Dungeon Master, video game aficionado, enjoyer of film and television, liker of comic books, and a dork of multitudes. Eater of Skittles. Drinker of coffee. Parent of cat.
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I was playing #MassEffect and found this cube that is DEFINITELY 100% not a game node that the developers forgot to hide. Cluster: Argos Rho System: Phoenix Planet: Tuntau It's a relic of the Architects who came before the Protheans! (And a respite from the torture of driving around in the MAKO.)
Important context: The archetypal Finnish breakfast is a cup of coffee and a couple of slices bread, with toppings such as lettuce, tomato, bell pepper, cucumber, cheese, and cold cuts. For 20 years, I've started my mornings with a cup of coffee and a glass of water.
It's weird how your parents sometimes spend decades struggling to learn something about you. Example: I haven't eaten bread or breakfast in 20 years. Whenever this comes up, my dad is surprised to hear this, and becomes frustrated trying to understand how anyone can live like that.
Also, I would like to draw your attention to the use of the verb "maniacking." What a wordsmith. The Ultimate Warrior was a true poet.
Dear Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Huff my farts.
You ever just look at a fluffy animal and think about how much your own quality of life would improve if you, too, were fluffy?
One of my weird niche interest that I can't explain: 80's show wrestling promos. (I've never watched a single wrestling match in my life.)
Not even a problem. I bloody love walking. It wouldn't be unusual for me to take an 8-hour walk. I'll watch the entire original Star Wars trilogy on a treadmill. Hyperdrive is for scruffy-looking nerf herders. I'll go to Alderaan at walking speed.
Silent Hill f has dodging and countering mechanics because it's not an action horror hame from the PlayStation 2 era where the only way to do combat was to trade blows with a monster and hope it runs out of HP before you do.
These are the defining characteristics of a soulslike: - Repeated player death as an intended part of the game design. - Sparse checkpoint system of resting places. - A system where experience resources lost upon death can only be recovered by reaching the spot of their demise again.
Most people don't seem know what a soulslilke is. A challenging action game whose combat mechanics involve dodging and countering does not a soulslike make.
Every reasonable human being who played both games understood that Joel was a profoundly bad person and that fact was going to catch up with him. From a storytelling perspective, it made complete sense that Joel was killed. It was not a controversial decision from the writers.
Yeah, there was a whole army of misogynists who were furious that the game killed off the male lead, and you had to play the rest of the game as Ellie and Abby. Those people are now attackimg the show because their fragile male egos have not healed in the 5 years since the game's release.
I mean, it's a cute art poster. Just not for my wall.
Sometimes (okay, a lot of times) it feels like the algorithm doesn't know what to do with the fact that I'm an agender asexual. "Sex isn't selling, sir! They're not clicking on anything!" "They just haven't had good enough sexual content yet. We need to break through. MAKE EVERY AD A SEXY AD!"
He did the one about tomatoes, remember?
What is the point of having a dictatorship? If you already have a job as a politician in a democratic system, why would you want to corrupt that system and turn it into a dictatorship? Easy. Because you want to do the one thing democracy doesn't let you do: enact policies that no one else wants.
But he always says he knows more about [whatever the topic is at the moment] than anyone. Surely, you're nor calling him a liar? Oh. Wait.
I hate that I can recognize Pam Bondi by voice alone. I live on the other side of the Atlantic. That woman can't hurt me. But I've spent so much time learning about all the ways she's weaponizing the Department of Justice against the American people that I've learned to recognize her voice.😖
Who's choking?
I can't think of another place on Earth where gun culture has gotten so far out of hand that when someone suggests gun control after a school shooting, a significant portion of the population will have the following reaction: "[Name here] hates you and wants to take your guns!"
I was today years old when I learned that Imogen Poots' full name is Imogen Gay Poots. She's the only serious rival Benedict Cumberbatch has for the title of "Actor with the most British Name." What an absolute legend.
