…ya know, if he wants to gather up a room full of super villains, it does give a golden opportunity to more benevolent governments who happen to own things like a missile.

On a long hike, pushed the whole ‘stop and set up camp’ thing way too late, so it’s already dark as I’m starting to pitch the tent. Start feeling really uneasy like I’m being watched, so I do a quick sweep of my surroundings with my flashlight - and sure as shit two reflective eyes become visible for half a second before the critter that owns them gets spooked by light and runs off. Couldn’t see the actual animal, just the eyes, but now I’m borderline shitting myself with fear, so I get in the semi-pitched-but-fuck-it tent and lay down listening for footsteps or something.

Never did hear footsteps, but about 20 mins later that little shit let out an incredibly loud and absolutely blood curdling scream… like, women getting actively murdered whilst screaming into a megaphone, kind of scream… right outside the tent.

Then nothing for the remainder of the night.

I get home and start searching the web for what the actual fuck that was: 99% sure I was being stalked by a cougar.

At the last hospital I worked at, a nurse was badly injured on the job for something totally out of her control. Probably shouldn’t give more details than that so I don’t dox her or myself.

Instead of giving her worker’s comp and helping her recover, the hospital fired her over some completely unrelated frivolous bullshit (along the lines of "a patient overheard you using profanity while talking to a co-worker). This was also like a couple months away from her becoming vested in their retirement program.

I’m just a tech, but it was abundantly clear that giving my time to that company would be an incredibly risky move - fuuuuck that. I put my notice in the next day.

I hope she sued the absolute fuck out of them.

This always cracks me up in the OR - in C sections, the mom is usually awake, so the staff in the room need to watch what they say. Baby comes out like a fucking chest-burster from Alien, covered in blood, that vernix gunk that looks like rancid cheese, and sometimes literal shit. Nasty goo aside, babies pretty much universally look like a hairless pug when the first come out.

Invariably, 2 or 3 nurses start doing the whole “Oooh she’s so cuuuute!” thing. I still can’t tell if they legit think it’s cute, or if they’re just really good at putting a show on for mom… cuz they look like something from a bad scifi-horror movie.

It’s almost like people don’t want to pay $20 to sit down in a squeaky, sticky room with a dozen strangers who are invariably inconsiderate assholes, to see the 17th remake of some hit from the 80s. And throw in another $10 if you want a bag of popcorn, $12 for a drink, or trade-in of your vehicle for a box of Milk Duds that actually contains a completely unnecessary plastic bag of Milk Duds to fill the space otherwise occupied by 5 or 6 chunks of candy.

Especially when we’re all just rolling in cash from this new tariff money. Like, what else are we gonna spend that kind of money on - 600mg of ibuprofen from the ER visit where you rolled / suspected broke your ankle??

I browse All pretty much exclusively. You can make it a decent feed, but it takes some doing…

Starbucks is among the worst. I tried grounds from a good variety of brands, all prepared with a normal coffee maker which another poster suggested is not actually a good way to brew coffee. They all fell somewhere on a spectrum between bad and REALLY bad. Didn’t go for the crazy fancy stuff - my favorite ended up being a hazelnut flavored whole bean from the bulk section of WinCo. Which is still my favorite, I just milkshake-ify now.

Coffee. I really wanted to be able to enjoy black coffee, cuz it smells so deceptively good, is cheap as fuck, and basically zero calorie. Except it tastes like concentrated dirt. Bitter. Acrid. None of the appeal promised by the smell makes its way to the taste.

Unless I acquire the taste!

Typically my coffee has a similar cream and sugar content to a milkshake, so I actually measured it out to get a baseline, then over the course of about two months phased down to just black coffee. …and over the course of two months, my coffee phased more and more into tasting like shit. But I tolerated it - eyes on the prize. After that, I spent another month drinking it black. At the end of that month, I finally accepted that black coffee tasted just as much like shit as it did on day one.

My coffee is back to resembling a milkshake… fuck.

I tried.

New hypothesis: there’s some kind of generic factor at play like there is with cilantro. That shit is delicious to some and absolutely vile to others, and no amount of trying to acquire it will flip that switch. I drew the short straw on that horrid plant, too.

If AI can shut that dude up, I may need to rethink my opposition to it.

Caffeine.

But… why? If you’re going to make a movie about a game, do one with an actual story as the focal point of the game.

There are so many games with a badass story…

If I sell you a 2025 Ferrari then give you a 2011 Honda Civic, I broke the law and you got scammed.

Even if I take the unexpected step of sending you a civic-to-Ferrari conversion kit after the fact that makes the car I delivered somewhat comparable to the one I advertised, that doesn’t excuse the initial deception.

What they did was deliberate and dishonest - it’s awesome that they’ve taken (a shit ton of) steps since to make it right, but it’ll never be right.

Holding them accountable is not psychotic.

I wanted so badly to believe… so I did… cuz I’m a dumbass.

Idk who decides what in an indie studio, but whatever the job title, I’m talking about those involved in deceiving their customers… and there was a lot of that with NMS.

I was one of the fucking idiots that preordered No Man’s Sky. The devs have done a lot to make up for it, so I don’t really regret it anymore as it’s a decent game now, but at release it was so drastically bare-bones compared to what they advertised that if the legal system actually gave a shit about consumer protection, the staff of Hello Games would have served jail time.

But Sean was a charismatic little con artist, and he cut right past my defense. bUt ThiS gUy’S diFfeReNt!! Bruh I fuckin knew better than that!

Well, I’ll be pleasantly surprised if it ever happens.

Until then, I’ll just pirate any media that’s wrapped in that kind of anti-user BS. I highly recommend it! 👍

Being traditional doesn’t make something good. You’ve already overpaid if you’re sitting in a theater: wanting there not to be ads is pretty reasonable imo.

Don’t forget that McDonald’s ran two separate PR campaigns for the Trump regime.

And THAT is plenty of reason to boycott them. Don’t give those traitors another cent. There are a TON of other options to get that greasy junk food fix.

“We did our best, but our best is absolute shit.”

Just secure it with a wire that anchors onto two opposing surfaces of the dura mater… duh!