Three seconds on Nextdoor is all it takes to ruin what little faith you had left in humanity. People are so stupid, on average.

I was forced to remove The Verge from my RSS feed reader today after two weeks where clicking on any interesting article led me to a paywall. I’m sorry, but if we’re entering a new media landscape where I have to directly pay for news and information, the last people I am going to pay for it are Nilay Patel and David Pierce, quite possibly the most smug talking heads on tech YouTube. Okay, second only to that Ed Zitron guy, but that guy is a complete moron and a phony, to Nilay and David’s credit, they are smart people.

It might be hard to believe but I am still playing Umamusume Pretty Derby. It’s a lot of fun. It’s a great asynchronous game to play throughout the day slowly, or to play when you’re experiencing downtime in another game (for me this has been: between races in Wreckfest, and while I am dead and waiting for a revive in the BF6 beta).

Once you’ve trained enough umas and start repeating their career mode, the roguelike gameplay really kicks in and, honestly, it’s pretty satisfying. It must suck to be a kid and have no life because the time limits on how many careers and team trial races you can do have yet to affect me… but we’re getting close! Luckily I have so many other umas to train, I shouldn’t get too impatient.