Chris Adamson
@invalidname.me
I write, stream, and code stuff. I also raise children and sometimes clean things. Working on docs for 🍏. He/Him/His.
Also https://mastodon.social/@invalidname (follow via BridgyFed for BlueSky: @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy)
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Chris Adamson
@invalidname.me
· Oct 19
Reintro:
• I was invalidname on Twitter, left 2 yrs ago.
• People followed me there b/c I wrote tech books for macOS/iOS. I work @ 🍏 now, so I can’t post about secret work stuff.
• Seems like I’m mostly engaging with anime people here. Tech on Mastodon, and replies only on Threads.
• I was invalidname on Twitter, left 2 yrs ago.
• People followed me there b/c I wrote tech books for macOS/iOS. I work @ 🍏 now, so I can’t post about secret work stuff.
• Seems like I’m mostly engaging with anime people here. Tech on Mastodon, and replies only on Threads.
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Honestly perfect Rosalina casting, no notes.
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Honestly perfect Rosalina casting, no notes.
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Underrepresented Couple Dynamic
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Underrepresented Couple Dynamic
After nearly two years, I still own exactly two games for my PS5: FF7 Rebirth and NHL 25. Well, I guess I got Foamstars free with PS+, but I never play it.
I was always OK with PS5 being only for FF7, but I didn’t think it would actually turn out that way.
I was always OK with PS5 being only for FF7, but I didn’t think it would actually turn out that way.
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
After nearly two years, I still own exactly two games for my PS5: FF7 Rebirth and NHL 25. Well, I guess I got Foamstars free with PS+, but I never play it.
I was always OK with PS5 being only for FF7, but I didn’t think it would actually turn out that way.
I was always OK with PS5 being only for FF7, but I didn’t think it would actually turn out that way.
@questforthebestpod.bsky.social Proposing a Quest-ion of the Week from invalidname:
“What contemporary — let’s say ‘has at least one season in the last five years’ — anime adaptation of a light novel series do you think will make it to the end and cover the entirety of its source series?”
“What contemporary — let’s say ‘has at least one season in the last five years’ — anime adaptation of a light novel series do you think will make it to the end and cover the entirety of its source series?”
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
@questforthebestpod.bsky.social Proposing a Quest-ion of the Week from invalidname:
“What contemporary — let’s say ‘has at least one season in the last five years’ — anime adaptation of a light novel series do you think will make it to the end and cover the entirety of its source series?”
“What contemporary — let’s say ‘has at least one season in the last five years’ — anime adaptation of a light novel series do you think will make it to the end and cover the entirety of its source series?”
I think we're also missing that Nintendo is the only company appealing to certain kinds of gamers (families, obviously, but others too) or putting out games that you play in-person with other people. And that their franchise bench is deeper than anyone appreciates. 1/x
Enjoyed this from @clert.bsky.social — highlights how, amid industry worry, Nintendo hit upon a winning solution with the Switch.
The wave of Switch-style handhelds we’re seeing more of now feels like unspoken validation of what they nailed eight years ago.
The wave of Switch-style handhelds we’re seeing more of now feels like unspoken validation of what they nailed eight years ago.
If consoles are dead, how do we explain the phenomenal success of Nintendo's Switch?
When did we all start ignoring Nintendo? Was it the Wii era? Because that's the moment Nintendo stepped away. That's wh…
www.eurogamer.net
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I think we're also missing that Nintendo is the only company appealing to certain kinds of gamers (families, obviously, but others too) or putting out games that you play in-person with other people. And that their franchise bench is deeper than anyone appreciates. 1/x
When it comes to (ex-) libertarians and classical liberals, I need some of you to understand there’s a big gulf between the teen who just heard “2112” for the first time and says “governments shouldn’t tell musicians what they can play” vs. Peter Thiel style “newborns should fend for themselves.”
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
When it comes to (ex-) libertarians and classical liberals, I need some of you to understand there’s a big gulf between the teen who just heard “2112” for the first time and says “governments shouldn’t tell musicians what they can play” vs. Peter Thiel style “newborns should fend for themselves.”
Jeez, I dunno. I love the comic, but they’ve already had one adaptation swing-and-a-miss. Maybe do something new instead?
James Gunn and Peter Safran will executive produce a V for Vendetta series for HBO.
V FOR VENDETTA TV Series Coming to HBO, James Gunn and Peter Safran to Produce
nerdist.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Jeez, I dunno. I love the comic, but they’ve already had one adaptation swing-and-a-miss. Maybe do something new instead?
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Conventions chairs in the US: Just outright ban cos-playing folks in mil/swat looking tactical gear, full stop.
With things as they are right now with masked vigilantes with federal badges kidnapping people, its not safe for attendees or for said cos-players running around looking like ICE agents.
With things as they are right now with masked vigilantes with federal badges kidnapping people, its not safe for attendees or for said cos-players running around looking like ICE agents.
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Conventions chairs in the US: Just outright ban cos-playing folks in mil/swat looking tactical gear, full stop.
With things as they are right now with masked vigilantes with federal badges kidnapping people, its not safe for attendees or for said cos-players running around looking like ICE agents.
With things as they are right now with masked vigilantes with federal badges kidnapping people, its not safe for attendees or for said cos-players running around looking like ICE agents.
