That’s darkly solipsistic. Risky sort of thought to entertain. Life is chaos and it’s all real. Just do your best and be kind to yourself, and others.

I think it’s a mindset thing. A boombox means you’re thinking about an audience. Consideration is implicit.

My double standard is that when I see someone with a boombox playing music in public, I’m chill and open to it. When someone does the same thing on their phone, I must work to enhance my calm.

Is it the sound quality? Maybe in part. But there’s more to it.

The suits found out what servers are. Worst shit that ever happened

Agreed. If Steam goes under (not really likely), there’s still GOG & itchio.

Piracy, in a word

Multiplayer online games used to allow you to self-host so there was no obligatory centralised server. The game need not be deleted, that was purely a business decision.

Solipsism, yeah maybe.

Smarmy little LLM squatting in search results being like wow yeah you should have asked a search engine buddy, get a load of this maroon.

If they used an LLM to create a Waldorf and Stadtler style heckler to make fun of my searches that would be a real value-add. Instead they did it by accident and the joke is on them.

Can you try to figure out whether this person is hilarious or anti-intellectual? I scratched my chin off trying to spot the difference

It actually would be a way cooler name for the element.

I’d only heard of council juice

Only if you get caught

Oh shit, that’s exactly what they’re going to do. Shit.

You know how if you’ve got something really biting and witty you want to say to someone, so you kind of manufacture a little segue just so you can fire it off?

Yesterday my republican co-worker did that just so she could say “juneteenth, pff whatever”. That is what she considers comedy.

Edit to add: she paused to laugh at that point as if to invite me to share in the joke. She really is that dreary of a person.

Oh hey, I’ve done that too.

Well they should have called it Ørstedium then, and people could refuse to call it that because nobody knows what Ø sounds like or how to type it.

Stuff does occasionally change

In like… Science

In leftist spaces, the word liberal often has a different connotation more focused on economic liberalism.

They don’t usually feel the need to clarify, and everyone gets mad. It must be incredibly fun to be an asshole these days.

I think he mentioned knowing he’s a dumbass, so