Fez! I love the low stress puzzle game. I think it’s beautiful and smart. I love that it was made by one guy. It’s too bad he got burnt out and quit. He is very talented.

Not a cat, but I adopted a dog whose name was Doc. I started calling him Docky and that became Ducky and then he started responding to that so now that’s his name.

He has a brother named Dexter that I obviously call Goose lol

If I had kids now, I wouldn’t let them touch Roblox. My ex had a kid that he didn’t pay enough attention to. That was constantly falling in with online predators in Roblox and Discord. I reported a predator on discord and they made me go through and flag every picture the kid sent, not the whole conversation. wtf Discord. Keeping predators away on Roblox was harder.

You’re right! I have a dog breed that is prone to deafness and he had a BAER hearing test. He has partial deafness in one ear, so he always tilts the other side up for hearing. It helps them hear better, and use the ear flaps to “trap” the sound.

Fandom is icky. A few years ago, my mom was getting scammed by some conspiracy guy from LinkedIn who offered her a “job.”

These dudes set up their own fandom wiki to try to make their bullshit seem real. I can’t remember the name of the people involved but one guy was claiming that he was owed 300 trillion dollars by the government. (Can’t remember the exact number but it was astronomically high. More money than exists kinda high)

When I was a kid, my aunt owned a small one. She’d bring it to my house where my dad and my uncle did repairs.

We were by no means a rich family. It was a two bedroom house with my parents and 3 kids.

I imagine the most expensive part of these are probably dock fees?

Once I order tampons on Amazon. They just put a shipping label directly on a single box.

I’m not embarrassed by stuff like that, but how weird.

Some of my favorites! Mostly Sci-fi, but there a bit of fantasy too! The starred items are my absolute favorites; listened to on repeat. Not the most obscure list, but I don’t care.

The Expanse series is my favorite, but I want to highlight Dungeon Crawler Carl and Redshirts. Sci-fi tends to be serious and depressing, but these books are funny. I genuinely laugh out loud at Dungeon Crawler Carl.

• Leviathan Wakes by James SA Corey*
• Red Rising by Pierce Brown*
• Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
• Redshirts by John Scalzi
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie*
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig*
• Wool by Hugh Howey
• Heretical Fishing by Haylock Jobson
• Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinnimon, narrated by Jeff Hays (listen to the audio book. It’s good in its own, but the narrator goes above and beyond anything else I’ve ever heard)*

You won’t regret it!

Futurama. I’ve seen it thousands of times. That’s not an exaggeration.

No, I’m not putting weight into it, but if we wanna talk election conspiracy, go big 😂

I suspect there are a lot of people who chased dollars with boot camps. They lack critical thinking skills, and don’t value curiosity and learning, which are pretty important to this field.

If they don’t know where to start and aren’t excited by figuring it out, they aren’t going to have a great time.

Elon’s kid keeps saying stuff that sounds like it was rigged too. I don’t wanna be a conspiracy theorist but I am intrigued at how some of this lines up.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-kid-keeps-saying-weird-stuff-about-trump-2000563118

The word for potato is my favorite. It’s so fancy and English just calls it a potato.

Nah, MoonPieTown is America’s wang.

United Tribes of America

Thats a great point. I use the Steam Link app with an Xbox controller all the time.

I’ve been looking into that recently. I want to set up my own homelab server (or at least a NAS).

I will check it out! Thanks! I hadn’t heard of this before.

I got sick of all the ads on Google TV/ChromeCast and Fire TV. Not to mention the shitty layouts that get worse and worse every year.

I got an Apple TV box and it has been fantastic. I still see some Apple TV ads when turn it on? But they are much less annoying and contained to one play. Not mixed in with the app I’m trying to open.