Silvershock 💖🐀
@silvernicktail.bsky.social
Magical Girl Rat-Thing, Player of Games, Puncher of Buttons. Swinging wildly and randomly between useless and fabulous. If you like Babylon 5 then we were friends before you finished reading this sentence.
He/Him, I think.
He/Him, I think.
Going to actually book tickets for Confuzzled this year rather than fucking it up and assuming I can buy day tickets at-con like I do with Canadian cons. Can't do all 5 days - which are the "best" days to attend?
February 8, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Going to actually book tickets for Confuzzled this year rather than fucking it up and assuming I can buy day tickets at-con like I do with Canadian cons. Can't do all 5 days - which are the "best" days to attend?
There's a Value Village near me that always gets the most interesting electronics. (Same place I found my PC Engine Duo.)
Today I saw an Apple II, a rack mount CD setup and.... Two aircraft transponders?
Today I saw an Apple II, a rack mount CD setup and.... Two aircraft transponders?
February 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
There's a Value Village near me that always gets the most interesting electronics. (Same place I found my PC Engine Duo.)
Today I saw an Apple II, a rack mount CD setup and.... Two aircraft transponders?
Today I saw an Apple II, a rack mount CD setup and.... Two aircraft transponders?
You know it's a cold night when your littlest cat marches along the bed, paws at the covers by your head and screams until you lift them for her to get in.
February 7, 2026 at 10:42 AM
You know it's a cold night when your littlest cat marches along the bed, paws at the covers by your head and screams until you lift them for her to get in.
God people are so gullible over this Iron Lung bullshit. No, nobody's "suppressing the YouTuber". No, Hollywood aren't "mad". He's not even the tenth YouTuber to make a movie. The movie is on the charts you're claiming it isn't on.
You're being advertised to.
You're being advertised to.
February 4, 2026 at 11:15 AM
God people are so gullible over this Iron Lung bullshit. No, nobody's "suppressing the YouTuber". No, Hollywood aren't "mad". He's not even the tenth YouTuber to make a movie. The movie is on the charts you're claiming it isn't on.
You're being advertised to.
You're being advertised to.
I do still sometimes get Imposter Syndrome at work, but then I open up the Android code we outsourced and I can't possibly feel like I'm inferior to other people getting paid for this shit.
Open one fragment in the IDE, CPU spins up so hard my music starts lagging. Every line edit chugs. Lunacy.
Open one fragment in the IDE, CPU spins up so hard my music starts lagging. Every line edit chugs. Lunacy.
February 3, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I do still sometimes get Imposter Syndrome at work, but then I open up the Android code we outsourced and I can't possibly feel like I'm inferior to other people getting paid for this shit.
Open one fragment in the IDE, CPU spins up so hard my music starts lagging. Every line edit chugs. Lunacy.
Open one fragment in the IDE, CPU spins up so hard my music starts lagging. Every line edit chugs. Lunacy.
Whelp, principles are making me quit a job again. Every large corpo's run by ghouls, I'm hardly naive, but there's always a line.
Anyone need a really good coder in the Langley area? Makes quality code and understands what he's doing, refuses to use AI to preserve both of those.
Anyone need a really good coder in the Langley area? Makes quality code and understands what he's doing, refuses to use AI to preserve both of those.
January 28, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Whelp, principles are making me quit a job again. Every large corpo's run by ghouls, I'm hardly naive, but there's always a line.
Anyone need a really good coder in the Langley area? Makes quality code and understands what he's doing, refuses to use AI to preserve both of those.
Anyone need a really good coder in the Langley area? Makes quality code and understands what he's doing, refuses to use AI to preserve both of those.
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Maybe it's because I'm coming back into Minecraft after 5-10 years, but something feels off. I'm having fun playing, but after several long play sessions I haven't actually made a mine, because I haven't needed to. The proc-gen feels far too generous compared to my memory of it. Examples:
January 22, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Maybe it's because I'm coming back into Minecraft after 5-10 years, but something feels off. I'm having fun playing, but after several long play sessions I haven't actually made a mine, because I haven't needed to. The proc-gen feels far too generous compared to my memory of it. Examples:
Denmark: (Quite literally.) "Fuck off."