I should really go to one of the Detroit games this season. It’s a reasonable day-trip.
WE’RE GOING BACK ON TOUR 🗣️
With 16 stops across 11 cities, we’re running back PWHL Takeover Tour during the 2025-26 season. Where we will see you?
Learn more ➡️ thepwhl.com/en/takeover-tour
With 16 stops across 11 cities, we’re running back PWHL Takeover Tour during the 2025-26 season. Where we will see you?
Learn more ➡️ thepwhl.com/en/takeover-tour
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I should really go to one of the Detroit games this season. It’s a reasonable day-trip.
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Also every time within spitting distance of a great lake I am shocked by how very unlakelike they are
Y'all need a better word for them
I refuse to put them in the same category as Lake Lanier
Y'all need a better word for them
I refuse to put them in the same category as Lake Lanier
It feels unwise to be flying over the great lakes on a bad weather day that also happens to be the anniversary of the most famous great lakes related wreck but I have never let a lack of wisdom stop me
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Also every time within spitting distance of a great lake I am shocked by how very unlakelike they are
Y'all need a better word for them
I refuse to put them in the same category as Lake Lanier
Y'all need a better word for them
I refuse to put them in the same category as Lake Lanier
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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I make sure I say something when they piss me off, I'll say something now that they didn't.
Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin....+1, both of you.
Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin....+1, both of you.
NEWS: U.S. Senate advances bill to reopen the federal government in a 60-40 vote.
Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen
Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul
Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen
Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I make sure I say something when they piss me off, I'll say something now that they didn't.
Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin....+1, both of you.
Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin....+1, both of you.
Filling out forms to get a pittance from what the AI companies stole from my books, as one does.
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Filling out forms to get a pittance from what the AI companies stole from my books, as one does.
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Modern pickup trucks are really just giant family SUVs except that the groceries in the trunk get rained on.
The bumper says 'rugged working man'.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.
Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Modern pickup trucks are really just giant family SUVs except that the groceries in the trunk get rained on.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
I mean if you’re going to campaign for something…
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I mean if you’re going to campaign for something…
She’s right, but it’s even better than that. Even uninformed people can understand the premise of “tariffs put Funko Pops out of business”, and hopefully extrapolate that to “tariffs make companies fail” and then “tariffs are bad for the economy.”
An excellent second mention, but also: if the tariffs take out Funko Pop that will at least be one positive benefit for humanity. God, how I hate those banal, witless, overpriced lumps of plastic junk, taking up space on your shelves until inevitably they must take up space in landfill, for eternity
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
She’s right, but it’s even better than that. Even uninformed people can understand the premise of “tariffs put Funko Pops out of business”, and hopefully extrapolate that to “tariffs make companies fail” and then “tariffs are bad for the economy.”
Utah was criminally negligent with the puck in the neutral zone, the whole third period. Habs didn’t even try to run up the score; it was just handed to them.
November 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Utah was criminally negligent with the puck in the neutral zone, the whole third period. Habs didn’t even try to run up the score; it was just handed to them.
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THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
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November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
PeaceLoveCanada.ca
PeaceLoveCanada.ca
This was the first of two absurdly easy turnover goals to end the game. Fun to watch if you’re rooting for the Habs.
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This was the first of two absurdly easy turnover goals to end the game. Fun to watch if you’re rooting for the Habs.
It’s worse than that. For the first couple months, VHS tapes would cost $100-200, at which point only the rental stores were buying them. They’d come down to $20-30 a couple months later, at which point they were meant for sale directly to the consumer.
Hold up.
I just saw an ad for the Muppet Christmas Carol VHS tape (I presume 1993). It said $22.99.
Did people really pay $23 in 90s money for tapes?! (We were poor, we only had a few and some probably bootlegged ones.)
I just saw an ad for the Muppet Christmas Carol VHS tape (I presume 1993). It said $22.99.
Did people really pay $23 in 90s money for tapes?! (We were poor, we only had a few and some probably bootlegged ones.)
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
It’s worse than that. For the first couple months, VHS tapes would cost $100-200, at which point only the rental stores were buying them. They’d come down to $20-30 a couple months later, at which point they were meant for sale directly to the consumer.
Well this is good news. The kid (who has no use of his right arm due to a stroke ~3 years ago) did great on the lessons for the Kirby Air Riders global test using his one-handed Nhuad controller, so I guess that’s going to the top of the Christmas list.
a video game character named kirby is driving a white car
ALT: a video game character named kirby is driving a white car
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Well this is good news. The kid (who has no use of his right arm due to a stroke ~3 years ago) did great on the lessons for the Kirby Air Riders global test using his one-handed Nhuad controller, so I guess that’s going to the top of the Christmas list.
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But by god, this one sure is.
But by god, this one sure is.
People really don't hate Bernie and his campaign team enough for:
a.) turning a whole generation young people against the Democratic Party
b.) instituting a cult of personality that treated Bernie as a messiah with little to no plan to keep his followers from succumbing to nihilism if he lost
a.) turning a whole generation young people against the Democratic Party
b.) instituting a cult of personality that treated Bernie as a messiah with little to no plan to keep his followers from succumbing to nihilism if he lost
November 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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But by god, this one sure is.
But by god, this one sure is.
F yeah. Purple chips are back after two years.
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
F yeah. Purple chips are back after two years.
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