I think LAN is still dead but offline single player works fine.

Look man, we work with what we’ve got. We just stuck to the struggle a little longer than everyone else did.

There was a time in our history when America had a very rich and robust set of independent culinary practices, homestead food adapted from whatever cuisine that particular family or community brought with them to America, cooked out of whatever you could rustle up locally. A lot of that disappeared when grocery stores and mass production of food became practical and available. But the Cajuns, being the stubborn French children that we are, just decided nah, we’ll keep cooking up the gators and the sea bugs. I don’t need to go buy meat from the butcher when I can literally take a rifle twenty paces out my back door and sight three gators with it. Hell we had to kill a gator once that I wasn’t even hunting, but he came up on our property and tried to pick a fight with my dog. Well, now we have this big old dead gator laying in the yard. What do we do with it? You skin him and cook him, obviously.

This was in 1999. I haven’t lived there in a while but I’d bet my left nut stuff like that is still happening down there.

We still like the grocery store because you can’t go hunt up a case of Pabst out of the bayou, but some combination of the fact that a) cuisine is a big part of our culture, b) hunting your own food is cheap, and c) most parts of Louisiana have been poor as hell since the beginning of recorded history - all comes together to mean that the local cuisine has remained weird for a lot longer than most other places in America. It also means these same local recipes have been being perfected for 200 years. Your meal might be gator tail garnished with frogs and topped with a sauce you can’t pronounce, but it will be god damn delicious and that’s a promise.

Man I love those. I take email addresses from customers as part of my work, and I see a hundred firstname.lastname@email.com every day.

When I see one come through that’s like BOOTYLOVER69-420@ it makes my day noticeably better. Normalize more stupid emails in business settings.

Amazon happened

When I was a kid we had a dog named Monkey

If you’re already going in for the custom fit, may as well get one you’re happy with

Man I’m the complete opposite. I grew up in the hood, if you had nice things, you wouldn’t have them for long.

Driving nice cars and wearing name brand clothes just states “I have more money than you and I’m proud of it” which is a) universally a dick move, especially when you drive that fancy car past a dozen homeless every day, and b) makes you a mark. Oh you’re driving a Benz? You’ve probably got valuables in it, let’s take a look.

Nowadays I still drive a beat up old car and wear off brand clothes, both because I can’t afford better but I also don’t want to even look like I can afford better for the above reasons. It’s just being an ass and also putting a target on yourself.

So much so that King famously doesn’t actually remember writing Cujo

This was one of my biggest gripes with the JK Rowling Wizarding World before Rowling herself gave me other reasons to dislike it

When this baby hits 8x10^8000000000 fs/Z you’re gonna see some serious shit

Then the rest of us will handle it and accept thank-you’s later.

Yeah, I’ll get right on that, 21 years after his death. I was 9 years old at the time.

And surely, the CIA has never ever had someone killed under suspicious circumstances…

Or engineered said circumstances…

Or blamed an obvious murder on suicide…

On December 10, 2004, Gary Webb took his own life. It is true that there were two bullet wounds in his head, which has raised suspicions that his death might not have been a suicide. However, no evidence has yet been presented contradicting the coroner’s findings, so we have to accept it as such for now.

I fundamentally disagree with the premise of this statement and you should also.

“What we are being told happened here is completely impossible, but no one has presented anything more plausible, so we must accept this as truth and move on.”

Absolutely not. Bullshit. Fuck that. You should be ashamed of yourself for even writing that in public. You’re being lied to, right to your face, boldly and unashamedly, to rug-sweep a set of extremely illegal governmental actions without any sort of culpability - and your response to this is “Well, better not worry about that then!”

How could you possibly think that’s the correct response to that?

Bit late to do something about it now, we missed that bus, but I can draw a straight line from Ronald Reagan to Contra to this to the fascist hellhole of an American society that find ourselves in in the current day. If anyone had held their government responsible for anything it has done at any point in time, we might have shifted that path just a little.

The odds are good when the goods are odd

Ok, well, then have a sleep 10 first. But then extract ze files!

extract ze files!

What used to be an enjoyable 90s temp the last few years is about to become an unenjoyable 100s+ temp in the next few years, it’s already starting

Louisiana?

I’m from down that way and my mom still lives there. I remember getting off the plane once when I flew back down to visit her, and the wall of watery air hit me so bad I couldn’t breathe for a second cause my brain stem thought I was drowning.

480p and 3 meter draw distance definitely was, I can tell you that much.

I remember getting on PC and installing the Longer Draw Distance mod for the first time, and discovering that you could throw a rock farther than the distance between Seyda Neen and Pelagiad. The illusion of distance was only preserved by the close draw range and the fact that you walk at half the speed of smell at level one.

Y2K wasn’t that bad because a billion engineers saw it coming and prepared accordingly. If everyone hadn’t been freaking out about it for years beforehand things could have gone very differently.