In my experience, they usually take the counter-dad joke in stride, and we move on (sometimes they do make an obviously exaggerated expression as part of the joke). I’m probably an outlier, but I’ve always found “that means it’s free” quaint if just really trite; it’s just trying to be friendly and make my monotonous day a little more fun, and I understand from their perspective that it isn’t conspicuously overused. So I take the joke for its intent (I’ve never seen it used seriously, and imagining a remotely sane human being doing so strains credulity) instead of its actual novelty or cleverness. I will never make it because it’s so worn-out and I know it’ll make most people in retail groan, but I don’t begrudge people who do, since I’ve never seen it used in a sincerely harassing, negative way.

“Nope, actually means it’s not for sale. Sorry.”

Pepper Jack love Fraggle Rock.

YSK about Rules 2 and 5 and about basic standards of evidence, minutes-old account. Does “numerous” here mean “three”? Do you have any follow-up? Or are you just here to stir up baseless conspiracist bullshit?

Mythbusters cast reunion to test this tier list:

• Jamie tries to bust a myth.
• Tory tries to bust a nut.
• Grant (RIP, king) tries to bust a ghost.
• Adam tries to bust his balls.
• Kari tries to bust a union.

Man, am I the only one who sees emojis used in place of bullet points (especially “✨”, whatever the shit that’s supposed to convey; polish?) and thinks “An LLM definitely wrote this”?

“Ayyyy, relax, guy!”

To be fair, in the Raimi Spider-Man world where he’s on his own (it’s implied Dr. Strange exists in a quick JJJ joke, but we can safely assume that was a tongue-in-cheek reference and not deep lore), NYC probably reasonably ought to make an exception to certain laws and give Spider-Man an anonymous stipend. Just with no bounty system – a flat, modest rate to pay his living expenses.

Obviously it’s extrajudicial vigilantism, but it’s clear he’s doing nothing but good, and he probably saves taxpayers tens of millions at least for the numher of common criminals and supervillains he gets off the streets (we’ll ignore the nuclear fusion reaction that would’ve destroyed the city since no one but Peter and MJ can attest to it). Like just give the guy $50,000/year (~$85,000 in 2004, when the second movie was released and it was obvious to most he was a hero). If there’s a conflict with taking it out of the city’s budget, just raise the money through charity and let a trusted third-party disburse it. That’s one dollar for every 160 New Yorkers (~8 million at the time); I’m sure by 2004, Spider-Man has positively impacted enough New Yorkers’ lives for 1 out of every 160 of them to tip him a dollar, and that’s not even counting people outside of NYC that we never hear about.

Imo, there’s no good reason in the Raimiverse that someone shouldn’t have successfully reached out to Spider-Man offering financial help in good faith. Not enough to make it glamorous or his main motivation but enough to keep him afloat. He could even keep working at the Daily Bugle for a while so it isn’t suspicious.

Cards on the table: he looked like a low-rent Replay Mode – who makes fine-enough, seemingly hand-scripted video essays with mildly clickbaity/superlative titles about CoD multiplayer. They’re junk food for your brain, but they’re harmless.

Your interpretation is wrong in a subtle way: this is 50 GB free of a “VPN” (seems more like a proxy) on Mozilla’s Fastly’s infra, whereas Mozilla VPN uses Mullvad’s infra (and is a real VPN).

You got lucky. An Hbomb false alarm is a war crime in 143 countries.

I guess the US takes it seriously when dairy farms use rBST.

Shitposting aside, here’s the NYT investigation this Mediaite article is based off.

No, wait, he really is. The first 80 minutes of his next video, about Adobe, has been available on his Patreon since November 13, 2025.

In another life, I think this kid would be in a disused storage room holding a $30 microphone, staring into his Galaxy A56’s camera, and reading a low-quality, half-generated YouTube video essay script about why Call of Duty peaked with Black Ops.

Change da world

My final message

Gamers who use fsync are not going to see such a leap in performance in most games.

I don’t think that’s overlooked at all. 99.9% of people using WINE/Proton aren’t going to have any idea what fsync is, and almost nobody not using proton-cachyos is going to use it. fsync, itself a workaround, is niche within what’s already a niche.

Well no shit he never came back. He couldn’t find his way home because he couldn’t see because you weren’t pointing the flashlight in the right spot!

Yeah, OP, watch your disgusting fucking mouth.

Same! Right now I’m playing Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore. It’s only $5 right now on GOG (Windows-only, but works great on Linux; even vanilla WINE hasn’t shown any problems).

It’s a love letter to the Zelda CDi games that even gets the original actors for Zelda (intro) and Link (tutorial) as cameos. They got an artist from the original games to work on it, and the artstyle, music, gameplay, etc. are all an homage to the original games. The game’s lead creator had previously unofficially remastered the CDi games and (based on what I’ve played so far) clearly adores them for the absolute mess they are.

I wasn’t sure about it when I got it, but it’s so worthwhile if you get any joy out of the CDi games’ ridiculousness but never wanted to endure their abysmal gameplay. Solid 7.5/10 – where 5/10, not 7/10, is average.

Side point: pirate corporate shit without guilt, but also be adventurous and find alternatives at the same time. Pirating corporate media isn’t directly giving them money but reinforces their hegemony.

Elevating indie media – whatever you find that speaks to you – is a real way to fight back.