I don’t blame anyone generationally anymore. Boomers are too senile for their own good and everyone else is too burnt out to step up to the plate.

Can’t get that sweet sweet ad revenue if your content isn’t 100% in line with advertising expectations. God forbid there are any deviants on a site that positioned itself as weird and quirky for the first decade of its existence.

It was a running joke at Uni that Engineering was pre-business.

Source: Failed Pre-Business major.

WTF I picked up a finance textbook and now I’m in debt for like eighty billion dollars?! And I have to buy the online portal code separately!? What a rip-off!

I had a princess, but they took her in the divorce!

I always feel really dumb when reading it because it’s clear the author is an astrophysicist, but I still enjoy it because it’s quite warm and does a really good job of developing the characters. Honestly I think the only real one-note character is Kornada and he’s very deliberately that because he represents a grey goo machine in the form of unchecked capitalism.

Funnily enough, I do feel like an adult, mostly because I’ve been aware enough for long enough that everyone else is making it up as they go, that I can sense when people are on their bullshit and navigate it pretty effectively.

Also I’m making a lot of decisions that will hopefully insulate me from the consequences of my inevitable failure, but I hold no delusions that the safety net will ever be perfect or even good, or that some arbitrary amount of austerity would have bought me a house at this point, so I don’t starve myself of the little pleasures in the moment - today is the rainy day. I use my PTO, I get a little treat every once in a while, and I make myself as comfortable as I can. My life satisfaction has increased drastically with that in mind.

Lol yeah, my jumping off point was the Casio Mario World speedrun at AGDQ, some real bangers in the mix:

https://youtu.be/a-Amp_FNpiI?si=dBE43Avb4O7K3S-3

Imagine if it was Oneohtrix Point Never.

Nobody’s lazy, we’re just reserving the best part of our time for ourselves.

That eagle’s seen some shit.

I wouldn’t have even given it a second thought, but the addendum…

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when i was beating players much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate opponents, you are like a girl crying after i beat you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that i am very good blitz player, i can win anyone in the world in single game! And "w"esley "s"o is nobody for me, just a player who are crying every single time when loosing, ( remember what you say about Firouzja ) !!! Stop playing with my name, i deserve to have a good name during whole my chess carrier, I am Officially inviting you to OTB blitz match with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who’s intrested in this situation, just take a look at my results in 2016 and 2017 Blitz World championships, and that should be enough… No need to listen for every crying babe, Tigran Petrosyan is always play Fair ! And if someone will continue Officially talk about me like that, we will meet in Court! God bless with true! True will never die ! Liers will kicked off…

We all know damn well the four day week inevitably comes with a pay cut. Big business won’t cede anything without getting theirs back.

Still all for it. Four day workweeks are better for the environment and mental health.

I love it because it makes me think of those Humongous Entertainment games I used to play as a kid.

I go back occasionally to niche communities that haven’t moved off yet but since I deleted my account, I can’t interact and don’t feel the need to stay long, and since I don’t/won’t use the mobile app my usage is even further reduced.

It’s a nice fantasy, but I’m sure some sites would actually collapse. I’d prefer it and I think it would be more realistic if there were legislation capping the amount and formats of advertising that could be displayed on a webpage or over a certain period of time to an IP address. No more double ads before every video and every ten minutes within - it’s currently getting to be as bad as cable TV used to be, and I don’t know what hosting user-created content costs these days but I’m sure it’s cheaper than what cable companies had to pay to buy content from studios for broadcast and then actually broadcast it.

A whole shoebox? Luxury. My 27 brothers and I lived in a bit of rolled up newspaper on the street.