re: Long list of arcade games

@thegibson I'm always a sucker for Tempest, if only because the one I have at home is broken

@Macross @hellsop Oh, I have the DVD set around here for the US show. I should acquire a "backup" set on my Plex server 🤔

re: Long list of arcade games

@emarsh @thegibson I'm not necessarily super great at it, but I had very fond memories of it from when I was barely forehead-high to the controls. And it's fun to just SPIN the controller and bap away at the fire button

"The bank had reported in its latest annual report that 87.5% of its $173.1 billion in deposits were uninsured as of the end of 2022"

Holy moly. Sweet merciful crap.

latimes.com/business/story/202

Like, I mean, for fucks' sake, I'm no accountant but this sort of pending doom seems like it'd be visible from many quarters away.

(i just asked my wife, who is an accountant, and she downed a shot of whiskey in response)

@danhon Sweet crimony, the name "rippling" sure seems prescient to this predicament

(I mean, to be fair, the $250k FDIC insurance isn’t really intended for this but yikes)

@retronianne That's delightful!

complaining about self

@retronianne ugh, I’m sorry. It’s not the same but I’m cis and 6’1 and I feel that a bit too. I don’t want to occupy much space. Kinda want to be a hobbit or a gnome sometimes

@quephird oh that color is nice!

@quephird that’s so fun! I’d just be sort of waggling my fingers in front of my face all day

2023/03/12