sorry, but what word is “vicerol” supposed to be? Viceroy? Victrola?

even in your worst-faith scenario that’s *not as direct as getting paid to write articles*, so at least you’re admitting to dishonest phrasing. Considering the actual facts here are not in real dispute—you got wildly over your skis and he called you out on it—it makes sense this is all you’ve got

A no-strings-attached grant is also not as direct as getting paid to write articles, but you’re not great at phrasing things honestly so this all checks out. At least you’re honest enough to not try to refute the “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks part”, I’ll give you that.

gaming the system with four Smurfs and Clifford the Big Red Dog in the “Air Bud” role

Sunrise on the Sufferbus - Masters of Reality

Special View - The Only Ones (Fun Fact: the guy in the middle who looks like the drummeriest drummer you’ve ever seen is in fact an incredible guitarist and also an excellent music writer.)

The Pretenders - The Pretenders

Lucifer on the Sofa - Spoon

what are four groups you personally consider “rock bands”, with no subgenre prefix

keep making bullshit that gets people riled up and that might change—as se pointed out, your incentives are at least as direct as the guy you’re throwing everything at and hoping it’ll stick

right: you’re a guy who makes youtube videos that gets paid by the click, truly an olympian basis to judge everyone else from

I actually hadn’t thought this…but it does make my beloved catchphrase “it’s giving homunculus” much snappier… 🤔

Easy game making programs Code-less/light game making programs Bitsy - Make a little 2d pixel character navigate through interconnected rooms to encounter characters and objects that talk to you (Bipsi - is a more in-depth ve...

updated my list of Easy game making programs. every day it gets easier to *make little guy walk around*

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oh so that's where Nikolai Yezhov ended up, I'd always wondered

no, but I had assumed

starting to have doubts that my latest invention, A Car That Is Also A Cow, will be the boon to humanity I had envisioned

I wish alcohol ads were as honest. Just a big picture of a bottle of Thunderbird saying “It’ll fuck you up, cheap.”

we’re really getting to a point where the only choices are admitting Lacan and de Saussure were basically right or becoming a 16th century serf who spends their life in terror of phenomena you can’t understand so you must process as demonic

Minecraft will be an interesting one, since like Dylan or The Beatles (yes, random person reading this, I am saying they are *exactly alike in all ways*, that is the hill I am willing to die on) it is basically going to be relevant indefinitely but also an indelible signifier of its decade of origin

Saving up for his next sleeve

I refer to that zeitgeist as “Peak Funko” with my students because I enjoy saying those words in that order and they seem to be amused, but you are 100% correct that the decade as pop-culture-signifier likely will ultimately belong to the MCU

The most realistic thing about Riker and Troi’s longterm romance is how the trombone becomes a symbol to Riker of both triumph and humiliation and I feel like every trombonist has gone through this at one point or another

I mean, it’s not like I can’t *imagine* a 9-year-old Lou Zocchi that basically looks like this

As someone in an academic setting where being able to use this technology effectively does make me feel a little like this guy in 1982, I am sympathetic to the overall point, though.

I do like the idea of proclaiming “I refuse to have your corporate “email” shoved down my throat” in 2026 and just finding out how long you can actually hold a job, for science.

and thank you for conceding that claiming I said that was another one of your confidently wrong stochastic hallucinations

RIP: in a just world, he would be entombed in a magnificent golden Zocchihedron

I didn’t say that anywhere, and I didn’t say anywhere that I think people were against the internet in the way they are against AI. Find me where I did, or admit that this is just another of your confidently wrong stochastic hallucinations.

You genuinely have no idea what you’re talking about here, so I’ll call it a night.

You’re welcome to focus on the things you like about the things you like and vice versa, and every blind man has his right to his part of the elephant. Just don’t try to tell me what my part feels like, and it feels a lot like halfway between VR—hyped, niche, useful—and the internet

lol go take a look at music sales before and after the internet and tell me that it didn’t destroy jobs. I already mentioned print journalism, and I don’t think I need to make the case that internet journalism is on net structurally worse (though it has its particular merits as well)

sure man, good luck

it is an unstated assumption that you could drive a truck through

You can move the goalposts however you want, and as I’ve said elsewhere in this conversation, the disruption we’re seeing now is more like the post-boom effects of the internet (everybody loves social media, right?) than the hype at the time. The parallel is not exact, but it’s not nothing.