Relevant: invariably, every year we misplace at least one of my kids Christmas gifts before we wrap it and don’t realize it till after Christmas.

Somewhere in this house, there is a digital camera (cheap temu one, not a nice one) for oldest. Last year it was a fortunately just a couple little stocking stuffer toys.

Bison are better mammals than humans. Especially American humans.

Also they were here first.

Every day at 16:20, xeyes turns red.

Yep. For-profit private insurance is just class eugenics on a long timeline.

America isn’t as racist as it once was, but it has become a de facto caste system.

I think Tupac and Biggie would be friends today. Probably even do a collab album. And then beat the shit out of puff daddy.

We’ll see. The number one thing on my kids Christmas List is Super Mario Galaxy because we had 3D All Stars and it was his favorite game but it’s been lost for a long time. Wherever it is, I suspect the cases for my Odyssey and BotW carts are with it…those cases went missing (but not the carts) around the same time.

So of course we had to buy another copy of 3D All Stars, now at an elevated price.

I’m sure I lost it, too. Probably during a home improvement project. I’m certain it’s somewhere in the house in some bucket I stored whatever tools I was using that particular day. Like, I can practically see the cases in my mind. But I can’t find that damn bucket anywhere.

I don’t like to call it boomer humor. That shit was funny in the 90s. For better or worse, it wasn’t the jokes that changed, it was our reaction to it.

Thinking specifically of things like “Miss Swan”, “The ambiguously gay duo”, and “Pat”. Although I think only one of those was MAD. Still, we (as in the cisfolk, at least) thought it was funny enough at the time for it to keep getting aired.

It’s boomer humor now because our sense of humor matured and adapted…and theirs didn’t.

I use KDE for desktops/workstations and Gnome where I want more of a 10ft interface…like HTPC, or if I have a touchscreen device.

You know what else is bad for society to promote? Billionaires like Jeff Bezos.

I think your driver deserves $5 more than he does. Especially this time of year when they are no doubt working much harder for the same pay they get the rest of the year. The drivers, not Bezos. Bezos is doing the same amount of work (practically nothing) and getting way, way, way more money this time of year.

That’s bad for society.

They look like they are checking out those Syrian girls.

Legit those pockets look like they could hold a small tablet, or at least a kindle.

What if gaming time is 4 hours

I remember not having kids…

Now gaming time, if I’m lucky, is like 30 mins a week. Much of that spent patching and remembering wtf I was doing last time I played.

Not counting playing with them, at least. Though they spend more time watching Minecraft videos than playing Minecraft, so there’s that.

Even the younglings?

You have the same worldview and understanding of human sexuality of an 8 year old.

Either your ridiculously naive or just straight up an idiot. Possibly both.

Jesus fucking Christ. I’ve never read anything so dumb on the internet. And I saw Trump get elected. Twice.

This is my superpower‽

I just thought everybody else was too scared to try something new.

No…but I am being hyperbolic. I definitely interface with more transmasc and nonbinary coders than I do with cisgender female coders. This may also be because, again, cultural reasons.

There certainly are more cisgender female coders, but they are still a minority group by a big amount, and they tend to not draw much attention to themselves.

This isn’t even about gaming, necessarily.

Girls who code are rare. There are probably more AFAB coders at my work than those who identify as female. And a hell of a lot more men.

And I’m in a progressive city in a progressive state.

I work in IT, and I think there is one woman out of 50 employees on my corner of the org chart, and that’s the CIO’s admin assistant.

I’m certain it’s culture, and it doesn’t just go for programming, it goes for almost all of STEM. There was a recent “Stuff You Should Know” episode about toy chemistry sets, and they made it a point to talk about the marketing, and how it always was with boys, for boys. My son, 8 year old kid, says “that’s just wrong! Girls can do all that stuff!”. He’s got it figured out.

Jesus was a rebel. He hated the state. Assuming he was a real person, he was a bastion of hope against an authoritative rule.

Considering literacy rates among the lower classes ~2000 years ago, it’s not really surprising there was a lot of oral tradition until he was co-opted to control the people. And oral traditions usually lead to exaggerated elements, such as miracles.

Think about what we’d be saying about George Washington or any of the other founding fathers, if reading and writing weren’t commonplace, and most of what we knew of him was oral tradition. Hell, even despite the writings, we still have a heavily romanticized view of them.

I know, I was making a joke because Squid and the list said “officer”.

We have the Salvation Army in the US but afaik they don’t do door knocking. They are mostly a thrift store and they ring a bell for money outside Walmart every Christmas. They collect it for charity but will gladly deny charity to any marginalized group like LGBT.

Are we talking about their admirals? Or their ensigns?