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Oscilloscope guy. #synths and #videogames and #shitposts. #ATX
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I don’t think all games should be 80 bucks. BUT some should be, maybe even more tbh. Everytime a rockstar game comes out we find out people crunched for months and slept in the office. I know charging more won’t automatically fix that, but games are getting bigger and more expensive.

When I was in 10th grade I went to this leadership training thing where one of the things I did was identify that I am afraid of not having control. Like, not being able to control how I am perceived, mostly. Then I wrote it on a board and karate chopped it in half. That fear will not control me

Is this my sign to just switch to the Uberman/Da Vinci sleep method where you just do like 3 hour naps when needed?

Am so proud of so many people round the world standing up for their rights and for others. It's inspiring seeing folks caring so much

My god, it finally happened. The perfect day

Life’s a balancing act, and my tendency to hyper-fixate on whatever’s in front of me means I drop a lot of plates ): And these plates are people with feelings that get hurt when dropped and that fuckin sucks man, I’m sorry.

Get the tattoo brother. You’re not going to be the same person you are now in 24 hours, let alone 15 years. It’s not about that. It’s about who you are now, and who you were. That meant something to you. And your past self is an extremely important part of you, got you here, worth your respect.

I ask ChatGPT for a SQL query that’s like 12 unions and disgusting and it’s like “[one nasty SQL query] Where a=b Union all … continue on for each block” Nah you electric rock I know how to write it, I just don’t want to. Fully expand please.

Really says something about apples UI design that every time they make a major change, people hate it, because they love it now, the same UI they freaked out about 5 years ago when it came out I worked apple support when iOS 7 dropped and yall hated the new Lock Screen. The one we have now

I love all this digital art that this one guy made in 1999 and uploaded to wikimedia commons

Tetris is one of my favorite games and this game is surprisingly similar in a lot of ways. RNG based high score puzzle solving with the perfect amount of strategy to really be able to git gud. But if Tetris is blitz chess, this is classical chess. store.steampowered.com/app/1455840/...

Im not saying that the pandemic was traumatic on the level this study is talking about. But maybe there’s a connection between that and the explosion in popularity Tetris saw during that time. Tetris certainly helped me cope. www.npr.org/sections/hea...

Ok we all know that joke about programmers not trusting code. This is not as much about that they don’t believe their code does what it’s supposed to, it’s more about the idea of other people using the code incorrectly, or maliciously.

I like the new Elden Ring game but an hour straight without being able to pause has me anxious about literally anything happening irl making me have to step away, rendering the entire run up to that point a wash.

Every dream I have is about how I’m going on a trip and have to manage logistics for like 10 people. Then at some point during the trip I remember I’m enrolled in college, check my grades online, and see I’m failing all my classes because I forgot I was in college.

After about 6 months of therapy, just had a session and she’s like “Bro let’s go back to some things to said at the start” and went on a tiny victory lap. If I could just maintain this level of mental awareness forever, that’d be good.

These are my emotional support bad takes.

Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...

Is anyone still checking up on the rizzler? Hope he’s doing well

One of my coworkers is “retiring” to go work full time in a ski shop him and his wife own. Honestly, that’s the dream. I want to retire from tech and my degree and laptop life and go open a retro tech repair/pawn shop and get really good at fixing cassette decks and record players and VCRs.

Deep down the Nathan Fielder rabbit hole right now. What a beast. A master of reality TV, completely dissecting the medium and his own experiences creating within it. I can’t even explain, he puts ideas directly from his head into mine when I watch these things that I cannot express in my own words

I love all this rain but my god every night at 3:30 am I am awoken by insane thunder and it’s been destroying my sleep schedule this week. Pls storm during the day

Everyone at the dentist office knows me by name, immediately recognizes me. Only 2 possible reasons: best teeth, or worst teeth. Probably not the best lol

90s babies had such refined palates. The flavors we were raised on were sour apple, pizza dust, and blue

20,000 leagues below sea level is in outer space.

Was pretty hyped for Mickey 17, just thought the trailer gave too much away. But no, the trailer does only pull from the first 20 min, so much shit happens and it’s all fairly interesting, just kinda shallow. Doesn’t all relate exactly. Kinda would be better as a show!

Got this spam text today that said someone used my PayPal to buy stuff, including 1 Bitcoin for $186 lol

Please tell your reps that you support government funding of NPR and PBS, and other public media! protectmypublicmedia.org/rsc-emails/

Are you telling me they moved the frozen dead guy just 2 years before I visited?! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_...

Alright late to the party by like 7 years but watched Gerald’s Game on Netflix, my god. Easily the most horrifying movie Ive seen in a really long time, really good. Will make you sick with anxiety and fill your head with unshakable thoughts about the real fucking monsters that walk among us.

Just went to Boulder into the mountains and got snowed in one night by an actual blizzard. Now I’m back in Austin where the heat index is like 105. Come on man. LOOK AT THIS

Strange Lot tour on film baybeee

Holy cow Rilo Kiley isn’t even on yet and Benjamin Gibbard has me in tears

We need good VR headsets for good VR games but feels like all the moneys going into headsets. Headsets are actually really really good right now. Crispy and more affordable than ever. Problem is 95% of games are just so shallow. “Experience” gets interchanged with “game”. Need more dev commitment

Dude the pinball level in split fiction is 10/10, holy cow. Someone controls the ball, and the other person controls the machine. It’s really slick

Barotrauma delivers on the classic submarine horror of looking at the sonar readout and wondering why the terrain is moving toward you!