Watching LotR in a packed theater, get to the part where Frodo gets just speared in the back by that bigass spider. I wasn’t prepared for that fatality so I let out an involuntary mini-laugh/snort. Guy directly behind me, as loud as he can, screams “Shut the fuck up!” directly into my ear. Murmurs of agreement all around.

Dude just basically assaulted a kid who was quiet the whole rest of the movie, but OK.

My brother and both of my parents will not stop talking about youtube premium with me. My brother is definitely smug about it. We’ve hit all the talking points: How easily ublock origin solves ads completely. How it’s a moral imperative to deprive Google of as much money as possible. How sending one month’s fee directly to the creator or buying their merch is infinitely more supportive.

They’ve never rebuffed any of that and just kind of change the subject. And less than 24 hours later we’re back to a beamingly proud “I got YT premium man, I’m telling you it’s so worth it. You should get it!”

I think next time I visit, the first time my brother brings it up (probably within an hour of arriving), I’m going to force him to acknowledge that we’ve had the conversation before. What YT Premium does to a mf, smh.

The problem is, I nailed it the first time so it’s hard to change the story meaningfully without ruining it. Tried to do a dark urge playthrough, and

I can’t live like this.

I’ll never understand why successful companies can’t just keep printing money, but give in to the insatiable desire to enshittify.

Yesterday, I forced myself to get up four hours early and sleep four hours early. Unsurprisingly, I woke up at the usual time today. This is a dark curse.

People always tell me I need to keep my phone up to date, but every time I update I regret it. Did so yesterday and they turned a bunch of AI bullshit back on. I’m so tired.

They also changed the way everything looks and I can’t revert it. Took me 40 minutes to change the clock on my lock screen from dark grey back to white.

The last movie showed him moving into an awful apartment at the end, I think to show how broke he was, so maybe they’ll hit the notes you’re talking about in the new one.

Reading the comments on this really makes me appreciate Lemmy commenters.

If he busted through walls at random, he could easily hit a person on the toilet who didn’t know he was coming.

I feel like megacorps should have to tag their stuff.

Just saw Hank Green’s presentation on Smartypants about standardizing grocery stores. Was quite good if you have a dropout sub.

I always have a really powerful modern specs PC, but since I try to pick games that maximize fun and don’t try to squeeze 50hrs out of a 20hr game like AAA titles, I pretty much never challenge my system.

For some reason everything stresses when I sit on the steam window, though. Maybe a quirk of linux?

I miss overalls. I don’t think I could pull it off now.

My landlord had to cut a hole in my bathroom roof, and they taped plastic over the hole promising to come back later and patch it. Every time there’s an air draft the plastic rustles, and since I had forgotten all about it I was half convinced I was haunted.

But then the troll that survives will be all the stronger, like kodoku.

That feeling after your 4th edit, when the story you wrote out finally flows cleanly and doesn’t have any snags that will spur an internet argument, then you hit cancel and move on without posting it.

I just realized that the halos were their version of “I drew myself as the Chad.”

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I just wish more of the inevitable billionaires exploiting me delivered common sense services that work the way one would imagine with Econ 101 logic. I’m so tired of integrated AI tools no one asked for and an overwhelming majority don’t want. Let me overspend on a damn fridge without connecting it to the internet. Why does my vacuum have proprietary, non-reusable bags?

He could easily fleece his users in so many ways if he wanted to. Many of us are in so deep with Steam that it would take something truly heinous to pry us away from our game libraries, and the next-best service to Steam is absolute dog shit.

Saying he can’t make more evil, exploitative choices because it would be bad business ignores the fact that nearly every modern company makes evil, exploitative choices no matter how little business sense it makes. Honestly, I’m exhausted by just how rarely companies act in their own self interest and just let us continue giving them money instead of shooting themselves in the foot.