- Dad’s home
- The cartridge is a lie
- Amber is the color of your energy macchiato
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Elon Musk stepped away from government this week and immediately threw himself back into the work of making our civilization multi-planetary at SpaceX’s ninth Starship test launch, which… unfortunately broke apart somewhere over the Indian Ocean. According to NPR, which I am for some reason still forced — by law — to pay for, the “multi-billion dollar” project was a “spectacular failure.” Of course, there have been rocket explosions for as long as there has been experimentation in rocketry, Elon is currently the only man alive who has built a ‘rocket ship that lands’ company, and reporters gloating over SpaceX’s “failures” have been wrong for over 15 years. They are wrong again. And also annoying. I mean damn, be happy someone is attempting something ambitious, rather than crying in their government-funded blog. And be grateful dad's home (doing autistic rocket shit rather than
navigating the D.C. swamp). Now shut up and let him cook.
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Game publishers are eschewing Nintendo’s “game-key cards,” physical cartridges for the upcoming Switch 2 console which don’t contain the game (just an authentication license). Josh Fairhurst, founder of Limited Run Games, said he has “no plans to support the game-key card format,” echoing rebellious sentiments from gamers everywhere. The longstanding trend of digital-only games is coming to a head in the midst of revisionist times: Roald Dahl’s books recently received hundreds of silent line edits, Blizzard has progressively sanitized WoW, and Alicia Keys’ Super Bowl voice crack was erased from history. As physical footprints increasingly disappear, we no longer “own” anything; we are simply renters paying full price. Game-key cards are another soulless ruse which enable Orwellian memory-holing and the potential seizure of gaming assets. Digital piracy may be our last archival defense against an
intangible world of rented products, subject to change or vanish without our consent.
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Bay Area electrical engineer Patrick McCabe has created an app called Solve SF that allows city residents to file 311 reports about issues like poop on the sidewalk (#JustSFThings) in as little as 10 seconds, far faster than the city’s official 311 app. Unfortunately, because nice things are illegal in San Francisco, the city is about to effectively shut down Solve SF when they discontinue use of the API it runs on, citing maintenance costs to keep the API running (don’t worry, there’s still budget for needle distribution / grants towards transgender musical theater non-profits). One resident described the prospect of going back to the city’s 311 option after using Solve SF as “going back to instant coffee after having Equator Coffee,” and we’ll stick with the same metaphor here. Mayor Lurie, please don’t destroy this dude’s cracked French press machine. It may be costly, but the government-issued K-Cups
taste like… well, street poop.
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