Disaffected, alienated, hostile come to mind

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/764_(organization)

It’s cult tactics cynical manipulators in those unmoderated spaces use to indoctrinate young adults and kids to exploit and groom. They target kids who don’t have defenses to their tactics yet, either their education didn’t yet include how to critically evaluate evidence & propositions or they just weren’t mentally ready for that responsibility before engaging with predators. They want to seem edgy and offer truths on topics the kids’ parents or teachers may not be willing to engage with to draw them in to appear like they have some knowledge or power to offer other than just hate and anger.

That can sometimes be an outcome of a moral choice after accepting nihilism (what are ethics beyond our without objective meanings?), but there’s nothing necessarily relating desires for chaos and destruction to subjectivism and nihilism. Some nihilists are all about order and building so the reason they gave is bogus. They just feel the word has negative connotations so they used it without understanding what it means. It would be like saying they are jaywalkers who just want to watch the world burn. Some of them may be jaywalkers, but it’s not the motivation for them being there or necessary for them being there in those spaces.

Glad to see ffmpeg is still going strong, I used it years ago to do some project 1999 EverQuest streaming on twitch running on a Manjaro dist install running EQ in wine.

https://lichess.org/ FOSS run by a nonprofit with tons of players and game modes if anyone is looking to get into it

Curious when the last time business insider quoted a labor leader without a CEO or capitalist shill quoted in the same article.

I enjoy more arcade style racing games so over the last few years the ones I enjoyed the most were burnout paradise and the remake, trackmania, and forza horizon 4 and 5

Google already changed logged out YouTube to a single row of recommendations and a button to login on roku and Android shield when it used to look like the logged in version just a couple weeks ago. Probably the kick I needed to get off, mostly just using it for a couple smaller call-in/debate streamers I can switch to a podcast or other version.

I’m getting an access denied error trying to view it through a VPN, tried multiple different country exits

There was moral outrage when faster, cheaper printing presses were invented because they were worried people wouldn’t learn or memorize anything anymore if they could just write it down & it made literacy accessible to the common person.

Unregulated capitalism is tool of fascists

It’s obvious they are going to use it to stop allowing access without a login or disabling history tracking

Unrelated this stuff can be used to shatter concrete or cinder blocks by drilling a few holes and dumping it inside followed by some water. Just in case anyone was curious.

Same, played the first into late game and

Second I played most of the characters to their third quest maybe about halfway though the game and the day/night addition was fun but the narrative style and level gating in the second could use more work imo.

Not a hot dog

Don’t let yourself become a caricature of yourself, step outside your self expectations and find ways to face your fears. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do until my mid 20s. You don’t need to plan it all out from the outset, spend some time trying stuff and learning who you are and what you wouldn’t mind spending time on getting good at.

Downloading them would maybe be a good way to find if any of them are hard to find and someone else might appreciate a copy available even if the quality isn’t great. if they are findable in better quality but the VHS or DVD has ads, PSAs, bumpers, special features, etc between that might be rare too

Cheeseburgers, close second hamburger

I played terminal velocity, kind of like the ‘we have descent at home’

Also around that time there was a game Magic Carpet EA published that had a similar feel

Doom WADs for a huge back catalog, elder scrolls mods for Bethesda tools and a pretty big player base, Unity/UE for more professional game designer tools, mega man maker for something quick and simple and fun to jump into

I don’t know what the projections are but seems like populations are growing/stable

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/s3/2024-12/2023-sar-blue-whale-enp.pdf