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"Death is but a door. Time is but a window. I'll be back"
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"Death is but a door. Time is but a window. I'll be back"
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His brain is just a jumble of intermittently sparking wires now.
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Why are there so few leaks? Trump 1.0 White House leaked constantly, Trump 2.0 is much more opaque.
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Young me knew lots of people who were super organic healthy food only types who also smoked and took whatever pills or powders were on offer when they went out clubbing every weekend.
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I did like how the fuses and the distance the cameraman retreated got longer with every iteration.
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International Security, hell yeah.
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Barney Miller supposedly gets good notices from cops for being "realistic" about the actual day-to-day of police work (lots of paperwork, boredom, and stupid nonsense)
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The very definition of "honest work", good luck. Be sure not to wear anything blue to your interview or the job itself (not kidding).
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I also wonder how unintentional that "error" was.
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"We're gonna austerity our way out of this near-depression" was just the dumbest on-its-face idea of its era.
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
Can't Greg Stafford get some consideration?
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
That's, like, 80% of all social media interactions.
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
He did rally up when it was time to write his Nixon obit.
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
More mythologies should have hex-grids, supply rules, and rigidly-defined Zones of Control, IMHO.
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Their job is to lead (i.e. herd the cats) in their caucus. Expecting them to be also inspiring national leaders is missing the point. And it's not a Dem problem - you could say exactly the same things about Mitch McConnell and Mike Johnson and John Thune.
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He may have been the first person in the west to learn of Stalin's death.
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It's sad to realize that there have been more bad Aliens movies than good ones, more bad Star Wars movies than good ones, and more bad Terminator movies than good ones.
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There were so many good Brit neo-noir/crime films in the late 90s/early 00s. Lock Stock, Snatch, Limey, Sexy Beast, Croupier, Layer Cake...
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I want all my groceries in one bag and also that bag better not be heavy.
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Newsom is such a weird mixture of bad political instincts and good political skills.
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The Misty Brunchlord is a tough boss fight, but he drops epic loot more time than not. Be sure you're running a full set of buffs (especially +damage) before you confront him.
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It's a good niche.
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When I was doing corporate IT, there was no worse task than having to unbox and check in a computer that was mailed back from a remote employee who smoked and had a cat.
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The speed with which some native tribes went from "never having seen a horse" to "being the finest cavalry on earth" never ceases to amaze me.
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
JB007 was way, way ahead of its time. The basic system is still in print as an IP-less retroclone called CLASSIFIED.
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[BONERS]
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Yeah. You can "pledge" anything.
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There is also the way the most valuable QB prospects are drafted by the worst-run teams who are the least likely to be able to develop them into capable professionals.
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I wonder how many hundreds of hours he's logged playing Disco Elysium. 200? 300? More?
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Dudes rock.
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"It's a shame that I am a member of the last generation that will be smart. Everyone born after me will be stupid forever." - A completely original thought that people haven't been thinking since the start of the pleistocene
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Kill Team is great for the same reason (and as a bonus, it's finely tuned for competitive/tournament play)
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
There's no better way to kill your passion for your hobby than to try to convert it into some kind of paying gig.
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That article is so great. It's a prefect fractal, every bad decision the author makes is made up of like five other bad decisions, and that chain continues to infinity.
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Weird little guys deserve love.
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
They're getting exactly what they voted for and I think that is beautiful. The system works!
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Yeah. Unemployment going from 5% to 10% means 90% of people still have a job, but inflation going from 3% to 6% means 100% of people are paying more for everything in their lives.
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"I swear to god it just straight up does not want to do work sometimes." - AI is becoming more and more humanlike every day.
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Bruce Willis's weepy "tell my wife I love her" scene in the original DIE HARD.
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They released a card game titled "Pimp: The Backhanding" and it's exactly as awful as the title suggests.
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Rupert may think that the WSJ's long-term value depends on it as being credibly seen as independent - pro-business but not totally in the tank for Trump/GOP - and so keeps his hands off the news portion.
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And XP wasn't actually good until Service Pack 2 came out and closed most of the most egregious security holes. I'll go out on a limb and argue that Excel is Actually Good.
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I just think of, like, 19th century labor organizers and movements, and the sustained effort they put into the progress they managed to achieve, and I wonder if it would have happened if everyone involved had access to 900 different cable channels and streaming networks.
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And it's not just nerd things! You can fully immerse yourself in Kardashian family drama or what Taylor Swift is doing every single day, and with the same distracting, totalizing effect.
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Arguing over nerd minutiae used to be the province of very select microgroups (of Trekkies and Tolikien fans and etc.), and it's now a mass culture phenomenon, and I think that has had an effect on things.
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Like, the 100,000 person-hours that have been spent building and maintaining and arguing inside the GTA:V fan wiki - maybe that energy could have been used for something else?
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I do sometimes wonder if the deep, detailed, lore-heavy imaginary worlds that have proliferated through pop culture (movies and TVs and books and videogames and RPGs) divert energy and attention from matters in the real world.
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I'm assuming that's the most benign semi-credible medical diagnosis they could come up with to publicly explain away his visibly disintegrating body.
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Our numbers are legion.
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
And when Odysseus meets him in the underworld, Achilles says being dead sucks complete ass and all that fame and everything means absolutely nothing in the long run.
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"Bridge of Birds" by Barry Hughart
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The mysterious magickal super-powered monster hunter actually being a put-upon blue-collar drudge is one of the funniest persistent bits of the Witcher setting.
