Operative Me
@operativeme.bsky.social
Nerd hobbyist who hates Weird Nerd Culture. The biggest problem I have with RPGs is that I really get into the “RP” part and wind up burning out on the game before finishing. Ask me how many hundreds of hours I’ve dumped into Skyrim without finishing it.
Legitimately excited for all the new Valve console stuff. Mostly because I spent years arguing online about how bad their original Steam Machine idea was and everything they’re doing right now is pretty much exactly what I was arguing they should be doing.
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Legitimately excited for all the new Valve console stuff. Mostly because I spent years arguing online about how bad their original Steam Machine idea was and everything they’re doing right now is pretty much exactly what I was arguing they should be doing.
I think you can do cool things with world building. I also think you can make good things bad by trying to explain everything. If your story is veering into Glup Shitta storylines, it is time to talk to someone who likes your story a normal amount and ask them if they desperately crave understanding
i know that all stranger things does anymore is score own goals but *explaining the upside down* is truly a sign that they have lost their fucking minds
The Duffer Brothers reveal two questions that will be answered in ‘Strangers Things 5’
1️⃣ “What is the Upside Down truly?”
2️⃣ “Why was Will Byers taken in S1?”
(via EW)
1️⃣ “What is the Upside Down truly?”
2️⃣ “Why was Will Byers taken in S1?”
(via EW)
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I think you can do cool things with world building. I also think you can make good things bad by trying to explain everything. If your story is veering into Glup Shitta storylines, it is time to talk to someone who likes your story a normal amount and ask them if they desperately crave understanding
This is so unsustainably dumb
Microsoft desperately needs to be split into two companies. For the obvious monopolistic ones but also because it wouldn’t be possible for them to do shit like this if they didn’t have people who’ve never played a video game making decisions for the video game division
Microsoft desperately needs to be split into two companies. For the obvious monopolistic ones but also because it wouldn’t be possible for them to do shit like this if they didn’t have people who’ve never played a video game making decisions for the video game division
LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games
October 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
This is so unsustainably dumb
Microsoft desperately needs to be split into two companies. For the obvious monopolistic ones but also because it wouldn’t be possible for them to do shit like this if they didn’t have people who’ve never played a video game making decisions for the video game division
Microsoft desperately needs to be split into two companies. For the obvious monopolistic ones but also because it wouldn’t be possible for them to do shit like this if they didn’t have people who’ve never played a video game making decisions for the video game division
TRON is a concept I’m prepared to enjoy. And it always has the potential for awesome visuals. But I can’t really tell you the last movie that got me to theaters on spectacle alone. This isn’t 2012.
It could be an interesting kids movie. But they want it to be more and it just…isn’t. It’s fukn TRON.
It could be an interesting kids movie. But they want it to be more and it just…isn’t. It’s fukn TRON.
October 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
TRON is a concept I’m prepared to enjoy. And it always has the potential for awesome visuals. But I can’t really tell you the last movie that got me to theaters on spectacle alone. This isn’t 2012.
It could be an interesting kids movie. But they want it to be more and it just…isn’t. It’s fukn TRON.
It could be an interesting kids movie. But they want it to be more and it just…isn’t. It’s fukn TRON.
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someone must have told gavin the game involves destroying hastily built shelters
October 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
someone must have told gavin the game involves destroying hastily built shelters
*checks backlog*
Ca…can I unequip now?
Ca…can I unequip now?
September 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
*checks backlog*
Ca…can I unequip now?
Ca…can I unequip now?
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CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
September 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
Welp. Not walking this back now.
My only concern is that it may read that I dropped the service because they brought him back, since their feedback form didn’t give me an option to explain why I was cancelling service.
I don’t trust them yet though.
My only concern is that it may read that I dropped the service because they brought him back, since their feedback form didn’t give me an option to explain why I was cancelling service.
I don’t trust them yet though.
Guess it’s time to join the exodus from Disney services. Including any games I might otherwise buy (KOTOR for yet another platform, probably).
Any games from Disney franchises are obviously out, but now I gotta go track down a list of developers, publishers, etc. that I gotta avoid by association.
Any games from Disney franchises are obviously out, but now I gotta go track down a list of developers, publishers, etc. that I gotta avoid by association.
September 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Welp. Not walking this back now.
My only concern is that it may read that I dropped the service because they brought him back, since their feedback form didn’t give me an option to explain why I was cancelling service.
I don’t trust them yet though.
My only concern is that it may read that I dropped the service because they brought him back, since their feedback form didn’t give me an option to explain why I was cancelling service.
I don’t trust them yet though.
Guess it’s time to join the exodus from Disney services. Including any games I might otherwise buy (KOTOR for yet another platform, probably).
