It’s interesting how some things have changed over the years when it comes to chat rooms. And how other things haven’t. When I first started in The Palace the internet was new, and chat rooms were for shut-ins, agoraphobes, and nerds. We basically lived on the internet. So it made sense to some to treat the room as a place you entered and left.

Now you can sit on a discord server on mobile and have a life, pop in the middle of a conversation somewhere and then leave it. And some servers still suggest you greet a room like you live there.

It’s like, when I was a kid, having internet access to all human knowledge, anywhere, would have been a divine gift. Now we all have computers in our pockets and some people still argue about basic facts that can be resolved instantly. We treat technology very strangely.

The end of Red Dead Redemption. Spoilers for a game that’s over a decade old, but John’s death was a brutal cruelty that stayed with me for a long, long time.

So they’re legislating speech and forcing the use of pronouns that make them feel more comfortable. Color me shocked.

Aronofsky is a little hit-or-miss for me, and this subject doesn’t appeal to me in the slightest. It’s going to take a lot more to get me to watch this. Musk is loathsome and 90+ minutes with him could easily turn out to be tortuous.

And here I am handing out candy to the neighborhood kids while they walk around with huge smiles and laughter.

This whole fucking thing is fucked.

We’ve discovered the breaking point of paradise. Hope the next sentient species is a little less selfish.

She just means she doesn’t give a shit if people think she’s biased or corrupt.

I thought it said antique and didn’t question that, either.

They see what they want to see.

Man, I feel for her. That sounds like it sucks. Millions of dollars isn’t going to lessen the emotional struggle. It’s nice to see anyone with a platform being honest and forthcoming about their emotional hardships. I just wish more of us had easy access to therapy.

Hey so like, new games come out like every day, dude, so…

I wanted a handheld that could run the new retro-inspired titles that keep getting me hooked, because I didn’t feel like I wanted to be chained to my desktop to play twin-stick shooters and pixel art platformers.

What keeps me hooked is its versatility and ease of use. I finally have something to take my Steam catalogue with me on trips or just sit on the couch, away from my PC.

Rollerball
Planet of the Apes

History seems to agree. Seventy-five percent of films from the silent era have been lost forever. Television shares a similar fate.

When a new medium is created, it seems we don’t put much thought into preservation.

I bought an Ember mug because I thought it was silly. I ended up really liking the temperature control. I don’t rush my coffee/tea. Now every sip is as hot as the first one.

The new Ember costs, I think, half again as much as the first iteration. It’s a cute gimmick but I certainly wouldn’t pay what they’re charging now.

Shaders are lighter.

I’m in my 40s and dealt with a lot of pain and gum recession because I didn’t develop good habits as a kid. Parents, teach your children to floss. Gentle, compassionate dentists are not as easy to find as you might think. Your kids will suffer later in life if you don’t emphasize good dental care.

Is a pipe a hole? No. We call the cylinder a pipe. A straw is a cylindrical tube. Tubes, pipes, hoses, and straws are cylindrical and hollow.

It’s unconventional to call the hollow space a hole, but as others have pointed out, a donut has one hole and if extruded, would continue to have one hole and resemble a cylinder.

As donut is not a hole. It has a hole, but it is not one. Squash a straw vertically and you have a plastic donut with one hole. The straw is the plastic part, not the hole.

So yeah like, AIC isn’t doom but some of the early shit is sludgy af. Frogs hits like doom, not crunchy and it’s got the grungy raw alternative sound but structurally. There’s some other stuff like Them Bones, Rooster.

Type O Negative did a killer cover of Black Sabbath that’s doomier than the original. But they have a couple other doomy tracks like World Coming Down.

Nirvana - Paper Cuts just needs to run through a few more distortion filters. Maybe a cover by Ahab would do it.

Binji