I really enjoy the vibe of Returnal, but it is absolutely too difficult for me. I’ve never been great at quick reaction games. I don’t mind the difficulty, I love Dark Souls and Elden Ring, but in those games patience and being able to make a tankier build make up for what I lack in twitchy reflexes.

I still haven’t beaten Returnal, but I did find a slate of mods for the PC version that help with the difficulty without being flat out godmode cheats, so I absolutely plan to jump back in at some point using them.

I think Tremors is the one that sticks with me the most. Such a good movie, I watched it all the time growing up.

I can’t sit my pets down and explain to them what chemo is or that they’re going to have an invasive surgery and may get better afterwards. All they know is that they love me, but they’re in pain. You may question it for a long time afterwards, but if they’re miserable and don’t understand why then keeping them around is more for your benefit than theirs.

I’ve spent way too much money getting care for a sick, young cat because I knew the pain would be temporary and they could get back to their bonded half and recover quickly and I’ve had to put down a dog that could have lived a few more years because their dementia had become so bad they were confused and lost constantly, even when in the same room as I was.

Compassion and love are always important, but you can’t explain to them why they’re in pain, only save them from needless suffering.

Fourteen Years of Flames. Looks quite good.

Sounds like a classic bait and switch.

Listen bro, listen. You gotta let us pump some sulfur into the atmosphere bro. It’s just temporary bro, just for a little while until we stop burning dino juice bro.

Would Jet Force Gemini and Legend of Dragoon count? I loved those games so much growing up. They had their good and bad, but man their bad could be real fuckin bad.

It’s a lot more recent but I love Civilization: Beyond Earth. It has its good and bad as well but I still love to spin it up now and again and mess around with it.

I knew something was off about all the Little Dark Age edits I’ve run across on YT but I never looked into it. Fucking nazis.

The legally distinct lightning bolts over the phones is a nice touch.

You lazy commie millennials wouldn’t understand the work ethic of a hot, red-blooded boomer trying to avoid spending any time with his abused and emotionally destroyed Karen of a wife whose only joy is now tormenting minimum wage workers and his kids who don’t talk to him anymore because he’s a brave patriot who speaks his mind and doesn’t give into the woke left.

If its a small jumpkin wouldn’t it be a jortkin?

Never heard such funk put on some fuzzy GB synth. Good shit.

I’m sure the DPRK knew. At the end of the article they present the fact that the talks between the DPRK and USA less than a month later fell apart quickly and the DPRK quickly resumed missile testing as some tangentially related fact. I’m sure they had a strong suspicion that it was the US and Trump probably said some dumb shit that confirmed it during the talks they had scheduled so the DPRK dropped it all.

Besides who else but the roided up drug crazed US special forces would shoot civilians then stab them repeatedly to “let the air out of their lungs so they’d sink”?

Industrial quantities of amphetamines.

The aborted SEAL mission prompted a series of military reviews during Mr. Trump’s first term. They found that the killing of civilians was justified under the rules of engagement, and that the mission was undone by a collision of unfortunate occurrences that could not have been foreseen or avoided. The findings were classified.

Fucking ghouls.

I love that we’re in the IG Farben & Monsanto have teamed up to invent to invent fun new types of cancer timeline.

If you were to write a book where the company that used concentration camp slave labor and manufactured zyklon b for the holocaust bought out the company that made agent orange and roundup people would think its and over the top gag.

He probably told reporters this with the same smug, shit-eating smirk on his face as when he was blatantly lying about it.

I’d be hard pressed to conjure up a more punchable face than his.

Crack’er barrel?! I barrely know her!

I’ve started calling it Time Compression. It feels like it did in 2020 just after the pandemic kicked into high gear. Every day feels like a week and a week feels like a day. It feels like you’re unstuck from reality and everything takes this absurdist tint and everyone is holding their breath including you. Like just existing is causing mild dissociation. The streets are empty and cold even though they’re filled with people and the summer heat is strangling you. Past memories of how things “should” have been or could have been merge and overlap with the here and now. Hauntology in waking life.

I’m not necessarily a believer in any kind of literal collective unconscious, but it feels like it did exist and someone unplugged it again.

Anyways, I felt it start to settle in at the beginning of the year and it hasn’t let up much yet.

In reality though I’m probably just getting old, read too much news, and don’t have enough friends.

I’m not hoping for anything other than marginally increasing class consciousness in a handful of people. Electoralism won’t accomplish anything, but if he can shift the Overton Window just a smidge to make Socialism be a bit less scary to some people while at the same time showing how the “lesser evil” democrats will fucking annihilate anything to the left of Bush Jr. then he’ll have done his job.

I just hope that leftist groups in the US, particularly New York, see this as an opportunity to stuff some actual theory down the gullets of all the baby birdies lined up gawking at Zohran and what the democrats are gonna do to him between now and November.