There are pictures and videos of the aftermath, and they make it pretty obvious that it wasn’t lithium batteries alone.

SO LET’S GET A PARTY GOIN’

For the same reasons that everything else is “enshittified” – It’s produced by people seeking maximum profits for minimum effort, and consumed by people who aren’t discerning enough to care.

Those sweet royalties from the Netflix exposé docs, maybe.

Definitely looks like more Borderlands.

I really enjoyed 1 and 2, played through the main story in both at least two times. I installed 3 over a year (two years?) ago and just completely stalled out on it, so it remains unfinished.

I really liked the low-gravity aspect of Pre Sequel, and the more immersive thematic elements of Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands… Hopefully there’s something like those things here, that really adds on to the core gameplay loop, and not just additional in-game currencies or another elemental damage type.

But then there would be no title.

I don’t know if they work better on dogs, but from personal experience, there is simply no amount of Greenies that can improve my cats’ breath.

Their tribal gear was a flap with a hole for their face.

This makes them sound like idiots… They also cut two smaller holes in the flap, for their ears.

Ugh, who has time for that? I need all of my waking hours to be devoted to increasing work productivity and consuming products. Computers can feel my pesky feelings for me now.

In addition to a few I’ve seen posted already (Stardew Valley especially)…

• A Dark Room: A relatively short, minimalist, mostly-text-based RPG with a dark vibe. I come back to this at least once a year. Can be played free via web browser, but the native app version has some extras.
• Dysmantle: A huge and well-polished zombie survival sim. Just recently finished it and was really impressed with the overall scale, level design and progression.
• Papers, Please: A ‘dystopian document thriller.’ You play as a border checkpoint agent, verifying increasingly-complicated passport documents and questioning your moral compass. Port of a PC game by the same name.

I was unaware of this until Stuff You Should Know did an episode about Unit 731 recently. It’s one of those terrible-but-necessary things to learn about, but they do a good job of covering it thoroughly and tactfully, so I’d recommend it in addition to the Wikipedia article.

Only 156 Shopping Days Left!

So say we all.

Working as a graphic designer in the US since the early 2000’s, every employer I ever worked for eventually used Fiverr to pay someone overseas a fraction of what they paid me to do the same work. This doesn’t seem meaningfully different.

Not saying this is okay, just that it’s not even remotely (no pun intended) a new problem.

Just another Monday for me by now… Have had to put so many once-beloved channels out to pasture. I really love YouTube for what it was (and still mostly is), making entertainment content something more personal than traditional TV… but it’s changing. And change isn’t inherently bad.

I will say that I’m having a harder time nowadays finding new content on YT that measures up. Just started a trial for Curiosity Stream today, and there are other platforms, too.

Just talk seriously about definitely wrong content

I feel like that’s what a lot of social media already is.

No rea$on at all, except for that one little rea$on that we alway$ $eem to keep coming back to…

Even worse! “Repent, now that I have already attempted to blow you up.”

Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina

I loved that book as a kid! Tales of the Bounty Hunters, too. I’m excited for the possibility that Acolyte could be something like those, and branch out into some new territory. I also know Disney is terrified of the possibility of alienating even the most casual watcher, so I’m also emotionally prepared for this to turn into GONK: The Beginning or some other OT prop origin story.