Yeah I don't really like it either, but TBH things are so bad that just destroying the Tories is good enough for me this time around.

Hopefully they'll be radioactively unelectable for a really long time, and we can push it in a better direction over the next couple of elections.

Bernie will be 87 in 2028.

Oh.

Disco Elysium is 90% off. $54.49 $4.54 (that's in Canadian, not sure about the US price exactly.)

I honestly couldn't even tell you what it's about, but it's one of my favourite games ever. You can die from reading a book that's too sad and if you do it right, you can smell communism.

On the stream of the debate I was watching, when they took a break they showed clips from previous debates and the difference was kind of mind-blowing.

I honestly kind of think that even a mid-level candidate who didn't make it like Romney or Kerry probably could have mopped the floor with either one of them.

Also as a side note, how lucky is Donald Trump? Just a whole life of being handed infinite money no matter how many times he fucked up a business, a bewildering assortment of crimes with essentially no hard consequences, and two presidential runs against pretty much the only two people he has any chance of beating in a debate.

He's had a life of almost non-stop softballs. It's kind of wild really.

I have a Firefox plugin called Tranquility Reader, which basically strips out all the ads and bullshit and gives you the article as just plain text on a white background. It also has the option to save the page as a pdf, so if I want to read something later I just do that.

Could they not just image search American manhole covers?

Non-American here!

I've visited America a bunch of times and I really like it as a place, they have amazing scenery pretty much everywhere you look, and just about every individual American I've met has been really nice.

BUT...

I'd never want to live there. Their healthcare system is insane (sorry Americans but it is) and politically as a nation they're pretty bonkers. Guns, religion, general sort of global belligerence etc.

Also as an aside, San Francisco is genuinely one of the strangest places I've ever been to. I dunno if I was just there at a weird time, but it seemed like every single person there was either a millionaire or homeless. Absolutely nothing in between.

Then we enter the Kamala Harris vs Marco Rubio presidential timeline lol

Sometimes that can happen with a joke - like it's kind of mid when you first tell it, then you keep pushing it and everyone hates it, then at a certain point something breaks and it becomes the funniest thing ever for some inexplicable reason. Not saying that's what happened with with this joke necessarily, but it is possible! Old Family Guy used to do it quite well sometimes I think.

It's the opposite of the Lil' Sebastian thing, where there's that horse that everyone idolizes for no discernible reason. Although with that, there's the one character who doesn't understand why they do that, so maybe that's what the Jerry thing needed? Or perhaps that would have made it even sadder lol.

These days, I feel like most MMOs are just like trying to play a single player game but with other people getting in the way and/or breaking your shit while calling you an array of slurs.

Kind of like playing a regular game on extra extra difficult mode.

I think the summer sale starts tomorrow, definitely gonna add a few more to the old backlog lol

I can't imagine a faster way to turn the public against you than to take a potshot at David Tennant lol.

I think the thing with Arch is that it's very customizable, so it's essentially as complicated as you make it. If you just install the base and Firefox and Libreoffice, and never mess with the AUR or touch anything else, then you'll most likely never have much trouble. If you're like me and you turn it into an unholy mishmash of base packages, AUR, flatpaks, Appimages, Docker containers, VMs and lashed-together Wine things, you'll have a huge teetering pile of spinning plates that requires constant fiddling lol. But that is very much by design.

The only confirmed bow and arrow kill of WW2!

I also remember the TARDIS moving Earth back to its proper place by just dragging it across the galaxy like a tow truck lol.

IIRC he had some kind of insurance file against that, I think there used to be some encrypted file you could download from Wikileaks and if he died the password would be released.

No idea what it was (if anything, it could have just been a bluff of course) but it seems to have had the desired effect so far.

I hope it stays dark forever
I hope the worst isn't over
And I hope you blink before I do
I hope I never get sober

...

I am drowning
There is no sign of land
You are coming down with me
Hand in unlovable hand
And I hope you die
I hope we both die

It's fun watching people react to this season, because to me it seems like a classic textbook RTD bit of Doctor Who:

• Veers wildly between episodes that are almost unwatchable and some of the best episodes the show has ever had.
• Is absolutely bonkers throughout.
• Gay as all hell and completely unapolagetic about it.
• Finale that writes itself into an awkward spot, then handwaves a bunch of stuff away and hits the Big Reset Button^TM.
• Creates more David Tennants.
• Digs up a 50+ year old villain that nobody was thinking about for purely RTD reasons.
• Villain hiding behind an anagram, also for RTD reasons.

It's everything I'd hoped it would be lol