I mean, I used to go to Target here and there when I was in the area of one. But I haven’t even thought about going since they started this shit so IMDOINGMYPART.gif.

Funny that a guy who buys elections would suddenly be upset at the thought of other people being paid to make political statements.

He’s wrong as shit, of course. People genuinely hate that useless sack of shit.

But it is funny.

I was there. I helped win the game for us. You’re welcome.

Sure, Jan.

The amount of money it’ll take to fix all this will dwarf the $150B. By several factors at least.

If a domestic violence allegation is all it takes to get send away, then 40% of all police officers in this country need to GTFO on that alone.

(Not saying domestic violence is good, obviously. Just using their logic here.)

And him photoshopping every thumbnail to be overly saturated and bright with smoothed out skin doesn’t help.

Dead eyes.

I’ve dumped FF for Zen and Waterfox.

Zen’s only downside is that it can’t play some DRM media like some sports websites. Waterfox can, so I use it for that.

I wonder if Waterfox allows this. It’s MOSTLY Firefox but without going down the AI trash route.

I’m still really surprised that the Rockets are coming in so hot out of left field. Good for them.

And the Luka trade. Man, what a bad trade for the Mavs.

My Windows 10 PC’s only function at this point is to play FFXIV in my living room, so I’m not super worried about viruses or anything.

But maybe eventually I’ll switch to Linux on that box and do that weird set-up to get FFXIV running there.

I won’t be surprised if my data is caught up in that even though I deleted my account last year (after not using it really since it was bought out).

I don’t trust any of these companies to actually, really, for-real-this-time delete anything, ever.

“Hello?”

“Hey Dave…wait what’s that noise?”

“Oh that’s my washer and dryer going.”

“Can you move to the other room? I can’t hear you very well.”

“No, the call is on my washer.”

“WHAT?”

I think last night I hit HR38 or so, so I have played it about 40 hours.

And I will start by saying this my first Monster Hunter. I have zero old baggage or knowledge coming in (other than trying Rise for maybe an hour because it was free on PSN+ and that not clicking at all).

Performance: I fortunately have a 120hz VRR OLED, so the 40fps mode on my PS5 is pretty solid. It feels good. No, I will not be taking questions from PC zealots at this time - though I do feel bad for you guys that it sounds like there are some issues there they need to resolve. On console it’s pretty solid.

The game: I’m really enjoying it. Like I said, I don’t have any prior experience really coming in, so it’s all new to me. And after what felt like climbing a sheer cliffside of learning curve to understand how to just play the game, I’m vibing with most all of it now. It was really hard to adjust my brain to think that Square is NOT the attack button, but rather Circle and Triangle. But once that clicked finally, I’m Charge Blading and Bug Lancing all over the place. It’s fun.

I’ve read some complaints here and there about the wound system, but I like it. I like doing cool moves in the middle of a fight for big damage.

The worst part of the game is playing with others. Once you get it working it’s fun to play with friends. But just getting to that point is awful. I’m reminded of that meme of the three dragon heads where the two, serious ones on the left are the graphics and gameplay, and the derpy one on the right is multiplayer. I shouldn’t have to look up online how to do what I’d assume is a simple thing: play with my friends. No one knows what a lobby is versus a link party versus an environment link party versus a squad…It’s all too much shit up front to learn and untangle. It took my brothers and I about an hour to set up a game the first time we tried. It’s madness.

But overall, I’m still enjoying this game. I don’t care that it’s “easier” like I hear from some people. It’s fun. My sword and shield turns into a chainsaw. I’m having a good time.

I’ve never used TikTok other than seeing some posts a friend might share in a group chat. But I don’t think it’s for me.

I’ve tried Loops, and maybe the “swipe down for a new video of someone saying/doing something dumb” just isn’t my cup of tea. I dunno.

“But the algorithm knows what you like!” someone will say. I don’t want algorithms anymore, to be honest.

Hah, I JUST had a conversation with my boss about whether or not I was using the “new” outlook or the “old” outlook.

He’s apparently using the “old” outlook because there’s a toggle switch in the upper right of his window that says “try the new outlook!” and I don’t have that, meaning…I guess I’m using the “new” outlook?

Who knows at this point. It’s all trash.

I thought this joke was going to be about all the cybertrucks needing towing because of yet another recall.

We should definitely use that same AI to teach our kids!

This sentence alone is why Linux is a hard sell for the average person.