Phil

Fwiw my wife works with a nonprofit that serves lower-income families in the Boston area and the amount of gratuitous and destructive cruelty now being dealt to the folks she works with is totally insane.

*looking at new game*

"PvE"

Oh cool!

"...vP"

Welp, never playing that and it'll be dead in a year

Driving across the country teaches you things

Like that, in spite of having all sorts of taxes for infrastructure including one of the highest gas taxes in the US, Indiana might well have the worst roads east of the Mississippi

Where is the money going

Mike Pondsmith and Hideo Kojima basically predicted the entire last twenty years.

Would like to not live in that timeline, but oh well!

Paul Cezanne
The Bend in the road
1905
oil, canvas

This isn't speaking from a place of PC elitism but, genuinely, what is the value proposition of current generation consoles anymore? $7-800 plus 100/year to play online is just asinine

Like, you can get a pretty solid PC for that kind of $, and that lets you use GOG and Steam. I just don't get it

Comments on a video I saw recently show there's a surprising paranoia from a nonzero number people about oily rags spontaneously combusting

While it's good that people are cautious, only certain oils (like linseed) polymerize exothermically which can cause ignition, not just the presence of oil

As someone for whom coffee was a load bearing portion of their daily routine, it really chaps me that switching to tea and generally reducing my caffeine dependency has genuinely improved how I feel and especially how I sleep and now I wouldn't have it any other way

YouTube shorts has chosen to remind me how darn good of an episode the Heroes two-parter was in Stargate. Show had a lot of range and could pull off some great emotion when it wanted to

“I voted to blow up the sun. Now I am pale and pasty, and it’s not fair.”

Peace 🍂
#pixelart

Playing the BF6 beta has me genuinely questioning if humanity is actually sentient.

I don't know how much more the game can handhold people. It's a big blinking objective. You have a squad of people whose names are a different color.

Stick with your squad, do the objective.

The first few seasons are genuinely good television. Shame there's weird network deal stuff that makes it hard to find all in one place without sailing the high seas

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

It still blows my mind that the radio host I heard every morning in my dad's car was Steve Downes, who just casually moonlit as the Master Chief in Halo. 97.1 is such a special station in Chicago, really world class in terms of programming

As a former routine enjoyer of the McDonald's breakfast, yeah it seems we're missing a bit of the forest for the trees here. The cost of the meal has basically doubled recently, individual burritos and the hash brown used to be a dollar. The value proposition isn't there anymore

I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.

Getting older is realizing the original herb Ricolas are the superior lozenge and it's not even close

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I hope my old friends from Xbox Live are okay. Met some wonderful people in Halo 3 and Vegas 2, I hope the last decades have treated you well

Some people return to tradition and it just makes them psychos.

Me returning to tradition is going to local hobby shops to play tabletop games.

I recognize many celebrities wish to be private people and I respect that, but it's almost a malpractice of fame not to at least have a publicist maintain official pages on all popular social media. When you don't, it makes convincing victims, especially elders, that they've been scammed challenging

No matter how many times I've heard it, a good rendition of Nessun Dorma always brings a tear to the eye

"If democratic leaders said “We can all agree Mississippi is a shithole” we would never hear the end of it.

Putting the merits aside, it’s wild how the media treats GOP hatred of the majority of the country as normal."

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Not a fan of Indiana deciding it's going to have a monsoon season all of a sudden. This is the wettest summer I can remember us having here

It was so refreshing to have a hopeful comic book movie again. Really had a delightful charm to it

Biannual reminder that @thesojourn.bsky.social is outstanding and you should listen to it

Just finished volume 2 of season 2 today, what wonderful storytelling

You are not unclean. You are not a vessel for sin. You are not the creation of others. You create yourself.

The return of himbo Superman is both welcome and incredibly refreshing

One thing that makes me laugh is that if we get out of all of this we’ll go “well thank goodness THAT won’t happen again” and go back to doing the same dumb shit