Canada: "In our very professional and polite opinion, fuck off."
EU: "We've unanimously voted that you should fuck off."
Starmer: "Well I'm not sure I don't know about that I can't be certain special relationship bleedle burble blee."
Canada: "In our very professional and polite opinion, fuck off."
EU: "We've unanimously voted that you should fuck off."
Starmer: "Well I'm not sure I don't know about that I can't be certain special relationship bleedle burble blee."
“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy… The powerful have their power. But we have something, too: the capacity to stop pretending.”
— Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation
— Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation
January 21, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Denmark: (Quite literally.) "Fuck off."
Canada: "In our very professional and polite opinion, fuck off."
EU: "We've unanimously voted that you should fuck off."
Starmer: "Well I'm not sure I don't know about that I can't be certain special relationship bleedle burble blee."
Canada: "In our very professional and polite opinion, fuck off."
EU: "We've unanimously voted that you should fuck off."
Starmer: "Well I'm not sure I don't know about that I can't be certain special relationship bleedle burble blee."
Canada's obsession with beef borders on fucking weird. The hot dogs are beef, the sausage rolls are beef, the fucking pork pies are beef! Trying to buy pork mince, I'm in the pork section, and it's fucking beef.
January 20, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Canada's obsession with beef borders on fucking weird. The hot dogs are beef, the sausage rolls are beef, the fucking pork pies are beef! Trying to buy pork mince, I'm in the pork section, and it's fucking beef.
Starmer continues to be the spineless weasel he was put in place to be, UK slides ever closer to joining the ranks of the fascists. A country absolutely determined, steadfastly stubbornly set on never, ever getting better.
January 19, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Starmer continues to be the spineless weasel he was put in place to be, UK slides ever closer to joining the ranks of the fascists. A country absolutely determined, steadfastly stubbornly set on never, ever getting better.
I've never used N64 Tremor Paks much because the combo packs were more convenient. TIL they addressed this in a "pro" version with an external memory card slot. Which naturally leads to an opportunity for shenanigans.
LOOK UPON MY VIBES AND TREMBLE, YE MORTAL FOOLS
LOOK UPON MY VIBES AND TREMBLE, YE MORTAL FOOLS
January 19, 2026 at 1:37 AM
I've never used N64 Tremor Paks much because the combo packs were more convenient. TIL they addressed this in a "pro" version with an external memory card slot. Which naturally leads to an opportunity for shenanigans.
LOOK UPON MY VIBES AND TREMBLE, YE MORTAL FOOLS
LOOK UPON MY VIBES AND TREMBLE, YE MORTAL FOOLS
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hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca
January 17, 2026 at 6:13 PM
hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca
Seriously these fuckers ruin the hobby so much.
"They're sealed, and therefore they're expensive."
It's fucking MLB: The Show, FFS. Everywhere I go there's this grasping bullshit from wankers who haven't the slightest interest in gaming beyond what they can scrape out of it.
"They're sealed, and therefore they're expensive."
It's fucking MLB: The Show, FFS. Everywhere I go there's this grasping bullshit from wankers who haven't the slightest interest in gaming beyond what they can scrape out of it.
January 17, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Seriously these fuckers ruin the hobby so much.
"They're sealed, and therefore they're expensive."
It's fucking MLB: The Show, FFS. Everywhere I go there's this grasping bullshit from wankers who haven't the slightest interest in gaming beyond what they can scrape out of it.
"They're sealed, and therefore they're expensive."
It's fucking MLB: The Show, FFS. Everywhere I go there's this grasping bullshit from wankers who haven't the slightest interest in gaming beyond what they can scrape out of it.
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FFXIV Devs: "hey we are making this really cool strategy board so you can do all your raid planning in real time!"
Players: "OMG THATS GOING TO BE SO COOL FOR PF AND STUFF!"
Also players:
Players: "OMG THATS GOING TO BE SO COOL FOR PF AND STUFF!"
Also players:
January 16, 2026 at 7:13 PM
FFXIV Devs: "hey we are making this really cool strategy board so you can do all your raid planning in real time!"
