specialseaweed
@specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 12 hours ago:
Alright, this must actually be a thing because that’s what my kid said about Date Everything, too. The kid is way into voice acting.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 day ago:
-Shape of Dreams: Need to scratch that hack n slash itch. D4 is boring and PoE 2 ran horrible on my machine. -Cuphead: One of my kids has wanted to play this for years. Xmas present for him. -Date Everything: The other kid wants this one. Xmas present. I dunno, man. -The Seance of Blake Manor: Our family loves these kinds of games and it’s one of the only ways to get us all in a room. -Split Fiction: I hate the price still but my wife loved It Takes Two. Fiiiiiiine.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 4 days ago:
As the dad of a teenager, I am “encouraging” him to put nudity blocking systems on his phone.
oh shit would you look at that i just taught him how to go around me and hide his behavior better im sure there will be no future consequences whatsoever
- Comment on After viral interview, Palantir launches neurodivergent fellowship 4 days ago:
“While cross-country skiing this morning”
While gliding in his k-hole this morning
- Comment on After viral interview, Palantir launches neurodivergent fellowship 5 days ago:
He’s definitely neurodivergent and not drug addicted. Definitely.
- Comment on In the US one can graduate *cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude*. There should be another honor added if you survive a school shooting. 1 week ago:
well this one’s a bummer. here’s your upvote.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 week ago:
There are many of us that skip the local OS and go straight to our own source, but there are also many that use the local OS for apps or whatever. Those are the people I’m talking about. They’re the ones getting fucked.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 week ago:
If for some reason someone turns on the wifi on my LG tv (I have teenagers and their friends), I have the device itself blacklisted from the network.
But that’s not a reasonable level of granularity for a typical user. We need privacy protection laws to end this sort of behavior from manufacturers.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 week ago:
Projectors have the exact same problems. Their OSs are awful with ads, too.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 5 weeks ago:
Replaced the last Windows computer in the house with CachyOS this morning. Fuck off Microsoft.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Broke out the GameCube. SSX3 and Double Dash.
- Comment on Good Halloween Games 1 month ago:
Eternal Darkness for Gamecube.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
How old is he?
- Comment on Psychonauts, 3D platformer with a big heart 2 months ago:
My kid played it in 3rd or 4th grade and didn’t know the game had a “continue” after you lost all your lives. They would restart the whole thing every time. They were like three quarters through the game on one run when I realized and told them.
Every house has a legendary game. This one is ours.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’m a long time Eclipse player and the commitment for a game like this always looked crazy, so I’m excited to play it this way.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 months ago:
When POE2 came out, I played it for a couple hours, hated it, and went back to Diablo 4. I saw it at PAX a week ago and thought I’d give it a try again since I quit D4 and was jonesing for that fix. It’s doing pretty well so far. I’m in Act 3.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 3 months ago:
When I was renting (most of my life), I would find an apartment that was close to my job. I hated commuting with a furious passion.
- Comment on ‘You never want to leave:’ TikTok employees raise concerns about the app’s impact on teens in newly unsealed video 3 months ago:
I know someone that works there. After a few glasses of wine they get real honest about how it’s an insane asylum in there.
- Comment on Calibre-Web-Automated v3.1.1 - The Community Update 👬 Hardcover Integration 💜, Calibre Plugins 🔌, Split Library Support 💞, KoReader Sync 🗘 and much more! 📚 4 months ago:
Thank you for posting this. I had no idea and it’s one of my most used apps.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 months ago:
Fire Emblem: Three Houses. My kid and I assigned video games to each other for the summer and that’s what I got assigned. They’re playing Persona 5 Golden.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 4 months ago:
i think your edginess is really cool
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 4 months ago:
If one had a fetish for masochistic torture of nuance, then yea, you hit the nail on the head.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 4 months ago:
I think it’s important to remember that Biden was, perhaps more than any president in my lifetime (and I’m an old man), an institutionalist. He was a senator for just about forever, then the VP for 8 years. He was 78 years old when he became president. He is an old school liberal Catholic, a very nearly extinct person in the Catholic and Christian spheres.
I think he saw his presidency as a repudiation of right wing reactionary politics. His election, in his mind, was in large part a call to what he saw as the original intent and purpose of the executive branch. To put it plainly, he saw himself as elected because America rejected the politicization of government under Trump. Included under that umbrella of beliefs about the purpose of the executive was the unalienable requirement that the executive not direct the FBI to investigate the opposing political party. Remember, Joe Biden was a senator when Nixon resigned. He was there when Nixon was using the executive branch to attack Democrats.
Biden appointed Garland to the DOJ. Garland’s record was perfectly fine and appeared well suited to the role, but his biggest strengths (in Biden’s mind) was his nonpartisanship and his conservative view of government. By conservative I mean staying within the lines of what the DOJ should be doing, a cautious view of the use of DOJ power. Again, this was done in reaction to Trump and his… let’s call it “expansive” view of government power. In Biden’s mind, he was righting the ship.
And Garland was exactly as advertised, to a maddening degree. He was cautious to the point of being timid. He refused to throw the weight of the DOJ into investigations with political implications without reaching an imaginary bar of fairness that just isn’t realistic. You saw it in the Jan 6th investigations. You saw it in the Kushner deals (and all of the Trump family deals which are obviously dirty). You saw it in Garland’s unwillingness to take on wildly politicized federal prosecutor offices because doing so would be political interference (in his mind). You saw it when Robert Hur took unprofessionalism and partisanship to the absolute extreme when attacking Biden under the guise of a special counsel appointment and Garland did nothing because instiutionalism in his mind meant not interfering with the process.
And you saw it in the Epstein case.
Garland did everything by the book to an absurd degree that ended up paralyzing justice. Biden didn’t touch Garland or any of it because he believes doing so was itself an injustice, even if Garland was wrong to handle it the way he did.
- Comment on To land Meta’s massive $10 billion data center, Louisiana pulled out all the stops. Will it be worth it? 5 months ago:
My first thought was Wells Fargo but they’d burn down a rainforest for an extra tenth of a percent.
- Comment on Steam summer sale going on... This is my haul (from GOG) 5 months ago:
Nice call on Jade Empire.
- Comment on Steam summer sale going on... This is my haul (from GOG) 5 months ago:
Exactly the same here. Loved one. Two was not great.
- Comment on To land Meta’s massive $10 billion data center, Louisiana pulled out all the stops. Will it be worth it? 5 months ago:
Who is WF?
- Comment on To land Meta’s massive $10 billion data center, Louisiana pulled out all the stops. Will it be worth it? 5 months ago:
I knew a very large company that was offered a billion dollars if they would build their factory in Louisiana. They didn’t do it because the workforce could not support the factory. Not enough engineers and higher education workers, but plenty of line workers.
Mets is going to take the money and run. They’ll meet minimum requirements then hollow it out.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 5 months ago:
My 13 and 15 year olds are PC first gamers, then consoles, then mobile. I raised them that way on purpose because I wanted to avoid tablet and phone screens. I could control access better that way.
And yea, also because I’m a pc and console gamer and wanted to play my favorite games with them.
The older one has started playing mobile games more often and yea, it’s Genshin and Honkai. That kid was always in love with Fire Emblem, so Honkai makes sense to me. The stories are all kind of the same.
A friend stayed with us for a few days and they have a 12 and 10 year old. I have every console imaginable, PCs on big screens, and they never left their tablets.
I think once kids get on the tablet/phone/mobile games, they don’t really leave. I don’t know that I would have either.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 5 months ago:
Joust. Easily understood game for little ones, and you can discourage player killing.