Influencers are just fleshy billboards for whoever wants them to shill.

It isn’t a job, it is a resource.

And honestly, I think we are all getting tired of seeing their burning faces and hearing their vapid takes.

Dead drops and one time pads.

Set up a numbers station if you can afford it.

You’ve managed to get the affinity stuff working under wine? I can’t get publisher to work correctly. I just wish they would make a native version. I’m happy to give them money for it even.

It’s hard to make money from Adobe when they charge you £66 a month.

It was also a work of fiction.

Or propaganda.

A lot of 80s/90s TV was selling a lie because it was primarily written by the upper middle classes portraying the lives of the working class.

They had little idea how things actually worked.

See, that’s progressive.

I can’t help but feel this is another form of disproportionate tax. Minimum prices hit the poorest hardest.

I think behind it is an insidious idea that the working class are alcoholics whereas the middle classes are drinking responsibly.

Deaths attributed to alcohol can be seen through the lens of alcohol + poverty, rather than alcohol in isolation.

So this is really treating a symptom, not a cause.

I have a theory that our job is just to get out of the way when the boomers die off.

Hand over the power to the next gen.

Maybe let us have some basic income and our first gen consoles and we’ll be cool.

You wish.

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He was the kid everyone copied from in the older version of this.

Fun fact, TinEye lists this image as first uploaded to the internet in 2015, nearly a whole decade ago.

It has been pretty unfunny for nearly ten full years now.

Is this showerthoughts or oldbumperstickers?

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That makes a lot of sense.

As far as I’m aware, if your TV did start to provide feedback as you played you were in for a bad time.

I guess I’m thinking more holistically. Gaming is often seen still as a visual medium, but you’ll know that the physical set up was part of the fun/not fun.

I suspect you might remember man parties and lugging gear around just to play with friends. In theory it wasn’t exactly easy, but somehow still enjoyable for it.

And I forgot the smell and the heat too. That warm ozone thing a lot of them had going on.

Yeah, when you turned them on they frequently had push buttons with satisfying resistance and a click.

As an object they had their own tactility, often solid and heavy (as opposed to the sort of articulated physicality of most modern monitors). You could often feel the static electricity across the glass.

They even had their own sounds. The hum of warming up, the whine and clunk of being turned off.

When we talk about nostalgia it’s often the sensations adjacent to the activity that we are talking about.

So like okay, so OK, so OK, like so, OK, so Okay, like Ok, so???

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People will knock nostalgia … They see it as a sort of softness, a yearning for the past…

But what they miss is the way that it can create intergenerational connections.

That’s a really lovely thing to hear about your relationship with your dad and Ms Pac-Man.

Wait, that sounds libellous.