Sometimes science articles report on something completely obvious, such as a new study showing that dogs have feelings. Sometimes a science article will do... the other thing. 👇
Also, imagine trying to get a couple of hundred elementary school kids to go through a metal detector every morning. Pens, zippers, pencil sharpeners, hairpins, jean buttons, random things they put in their pockets... And it's on you to figure out why these kids are setting off the metal detector.
Don't let them gaslight you into thinking they're in a position of power. They're not. That's why they have to resort to breaking the rules, the laws, and using violence. They can't win by legitimate means. Conservative white men don't have the power to force everyone else to live by their rules.
Stay angry. Keep yelling and shouting and booing. Keep calling him out. Keep calling out his Republican lapdogs. Keep calling out legacy media when they talk about this like it's normal politics. Don't let them think the pressure is dropping. Burst a pipe. Blow up the pressure gauge.
I know being outraged all the time is exhausting. But, Americans, you need to stay outraged. If Trump can get you to shrug when he does outrageous things, if he can get you to think it's a foregone conclusion that he is going to snuff out democracy, that will make it easier for him to do it.
Weenie is having a midnight identity crisis. 🔊 "Mom said I was a tigare. So, why do I look so small?" I did say you were a tigare, baby. But humans sometimes talk in abstract terms. You're not a literal tigare, you just have the panache of one.
Bambi vs Bumpo
You've seen the "When the DOOM music kicks in" meme. Now get ready for the Borderlands music to kick in.
We saw the procedure! They did not transplant these kids' brains into synthetic bodies; they did some kind of brain scan and created synthetic or digital duplicates of their brains. The original brains are still in the kids' bodies! These are copies. The kids are dead. 3/3
Arthur, a scientist with the Prodigy corporation, raises questions about whether they've actually succeeded in mind transfer, or if they've just killed 6 kids and made copies of their minds. And Kavalier's henchman wants Joe to confirm if Wendy actually has the mind of his sister. 2/3
So, episode 4 of #AlienEarth has confirmed my worst fears about the show, which is that in the year 2120, people have become ignorant of the fact that the human mind IS THE PHYSICAL BRAIN. The mind is not software that can be taken out of the brain and stored on a different memory device. 1/3
Chat GPT is a large language model. Magic 8-ball is a small language model.
All of this information was out there, free for anyone to read, since April of 2023.
Yeah, all of this was in Project 2025. I inow because I read the Wikipedia entry.
Oh my god. The man's been free for a weekend and they're already trying to deport him again. This time to Uganda. Fascism. That's what this is. Ultranationalist authoritarianism under a dictatorial leader.
If you're a Left-wing, progressive, heterosexual white man, this will hurt you. If you're a Right-wing, conservative heterosexual white woman, this will hurt you. If you're a woman, child, non-white, LGBTQ+, leftist, or progressive, this will hurt you.
Right-wing, conservative, heterosexual white men are not even the majority. That's who all of this is for. This is an effort to strip power, rights, and freedoms from everyone except Right-wing, conservative, heterosexual white men.
I love that Gary Oldman is now an old man. Been waiting for this for decades.
Mistakes like these could cost me my life if I'm not careful.
Oshawott is an A+ Pokémon. 😙👌
Oh shit! I mean this! This is my favorite Pokémon!
You + your favorite Pokémon
Oh no, Gav. You did that? How do I combine "ew," "yuck," and "yikes" into a single concept?
If YOU have a pig named Kevin Bacon, stay vigilant. A Kevin Bacon hasn't gone missing in 2025 yet, but it could be destined to happen.
I just learned there have been two runaway pigs in the US named... Kevin Bacon. 🤭 The first one was in Pennsylvania in 2023. The other was in Wisconsin in 2024. Both Kevins Bacon were safely returned to their homes.
You can't win a trophy in the performing arts if you've never done performing arts, Donald!
One of the reasons why I love living in the Helsinki metropolitan area is that the public transit system is so good that I don't know a single person younger than Gen X who owns a car. If I don't make it to my tram or subway in time, it's only a 3 minute wait until the next one arrives.
