Crashing Out Bandicoot
@untimelygamer.bsky.social
He/him. Overeducated, failed academic. I'm into books, movies, videogames, tea, and wine. I sometimes write things. Video games: http://medium.com/@untimelygamer Films: http://letterboxd.com/untimelygamer/ and http://watchestoodamnmuch.wordpress.com.
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spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful
Oh God I just remembered it's going to be hunting season soon, which means I have to wear an orange vest when I go for a run on MY OWN PROPERTY in case drunk hunters trespass.
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Oh God I just remembered it's going to be hunting season soon, which means I have to wear an orange vest when I go for a run on MY OWN PROPERTY in case drunk hunters trespass.
"Why pirate books if there are libraries?" Libraries are great but boy oh boy is the system still flawed. The library system, for instance, in my county sucks. I emailed them asking if they could obtain a book through ILL, and I shit you not, they told me to get a free trial of Kindle Unlimited.
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
"Why pirate books if there are libraries?" Libraries are great but boy oh boy is the system still flawed. The library system, for instance, in my county sucks. I emailed them asking if they could obtain a book through ILL, and I shit you not, they told me to get a free trial of Kindle Unlimited.
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
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God it will suck if the Trump assassination attempt was actually staged, because I will have to apologize to the most annoying conspiratorial nimrods on this site.
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
God it will suck if the Trump assassination attempt was actually staged, because I will have to apologize to the most annoying conspiratorial nimrods on this site.
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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the thing about piracy is that if you replace it with "buying secondhand" or "borrowing a friends copy" it cuts through a lot of chaff. you dont see people arguing youre stealing from poor indentured writers when they buy secondhand & you dont see people arguing that borrowing is leftist praxis yfm
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
the thing about piracy is that if you replace it with "buying secondhand" or "borrowing a friends copy" it cuts through a lot of chaff. you dont see people arguing youre stealing from poor indentured writers when they buy secondhand & you dont see people arguing that borrowing is leftist praxis yfm
The thing that drives me nuts about piracy discourses is that it is not one thing! Some people pirate because they have no money; some people pirate because they're assholes and don't care; some people pirate because the book they want to read has a wait period of three months on Libby.
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The thing that drives me nuts about piracy discourses is that it is not one thing! Some people pirate because they have no money; some people pirate because they're assholes and don't care; some people pirate because the book they want to read has a wait period of three months on Libby.
Oh but people do though. Lots of people. Plenty of people laugh at getting one up on the system. Others just torrent everything because they can.
Being stridently anti-piracy in 2025 is a weirdass position, but there are genuine assholes who pirate things they could pay for.
Being stridently anti-piracy in 2025 is a weirdass position, but there are genuine assholes who pirate things they could pay for.
if you internalize codes of conduct that apply only to the working class you're on a dismal road. no one pirates a movie or book or game or album they love and pats their empty wallet thinking "ha ha! these suckers will never get my $20." they think "I can only support this through word of mouth."
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Oh but people do though. Lots of people. Plenty of people laugh at getting one up on the system. Others just torrent everything because they can.
Being stridently anti-piracy in 2025 is a weirdass position, but there are genuine assholes who pirate things they could pay for.
Being stridently anti-piracy in 2025 is a weirdass position, but there are genuine assholes who pirate things they could pay for.
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This is a lot, but (allegedly) Olivia Nuzzi sent a secret recorder with a sketch artist to tape Trump at Mar-a-Lago so she could feed campaign intel to RFK, where [pauses to take a breath] something Trump said about his assassination attempt “would shatter our understanding of recent history”??
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is a lot, but (allegedly) Olivia Nuzzi sent a secret recorder with a sketch artist to tape Trump at Mar-a-Lago so she could feed campaign intel to RFK, where [pauses to take a breath] something Trump said about his assassination attempt “would shatter our understanding of recent history”??
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If my partner were in the media and doing wildly unethical stuff for years I probably wouldn’t sit on it until I could use it to boost newsletter subscriptions.
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If my partner were in the media and doing wildly unethical stuff for years I probably wouldn’t sit on it until I could use it to boost newsletter subscriptions.
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Whenever the piracy debate rears it's ugly head I'm struck by how upper-class publishers have convinced middle-class writers that lower-class pirates are the real reason they don't have health insurance.
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Whenever the piracy debate rears it's ugly head I'm struck by how upper-class publishers have convinced middle-class writers that lower-class pirates are the real reason they don't have health insurance.
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precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
“We haven’t reached the halfway point.”
Me:
Me:
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“We haven’t reached the halfway point.”
Me:
Me:
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Wong, 71, reacts after claiming his wife is trapped inside Wang Fuk Court during a major fire, in Tai Po, Hong Kong, China reut.rs/43SCCvj 📷 Tyrone Siu
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
What an incredible image. I initially assumed it was fake.
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
What an incredible image. I initially assumed it was fake.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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And did absolutely nothing to stop them.
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
And did absolutely nothing to stop them.
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i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
No war is necessary; it is obvious she choked on the potatoes and died after the video was over.
I support the war on drugs but only when it’s against this one specific person.
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
No war is necessary; it is obvious she choked on the potatoes and died after the video was over.
Wait people don't like pecan pie? It's fine if it's not your favorite but what
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Wait people don't like pecan pie? It's fine if it's not your favorite but what
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I've said it before, but the big question of social media is how much of it is manufactured. I suspect much more than we ever realized.
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I've said it before, but the big question of social media is how much of it is manufactured. I suspect much more than we ever realized.