For some reason, the iPhone 17 Pro colors and rumored iPhone 18 Pro colors make me feel nostalgic...

"Are you on social media? Do not delete your account. Are you off social media? Do not get an account. But if you post you do not sin, and if a person with no social media joins, she does not sin. Yet those who post will experience distress in this life, and I would spare you that."⚓️🕯️

A post which says "Heartbreaking: JRPG corridor has gone on for far longer than expected and you are starting to suspect that you actually took the correct path by accident"

More people should play Arco.

portland commute

A box of Frosted Go Blue Frosted Strawberry Pop Tarts.

"You know how the University of Michigan says 'Go Blue', right?"

"Of course."

"Well, we're making limited edition Pop Tarts for colleges and Michigan would be a perfect school for this. We could do Go Blue Blu..."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't need to tell me how to do my job."

The result:

A movie couple who would definitely have a podcast.

Not in D1 or what I played of D2, maybe they eventually did.

They had team fill for some other smaller gameplay styles, but not for raids.

But also also, it was designed around player organizer explicit co-op, there wasn’t even match making to fill a group.

So those vibes are undoubtedly very different in the Marathon pvp world.

Anyway I feel you on the frustration of opacity and the dread of just walkthroughs as homework.

The idea of figuring out a raid for myself was insane. And the horrors of YouTube tutorials were not to be trivialized. But somewhere in that middle ground of getting a group of six players and through combined—often incomplete—knowledge fighting through it together? Amazing.

Okay I didn’t want to presume but I assumed not and I have not played Marathon, so grain of salt etc. When new raids first went live there was competition to see what group could finish first and it was like, six+ hours was fast or something on that order. Opacity was the design.

Did you ever play Destiny, and specifically run any of the raids?

Still amazed at how well my kid’s birthday party went.

mr beast you are good with computers right? what is my apple id password? how can i see old emails

Last night after 5 escapes over 62 attempts since launch, I finally swallowed my pride and switched on “God Mode” in Hades. It will surprise no one that this came after yet another discouraging loss to Theseus and Asterius.

Now I should be on pace to hit 10 escapes sometime around… 2029.

Can we get Letterman to finish Game of Thrones?

This is a fantastic surprise!

@hotdogsladies.bsky.social

Blown glass float.

Bulk bag.

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Facebook opened to everyone in September of that year, Google bought YouTube in November, Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone in January 2007. Twitter blew up at SXSW in March and iPhone came out in June, the beginning of the end for the dominant open social web.

Ze Frank's The Show was self-hosted QuickTime videos on a blog with comments and an RSS feed. A community forum, wiki, and series of interactive web pages tied it all together. Social media was a bunch of blogs linking to each other.

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Also 20 years ago this week, on March 17, 2006, Ze Frank posted the first episode of The Show. youtu.be/VxyiRMcNIVo

Screenshot of Jack Dorsey's first tweet: "just setting up my twttr" on March 21, 2006 at 12:50pm PT

20 years ago today.

Here's the thing: there is no going back to a different era of Twitter. This doesn't replace it, Threads doesn't replace it, Twitter doesn't replace it. That era is dead, no return, it was a very fun 5-10 year window or so that dragged on past its prime until it dropped off a cliff.

This is the worst produced Academy Awards I have ever seen.

Smear frames from Scott Pilgrim EX

*wa-HA-ha-whoa*

I don’t think I can handle the fact that Bungie released a new Marathon. Marathon is braided into the mid-1990s in a Proustian way that makes my heart ache. Wrap sandwiches were new. We were making websites for real businesses. This is like rebooting ISDN or the musty smell of CD liner notes.

Lord I've seen what you do for other restaurants