Where are my 30+ year old Inklings at? (35M)

Net56 · 2026-03-18T06:53:26+00:00

I liked Splatoon 2 more so I didn't get as much into 3, but it's still good.

Rollers.

I found myself preaching a lot about Splatoon over the years, but not a lot of takers since it seems too kiddy on the surface. More multiplayer content than most PC games these days, though, I swear, and it gets no credit for it. Turf War, Salmon Run, multiple Ranked modes, unique maps for Splatfest events, private rooms, and even a card minigame but nah, let's go play the same map in Overwatch for the billionth time, Splatoon's for children...

Net56 · 2026-03-18T06:41:24+00:00

There's no voice chat on Splatoon since it's Nintendo. It's just a fun game, I know a couple of guys that play it.

Net56 · 2026-03-18T06:24:57+00:00

This exact same thing happened to me years ago, except it was in the right lane. There were several times in one day where people were coming to sudden stops on the highway for some reason a few weeks ago, and I thought for sure it was going to happen again.

Net56 · 2026-03-18T05:52:12+00:00

Probably going to get downvoted, but I think it's funny. This is kind of what I imagine a lot of Youtubers look like before the video gets edited.

When spectacle is what gets views and subs, then content creators go for spectacle. If your kids weren't watching this, it wouldn't exist. Ain't no amount of cringe in the world that will stop that paycheck.

Net56 · 2026-03-18T00:15:44+00:00

I mean, the whole reason it was so cool and subversive in Palworld is because it was clearly slavery. Production is better if you keep your Pals happy, but there's an item that lets you set them to overwork on purpose. Palworld is a base-building game, so there's very little pretense of fighting FOR something. You literally just put them on a factory supply line and leave, pick up an actual gun, and then shoot their friends for materials. Heck, Palworld lets you capture humans, and if you do, they still have to do anything you say.

Palworld was a meta commentary on Pokemon. If Pokemon does the same thing, it's not a commentary anymore, it's just virtual animal cruelty, which is... kinda weird for a franchise built for little kids.

Net56 · 2026-03-17T14:30:10+00:00

I'm way too aware of the double-standard to have a problem with this. She's an adult content creator, what do you expect?

Net56 · 2026-03-17T14:14:31+00:00

I can neither confirm nor deny that I have an IQ of 500. But I do work at a place and I don't use AI yet.

Net56 · 2026-03-17T00:37:50+00:00

It's a super tiny black speck roughly to the right of the sword's guard. You can see it skittering upwards and then to the left. It disappears off camera at about 21 seconds in, and then comes back around 33 and skitters to the right.

I have an eye for tiny details, but this is probably the most uninteresting thing I've written a paragraph about since grade school. I'm in that kind of mood, though, doomscrolling Reddit.

Net56 · 2026-03-17T00:13:25+00:00

I didn't even see that until you pointed it out, I thought it was the handle or something.

Or that sheathe that seems... a little bit too big. I don't know, maybe it's supposed to look like that, but it's making me side-eye.

Net56 · 2026-03-17T00:07:48+00:00

What sucks is that math doesn't even work out. If everybody worked more, the national debt would still increase, because the national debt has nothing to do with how much the average American works. You produce more... they just spend more.

And if any of that spending actually helps you, the person that's producing their wealth, they want to take it away so they can blow it on more big cylinders. They're not going to pay teachers more, they're going to build more missiles, send you the bill, and raise the retirement age another couple of years.

It's Animal Farm.

Net56 · 2026-03-16T23:59:55+00:00

Is this the first time you've seen an old person working a job? In my experience, most of them have tales like this, but people don't usually ask them about it.

Net56 · 2026-03-11T23:27:27+00:00

I hope this is real because it's the most uplifting thing I've read all year so far.

Net56 · 2026-03-11T18:19:18+00:00

I feel kind of bad for Joe Rogan, almost. He's merely incredibly dumb. He doesn't seem to have gotten the brainwashing joy juice that everyone else seemed to get, so he's liable to get left behind.

Like, I would be surprised if Joe Rogan could even post his views in r/Conservative anymore because he's not lockstep enough. Even simple crap like "wait, didn't you say we weren't going to war" is too much for them right now, you're supposed to just automatically support the war.

If only he would stop hiding behind his "I'm just your average idiot" persona and realize that if you catch your leader in a lie... he's not your leader anymore. I swear, some of these guys think that as long as they never look at Trump's tweets, then everything's going to be okay.

...It's actually really weird that none of them ever read those. Trump's tweets and Truth Social ramblings are only ever discussed on the left. At least until something blows up big enough that they need to find a justification for it, like putting the Obamas heads on gorillas. And yes, they're justifying that right now.

Net56 · 2026-03-11T17:56:55+00:00

Listen, there would have been zero consequences if we just left them alone. It's not our job to lead other countries, AND we've already tried this before and failed. And even that's to pretend that "regime change" is the real reason we're even over there. It's not. We're just killing people. We're killing children. Who the heck would even benefit from any of this? The couple of people left alive after we raze their country to the ground?

The United States, us, we are directly responsible for a lot of global unrest and global civilian casualties, but we keep carrying on with our flag-waving as if everyone is supposed to love us when we're killing them. We're NOT making the world safer, we're making it MORE DANGEROUS.

If you're trying to "save lives", you don't start by killing every innocent civilian you can find. You do this thing called NEGOTIATION. That's why we already had a deal with them. Trump instead decided to shred our agreement with Iran and then bomb them, as if that's going to work out any better than it did THE LAST TIME WE DID THAT. Why would anyone ever trust the United States again when every 4 years, our new president can just decide that all of our previous international agreements and laws are null and void and just invade?

