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Meatba'al

@vance.bsky.social

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Writer/Irish-born American dumbass. Working (very slowly) on a reference book about the 3DO. Voted funniest man on the northbound Metro Blue Line.

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Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · Oct 16

BBC announcer voice: At 6pm we'll be showing Sex Secrets of the Druids, and at 8 it's the entire panel at QI talking about Brexit and randomly pointing a loaded revolver at each other.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 2h

Apparently a couple of Nazis (like self-admitted) running a doxxing ring got mass reported, blocked, and Elon personally brought them back within 12 hours.

I've seen recommendations to scrub your Twitter account now if you haven't already.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 2h

Bluesky just got a huge influx of Twitter refugees, apparently.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 2h

a cartoon of homer simpson and ned flanders talking over a wooden fence

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson and ned flanders talking over a wooden fence

media.tenor.com

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 2h

I've gone back to collecting mp3s. It's more work but it's worth it

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 3h

I can't properly transliterate the half-grudging, half-grunting sound I just made.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 3h

I would probably do the least mature version of that. Robo-hump the space junk into pieces.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 3h

Like actual "Hey I'm a Nazi" guys, from the sound of it

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 3h

Musk apparently unbanned two Nazis and there's a big ole doxxing ring run by Nazis now.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 3h

Xbox inherited the 3DO's fan base in Japan.

You're not going crazy; I just wrote that and it's actually a real statement, not a joke.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 4h

That was a hardware generation where the PR was mostly the barely coherent, spittle-crusted screaming of fans.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 4h

Microsoft really handed Sony gems like this.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 4h

It's pretty interesting to consider the niche market Xbox consoles had in places like Japan, where it was the domain of the rare Reverse Weeb.

American games in the 90s had their own section in Japanese stores that was essentially titled "Crap" (Hoge, if I recall properly.)

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5h

This thread is super interesting and I really had no idea about the popularity of XBox being minimal compared to PlayStation and does actually speak to the success of the Microsoft marketing team for convincing us all it was an actual competitor.

America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 6h

With all the Xbox news there's been a lot of discussion about the inevitable death of Xbox, and in a lot of these discussions both in essay and online, there's a lot of reverence for when Xbox was good, the 360, where they were so powerful they managed to match Sony's worst performing console.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 7h

JD Vance loves edgy jokes but I'm not sure how to make a joke out of the provable fact that he's left gallons of DNA evidence in the old BarcaLounger just inside the entrance of the city dump.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 1d

Malevolent lump

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 1d

Our new foster kitten.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 1d

I'm partial to the one where her ass is in the air and she tells a bunch of horny teens "Grab a tool and start pounding!"

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 2d

Years later when my mom started dating again, the guy she eventually married was really into racist jokes.

I eventually told her to call me when they divorced or he died.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 2d

Strongly anti racist.

It was weird that he had a lawn jockey on his lake but this was a different era.

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 3d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like one of those rare use cases for save states.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 3d

Look, you want a job in that office building? We're going to tear it down and you're going to have to rebuild it. You're not getting a free ride, kid, I had to work my ass off and I'm not building things so some future generation can benefit. Get back here and watch me impregnate your cat you little

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 3d

LIFE HACK: Live your life the way you want your Wikipedia teaser to read.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 3d

I got this vision of the cyber nomad, people roaming from service to service as each one gets enshittified, over and over.

Anyway I'm currently using notion.so but they keep pushing the word AI closer to the header every day

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

Meatba'al @vance.bsky.social · 3d

Government shutdown put a neighbor on furlough and I am jealous of the time off she's getting.

She gets paid pretty well so not too many worries there, either.

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 3d

kinda surprised peter thiel didn't smoke weed in college cause hearing him talk you're like, i think this guy is smoking weed in college right now