Hmmm.... 🤔

if I could venture a guess.... Because there is zero revenue and lots of expense.

Brain app: deleted

i don't believe you

who would have ever predicted that the revival of ncaa football games would lead me to believe that i don't like ncaa football games.... or really ncaa football at all anymore?

i've given it a lot of thought over the last 10 minutes and you're right: it's a clown take

after i return this game to game stop, i am going to uninstall the app. the brain app. from my brain. the app that allows me to remember gamestop.

i'm definitely a "get there early" kind of person but i think it is mostly about travel anxiety. when there's something that's basically all i can think about for the entire day, i want to just get on with it. sitting around the house waiting to go feels like torture.

so I bought it for her digitally Sunday morning, and when the GS copy arrives in the mail (presumably tomorrow?) i'll take it back to the store and return it, potentially in exchange for Pragmata.

So I will buy going to GameStop ONE MORE TIME and that's it. Forever.

udpate: i spent the gift card refund on tomodachi life, a gift for my kid because she was super super excited for it, and it came out before her four day weekend.

the game shipped on wednesday of last week, and STILL hasn't arrived yet, at the conclusion of the four day weekend.

i signed up for storygraph. if that means anything to you, follow me at 8bitacrylic and drop me your username so i can follow you. if not, plz have a great evening.

hooked on the brothas

#pixelpainting

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insane that they can release video games on vinyl now

you've always been on the leading edge in the battle against vampires and it's something I've admired.

Been spending all weekend building an app to scrape APIs to gather metadata about my ROM collection so I can properly curate a manageable set for my Ayn Thor.

Please understand.

It's volley time in volley town.

Young adult happiness is falling. Percent of young people who are pretty or very happy has dropped from 88% to 76% over the last 15 years after having held fairly steady between 1980 and 2010

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

He IS small! He is also an honorary Super Trooper.

the unintentional genius of naming my dog Cooper was in the flexibility of the rhymes. For example, I've expressed that he is a super pooper to the tune of hundreds of other songs.

In rare occurrences he is a super DUPER pooper.

My adventures in Linux continue.

My main PC is on Bazzite, and I'm happy with it so far.

I got a new (used) laptop today (HP ZBook) and I've decided to put Fedora Workstation on there.

This is fun. Computers are fun again.

Our listener, Markus, lost a friend tragically a month or so ago, and when he went to search info about her online, he found a bunch of AI generated, deeply edited incorrect info about her. Looking into these took us places. Please listen.

Hello my name is Alex Goldman and I used to host the Reply All podcast. A lot of people liked that show. Now I make @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social which if you liked reply all you’d probably like well. The thing is that a lot of people who liked Reply All don’t know my new show exists.

Bazzite is neat.

Thanks to @justinmcelroy.bsky.social for giving me the courage.

Pulled the trigger on moving my main gaming and work PC to Bazzite Linux. Dual booting for now... Just to be safe.

someone summon the rub rabbits, it's finally time

My keychain is now filled with all manners of terrifying creatures.

The one on the left.

Just to be clear.

Well...This Seems Bad... YouTube video by Hank Green

I really like this guy.

youtu.be/qWDMXKEZgq0?...