Say what you want about people who hyperfixate on things, but they are the easiest to buy for when Christmas rolls around. Do your friends and family a favor and find something to obsess about in 2025.

This might be the most Maine thing I've ever stumbled upon. I gotta track down this documentary.

The MiSTer costs around $500. Surely for $500 (the cost of a PS5), it comes with an on/off switch...

Car battery died again, this time I did the right thing and replaced it. There's a $10 deposit and then a $10 refund when you return the dead battery. All this administrative hassle just to deprive the ocean of the beautiful dead car batteries it craves.

The Heat Miser / Snow Miser songs from the Rankin & Bass special are probably the most metal in all of the Christmas tune library. I wish two metal bands would embrace this fact - combine the songs as duet battle, then have the guitarists shed for 3 to 5 minutes. I need this.

I've seen the new Superman trailer and to be honest, I have some doubts about the film. I question if you can tell Superman's story in 2024 without introducing a bunch of nonsense into the mix. Superman is a pretty clear-cut good guy, theres not a lot of room for moral ambiguity.

Steve Wilhite invented the GIF file format. He believes it's pronounced like the peanut butter brand with a soft G. This has been debated on the internet for a long time. I would say the hard G side has won handily. Sorry Steve. With that in mind, I will never, and I mean never, call this place "no-ster". It's "naw-ster". I don't care what the inventor thinks, or the client devs, or the relay devs, etc.. They might all be Steves. It's "naw-ster".

I've always been a fan of classic rock, but it's really just an exercise in listening to the same shit over and over. The big exception for me is always The Kinks. On multiple occasions some Kinks song has popped up and left me wondering, "how the fuck did I miss this track?"

The Ninja Gaiden Trilogy I always wanted but didn't end up with... #retrogaming #gamestr

It's funny seeing everyone screech that exclusives don't matter. I buy every Nintendo console that comes out, and jumped from Xbox to Playstation for that exact reason... Sorry, exclusives do fucking matter.

A government shutdown for Christmas? Congrats liberty types, in addition to numerous other lists, at least you made the "nice list" this year!

I think people look at Nostr and see limitless potential, and they come up with all these use cases where Nostr could be a better alternative to what's out there. When these ideas don't take off they get disappointed. I think this is illustrates a lack of focus though. Nostr has about 20,000 daily average users. No one is yelling asking for Nostr to take on these uses, the people here just want microblogging (and a place to talk about bitcoin). Be realistic with Nostr. Most people don't want what Nostr offers which is censorship resistance. They want censorship. They want the days of ban-happy Twitter to return. Focus on making the best microblogging experience for those concerned with censorship. If the userbase expands, then consider other things.

Playing the FF6 Pixel Remaster. Relieved they're still letting me suplex a train.

I don't know what's up with the Creed posting on my timeline, but I'm here for it. My theory is that a lot of late Gen-X/early Millennials are repulsed by Creed due to overexposure, so its like handing the shitty kid with peanut allergies a bowl full of nuts.

Podcasts about Nostr, doesn't actually post to Nostr. Ah yes, Bitcoin influencers hard at work...

This seems to confirm my suspicion that the PS5 doesn't run PS3 games simply because Sony doesn't want it to... A bonus for the Nostr peeps, the word "bitcoin" is mentioned once. #gamestr

Fine, Schrödinger's Lightning Network, its both alive and dead.

Pro tip: when you give your dog a bath, have Sarah McLachlan's Angel all queued up on your phone. That way, when they look up at you from the bathtub with those ASPCA-eyes full of sadness and betrayal, you'll get the full experience.

I think from the lay users perspective, as long as its still "nostr", just nostr 2.0, and none of their previous notes are lost, it makes sense.

Santa Claus gives all the bad girls and boys coal...I wish he would give them dogshit instead, because I have plenty for him to use while administering Christmas judgment.