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non-starter.

[nassim @stairedblanket]

@Cob1022 @TalkinYanks I think in New York, you need a VPN to see that p-word uncensored.

[nassim @stairedblanket]

We can only judge the one episode that's aired so far, but I enjoyed it more than I would a 13th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Curb was a quintessentially 2000s show in that its humor came from social interactions in a world extricable from an internet-dominated culture. Post-season 8 Curb had topical story arcs (dated in themselves) while hearkening back to a time where you'd, say, ask a concierge where to have lunch instead of looking it up. Ingeniously, no reference in the new show can be dated; in fact, they're necessarily ahead of their time. It's the ideal creative outlet for a 79-year-old Larry David in 2026.

[Joshua Minsoo Kim @misterminsoo]

new larry david show is impressively, outrageously bad

[nassim @stairedblanket]

When you're laughing in front of a serial rapist about serial rape and the serial rapist isn't laughing, approaching average life expectancy may be too generous a luxury.

[Club Random with Bill Maher @ClubRandom_]

New episode out now with Kevin Spacey

Watch here: https://t.co/cIGwJfENaO

@billmaher @KevinSpacey

[Kamen Writer @Yahyahyahnope]

@CentristMadness Bill never being MeToo'd is insane. He's the Dan Marino of sex pests

[nassim @stairedblanket]

@PalmyrPar When mocking things that are cringe or might age poorly, I'd personally avoid using "slop" as a suffix.

[nassim @stairedblanket]

@_24kin "The Yankees have been shut out in the 6th inning in road games in June during the waning gibbous for the third time since 1963." *oversharpened and overcontrasted picture of Trent Grisham with his head in his hands*

[nassim @stairedblanket]

The responses to this that are like, "people don't notice" or "people don't care" must not actually speak to people at these places. If you're not visual wallpaper and/or are not a man—hell, maybe even if you are—people do tend to notice and care. I can't go anywhere by myself without a conversation that involves the following snippet: "Where are your friends?" -> "I came by myself." -> "You came by yourself?! Why?"

I'll occasionally get a "I wish *I* could do that." A guy at a club last night basically asked me the question in the quoted tweet. I don't know; for me, it's hard to feel alone in places where you're surrounded by people, even if they're strangers. I go to bars to socialize with people I do not know and, secondarily, to people-watch. I prefer hanging out with established friends in places that don't require me to practically yell to be heard. I travel alone because I get to have my own schedule. It's really that simple. I like my own company, and anything else is a bonus.

[~ @7why__ydm]

People that eat in restaurants alone or drink at the bar solo, what’s your secret to social confidence?

[nassim @stairedblanket]

A lot of this is "online is not real." This "debate" is beneath me and many others who live in the real world and see how people of certain demographics respond to/engage with people of other demographics divorced from a screen barrier and partial anonymity. This shit-space is manifestly dehumanizing.

[nassim @stairedblanket]

So-called straight men unwilling to concede that face is the single determining factor of physical attraction because they're so fixated on the invisible penises of models is obviously suspect. Child's play. You offer nothing to the world but palpable insecurity.

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

Clavicular is receiving backlash from his fans after he kissed a trans model while at the club😳

[nassim @stairedblanket]

A lot of the kneejerk reaction from chuds on this site is a compulsory performance of pseudo-masculinity for other men to observe, which is magnitudes more gay than a guy seeing someone exhibiting several conventional markers of the female sex and thinking they're hot.

[nassim @stairedblanket]

@DaddyDontPulOut @Michaeldudufudu Correcting a joke? This guy knows how to have fun!

[nassim @stairedblanket]

The $140 Giannis Heat Vice jersey that (hopefully) drops in a couple of weeks is my GTA VI.

[nassim @stairedblanket]

Let's see that DoorDash history!

[Johann @LookAtMyMeat1]

You are literally cattle btw if you actually buy a video game at 80 bucks

[nassim @stairedblanket]

If we're complaining about things that companies do to make money, I do think it's absurd that Rockstar is still staggering PC releases like they're fucking Sony Interactive. PC "ports" are more straightforward to produce than ever given hardware unification and shouldn't be some massive undertaking for the largest game developer in the world.

[nassim @stairedblanket]

Physical media is wholly impractical for anything other than movies, where streaming/digital storefront compression is enough of an offense that even though such an annoyance is niche, the difference in product quality between digital and physical is objective. It's almost solely grown men being mad that you don't get a toy with your video game Happy Meal anymore, whereas literal kids couldn't give less of a shit.

[Grummz @Grummz]

CONFIRMED.

GTA VI official at $80, Ultimate at $100.

NO disc. You get a download coupon.

And just like that, $80 became the new normal for games.

GTA 6 will sell like crazy.

Every dumb ass AAA exec is gonna go:

- Hey, 80 works for ALL games. Let's make it the standard.
- We can save money and never ship a disc again.

This expensive, digital only, delete your game at any time future is the worst.

Thanks, GTA VI.

[nassim @stairedblanket]

Preservation for a Ubisoft racing game that's delisted after a few years, sure. GTA VI will outlive many of those complaining.

[Richard “Womp Solider” Chestnut @womp_ripper67]

#pouroutabeeronyourcrotchchallenge

[nassim @stairedblanket]

@EvanRobertsWFAN