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Long ago, the three nations lived together in harmony.

Where are they now?

Man, five of them, huh.

I’m gonna be honest, this one went right through me.

As my death march nears its end, the pace has accelerated and I find myself behind on jotting down my thoughts.

We arrive at last at the “New Era”, which as I write this is almost 10 seasons in but must have felt very fresh to contestants and audiences alike in the midst of the High Covid Era.

Go is a great language for making CLIs, REST APIs, and other intensive applications.

Ever since All-Stars, there have been a few special “Avengers” seasons where the cast is completely made up of past players, and the heroes of their own seasons get to return and team up with other legends to make a true Television Event.

After 6 months of Spotify Algorithm Destruction, we finally got to watch the thing that the soundtrack is from (by the way, if you’re not aware, an artist called Bongo Cat has versions of the songs where all of the lyrics are replaced by cat meows).

Before we get to the Unpleasantness, let us examine the season’s Core Gimmick.

I have mixed feelings about Purgatory Seasons, where a player being voted out of tribal does not necessarily get ejected from the game, but there were enough interesting ideas and characters to make this season a winner for me.

I haven’t heard much from the seasons that led up to the Great Reset, so I guess I was assuming they were all kind of meh.

I have my work cut out for me if I’m going to catch up by season 50, so here we go.

“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes” is misleading.

Good on the New Era for finally delivering a dud of a season.

The Looney Tunes are dead.

idk, I'd watch a period piece where Joaquin Phoenix plays a failed comedian who is abandoned by the social safety net and succumbs to violent madness.

I have recently come into possession of a banjo.

The PC version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City had a feature where you could create a custom radio station from MP3s on your filesystem.

The Super: Christopher Reeve.

Got horrible service at Ace Hardware so from now on I’ll be going to their main competitor: Sexual Hardware sorry

Lord, grant me the acumen to automate the tasks that do not require my personal attention, the strength to avoid automating the tasks that do, and the wisdom to know the difference.

When glaciers start to slow Like old stale pizza dough That’s a moraine

Shocked that my kid, who adores climbing and jumping and monkey bars and obstacle courses of all kinds, enjoys Mario games

doing the thing again where i scroll linkedin and just say "shut up" over and over under my breath

in Philadelphia JWTs are known as JWNs

Don’t cry that it enshittified, smile that it provided surplus value to users during its growth phase 💙

/r/cscareerquestions is so funny. it's like if there was a subreddit for people who willingly signed up for the squid game

explaining to high school english students that the Chorus in Greek tragedies is basically Chat Oedipus says some stuff and then we turn to the Chat for reacts oedipus: *removes eyeballs* chat: he's cooked fr.

Your honor, I may have made some bad choices, but in my defense, I was having some big feelings at the time

The miniseries started things off with a nice bang, forcing the human race off of their 12 colonial worlds and onto a series of rickety spaceships, to be pursued, and heavily toyed with, by the robots they created.

This sounds like a joke, right?

Jack Reacher is really big and strong and also really smart and he wins every fight and he solves every crime.

I scream You scream We all scream

This is a movie about neglected children.

Contains extremely light spoilers for Blue Prince.

contains spoilers to the thing I’m writing about I have begun a journey here.

This season has the same problem as Nicaragua: on the heels of an action-packed, star-studded returning players season, we pick up with an all-new cast, none of whom make much of an initial impression.

I always enjoy the Avengers seasons, where we get a full slate of returning players to mix it up with Advanced Gameplay.

Spoilers follow for Season 48 of Survivor and seasons 1-6 of LOST I’ve been revisiting LOST with my wife, who’s never seen it.

Don’t cry because it enshittified, smile that it provided surplus value to users during its growth phase

LLMs have made my job much easier.

This is another Olds vs Youngs season, with the much more provocative “Millenials vs Gen X” subtitle.

Another BvBvB, and like before, the Brains are where the fun is at.

I’m going Founder Mode.

For parents: Before you know it, your child will grow from something you need to protect to a person that needs you to trust them, even in the face of unspeakable tragedy and terror.

Kelley Wentworth was robbed.

2025 has seen the rise of “vibe coding”: using AI tools such as Cursor to hyper-accelerate software development, allowing engineers to enter a purely expressive mindset and delegating the tricky technical details to machines.

I like seasons with good casts, and I like seasons where the tribes take on a character, so I liked this season.

A nice winner and very fluid alliances elevate an otherwise lackluster season.