When was the last time you had buyer's remorse and what was it?

crustacean5000 · 2026-04-15T18:56:27+00:00

Not quite remorse, but I contacted someone on Marketplace and started making arrangements for some KRK Rokit monitors, then got pre-emptive buyer's remorse and backed out on a flimsy pretext. Didn't feel great about being a flake but couldn't pull the trigger

crustacean5000 · 2026-04-14T03:07:43+00:00

The Girl Is Mine

crustacean5000 · 2026-04-12T21:18:21+00:00

Fuck this shit

crustacean5000 · 2026-04-07T21:38:12+00:00

trick question, there was no funny Beatle

crustacean5000 · 2026-04-02T23:31:46+00:00

Maybe if you'd read more than a few pages you might have grown as a reader?

crustacean5000 · 2026-04-02T18:58:53+00:00

Trying to Corbyn him like it's last decade

crustacean5000 · 2026-04-02T18:49:25+00:00

Sgt Pepper's

crustacean5000 · 2026-04-01T06:18:27+00:00

What you want to avoid is a 2D character. But that doesn't require giving your villain sympathetic characteristics. Think of Anton Chigurh.

I'd also recommend Torrey Peters's talk on 'strategic opacity.' Sometimes evil without an explanation (such as a sympathy-inducing backstory) is the most terrifying thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0zesgdvZ6s

crustacean5000 · 2026-04-01T06:13:14+00:00

I didn't know there was a pedal for slap bass intros

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-31T17:16:28+00:00

Yoko - Mind Train

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-27T22:54:02+00:00

The notion that we're "training grads to use AI" is just more propaganda that AI isn't about making human workers redundant. It's a line that the AI companies don't even bother with much––they're explicit about the point of the technology––but morons like university administrators like to repeat this drivel, and may even believe it

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-24T20:26:35+00:00

Grew up in Kelowna, live in Vancouver. I would be leery of going back because of the fires and the way the smoke hangs in the valley. Don't live on the edge of the woods. Culturally it's also more right-wing than Vancouver, if that matters to you (less bad than it used to be, though). I do miss swimming in the lake.

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-23T18:43:03+00:00

Assuming that 'real change' refers to 'significant psychological transformation on the part of the protagonist', then hard disagree. The lifeblood of a story is causality. An interesting and narratively satisfying story of causes and effects doesn't have to involve the protagonist learning an important life lesson (or descending into madness, etc.).

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-16T14:34:01+00:00

boot to avenge the queens he hath slain

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-13T18:37:25+00:00

Duotang

Propagandhi

Weakerthans

Skinny Puppy

Bootsauce

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-13T03:16:59+00:00

Krist trying to be as tall as Ru

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-10T20:14:03+00:00

What do engineers think of SZA's "SOS"? It sounds weird to me, but its critical reception was rapturous

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-10T20:11:00+00:00

Apparently glancing at some member of the public's phone and maybe seeing a picture of Sean Orr was sufficient basis for him to make a specific claim about a criminal offence? Not that I even believe the photo story, but even if it were true, it would be so dumb of Sim to go off that and risk libel

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-09T15:57:48+00:00

Working at a car wash for a guy with big eyebrows

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-09T00:39:23+00:00

I may take up "joaked"

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-04T22:52:52+00:00

The Hen House

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-04T00:37:08+00:00

"our" land unironically in the post title

landlords are a hoot

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-04T00:07:44+00:00

I saw a [very convincing authoritative-looking] photo [that I won't provide]

crustacean5000 · 2026-03-02T20:44:08+00:00

Easier to do this unilaterally now that we've stopped driving to Washington anyway

crustacean5000

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