Players: "OMG THATS GOING TO BE SO COOL FOR PF AND STUFF!"
Also players:
Players: "OMG THATS GOING TO BE SO COOL FOR PF AND STUFF!"
Also players:
When you're such a grifting shithead, blatantly flipping random games you don't understand from thrift stores for too much money, that you don't know Xplosiv is the name of a defunct budget PC publisher, and not the game you're selling.....
January 16, 2026 at 8:47 PM
When you're such a grifting shithead, blatantly flipping random games you don't understand from thrift stores for too much money, that you don't know Xplosiv is the name of a defunct budget PC publisher, and not the game you're selling.....
I don't think I have to tell my friends this but never
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
give these fuckers your medical records.
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
give these fuckers your medical records.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
But it’s “not intended for diagnosis or treatment.”
buff.ly
January 14, 2026 at 12:32 AM
I don't think I have to tell my friends this but never
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
give these fuckers your medical records.
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
EVER
give these fuckers your medical records.
Uninstall two flatpaks, save 30GB of space. *Sigh* Remember when Linux packages were efficient?
January 13, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Uninstall two flatpaks, save 30GB of space. *Sigh* Remember when Linux packages were efficient?
Today fucking sucked.
But the light gun station is up.
So I know exactly what to do about my mood.
But the light gun station is up.
So I know exactly what to do about my mood.
January 9, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Today fucking sucked.
But the light gun station is up.
So I know exactly what to do about my mood.
But the light gun station is up.
So I know exactly what to do about my mood.
*Innocent whistling*
January 8, 2026 at 9:50 AM
*Innocent whistling*
If I were to make one "hot take" video game essay to the nobody that would listen, it would be a comparison of Horizon 1 and 2, to show how an obsession with map size/game length over quality and writing ruins games.
January 5, 2026 at 9:17 PM
If I were to make one "hot take" video game essay to the nobody that would listen, it would be a comparison of Horizon 1 and 2, to show how an obsession with map size/game length over quality and writing ruins games.
I have a feeling I'm not going to be finishing Cyberpunk 2077. It's not bad, but it's not blowing me away either, and it's honestly just too damn big.
At some point open world games just got too big to maintain their quality and I'd quite like them to shrink again thanks.
At some point open world games just got too big to maintain their quality and I'd quite like them to shrink again thanks.
January 5, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I have a feeling I'm not going to be finishing Cyberpunk 2077. It's not bad, but it's not blowing me away either, and it's honestly just too damn big.
At some point open world games just got too big to maintain their quality and I'd quite like them to shrink again thanks.
At some point open world games just got too big to maintain their quality and I'd quite like them to shrink again thanks.
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Shockingly, Starmer remains the spineless Tory coward you were warned about when you wanted to "get rid of the Tories".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law
The PM told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that he won't "shy away from this" but added we "haven't got the full picture at the moment".
www.bbc.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Shockingly, Starmer remains the spineless Tory coward you were warned about when you wanted to "get rid of the Tories".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Of course the fascist supports the fascism. That's hardly news.
I just wish Canadians would pay some fucking attention to our own Conservatives and their ties to the international fascist movement. Stop pretending they're normal, we're in danger.
I just wish Canadians would pay some fucking attention to our own Conservatives and their ties to the international fascist movement. Stop pretending they're normal, we're in danger.
Nigel Farage expresses support for Trump's "unorthodox" breach of international law - on grounds that they may "make China and Russia think twice"
But the main impact on Russia and China will be to help them to legitimise aggression in cases like Ukraine and Taiwan, citing Trump/US as analogous.
But the main impact on Russia and China will be to help them to legitimise aggression in cases like Ukraine and Taiwan, citing Trump/US as analogous.
January 3, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Of course the fascist supports the fascism. That's hardly news.
I just wish Canadians would pay some fucking attention to our own Conservatives and their ties to the international fascist movement. Stop pretending they're normal, we're in danger.
I just wish Canadians would pay some fucking attention to our own Conservatives and their ties to the international fascist movement. Stop pretending they're normal, we're in danger.