I hate how much of the dead Internet theory is becoming no longer theory
04.03.2026 04:32
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I hate how much of the dead Internet theory is becoming no longer theory
From a St. Louis perspective, DTF St. Louis felt very much like a "How do you do fellow St. Louisians I heard you like cornhole."
But it's compelling TV.
That moment you realize you haven't had a "I didn't return the movies/video games i rented back and they're weeks late!" dream in long time.
My favorite part: "forcing personal issues" coming from someone with a mental health slur referring to themselves in their user name and profile.
I responded that I'm trans and woke. Was told that people don't need to know that when talking about board games. Told me I was forcing my personal issues on everyone. Thanked me for being honest, and left.
Someone just came into the board game discord I moderate asking if we were a board game chat without politics.
The oldest previously unfulfilled kickstarter... backed in February of 2020. Chaosmos: Expanded Edition. Basically it's the Temple expansion + a box big enough to fit the base game too. Continuing my trend of every Kickstarter I backed getting to me eventually.
OpenClaw doing things like actively deleting every email in it's user's inbox and AI slop peddlers are like "here let me tell you why that's a good thing."
The Aggrolites are pretty great.
Especially the keyboardist.
Hardcore really isn't my scene. Don't dislike it. Enjoyed the band. Just not why I'm here.
Slugger opening the show. A hardcore band from California apparently.
This is the third or fourth time I've been here. Always been great. Just wish it wasn't so far out of STL.
Great seats for Dropkick Murphy's tonight.
All I know is Dropkick Murphy's are playing locally and that's all that matters. :3
There's a gross thing on network tv tonight?
I'm convinced AGI is going to kill us all, just not on purpose and not in a way any of us would expect. Like, some dumb fuck ai bro tells his openclawd agent to order a pizza, but the pizza shop is closed, so the ai panics and in an attempt to cover it's tracks sets off all the nukes
Played Tea Witches followed by Explorers of the North Sea today. Nice day away from screens.
It always makes me happy seeing my game on the shelf at my local game store. It makes me even happier when the stack has shrunk.
Managed to get 4 multicabinet instances of Mario Kart Arcade GP2 running all at once and talking to each other. Now I just need 3 more wheels to have the perfect setup.
Latest photo of my little garage arcade. It's finally warming up enough to be able to use it again.
the high speed rail exists in all of us, in our hearts
It was like, the one thing I was doing right "growing up" -> the thing I was passionate about also meant "job security" and "career"
Not only was I good at thing, but thing would make money. Money good. Career good.
I always thought it was pretty fucked that everyone around me was getting shit for picking careers that they were passionate about and would never make money. My dad told the director of parks for the state that the parks and rec major my sister was studying for wasn't a real thing
Right. It's going to happen.
How fucked is it you can be told your entire life how lucky you are that thing your'e good at will always be needed by the capitalist system and that you'll have job security and how wonderful job security is.
Oops your vibe coded slop now belongs to the slop machine and you can't even profit off your shitty vibe coded idea anymore. Aren't you glad you tanked entire careers of dedicated coders and engineers?
Another thing I realized: how long until they start claiming ownership over everything the AI spits out? I mean, they're already doing that with clauses that say anything you write on company time belongs to the company. How long until OpenAI or Anthropic pulls that on vibe coders?
I'm not mourning my passion as a software engineer and a coder and a hacker. I'm mourning my ability to use those skills to make a living.
No one can take coding away from us. Sucks none of us will be making money. But at least we'll have code.
Like, you can stop at "AI is just awful at it does" that's bad enough. The fact it's not trustworthy is bad enough.
But coding will ALWAYS be free.