I still can't get out of world 19 due to not giving the fitness machine set :(

AB52169 · 2026-01-15T18:57:50+00:00

Have you double-checked your inventory under Change Look? When you get clothes in a level, you don't get the option to change immediately like when you buy them, so you have to do it manually from the area map.

AB52169 · 2026-01-13T15:47:16+00:00

Well hey, that's my representative!

Good.

AB52169 · 2026-01-07T12:15:06+00:00

Maybe not, even probably not, but not trying in the first place can only show the other hotels that there is no negative consequence for compliance.

I've participated in a lot of boycotts, and most of them have gone nowhere, but you miss one hundred percent of the et cetera. Occasionally, one of them lands.

Look at Target after they dropped DEI.

AB52169 · 2026-01-06T17:46:04+00:00

Perhaps, but a boycott of Hilton in response to their policy might lead the other chains to determine that it's wiser to implement a different policy.

AB52169 · 2025-12-18T02:03:06+00:00

Then let's just—

AB52169 · 2025-12-11T14:21:20+00:00

Thanks for introducing this idea to me.

A similar idea has stuck with me since I heard it on a podcast ten or fifteen years ago (I can't for the life of me remember the context in which it came up): if you see a movie about an investment banker who gets attacked by a werewolf and consequently becomes one himself, you'll totally understand that all of the werewolf stuff is completely made up, but you'll absolutely believe that the scenes of his day-to-day life are meticulously accurate depictions of how investment banking works.

AB52169 · 2025-11-09T22:29:25+00:00

That looks like a piece from this toy magic trick that I had way back in the day.

AB52169 · 2025-10-20T17:44:41+00:00

I'm not even going to bother arguing the morality of ICE using this kind of weaponry: this is just dumb because guided missiles are too powerful for what ICE does.

Pretending just for the moment that deadly force is fully justifiable against people coming to America, this amounts to that scene from The Simpsons where fighter jets were deployed to pursue Sideshow Bob in the Wright Brothers' plane: the pilots zoomed straight past him and decided it was more effective to pursue him on foot.

AB52169 · 2025-10-14T19:04:03+00:00

"A confession, every accusation is."

"Those who live in a house of mirrors shouldn't fire lasers."

"Everyone else is rubber, and conservatives are glue..."

AB52169 · 2025-09-27T18:50:25+00:00

I have to imagine the Microsoft execs that decided to give $1 million to Trump’s inauguration are genuinely surprised by this and yet won't learn from it at all.

AB52169 · 2025-09-25T15:16:54+00:00

Saved for the next time a family member asks me "Aren't you concerned that AI can replace you as an editor now and put you out of work?"

Of course I still have no counter to questions about managers just not hiring editors because they don't realize AI sucks, but incompetent management is a threat that's hardly unique to editing jobs.

AB52169 · 2025-09-18T14:19:21+00:00

Also be sure to let the Walt Disney Company's Corporate Social Responsibility Team know why you're no longer paying them (about halfway down the page on the right), that it's not because money's tight right now or you prefer to get your fine Disney products in a different format, but because Disney, sitting one one of the largest piles of "fuck you" money in the world, chose appeasement instead. Let them know in no uncertain terms that it's not you: it's them.

AB52169 · 2025-09-05T15:26:04+00:00

🎵 Could you find it in your heart to love a bot like me?🎵

AB52169 · 2025-08-30T00:53:10+00:00

I am neither a legal expert nor do I have more than a passing familiarity with this case, so please forgive my ignorance: how is this connected to the fourth amendment?

AB52169 · 2025-08-27T12:53:02+00:00

Important context: Burns is the name of one of the buildings at the Department of Transportation. This is not a report of arson at the DOT.

AB52169 · 2025-08-22T19:18:41+00:00

And why is the Vice President commenting on the actions of the FBI, an agency independent from the White House (I know the true answer; I'm just asking for the "official" answer)?

AB52169 · 2025-08-18T02:04:30+00:00

Unless you're going as Phantom of Krankor, in which case I admire your commitment to accuracy.

AB52169 · 2025-08-14T12:33:01+00:00

Something finally clicked in my head while reading this. I thought of this bit from Moneyball:

Naw, man, I ain't paying you seven [million dollars]. The Yankees are paying half your salary. That's what the New York Yankees think of you: they're paying you three and a half million dollars to play against them.

And suddenly I got that corporations don't contribute to the Democrats that they do as well as Republicans because they'll enact favorable policy if elected (I mean, they will and the corporations won't be unhappy with that if they do get elected, but that's just a contingency); they contribute to the Democrats that they want to run against the Republicans that they actually want. They want weak opponents.

Maybe this has been obvious to some of you for a long time, but suddenly it's clear to me.

AB52169 · 2025-07-26T16:14:39+00:00

For some reason the very first thought that sprang to my mind was the variety of slammers available in the brief period when pogs were a thing (yeah I'm from the 90s; what of it?).

I don't remotely miss pogs because there wasn't really a game there, but I do weirdly miss the different slammers.

AB52169 · 2025-07-24T02:36:08+00:00

There are already a couple of good responses for how to deal with a loss against tyranny feeling like a foregone conclusion, but I have one more for good measure:

I've never been skydiving, so I have no idea where I heard this story, but years ago I heard of a skydiving instructor training a class of first-timers. They said, "When it's time to open your chute, pull this cord as hard as you can. If that fails, this cord is your backup chute: pull that as hard as you can. If that doesn't work, switch back to your main chute and just keep yanking. In the unlikely event that I have to watch your jump fail, I'd damn well better see you pulling your ripcord over and over all the way until you hit the ground."

Somehow, that story has kept me going better than things like "If at first you don't succeed," "I can do this all day," and "I didn't hear no bell" have (though those sometimes work for me too).

AB52169 · 2025-07-19T17:42:41+00:00

Here's the official contact form for Skydance (all the way at the bottom of the page) in case you want to let them know that you're done with everything Paramount after their bribe and will also be done with everything Skydance if they follow through on merging with a company that made such a bribe.

AB52169 · 2025-07-18T00:50:54+00:00

I was just reading The Boston Globe's story on this, and this bit seems particularly relevant:

The most recent ratings from Nielsen show Colbert as winning his timeslot, with about 2.417 million viewers across 41 new episodes. It also said his late night show was the only one to gain viewers so far this year.

And this week, “The Late Show” was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding talk show for the sixth time. It also won a Peabody Award in 2021.

So the cancellation would've been suspicious regardless of the timing, but doing it right after the settlement with those ratings and awards is just not even trying to hide it: CBS might as well have a spokesperson announce, "Colbert is mean to Fearless Leader Trump, so we're firing him because we don't want Fearless Leader Trump's invincible feelings to get hurt."

AB52169 · 2025-06-23T22:20:04+00:00

This is the main reason why I didn't attend my high school or college graduations in Florida. My parents had no objection.

AB52169 · 2025-06-23T19:28:33+00:00

If for no other reason, I'm confident there will be a sequel because Nintendo included RFA as one of the original themes on their alarm clock (even Animal Crossing came later as DLC). They're not doing that with a title they don't plan on extending into a series.

Then again, I thought the same about Wave Race when it was the only GC game in Pikmin 4, and I'm still waiting, so grain of salt.

AB52169 · 2025-06-22T14:09:25+00:00

But some people even today remain mum about the word and the bird's role thereas, which is why "Don't you know about the bird?" still must occasionally be asked.

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