We are reliving 1998 with a twist

Thomas Jefferson Approved

I was dumb in many ways in my 20s.

You’re not really in your 20s if you aren’t doing a certain amount of stupid bullshit

I’ve seen this on Pornhub

this game is actually fantastic,

Without a doubt. It’s on my list.

I can’t think of anything else this year that would surpass Clair Obscur in any of those categories.

Silksong, Outer Worlds 2, and Eldin Ring: Nightsong leap to mind.

You wouldn’t believe it, but some people still think the solution is to install windows

After 170 years? A story about the young working class seeking simple comforts through ruthless ecological exploitation? And for this humble crew to be swept up in a prideful crusade towards wealth and glory lead by a charismatic madman intent on killing God? And this crusade culminates in a calamity that destroys everything their exploitative labors sought to build?

I can’t think of any modern parallels. But if one were to arise, I could see a certain sympathetic appeal.

I mean, good for them and all. But… I hate when these award shows do this shit. Narrowing the universe of “award winning” games down to “One Title Wins Everything” feels so hack.

You need to get on board for what is, at its heart, a blog about being a whaler in the 19th century. The story isn’t gripping in the sense of a two minute movie trailer, but it does draw you in and lead you to care about a bunch of the crew as it drags on. It is the quintessential “slow burn” novel.

But it isn’t even the worst on that front. Any Brian Sanderson novel is going to have a similar “omg, is this going anywhere? And why won’t they just kiss already? Damn, now I know entirely too much about an obscure magic system methodology of turning whale cum into lighter fluid” element.

One book I could argue genuinely reads better on audiobook when you’re stuck in traffic for two hours a day.

Unironically a great novel. If you can understand Moby Dick, you can understand the first 200 years of American history.

He was the one pushing the conspiracy theory, and running on the promise of releasing them.

He was on the gravy train of Pizzagate from way back in 2016 and he’s been dining out on it ever since. But to say he was pushing it? No, he was just echoing all the talk radio goons who wanted to smuggle in transphobia under the banner of “Save The Children”.

Trump’s just along for the ride on so much of this shit. He’s a bagman with a serpent’s tongue, but he’s not really guiding any of these decisions except to take his own slice.

So anyone who’s name is in the files can blame Trump for them not getting away with it.

Name one person who hasn’t gotten away with it, other than Epstein himself and Maxwell if you’re being generous.

Larry Summers didn’t even quit his day job teaching at Harvard. This is a freak who has been dining out lavishly as Economics Svengali since Mark Zuckerberg was in college. He’s been nailed dead-to-rights getting PUA advice from Epstein as recently as months before Jeff unalived himself. He’s “stepping away from public life for a little while”. Dude’s set his social media to mute and hoping this will all blow over in a few months. And he’s probably right. Good chance he gets bookings on MSNBC and CNN to denounce Zohran Mamdani’s far-left socialist mayoralty right alongside Steve Bannon before the end of next year.

The joke of the “Epstein Files” is that you absolutely could put up names, addresses, and lurid details about each and every one of his friends and nothing would happen to any of them. Maybe another Luigi Mangione proves me wrong. That’s the best anyone can reasonably hope for.

Give it five minutes of Google research and its not hard to discern. He’s made being an asshole his brand.

i also don’t watch TV or hang out with immature people.

:-/

Okay, buddy. Say hi to everyone in your Proust reading group for me.

i get to choose who interact with, where i work, where i live.

And yet you choose to be down in the muck with us shitposters. Curious.

“Being an adult” means doing all the things your parents did when you were young with the confidence and determination you assumed they had at the time.

Also doesn’t help that much of modern management culture is suffocatingly paternalistic. Bosses want you to continue getting an education, they want you to dress a certain way, they’re out assigning you work after hours, they’re harping on you for showing up late or leaving early without regard to traffic conditions or life events. There’s HR policy around shaming you for being overweight or diabetic or pregnant that’s pitched as “how you can save some money!” but mostly revolves around saving the company paid sick leave and benefits. You’re told to save in a 401k, but forbidden from managing your money independent of a brokerage. You’re told to live independent of parents or roommates, but without the income to afford a home or an apartment convenient to your workplace. You’re constantly subjected to reviews and milestones that only ever seem to monopolize your time and never result in career advancement.

You get the same attitude from businesses you interact with - everyone from salesmen to bill collectors to DMV officials have a way of talking down to you and using shame or disappointment to manipulate your behaviors. TV is increasingly just a series of jangling keys. Social Media is just 40 year olds who act like they’re still in High School. PTA meetings feel like the blind leading the blind, as you meet with people who are just as infantilized as you’ve been, trying to convey why this month’s deluge of standardized tests is more important than the last in a way you’ll believe more than they do.

And that’s before you get to the fucking Police. An entire multi-billion dollar bureaucracy dedicated to being America’s abusive stepfather.

It sucks out there, man.

Rice and beans have historically been pretty cheap. You can survive on SNAP if you’ve got a place to live and no other options. You certainly won’t be thriving.

It’s the economic equivalent of emergency life support.

It’s hard for me to understand how someone can be such a piece of shit.

Literally how he gets paid. He’s a man-child whose every act of petulance and grotesqueness fattens his wallet and raises his social media profile. The only reason he’s not filling the hole left by Charlie Kirk’s neck is because Nick Fuentes, Ben Shapiro, and JD Vance all scrambled in first.

Everyone who had the opportunity to take out massive PPP loans and default on them is a sucker.

Anyone who believes you’re going to shut Steve Crowder up by calling him a hypocrite is an even bigger sucker.

Someone who thinks they can work for Steven Crowder without being sexually assaulted and then fails to press charges is the biggest sucker of them all.

My guy shouldn’t be on the Quad spouting rage-bait, he should be in jail for serial rape.

you are actively defending North Korea

If this was any other county, you wouldn’t consider it an insult.

Why do you feel the need to hate a foreign people this much? They have no impact on you whatsoever.

It’s up to the authors how they want to license it.

Plus or minus some amount of piracy, sure

I mean, look what happened with TCP/IP.

A fucking disaster for humanity on a global scale