matt 🏴 @matt@cybre.space

Oh, well, the very first episode starts out talking about The Walking Dead and Batman, so maybe my memory of their mission statement is a little rose-tinted :|

They do get into some good topics over the years. But maybe I tuned out a lot more pop culture stuff than I thought.

I guess it transitioned from a show about technology and the margins of culture to a show about just... watching and talking about TV. And I guess that's why I stopped listening.

It'd be an interesting hauntological experiment to contrast the shows from 2010 with the shows now.

In 2010, the only major corporate streaming service was Netflix, and this was before the "Netflix original", so there wasn't a lot to talk about there. A lot of the early discussions were about the possibilities of indie TV and the democratization of the medium that was happening thanks to youtube and podcasts. It was an interesting time.

I wonder what the show's like now. Cordcutters "won", getting video exclusively online has become the new normal, but in many ways it's worse than cable was then.

I used to listen to a podcast called Framerate, which spun off into a show called Cordkillers. It started in 2010 and it was about the increasingly viable option of cutting the cable subscription entirely and only watching whatever was available online (with a focus on what's available "legally", but piracy was always on the periphery, especially in the early days when pickings were slim)

It appealed to me because I haven't had cable in the long time, and the possibilities seemed exciting

Me: This youtube video I made of me explaining some other youtube videos is a documentary
KC Green character: I GUESS

"I'm not here to tell you what to eat," says CEO of food-selling company which spends millions of dollars on ads telling people to eat the food that they sell

@sc SSD died. Windows 7. I have another drive I can install to but installing from a USB drive isn't working.

I give up. I ordered another recovery disk because I'm a failure. Must have fucking thrown the one I had away at some point because it's gone. Looks like I'm not doing anything for a week, yay

This makes me so sad :/

Polygon Writers Pray For Bad Persona Game So They Can Use The Headline 'Persona Non Grata'

I've been trying different things to install my OS for four hours and I want to catapult myself into the fucking sun

@Nine Oh the first one is on 3DS? Neat, I might actually pick that up.

But yeah... like I've accepted that I'll never be able to play Mario and Zelda on PC. It's Nintendo, I get it. But I don't get how many third party switch exclusives there have been. I mean, this is Inti Creates, they put the 8-bit-style Bloodstained game out everywhere, and it did very well on PC! What gives?

Man, Blaster Master 02 looks rad. I didn't even know Blaster Master 01 was a thing.

Another god-dang switch exclusive, though. :/ This is an increasingly disturbing trend

Watching this prompted me to read the book by John Carreyrou, the WSJ journalist who wrote the article that exposed Theranos. Even knowing the basic story from the doc, the rabbit hole is so much deeper than the movie has time to get into. Incredible story and very superbly written, worth it for anyone who wants more details

@witchfynder_finder "The Floor Is Lava: The Video Game"