I like to imagine the interaction went like this…

Fisherman: hey there

Boat girl: …

Fisherman, pushing the boat back to sea: welp, I tried!

Or reading the comments under a game’s patch notes…

A term I think about often is “gamer with a hard R”

I was surprised to find out that hunter2 gets censored everywhere.

Huh, must not be censored on .world

Hey man, I wasn’t insulting gamers as a whole. I’m saying they’re the useless collectable like as beanie babies but targeting gamers.

Don’t know if it was on purpose but the other day I learned the word “whore” gets censored on .ml

Hideous shelf trash that is destined for a landfill because they have no value. Beanie babies for gamers

Brother, you’re gonna need to find a new instance if you wanna use bad words. Your comments get censored on .ml

Sounds pretty rad but those poor ants…

I don’t know much about termites so the “century-old” part raised an eyebrow…but nope, he didn’t make that up

The caatinga ecoregion in northeast Brazil has about 200 million termite mounds […] Scientists performed radioactive dating on 11 mounds. The youngest mound was 690 years old. The oldest was at least 3,820 years and possibly more than twice that.

How about that. But that’s in Brazil and aardvarks are only native to Africa…

Scientists in South Africa have discovered the world’s oldest known active termite mounds […] with some dating as far back as 34,000 year

Oh. Damn.

I had a space heater in there, too. It was not enough.

The game in my Steam library with the most hours played is…PAYDAY 2.

But I didn’t actually play a thousand hours of it. In the late 2010s, the heat in my condo barely worked and our self-managed association refused to acknowledge it because “nobody else [was] having problems with their heat.” I had all the windows plasticed up with heavy blankets literally nailed to the wall. I had to abandon the living room and bedroom entirely. I emptied the smallest room (12x10) and moved my mattress and desk in there…In addition to the playpen for my two rabbits that took up the rest of the free space.

You might be wondering what that has to do with PAYDAY 2. Well…the game revved up my video card to max on the main menu so my PC became a supplementary heat source at night…

Good times. Thanks, PAYDAY devs!

ETA: In the spring, the guy who handled yardwork noticed the flowerbed was kind of sinking on one side of the building. That’s when they discovered a leak in the radiator line…small enough that 11 units didn’t notice but big enough for the water pressure to not reach the farthest unit from the boiler…the unit I owned…

Grabbin Bills

Bluesky has a good new user experience, too. Even if you do know about Mastodon, making an account is like"Welcome - figure it out, lol"

I’d bet if they went the other way, they’d get significantly fewer people signing up for the service…Steam caters to both nerds and casuals alike

I’ve seen them before. But the slot is usually as wide as it is long and you use a square bit for it instead of a flathead

What? It’s totally normal to put your index and pinky finger on the outside of a mug handle. It’s not uncomfortable at all!

I’ve got an idea as to why.

I went to mastodon.social and see a Linux meme, some heavy political commentary, and a bunch of posts about mastodon being better than Twitter.

I then went to bluesky.app and see some political riffing, cute animals, a comic, some jokes, a company, and even Don Lemon.

The average person checking them both out for the first time, mastodon is nerd shit and Bluesky is normal shit.

That fight is in my top 10 gaming experiences for sure

No, dad, I need to kill Raphael!

Agreed. It’s mostly corporate slop but sometimes they find an absolutely killer recipe so credit where credit’s due.