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				Friday Fun Thread for October 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's insane.  Its like asking who would win, Micheal Jordan in his prime, or some random college athlete from 2026.  It presumes an obvious superiority because the absolute peak of the game is passing out of living memory.  Europe of 1939 is possibly the most martial society ever seen on Earth, short of Europe in 1911.  Africa is still just Africa.  They couldn't even maintain the infrastructure and institutions they were gifted under colonialism.  You think they could defeat the pinnacle of the societies that built them?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I do wonder what happened with Amplitude sometimes.  I remember loving Endless Space and Endless Legend, although I think the first Endless Legend had some of the issues you describe.  I think I remember finishing the tech tree way before it felt like I should have.


I donno, the whole Space 4X genre goes through weird phases.  Arguably the best one ever made is Master of Orion 2, and it's just the fact that it's an older DOS/WIN9X game, and the fact that it had terrible sequels, that even gives other games a fighting chance.  For the longest time Galactic Civilizations 2 was the MOO2 successor, but then the company got into some political hot water over the CEO's common sense statements, and I don't think GalCiv 3 or 4 were ever as good.  Also the Paradoxification of the genre took over and even good Space 4X games became highly variable on which of the dozens of DLC you had installed and active at any one time.  Because nobody makes sequels anymore, they just make DLC for the same game for 10 years.


At least Piranha games tried with Mechwarrior 5: Clans.  A shame the effort almost killed the company and they went crawling back to Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries expansions.  Not that I can complain too much.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I had to look up what the fuck you were talking about.  I guess Jonathan Blow created his own programming language and compiler just for this game?  I'm jealous.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Qeekly Finance Thread - 2026-10-10
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


so one of my major goals for the next several years is to find something worthwhile to point my brain towards so that it doesn't eat itself alive looking for problems to solve once Mojito Island gets old.




Man, I've got a journal of random game ideas I've had over the years I'm chomping at the bit to make one day.  I don't think staying busy will remotely be a problem.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Vidya Games?


I got Order of the Sinking Star last night.  Well, technically Thursday night, but it took so long to download on Switch 2 that I went to bed before it finished.  Fucking love it.  In typical Blow fashion, every puzzle is solvable when you first encounter it if you think hard enough.  At least I think that's the case.  Blasted though about 85 boards before I passed out around 1 am.  Supposedly there are 1400 puzzles in the game, so that'll be fun.


Performance on Switch 2 isn't great.  I almost wish I got it on PC.  But I just have issues with too many distractions on PC.  The compulsion to have youtube on in the background, discord notifications, etc.  I drag my lovesac in front of the TV and zone in for hours on Switch.  Single purpose devices are good for that I guess.


I guess Jonathan Blow has said some obvious common sense things, because the comments section of every review are about what a terrible piece of shit he is.  In the year of our lord 2026 people are still mad at him on reddit and in game review site comment sections about thinking that COVID 19 was a lab leak.  There was a time when this would bother me, but now I just laugh.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Phenomenal video.  I keep meaning to send it to a few of my coworkers.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Qeekly Finance Thread - 2026-10-10
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There is a serious potential I only have to work for 3.5 more years and can retire in my mid 40's.


The equity I was granted at my new job has already doubled in value.  It vests over 4 years (3.5 years to go), but even it's value now is enough to push me over into never have to work again territory.  The rest of my portfolio, after a very choppy beginning of the year, finally appreciated by my take home pay at my last job.


My work life balance is shit, especially with the newborn, but if I retire when he's 5, that's tons of time to spend with him while I do shit I want to do, like make video games in 6502 assembly.


I just have to hope when the other team comes into power, as they always do, they don't decide to virus bomb my office building for having done suspiciously well under the last administration.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for October 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hey, remember when I stepped on that rusty screw?


Well, after the antibiotics kicked in, it healed pretty quickly.  All better now.


Now my problem is that the antibiotics wrecked my guts, and my chronic constipation has given me a monster hemorrhoid.  The kind of hemorrhoid where you can't wait to get home from work, take a hot shower, and gently push it back inside your asshole where it can heal and stop bothering you.


Getting old is fun.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's fine, they were probably just raping a 12 year country girl.  Barely worth a citation.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 21, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Man, I'm almost afraid to put this out there, but I keep wondering when the left is finally going to discover some new bullshit like "cognitive equity".  They aren't liars who faked all their credentials with AI.  AI is actually a form of cognitive equity!  It's leveling the playing field the same way retards of all walks of life can demand accommodations from the cradle to the grave, and push all the externalities of their misbegotten existence on the schmucks around them who are still dumb enough to try to be productive.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 21, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If only shame was all it took to spill the blood required.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for September 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Back in my day it would have been a mod for Battlefield 1942.


That actually reminds of the Border Patrol map for Team Fortress in QuakeWorld.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for September 15th, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Being realistic, I'm not doing my day job any more -- it's only training my Indian replacements and I'm not that motivated to do that if you can imagine.




They threaten to withold severance or something?  Jokes on them I guess, you'll pretend to train your indian replacement and he'll pretend to work.


Grats on having fun.  I can't wait till im paeudo retired and have time for personal projects again.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean, fundamentally, a vote for AfD is a vote to not genocide yourself if you are German.  You have infinite 3rd world migrants, social dysfunction and degrowth policies on one hand... and human flourishing on the other.  And the problem with being a suicide cult, is there will always be fewer and fewer members as time goes on, where as if you believe in growth and human flourishing, you will have more and more members over time.  Assuming the suicide cult doesn't steal and brainwash your children into degrowth, and/or hand the country over to the 3rd world in a spiteful effort to deny the co-ethnics that refused to join their suicide cult a future.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for August 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You know, I think people really undersell how much stepping on a dirty rusty nail sticking out of a board in the woods sucks.


