IT Techpriest

Bi, Male, Tabletop Gaming Nerd, Giant Robot Enthusiast, Pro Israel, Palestine Delenda Est

[prismatic-bell]

It's 4:30 and I'm pissed so I'm vaguing.

If you haven't talked to someone in an age, do not fucking text them at 3am and start with "sorry to wake you" and then ask a comparative theology question for some book you're writing because you've decided they're your Jew Friend. That's fucking rude and dehumanizing. I do not exist to spit out exegesis on demand, especially when it involves having to know various current Christian dogmas when I haven't been Christian for twenty years.

I have insomnia. If I wake up in the middle of the night I'M SCREWED. And I'm donating platelets in eight hours, and you're supposed to be well-rested for that.

I haven't been this mad in a long time.

[theverrucktman]

Have you considered just putting your phone on Do Not Disturb at night? It doesn't block texts, it just doesn't play a notification when you get them, and let's be honest here, it's not like there was anything in that text that couldn't wait until morning to respond.

[prismatic-bell]

I do have my phone set for that, but it's been fucky lately. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

[ferrousferrule]

Idk about iPhone but my android just shut down its nature text app and made us move to Google messaging, and then DOESNT RECOGNIZE IT as a 'communication' app that is affected by do not disturb. Either it shuts it off completely and block it, or it lets it through. No in between and its driving me CRAZY. was talking about it with my boss and literally got a spam text as I was complaining about it.

[theverrucktman]

If you're using an android, you should at least be able to manually select if an app can send you notifications or not. That might help.

[prismatic-bell]

It's 4:30 and I'm pissed so I'm vaguing.

If you haven't talked to someone in an age, do not fucking text them at 3am and start with "sorry to wake you" and then ask a comparative theology question for some book you're writing because you've decided they're your Jew Friend. That's fucking rude and dehumanizing. I do not exist to spit out exegesis on demand, especially when it involves having to know various current Christian dogmas when I haven't been Christian for twenty years.

I have insomnia. If I wake up in the middle of the night I'M SCREWED. And I'm donating platelets in eight hours, and you're supposed to be well-rested for that.

I haven't been this mad in a long time.

[theverrucktman]

Have you considered just putting your phone on Do Not Disturb at night? It doesn't block texts, it just doesn't play a notification when you get them, and let's be honest here, it's not like there was anything in that text that couldn't wait until morning to respond.

[kosher-toasty]

Washington DC least serious city of all time. What do you MEAN you have a neighborhood called Foggy Bottom. "Yes hi I live in the capital of the United States and my address is Cloud Buttcheeks" get outta here with that shit.

[prismatic-bell]

If you think that's bad, you should see Pennsylvania.

We have a pair of towns called Intercourse and Climax.

[kosher-toasty]

To be frank, my actual favorite place in Pennsylvania is King of Prussia because, like, come on

[prismatic-bell]

King of Prussia is great, but for my money Wilkes-Barre is better because you can always tell who's from PA and who isn't by listening to how they say it.

Also shoutout to Hershey.

[theverrucktman]

I don't think Hershey counts, considering that it started as more or less a company town started up by the chocolate company (with both being named after Milton S. Hershey), and it's where they're still based in today.

That said, shame on you for mentioning how Pennsylvania has towns called Intercourse and Climax, without mentioning that they also have a place called "Yocumtown" as well.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

I've picked up a few new followers, and just to make sure we're all here hanging out and understanding each other:

I support Jews.

I support Israel existing. I do not require Israel to meet some perfect level of existence I don't put onto any other democratic state. I'm from the USA. My own country is shitting the bed really regularly. I still support its existence. Nuance!

"I support Jews but not Zionists" is Nazi talk.

I have been reading/watching information about Nazis for 30 years, and I know "Those are BAD Jews, but these are GOOD Jews" is Nazi talk. That's literally how they started using the centuries-long antisemitism to fully poison the German people. "Oh, we won't go after the GOOD Jews who have assimilated and served in the Great War." (Guess what they fucking did. Otto Frank was a fourth-generation German secular Jew who served in WWI.)

Antizionism is antisemitism because I have literally never seen a so-called antizionist do sweet fuck all to make Jews feel welcome in the diaspora.

I am not a Jew. I make this point in case you are now mad that you followed me and want to piss in my inbox before you leave. It's not an insult to call me a Jew because (to paraphrase Iggy Pop), there's no shame in being a Jew. I just want to skip that step if possible. Means I can save time on my response telling you to go fuck yourselves.

