The hobo code and hobo nickels made it into the game too. It was fairly comprehensive.

John Hodgman wrote the book The Areas of My Expertise, which has a list of hobo names for some bizarre reason.

Kingdom of Loathing, in making a multi-player clan hobo dungeon, used that list of names as a random hobo name generator, and then named the boss of the whole place Hodgman, the Hoboverlord.

I went to a standup show where Hodgman was supposed to do a set and he had cancelled, replaced with Brian Posehn. Brian was also awesome but I really wanted to tell John Hodgman how he inadvertently saved my life.

Now the details of how you get that specific item are even weirder but I’m done phone typing.

I once helped someone get a Hodgman’s Imaginary Hamster and in return he gifted me a few IRL pot plants (Super Lemon Haze, a damn good strain) that I used to pull myself and my Dad out of a pit.

Game inadvertently saved our lives, and I still haven’t gotten to thank John Hodgman.

(Yes, the game is that insane and silly. Getting that damn hamster requires at least 10 people working together.)

Very good and very silly game.

To prove it’s safe, he will have… Don Jr do a line in a live conference.

Games have been around the $50-$70 mark my entire life.

It’s a sad reality, but I expect prices of major mainstream games to go up, regardless of tariffs.

And this is why the Left can’t win.

It’s too obsessed with purity and infighting to focus on the true enemy.

The fascists, on the other hand, focus on the true enemy, then focus on purity and infighting!

I should’ve put a /s at the end. The joke was too good.

The gish gallop has gone mainstream.

What we needed, twenty to forty years ago at the bare minimum, were journalists who were willing to shut that shit down.

I remember being a child watching the news with my parents and seeing an oil company defender accusing the scientists of chasing profits.

Like what the fuck? How did that not end immediately with “And who is currently profiting?” is and always has been beyond me.

…I’m not sure that’s a great example of the gish gallop. Technically.

My point was that we now report the untrue claims rather than saying, from the start, “This candidate said something completely false and not worth repeating.”

For clicks, views, the algorithm, for profit. Nope. It was all to game the system in order to destroy it.

Sorry, this probably isn’t coherent but I’m tired and tipsy, and I’ve chosen to hit save.

My dad was in Vietnam and one of his squad mates had a pen pal who was in college back in North Carolina. My mom was that pen pals roommate, and they started writing to each other.

That got a genuine laugh out of me.

Well don’t get me wrong, I’m not hoping for that outcome. But I did predict it months ago - nuke Mexico to stop the cartels and migrants and then invade Canada. All built around bullshit, lies, and demonizing truly desperate people.

And there’s the pretext to invade Mexico, or maybe just nuke it.

I’m hurt that you have no Atari.

No, wait, I’m hurt that you said some are older than you and you have nothing from before I was 14 or so.

No, wait, I’m hurt because I’m old and my joints ache.

He goes back to Metropolis.

He owns The Daily Planet.

Considering he’s fucking with the leadership of the military, it’s definitely not going to go well.

Plus we have a supposed volunteer military. Do ya think they want to go attack Ukraine? No. No, I don’t think they do.

I don’t see it that way at all.

This woman has no credibility at all due to her prior words and actions, and even if it were not true, giving a speech in front of the House of Representatives is not the right venue.

So what is she doing? Wasting all our time.

On Reddit, the conversation was usually incredibly angry and rude.

Here, some people fall back into that habit, but it’s usually calmer and more thoughtful.

So that’s what I try to do, try to be encouraging and uplifting when I can.

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