I really enjoyed the game circa 2014 or so. The game. The player base has individuals that are as toxic as reputation gives. But the matches were actually fairly slow paced and movement creep hadn't gotten incredible yet. Something very strategic about how the phases of the game went. The heroes were deep enough that you could become good with them on a level that impressed, but not so much so that you couldn't rotate between good "counters" to opponent's choices. I actually enjoyed how long the matches were. I usually only played when 2+ friends were also playing to mitigate the toxicity, but I had a blast doing it.

Bluesky is VC backed and could be rug pulled like twitter at basically any time. Mastodon is actually decentralized, like @gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net mentioned, and won't suffer the same fate. That pretty much made my decision for me. I deleted all my information off of Facebook years ago. Completely nuked my twitter. Haven't posted at Reddit in years. I'm only doing stuff like Lemmy and Mastodon that are actually decentralized and not owned by anyone nor need to pay the piper at some point.

It's not fool proof, they could still bottom out, but it's not guaranteed like it it with Bluesky; where it's more a matter of when than if.

That said, Bluesky has done a much better job of getting the "cool kids" over to it. A lot of weird/left twitter folks went there while their Mastodon account haven't seen posts in years. So, I don't begrudge anyone that goes to Bluesky too much, pretty much all my favorite podcasters are active there. But I'm done with this corporate shell game crap.

Yeah, that place still had a bit of the reddit stench on it, but its heyday was probably the most active I was on that web-site. So many great posters.

On the old Chapo subreddit, the sub was made private for like a day or something as a bit. A very angry person made a lengthy text post that was titled something like "Closing the Sub as a Bit Was NOT Ok"

The State, besides being great, gave birth to so much great absurdist and alt-comedy projects. David Wain's whole career is basically non-stop hits of incredibly funny shit.

Plus, if you want to go further back in Odenkirk's DNA, he credits Janeane Garafalo with getting alt-comedy really going. She's fantastic in Wain's Wet Hot American Summer (the film and the first season of the TV series for sure are worth a watch).

The Larry Sanders Show, which Garafalo was in as well, is worth a mention as a 90s pre-cursor to this type of humor as well. It's definitely still stuck in some traditional sitcom trappings, but it was way ahead of its time.

There's a few things in the 00s that predate Tim and Eric in that same vein too. Whitest Kids U Know and Wonder Showzen immediately come to mind.

Basically, Tim and Eric are super fucking funny, but alt comedy is a much wider world than them.

Happy Father's Day.

Don't know about the source of the tweet, since he took the account down right as discovery began for this case, but here's info about the case and deposition: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-didnt-want-his-latest-deposition-released-here-it-is_n_66133d2ce4b0d81853f9a766

OK, I looked up the Wu thing and now I'm even more confused. Might be officially getting too old to keep up with this type of stuff.

Tough being a RETVRN guy these days if this is the barrel they're scraping the bottom of.

I am a basic RPG nerd, so my favorites were:

• Pathfinder: Wraith of the Righteous
• Baldur's Gate 3
• Super Mario RPG
• Sea of Starts

I also really enjoyed Outlanders as a city builder/strategy game.

I had fun with the gameplay of the base game, but it is boggling they have a cyberpunk game called Cyberpunk and there's almost no cyberpunk in any of the narrative.