CEOs are running every company into the ground in real time. There is no value to consumers, it’s just shareholder bullshit. This shit is crazy, what a time to be alive.

Finally getting around to Triangle Strategy and good god does this game ever stop talking??? I feel like I’ve been in cutscene mode for like an hour.

The Album of the Week is First Base by Babe Ruth (1972). #aotw Genre: Progressive Rock / Hard Rock www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1-4...

Finally finished FFXII after like 20 years. Zodiac Age version. How anyone finished this without a 2x speed mode I will never know.

Friendship was a 7/10 movie with some very interesting subtext. Good movie to spin up discussion if you wanna talk about men’s mental health and social double standards.

Remember like 6 or 7 years ago when everyone thought Slack was the best invention since sliced bread and now it’s just the new email. Everyone hates slack now.

just took the worst drivers license photo in all of human history ama

How many times have Professor X died in movies at this point? 3? "But they're all different universes waah" I don't care it's dumb.

Not going to do my usual media wrap up thread because quite frankly I didn't expose myself to a lot of *new for 2025* things; instead I read/watch/played/listened to older stuff that I had missed out on. All the new things from 2025 will still be there tomorrow.

StoryGraph wrap-up for 2025. I averaged a book of month, which is pretty good for me.

Cassie is unaware of the horrors of the world

First book of the new year. I hear very good things about this one.

I don’t want to read this. I don’t want to read any of this.

Uhh

Shape

38 today

StoryGraph wrap-up for 2025. I averaged a book of month, which is pretty good for me.

Never ask a Viera her age Balthier about his plan Or Bash if he’s supposed to be dead

Time to sit on the couch and play some video—ah.

Why is House of Leaves suddenly popular again? Did I miss a memo where Gen Z decided this was the cool/smart book you look like you are reading in the first year of college only to give up once you realize it’s not very good.

There’s a total of one (1) person working my post office this morning 🙃

Merry Christmas from Cassie

Same

Bee time

Oh baby

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

The Duffers are finished.

Whew, finished. Hell of a book.

NYT Connections has gone so downhill. Used to be fun, clever categories. Now it’s shit like “appendages plus a number”. Fuck off.

🥲

People have good ideas every single day. It’s just that no one is listening to them. To paraphrase Gould, there are people out there with the talent of Einstein who are working in sweatshops.

It’s days like this where I enjoy having a back yard

Well it’s done. Uhhhhh

Me: I don’t want this game to end Every Metroid game:

Indie games now apparently include studios that can afford to pay Andy Serkis and Charlie Cox to voice their characters. Next year I hope we have an “independent indie game” category.

"Tantalus's Theme" sample from 'Midnight Jazz: Final Fantasy IX' arrangement album, releasing February 11, 2026. Arrangement: Shun Katayama

IMO we should bring back gatekeeping for certain things. Like spicy foods. If you can't handle it, it's not for you, quit ruining it for the rest of us.

hell yea

Dudes rock youtu.be/fHYSXHW7hys?...

The tomato is a vegetable the same way 5 is an even number.

Metroid Prime 4 is such a capital V Videogame. I miss capital V Videogames.

Whoever says the motorcycle is dumb in this game is wrong

I think we are due for another How The Grinch Stole Christmas reboot starting Bill Skarsgard.

Oops I played like 6 hours of Metroid Prime 4 today

Reddit board game organization thread gold

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