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RickiTarr, 5 months ago to random

Show me the most 80's thing you can think of!

MachineLordZero, 3 months ago to gaming

Hey, can anyone tell me some games where you start off in a trashed base, or even just ruins, and you've gotta fix it up?
Bonus points for sci-fi, NPCs who'll move in, and town management.
Prefer not first person perspective, but will still look at
#gaming #recommendation #openToAll

RickiTarr, 5 months ago to random

I, admittedly, curse way too much, but I just adore a faux curse. When I was a kid, one of my Mom's friends was a very proper Southern lady. Instead of saying "They think their shit don't stink" she would say, "Some people think they poo poo vanilla ice cream".

What is your favorite faux curse?

datn, 7 months ago to random

would enjoy waking up tomorrow to some really good news. world, please fix yourself while I sleep. not too much to ask

datn, 8 months ago to random

wow, starting to use a client that puts an alert icon on all images that lack alt text really makes me sit up and notice how often this happens. wow.

datn, 4 months ago to random

seven years ago I stood in my kitchen in Portland and decided I had to change my life, get out of tech. now I live in Berlin, and this weekend I self-published my first novel.

guess I have good instincts sometimes!

https://elaboratefiction.com/

datn, 7 months ago to random

i have reached the same saturation level with Star Wars and Star Trek content as i did with Marvel content.

much like a German regarding their sixth bowl of pumpkin soup, i am saying, "despite how much and how long i've liked this in the past, i don't want even one more drop of this right now, nor possibly ever again. do i even still like this?"

datn, 7 months ago to random

watched the first two episodes of #scavengersReign . amazing, excellent, minimalist storytelling in a richly imagined world. every two minutes I recognize another influence on this work, but it is a thoughtful dense remixture and something quite original at the same time. can't wait for the rest.

datn, 7 months ago to random

now unfollowing people I used to write alt text for

datn, 2 months ago to random

listening to a podcast hosted by two dudes more than ten years younger than me, and they're learning about Skibidi Toilet* for the first time. perhaps there's some hope for me yet.

*DO NOT ASK ME WHAT SKIBIDI TOILET IS

datn, 6 months ago to random

thanks to Joe Rogan I am traumatized by any image of a bald guy talking while wearing headphones

datn, 23 days ago to random

whenever i see a post describing a beautiful tourist destination, i find myself craving the flipside: a detailed account from a longtime resident, not necessarily slagging off the tourists but just providing the rest of the story.

datn, 3 months ago to random

it's time for the "sorry I'm trying to delete it" trend to end. drives me batty

datn, 6 months ago to random

last night I kind of had an Aha! moment about my novel in progress. these are the moments I live for when writing -- I have an idea, I use it to prepare space for whatever will come, and after a while, my mind decides to start revealing itself to itself.

#nanowrimo

datn, 2 months ago to random

people posting things saying "look at this toxic shit I found on a site you deliberately avoid" are eventually going to get unfollowed or blocked. mind blowing that people should, of all things, CURATE toxic shit into my feed.

datn, 5 months ago to random

perfectly happy for the broader culture to fill to bursting with stuff I don't like, as long as my continued deliberate ignorance thereof doesn't count against me in salary negotiations

datn, 5 months ago to random

I missed the Assange Talk at #37c3 by an absolute hair -- I made it into the hall, but standing was so crowded I decided to watch from outside, only to find that it was not being streamed or recorded. sigh

RickiTarr, 29 days ago to random

So, I was on a long drive yesterday, and put on some pump me up music, so I didn't get sleepy. I just put something on YouTube, and I ended up in the group of music that I would call Peak Mid to Late Millenial. For perspective, I'm one of the Gappers, not quite old enough to be Gen X, but also feel too old to be a Millenial, although I suppose I technically am, just an Ancient one. ANYWAY, this music, on the surface, sounds like bubble gum pop dance music, the kind you dance in "da club" to, but as I was listening, I realized most of the lyrics had a trend that broke down basically to this:

Get your friends together, drink heavily, have sex, party, DANCE, GO LIVE IN THE PRESENT, because we will all probably die young anyway.

Most of these songs are probably between 10-15 years old, and honestly probably really caught onto the zeitgeist of the time. Hope didn't work, we are still caught in a shit conflict none of us want to be in. The world is actively burning, and no one in power wants to save it. We make less money than our parents and their parents, we'll probably never get to own a home, we'll probably have college debt forever, if we could even afford to go. Might as well party your life away. I do wonder if Trump was a pretty big slap in the face about how bad it could really go, because this Apocalypse attitude seems to be changing a bit, or maybe Gen Z is just rebelling against their sad grunge Gen X parents. LOL

Either way, that was some kind of a ramble, share your thoughts on this, and listen to a peak representation of this musical phenomenon. It's kind of a banger.

https://youtu.be/NOubzHCUt48?si=e9ZwpiRj9A5Q9hfT

datn, 5 months ago to random

now come the frenzied analyses of Kissinger's career that, if they had come 30 years ago, would really have helped most folks continue to ignore his war crimes, which is what they want to do and therefore what they would and will do no matter how much info you throw at them

datn, 5 months ago to random

protip: don't look at the ceilings of train station restrooms

Saltssaltgirl, 3 months ago to random

I need book recommendations for something I won't be able to put down.

I enjoy suspense, but not gore, multigenerational novels, autobiographies, time travelish books, but not science fiction, historical fiction, & some fantasy.

So, what ya' got for me?

ai6yr, 11 days ago to random

NWS Omaha with the 8-bit graphics today, love it. https://m.ai6yr.org/

Adam_Cadmon1, 5 months ago to random

I remember the Bush II presidency. Both of them. Nobody...nobody seems to recall the tension back then because it's been ratcheted up so many levels since, but Bush was not well liked.