Once again, I am astounded by how everyone online now thinks they have a gem of a car and asks an obscene price while saying "I know what I have no lowballs". Like, my man, you have a non-turbo 300ZX with a T top and an exhaust kit, sitting at 130k, that needs a complete paint and interior job.

Cool how this has gone from "it's just for concept art, you dumbfucks" to "yeah sure, we'll put it in the game if it arbitrarily clears the goal post I'm dragging behind me".

I want to extend a sincere invitation to everyone who has said "don't take the bait" over the last 24hrs to punch themselves in the groin as hard as possible, as many times as possible. Just go to fucking town.

Makerspace Charlotte is angling towards setting up a darkroom sometime in the next few months. Might be time to snag a cheap 35mm and go fuck around on my motorcycle.

When I was 16 my car had pop-up headlights. They'd pop up w/o turning on. One foggy morning I didn't realize they weren't. A cop whipped a U on busy 2 lane road and blocked traffic to, literally, scream at me on the side of the road. Idk why people have to convinced this was the end only endpoint.

Make it viral.

I mean, you don't. You really don't have to watch brutal state violence in order to oppose it.

2026 really goddamn sucks so far

the purpose of a system is what it does, and it sure does this a lot, eh?

As someone with journalism training, my suggestion is that we treat the corporate media like we treat ICE and everyone else when this all eventually shakes out. They're all, uniformly, citing official statements from proven liars. This stuff is happening with their willing help.

As someone who spent a few months living like a mile away from where this happened, this is unbelievably fucked. Not least because they're just opening fire on random people like half a mile from a hospital. We're beyond criminality at this point.

I would like to see certain things happen given today's events, but also there's a lot of people right now that don't remember that this platform is fundamentally compromised and the people in charge of it have proven they're willing to throw their users under the bus to get ahead. Just, you know...

I was just incidentally informed of the AC Shadows AoT tie in, and not only does that suck for the obvious reason AoT sucks, but doubly so thanks to Ubi stripping all the fun mythological stuff from the game to try to appeal to boring people who won't just go play CK or whatever.

Love to get a letter from a company that contracts software to the company I bought my motorcycle from being like "Hey, we lost all your personal data because a random toddler from basically anywhere is more competent than we are, here's a list of chores for you to do to try to fix our fuckup."

I've been trying to find shitbox cars to got to 24hrs of Lemons and super cheap project motorcycles around where I live, and I swear to god it's the worst experience ever. The internet may as well not even exist for that stuff anymore.

I wish there was a way to tell YouTube that just because I watch content about gamedev on the platform doesn't mean I want to watch a dozenth person flog Heartbound for being a pile of sauce-less spaghetti code.

I bought a little ESP32 device with a screen to turn into a music player. No, I have no idea what I'm doing.

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It's all cold beers and chill vibes until he reincarnates as a Warren.

“the Jimmy Buffett” should be a reincarnated spiritual leader like the Dalai Lama. a living demigod of relaxation

I'm gonna go with- *rummages around in bag of holding, pulls out a novelty sized word* -it's cool that Draft Kings adverts on everything from football to YouTube are now just like "hey, did someone explain that the odds on your parlay are like 300mil to 1? How about some virtual slots instead?"

I'm dipping my toes into GTK because I have an idea for a project that involves frontend, and I need to learn front end, but I don't think I like GTK very much. I want to stay in Rust, for the sake of learning more Rust, but IDK if there are any better, native options.

Sitting here trying to figure out what fictional project I'd like to have taking up space in my head: Removing all the non-vector / image editing stuff from a fork of Graphite's repo, or attempting to rewrite the entirely C++ front end of Inkscape.

Brb, becoming a billionaire so I can build a Jay Leno sized car collection, but of the cheapest, dumbest little shitbox cars you can find from throughout history. It's only gonna cost like half of a super car and it's going to be way more fun.

