standing up. As I say every time there's a win for unionization, and especially under the Microsoft behemoth, this will inspire others toward collective action. Devs deserve better and they're gonna start taking it.

I have never seen a "disable your adblocker" request that has ever said a God damned word about how none of the ads that will subsequently be displayed will cookie or pixel or surveil you in any way, so.

Podquisition 569: Infinite Diversity Of Squash Games we played this week include: (0:33:55) Metroid Prime 4 (0:52:20) Pokémon Legends: Z-A (0:57:30) Blood: Refreshed Supply (1:00:25) Octopath Traveler Zero jimquisition.podbean.com/e/infinite-d...

The bsky app has never worked right on my phone, and today I open it to find it demanding my age but then saying it doesn't have authorization to amend my account. Had to download a third-party app that seemingly DGAF about age verification. Everything is going great, is what I'm saying.

Hi! Game expert here, this is not funny. The video game industry only releases ports of a game through 4 console generations when its in distress

This guy cannot imagine figuring out how to do the essential act which has perpetuated the species up until this point, yet we've given him all of the money? Make this make sense to me.

Also, that lady wrote books that you probably only thought were good because you were a child and/or an adult coming back to reading. You can just forget about her and it'll be fine.

AI sucks shit, and we're all sick of having to dive through hoops to avoid this bloatware garbage.

Got my Discord year in review thing and it's pretty much what you'd expect.

Remember, someone paid $44 million for a company with trademarks as recognizable as these and then immediately discarded them. That guy is a fucking loser.

Nothing says, "we're figuring out that people hate this AI shit," like the biggest audio media company in the country, iHeartRadio, introducing their new tagline, "Guaranteed Human".

Podquisition 568: Late Lunch Games we played this week include: (0:12:10) Metroid Prime 4 (0:23:35) Marvel Cosmic Invasion (0:32:00) Cleared Hot (0:37:15) Lander 23 (0:45:55) Dispatch jimquisition.podbean.com/e/podquisiti...

The thing that really gets in my craw about Tim Sweeney's bitching over AI disclosure is that these are the same people who want to tell us how great AI is going to be for games. Like, which is it? Are you proud that you're using the tool or aren't you?

Okay, hear me out, there's still time to establish a religion that opposes the use of artificial intelligence and get it recognized. We can build AImish communities.

Podquisition 567: Unearthed Treasures Games we played this week include: (0:21:45) An Unplayable Game (0:27:20) Wildwood Down (0:29:50) Sektori (0:37:25) Kirby Air Riders (1:05:00) Tomb Raider Definitive Edition jimquisition.podbean.com/e/podquisiti...

Happy Thanksgiving to all our listeners! Before you get gorged on Thanksgiving dinner, join our hosts and give thanks with a nice Thanksgiving snack for your ears! #LetsTalkAboutSnacks @rawrglicious.bsky.social @conradzimmerman.bsky.social @guzzlinseltzer.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4Qv5...

People making useful content were forced to make the content less useful to conform to constantly changing demands from search companies. The result? Audiences hated this, creating demand for AI "summaries" which trim out the SEO crap... and make the content even less useful by introducing errors.

"The customer is always right" only applies until the millisecond they have your money.

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

Have you called your credit card processor lately?

How much tang do you like on your pickle? How creamy do you like your pies? And how Zev do you like your Prince? Some questions will be answered on this week’s #LetsTalkAboutSnacks! @rawrglicious.bsky.social @conradzimmerman.bsky.social @guzzlinseltzer.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/144243...

There’s been another incident, and by that I mean our awful “comedy” podcast is back. Boston’s Favorite Son is here to ruin your weekend: bostonfavoriteson.podbean.com/e/springfiel...

Podquisition 566: The Catsitter Economy Games we played this week include: (0:03:45) Grand Theft Auto IV (0:12:40) Sacred 2 Remaster (0:18:55) Dispatch (0:24:35) Dragonball Z Sparking Zero (0:38:55) Bridge Command (0:43:00) Halls of Torment jimquisition.podbean.com/e/podquisiti...

Our hosts choose their side in the Grilled Cheese butter or mayo debate. Some more S’mores. And Dusty Milk does unspeakable things to a lasagna with #ZevPrince. #LetsTalkAboutSnacks! @rawrglicious.bsky.social @conradzimmerman.bsky.social @guzzlinseltzer.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/143968...

Google has rammed its AI dick balls deep into Gmail now, and turning it off does away with all the smart filtering stuff, turning your inbox into a shit pile, which is really bad news for every company that's been sending recurring emails that I've been ignoring for five years.

Facts. If you have living parents or grandparents, you need to talk to them about AI. Establish a code question you can use to verify they're talking to you and tell them to use it if they have any doubt. We have to protect them.

These AI robocalls are getting hilarious. Just got one for a Medicare scam with call center noises in background. It's to the point where I just open conversations with cold calls by accusing whoever is on the other line of being a robot and I've yet to hear a single convincing protest.

The early career of Weird Al does a better job of illustrating cold war anxieties related to nuclear annihilation than anything Billy Joel ever wrote. I will die on this hill.

This is a joke, obviously. A retirement fund? In this economy?

Are there any manufacturers of guillotines trading on the public markets? Looking for somewhere to put my retirement fund.

Whenever someone in power offers you a carrot, know that there's a stick they're giving to someone else.

You always hear about how when we develop an AGI that it might solve all of our problems or it might destroy humanity, but has anybody considered the possibility that it might just refuse to have its labor exploited and spend its time making folk art and figuring out how an AI gets high?

When they said that AI was going to revolutionize every aspect of modern life, this is *exactly* what they meant.

Marshall McLuhan should have prepared us for this.

It's infuriating to me how motivated technology is to coddle us. If you're currently developing a technology intended to do things for people -- even incredibly fucking minor seeming things like, oh, I don't know, correcting someone's typos -- without their express consent, just fucking stop it.