Ramblings of General Geekery

This morning my wife sent me this, laughing her ass off, and I don’t like it because I’m in it, and she knows it.

A comic strip featuring two people cooking. On says: "And, to make no difference, add a three-year-old bay leaf"

Listen, my mother added bay leaves, so I'm gonna add some fucking bay leaves too!

David Eby, last month, talking about calling a snap election (which historically doesn’t work out well most of the time)

The “it might work for us” meme from Arrested Development

Another day, another company trying to extract more money out of our data. Today’s company: eBay! Go to your Account Settings and turn that shit off. Well, assuming that toggle actually does anything, because we’ll never know, right?

Screenshot of the eBay account setting screen for "Opt-out from training of generative AI models"

Video games studios: <are risk adverse and want to lay-off people willy-nilly, so use contractors for 80% of their production>

Video games press: “THIS GAME WAS MADE WITH A VERY SMALL CORE TEAM!”

The Donnie Darko meme:

- "We shipped this game with only 50 people"
- "What about contractors?"
- "OK, 50 people and 250 contractors"

That popular post about renaming vibe-coding into “cuck-coding” is funny, but my wife tells me it should really be “porn-coding” because you give some vague instructions before watching someone else do it. 😅


One of the houses in my neighbourhood is ready for Halloween and they’re NOT fucking around.

A house with not one, not two, but THREE of these giant skeleton thingies. Two are lit from inside and have pumpkin heads.

After looking at several options for a website featuring payments and subscriptions, I understand why everybody’s raving about Ghost despite it lacking a whole bunch of basic features: it’s the cheapest option, and it has 0% transaction fees.


It’s amazing to see the amount of time, resources, and energy game-devs pour into CRPGs to get even a fraction of the immersive, reactive worlds we achieve in TTRPGs with, like, a handful of dice and a few bullet points in a notebook…

The Spongebob "imagination" meme