Other comments have touched on the more personally important aspects, but I’d like to highlight:
No final paychecks or anything.
as some fuckin’ bullshit, yo. Are you quite sure that’s kosher? If you worked and aren’t paid for the time, your employer still owes you wages for that time worked regardless of if they’re satisfied with your performance or not.
we need them for posterity.
by which you of course mean to wipe our posteriors
After almost 1000 hours and prestiging all achievments on hard twice, it finally lost its shine for me. I know all the events, fights are almost all completely formulaic. Most of the time that I lose, which is maybe 60% of the time on hard, I know I lost the fight before the first shot is fired.
This is a positive review of the game, btw. 1000 hours of enjoyable gameplay before I became tired of it is an astounding value proposition.
Into the breach, by comparison, I became frustrated with it quickly and stopped playing after just 39 hours.
Hey yo, can someone with image editing skills turn that thumbnail of sad miller into a sad clown please?
how tf you gon talk about not litigating the politics in here and then turn around and criticize the political opinion expressed in terms of its political opposition in the very next sentence, like
We’re past blasting, so 2018. Now we’re on flaying.
Of course you would, probably at least the first two or three times, that’s why they’re on this trend.
Slam not getting enough clicks anymore, people know “slam” means “gentle rebuke.” Now it’s flay, pillory. At this rate, some time in 2028 we can expect “mild procedural admonition” to be replaced with something like “set off nuclear munitions over home of,” eg. “Judge Obliterates Defendant’s Entire Hometown With a White Phosphor Bomb in Searing Ruling Over Unpaid Parking Fines.” gotta get them clicks
A law without a mechanism of enforcement is just a suggestion.
It’s not quite ye-olde-tyme, but Delver is one I’ve put a hundred or so hours in. I played it a bunch because it was one of a handful of games in my library that would run on a chroot on my old second-hand student chromebook back when that was all I had for a year or so. It’s real time and 3d but low-spec pixel with an appreciable art style, and plays as you would expect from a true roguelike. Good sound and music direction. Difficulty is pretty well balanced, in my opinion, erring on the side of a bit too easy especially with as much time in it as I have. Shame the game didn’t get as much attention as the studio was apparently hoping for, as they’ve basically abandoned the property. There’s some small activity on the workshop, but I rarely mess with mods.
until the ai carches on and starts intentionally making mistakes to pass our new turing test better than we can
Muppets Christmas Carol
Wetness is an illusion. An artificial category imposed on what we call reality by our minds. Which are also illusory. Everything is an illusion. It’s all as meaningful and purposeful as the patterns dust makes in a whirlwind. That’s all we are- dust in the wind. Everything is dust in the wind.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-is-changing-the-words-we-use-in-conversation/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/20/chatgpt-claude-chatbots-language/
https://www.theverge.com/openai/686748/chatgpt-linguistic-impact-common-word-usage
chatgpt favored a few articles in its training data that used “its not x – its y” more than others. it was sheer accident and coincidence to begin with, but is now being cemented into the language by chatgpt’s relative ubiquity and a feedback mechanism where new training data contains this artifact, increasing its favorability in subsequent models. I’m not saying that the phrase didn’t exist before chatgpt. it’s not a seismic shift in language patterns – It’s a feedback mechanism. The same feedback mechanism causes it to prefer “it’s not” vs “it isn’t” despite there being no grammatical distinction between them. “It’s not” was presumably slightly more popular among the training data it (or rather, its trainers) happened to favor during initial training. The same feedback mechanism causes it to write metaphor like a bored, not-particularly-bright college student in a poetry class they’re taking just for the credit.
edit: shibboleth
more edits: everything after “it’s not a seismic shift in language patterns – it’s a feedback mechanism”
Woe unto them. They sound like ChatGPT now.
i just realized about your name and it made me snort a lil
It’s obviously under the potatoes 🙄
dilettantes smh…
Don’t tell me how to live my life.
Ah, I see. My condolences, friend. Mental health struggles are real, but you’ll bounce back and grow from the experience. I know that seems trite, but I’m confident you’ll look back on the experience as something you learned from in the end.