@apophis i mean i’ve always thought it was a cute little play on the term “high tail”

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> My uncle worked for ICE for about 15 years before he retired last year. Family dinners got... complicated.

> Here's the thing nobody really talks about: the job attracts two very different types of people. There are folks who genuinely believe they're protecting communities and following the law as written, and then there are people who were probably looking for any job where they could exercise authority over vulnerable populations. My uncle was the former, but he'd come home with stories about the latter that made his stomach turn.

> He told me once about a case where they picked up a guy who'd been in the country for 20 years, owned a small restaurant, employed like a dozen people, had kids in college. No criminal record beyond the immigration violation. The guy's daughter showed up at the detention center and my uncle said watching her beg to see her dad through the glass was one of the worst moments of his career. He processed the paperwork because that was his job, but he stopped sleeping well after that.

> The cognitive dissonance was real. He'd justify it by saying "I don't make the laws, I just enforce them," but you could see it eating at him. He'd talk about actual dangerous people they'd caught—gang members, people with violent records—and feel good about that work. Then in the next breath he'd mention a grandmother getting picked up at a routine check-in after 30 years here, and he'd just... go quiet.

> What really got to me was how the job changed him. He used to be this warm, joking guy who'd give anyone the shirt off his back. By year 12 or 13, he'd become harder. More suspicious. Started talking about people as "illegals" instead of using their names. My aunt said he'd have nightmares and wouldn't talk about them.

> He retired early. Didn't even make it to his full pension. Last Thanksgiving he'd had a few drinks and admitted he wasn't sure anymore if he'd done more harm than good. Said the hardest part wasn't the job itself—it was realizing that following orders doesn't absolve you of responsibility for the outcomes.

> I don't have a clean answer here. I love my uncle. I also think the system he was part of is fundamentally broken and causes immense suffering. Both things are true, and I've had to learn to hold that tension without resolving it neatly.

@fluttergirly and it’s not like lego can’t do smaller more child oriented play sets, i’m pretty sure that’s what their animal crossing series is

everybody knew it was a bad thing lego had ended up with the license for brick built pokemon sets, because previous companies like mega had actually made little playsets that kids would like (and that weren't over the top expensive), and we all knew lego would just do extremely expensive, overwrought, massive part count statue type sets, and lo and behold, we get statue of pikachu where you have to shove the stand up its ass. $650 set with the kanto starters. everything's always gen I of course. and they release one thats kind of neat, a kanto region badge case, but you can only get it if you preorder the $650 starters set

not even a normal gift with purchase. only with preorders. I'm going to lose it

@mooniestarrcat plurbius

@fluttergirly tbh, i would love to see a video of yours about your favorite racing games, as well as maybe a slightly less opinionated list of suggestions (such as an alternative to trackmania turbo for more pc-oriented people and such)

well that's a new one .. I was playing super mario all stars on the switch, and then... whatever this is started happening. I can no longer beat the level. is this a known glitch?? I've been playing this game for years and never ran into anything like this. what the hell happened lmao

@EponymousBosh @AppleAmps like more than three times now a muppet babies incarnation of gonzo has done drag. if he’s not trans, he probably got the expansion pack for cisgenderism

Gonzo from the Muppets should transition #GonzoEggTheory

@shroomie yes, I know nvidia isn't great.

unfortunately I have an nvidia card and despite the fact that I would REALLY like to not have an nvidia card right now, I won't be able to afford replacing it with anything for the foreseeable future, because I am currently poor as fuck

so i'm a bit stuck

i've been satisfied with my card's operation on mint, so anything that works just as well would be fine

@Chel i mean. if you want a linux that Just Works, i’d go with fedora, but i don’t really know if it works well with those things because i don’t have any of those things. also, you aren’t ever gonna find something that works great with nvidia, because nvidia sucks because reasons, ask scarlet

One cancelled game mystery that’s been on my mind lately has been an apparent Jazz Jackrabbit game for the Game Boy Color, listed as being published by Take 2 on Nintendo’s website in 1999 (https://web.archive.org/web/19990302091604/http://www.nintendo.com/gb/gamelist.html), with the listing seemingly lasting until some point in 2000.

This is pretty much all that’s out there about this, and even though Jazz made it to the GBA some years later, that was published by Jaleco, and it’s not clear if the supposed GBC game has any relation whatsoever.

Going by Wikipedia’s GBC game list, sorting by publisher, I’m gonna take a wild stab in the dark and assume that maybe Tarantula Studios (later Rockstar Lincoln Limited) had something to do with this? Just my speculation, there is basically nothing about a GBC Jazz Jackrabbit out there other than its listing on Nintendo’s website in 1999.

#GameBoy #Nintendo #JazzJackrabbit

new policy: pseudoscience is pseudoscience whether or not its harmful. i don’t care that its not hurting anyone, astrology and mtbi is bs and i won’t pretend its not

@fluttergirly would you mind talking a little bit about them? like, for example, trackmania turbo has a mixed rating on steam, which is weird for someones ‘favorite game’ lol

@fluttergirly oh, alr, thanks!!!

@fluttergirly oh btw, what are your favorite racing games?? is it easy to list a favorite?? are racing games like platformers where if you ask a casual they’ll probably give a few answers (most likely they’ll say the entire genre peaked at dkc tropical freeze) but if you ask an enthusiast they’ll have a long list of favorites and will love each one for different reasons??

@FawnOverFun

RE: https://wetdry.world/@FawnOverFun/115891460513009765

@AppleAmps rare white person food with seasoning

@apophis i bet a lot of them are on fedi!