James B. Jones

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What I look like scrolling social media.

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One day I will own this. You know, when I have between $700-1000+ to blow on a dope-looking GameCube.

The Panasonic Q was a version of the Nintendo GameCube that featured a DVD player. It was exclusive to the Japanese market.

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Maybe I love having covid. You can't prove that I don't

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My limited understanding of French politics has me thinking that after La Pen’s National Rally party had a surprisingly strong showing in the first round of voting, the people of France went “wait shit okay I know we’re pissed but let’s not get carried away here.” Good to see.

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

TikTok has discovered Harlan Ellison and it is going about how you’d expect.

The only part about Ian’s thread that I take umbrage with is the notion that the American press “can’t” write about how the right-wing movement in the United States is fundamentally evil. They absolutely could. They choose not to, and only in part because of cowardice.

The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society

I hate that I kinda like Threads.

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

Does anyone else find themselves, with increasing regularity, weighing the pros and cons of nuking all of their social media and unplugging *entirely* from the digital world, or is it just me?

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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working

So, how is the "teaching folks about Project 2025" thing going? My mother, who has never voted in an election because, and I quote, "fuck 'em," is asking me questions about registering and voting in Michigan because if Project 2025 were to happen, I again quote, "my blind ass is as good as dead."

The UK election results are fascinating to me. Not a surprise, by any stretch, but it's still wild to see the Conservative Party effectively wiped out due to their own ineptitude.

If you ever see a sudden increase of JK Rowling shit talking on my feed, understand that it's because I am preparing to visit the UK and need to get it all out of my system before I'm in her legal jurisdiction. The bigoted malinformed one-trick psychopathic barely-literate litigious hack she is.

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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear

I know this is supposed to make Biden look bad but honestly same, brother.

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BTW while we were understandably distressed about the Supreme Court and Joe Biden’s situation, a bunch of new Epstein documents dropped, one of which revealed that Trump did shit with twelve-year-olds. Seems like that should be a bigger deal. Page 3: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Time to turn the "Days Since Last Games Industry Layoff" counter back to zero. Tales of Kenzera was pretty dope, by the way.

Tales Of Kenzera: Zau Developer Surgent Studios Announces Layoffswww.gameinformer.com Its first game, Tales of Kenzera: Zau launched in April to great reviews.

I generally stay away from the discourse around Soulslike games because I have an especially unpopular view of the entire genre, and learning that Elden Ring doesn’t have standard pause functionality really only reinforced that unpopular view.

The Heritage Foundation has no intention of making their “second American Revolution” “bloodless,” and this kind of rhetoric should be enough to reclassify them as a domestic terrorist organization.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

That is one hell of a headline.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has denied allegations made in a new Vanity Fair report that he had previously eaten a dog while sidestepping accusations of sexual assault levied by a former nanny in the magazine, saying, “I’m not a church boy.”

RFK Jr. denies eating a dog while sidestepping sexual assault allegations in Vanity Fair article | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has denied allegations made in a new Vanity Fair report that he had previously eaten a dog while sidestepping accusations of sexual assault lev...

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They're shutting down successful studios. There's no one else TO blame. Everyone else did their jobs.

59 percent of devs call industry market 'bad,' blame investors and mismanagement

59 percent of devs call industry market 'bad,' blame investors and mismanagementwww.gamedeveloper.com As the game indstry continues through these difficult times, those surveyed by the Game Developers Collective believe they know the real core problems of the industry.

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if you feel bad about this, think: this second, hundreds of people who are retired or rich or both and have TONS of time on their hands are being REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING in an effort to push policies that deprive the rest of us of our rights. we MUST out-annoying them, by any means!

If they don’t meet your ask you have to make them fucking hate you, that’s how democracy works

Oh don’t mind me over here losing sleep thinking about how the Supreme Court basically put a pistol to the head of American democracy and pulled the trigger.

After a day of quiet introspective despair fed by a federal government that is equal parts irredeemably corrupt and hopelessly incompetent, I am finally watching the Capcom Next livestream.

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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.

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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

Let's ignore Biden and Trump for a moment and look at third-party candidates. We have a college professor whose entire campaign is "Obama didn't give me a job in '08 so fuck the Democrats," a doctor who believes Wi-Fi might give kids cancer, and "worms ate my brain" guy. So... I'm voting Biden.

I don’t even have the energy to shout about how illegitimate this blatantly partisan Supreme Court is. They’re a conservative political organization at this point.