[writerxwren]

Since Julius Caesar shares this illustrious anniversary with Eowyn 1v1ing the Witch King of Angmar it's time to put this question to rest

Answer carefully or risk getting stabbed yourself 🔪

Roman politicians

Eowyn

Voting ended onMar 21

[theverrucktman]

How many Roman Politicians are we talking about here? Because weren't there like, 60 guys that all went to kill Caesar? I'm not too up to date on LotR power scaling, but I feel like while Eowyn could deffinately kill a lot of them before it becomes a problem, 60 vs 1 is the point where they could probably just swarm her and get some lucky hits in the gaps of her armor.

[wondrous-whimsy]

People in denial about Leon’s ring saying it’s an oura ring or something. Babes he’s gonna go home to his beautiful wife, Ada, and their black cat.

Credit to aeonlocket on Twitter for the picture.

[theverrucktman]

This poor person is going to be extremely upset when she finds out who Capcon says Leon actually ended up tying the knot with.

[elgyemz]

idk if anyone can tell but i'm replaying xcom 2. anyway i do think we treat the warlock a little unfairly as a community. yeah he's annoying as shit. yeah he's pretty cringe. but like... he's still interesting. he's really interesting, once you look past the minute-long unskippable flavor dialogue constantly running in your ears. for one - say what you will about the minute-long unskippable flavor dialogue constantly running in your ears, but the voice actor really did a good job with them. also, like... god. the xcom 3 foreshadowing with his dialogue after you destroy the sarcophagus. what do u hear there buddy? who's talking to u?

[theverrucktman]

I've never really understood the hate for the Warlock out of all the Chosen. For starters, the Assassin is WAY worse than him in almost every way. In terms of gameplay when she she shows up, she's a lot more obnoxious to deal with, unless you get stupidly lucky and her AI is dumb enough to ruin her cloak by taking cover next to an explosive barrel. Her voice is a lot more annoying than the Warlock or the Hunter too, though to the VA's credit, I'm not sure if that's more due to her performance, and more due to the voice filter they gave her specifically in post-processing. And while her speeches are just as long winded as Warlock's, I usually find that the Warlock's sheer amount of unadulterated HAM makes them more tolerable, whereas the Assassin is more subdued, to her determent.

[steelplatedhearts]

environmental storytelling

[theverrucktman]

[junawer]

[spot-the-antisemitism]

Are we defending Maduro and the IRI now?

what’s next bootlicking Putin because he keeps ‘America in check?’

Do better prev

[theverrucktman]

You're behind the curve on this one. They've been boot-licking Putin both before and after the Ukraine war started for this exact reason.

[artphobos]

[amyamychan]

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A thread of social media posts by A.L. Goldfuss (@ghoulpus.bsky.social) dated July 26, 2025. It reads:

Currently on the phone with Visa.

Instead of starting with a complaint, I approached this as a Confused American Consumer who doesn't understand why they can't buy things off a website they use.

The call center rep immediately asked if it was about Steam/itch

(cont)

I said yes and asked for information, saying I don't understand what's happening, just trying to understand.

Something about Australia? Why is Australia impacting me in the US?

They said to email complaints to an email address

I don't have a complaint though! I don't even know what I'm complaining out.

Email offered again.

I repeated myself. Slower.

Email again.

After a few rounds of this I asked for a manager. I'm now on hold.

My demeanor has been polite but confused. Talking slower than usual, to eat up time.

I've worked call centers before, and I'm not here to lash out at the rep.

I'm playing the part of Polite But Annoying Customer.

I'm causing friction but not giving them any reason to dismiss me.

They just offered me a callback from the supervisor but I said I'd stay on hold.

Got a supervisor.

Wasted time with greetings/asking how their day is etc

Repeated everything I had told the rep

Said I don't want to waste anyone's time emailing a complaint if I don't know what the complaint is about

Supervisor finally said they've been instructed to only hand out the email and give no further information

They can't tell me anything else on the phone

I say hey, no problem, I know this isn't your fault

I ask to file an internal ticket

Supervisor said all calls are logged with case numbers

I ask for the case number

I now have something I can call back about and waste more time

(since I don't know how email works and I need people to explain things to me slowly on the phone)

Total call length: 25 minutes

I think anyone who has done customer service before wants to be as efficient as possible when calling.

But here, you need to play the part of someone who is incapable of doing any self-service while also embodying the kind neighbor who eats up 15 minutes of your life whenever you pass their porch.

[End ID]

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

If you have the social wherewithal to do this sort of thing, this is the IDEAL approach.

Emails are going to help. Calls to complain are going to help.

But what they are REALLY going to notice is a hit to their metrics.

When I was at a call center the two things they really pushed us to do were keep call times down, and sales. Now the sales thing doesn't really apply here, but any time you eat up with a call is time they aren't able to help someone else.

This works two-fold. In the short term, it drives up hold times, which reduces customer satisfaction. In the long term, it means they need to increase staffing to handle the volume of calls. Both cost them money in different ways.

