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Cake day: July 1st, 2025

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  • The red dye thing resonates with me because back in college, ADHD was just hitting the scene and I dug in on minimally available research (back then) for one of my basic class essays. Double blind placebo study with prepackaged foods yielded statistically significant increase in hyperactivity and generally undesirable behaviors when red dye 5 was present. That one always stuck in my craw.

    Fast forward to this current byline.

    Have I dug back in? No. But it makes me wonder if there isn’t more on red dye 5, now, 30 years later.




  • BioWare was excellent. Then, they joined EA. The decline began.

    The only way you can fuck up as badly as they have on both the Mass Effect successor (Andromeda) and a Dragon Age game, is to go EA with it.

    Milk toasty, as galvanizing and interesting as a white on white painting, dialogue and characters written by an ultra anxious, scared to talk person who then rewashed the dialogue, just to be sure no one would think, well, anything upon encountering it.

    Thankfully, Larian picked up where they left off.

    I’m honestly surprised they haven’t been dissolved after that last installment.






  • This is coordinated. Multiple states at the same time.

    I don’t think it has anything to do with guns. Middle of the bell curve, most people aren’t using these for guns. They’re using these for right to repair. They’re using these for garage businesses. Shop businesses. Small businesses. (See: not corporate USA). Or for making/creatimg.

    I’ve no doubt there are people sitting on some small slice of a tail on the bell curve who do print gun parts, but this is about corporate America.

    It’s also a foot in the door dig on free and open source software.

    It’s a way to block individual and small business from horning in on corporate America’s profit for a comparably tiny slice of their own.

    Printing a knob to replace a broken on/off switch instead of buying a whole new item? Worse, selling that item or even just posting the pattern for free? We can’t have that.

    Now, you’re bypassing my item’s proprietary system by printing…

    Wait. I was able to sell threaded hand screw knobs for $5 each. Now you’re all just printing them? And the pattern is up there for free?

    We need a law.