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Software development project team lead and leading source of bad puns. Views expressed are solely those of the voices in my head. (Meren- is a male name prefix)

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If they all lived happily ever after, we'd want to keep playing it as a sim game.

06.03.2026 23:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We need all MMOs that shut down to have one final quest to save the world against an impossible boss. Then have it in a TPK (total planet kill).

06.03.2026 18:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise. ๐Ÿ˜‚

06.03.2026 07:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As long as it's at Tanagra, you can get away with it

06.03.2026 07:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But if you don't take it seriously, you can enjoy it a lot more.

05.03.2026 10:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think that epitomizes the problem with the series. They let in a lot of episodes that would have been amazing in isolation, but were such terrible "team players" for the series that they distracted the audience from the emotional anchor points that should have made them amazing.

05.03.2026 10:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You're pretty much perfectly prepared for the series then. If you were going to avoid making jokes, I might be worried.

05.03.2026 10:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They're dying at the bottom of the hill instead.

04.03.2026 00:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think it's just that the common people of Europe have been charging batteries longer than we have. They've had peasant re-volts for centuries. ๐Ÿ˜

03.03.2026 19:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yikes. That's pretty extreme ignorance. This has been a risk we've been talking about for over 20 years. It's been an actively exploited problem for over 10.

03.03.2026 19:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Language is defined by usage, not by the Ikea assembly instructions we sometimes apply language. "Amn't" (which my browser red-squiggles) isn't in common usage, so it's *barely* a word. "Ain't" is the classic counter-example where the Ikea language assembly were totally ignored but it's a word.

02.03.2026 17:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

True, but what can compare to that? That song was very influential on my work as a writer.

It was just the one novella, and it isn't published, but he really influenced me. The characters were going to move to Phoenix, but I changed it to Albuquerque because I was listening to a Weird Al playlist.

25.02.2026 23:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

First Ragnarok eating pizza and now Hope. Is pizza the secret to immortality?

25.02.2026 07:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a cartoon of cheshire cat from alice in wonderland with the words can you stand on your head Alt: Disney's animated version of Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland asking, "Can you stand on your head?"

The game devs:

24.02.2026 19:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There will always be another fanfic writer for them to latch onto. Don't avoid doing something positive because someone might make it a part of their excuse.

23.02.2026 17:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Because complaining is a lot less work. ๐Ÿ˜Š

23.02.2026 17:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The difference between an algorithm and an allcraprhythm is that the algorithm serves the user's purposes and the allcraprhythm serves the purposes of the company exploiting the users.

To tell which, see if it's on by default. And quietly back on weeks after you turned it off.

23.02.2026 17:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The anime I just watched has a woman named "Hugwell". Is this the kids version of James Bond?

19.02.2026 03:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well, yeah, if you say something as offensive as "someone actually enjoyed pineapple on pizza", of course everyone is going to be upset. Pizza Hut made that claim 5 years ago and I've sworn my descendants will never eat there for at least 15 generations.

18.02.2026 00:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Chart labeled "Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average" showing a dramatic increase in prices from 2020 to mid-2022, followed by a still-steep climb from 256% of the index years to 295% in mid-2022 and 327% by January of 2026. Index is of years 1982-1984. Source is US Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data).

Chart labeled "Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average" showing a dramatic increase in prices from 2020 to mid-2022, followed by a still-steep climb from 256% of the index years to 295% in mid-2022 and 327% by January of 2026. Index is of years 1982-1984. Source is US Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data).

Let's just ignore that eggs went up for a different reason 2 years later, were a predominantly regional spike, only partially reduced before spiking again and falling again. Let's also just ignore that it's a perishable farm good.

And while we're at it, why not just ignore the consumer price index.

18.02.2026 00:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've noticed all the overly-verbose-for-ads news outlets adopt a new weirdly useless word about once a month. Maybe he's warning you donnybrook is the next one coming.

17.02.2026 23:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And now that in-grained in our memory.

13.02.2026 18:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

*Makes note to create new character Gregory Whomstivist who knows how to use "whom" correctly, but refuses to by family tradition.*

13.02.2026 18:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If Walmart can't be bothered to pay for a freaking clerk's salary to run a single register, they have no business hyperinflating their prices like this.

13.02.2026 02:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

On the other hand, getting upset and unsubscribing might help me get to Nebula-only and weening Youtube entirely out of my life. So, yay?

13.02.2026 00:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have to admit, I'm really annoyed by how Youtubers I follow are abusing Youtube's collaboration feature. They separated out their channels so they wouldn't drive away people not interested in their other content...and now just merge them back with every-video "collabs" with their second channel.

13.02.2026 00:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Forbidden Knowledge of Washers
The Forbidden Knowledge of Washers YouTube video by New Mind

It seems like it's the whole season. I've dropped so many shows out of boredom this season. And I have a *REALLY* low bar for finding something interesting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Ev...

12.02.2026 21:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm sure Google just doesn't have records from your homeworld's high school.

12.02.2026 17:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ones like high school are more often going to be for social data gathering like that Facehuggerbook run by a xenomorph in an unconvincing human disguise. They use that to trick people into thinking they are forming connections with fellow high school survivors while being datafarmed as livestock.

12.02.2026 17:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My Latin class had that too. I did actually learn that stuff, but I transferred in, so I have no idea if they just didn't pay attention or weren't taught.

11.02.2026 23:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0