matt 🏴 @matt@cybre.space

Just realized that I've never seen a Patrick Swayze movie and have no idea what he looks like, so when anyone mentions him the person I picture is Patrick Duffy

If I was a book reviewer in 1997 I would have written something like: "It's an urban legend that Manson got ribs removed so he could suck his own dick, but in his book, he metaphorically makes up for it in spades"

I noticed the library had Marilyn Manson's autobiography, which I hadn't read since it came out. I re-read it all in one sitting because I would have been too embarrassed to be seen checking it out. It was shitty then and it's aged terribly. I imagine it's indistinguishable from any other white dude rock star autobio except with "satan" dialed up a few extra notches. It doesn't help; it's LaVeyan satanism, the worst kind. As shitty as teen me was, I'm glad I wasn't taken it by it. Dude's a shit.

I think I need to put my computer in a box in a closet for awhile. I'll still have my phone, but it doesn't hold the same hypnotic power over me that the demon box does. I've experimented with cancelling the internet before, but I cheated and downloaded hundreds of gigabytes of content beforehand, so I spent most of my time in front of the box anyway. Maybe keeping the internet but making it less accessible will work out better.

I saw thirst and dry mouth described as "symptoms of dehydration", which feels kinda tautological. It's like saying tiredness is a symptom of exhaustion

My favorite watercolor is blue. The other colors are a bit gross. Gimme the good old blue water, like nature intended, mm refreshing 🚿

I saw a bio on DeviantArt that said (paraphrasing) "My interest in art came late in life - I didn't start drawing until I was almost out of elementary school" and it made me really sad

Stephen King was the original horror-ny on Maine

Does baseball have a rule about what happens if the pitcher just stands there and never pitches? I've never seen a "pitch clock" or anything. This might be a loophole that hasn't been exploited yet. Just force the other team to concede. Play the long game. Play the mind game. Once this becomes the new meta, you can just skip the whole boring baseball part and just declare whichever team wins the coin flip the winner. Everyone gets to go home. It's win-win.

We can start referring to people who believe everything trump says about draining the swamp, etc. but also believe pizzagate or qanon as suffering from "the Chalmers-Skinner effect"

Did The Simpsons ever do a bit where it's a standard Chalmers-Skinner dialogue, with Chalmers accepting all of Skinner's outrageous lies at face value, but then Skinner says something about the moon landing, and Chalmers becomes dumbfounded and asks Skinner how he could possibly be so naive as to believe we really landed on the moon

A part of me really wants to play Katamari Damacy again, but another, more correct part of me knows that I'm going to have even less fun struggling with the weird controls against a time limit than I did in 2004. So I'll probably just listen to the soundtrack again.

Oh, you wouldn't have heard of me. I'm Anime Betrayal #11.

Remember that if you have a thought comprised of multiple posts, if you don't thread them (post each one as a reply to the previous one,) it's impossible to get the full context down the line. I just saw a post boosted from October that I can tell from the replies is part of a series, but since it's not threaded there's no way to see the rest of it. I'd have to go to their profile and just click "show more" until I get through the thousands of posts they've made in the last 3 months.

"Window sill" doesn't look like a real word when you write it down

Stretching your calves on the what? Window sill? Really, that's the best you could come up with, "sill"?

There's also a version for the original Gameboy that came out in the US, Hyper Lode Runner, but it is *butt-crushingly* difficult. Like, look at all the bullshit you have to do just to finish the *first level*. Then the second level starts, and... this doesn't look like fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qypnpy0oKHw

The version on the Gameboy Color also seems cool as hell. It does screen scrolling, but the camera's a lot better than in the NES version. It has a world map and a story/metagame in which you're rescuing these big pink dodo-like birds and... growing vegetables? Unfortunately I can't quite figure out how to play levels beyond the first one.

The (Japan-only) version of Lode Runner for the GBA is pretty good. The two options when you start are "Small World" and "Middle World". The Small World levels are all VERY tiny single-screen layouts. I thought the Middle levels were going to be the same visual style but with screen scrolling, but it just adorably shrinks everything.

Also, every time you start a level it implores you to "ROCK `n` ROLL!!" Same, Lode Runner