Jared, Excited Comic Guy

Unrelated: It says something about the state of NASCAR that 4.7 million viewers for an NFL related thing would still outperform all but the 500 in terms of viewership numbers.

The Pro Bowl is so maligned, yet it still gets close to the same viewership as NASCAR's biggest race. Crazy.

I'm assuming they'll only be able to write a strongly worded letter that Schumer signs off on before they go on another book tour with Jeffries.

It's this kind of stuff that I wish I could go to Japan and see. Rummaging through the junk bins sounds like the ultimate nirvana for someone like me. If only plane tickets to Japan weren't so expensive.

I was gonna mention this, actually.

Remember when he said Hyperloop was gonna change the world too? Remember when he talked about how it was so easy to build wormholes that zip you cross country in a flash?

Crazy how much money people gave him for the worst kind of snake oil ever.

This is where the big companies need to band together and sue these AI startups into the bankruptcy they're headed for anyway. Speed up the process of this bubble bursting and convince these techbros to get an actual job.

These startups are playing with fire and WILL get burned.

I'm not surprised he still thinks the AI bubble won't have burst by the end of next year. It probably won't make it until the first few months of next year, nevermind the end of it.

The richest man in the world falling victim to the AI bubble bursting is gonna be fascinating.

Exactly. Being a CEO apologist isn't gonna get anyone anywhere. All it's gonna do is just make things worse. I still don't get how people try and toe the line for a CEO that'll never know their name. I'm guessing it's severe immaturity at this point.

Mainly pivoting back to IG and getting my Mastodon going again. IG is my primary place to post art since I can get it in front of the people I make stuff for, but I'd use Mastodon for the discourse I get from here. Given how fast things are torpedoing downward, I might be needing that soonish.

And I thought Arby's Steak Nuggets were a bad idea......

The staff here don't seem to be the kind that learn from mistakes, so it's not a question of IF things end up shutting down, but WHEN the plug gets pulled.

I have my exit plans already in place, so I'm fine regardless. Hopefully I won't need them, but I'm prepared.

It's like they don't understand the reason we even made sure this place didn't stay in invite only mode purgatory. Either that or they never wanted it to leave invite only before shutting down and they have no idea how to handle things.

Either way, get ready for a possible Hive level flameout.

The staff crashout this past week has genuinely been crazy to watch. You'd think someone in that staff would realize that all they're doing is speeding up the site's demise, but it seems that they're challenging themselves to alienate their user base faster than X alienated it's base.

Madness.

I see why the Swifties are in love with the new album. Listened to it at work today while doing tedious tedium and I absolutely loved what I listened to.

Eeeeeeyup. That might actually put the death knell in the NHL's growth.

I've watched sports for almost my whole life.
I've watched the NFL and other forms of handegg for over 20 years.

I have never seen this exact sort of play happen before in my life.
Maybe primetime games aren't so bad after all.

Which means sooner or later, a situation worse than the Bertuzzi situation is gonna happen and the league and the PA will have no one to blame but themselves. I hate it here.

And I'm thankful that they don't because that is the majority of my income right now. The fear mongering is starting to grow tiresome at this point. I wish these folks would stop doing this shit.

There's no consistency in this league and I don't know what'll even force that consistency to happen. I genuinely don't.

Which explains why they can't even catch a dude running with a bike down the street, despite there being 20 people to do it. They need heavy weapons to even remotely intimidate people because otherwise, they're the most out of shape fuckwits of all time.

When we get out the other side of this, I hope ICE officers have something planned for defense other than "I was following orders" because that shit ain't enough.

Sweet. I'll be there on Saturday with a bag full of prints to give out and a whole bunch of presales to see. I've had to put off PC upgrades for a while to prepare for this.

These people in Trump's cabinet are playing with fire and they will get burned. It'll be glorious to watch.

The idea of "rules for thee, not for me" is the right's whole MO and it pisses me off that they get way with it so much. When we get out the other side of this, we need to make sure this shit never happens again.

If a leftie even dared to do this to someone on the right, Fox News would be talking about it for the next 6 years straight with 23 hours a day coverage on it and think pieces every 3 seconds.

Because it's the other way around, I'm sure we'll be expected to "be the bigger person" or some shit.

Kris Statlander is going to WrestleCade.

With that, my list is complete (barring Leva showing up too).

That is good shit there. I still have a goal of courtside, but it'll have to wait until I have actual money that doesn't need to go to WrestleCade or PC upgrades.

Looking into NBA tickets for the first time this season (not courtside yet because I ain't made of money).

Seems the Hornets play the Timberwolves on November 1st, so that might be fun.

This HAS to be the year. If it isn't the year, I don't know when it ever will be.

If they at least did that with the NFL team of that name, I'd be happy.

I feel like that would just create more problems than it solves. The simple solution is just honest and open communication, just as rule 0 has always defined, but Magic players would rather screech online for 2 likes and a retweet than actually communicate, so I don't have much hope there.