Van Dennis

they're not looking for something to really "affect" them, it's just a way to spend time and/or have something to talk about in their social circle.
which is not inherently bad, but when that becomes their highest aspiration, and they don't seek out something different... then it becomes a problem.

of course not; that'd require geoff to give a modicum of attention to xbox instead of playstation

I think this actually does extend to films and music, in how stuff can be highly successful even when it's really "mid" (don't shoot me, but for example: taylor swift, the avatar movies, etc.)
A lot of people just engage with media on a very base level, and that's all they're looking for.

Practiced self-control tonight by going for panda express instead of ribs and a cocktail (don't clap, tomorrow night has a good chance of being a different story)

Not going to link an Axios story but doing nothing about the secretary of defense personally ordering the literal definition of a war crime is not acceptable

Porsche Spyder RS, dark green

This Spyder RS though, [chef's kiss]

"waaait, I recognize that dealer..."
(Yes those seats are *awesome*)

CarMax listing for a 2025 Dodge charger Daytona EV that's temptingly cheap

... don't would, Do Not Would.

(and we couldn't have made this a private, invite only video on youtube why exactly?)

I really wish patreon's video player wasn't... what it currently is (at least on mobile)

"stop looking at the 2019 draft, what's done is done-"
"But we came within four picks of getting Corbin Carroll though!! 😭😭"

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.

$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.

While this usually isn't the intent, "no one will ever be held accountable for this" doomerism is an excuse not to try.

There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.

The Seattle Seahawks aren't a real team.

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Hey everyone.
I’d never normally do this, and by god I better not have to ever do it again.

But I’m actually worried about making rent this week and next and wanted to post my old Ko-fi here in case anyone has a spare buck they can chuck my way.
No pressure though ❤️

ko-fi.com/faultrunner

I'm going to assume that I'm far from the first person to highlight the... "disconnect" between the portrayals of Lord Hood from Halo 3 (where he's played by a pretty recognizable Ron Perlman), and the Halo First Strike audiobook, which has Todd McLaren doing his best Sean Connery impression.

Pluribus: "son of a bitch... [brain cells rub together] son of a bitch."

The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:

-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor

Fools.

Feels great when the two pieces of mail I got today consisted of my insurance company telling me that my request to cover my medication wasn't approved, and my state's food bank sending me a whole packet detailing how fucked they are because the trump administration cut their federal funding.

Wrapping up my higher education before 2020 really feels like I grabbed the last helicopter out of 'nam

(especially considering that the dub for Sanda is really dang good, dodged a friggin atomic bomb on that one)

now retroactively thanking fuck that amazon didn't do an AI dub for Sanda

Weather it’s Joe Biden pardoning kids who were caught with a couple ounces of weed or Donald Trump pardoning the Honduran president who smuggled in 400 tons of cocaine, both presidents were soft on drugs.

Honestly if you can get the New York Times to pay you for three years to figure out which frozen pizzas taste good more power to you

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

NYT headline: Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Hondurass president and is serving a 45-year sentence.

trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”

also trump:

Still waiting for a full month to pass to see if the reception is just hype, but man it'd be kinda hilarious if Kirby air riders actually steals Mario kart world's thunder.

And it's *so damn good*, of course Ra's would be fascinated with a zombie and would want to know how it came back to life.
It's one of those details that makes you wonder why a batman comic never thought of that seemingly obvious connection between two characters.

And this is never directly said out loud during the story, you only infer it from the lore you get from scanning riddles.
Finally clicked for me after playing the story a couple of times and knowing the details about Wonder City.

I have kinda cooled a little on how much I like Arkham City, but god damn, the world building in this game.
It took me until my 3rd playthrough to realize that this version of Solomon Grundy became a zombie via the runoff chemicals from the Lazarus pit located beneath Gotham.