Boozilla
@Boozilla@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon delivers a prophecy 1 week ago:
I’m a big fan of Steam, but gog.com also exists, and people should always try to figure out how to preserve copies of their games and media in a self-hosted way wherever possible.
I know with some games it’s not possible because of requiring signons, etc, but even those sometimes get cracked (people run their own WoW servers, etc).
I always download and/or sideload everything I can. My e-books, my music, and my games.
I have been negligent about shows and movies because once I watch them I tend to not watch them again. But, I have friends with extensive video libraries that they built up over the years.
It’s harder now because storage is so fucking expensive. But don’t accept the default mode that your shit has to live in the cloud. The cloud is just somebody else’s storage.
- Comment on Anon delivers a prophecy 1 week ago:
They said the trending thing and got reflexive upvotes. That’s all it was.
- Comment on Anons Discuss Low IQ Insects 1 month ago:
Yup, nature is absolutely brutal, and humans in particular are highly callous and destructive at large scales. Things like empathy only exist at smaller scales.
- Comment on Anons Discuss Low IQ Insects 1 month ago:
I am very bad at these kinds of games, so I want to believe this.
Meanwhile, I’m going to go hover around this light bulb until someone turns it off or I die from dehydration.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 1 month ago:
Cooking isn’t hard, just burn the house down like the rest of us idiots!
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 1 month ago:
Feel this in my bones. I enjoy reading books, but they go down the memory hole fast for me, especially names.
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 1 month ago:
Sex, relationships, and loneliness are all distinct domains. There’s important overlap to be sure. But they are not the same things. You can be a casanova and still be lonely. You can be stuck in a bad marriage and feel very lonely indeed.
I think a lot of modern people (regardless of gender identity) have problems making and keeping friends, too. Long-term friendships take work, sacrifice, and compromise. It’s not just compatible interests and personalities.
- Comment on Life is hard 1 month ago:
Yup. The inside of the windshield gradually gets cloudy from all the plastics inside the vehicle slowly off-gassing. Soapy water, a squegee, and a microfiber do wonders.
- Comment on In solidarity with my GenX brethren, with added falling on my ass at work 1 month ago:
Some recommend heat, some recommend cold, some recommend alternating between them. My back was ‘seizing up’ and the heat seemed to relax it. I mostly think it’s just something to do while waiting for the drugs to kick in.
- Comment on In solidarity with my GenX brethren, with added falling on my ass at work 1 month ago:
Several months ago, I was moving some boxes in the attic and torqued my lower back just wrong. Felt like I had a spear stabbed into me. Could barely move. Had to park myself on a heating pad and take a liver-destroying dose of an NSAID to recover.
- Comment on A reminder 1 month ago:
There are almost 24M millionaires in the US alone. A millionaire in 2026 honestly isn’t all that impressive anymore, thanks to inflation. I’m not saying we should feel sorry for them, just that it’s not the instant easy classification that it used to be.
As for billionaires, those should not exist, IMHO. A billionaire is a symptom of a broken ecinomy, not a worthy goal.
- Comment on Darude Sandstorm 1 month ago:
“Hearing a beloved song used in a late stage capitalism commercial for prescription drugs may cause moderate to severe emitional damage. If ear bleeding continues, call your doctor.”
- Comment on It's hell out there folks 2 months ago:
The casual neutral-smile murder indeed looks very corporate!
- Comment on Bada Boom 2 months ago:
“Mutually assured destruction doctrine”.
Or maybe I conflated it with mothers against drunk driving.
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 2 months ago:
Line must go up, even if planet on fire and everyone dying of diarrhea produce.
- Comment on Bada Boom 2 months ago:
M.A.D.D. isn’t just for insane world leaders anymore!
- Comment on Jimmy Neutron confirmed Chad? 2 months ago:
- Comment on anon discovers the magic of pizza (and yaoi) 2 months ago:
My nonexpert understanding is, few people are 100% straight or 100% gay. And it can shift over time, too.
There’s so much defensive BS around what people are into / aroused by. I’m not saying everyone should share everything to everyone all the time. But I really wish folks would be less fearful about what they like.
As long as you aren’t attracted to kids, corpses, or animals, I think everything else is probably OK. Even couches, if that’s your thing.
- Comment on Heh Heh Suckers 2 months ago:
Guessing it will be called The Stupid Ages, or maybe The Antichrist Years, depending on who is in charge.
- Comment on The line cook quietly handed me this 2 months ago:
This better not awaken something in me.
Too late.
- Comment on Anon is only a little strange 2 months ago:
Video killed the radio star.
Webcams killed hanging out and hugs.
- Comment on MeIRL 2 months ago:
Aprons are great.
I should probably get one.
- Comment on Anon follows the rules 2 months ago:
There’s a certain type who thinks it’s a big adult flex to act exhausted by work, being annoyed with their family, and getting drunk to drown their self-inflicted sorrows. They’ve always been pathetic. I think (hope) it’s a dinosaur that’s slowly going extinct.
- Comment on Housing prices 2 months ago:
The answer is always greed.
- Comment on Anon borrows a pen 2 months ago:
…and then a wah-wah guitar started playing…and the hot girl said:
“That’s a really nice penis you drew there.”
Um, I think maybe I need to watch better movies.
- Comment on What stratgies do you have for dealing with people who "live in your head rent free"? 2 months ago:
I remind myself that an internet rando means absolutely nothing to me. Like the figurative “dirt on your shoulder” that you just brush off. It really helps to take a break from all things social media (and social media adjacent) on the internet for a while, too. Get interested in something else (tv show, hobby, book, music, whatever) for a while.
- Comment on 10.99 for a beer with..... ai pictures on it. 2 months ago:
It’s a little hard to explain without coming across as pedantic. The Wikipedia article on the “Dash” does a pretty good job of it. Compare en dash to em dash. Or just read the “Usage” sub-section under “Em dash”. I used to use the em dash (occasionally) in my writing but now I try to avoid it, thanks to AI over-using it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Very much so. I think it’s the very long hangover from the “Protestant Work Ethic” which was always just a moralistic way for bosses to punch down on their worker-slaves. Things like “quiet quitting” and so on are a response to that, but you’re right that it has permeated every aspect of American culture. It’s a broad and deep problem.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 3 months ago:
Whoever came up with this has probably always used ‘optics first, actual results last’ in their shitty career so far.
- Comment on Rap God 3 months ago:
Looks like Eminem, but far less constipated