carbonoperator.bsky.social
Voted “most likely to be eaten by a grue."
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If it works, roll with it.
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And to think I actually got something for the CDN$45K in the hole I graduated with.
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Refer the wee bairns to “Red Barchetta.”
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They’re doing their part!
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“‘Women’s suffrage only worked for us for so long,’ Riordan was heard to mutter under her breath.”
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With any luck you live close enough to a first strike target to simply vaporize in your sleep.
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/4 and the rise of the shareholding class pursuing the lie of infinite growth in a finite world, and the resulting enshittification that has hit all sectors. With that I’ve just had to point out something something capitalism bad to a Trotskyite, and that’s lunch time, kids.
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/3 and I don’t think gaming’s current state can be explained by the history of one title in place of subsequent technological innovation and broader changes in culture; such as the advent of smartphones and mobile computing (including gaming), the redemocratisation of geek/enthusiast culture...
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/2 When Microsoft’s acquisition of Bungie was announced it was a sad day on the Inside Mac Games forums. My black armband is probably still kicking around somewhere.
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Halo was the most anticipated title in PC gaming at the time save for perhaps Half Life 3; and it was anticipated on the Mac; but since Microsoft purchased Halo as an Xbox launch title thereby delaying Halo’s Mac launch by IIRC years, when it did finally release for Mac OS it seemed anticlimactic.
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This tantrum clearly cost him his juice box.
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Was Memphis ever padded? Asking for a polycule.
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Who starts the starter?
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I knew I heard it before…
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“Fiddle heads, fiddle heads, roly poly fiddle heads.”
Hate me later.
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Has Ben Shapiro been reached for comment?
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I believe the term is “divorce with bed privileges.”
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I think I’m just not able to feel surprise any more.
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We got our jabs in public school.
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DARVO
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And here I thought cocaine was the design culprit…
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Slept in my Barenaked Ladies T-shirt, lying in bed, just like Brian Wilson did.
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Let me guess: Poiliviere posed on the hood of a Cybertruck?
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Hairdressers everywhere /headdesk.
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I’m also wondering what could possibly be on those $4MUSD dinner plates at Mar-a-Lago.
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The 1980s called and said “keep it."
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Also all over PornHub.
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“What if Joe Clark, but douchebag?"
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Has someone sent this to Greydon Carter? So he can frame it?
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Drive-ins: They don’t make ‘em like they used to.
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I envy you. I really, really do.
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Why do you hate the pioneer spirit?/s
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The Sex Pistols were woke? IIRC there was at least one N-bomb on Never Mind the Bollocks. “Bodies” was also explicitly anti-abortion.
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I guess the Pentagon couldn’t figure out Snapchat.
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Let’s see what kind of punishment is yet to be meted out to the American public as they dare to complain…
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Highly. And more politically inert.
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The generations of Chicago School propaganda preached to a highly motivated audience of temporarily embarrassed millionaires has obviously been working spectacularly.
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Ach du scheiße.
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Kind of surprised he hasn’t disclosed a convenient snap autism diagnosis as an excuse. After all, it didn’t work for Neil Gaiman.
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I was waiting for “but her emails” to meme again. Courage, comrade.