It was wonderfully awful.
Faced with a whole bunch of users and mods angry because Reddit had just announced that they were going to price third party apps out of existence, Spez apparently decided to do some damage control, and then couldn't manage to be anything other than alternately petulant and sanctimonious.
I never really liked Reddit much, and avoided it for a long time. It was just too big and too shallow.
I finally had to give in in about 2015, because there just weren't any other good threaded message boards left. But I was always on the lookout for somewhere new.
Over the years, I followed links to every new board I happened on but they never panned out. Then, in the wake of Spez's pretentious AMA, I happened on a link to lemmy. I expected it to just be another failure, but I found I liked, and more broadly, liked the fediverse. And the more I looked around, the more I liked it. And I just never left.
Remember the good ol' days, when it was only the urban housing market that was dominated by rent-seeking parasites?
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
They value one and only one thing - gorging themselves at the soft money trough. They don't give a shit about the voters, the party, the country, or even winning elections - they're just going to keep on doing whatever it takes to keep the billionaires and the corporations and even the genocidists pouring money into their gaping maws, even if it means betraying all of us.
They aren't just the greatest threat within the Democratic party - they're the greatest threat to the left generally - even more of a threat than the Republicans are. They're the main reason that Trump got onto office in the first place and the main reason that he's succeeded in doing as much harm as he has already.
And honestly, at this point I'm not even going to be surprised if they sabotage the midterms and keep the Republicans in power - if that's what their big money donors want, that's what they'll give them.
Sort of on-topic - I disable the music in most first person open world RPGs.
It started with Oblivion. I first disabled it because I didn't like that the combat music is triggered as soon as you're detected by an enemy - it feels like a cheat. But the thing I discovered was that it did wonders for immersion, because suddenly the only sounds I heard were actual in-universe sounds - footsteps, wind, flowing water, animals etc.
After playing like that for a couple of years, I got the urge to listen to the music again, so I re-enabled it. And it was very weird, because I had gotten so used to only hearing in-universe sounds that I kept subconsciously trying to place the music in the world - like there was a symphony orchestra in a forest clearing nearby or something. I had to turn it off and have never turned it back on.
I've never even heard the Skyrim music - I disabled it right from the start.
The only exceptions are game music that actually is in-universe, like the music played over your Pip-Boy in Fallout or over a car radio in GTA.
I watched it in person, sort of.
I was living on the Florida Gulf Coast at the time. From the Gulf Coast, a shuttle launch was just a bright bead drawing a thin line up from the horizon, so it wasn't any sort of spectacle, but it was something interesting to watch if you happened to be outside, which I was.
And it was obvious even from there what had likely happened, since the bright bead suddenly flashed, then went out, and the line went off sideways.
Every once in a while I read a theory on behavior that just clicks into place - that fits so neatly with everything else I've observed about the human animal that I'm left wondering how I didn't see it myself.
This is one of those.
Wow... people are turned off by genocide. Who'da thunk it?
So can we assume it smells like some combination of stale bronzer, McDonalds, flop sweat and ass?
And this is why SUDDENLY IRAN!
For some reason, he seems extra butthurt about getting caught lying this time.
Right - that's the new Christian Single Commandment - "Thou only need bother to be somewhat less evil than those other people over there."