Brian Larsen
lanewinree.com
Brian Larsen
@lanewinree.com
Mostly Seattle sports, beer, and TTRPGs. He/They. Disaster bi.
And that’s really the biggest problem. Mastodon is IRC but somehow more obtuse and opaque.
December 13, 2025 at 3:33 AM
It’s not the 90s/early 2000s. I don’t meticulously keep tabs on the IRC servers that have channels I’m familiar with.
December 13, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Poor woman looked like she wanted to murder someone in the back offices. Felt awful for her so I am making sure to leave a super complimentary note when we head home.

Customer service. It’s hard.
December 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I was super apologetic, acknowledged a bunch of times logistics are really hard as she apologized profusely for something that 1000% was not her fault. Thanked her for ultimately getting us sorted and giving us a credit I don’t ask for.
December 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I felt terrible because I wound up talking to the same person at the front desk to change rooms twice (first room was missing a pullout sofa for our kid to sleep on) I -hate- having to make complaints with customer facing staff because their lives are hard
December 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This is Microsoft replacing the start menu with an entire tile screen interface no one wanted!
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
How?? How Apple!? How do you break the most important thing you introduced to the cell phone market?? The on-screen touch keyboard is what killed Blackberry!
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I think specifically this is referring to the 2017 Houston Astros, who implemented a video camera-based system that showed the catcher from center field to a monitor hidden in the dugout tunnel and allowed them to relay every single pitch to the batter.
December 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
You mean you didn’t enjoy Eclipse, 1313, the Rian Johnson trilogy, Rogue Squadron, Rangers of the New Republic, the untitled Taika Waititi film, Underworld, the Benioff and Weiss project, the Boba Fett movie, the Kevin Feige movie, Detours, the Damon Lindelof movie, and Greg the Bunny?
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
who is arcanaut studios!?!?
December 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM