He was a Marxist-Leninist in support of the Soviet Union and a member of the Mexican Communist Party who participated in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Leon Trotsky in May 1940.

Fascinating.

Everyone should get a colonoscopy whenever it’s offered adorably.

“Can I pweeeeeeeeze put a finger in your butt?”

/flutters eyelashes

Wow, he fell through an engine block shredder into a molten foundry. And he was improving so much.

From the wiki:

By late 1995, Doom was estimated to be installed on more computers worldwide than Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 95. According to Wilbur, by June 1996 it had been downloaded 20 million times. According to PC Data, by April 1998 Doom’s shareware edition had yielded 1.36 million units sold and US$8.74 million in revenue in the United States. This led PC Data to declare it the country’s 4th-best-selling computer game since 1993.

Lots of people still didn’t have good Internet access in the 90s, so shareware was often sold for cheap in software stores— especially Doom.

I’ve said it before, but I fuckin’ hate this guy.

And don’t forget the secret ingredient: malice.

Guy in the Sky

It’s the perfect demonstration that Republicans were just using the hearing to fish for a reason to punish him because they had nothing.

I know you can import .midi files, it might work by exporting as a MIDI (if possible) and trying it that way?

He’s not entitled to the job; I think there are enough people in the country where we don’t have to run a real POS like Newsom.

Also, it’s theater to pretend like they care about mental health so they don’t have to do anything about mass shootings.

But mostly what you said- it’s incredibly dehumanizing, which suits their grand project of having targets to blame for their incompetence.

Not to be all “well aktually,” but McCarthy headed the second Red Scare. You’re absolutely right that there is a pattern of using the government to suppress the left, I just thought it was worth pointing out that it’s been going on for as long as there has been an organized left in the US.

From Wikipedia:

The Overman Committee was a special five-man subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary chaired by North Carolina Democrat Lee Slater Overman. First charged with investigating German subversion during World War I, its mandate was extended on February 4, 1919, just a day after the announcement of the Seattle General Strike, to study “any efforts being made to propagate in this country the principles of any party exercising or claiming to exercise any authority in Russia” and “any effort to incite the overthrow of the Government of this country”. The Committee’s hearings into Bolshevik propaganda, conducted from February 11 to March 10, 1919, developed an alarming image of Bolshevism as an imminent threat to the U.S. government and American values. The Committee’s final report appeared in June 1919.

I do wish they’d include some CRT shaders on their version of DOSbox though. Lots of those games’ pixels were never meant to be seen by the naked human eye.

Does the “intense physical therapy” involve having an assistant throw a large double-pole blade switch in a lightning storm?

I took the kids to see this one. It was fantastic: good music and a compelling take on the Orpheus and Eurodice myth. Patrick Page has an amazing bass voice, and Amber Gray stole the show as Persephone.

I’ve been working my way through Demon’s Souls on my Steam Deck. It runs perfectly, I’m very impressed with the folks who made RPCS3. I got connected to the Archstones private server too, so I can get a little bit of the online experience— bloodstains and messages, mostly.

It’s amazing how much of the Soulslike formula had already been worked out in the very first game. It feels very much like playing Dark Souls, and while not quite as polished it is still very fun.

I’ve beaten the Phalanx, now I’m poking around at the other locations.

Department of Warmones

Remember Madison Cawthorn?

And file explorer, and the start menu, and the task bar, and Outlook…