Remembered the next morning that I am a middle-aged man and there's a reason I don't go this hard anymore. Still, nice to do something stupid occasionally.

I had just a done a VERY competent karaoke cover of INXS's "Devil Inside" and was really feeling myself.

The last thing I remember from Saturday is asking the bartender "What would you recommend for someone who's already drunk but wants to be stumbling home tonight."

Watching Palantir do Sephiroth posting about multiculturalism and I would like to remind everyone that they were doing corporate fake woke shit just like every other company.

Kind of blows my mind that the video game I spent ages 17-22 obsessing about is now relevant to a new generation.

(You never actually put shells into the WSTE-M5. It just spun around your wrist Terminator 2-style every time you fired and was magically reloaded )

I always did like the #marathon 2 description for the predecessor to today's WSTR.

I mean he has a Thundercat jacket that says "On the spectrum since '84" so maybe that's a bad example.

He finished his drink fast because he had to get home and play Tarkov with the boys.

The speed at which I am able to identify my 'tism bros astounds me. Just finished up a karaoke bar conversation with one about how Marathon is going.

Folks, I am 3/4ths of the way through Neurotribes and we are out here and we are THRIVING these days.

the most personal of attacks

You'd be surprised! Runners are like cats. If you can get them to communicate through a door they can be acclimated to one another.

I've done this a couple times.

At one point we accidentally got our squads mixed up with one "hostile" each, but the upside was we could all tell where the other squad was and (indirectly) communicate long-distance.

I doubt this scenario will ever happen again as long as I play this game.

I was actually d/c'd while the truce was formed, and I came back in and caught up to my team and opened fire on a random Vandal, and I somehow put together from the cross-talk in that couple of seconds that this was a team we were now cooperating with.

Even with all this cooperation and basically no hostile threats, we couldn't get OUT after activating exfil because we all got lost. That's the kind of sicko level this game is on.

One very confused third team started shooting, only to have six people making a lot of noise over proximity chat turn around and open up on them.

Unprecedented Cryo run in Marathon just now. We saw a team through a locked door that neither of us could open yet, and we formed an alliance, communicating through voice chat. We gave them all our security tokens so we could cooperatively open level 3 doors and the truce held for the entire map.

this is fucking nuts:

Anne Hathaway bought the rights to a novel about a tradwife influencer who wakes up in 1855 and has to actually live the life she's been selling online. The book is called Yesteryear. It came out 3 days ago. The film rights were already sold to Hathaway, who will produce and star.

Holy shit, I have NEVER been more excited for a movie.

When one is living under a fascist regime, as one does, it is sometimes necessary to throw a motherfucking party.

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302.11 (NEURO.FILTER) + CYBERACME 802.11(NEURO.FILTER) + CYBERACME 802.11 (NEURO.FILTER) + CYBEF ANALYZING... FILE TYPE: Audio Book Transcript PERIOD: Pre-Expedition SPEAKER[S]: Strauss, B. [ID: BSTR] TOPIC: On AI, by Dr. Bernard H. Strauss SUMMARY: A partial transcript from On AI, first published in 2472. Audio book read by the author. [BSTR]: What they considered artificial intelligence in the twentieth century, and even deep into the twenty-first, was mimicry. Not true intelligence, but rather a cleverly placed mirror. Essentially, a string of shortcut machines built using shortcuts, then, casually branded with the market-friendly label, "A-I". [BSTR]: The science I would eventually build my life around could have easily been assimilated into a lesser application of its potential. Lost forever to a simple but ever-insidious mandate, "sell the product, establish the habit, build the brand." To my predecessors' credit.. and despite their "smoke-and-mirror" approach to the science of Artificial Intelligence. The habit was built and a level of comfort, even eagerness, for innovations in "thinking" technologies exploded across public consciousness. [BSTR]: These "pioneers" of the prior centuries released a genie from its bottle. Never mind it was the wrong genie, utilizing the wrong

Shots fuckin' fired.

Me: "Can my new job be trick shooter at the carnival and my new name is Rick O'Shay?

FBI Witness Protection liason: "Please stop asking that."

Or if I ever meet Erika Kirk.

Saving this for when I want to get in a fight with a guy at a bar who looks like JD Vance.

Damn, girl, are u a couch? Because it seems like Vice President JD Vance is trying to fuck you.

Damn, did I get worse at Slay the Spire 2 overnight? Oh, no, there's just a new patch.

How it feels to make a joke with the boys about how of course an orange man hates the pope

Yeah. I know. They never shut the fuck up about it.

"What would a band sound like if they were the kind of people who thought they should name themselves after an 18th century British agriculturalist?" Oh yeah, it's definitely Jethro Tull. That's exactly what they sound like.