What was interesting is that, in a rare W, the Biden admin actually did act fairly quickly to arrange new imports and stabilize the supply. But then they never communicated any of that shit to voters for the upcoming midterms.

On Christmas Day of 1999, I was gifted a copy of Homeworld. A few days later I was treated to a very groovy credits track by Yes, a band I had never heard of... but now wanted to hear more of. So I decided to give this new thing called Napster a try, and my first search was Homeworld Yes. The rest is history - in a real sense, I discovered music that day.

Everything Is Bigger In Texas

Hugs I always appreciated Mr Softie pics, you gave him a good life

A really good pumpkin pie is my favorite. But most pumpkin pies are not great, and so I usually get rhubarb or a chocolate pie.

Skynet is going to tell humans that Q3 profits are going to be awesome if they set off all the nukes.

This is complete bazinga brain behavior by the owners making the decisions, they're just obviously a bunch of snake oil salesman scamming each other. As others have mentioned, no-one wants to watch AI generated slop, so this is just going to destroy a bunch of value.

It's insane that media is basically doing a mass rollout of Elsa Spiderman content.

Building a life and a future history with other people. I'm old enough that I have a fair share of friends and family have passed away, and they live on in the web of my memories, and still shape the course of my life yet to be. I live my life with that in mind, knowing that someday my consciousness will cease, but some positive aspects of my essence will live on and become part of the fabric of a better future. I think just being present and a good person on other people's lives is enough.

I also find a lot of purpose in the creation of physical objects and in sharing all the technical details and instructions for how others can create them. I don't just want to make things, I want those things to become part of our common culture.

A very excellent webcomic, Kill Six Billion Demons

I hadn't heard of this show. It's really interesting seeing the similarities and contrasts between these two. On the one hand, it's exactly the same format. On the other hand, Bill Alexander's delivery is so different from Bob Ross, that it seems almost in a different category.

This Hitler dude needs to read some Anne Applebaum!

One of my big takeaways is how good the sprites and graphics are in all of them. I rarely see Sonic brought up in discussions about the best looking 16 bit era games, but I think it's in the top tier. The scrolling backgrounds in particular are a work of art. I'm fortunate enough to be playing these on a CRT TV using original hardware, and it looks so great on that. And not just the mythical "crt makes sprites look good", but also just how smooth and ghosting-free all the scrolling looks. It makes it kind of annoying to go back to playing Sonic Mania on my regular LCD TV, because everything looks so smeared when going fast!

My opinions about each game don't deviate too much from the conventional wisdom. Sonic 1 is definitely the weakest entry, with way too conservative level design. I don't really fault the design team here, as I'm sure they were in the mindset that "this is a platformer, and so we need to follow the design paradigm of other platformers". Sonic 2 is a way better overall game, embracing more crazy fast level design. I also thought it was a lot easier, I was able to get all the way to Metropolis Zone on my first playthrough (which surprised me, but I think Sonic 1 just really honed my skill). I'm currently playing Sonic 3 + Knuckles, and I'm using the Sonic 3 Complete rom to do that. Sonic 3 is a way more ambitious game, with a lot more crazy level gimmicks, and I love the variety in backgrounds and the miniboss transitions. It's definitely my favorite so far, and the one I'm going slowest on to explore and find secrets. My romcart isn't properly saving the game, so I'm just doing it old-skool and leaving my Genesis turned on for days at a time so I can pick up where I left off.

I'm also doing another play-through of Sonic Mania as Knuckles, and I'm appreciating it more than ever. It is the perfect modernization of the classic Sonic series.

(Also goofing around with Sonic CD on my phone. That one has a rad soundtrack, and I do actually like the very abstract and psychedelic artwork).

Working my way through Sonic 3

Hydrocity Zone Act 2's music goes way harder than any water level has a right to.

I'm very late bloomer Sonic fan out there for whatever reason. My buddy had a Genesis, and some of my earliest memories were of goofing around in Green Hill Zone. I'm not sure why it took me another 33 years to actually try playing them in earnest, but I'm glad I did.

The Disco Elysium successor drama is the REAL sequel

His humor is just saying the most awful shit with a straight face, and expecting the audience to "get" that it's a joke.

They're so fucking whiny. They literally had a trifecta just over two years ago, and now they're acting like politics is over.

Enjoy! It will really help on hills. There are a lot of rack accessories you can get - even just having a basket for your backpack is nice. For locks, I'd recommend getting one of those really long ulocks that are meant for mopeds, it will give you more flexibility with the bulky body tubes.

I genuinely want to know if this is a "representative sample", or if these are all just the nieces and nephews of people in the office. If it's the former, then this is doomer material.

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Lillian 27, Va., white, digital advertising, voted Trump in 2020

Abortions are legal in Virginia

Biden is unironically doing the Babylon Bee's only funny joke.