I had a sort-of similar thing that took me ages to figure out, but it turns out my thinking/concentrating face just looks angry. So people would ask me things, I’d be thinking of a response and they’d think they annoyed me. So I’m trying to work on that, but also I just tell people my thinking face looks angry now and that’s helped a lot lol.

I definitely am. If I’m left to my own devices I almost instantly default to going to bed at 5am-ish and getting up at 11-12. But mostly society won’t let me do that, so I feel like I’m on a night shift permanently.

Luckily I’m from the UK, where you can pretty much assume 100% of everything being said is sarcastic and get by just fine.

This is one of those things I’m on the opposite side of lol. I can drive a manual car (I grew up in the UK where most cars are manual) but I can’t explain how to do it. I just sort of know it. And I never look at the revs for changing gear, I just sort of feel it. Which I know is super unhelpful also.

I have a friend who’s a skater and when he doing a kickflip I asked how it worked, as in, how do you make sure the board doesn’t land upside-down or whatever and he was like, “You just launch off and then deal with it.” which was not at all helpful lol. There must be some sort of logic to it!

I’m sure this is what you’re referring to, but in case anyone doesn’t know, what IMB was up to during World War 2 is an interesting read.

Yeah my gut reaction is that our generation are drinkers, we’re getting older and society seems to be collapsing, so maybe it’s just a “Smoke 'em if you’ve got 'em” kind of deal at this point.

Also presumably it wouldn’t matter if the guy smashed one syringe of the stuff once it’s been researched. If it gets to that point then the formula must be saved all over the place.

Not sure why the organization would allow medicine-smashing man onto the premises though.

As of December 2025, the dad got drafted into the army and sent to the frontlines in Ukraine lol.

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That’s what I assume - like if your studio is going under anyway and MS is the only one to make an offer, you might be able to keep the place running for another year of so, give everyone a buffer and maybe finish whatever you were working on. I would figure it’s not a long-term strategy though, more just slowing the collapse.

I assume they would have been mostly trash, but then also the ones we got instead were mostly trash so I don’t think it really matters? Maybe we would have got some memes out of it at least with Lucas?

Andor was good though so I suppose we came out ahead overall.

I don’t mind going-out plans shifting because I basically sort everything into “Staying in” and “Going out”, and the latter I know is just going to be random nonsense that I have to roll with, so it doesn’t really matter what it is. The one that gets me though is switching from staying in to going out with no notice. That makes me super irrationally mad lol, I need prep time!

AT the start of COVID, I bought shares in an airline because I figured that once lockdown was over, everyone would go crazy traveling everywhere and the airline stock would skyrocket (pun intended.)

It didn’t work lol

Presumably, the kind that likes to cut corners and not do things properly, safe in the knowledge that they’ll face no consequences. Or if they somehow do then the government will just bail them out anyway.

My website is older than YouTube lol

I genuinely forgot Karl Rove was still alive.

Anyway, he’s an evil piece of shit and there is almost certainly some ulterior motive behind this. If he gave two flying fucks about bigotry he wouldn’t have done… anything he’s done for the 30 years or so.

Yeah I’ve been saying this for a while, I think like a lot of other animal species we have a certain way we like to arrange ourselves as a group and we pretty much always stick to that, just with different names. Essentially, we just naturally seem to end up with a figurehead leader and a little group of powerful people surrounding them, while everyone else just does their best under whatever system them impose.

Democracy = a president/prime minister and a senate/parliament.

Monarchy = A king/queen, and a bunch of lords.

Dictatorship = A dictator, usually with a small group (often a military junta or something similar) surrounding them.

Communism = A chairman and the party heads.

The Vatican = A pope/cardinals.

Businesses = A CEO and then the rest of the C-suite people/a group of shareholders.

Army = General/Sergeants or whatever

Even families tend to often have a kind of matriarch/patriarch figure, and sort of arrange themselves in the same way.

It’s not a complicated system and it makes sense why we do it, I just think it’s kind of interesting that we pretty much always arrange ourselves in the same pattern without even really thinking about it. It might also explain why some things like anarchism don’t often tend to work out in the longer term, they don’t really fit the pattern.

Even things like the internet, which started out with most websites having a more-or-less equal footing, we’ve gradually arranged it over time so that there’s usually one big ‘main website’ for each thing, with a bunch of slightly less powerful but similar sites orbiting them.

Man, Doom really does run on anything.