*if America was the one doing the colonizing

You mean we weren’t already getting gouged?

This is how I see it too.

If not for association with the alt right, I at least see it as a sign of “I am a terminally online dork who tries to portray myself as lovably pitiful so as to manipulate others” or “this is a crutch for my low self esteem” or just…well. Some of this is from my own personal biases and experiences, I’ll be forward about that.

So to make a long story short, even without Nazi associations, there’s no good way to use a Pepe in my experience, and no one I know who uses him frequently has been a good person.

I went on a reading blitz in 2023 but haven’t done much since then, which kind of sucks.

I did Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, loved it. Becky Chambers? Read everything she wrote. Love.

Some other things in there that were kind of dumb but enjoyable (Rysa Aoki’s Light From Distant Stars) or just shallow (Legends & Lattes) or forgettable (Alice Oseman’s Loveless) but I have tried several others and it isn’t sticking.

Too bad; I really do enjoy reading but nothing’s really taking hold.

Oh, it’s very John K., isn’t it.

Au contraire!

You choose the timing and means of death. Hug someone, choose “time: at the end of a long and fulfilling life, means: peacefully and willingly, full of satisfaction and peace and contentment”.

That, and as an adult, you now have places to go. Can’t stick around. Have to keep moving on.

Speak for yourself, Tree of Savior grabbed me hard. I could tell that it was not a good game but I stuck it out anyway for months because there was some ineffable part of it that I was just in love with.

And no, I did not have the lingering nostalgia for Ragnarok Online fanning the flames in the background.

(Okay, I realize that I am taking an objectively true fact personally, but still! My opportunities to stand up for this game are few and far between, so just let me have this.)

Don’t feel bad.

I was the computer kid when I was young but I’ve fallen all the way off and am fine with it.

They need do away instain mother who kill their babby because these babby cannot frihgt back?

All the time, going back to 2009 or so.

John MAGA said so himself.

Quietly? A documentary I saw said that the centers produce an intolerable amount of noise.

Ah no wait that was Bitcoin miners.

They targeted gamers. Gamers.

What is it with you and historical salons?

Ah, no; you see, historical salons were not websites but instead actual places!

If you want to play the Discworld MUD, Quow’s Mushclient plugins are transformative and make it oh so much easier.

Than*

Seriously. I had never heard of the company Astronomer before this, let alone its CEO.

Being excessively prescriptive or nitpicky about the prohibition on ending sentences on a preposition is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.