The grapes of wrath aren’t usually so literal.

Thumbnail looks like he hired Bat Boy.

Kind of a shame it’s just weird lighting on a normal-looking dude, versus being the sign that this is all a fever dream you can wake up from. I say you because my coma delirium wouldn’t involve this many false starts. Comey’s gonna charge him, whoops, nevermind. Mueller’s gonna charge him, whoops, nevermind. We’re going to war with Iran, whoops, nevermind. We’re holding cops accountable, whoops, nevermind. The plague means UBI, whoops, nevermind. Roger Stone’s going to jail, whoops, nevermind. A mob invaded the capitol, whoops, nevermind. Russia’s seizing Ukraine, whoops, nevermind. Ukraine’s expelling Russia, whoops, nevermind. Wagner’s conquering Moscow, whoops, nevermind. The last seven years have been like a story told by a toddler. “And then… and then… but nuh-uh… and then…”

Seeing the figure of highest ridicule - whom I remember reading about in Bloom County collections when they were far from new - fail his way into the clumsiest autocracy imaginable, would not be followed up by this much inaction. Hallucinations don’t start with “Carrot Top became the Pope!” and then level out. He’s declaring a crusade on Gallagher, the Swiss Guard develop laser-pikes, and your childhood dog kills the emperor of Australia. So whichever one of you is having this nightmare, I want you to know your subconscious is fucking boring.

Scansion, people.

Practicing the forbidden art of nex-mex.

Do this for Proust and you’ll obstruct traffic.

IIRC the original Xbox has even worse emulation, to this day, despite being infamously close to a stock PC.

What makes RDR’s emulation struggles noteworthy is that it’s a highly desirable game that still took ages to unfuck. Most nightmare cases for emulators seem to be random D-list titles. Pinball Fantasies on Game Boy had incomprehensible crashes, early and reliably, for no discernible reason. True Crime New York on Gamecube was a white whale for Dolphin despite being absolute garbage.

RDR was a huge deal for its own sake - and it ran bad, looked worse, and stayed that way for a while. Back in the day it was common for emulators to only work properly for big-name games. NESticle and SNES9X absolutely cheated to run major titles. Early N64 development was nothing but. So having this killer app refuse to work, year after year, was a lingering presence in people’s minds.

Finally getting it working, only to have a nearly painless alternative drop, is pretty goddang funny.

Hilarious, after the tortuously long road Xenia took to get there.

White noise is literally random numbers. Your machine can do it using approximately zero percent of its available resources.

In a very real sense, any single transistor can do it, and computer engineering is an effort to keep them from doing it.

Yeah why tell kids about puberty until they’re done with it?

Applying logic to bigotry is a waste of time. It’s just ingroup loyalty. The rest is mouth noises. They won’t be clever noises, and they won’t be consistent noises.

Please put his fat ass in jail when he inevitably threatens the hell out of a witness, ignores direct finger-wagging explanation of how he can’t do exactly that, and then quadruples down on doing it as loudly and bluntly as his meager vocabulary permits.

That’s always a fun game for these nostalgia capriccios. There’s one digital artist who always blatantly shoves in barely-redrawn popular objects, and has a very loose grasp of how time works. So it’ll be a whole bunch of very specifically 1993-ish merchandise, and then also an N64… and Game Boy Color. Not even addressing inclusions that were obviously complete mistakes, like going ‘Nerf was around back then’ and picking a Maverick revolver from 2005. Just asking - why would a kid’s obsessively decorated bedroom, on or after November of 1998, be a celebration of exactly five years prior?

It’d be like if one of these girls was watching The Dark Knight on her iPad.

Accidentally serious answer: a gradual slide from neon Memphis / Googie / Lisa Frank stuff circa 1990, to darker-and-edgier extremes in the late 90s, continuing on to piano-black ultrasleek bullshit being easy to sell to anyone.

Everything became a hi-fi set. But first, some of it had to become a car dashboard.

Honestly it’s kind of a return to the mean. Monochromaticity seems normal. The 80s were an explosion of colored plastic and differentiated consumerism. Someone once said of the 70s, “I cannot overstate how brown everything was.”

Probably on reddit.

Weren’t they fumbling a sure thing, even before that? I thought they were slightly on fire by mid-2019.

Y’know, there was this documentary with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder…

Higher-res version.

Per some prior discussion, I’m pretty sure this is Teen Titans fanart. That’d be Raven, Starfire, and Terra.

Two fantasies - one, that anybody’s been persecuted for posting on what was the most popular communication tool in the world, and two, that a narcissist ignoring his own bills will ever cover yours.

People don’t get fired for where they post.

People get fired for what they post.

“At will” is pure conservative bullshit, right down to the name being a lie that makes “fired for illegal reasons but wink wink doesn’t count” harmful to even discuss.

No relation to Musk’s stupidity. Just picking a nit.

You can’t unfuck that chicken.

We know the corporation thinks it can own a community.

We saw how the corporation treats people who put in immense quantities of work, FOR FREE, making the site worth using.

These dumb motherfuckers made it impossible for me to come back without it feeling like a betrayal. I’m out. Sixteen years last month, and I am just fuckin’ done. Any time I’m there again is either an accident, or an effort to preserve my own goddamn records from the last decade and a half.

Digg losing to reddit didn’t mean Digg went away. The empty box was never the point. It’s the users, stupid. And the people who just want a safe spot to shoot the shit with one another don’t need some fucking asshole deciding they’re doing it wrong. Certainly not if that useless whipped bastard declares that half the goddamn site will be ignored, when they demand the tiniest concession to reality. Do they know what reddit is for?! The whole website is predicated on democratized opinion, gated by moderator approval, and this absolute dolt brushed aside all levels of power, to declare that no action could possibly change one iota of corporate say-so.

K bye, fuckhead. Good luck with your box full of trolls and bots. Hope your IPO goes swimmingly, now that we’ve all seen the revenue-per-user figures putting reddit somewhere below advertising on bus-stop benches, before a critical mass of regulars just fuckin’ bounced.

And then you deleted all the money people gave you directly.