Sam Jones
samguyjones.bsky.social
Sam Jones
@samguyjones.bsky.social
Father, software developer, writer, cat servant
There's a song about the winter. It only mentions the eruption at the very end.
December 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It's crazy! More than half the population goes through this thing, and it's like a big secret. There are dozens of potential symptoms, some of them life-changing, mostly easily fixable with supplements. I swear medicine treats 51% of the population like it's .002% who are also pathological liars.
December 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I'm sorry. That sounds really hard.

I'm having trouble finishing this sentence.

I can believe a Segway is a godsend for people with certain kinds of injuries, but it was presented as something that revolutionized transport, kind of like high speed rail.
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In 2000, I rode a recumbent bicycle, and twenty people asked my opinion of what Segways would do to transportation before I saw my first one.

When I did, I was baffled (and remain so). It's like a motorized wheelchair that you need working legs to use.
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
It looks like Aardman animations made a 40k Space Marine!
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Dan Savage had some great thing when he was giving advice to people with different political views. He said something like "James Carville and Mary Matalin were from different parties, but they realized they had more in common as two terrible people. . ."
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
From your upcoming podcast, "Underhated".
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
How is the camera work? I get nauseous when I watch things shot from the shoulder, like Lars Van Trier's movies.
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
November 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Do you constantly imagine discussions in the future about all the things about this era that Pluribus reflects perfectly?
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Oh yeah, I don't have trouble believing that.

So completely subjectively, if I were to change one thing about the movie, it'd be to make Jack Torrence grounded and identifiable in the start, but I don't know anything about the background.
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It's interesting because he botched that role. The character is supposed to be sympathetic at the start.

He did pretty well in About Schmidt.
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
It might be the most I've felt like watching a video game playthrough when watching a movie, but it seemed like a great video game. There are a couple epic boss fights, and that's a really good escort quest.
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I see a lot of things here that refer to "liberals" or "the left" in a very similar way. I share their frustration. I wish they'd stop aiming it at me.
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Did all countries open their borders and then they closed them again after the blip?

What were the policies that the Flag Smashers were trying to stop?
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Falcon and Winter Soldier drove me crazy, because it kept approaching things that made sense, like people not getting loans because they'd been blipped.

But they never made sense of the Flag Smashers' agenda. The story wants us to see good behind their terror without giving them a philosophy.
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Okay, I just looked it up. It's 30% for Steam (big publishers have the leverage to get that lowered) and 10% (by default) for Itch.
November 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I asked this once and didn't get a reply. How do you buy a game to get the most money to the developer?
November 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM