Ask your doctor if Cialis is right for you.

How to sell a gajillion copies of a game.

Step 1: Hire Laura Bailey
Step 2: Profit

The hardware looks fine. I’d start by slapping some fresh bearings (Reds are always a safe bet) with spacers. Before spending money on trucks, I’d invest in wheels that match the surface he rides the most (street v park). Nothing kills the stoke faster than a slow board.

All this does is highlight how what really matters is wealth.

No. Scott Adams is rich and could not get the treatment himself. What matters is connections and fame. You could be worth whatever you are worth now, but if you were famous and on the MAGA side, your tweet would have also gotten you the treatment. Trump is an “either your in the club, or get fucked” type of organization.

Strike three.

Any possible relevant comment I want to make violates site policy. They are the 21st century Nazis.

The E.T. game being “the worst game” thing is all myth. It was a tremendous flop, but it had nothing to do with game quality. I’d say that 90% of Atari 2600 games were objectively bad and E.T. was amongst the 10% of good ones. They over estimated demand, overhyped it, and sold it during the holidays, which means extended and relaxed return policies. That resulted in too many units manufactured and too many units returned. Thus the landfill full of cartridges.

Source: I was one of the kids that got it for Christmas. It was fine, but wenty minutes later, I was back to Yar’s Revenge.

Cyberpunk, the literary genre, was quite clear what our future would look like. We didn’t listen.

https://archive.li/GWC9R

…and now the intro music is stuck in my head.

something something something “America first” something

White House architecture American government was an honor system. Trump noticed.

My brain is insisting that this was a perfectly innocent embrace. The alternative is to imagine JD banging her and that just not a mental picture I am willing to endure.

“What you mean is, rich people aren’t in a recession.”

What is rich nowadays? Growing up, a $100,000+ salary was considered quite rich. No way that qualifies now.

I am, by many definitions, rich. By my mother’s generation and demographic I’d be considered almost unimaginably rich. In 2025 America though I am at best “comfortable”. I am rich enough to afford groceries, but I am not rich enough to not notice or feel the impact of a carry basket of groceries setting me back over $100. I am rich enough to afford health insurance but I am not rich enough to not sweat the premium bill and the deductible. I am rich and fortunate to enough to own a home, but I wonder how I will afford the ever increasing taxes and maintenance costs when I am no longer able to work. I worry that a single extended illness will wipe out most if not all of the wealth my wife and I have worked 30+ years for. So, I rarely eat out. I scaled down my spending. And I keep my focus soleky on caring for those I love.

When the system has degraded in such a way that only those with an 8+ (preferably 9) digit net worth can feel safe, then you can no longer expect the system to remain for much longer. To me, it feels like America was assassinated by Reagan and the Republicans and ever since, the people on the top have just been the maggots feasting on the rotting flesh. Its either going to be collapse or revolution.

Never thought I’d ever see an arduino trash music robot being driven through MIDI by a Polyend Tracker. Time to dust off my Tracker and see if I can replicate that.

EDIT: This and Fred Again… are the two most innovative and transformative performances I’ve seen at Tiny Desk.

This is the way. I buy a CAVA bowl once a week. The way I have it made will feed me three times. That’s three dinners for less than $14.

We desperately need upgrades to our energy infrastructure. Production and even moreso, distribution are in desperate need. It doesn’t help that huge chunks of our existing production are being gobbled up by datacenters. We are also at least a decade behind China in clean energy production, and we have an excess of weapons grade plutonium. All of the above makes giving access to these resources to companies developing new forms of energy production make sense.

THAT SAID, I have zero trust or confidence in the current administration’s ability to govern or manage this process safely and securely. I also have very little faith in technology disruptors and their capabilities, diligence, or discipline to manage such a dangerous resource.

My worry is not Skynet with nukes as much as it is American weapons grade plutonium ending up in the hands of someone with a deep desire to create and use nuclear weapons (functional or dirty).

Don’t disparage crows.