You’ve got to be shitting me.

Edit: maybe all these weirdos in the techfash groupchat are experimenting with the wrong nootropics and gave themselves brain damage. They all seem to be unravelling simultaneously.

A new pokemon game for switch/switch2 came out (Pokemon Legends Z-A)

Lots of gamergate smell wafting around gamer reddit, particularly regarding conspiracy theories about reviews. Dudes being completely unhinged that it isn’t whatever version they played when they were 10 years old but with AAA graphics. Real normal stuff to reply about 100x in a day.

It could just be me being defensive about a thing my kids like lol.

It’s just that my intuition nudges me when I come across that variety of authoritarian confidently incorrect guy who can’t imagine people liking things that they dont like (or vice versa), and who will move worlds to enforce their one true take. It feels like they’re everywhere, fueling most dumb internet social movements. It’s like it could be a small piece of a General Theory of Weird Online Assholes.

The phenomenon rhymes with Musk Reply Guys, Music Experts Who Hate Taylor Swift Professionally, Claude Code Evangelists, and Star Wars Fandom.

Hell yeah

Usually you get tech creeps insisting that they could’ve done physics. Isn’t it kind of uncanny when a physicist insists on their capacity for tech creeping? Edit: also thanks for the explainer!

What do you reckon the overlap is between the grown men who are mad about the new pokemon game and our regular subjects?

A hackernews sells an AI powered toy to let kids “talk to Santa.” $100 for 60 min, then $1 every additional minute.

Available at walmart dot com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558375

I get how you feel, but harm reduction is a thing for good reasons

Got a couple of these sandisk players for my boys. Theyre solid!

Incoming Y: The Last Man reboot

Tired: breaking up face to face, like a normal person

Wired: breaking up via text

Inspired: breaking up via the mirror-universe version of a fundamentalist revival sermon

He’s Evil Dale Cooper, but drained of all charisma.

That makes ol pete sound crazier than anyone he referenced

I could never live in a dyson sphere. I cant stand how they stop charging after six months.

A hackernews claiming to be a cerebras insider is calling schenanigans. Not sure how trustworthy of a source this is, but the replies may be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45477162

straight up nazi

The “master race” is a construct that exists in the the future within esoteric nazi lore

Everything is touched by “It can’t be that stupid” syndrome these days, isn’t it?

This escaped containment fast

It will always be the ice cream of the future, never the ice cream of today

Gross :/ how come people have to be like that?

God, the faces. Why don’t the boosters see how wrong the expressions are? Especially the videos, half the time they look like serial killers who are about to sneeze.