new consoles push the technological limits -> game dev costs more money and takes longer -> fewer games coming out -> fewer people bothering with buying new consoles when there are so few games -> less money to keep up with ballooning costs of game dev -> layoffs in the industry -> games take even longer to come out

haven’t actually looked into the sales numbers to see if any of this is actually correct but it’s how it feels vibe wise

it was actually kellogg the kellogg’s guy, not the oatmeal guy (william penn)

that’s actually the first good argument against megabalkanizing germany i’ve ever heard

“obungler” and especially “barfsack ocrumbo” are two of the best pieces of political satire conservatives have ever come up with. shoutout to matt christman to bringing them to a wider audience

i’ve heard of many jims who are jameses but i don’t think i have ever heard of a tim jim

fun trivia question to annoy your friends: who was the first actor to portray Homer Simpson?

19 looks like he’s having a good time out there

they don’t want you to know that fucking around with garage door springs is an easy way to skip two turns on the wheel of samsara and triple your Sumerian IQ points

surely somebody could do some mythbusters bullshit and blow one up outside or put a camera behind plexiglass or something

ive heard for many years now that garage door springs have as much power in them as grenades and yet i can’t find any videos of them blowing up or coming loose or whatever. fucked up

balatro has had me absolutely hooked more than any game has in years (except for tetris, which is such a staple of my life at this point i barely even think of it as a video game)

if they do exist then not in any way that is currently observable, replicable or controllable. that they do is such a small chance that i don’t tend to spend a whole lot of time or brainpower thinking about them and they certainly arent a core part of my beliefs and understandings about the world. but i do believe that there’s a small chance that these things do exist and can be explained in material ways.

i didn’t see “becoming” in the original comment - you’re right that complaining about pants sagging was already old hat by 2010, i was just trying to say that despite that people were still complaining about it

“Pants on the Ground” came out in 2010

me at 19: this country fucking sucks. i want to live abroad

me at 23: i guess that’s unfeasable. maybe i’ll live in a different state at least

me at 26: ok so that’s probably also not gonna happen. hopefully one day i’ll live in the city that’s an hour and change away from my hometown

me at 30 (projected): what if i move my bed from one side of the room to the other. that’d switch things up a bit i reckon

protein powder technology has really improved a lot. used to be that all protein powder tasted like complete shit. 10 years ago you’d choke it down as quick as you could and you wouldn’t even think about getting any flavor other than chocolate. at some intervening point presumably in the trump era that changed and if i was him i’d make that more of a focus of my campaign. even the cheapest protein powder today is better than the shit i had in high school and that’s really beautiful

a guy who bought into the “russians are secret asians and they win their wars through horde tactics” thing and thinks it’s cool? lol i don’t think i’ve seen that one before

seeming very likely that the rumors were right and PTA’s next movie will be an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. However, in a weird twist, he’s apparently moving the setting from the 60s-80s to the present day. i’ll be interested to see PTA’s take on contemporary america since so many filmmakers, PTA included, have been making mostly or exclusively period pieces for so long, but i am really curious and a little bit wary about how it’s going to work. It’s really hard to imagine Vineland taking place in any other era since so much of the book is about the student movement/New Left and how it faded and transitioned into Reaganland. We never really left reaganland, so the period from 2009-2024 feels like nowhere near as big a leap as 1969-1984 (the book’s setting). i trust PTA but i really can’t see how you can adapt Vineland without setting it in that era.

kicking an israeli with surgical precision in the left nut and the left nut only