J. B. Prtizker is an absolute diamond of a human being. In my obsession with US politics, I'm always on the lookout for US politicians whom Nordic countries can look at with envy and say: "I wish we had someone like that in our politics." If J. B. were in Finnish politics, he'd have my vote.
Justice for the kitefin shark! The forbidden Subway sandwich of the sea.
The very real animal all of these are referring to is the kitefin shark, which really looks like this.👇
Infuriating new trend: Zoology articles that show AI generated interpretations of the animal that the article is talking about.
"Did someone say my name?" No. Go away Dickwolf.
Lance Red Dick, is it?
Yea nah, that for sure isn't how you spell that name.
Can't wait for Trump, Vance, Bondi, Rubio & co. to explain why THIS should be pardoned. "It was a perfect interview. The pedo said wonderful things about me. The whole thing was a complete witch hunt. The judge was a radical leftist lunatic. She should have never been convicted."
Yeah, the 25% VAT is... a whole thing right now. The Right finally got their hands on the levers of power in Finnish politics, and immediately shit the bed. Now we need sky-high VATs just to stop our economy from collapsing. The next election is going to be brutal for the.
Awrite. Well. The VAT in Finland is 25,5%. Without that, the console is priced at 677.28 euros, which is 793.94 US dollars. That's still a hundred dollars more than the price of the US console before the 50-dollar price hike.
Light the nation on fire? Yes. Walk away? Nah, he's just headed to Mar-a-Lago to watch the pyre.
Don't worry about America's image right now. Every other nation in the world understands that what Trump and the Republican Party are doing does not reflect the will of the American people. We all understand that you're being robbed right now. Focus on staying informed and making it through this.
It's not entirely clear who I'm [praying] to. Not god, I don't believe in that sumbitch. Not the stars, because what the fuck are they gonna do? Not fate, not chance, not some higher power. I guess, I'm [praying] to the American people, on behalf of the American people.
I'm not a religious person, so prayer is a foreign concept to me. But I also don't have any other word to describe this thing I do. I [pray] every day that the people of United States of America would finally have justice for what Donald Trump and the Republican Party are doing to their nation.
Why are we excluding taxes from this conversation? Taxes are a part of what you have to pay before they give you the damn thing.
I love how dumb this is. I love that Trump thinks painting a fence black is going to make it so much hotter to the touch than it already is that people won't be able to climb it. He has the mind of a child.
868.73 US dollars.
I don't think most people are buying the PS5 Pro. Most people are probably buying the regular 450 euro PS5.
That's 937.55 US dollars.
The PlayStation 5 Pro now costs $750 in the US!? Friends, it costs €849.99 in the EU That's 995.33 US dollarydoos. And remember, Sony hasn't raised prices in EU. We're not the ones who've put tariffs on Japan. This is just how much being a gamer costs in Europe.
I think you mean Rosaria. Or maybe Rennala? Or Jergal (a.k.a. "Withers")? Sorry, I also didn't put any of my gamer points into Skyrim lore knowledge. 🤷
I made the commitment to allocate all of my skill points into Marvel lore knowledge when I was 6 years old. Not that I regret it or anything. But I don't have any skill points left to spend on DC lore knowledge.
They’re lighting democracy on fire.
Play dumb games, win dumb prizes.
Suddenly Republicans know and care about what the law says?
Trump is telling us his plan for 2026. Those of us who care about free and fair elections must take him seriously and literally. We cannot simply bring guns to a gun fight. We need to bring missiles.
I'm so glad to see a leader like Gavin Newsom emerging in America's fight against fascist autoritarianism. Because if Republicans are allowed to bend every rule, break every law, and bruteforce their desired outcome in the 2026 midterms, well... It's going to be like living in Putin's Russia.
The AI bubble is going to burst because companies are going to go: "Wait! Who will we sell 100 million PlayStations to if there is no longer a working class?" Politicians are going to go: "Wait! If my policies put the majority of the working class out of work, who's gonna vote for me?"
