Put Five Guys inside you!

Gamer uncle here. Depending on my mood I’m either a wise and thoughtful teacher helping the younger generation learn the ins and outs of games (some of which they shouldn’t play, but I’m also firework uncle so I’m not always safe), or I’m “I will knock you off Rainbow Road as I lap you” uncle. I’m also older brother and treated my younger siblings exactly the same way 30 years ago.

When we all get together the kids are on their own because the adults are too busy playing four player couch games. Their gamer grandpa still plays battle for wesnoth with me periodically, but otherwise he plays a bass fishing game.

Funny thing, unless they updated it in the last few months Google Voice can’t handle Google’s own image format.

Yep. I just raw dog All for the past 6 hours most of the time. The only communities I’ve blocked are the most active German ones because I don’t speak German.

I wish I had known about that when I was younger. I would have done that instead of the military.

Test pilot for planes put together by drunks.

Well fuck, I own more work boots than that, not to mention shoes for jogging, shoes for work, and shoes for going out. My work and fashion footwear game is strong.

Fellas, is it gay to have women compliment you because you care about your appearance?

I would have learned the lesson then emulated the behavior anyway because I was a little shit.

We’d end up with a Cheertator pretty quickly. It would no longer be a cheerocracy.

They make portable solar chargers. Having music while you forage for food would be worth it.

I am always shocked to find out how many engineers are hard right wing. Even more surprising is how many of them are legit insane conspiracy theorists. Not even like mainstream stupid conspiracies like pizzagate. Like ancient aliens built the pyramids to capture Elvis and Batboy to force them into gay marriage before changing both of their genders so that they’re in a double gay marriage then force them to write children’s books so that the children will willingly go with the aliens conspiracy theories. Shit that’s so complicated that there’s not enough red yarn in the world to connect it together.

No, Clerks ceased to exist the moment Smith put out Yoga Hosers. That’s the way the world works. Everything later ruins earlier works and can delete them entirely if they’re bad enough.

Theoretically, yeah. There are tool using species right here on this planet that pass a lot of tests about self awareness, but we’re an order of magnitude more intelligent than a bonobo (well, mostly) and shouldn’t be banging them. I purposely used a species that has recreational sex as an example here.

If there were an intergalactic species that saw us as little more than self aware tool users, that would be up to their morals.

I have a family member whose middle name is a letter. A friend of mine has two family members that only have initials for their first name (one was named for the other). When the older joined the army they just gave him a name that fit the initials and that went on all his official paperwork.

[Drunken rambling story agreeing with this comment because of an experience 20 years ago]

I won’t say why but I feel personally attacked by this duck. Well done!

Fun is the word I’d use for the whole package, and definitely agree on this being the best one. The ending of this segment was very cool.

Ok nerd, whatever you say.

I’m only salty because you’re absolutely right. (Just kidding, I’m not actually salty, I just think it’s funny to say dumb shit)

There are plenty of 3P and R2 series robots running around. There’s no reason to believe he thought he knew them.

Further, there’s a comic where he sees C-3PO’s blasted body and has a flashback. So even though they didn’t share the screen, Vader did share a moment.

My actual biggest issue is that Vader stood in front of Leia and didn’t seem to have any idea that she could use the force or that she was his daughter.

Defederation makes it so that figuring out which instance to sign up with in order to see your friends and local businesses (since we’re talking about vs Facebook instead of Twitter or Reddit) would be a nightmare for the average person.

I have multiple accounts on some services trying to get to everything I want to see. I mostly gave up on Pixelfed. My main Mastodon account can see people on other instances but has problems seeing their posts. And I’m absolutely not willing to troubleshoot it because between work, a social life, and other hobbies I just don’t have the time or give a shit.

I like the fediverse. I’m here. I use it. But I’m only going to use what’s convenient and I promise that I have more patience than the average non tech person who wants to sign up using a linked Gmail account and see all the things they expect to see without having to think about it.

Edit: I think my brain skipped the last two sentences in that comment. I just sat here and bitched about something that was already mentioned. I have brought nothing to this discussion and have brought shame upon my house.