[kirkendauhl-v2]

Is this because y'all can't buy your incest rape porn games on Steam anymore?

[theverrucktman]

No, it's because the people making this decision think that two men holding hands is exactly as obscene as an x-rated murder-drug-rape-orgy.

[indie-ttrpg-of-the-week]

Kill Credit card Companies

[indie-ttrpg-of-the-week]

This blog supports pornographic and erotic artists and developers, and wishes them good luck in finding fucking anything that'll take them nowadays

Bless you all, and may the puritan fucks pushing you out of everywhere know nothing but pain and sorrow

[onion-souls]

This card seems weirdly good for Green removal. Not only does it work as a decent combat trick and bite for one of your guys (and vigilance is especially nice in this set due to the station mechanic), you can basically target an opponent's creature for both effects and, as long as its power is at least equal to, or 1 less than, its toughness, it kills itself.

There seems to be an "other" missing.

Green and red seem particularly good to go for in this set.

[theverrucktman]

I don't think you can use the card to make a targeted creature kill itself. The wording on the card doesn't say that the targeted creature attacks another creature your opponent controls. It says that it automatically deals damage equal to it's power to another creature your opponent controls.

What this means is, because the first creature isn't actually attacking the second, the second creature doesn't get strike back against the first creature, so the second creature would die, but the newly buffed creature would still be around and kicking. Though at least it would lose the buff the following turn since the card is only an instant.

On the other hand, the wording of the card also means that because the targeted creature isn't actually attacking, there's nothing stopping you from playing this on a creature that you already tapped the previous turn right as your opponent attacks, specifically to kill one of his creatures before any other damage is inflicted. Technically, this would also mean that the card this spell is played on wouldn't need to be tapped either so you could do the damage to snipe an enemy creature and then still attack with it, though the fact that the card also gives Vigilance makes that a bit redundant.

As another upside, because it's just direct damage instead of an attack, this means that if the second creature has First Strike, or Double Strike or the like, this would bypass that entirely.

[snail-woman]

I do fucking love Ranni so much, hilarious character. Steals death to kill her half brother. Discards her original body to look like a cute little blue doll instead. Lies to the Tarnished, who presumably just arrived in the country and who none of this means anything to, about her name for some reason. When confronted later, immediately brazenly admits she lied to you, and also that she's the one who had Godwyn assassinated, which somehow no one had figured out before. Sees through the Tarnished and Rogier's plan immediately, but still lets them work for her (because "there's nothing wrong with a well-laid scheme", but is it really that well-laid if you already know what our goal is?). Says shit like "I shall soon enter my slumber". Literally turns into a pocket-sized version of herself and gets so fucking pissed off when you see through that "disguise". You can marry her in game, and she'll give you a sword for it. Did I forget anything

[theverrucktman]

You forgot that if you visit her in her tower, she's insecure enough about her height that she has very obviously propped up her seat with extra books in her library just to make herself look taller. It's absolutely hilarious, especially since no one else even acknowledges it.

[thisrobothasnosoul]

Hello goyische leftist reading this. Please say "I condemn online harassment against Jews" without mentioning Zionism or Israel.

[prof-grace-aspen]

A fun mechanic in Disco Elysium is the clothing stats.

The clothing gives you stat bonuses that can make skill checks easier. But a lot of the time, those items are very silly looking. Or, at the very least, they are "inappropriate" for the time and place the skill check is being made.

So you can choose to wear the silly clothes, get the stat bonuses, and make the checks easier.

Or, you can choose to wear thematically "appropriate" clothing, and make the game harder on yourself.

And I just think that's a great choice to force the player to make.

[theverrucktman]

Relevant:

[vigilantsycamore]

Reblog to hug your Jewish mutuals

[bananonbinary]

ok so like. it was pretty obvious that they werent gonna kill off the fucking penguin, but like. he literally shot him in the face point blank. how the FUCK did that assassination attempt fail????

[bananonbinary]

like. please do explain to me mr lobdel sir, how this wasnt FATAL

[brightlotusmoon]

I heard of a guy who shot himself in the head three times before he died, soooo

[zhenya-grey]

Believe it or not, shooting a person anywhere isn't a 100% death chance. There isn't much of anything that's a 100% death chance aside from being blown to bits or smeared into the form of paint on a pavement. Humans are obnoxiously resilient.

[brightlotusmoon]

Hence that wonderful subgenre of Humans Are Space Orcs and all the Tumblr stories about human resilience being stuff of legends.

[theverrucktman]

Clearly Oswald Cobblepot is just the latest reincarnation of Phineas Gage. It would be by far and away the LEAST cursed thing to have affected the city in the last 200 years.