What happens to, say, companies that make consumer electronics if the pool of consumers who can afford to buy those products is halved? Are those companies gonna be okay with it? Are politicians going to survive in office if they push AI policies that put millions of people permanently out of work?
Is the AI bubble going to burst? Almost certainly. Because the alternative is that hundreds of millions of people's roles in society would be substituted by AI, and the world economy would have to somehow survive the fact that huge swaths of the population are unemployable and have no buying power.
After that, it's just a matter of getting Joe into the hands of the Seegson corporation. Et voilà! He's ready to inspire an entire product family of mentally unstable, plastic-faced androids fit only for menial labor. You always know a Working Joe!
I can imagine a scenario where Wendy tries to save Joe's life by attempting to "transfer" his mind into a synth body. But the procedure is botched because, as Wendy herself explained, grown-up minds are too stiff to "make the trip." So, Joe is reduced to this rudimentary, robotic intellect.
Okay, hear me out. In #AlienEarth, Wendy claims (with confidence!) that she will save her brother Joe from death. Illness, injury, old age — doesn't matter — Wendy is going to save Joe from death. What if... Joe is immortalized as the first prototype of the "Working Joe" android?
Try it. This is genuinely the most comfortable way of holding a kitchen knife. It feels safer, and you have a lot more control over edge alignment.
Oh, I'm sorry. The hole is there to give you a "perfect grip." Which you might find convincing if you don't know how you're actually meant to hold a kitchen knife. You're supposed to pinch the blade between your thumb and index finger... right where they've cut a massive hole in the blade.
I just saw the most unbelievable ad for this tactical combat kitchen knife. The intended target demographic seems to be men over 45 with fragile egos, who live in constant fear of their testosterone levels dropping. There's a hole in the blade so that you can spin it around your finger.
Here's the actual trailer I saw 12 years ago.
The first time I saw a trailer for Routine was in 2013. I've been thinking about this game ever since. I'm thrilled to learn it finally has a release window. I just hope this game finds its way to PlayStation one day.
God damnit. See, it's shit like this why Chris Pine is the best Chris.
Still, it's heaps better than the shit James Cameron tried to pull.
It makes the alien look weirdly off-brand.
A small detail that bothers me about Alien: Earth. In most classic Alien designs, the head dome comes all the way down to the upper lip. But in Alien: Earth, the dome stops a good 5 centimeters above the lip. And the upper lip is this weird plastic flap-looking thing.
Wait, wait, wait. Wait. What the fuck is this!? She's LOCKED in the House Chamber!? And someone did this to her!? Does she have access to food, water, and toilet facilities!?
Jet Jaguar's theme song has this bit in it: Gojira to Jagaa de panchi, panchi, panchi Panchi! Panchi! Panchi! It means: "Godzilla and Jet Jaguar fuck, fuck, fuck. Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
Whoever runs Merriam-Webster's social media came to work today and said: "Laissez les bons temps rouler, mes amis!"
Son of Godzilla is proof that Godzilla fucks. But no one's ever seen the Mother of Son of Godzilla. I bet she foine.
I don't know about sassy, but the thresher shark is the most anxious. "Aaah! I'm lost and I don't have my phone!" "Can you help me? I've locked myself out of my apartment." "Please, I have a cat in there." "Oh no, I can't remember if I turned off the coffee machine."
Eyes of Wakanda featured a really cool take on a 15th-century Iron Fist. I'm a big fan of Iron Fist, and I've been absolutely STARVING for quality Iron Fist content, and if I say "Iron Fist" one more time, this will start to sound like I'm talking about something else. This was just 😚👌 perfetto.
Aw, babe. I expected you to take care of all the menial chores around the house and raise my children, and when you didn't, I no longer wanted to be with you. Bummer! If only there had been some way of resolving this before getting engaged.
I'm ready for these Spider-Jammies! I'm ready for grown-ass adult Peter Parker. I'm ready for Spider-Man to fight career criminals who've gained superpowers and immediately become intoxicated with power because they didn't have an Uncle Ben teaching them about responsibility. I'm ready for this.
