gonesnake

No no no, fucking no. I didn't want a cell phone and then I had to have one for work and now they want my biometrics? Every bit of identity and every ha'penny you have must be accessible and on display at all times with this fucked up society. They won't be happy until we're all just walking around naked carrying every dollar we have fanned out in our hands so it can be counted faster.

All convenience paid for with intrusion.

I know a lot of people liked the first game and are anxiously awaiting this one but, I'm just biding my time waiting for Control 2

I'll add to the analogy and say that "downhill" is an apt word choice for where things will go if you let them. Nothing wrong with letting a river take it's natural course but if we want it to work for us it has to be directed and controlled. We can have both aspects of language we just have to conscious of what we want and where it's going.

Maybe we should start an /AskSex Magazine and redirect it all there.

My main concern is that the game is good, complete and that there was no 'crunch time' involved. When they pop release dates up they instantly create crunch and it's unnecessary. Finish the game in the time it takes then release it. Fuck this idea of working people to death for entertainment.

I'm replaying Ghost of Tsushima. Sure it's an open world, go-to-icon, action collectathon but it looks beautiful and is punctuated with enough genuine fun to keep me interested. This one and Horizon Zero Dawn as last gasps of the PS4 are much better than they needed to be.

I'm with you in the Pitfall era. Spent hours playing Gangster Alley, Combat, Space Invaders, Frogger, Frostbite, Seaquest and countless others. We got our system well after the new, fancier Intellivision and Coleco systems came out so the prices had dropped enough to afford it. So much fun for so many years.

There's also a fun little cheat I'll do when I'm frustrated trying to create something. I'll try to ape someone else's style. See how close I can get to creating an original piece (for me it's writing and music) that is completely in another artist's voice. It instantly takes the pressure off because it's more like an exercise but keeps me interested enough to finish it and see how close I can get.

I always learn a few things; new techniques I might have never tried or discovered on my own, finding my own unavoidable fingerprint in the end result (no matter how good the imitation) is a clue to what I sound like and almost every time it makes me want to do my own very different new thing.

Yeah, between 'eight inch snail' and the words 'parasite rat lungworm' all in a row I'm pretty much horrified. And if that isn't bad enough then they say Florida and meningitis. This article is just creepy pasta.

I wonder about repurposing a shitty thing from reddit into a good thing: the classic but annoying 'this' reply. Suppose someone posts something you disagree with rather than just hitting the downvote type a 'disagree' as a reply. Then like minded people can upvote or downvote the 'disagree' as its own thing leaving the original post to be judged or interacted with on its merits.

I don't have a driver's license and can't really think of a situation where I'd need one. Seems like a pointless expense.