Quick, someone make an emulator with the help of ChatGPT and upload the process to YouTube.

This was literally the photo that finally got me banned from Reddit years ago.

What about the dragon type?

I think they mean to say stop using toilet paper, only use toilet water, which I believe is how they do un numero deux en Europe.

RIP NFL 2K. I never forgot you and I’ll never forgive.

And pretend it’s to benefit public health.

Man, I’d never considered connecting all the old forums. It would have been even more of a magical nightmare.

I’m really torn. On the one hand, maybe I would be smiling!? I don’t know what happened! Part of me thinks, “I’ll have some of whatever they’re having!”

But then I don’t strongly feel, “THOSE are my people!” and I fear I’d be one of those faces nervously smiling(?) in the shadows at the back of the group. Also I have a strong sense of smell and I don’t know if I want to roll those dice.

This is the one I was thinking of, but there are several interesting ones. I guess I’m being an asshole, maybe they’re all awesome. They certainly seem to be smiling and having fun, so I’m just really the dick here. But here’s the picture. Fuck, it is just…a lot. I don’t know. NSFW.

Nope, but I have had the thought that small-scale regional meet-ups could be fun.

On the one hand, smaller old-school forums do/did that sometimes and it can be really cool, if thinking in the spirit of the old internet.

ON THE OTHER HAND, I remember the infamous pictures from the Reddit meetup and good God, maybe not?

A couple fun ones I haven’t seen mentioned:

Myron Cook - Think “the Bob Ross of Geology.” Basically he goes out, finds some rock formation, goes “Huh. Isn’t this cool? What do you think happened?” and walks you through everything dating back to like the formation of the planet. He’s like a teddy bear and his channel is wonderful and fascinating.

Dan Hurd - He’s a dorky gold prospector. He may have caused me to buy a gold panning set.

Well, shit, that part of the sales pitch usually snags 'em.

What about a button to turn OFF…no, that’s not much help either…

Fine, you can have your damned exemption.

Not sure, mine’s in my weiner I think?

But think of the orgasm button. I know that can’t end well, but what a way to go.

A.k.a. purge. Like the Soviet kind.

It’s a purge.

The notion of a deep state is absurd and is just right-wing bullshit demonizing government employees so that conservatives could justify tearing it down like they’re doing now.

For years, the problem at many agencies has been getting enough good people into government, because who wants to work at a place they’ll be often underpaid and treated/discussed like shit? The IRS is a great example. Their collection efforts (e.g. Biden making an effort to go claim unpaid taxes from wealthier Americans) repay something like 10-to-1 what is spent on them, but year-after-year-after-year they’re underfunded, because it’s easy to say, “Fuck the IRS! BOOOO TAXES!” And nobody wants to hear, “Collecting taxes is literally one of THE essential aspects of government. The agency that collects them needs more resources to do it well–they’re literally still using 1980s computer equipment. Please give the IRS more money.”

The reality is so much less sexy than any conspiracy would have you believe. Less “secret underground bunkers with flashing lights” and more “dilapidated Soviet building that it turns out has been unoccupied for 25 years, but all the files are still in the cabinets, because they just left one day and nobody gave a fuck.”

…I can’t be the only one who’s seen other relevant media…

I was lured in with promises of bean photos shared amongst fellow enthusiasts and it turned out you guys don’t even care about beans and were just mocking the bean community/movement the whole time.