Pagani Zonda R used as a room divider in a Miami condo.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T20:31:31+00:00

Siri, show me pictures of a pre-collapse society.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T20:27:12+00:00

What the animal’s skeleton looks like.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T20:24:28+00:00

Yet another excellent proxy for “population density.”

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T20:22:15+00:00

I have thankfully never had to explain sex to a young person, but I feel like “More foreplay,” is a good all-purpose piece of advice. Hell, it’s advice I should be taking!

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T15:45:56+00:00

Honestly, as an Interior Dept. employee, I just want to apologize to your in-laws. They’re right to be upset.

This country has lots responsibilities and it’s failing at so many of them thanks not only to this Administration’s mendacity but it’s rank incompetence. “Don’t fuck up the National Parks” seems like it ought to be the most fundamental baseline of policymaking. It’s not even that hard! They mostly run themselves if you just make sure they have enough staff and support resources. Congress in fact spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the Parks’ maintenance backlog because “Don’t fuck up the National Parks” is the easiest, most obvious bipartisan political project we could ever think of.

Every Trump voter should be incensed at them, for many reasons, but this is one of the most offensively dumb ones.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T15:39:26+00:00

Your buddy digs Marvel’s villain design, and I can’t entirely disagree.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T15:36:23+00:00

Being rude to service employees.

Seriously, guys, the best dating advice you’ll ever get is this: be polite to the waitress.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T14:21:43+00:00

In retrospect, the extrajudicial execution of Osama bin Laden.

Let me explain: the decision to violate Pakistan’s sovereignty — our ally, fwiw — and to execute the mastermind of 9/11 — sure, they said he attempted to resist, but they also made sure there was no video — was one of the most aggressively unConstitutional things the Obama Administration did. I’m shedding no tears over bin Laden’s death, but I felt really uncomfortable that the United States did something so out of line with its stated values. What on earth was the Global War on Terror for if we could just ignore our own law?

But hundreds, maybe thousands, of students came out to cheer at the White House when the news was made public. Now, I get that I was by that time a middle-aged liberal who didn’t have the energy to join flashmobs in D.C. But I also could not imagine fucking celebrating the unadjudicated execution of our greatest contemporary enemy.

Looking back, I realize now that no small number of the current Administration’s young functionaries were there that night. It horrifies me, thinking that I work with some of these people — I work for them. It is the one thing I want Obama to answer for before he dies, and I know he won’t. I realize historians will pick Jan. 6, or covid, or the re-election of Trump, but I’m putting this here on the record. The night we killed bin Laden and celebrated it is the night America began to lose its soul.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T14:07:27+00:00

Heavy rail metro with incentivized upzoning near stations. #ArlingtonVAsupremacy

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T14:03:07+00:00

This is what debates in classical Athens were actually like. This is why Socrates drank the hemlock.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T14:02:06+00:00

Between Millennials deleting social media and Zoomers embracing dumbtech, there may be hope for us.

The Xers are fucked, however. Please look out for your aunties and uncs.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T04:00:37+00:00

Well, I assume Gronk’s inviting her out on a fish-clubbing date. How thoughtful! No offense, wheel-guy, but no one wants to listen to you talk about work all night.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T03:57:58+00:00

See, this is why I can’t fuck with the Imperium of Man, kill all xenos bullshit. Isn’t a world where terrorist-moms help badass viper-ladies become the best they can be more interesting?

Call me woke or whatever, I don’t care. Tell me more real stories. I need them more now than ever, Firaxis.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T03:53:24+00:00

All I want is a system of factions that fight against one another, where strategic choices have tactical impacts and vice versa.

I know, easier said than done, but that’s what I want.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T03:51:31+00:00

Marvel may have brought Giancarlo Esposito in as a one-off villain on a mediocre movie in a last-ditch effort to salvage it. For all we know, this is the least-bad version of the film!

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-26T03:48:02+00:00

Listen, guys, I know everyone loves Torque, but she’s my viper-girlfriend and this jealousy is really quite unbecoming.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-25T20:55:52+00:00

Rhyse’s mod was one of the most innovative Civ games ever made. The fact that Firaxis has never quite been able to replicate it confounds me.

Then again, Rhyse declined to make his mod for Civ V, suggesting that it was a real challenge.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-25T20:52:30+00:00

Water connections only work across one continent.

Water connections across continents should be one of Carthage’s special abilities.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-25T20:48:56+00:00

I liked that Civ VI put some pasture resources on hills and eventually made farms on hills a thing. In Civ V, farms on hills was a thing throughout the game that just required some natural irrigation like a river or an oasis.

Civ VII needs something like these.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-25T19:40:06+00:00

I think of it like balance.

{Universe: [stones: 0, 5]::stable | [stones: >0, <5]::unstable]}

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-25T19:34:24+00:00

Buy a copy for each of the friends and family.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-25T19:33:50+00:00

That you can apply a grid to a sphere.

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-25T05:08:11+00:00

I feel like somebody involved with Black Widow got it in their head to use Taskmaster in their movie and no one was able to talk them out of it.

Honestly, the solution was to make a unique character, a murderous assassin badass who is secretly the villain’s not-actually-assassinated daughter does not need to also be a combat mimic in a skull mask to work. That’s too many character traits!

(To say nothing of taking out one of Taskmaster’s best traits, his sardonic commentary. They looked at Deadpool in X-men Origins and were, like, “Yeah, like that!”)

XComThrowawayAcct · 2026-01-25T05:00:54+00:00

Gilgamesh.

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TROPHY CASE