Is it… dare I say it… the year of the Linux desktop?

I… don’t think we can be friends.

Protagonist of the NES game “Star Tropics” (and its equally-underrated sequel “Star Tropics: Zoda’s Revenge”.) The picture above is displayed at the end of the credits after beating the (first) game.

I’m disappointed they don’t have Mike Jones taking bananas out of his ears:

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For me, early 2000s contemporary Christian music.

I wasn’t allowed to listen to secular music. So I made a lot of emotional connections to contemporary Christian music. Which is pretty cringe in retrospect. Whenever I’m reminded of it, I have a pretty conflicted set of emotions about it.

I usually only listen to that music that I listened to in my early teens when I feel like wallowing in self pity. But I can’t deny that I feel extremely nostalgic about it. It makes me wish I would have made those same emotional connections to music that wasn’t associated with really disturbing fundamentalist Christian ideologies and propaganda.

A DCCU hit? Can it be true?

Open Source bounties would be an option. There are a few platforms out there for finding such opportunities.

Mario, Zelda, and now Donkey Kong?

If they do more, I’d imagine it’d be one or more of these, roughly in order from most to least likely:

• Kirby
• Starfox
• Metroid
• F-Zero

A few that are less likely to ever be movies, I’d say:

• Fire Emblem
• Pikmin
• Mother

And of course there’s stuff like Ice Climbers, but I’d be really surprised if something like that got a movie.

The above, of course, doesn’t count all kinds of potential spinoffs like Mariokart, Dr. Mario, Wario, or Yoshi getting their own movie.

Oh, and of course Pokemon has gotten tons of movies already. Of course there are going to be more of those.

Finally: Nintendo, do Star Tropics, you cowards.

So put an SQLite database on a Luks-encrypted partition or a Luks-encrypted filesystem in a file.

Lay still in bed with the lights off and my eyes closed. If the reason why I can’t sleep is noise, I’ll put in an ear plug. (Only one, because my other ear is on the pillow and blocks everything out.) Otherwise, I just… you know… try to sleep?

Staaaaaaahp

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Just imagine. Apple could make it a microtransaction bidding war. If you hit the “end” button it says “override caller’s preference not to let you hang up for only 75¢.” And then it puts on the caller’s screen “Tommy has initiated a bid to control hanging up privileges. The current bid is 75¢.”

Say what you will about Roblox, but I have to respect, if nothing else, the fact that they’re kindof an intellectual-property-optional zone. It’s unlikely you can think of a video game that there isn’t a super-shitty rip off of on Roblox.

I mean, what do you think of Steve Martin? I don’t know about you, but I think he’s one wild and crazy guy.

Yeah, ok. I’ll concede Betterhelp too.

Exactly. Day 2. ;)

Firefox, Plex, and VPNs I can understand being surprised about. But the rest of them… I mean of course they were going to milk you for money. Was there ever a time when any of those didn’t?