Quote from: PhantomCatClock on August 19, 2026, 04:00:34 PMsome unrelated thought points

• "games going digital-only will make the prices go down"
• "GTA 6, a digital-only game, deserves to cost $80"
• You cannot buy a computer of San Andreas today that doesn't have the AI upscaling that fucks up all of the visual gags
• Sony has proven, recently, that you have no rights to your digital purchases (deleting licenses from peoples libraries without warning)
• My nose started bleeding again on Sunday

it hurts

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on August 19, 2026, 04:00:34 PMsome unrelated thought points

• "games going digital-only will make the prices go down"
• "GTA 6, a digital-only game, deserves to cost $80"
• You cannot buy a computer of San Andreas today that doesn't have the AI upscaling that fucks up all of the visual gags
• Sony has proven, recently, that you have no rights to your digital purchases (deleting licenses from peoples libraries without warning)
• My nose started bleeding again on Sunday

That hit a little differently, replaying all of the Monkey Islands on Steam (and hitting the button that changes the sound and graphics back to normal, obviously) when I did, in fact, pay less than $20 combined for them



also if that wasn't quoted twice already, I'd swoop in and correct it to "You can't buy a computer version" but v1 has already been pirated by the entire CCBT

how is one of the printer colors magenta when magenta doesn't really exist?
like what is magenta ink? a bunch of very very tiny red and blue inks mixed together?
what does a bird see when it looks at a printed magenta square

Quote from: Slurpee on August 26, 2026, 06:28:16 PMhow is one of the printer colors magenta when magenta doesn't really exist?
like what is magenta ink? a bunch of very very tiny red and blue inks mixed together?
what does a bird see when it looks at a printed magenta square

Dog from blues clues

Quote from: Slurpee on August 26, 2026, 06:28:16 PM

how is one of the printer colors magenta when magenta doesn't really exist?
like what is magenta ink? a bunch of very very tiny red and blue inks mixed together?
what does a bird see when it looks at a printed magenta square

--advanced haiku

hey I know there's a lot going on in the world right now, but I just wanted you to know that I've renamed this thread 'Thread of America.' hope that helps

Quote from: VCRClock on August 28, 2026, 07:51:48 PMhey I know there's a lot going on in the world right now, but I just wanted you to know that I've renamed this thread 'Thread of America.' hope that helps

to be clear, this is not a 1.5-year-old stale Gulf of America joke, it is a 1-day-old stale Lake Formerly Known as Ontario joke

he's not a serious person

i don't know what you're talking about, he's gonna go down in history as the first person to win wars on multiple fronts

though speaking of that and people dying, it occurred to me we're watching a norm macdonald joke unravel in real time

obviously presented in the funniest possible manner, but the gist was "You know, I was reading some history books and the great part was the GOOD GUYS won every time!"

but like.. instant news and social media has propagated to the point where we can just definitively say 'nope, it isn't'




which isn't terribly meaningful because the point of that saying is that we knew it wasn't true, just an interesting side-effect of interesting times

I understand how siphons work now

nothing else to report. I don't know what I was confused about tbh

yeah what's not to get. they're long and scaly and they squeeze their prey

everyone (some people) is talking about that horror movie about the Barney-like costumed character

me, lying awake at midnight: I wonder if 'bop' was already bay area slang for 'head' in 1994, cuz that show already had a damn character named BJ

nintendo stole my idea to make pokemon

if they didn't, i would have

not to get rich

the one time I had my car broken into, I'd accidentally left my intellectual property on the passenger seat

why does the internet archive suck now
it's throwing me a 429 "too many requests" error for visiting the front page and pasting a single url into the wayback machine once
this is like the fifth time this has happened

get lost, academia, i'm trying to serve all these bots