Was a long night. Thought Blue had a stroke, no vets open, couldn't get him to one until 11:20. Stroke isn't 100% ruled out, but vet is leaning vestibular disease, which is a more preferable outcome. Send good vibes to old man pupper.

Sadly, I don't expect much because of the FrEe MaRkEt crowd, but we all know this hasn't been stimulus fueled inflation. Greed is, in fact, not good.

Yeah, going Trump cult for a dem isn't a good thing and I saw people playing that back in 2020 when she couldn't even get 1% in primaries. Lot of the Israel stuff is latent corruption at play, sadly. There are also the powers that want war no matter what.

It's the curse of centrists suspiciously leaning right on things, isn't it...

It's gotten pretty exhausting warning people about stuff over a decade ago just for them to be like, "Don't tell me how to spend my money!" and here we are, reaping, sowing, etc..

If the enshittification of all other media wasn't a thing, folks could have some other reasonable outlets, too. But seriously, gaming only suffers if we turn it into a rich guy hobby.

I don't really want to hear how it's okay because these are ackshully luxury goods. Sorry, but gaming offers too much to be just seen as that. Art, education, and fostering social connections are all benefits. Yes, there are garbage game(r)s, but let's not chuck the baby with the bathwater.

Gamer brain be like, "I don't want to hear about prices being justfied because of inflation!" when the federal minimum wage is roughly 1/4th what it should be. Was $4.25 when I started working in the 90's. It's only a dollar higher now. Your console being 2.5x more expensive doesn't add up.

At this point you're probably better off finding an RL pic you like and running it through some photoshop filters to tailor it more to you needs. :/

Me eternally wishing for the left-wing Republicans claim Democrats are and not the center-right they tend to be...