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Likes Games (Video/Board/Card) and Nachos. ICQ -> Now. Weary, Old, He/Him. Fan of stuff like Waypoint/RemapRadio, Giant Bomb, and chatting about video games.

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As others pointed out in the thread: books, music. Stuff complicated enough or engaging enough to demand focus. Legos, video games, gym. It’s not avoidance; it’s giving the wound time to clot.

07.03.2026 03:40 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It *is* a sick mech suit, to be fair

07.03.2026 03:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve always described iron man as a dude whose kryptonite is booze and women but he has a sick mech suit and it’s taken me embarrassingly long to realize it’s the gundams are cool meme for a lot of people.

07.03.2026 03:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Other super hero stuff: these villains are twisted mirrors of how the hero could have turned out!

Iron man: these pictures are nearly identical.

07.03.2026 02:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You, then: “I can’t believe the villain in iron man 3 is another evil white guy ceo!”

Me, then: “hell yea!”

Us, now: “they didn’t take the body improvement obsession far enough.”

07.03.2026 02:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Making the main villain an evil ceo really into body improvement and tattoos has aged incredibly well. In contrast to all those CEO’s.

07.03.2026 02:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’d argue it’s the present. Any game that requires servers and wants hundreds of hours of commitment has to commit to crosssave and crossplay or I have difficulty investing into it.

Heck, it’s nice to have for any long game. Ubisoft quietly pushing it into all uplay titles was nice! Cyberpunk, too

07.03.2026 02:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

50% (or more) discount. Hooded horse doesn’t miss. You should probably pick up Heart of the Machine. I’ve been waiting for 1.0.

store.steampowered.com/app/2001070/...

07.03.2026 02:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hmm I thought I found that option but then couldn’t find my custom named template in other games’ lists. I’ll have to take another look.

06.03.2026 15:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cause the last big video game was 2003 for the Xbox.

06.03.2026 15:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ve got a question for you, if you have the time, steam expert:

Can I create a global controller template and easily select it for any game? Thought I found commands to save current as template but it seems to be Per Game. So I’m stuck rebinding a the ps5 share btn as a screenshot btn every game…

06.03.2026 15:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a man in a suit and tie is saying i got betrayed Alt: a man in a suit and tie is saying i got betrayed. It’s John wick. Or Keanu Reeves. I’m not sure. He’s mad about being betrayed and looks cool while being mad.
06.03.2026 14:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wish we could see what the unplayable issue was with a forum thread so we could check ourselves if it was fixed.

I also wish verified included steam cloud support because deck games that lack it are extremely frustrating to deal with (proton switches blowing away saves, etc)

06.03.2026 13:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you.
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Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

06.03.2026 01:05 👍 20008 🔁 4229 💬 752 📌 1113
Rolled a nat 20 on a skill check in Esoteric Ebb

Rolled a nat 20 on a skill check in Esoteric Ebb

Ah, esoteric ebb isn’t just good. It’s, like, good good. Early going is still technically a comedy game, but it’s not nearly as goofy as the trailer highlights indicate. It does seem to have as much planescape torment blood as it has disco elysium’s marrow.

06.03.2026 05:20 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

100%. Also see rts campaigns that let you have fun before getting your butt kicked online.

Heck, also see netherealm campaigns for injustice and mortal kombat. I don’t even bother with online; I’m just there for the story mode.

06.03.2026 02:39 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s been a loooong time but I think you have to play it twice. Once without a walkthrough and the again with one. Unless you don’t mind spoilers, you could do a walkthrough first run.

06.03.2026 02:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

05.03.2026 23:29 👍 992 🔁 476 💬 49 📌 76
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a cartoon rat is meditating in front of a chinese flag Alt: a cartoon rat is meditating in front of a flag. It’s master splinter from teenage mutant ninja turtles and he’s floating cross-legged.

What is your secret, master?

05.03.2026 13:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
05.03.2026 07:23 👍 42 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

5 minutes?! What are you, a wizard??

05.03.2026 13:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Et tu Brutus

05.03.2026 12:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Hello, I am your doctor. I loved my first childhood video game: Wii sports.”

05.03.2026 12:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a cartoon man with a beard and mustache is smiling . Alt: Uncle Aaron giving miles the “hey” pep talk in spider-verse

When I heard you wake up in a morgue in the choice-based isometric crpg I was like “hey”

05.03.2026 05:51 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve heard a shower orange is even better than a shower beer, and a shower beer is at least 1/10 of that, so maybe it’d get you a third of the way there.

05.03.2026 04:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
05.03.2026 04:20 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You gotta swoosh in all stealthy, like Godzilla swimming up on someone.

05.03.2026 04:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A link between worlds is excellent

05.03.2026 02:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The two things I know for sure:

1.) AI is the ultimate knowledge box that uplifts our society by containing and collating all of human progress.

2.) When AI is asked to do anything vaguely complicated, it’ll just say, “Got it, Chief” and make up an answer like a co-worker who flaked on a project.

04.03.2026 23:57 👍 474 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 1

The ps5 pro edition or pc version are both very good. With the upcoming pssr2 upgrade you probably can’t go wrong. It’s more that it’s not *possible* to run on a switch or deck (but it can).

04.03.2026 20:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0