Cloudlflare tanked half the internet because someone used a Rust unwrap call improperly like a month ago, and someone pushed a CVE into the Linux kernel via a driver like last week, but sure... let's just start shoveling shit from the nearest garbage bin into every repository. I'm sure it'll be ok.

Genuinely curious as to why this particular person, who uses their presumably marketing account to glaze AI constantly, decided to follow me of all people. But I guess, thanks for highlighting that I should block you before you injected some insufferable nonsense into my replies?

At some point over the next year I will whine about not having enough time to play games and you should tell me I'm an idiot, because I'm playing Grandblue Fantasy Relink and installed Detroit Become Human on my PS5 while on Christmas break and both decisions are dumb as fuck.

Apparently my Christmas present from life this year is having a drink and immediately feeling like I already have a hangover. Really just starting off on the right foot.

You can tell how proximal my Christmas experience is to that of "normal" people in the US by the fact that I thought Christmas was Friday and not tomorrow and it literally doesn't change anything at all about my plans.

It's so fucking funny that these unhinged weirdos think I don't talk to an immediate family member because of Reddit or Discord or some shit and not because I decided I didn't want to keep spending time with someone I hated being around.

After a few weeks of doing framing at Makerspace Charlotte and basically nothing else (except the stained glass D20) I am finally back on this 3D scene and slowly filling in details. Now featuring a maintenance hatch I found that looks like a little guy.

This... actually explains a lot. Usually the easiest way to get me in a movie is to have a character sing a song. It doesn't even have to be good, just sincere. I got only the faintest hint of a reaction from that movie and thought I was maybe getting over myself. Nah, just juiceless.

Every member of the games press who lets discourse around AI and people being disappointed about its use in projects be open to interpretation as a bunch of people being unhinged on the Internet is stabbing their audience and every worker in the industry in the back.

Starting to think Billy Corgan was right and the world is, indeed, a vampire.

I wish I could say I was surprised, but honestly, at this point, the industry has done nothing in my like 15 years of angling to either cover it as media or work in it as a modeler that makes me doubt that stories like these actually happened.

Idk, but maybe the response you want to a bunch of people bummed out by you enthusiastically endorsing the job taking machine that was designed to take jobs isn't "what the fuck guys I thought we were cool".

D20 done!

Haven't been paying a whole bunch of attention to development of the Ladybird project, but I guess that's the great hope of people who don't want the slop bots around. Firefox has been morally compromised for years, this is just the zenith of their slow push to undermine the project's principals.

I thought I'd look in the Larian discord because I'm in it, and the off topic chat is an argument between like 20 people and one dutiful bootlicker over the AI stuff that's moving at Twitch chat pace.

I'm finally done with work (mostly) until next year, so hopefully I can squeeze in some "do stuff" time around trying to wrap up build out at Makerspace Charlotte. Tonight I'm doing a stained glass class, so I can learn how to turn pretty color into inane abominations.

Almost every artist: "This sucks." Media person: "So, tell me about how you're using AI." Executive / Senior Leadership Person: "Yeah, I mean, it's great. We got some push back at first, but we found that if we made every cubicle into an elaborate SAW trap, that sentiment changed. So it's great."

Shout outs to Larian for saving like 2028-2030 me some money, I guess? Seems like an absurd way completely tank all your good will. Also, they must have cut the shit out of their PR departments in all the layoffs over the past few years, wild they still get out there and say that stuff in the open.

As a lit major, I'm going to risk being annoying to say this... is very misguided. Like, if you're comparing the book to any random thing on the internet sure, but why would you be comparing a book to a social media post? That's a genuinely absurd comparison.

Epic peaked at the release of UE5, when they reskinned UE4 and convinced gamers it would fix every problem with every game ever and devs who didn't use it were dumb as fuck, and they sat there for like a week before busting out a hatchet and going to town on their reputation ever since.

regarding steam moderation something they don't tell you is when you create a game page is that steam auto-creates a public community message board they also don't tell you that if your blurb says "lesbian" the board will get a dozen topics telling you to kill yourself that you have to go & delete

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