First there is the moment of panic after the first moments of pain.  You just pray what you felt was "pressure" as Dentist might say, and that the skin isn't broken.  You rip off your shoe and sock and your heart sinks into your colon when you see blood.  Actually kind of a lot of blood.


So off to the ER for a tetatnus booster and antibiotics to fight the infection you are 100% going to get.  ER doesn't want to at first because some illegal probably used your social and the system thinks you got like 8 different shots, including a tetanus booster back in April.  They acquiesce, but it's fucking weird.  Waste a whole ass Sunday you had to catch up on the honey-do list that grows and embitters faster than you can keep up.


You don't sleep at all because the infection is setting in and throbbing all night long.  Monday afternoon all your toes are swollen and red.  You are two doses into your antibiotic course.  Apparently you give it 48 to 72 hours to see how it goes.


And that's the story so far.  Really do not recommend it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That reminds me of when I was reading Alice in Wonderland to my daughter.  When I got to the end, and Alice woke up and it was all a dream, it blew her damned mind right out of her skull and through the milky way.  She'd never encountered a since "and it was all dream" story before, so I'm glad Alice in Wonderland got to be her first.  She talked about that "twist" for days on end.


That said, unlike almost every other book I've read to her, she never asked for it again.  I think something about none of it being "real" took the stakes out of the story and ruined it for her.


That said I've opined for ages that there is nothing truly challenging in kid's movies anymore.  Something that will give them some well deserved nightmares to work through.  Like pink elephants on parade, or children being turned into donkeys, or Willy Wonka's magic tunnel through HELL, or the first 10 minutes of Transformers: The Movie where they kill literally every character you got attached to over about 100 syndicated episodes you'd watched in repeat since before you were making memories.


Man I'm dating myself with these references.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 21, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean, I'm pretty sure a lot of Tom & Don's filler videos have their scripts heavily written by AI.  But they also frequently go off script laughing at how retarded the script is, so I can't exactly hold it against them.  The script just serves as the launch point for them to start clowning on whatever the script is talking about.


Also, Space King 5 at the end of the month, praise be.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Why didn't Candace Owens just join the Left?




Her incomprehensible Gamergate origin story was that she had developed a service that would unmask sock puppet accounts, to fight harassment.  Then Zoe Quinn anonymously contacted her, threatening her if she went forward with it.  And this cemented in her world view that leftist were pro-harassment.


Even then she was obviously a retarded liar.  There were no details as to how this sock puppet unmasking service worked, not even a whiff of a hint that she was remotely capable of creating such a service, or even outsourcing it to people who were.  The utility of such a revolutionary technology has not diminished in the least, and yet it has still yet to materialize from her now that her grift has moved so far past anyone even remembering her fantastical origin story.


And yet, somehow, she has still managed to embed herself in the ecosystem of online right discourse.  Frankly it's astonishing.  She's like some sort of meat LLM that has gradually learned what mouth sounds to make to secure infinite attention, with little understanding of what any of those mouth sounds really mean.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The line between retarded and crazy is thin.  But the point I'm trying to make is still that Candace Owens had to actually hone her craft as a professional liar in the open marketplace of ideas lies.  She had to develop soft skills, coping mechanisms, how to navigate the ecosystem and network.  How many times has Owens been caught peddling bullshit?  How many times has she lost her patron and had to find a new audience?  I think she might be the singular personality from the Gamergate era that is still keeping up a grift.  It's honestly astounding, and speaks to a reserve of grit and work ethic that is rather impressive, being a crazy/retarded liar aside.


Compared to Ardey who never failed in his life, no matter how outlandish his lies were, because he was being kept as a pet by his betters.  Then suddenly he encountered the real world despite their best efforts, and the shock was too much for him.  It was cruel to gas up a retard that much.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Man, affirmative action for professional liars is a real bitch isn't it?  Normally professional liars have to build up resilience.  They have to grow thicker skin, develop substance abuse problems to cope with the shame, get better at gaslighting, or do some good old fashioned mean girl networking.  And when all else fails, shit, this wasn't their first time around the block.  They lay low for a few years, and come back a better liar than ever.  Maybe throw a good ol' heel turn in there for the other tribe, pull in some people who aren't familiar with their bullshit yet.  I mean Candace Owens is clearly a retarded liar, and she manages well enough.


It's gotta be tough on a retarded liar who actually thought all his lies were working his entire life.  Who never had to actually get good at lying, or received the sort of feedback other liars get about how to get better at lying, or what to do when your lies fail.


Truly a tragedy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't know why you'd assume that after all the other fantastical lies the press repeated about him uncritically and without any evidence.  Why would they start fact checking now?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It just shows how little grit younger generations have.  An experienced boomer, gen-x or even elder millennial grifter would have white knuckled it through, and just reinvented themselves in a new grift a few years later.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No children, loved ones or friends?  Sounds like the exact demographic that gets euthanized because of depression long before their health starts to irreversibly decline.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I find myself lacking the vocabulary to describe my growing sense of unease




The word you are looking for is "evil", and I to struggled to put into words what I saw happening in the world around me, or develop any sort of causal explanation, until I reached for that word.  There is a reason there has been a generational project by progressives in education to put that word out of your cognitive reach.  You should take it back, and use it often and proud.  Because evil is real, and that's exactly where your "unease" is coming from.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The fact that even the left-wing of the Democratic Party is campaigning on health care, tax policy, and Palestine instead of racial humiliation is a big deal.




This is called lying, not winning.  The Democratic Party is lying.  Rest assured, when they win, all that's really going to happen is more racial humiliation.  It's quite literally the only thing they are capable of.  Even if they wanted to something else, they can't.  I doubt they really want to.