Gormenghast. I got about 100 pages in, bored off my ass, saw that I still had like 1000 more pages to go, and was just like “…nah, I’m good.”

Cooking With Jack just hasn’t been the same since he had his third stroke

I was hoping it was someone doing a bit and the link would be a Rickroll, but alas…

This is just the Minecraft coordinates system and it sucks. “OK I’m at the coords, where’s the–oh fuck, it was -3002, 108 not 3002, 108.”

Yeah, KPat just does this. Skip em or persist in your doomed timeline, I guess.

(Flashing imagery warning for the links in this post!)

Recently I’ve been into Yello. They’re a really cool band who doesn’t get nearly enough attention. You probably only know them for Oh Yeah and/or The Race, but they’ve done a lot of other cool stuff too, and they’re still together!

The game Look Outside has a bunch of fake video games in it that your character can play to get XP and learn skills, and there’s some funny character interactions with them. Likewise the Sims series has games that your sims can play.

There’s also SBURB from Homestuck (which starts as a video game at least) and the various games from Kidd Radd, which I don’t know if that’s archived anywhere but I hope it is [EDIT: It is indeed!]

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Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell!

He got sober in the 90s, but Elton John was notorious for using shit-tons of cocaine back in the day and was an alcoholic as well.

I don’t know, but apparently people had some way of managing.

the tribe will leave me behind on the next migration when I’m too old and weak to keep up.

FWIW, this part is almost certainly not true.

https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/these-4000-year-old-bones-reveal-a-shocking-secret-about-humanitys-earliest-caregivers

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/17/878896381/ancient-bones-offer-clues-to-how-long-ago-humans-cared-for-the-vulnerable

https://news.usask.ca/articles/research/2017/ancient-spinal-injury-a-story-of-survival.php

These are just a handful of these types of stories, there’s loads more if you want to search for them. But the upshot is: your family or tribe would have taken care of you to the best of their ability, for as long as they could, and you would have been given a decent burial when you died.

Your best bet might be to try and pivot to in-person college/university if possible. You didn’t say where you are in the world, but in the US, most schools will have on-campus housing you’d be able to stay in for most of the year. The financial part is always the limiting factor of course, but considering how violent your brother can get, it may be worth it. It’s a lot easier to recover from student loan debt than being dead.

Which version? Barrett, Waters, or Gilmour?

Really surprised no one’s mentioned Everclear, but that might just be because no one thinks about Everclear that much

Hemp farmers, back to the unemployment office…

It’s specifically the fact that it’s family that makes it hard for me to buy that it’s isolated (hence “in this case”). It’s possible for sure, but you don’t usually get “my dad picklocked my bedroom door to try and catch me jerking off” without a shitload of other family weirdness.

The odds of these two deeply weird incidents being isolated in a case like this is about 1%

To be clear: there are actually Christians being persecuted or killed for being Christian, just not in the US or anywhere else in the West. The people that Trump and Nicki Minaj are talking about are in Nigeria (and I’m sure Trump would want them deported if they sought asylum in the US, of course). Trump and Nicki both suck but we can at least not make light of religious persecution in other countries, just because Christianity is more dominant here.

I doubt I’m the first one to think of this, but for some reason as I was drifting off to sleep last night, I was thinking about the horrible AI “pop” music that a lot of content farms use in their videos and my brain spat out the phrase Bubblegum Slop. Feel free to use it as you ses fit (or don’t, I ain’t your dad).