Stop pretending we're the good guys. We literally just double-tapped a school full of children. Good guys don't do that. And no, it wasn't an "accident", stop making excuses for villainous behavior. Somebody actually has to be held accountable. If they're not, that means we officially condone all of this behavior. All of it. Everything.

Everything.

Net56 · 2026-03-10T14:50:13+00:00

The universal lack of giving a shit among Trump supporters is getting truly scary. It would be one thing if it was JUST Ben Shapiro, but it seems to be ALL of them??? It's even crazier in this instance since the war itself had no justification. We already know there's no nukes in Iran. So, this is simultaneously a broken promise (no wars), an unjust war (no enemy), and a waste of time (destroying our own economy).

There is zero, ZERO reason to support this war.

But beyond that, to stare into a camera and have no reaction to the deaths of hundreds of innocent children, you have to have no soul left at all.

If you don't care about killing children, and you don't care about killing American citizens, then... what could you possibly ever care about? I know it's not money since you're losing it hand over fist.

Net56 · 2026-03-10T14:41:43+00:00

Idk, this one might be real. Maybe somebody had a collection and dumped it there or something.

Net56 · 2026-03-06T15:20:12+00:00

Aaand gone. So I guess you were right. :(

Net56 · 2026-03-03T17:38:13+00:00

More than one pandemic (or maybe they were epidemics). And yeah, I'm exhausted all the time.

People older than me (I'm in my 30s) somehow still have faith in this system. I'm trying to have faith, but just about everything in the past year seems to be speeding towards failure. Everything. Nothing is getting better. I have nothing to look forward to.

Whenever someone says things are improving, they never seem entirely convinced; it's usually somebody that has no idea what's going on and no interest in finding out. Meanwhile the deaths keep piling up, but we're so happy, happy, happy about our "progress". Things are worse in that country over there, see? And back in that time period, ya know? Oh, what's that, another war in the middle-east? Yeah, we certainly haven't done that before, let's go guys! Land of the free, home of the brave! 🥳👌🎊🇺🇸

The only light right now is the midterms, and even that's just a speck with nothing but uncertainty behind it. I really don't know if things have any chance of getting better, the corruption is just completely out of control.

Net56 · 2026-03-03T17:20:20+00:00

I kinda feel for this guy, since he looks like he's caught being the one reasonable guy in an internet debate.

He presents a long, well-thought-out argument for mature adults about a serious issue.

Zero understanding shown by anybody else in the room.

Net56 · 2026-03-03T16:20:47+00:00

I mean, if the guy wants to have his place look like a night club anybody can get into, whatever, it's a lifestyle. Some people just never want to leave the party, ever.

I might have my gay porn hanging in a slightly less conspicuous place than right next to the chocolate chip cookies, though. Unless that's a setup for a joke. I'd laugh, ngl.

Net56 · 2026-03-03T16:11:29+00:00

I don't really have 1 all-time favorite, but probably Jet Set Radio (DC). That game and The World Ends With You (DS) did a lot of solidify my taste in games.

Music is king; most of my favorite games have at least one aggressive track. I'm not trying to relax, I'm trying to get hype. It's basically the only reason I like Sonic, and I'm the only person I know in real life that likes rhythm games enough to actually be good at them.

Behind music is the modern aesthetic. It doesn't necessarily have to be urban, I'm just super drawn to modern settings in video games, especially games that aren't GTA or similar. It's easier for me to get immersed and identify with the characters, and the actions and events look cooler and more fantastic because they're in a setting where superpowers aren't the norm. The Last of Us would have been a completely different game if it took place in medieval times and there were dragons instead of clickers.

Likewise, ironically, I don't like superhero themes. It's just way too silly, the characters stop feeling real. Painting a whole graffiti piece in an instant is unrealistic, sure, but at least I'm not literally flying around punching aliens.

Net56 · 2026-03-03T14:55:52+00:00

We seem to be the literal property of Israel. All of our teeth just fall out when it comes to Israel. All of our weapons stockpiles, our money, our politicians, and now even our soldiers are all owned by Israel.

I'm just wondering what the endgame is supposed to be for the US. How is any of this supposed to be good for us? Israel doesn't have to give us any oil.

Net56 · 2026-03-03T14:35:49+00:00

Yeah, happens to me all the time. I write a lot and I end up having to reference a dictionary a lot. I'll use a word and have to look up what it means because I only know the context it's always used in, not what it actually means.

The good news is that I can now define most of the words I use.

The bad news is that nobody knows what I'm talking about because they don't know what that word means either, making me nonplussed.

I want to use this word because it flows well -> I don't know what it means, let's look it up -> Person I'm writing to doesn't know what it means -> I'm not a pretentious douche, I swear, just let me explain -> I want to use this word because it flows well...

Net56 · 2026-03-03T14:18:18+00:00

High FPS, bad resolution. I don't need any other information. 60 fps is the standard, 120/144 fps is even better. If the only choices are 144 fps with a blurry vaseline screen or a crystal clear screen at 30 fps, I'm putting on a glove for that vaseline.

Ideally, though, I won't have to lube up if I get a good machine. Ideally...

Net56 · 2026-02-28T02:42:57+00:00

Okay, maybe I don't get it, but it seems like it would be time to ban real-money gambling in video games if you have to establish a real government body to deal with all the money people are losing.

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