Everyone else: this warm December in Buffalo is so nice

Me: We're gonna pay for it.

Them: no

Me: yes

Mother Nature: Lemme show you something real quick

If you gotta embrace the suck, embrace it with beer.

So this was about 30/45 minutes ago in Buffalo.

I live within walking (it'd be a loooong walk) of the Bills stadium.

You can see the volume isn't the biggest problem right now, it's that you can't even see across the blessed street.

Postponing the game was the only responsible call.

#NFL

Oh HELL no. I ain't havin that.

FYI if you had a net worth of $1Mil, 0.00001 percent would be a $10 fine.

You would be hit harder in the pocket book by a traffic ticket if you were a millionaire than you would the fine David Tepper got.

#NFL

The way I am so proud again right as 2023 comes to a close...

Did this unnamed artist have to make mediocre but also ignorant AF and hilarious and also trifling as all hell content?

No

But did they elevate the game in pettiness?

You god damn right. o7 you mad bastard.

@invisiblecatmom haven't forgotten about you buddy. I know times have been rough and it was a bit of bs with people getting on your nerves. Hope all is well.

Maybe you are still a last minute shopper like I used to be and you are going to have a bunch of stress today.

If so my condolences.

My gift to you is the way I have managed to break my habit and turn it into a mini holiday that I look forward to every year - while also avoiding last minute BS.

In December, take off a random Wednesday or Thursday and do you shopping. Make into a holiday if self care, get breakfast go to uncrowded stores, and take it slow.

It's a much better experience.

So.

The insomniac game dev ransom leaked almost 2 TB of data.

All the stuff you're seeing, the game code, the videos, the files, etc are about 2 terabytes of data.

Now are you understanding how absolutely awful it is when people get arrested for having illegal content that is exploiting people and it comes out that they had like 10 TB of data?

Someone is making a late push to be the dumbest thing in 2023 and I respect the desire to be stupid.

Go big or go home, FAFO, yadda yadda yadda

No going off into forever, no promising kids or marriage.

Just a guy begging to make a second first impression.

If you've never heard it, your never made it this far down my unexpected little mini thread. But if you are somehow reading this and never heard it, give it a listen.

Transport yourself back in time to when that introduction to the boy/girl was the most important thing in your life, - especially if you fumbled it.

Tell me this doesn't capture that moment perfectly.

-fin

I know part of it is that we are so much more aware in 2023/24 of how creepy guys can be, but there's also this pureness in the way he sings the song that him going so hard over just trying to to all to a girl and introduce himself transcends everything else.

This song perfectly encapsulates that wonderful moment where anything is possible, where dreams live for ever, where you haven't seen the others persons flaws and/or red flags yet.

The beauty is that it never tries to be more.

I know it's a fairly popular song and even though it never reached #1 status back in the day everything about this song is exceptional.

If you take some of the lyrics out in a vacuum you'd think that Tevin was singing about something so much more serious.

But the beauty is that in context thinking of it as an young adult/teenager singing the song, missing your chance with dream girl/girl *IS* that serious.

Which is why when Tevin sings so damn hard, it's convincing.

Can We Talk by Tevin Campbell is a great song, and Campbell does an amazing job singing it.

Yet I want to just take a minute and appreciate the song writing behind it. Babyface and Daryl Simmons put in God tier work when they wrote this song.

"But just like a baby I could not talk
And I tried to come closer but could not walk"

Like WHY DO YOU HAVE A LINE THAT GOES THIS HARD IN A SONG ABOUT NOT MISSING YOUR CHANCE????!

#Cosomusic

https://youtu.be/3SoYkCAzMBk

Holy cow. This data is out of control on Navy Fed not lending to black people.

And you know they aren't the only bank, just be latest to get caught.

Doesnt surprise me. Navy Fed wouldn't give me a car loan several years ago despite me making quite a bit of money compared to my expenses.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/14/business/navy-federal-credit-union-black-applicants-invs/index.html

So it's the day where a bunch of super well adjusted people are mad at a bunch of
:checks notes:

... tap dancers?

Ummm okay

It's already time to log off the Internet for todsy. Y'all wild.

🤣🤣

Finish that hobby of yours.

Do it completion.

It doesn't have to be perfect, it probably will never be perfect. But by God finish it.

As this world demands more and more from each of us, and returns less satisfaction, finishing something that brings YOU joy has so much power.

Finish writing that song. Finish that sweater that you stopped working on. Finish the book you started during the lockdown.