Just watched it all and goddamn. Rabbit hole time. Haven’t remembered what it was like back then for a long time. An age of marvels and wonder.

That’s incredible work.

And it makes me remember another gem of the period, Elite! I first played Elite Plus, but when I heard about the original, the magic of being able to navigate all those worlds in such a small format fired my imagination.

Don’t be silly, grandpa. Everyone knows assembly doesn’t exist.

You look great, girl. Really. I’m glad your mum supports you, but it sounds like there’s a lot of people around who don’t. Also, she could support you more.

It’s hard to keep the negativity of people in your family from affecting your mind, even if you know they’re wrong. I deal with that by not hanging around people who aren’t kind, but I know that’s a luxury not everyone has. And my family mostly are kind.

However, it will get better, because you will make it through this, and find people who love and appreciate you for who you are. Found family is still family.

I believe in you. You’re brave, this post is proof of that. You have good fashion sense too, your look is actually really great.

Hold your head up high, you are a beautiful person and you deserve respect, and you deserve to wear fun clothes, or whatever clothes you want, without being shamed for it! It’s your body. Remember that. You own yourself. Nobody else.

Sounds like Australian. Or strayn, as I would say to a fellow denizen of this beloved wonderhell.

Just.

It definitely is, but it’s got way worse consequences for ADHD people, because we cannot remind ourselves to pay attention as easily. Well spotted, though.

That’s what a dinosaur would say.

She literally did, in fact.

Some of the void has been filled, yep, so it’s only 300,000 so far, according to Al Jazeera.

The system. Is down. The system. Is down.

You wrote it, you didn’t have to go there.

Certainly the politically active ones, yeah. Agreed entirely.

Yeah. Games are a different beast, and teach you some good skills.

I would encourage gaming over, say, watching lots of Mario and Spongebob and Minecraft videos on YouTube in a maddeningly random walk where nothing ever finishes and there is never a plot. AAAAAAGH!

My partner’s kid, seven years old, does this. I try to stay sane throughout, and watch along, to see if I can understand why they do this.

I sometimes suspect it’s a devious experiment to see if an adult brain can be literally cooked by its own rage and confusion.

Yep, also drop a hammer into the water when you boil it to break the surface tension so the sphaghetti doesn’t die.

Nah, man. Conservatives are the basic irritation of an old man like myself not wanting to change, because it’s fine. I finally understand the world and then these transes come along and want me to change the way I talk? Can’t they just pick a lane? Booo!

(I try not to listen to that urge in me, btw, and as a result I have accepted my bisexual self, got a cool trans-masc boyfriend at age 46 after a 20 year drought, had some seriously good sex, and gained a lot of fun new ideas. I understand conservatism, and I can respect it in some contexts, but I prefer progress.)

Reactionaries, though, they are spoiled brats. Instead of just refusing to change, they actively try to destroy what they fear. They try to control other people because they cannot accept that anyone else has rights. They are sociopaths, and they control the USA.

They call themselves conservatives, and they hide amomgst conservatives, but they are different.

Yeah, people always confuse reactionaries with conservatives. They are different philosophies entirely.

On the one hand, sure. On the other hand, this is exactly what AdmiralPatrick had in his mind.

Magnificent. Like just leaving an Amazon delivery vehicle rolling gently down into a ditch as you walk away, having stepped out at 3 mph.

Meaning you’re less likely to take a job at an AI datacenter.