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“Existential Dread” is my middle name
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Null Device, Klack, Mayors of Nothing, Edgecase Development Corp, Submersible Studios. Music guy, food nerd, reasonably competent mastering engineer.
the real crime is that font
December 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I do however look forward to the day when Trump Tower NEOM sits completely unfinished and empty, a Ryugyong for the 21st century.
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
what sucks is that even after Trump is a distant memory, these people will still exist, and will have inveigled themselves into every level of society. It’s going to take generations to make racism unacceptable again.
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I got so tired of that discussion every year that I went and fixed it for a Christmas compilation.

elektrovox.bandcamp.com/track/baby-i...
Baby, It’s No Longer Cold Outside (Because of Climate Change), by Null Device
from the album GRABYOURCHRISTMASTREE
elektrovox.bandcamp.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Well, that too, but that’s predictable.
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Were the kids so inept at scrambling that they couldn’t eat the eggs?

Did they change their minds and decide to not have scrambled eggs? (Discarding eggs? In this economy?)

I NEED CLOSURE
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Although swapping out the Kyoto scene for the Darvaza Gas Crater might have made a more interesting film.

Also maybe Berdimuhamedow condeming Bill Murray to Owadandepe Prison for being a decadent westerner would be a compelling subplot.

(Air's soundtrack still slaps, though)
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I think the worst transgression is that above all of that, Japan is barely represented in a movie ostensibly about being expat in Japan. That movie could have taken place in Romania or Turkmenistan and it would have basically still been the same movie.
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I read this and thought to myself “i bet Danesha would enjoy reading this take.”

Then I actually noticed who posted it.

Sigh. I should really pay closer attention.
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I dunno if AI-slop engineers are _necessarily_ incredulous as a rule; I think a lot just see big paychecks, and simply don't care. The execs and venture capitalists are fully and actively willing to burn society to achieve their own financial and political ends.
November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Also despite the general travel chaos, we had zero delays and breezed through airport security.

Hotel did not look like the photos, though.
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Ow.
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I forget how those genres were selected but IIRC it goes back to how sone stores have historically tagged standard since, like, 2001.
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The younger Fitzgerald - also named Edmund - ran the company my grandfather worked for during the 70’s. He also cofounded the Milwaukee Brewers.

The Steinbrenners also had a ship named for the elder Henry. Seems like there’s a connection between shipbuilding and Major League Baseball
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
My boss actually worked for him for a time!
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM