groucho

groucho , 38 minutes ago

Yeah. Also, superficially good looking people can still be sketchy weirdos. Vibe, context, and prior relationship are much more important than looks. Of course, some people can't get their head around this and start blaming literally anything else: their height, their bone structure, a worldwide conspiracy against them. It's crazy.

groucho , 2 days ago

Oh good it's not just me.

groucho , 2 days ago

Source: how it went the first time

groucho , 6 days ago

Hell of an album. I've been playing it and The Return for my daughter on the way to school every morning and she loves it. We found this live show on youtube and now it's all she wants to watch. The mix is weird but it's fun watching Automator conduct a tiny orchestra while Del does his thing.

groucho , 6 days ago

Nah this is still corpo bullshit. It's also one of the tamer specimens of that era. The only difference is, the corpos in charge of advertising at that time were all sentient hardons who heard stories about how drugs are and peaked at 14. None of them lived in the real world and they just churned out knee-jerk sexist bullshit because they wanted to appeal to boys going through puberty and men that never left that headspace.

<rant> A lot of the ads from that era are uncomfortable. Hell, a lot of the games were. It was rare to see a female character that wasn't ditzy and helpless, a thinly-veiled copy of the writer's mom, or exactly like a dude but hot. Those were the options. I'm not saying I needed every game to be a work of great literature with complex and tormented characters and copious backstory; I just wanted female characters in games that didn't like someone doing a ventriloquism act with their fleshlight.

I ended up chasing gameplay and trying to ignore how fucking awkward and immature most of the shooters were in that era and I don't think I was alone. I think a lot of gamers grew up and drove the market in a slightly more mature direction. Some people blame woke bullshit, but for me it was just being utterly sick of how fucking juvenile everything was and voting with my money. There's still a vocal minority out there that wants the good old days back, but I'd stop playing if the industry went back to exclusively 3xtr33m l33t 4ct10n d00d bullshit.

Sidenote: I played the demo for some Cliffy B game a decade ago on my XBox and hard-quit and deleted when the guy on my comms told me to "fire a rocket directly up the bad guy's poop chute." I was in my 30s and Cliff was probably pushing 40 at the time. What the hell? Are we nine years old again? Then again, he was the guy that threw his cat into his scanner and posted a picture of it every day until the internet told him to stop. Ugh. Let's never go back there.
</rant>

groucho , 6 days ago

Lol that's awful. 2009?!

groucho , 6 days ago

Yeah that's actually funny. Calling it FRAGS is just the icing.

Now that it's less broken, I've been playing Cyberpunk a lot and it feels like edgy shit done correctly. All the big tough guys are actually just weirdos enamored with the sound of their own voice, the ads are ludicrously over the top, it's bloody, and everyone's a human being. I haven't felt gross with any of the content in it so far and it has at least as many strippers as Duke 3D had. I think the loud edgelords keep trying to paint it as free speech vs censorship but it's really about not making players complicit in whatever infantile world view the director has.

groucho , 8 days ago

I became a dad late (around middle age) and was telling dad jokes way before that. My theory is it's less about becoming a father and more about getting older and just wanting to annoy people for my own amusement.

groucho , 19 days ago

is that james van der beek

groucho , 22 days ago

I can hear this picture.

groucho , 30 days ago

Trump becoming president and having MUCH worse policies for the Palestinians becomes much greater.

Oh you mean Donald "Let's try to move our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem because appearing neutral in the Israel/Palestine mess is hurting my chances of re-election" Trump? That guy? People actually think he's going to be better for Palestinians? Really?

groucho , 1 month ago

Maybe they wanted a lot of malware really fast?

groucho , 2 months ago

This reminds me of the time my group played a kobold campaign. We found a halfling scout and dealt with him. Then we made an improvised catapult and launched his corpse into the middle of his camp. And then we snuck in and wiped the rest of the halfling party while they were trying to figure out what was happening.

One of the guys in our party put skills in cooking and rolled a nat 20 making halfling jerky. A few sessions later a wizard or whatever granted us a wish, and we wished for our supply of nat 20 halfling jerky to never run out.

So now we're rolling around the countryside raising hell and handing out halfling jerky to everyone because it is now the most powerful diplomatic tool in our arsenal. We never told anyone what it was made out of and pretty much any NPC who didn't want to kill us on sight got a piece.

I don't remember what happened to the party. I think our GM gave up in disgust after a while. Good times.

groucho , 3 months ago

Yeah well Chuck Norris didn't invent the rolling office chair.

groucho , 3 months ago

It kind of does that for everybody?

groucho , 3 months ago

"I'm a specialized clerk interested in mathematics" if you don't wanna get burned.

groucho , 3 months ago

Nah. I went to HS to get HS over with. I knew zero people. I doubt anyone even remembers me.

groucho , 3 months ago

Dang, Nick Hexum aged well.

groucho , 4 months ago

Statue of Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister to be erected....

He wouldn't have had it any other way.

groucho , 5 months ago

I agree. And even ignoring how abhorrent it is, imagine how much money they've spent trying to kill this guy.

groucho , 5 months ago

I have no idea what year it happened, but my parents and I were driving from church (evening service) to a restaurant and a dark shadow appeared on the moon. This would have been late 80s / early 90s in the mountain west, USA, around 8PM. It kind of looked like it was cracking apart at the bottom. It stayed that way for a few minutes, so theoretically longer than something like a branch hanging over the road. It didn't move at all. It was just there suddenly. Everyone in the car saw it, and the people we met at the restaurant saw it too. I've never seen anything like it since.

I'm guessing something in space cast a shadow on it? This was before phone cameras so no evidence exists other than a weird memory.