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yep it's a Malort advent calendar alright

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

I flew through there a couple weeks ago and did a double-take when I saw that. There was some mid-20s dude obsessing over it while his extremely bored looking girlfriend stood next to him.

Deandre Hunter just did something extremely rude to Josh Giddey

#NBAsky

One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1 But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

RIP Norway, 1336-1353

I wonder if the California redistricting prop that just passed will actually shake that up? Maybe that's even part of why she's retiring, she didn't want to deal with an actually competitive primary.

From the ArcRaiders community on Reddit: The weirdest Raider Help request I've had so far Explore this post and more from the ArcRaiders community

this is probably the most bizarre request for help I've had in an online game.

this guy had a quest to deal damage to other raiders, and instead of just attacking them, he came prepped with healing items and asked me to take some bullets for him.

video games man

www.reddit.com/r/ArcRaiders...

Not a bad lookin' slice!

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

you know, I never thought I'd buy a copy of the Post but I might need to frame this one

fraud detected. real new yorkers say "on line" (and it disgusts me).

If your power company is anything like the ones in Oregon, they are hiking residential rates to fund capacity expansion for AI data centers. No tree trimmers will be hired.

Spare a thought for centrist dem consultants this morning.

They just learned their ideal candidate for the Democratic 2028 presidential ticket has passed away.

i can't believe they have to play again today.

You cheated, that's 59 games.

Jerf’s first impression of Bubsy (special thanks to Jeff Grubb)

@jerf.xyz @grubb.wtf @danryckert.com @tolkoto.com @turboshawn.com @giantbomb.bsky.social

. @tolkoto.com's magic eye powers truly are a sight to behold @giantbomb.bsky.social

I don't want it to be done by AI, but I kinda want this to be the next Antichamber.

I came away thinking it was an allegory for school shootings in America, but the director has explicitly said that's not it despite the classroom of children that are suddenly gone, the grieving parents, the useless police, and THE GIANT FLOATING AR-15. It's apparently about addiction, which, sure.

I agree, h is one of Obsidians best games for sure

Just watched this VOD, that was a nice Olmec attempt at the end! Regarding your confusion with the udjat eye, the eye is used to lower the drill in World 2. After that, you no longer have the eye and it's not needed for anything else to get to Cosmic Ocean. So you did nothing wrong there.

Parasite Eve-ning was right there for the taking.

every day i become more like this guy

Super Hexagon.

Scrolled through all the answers and was honestly surprised I was the first to mention it.

At this point I am fully convinced that there are no good teams this year. They all suck ass.

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here