Software engineer by day.
Quartermaster of the Pirate Haus Gaming Discord by night.
Only on extremely rare occasions do I tend to repost posts from other platforms, but there are exceptions and this is certainly one of them as I feel this message is worthy to be spread as far and wide as possible.
I was going to post link to the full article on this piece of garbage by a fascist backed company on the Retro Dodo website, but there seem to be referral links to buy this thing and profit from it in some way, so yeah... Won't be linking to that site anytime soon.
instead, here is Time Extensions take on this mess instead:
https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/12/site-news-why-we-wont-be-covering-modretro-products-moving-forward
Still catching up on Resident Advisor's 1000th episode special, mostly because they decided to drop a 7.5-hour mix
https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/ra1000-timreaper
AND a 6.5 hour mix
https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/ra1000-dj-harvey-andrew-weatherall
AND 15 hours of other mixes besides, all in the span of a week
not that I'm complaining
#drumAndBass #jungle #techno #housemusic #progressiveHouse #music #electronicMusic #djmix
I just completed "Movie Theater" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/9
I just completed "Reactor" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/11
Do you ever think about all the good you could do for the world if you didn’t have to spend most of your time selling your labor just to survive? 🤔
I just completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/8
Everyone: Hello, we would like society to improve.
Billionaires: Too bad, go scream into the void instead.
Everyone: Okay.
Billionaires: Also, we have bought all the voids. It now costs $100 to scream into the void.
I thought this was going to end with a https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Nosebleed
I just completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/7
You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.
Nevertheless, comedy is a powerful healing force. My recommendation is to seek out live entertainment. For example, great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up. 🔗 Sponsored Reply (Great Clown Productions, Ltd.)
I just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/6
Oh my word, #FIFA has really shat the bed this time. Whatever shreds of credibility it had are now surely all dust and ashes.
Really, every national football federation worth anything should defederate from FIFA and start a new global governing body for football. Boxing has three or four, after all, why shouldn't football have two? (For the short time before FIFA withers away into nothing.)
A civilisation that contains destitute poor as well as billionaires is an abject failure. A civilisation that contains trillionaires is one that will soon collapse. You've all been warned, many times, by many people, and yet here we fucking are.