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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Why is Musk mad at AsmonGold? Did he dunk on Elon for paying others to play his account?

    I just… Fail to see the reason Elon should dedicate his time to fighting with a neet shut in. Asmon turned off donations on his stream. He doesn’t care about money, political influence, or bathing. Just games. What possible gain would there be in trying to mess with him? The richest person to have ever existed in history, in a slap fight with a dude that lives in a dirty hovel? It almost sounds like trying to fight Diogenes.

    And exposing his editors isn’t the “gotcha” you think it is. They just protect him from YouTube’s crappy rules.




  • This has always been the way. If you’re super Catholic and really believe that stuff, realizing you’re gay means you aren’t going to have a bunch of kids with a wife and feel fulfilled. It’s a “challenge from God” and you decide the only acceptable course of action is to assume you can be celibate for the next 80 years and make your family proud.

    Then oops! You’re so repressed you diddle kids.

    The movie “Doubt” covers this pretty well.

    Source: was raised Catholic and knew two very religious closeted gay men that became priests. I don’t want to suggest that being gay is wrong or that gay men are more likely to diddle kids, but I am suggesting that sexual repression causes sexual problems, Catholicism is stupid for enforcing celibacy past the 1700s, and all religion is a lie. Fite me irl, bro.



  • IDK, that could be different. I bought some surfaces ~2 years ago that apparently aren’t capable of upgrading to 11. They’re perfectly usable, so I’ll have to put Linux on them. I think anyone that’s capable will find that they have to do that, or throw out perfectly good hardware to buy the next shiny thing.

    The only problem is I did switch my laptop to Ubuntu back in the day to avoid W7. Or maybe to was 10? All I did was stream video, like Netflix, on it. Turns out, Netflix wouldn’t run because they locked it down to specific OSes. WINE could run it, with a horrible stutter. So I had to dual boot, then I switched to a VM of Windows in Linux, which ended up just being another step to get to stream a movie. Coupled with hours of driver problems to solve, it just wasn’t worth the hassle.

    Now, it’s a matter of “can I stream?” Because otherwise, they’re e-waste. I really hope they can, because while I’ll have to keep my gaming PC on w11, my htpc and tablets I will gladly switch.

    I can’t imagine I’m alone. If people can get their programs out of the walled garden of Microsoft, I think they will. Not so much new features, but that they can just do what they always do. We’re creatures of habit. We probably won’t see adoption in high numbers, but more than before.

    Also, it’s entirely possible I’ll have to eat these words if streaming still doesn’t work right.



  • I remember it was somewhat expensive. Or at least too much for my parents to waste on a sugary cereal of limited nutritional value. I never got to try it, but I knew the commercial made it seem cool. We didn’t even have a video game console, so I guess this shitty commercial really seemed awesome at the time. Man, this one kid in my class had an old Atari, and he was ashamed that it wasn’t a Nintendo. I couldn’t stop telling him how awesome it was and how lucky he was to have it, because it was way cooler than my Tiger Electronics handheld LCD Ghostbusters game. Which was the only video game I had, that my grandma saved a lot to be able to afford. I probably made him play that system for hours and he was probably bored every minute!

    Nowadays, a PC game is trivial to buy and I can run anything I want on an emulator. But I can’t have that cereal that doesn’t exist anymore. I’m way too old to want to eat something so clearly bad for my middle aged body anyway.

    It’s amazing how trivial things back then were built up in my head.



  • I used to sell books at Borders (so far before MAGA crap) and you are 100% correct. Most men were reading books as well, but they really didn’t gravitate to Ann Rice’s vampire series, Twilight, or even most mystery books. Is was Sci Fi, fantasy, history, general knowledge sort of stuff.

    The sheer volume of women buying romance novels was staggering, and I think speaks more to porn habits than anything. These women kept the store alive long enough for corporate to fuck up and bankrupt themselves.

    Now that I think about it, there was a whole row of JUST Star Wars books. But because Disney erased so much of the Expanded Universe canon that they wrote, they all faded away. I don’t even have one in my local Barnes and Noble. Not even a single novel, from what I saw. Everyone totally lost interest and Disney doesn’t care to rekindle that spark.






  • He tries to run, but you slow-walk towards him, chanting “poop!” with every step. His pants are heavy, and blood starts to show through his jeans. “I’ll cut your guts out!” he helplessly bluffs. Soon, he crumples up and screams as his guts start emptying into the street; his denim is no longer able to hold the carnage. You see him lying dead at your feet.

    You turn back towards the United Healthcare headquarters, and resume your march.

    Now, it is finally time to see at what point explosive diarrhea is covered…