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I remember profiles of late-era Letterman (in his "openly not giving a fuck" stage) where it was clear that he stuck around solely because ending the show would unemploy 80 people who depended on him to, like, feed their families.
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Another possible vector for Confederate victory would be getting recognition/support from a European powers (or powers). Unlikely, but they spent a lot of time working at it (and the Union spent a lot of effort working to block it).
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
"This guy, who wins elections, is electoral poison!"
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You can tell Mamdani has all the wrong solutions and will lead to electoral catastrophe for the Dems because of the way he [checks notes]...won a stunning electoral victory by getting reluctant and first-time voters to come out and vote for him?!
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We'd love to have you.
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Ah, the liberty-loving virtues of the Jeffersonian agrarianist, the foundation of our liberty and prosperity. Now to take a big sip of water and check the living conditions and formal rights of the people who did 98% of the labor in those situations...
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
Also there was a magic silver bullet issue/slogan that I just thought up that she didn't use, and that's why she lost.
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The main result of the Democrats' push to Do Nice Things for those people is them saying "thanks for the Nice Things, suckers" and continuing to vote for the guns-n-fetuses-n-racism party. I dearly wish it were otherwise, but as an electoral strategy Deliverism just doesn't work.
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Has Cuomo ever fought a tough campaign? Pounding the pavement and pressing the flesh? Or has he always just sort of coasted by on his dad's name and rolodex of donors? No surprise that when Mamdani surged they didn't have the muscles or the infrastructure to counter him.
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Just need a Netflix standup special to finish off this bingo card.
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He actually got an official write-up in GURPS WHO'S WHO.
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They should do one (or more!) as a 1960s period piece.
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
From the people who brought you "Look, 'Defund The Police' doesn't literally mean defunding the police you oaf, you halfwit"
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They'll make it up with increased volume.
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"He came at you, right?"
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
That was a key theme of the book. It's also a window into the peak of the curve of young people being exposed to environmental lead.
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Interesting follow-up on the late 90s, where FIGHT CLUB/MATRIX/AMERICAN BEAUTY/etc. all suggested that having a stable job and housing and furniture and stuff was just the worst imaginable state of affairs, wake up sheeple!
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lmao, even
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They were obviously casting around for some reason to showily not support Biden - if Gaza hadn't erupted, it would have been something else. Betrayal over the failure to cancel everyone's student loans, maybe.
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It's the same back end as the assassination marketplace (beepers, rotary phones, teletypes, etc.) in the JOHN WICK movies.
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More proof (as if any was needed) that the 1980s were The Greatest Decade.
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
The wingnuts took over the country one low turnout school board and county commissioner election at a time. There is a very clear blueprint for how to do it!
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One weird effect of the internet leveling the playing field for finding and applying for jobs has been *increasing* the importance of networking and connections and Knowing Someone (to elevate candidates out of the scrum of thousands of applications).
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Nice Polite Republicans
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...whose dad was in Ugly Kid Joe.
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The inexpensive intro game (HORIZONS OF SPIRIT ISLAND) is very very good at easing you into the game system.
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There is also the way they look like conquistadors and spread like a contagion. SPIRIT ISLAND is a great game but it ain't exactly subtle.
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“A reckoning is coming” - lol, lmao.
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That’s literally SPIRIT ISLAND.
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I was delighted to discover that June Gloom has its own Wikipedia page.
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The local joke is that the Sunset district may as well be called the Unicorn district, because you are as likely to see one as the other there.
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You try to explain to tourists how the water comes straight down from the Gulf of Alaska, and they don't believe you (until they splash into it for themselves)
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Alcibiadeez Nuts
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"Money has no courage" - one of my favorite cliches (because it's 100% true).
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It's hackery, but it's hackery that is really sincerely trying to be a good adaptation of the source material, which is very rare. You can see Snyder's heart is in it. He just has nowhere near the skills to pull it off. It also has the world's most thuddingly obvious music cues.
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
There are a lot of coders who seem very excited about AI writing their code for them, but who refuse to follow that chain of logic through to its conclusion.
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It also allows Trump to reward/punish people arbitrarily, and to get powerful people to debase themselves to him in order to be rewarded (or not punished), which is like catnip to him.
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One of the reasons white people feel so free to vote for Republicans is that they know Democrats will scramble to protect them from the worst effects of Republican policy. This time, they should let the R's handle all of the fallout. Time to touch the fucking stove.
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
Yep. Buy a toilet seat off of Amazon, the algorithm will peg you as a toilet seat collector or maybe fetishist.
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
Origin story of the Bene Gesserit right here.
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We talk about Trumpism as creating a permission structure for people to act like assholes, but there's a similar structure on the left.
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
Eric Gill, too.
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I dunno, Miller seems like he could have some cornered weasel energy inside him.
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
It did make him drop the pretense that he was a Gruff Progressive Daddy. He (along with Sinema) are the reason I'm so skeptical of the neverending calls for Dems to purge themselves of genortocratic insiders. Electing youthful outsiders has a track record, and it's not good!
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Walter Egan's "Magnet and Steel" is about the crush the singer has on Stevie Nicks, and it gets bonus points for having Nicks sing backup on it.
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Very underrated song.
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It's less "at random" and more "arbitrarily"
weirdlittledude.bsky.social (@weirdlittledude.bsky.social) reply parent
We are still getting used to the Dems being the party that shows up for low-profile and special elections (and Reps are now the party that shows up for big turnout elections), which is a reverse of how it has been for the previous hundred or so years.