This is the point in the thread where it hit me that I haven’t seen a Fortnite gameplay clip in at *least* two years. When it pops up in my social media, it’s just trend-chasing skins and emotes, but I don’t think many people are actually *playing* Fortnite

Also, the Lego sets sit for years

Idk about the rest of y’all but I think Zuccarello only got that call because he’s short

Best local news story of the year so far and I hope Knoxville gets to deal with the fallout of One Million Bees for years

Shawn Hatosy and Noah Wyle absolutely acting their asses off

Games Workshop Bren Tylis miniature, painted in amateurish non-metallic metal style

Experimenting with NMM for the first time and suffering

Not very good, but important step on the journey

Orban retire bitch

Stars-Wild first round series is gonna be the television event of the year

I also want to throw an honorable mention to Tellico Village, a planned lakefront community about 40 minutes southwest of town. They don’t really bother the Knoxville crowd but it’s probably got more retired rich midwesterners than the Midwest.

Farragut: new money awful

Sequoyah Hills: old money awful

Bearden: new money cool

Hardin Valley: Farragut for people who don’t golf

Rocky Hill: where CEOs hide from the Farragut people

As a product manager I maintain that my entire dev team would have been fired years ago if I wasn’t there to keep the stakeholders from talking to them

Ya boy just picked up his first commission painting job, and I now get to tell the woman that my Warhammer hobby is funding itself

My top two

Wish I could send my mother in law 480 miles away in just 20 minutes am I right fellas

Love space stuff. Give all of ICE’s money to NASA immediately.

Lmao these guys are all junior college theater department washouts at heart

I’m so mad that good things keep happening to Dan Hurley

She belongs on the side of a pet food bag what a fuckin diva

I am so glad to hear that the rabbit is still kicking

I just have… really selective dexterity. I can paint a little toy soldier. I can’t write. I can do Olympic weightlifting. I can barely cut food on my plate. I can play really hard video games. I can’t tie my shoes right.

I’d have been cooked in the 19th century but we have keyboards now!

Let’s get serious about social studies. The same school system that cared so much about my handwriting hired a teacher who tried to tell me Rehnquist was the first woman on the Supreme Court.

I didn’t know I loved to write until about 10th grade because I was so awful at handwriting that teachers were dismissive of the actual words I used.

Physical media is good. Taking notes by hand is good. But this is a regressive, extremely Gen X policy.

I have to say, I think Venice and Amsterdam are indisputably New Orleans. Ironically, Old Orleans is Nashville.

They’ve been saying “run the country like a business” for decades and they all act surprised when middle management shields the executives from reality to insulate themselves from a temper tantrum

What

Being a straight white dude isn’t any kind of burden unless you’re such an irredeemable butthead that no one can perceive you as anything else.

Wear those 5 inch shorts, young man. Hit the gym so you can beat the shit out of a Nazi like your forefathers.

Life can be so good.

I take every opportunity to impress upon these kids that life is dope as hell when you choose joy and embrace the wokeness

You get to be a protector instead of a victim. Women are more likely to like you when they can tell you authentically like women. You get to be vulnerable with your boys.

An essay:

I’ve been blessed in the last year to pick up hobbies that put me in the company of a lot of younger dudes, and lemme tell you: when you’re 30-something and have your shit together, you wield real influence over directionless 23-year-olds.

I think in five years there will be fewer developers but you’ll still need people with business savvy and vision to drive the output. AI will never be able to comprehend how bad legacy corporations are at process documentation and defining requirements.

Claude is really good in the same way Waymo is really good; it can write good code in the same way Waymo can get from point A to point B safely. The weakness is that without regular human intervention, it’s a fucking dumbass that makes incorrect assumptions and ends up in a corner.

“Dudes Hyperfixating” feels like it should be a distinct category