Any games from Disney franchises are obviously out, but now I gotta go track down a list of developers, publishers, etc. that I gotta avoid by association.
Any games from Disney franchises are obviously out, but now I gotta go track down a list of developers, publishers, etc. that I gotta avoid by association.
September 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Guess it’s time to join the exodus from Disney services. Including any games I might otherwise buy (KOTOR for yet another platform, probably).
Any games from Disney franchises are obviously out, but now I gotta go track down a list of developers, publishers, etc. that I gotta avoid by association.
Any games from Disney franchises are obviously out, but now I gotta go track down a list of developers, publishers, etc. that I gotta avoid by association.
I think this is mostly true. The one thing I’d note is that other books/movies/series may not have the ubiquity that allows kids to bond over it with other kids.
That’s not inherently bad. But I recall the kids whose could only enjoy religious books/music/media and it made their life much harder.
That’s not inherently bad. But I recall the kids whose could only enjoy religious books/music/media and it made their life much harder.
Every single thing you like and admire and find illuminating or thrilling about HP exists in other books, movies, & series EXCEPT the birth-to-death-scale entertainment-industrial infrastructure of merch and licensing
September 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I think this is mostly true. The one thing I’d note is that other books/movies/series may not have the ubiquity that allows kids to bond over it with other kids.
That’s not inherently bad. But I recall the kids whose could only enjoy religious books/music/media and it made their life much harder.
That’s not inherently bad. But I recall the kids whose could only enjoy religious books/music/media and it made their life much harder.
If I ever become the leader of a company with more than 50 employees, I am going to immediately mandate color coordinated office wear so that any adventurer who wanders in will instantly know which level boss they’re facing.
August 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
If I ever become the leader of a company with more than 50 employees, I am going to immediately mandate color coordinated office wear so that any adventurer who wanders in will instantly know which level boss they’re facing.
No, Microsoft, I do not want to fucking talk out loud to my computer. Especially when you’re feeding it to a shitty plagiarism machine that fucks the planet.
What I do very much want is for you to pull your heads out of your ass long enough to realize you’d be better off as two different companies.
What I do very much want is for you to pull your heads out of your ass long enough to realize you’d be better off as two different companies.
August 14, 2025 at 6:51 AM
No, Microsoft, I do not want to fucking talk out loud to my computer. Especially when you’re feeding it to a shitty plagiarism machine that fucks the planet.
What I do very much want is for you to pull your heads out of your ass long enough to realize you’d be better off as two different companies.
What I do very much want is for you to pull your heads out of your ass long enough to realize you’d be better off as two different companies.
Thinking about KOTOR I and II, and I think it’s interesting that while I tend to hate being pushed to be “full” evil in games, I had a lot of fun with those games
I think that’s because the Star Wars universe pushes an awkward binary, such that it’s hard to write a story without it. But they tried.
I think that’s because the Star Wars universe pushes an awkward binary, such that it’s hard to write a story without it. But they tried.
August 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Thinking about KOTOR I and II, and I think it’s interesting that while I tend to hate being pushed to be “full” evil in games, I had a lot of fun with those games
I think that’s because the Star Wars universe pushes an awkward binary, such that it’s hard to write a story without it. But they tried.
I think that’s because the Star Wars universe pushes an awkward binary, such that it’s hard to write a story without it. But they tried.
Yes hello, it’s me, the guy driving up the listening stats on Marcy Playground’s “Shadow of Seattle”. AMA
August 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Yes hello, it’s me, the guy driving up the listening stats on Marcy Playground’s “Shadow of Seattle”. AMA
Finally watched Sinners.
It’s what everyone says.
Watching stuff this good is one of the few things that makes me want to start a LetterBoxd (or just a blog). Not that I’m a great writer or expect an audience, but being able to revisit what I thought later would be fun I think.
It’s what everyone says.
Watching stuff this good is one of the few things that makes me want to start a LetterBoxd (or just a blog). Not that I’m a great writer or expect an audience, but being able to revisit what I thought later would be fun I think.
August 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Finally watched Sinners.
It’s what everyone says.
Watching stuff this good is one of the few things that makes me want to start a LetterBoxd (or just a blog). Not that I’m a great writer or expect an audience, but being able to revisit what I thought later would be fun I think.
It’s what everyone says.
Watching stuff this good is one of the few things that makes me want to start a LetterBoxd (or just a blog). Not that I’m a great writer or expect an audience, but being able to revisit what I thought later would be fun I think.
Fallout tried to tell y’all they were related and it’s only now that your precious “science” has caught up.
Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, apparently.
New research explains how the two foods are related:
New research explains how the two foods are related:
Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, 9 million years ago, apparently.
The modern-day potato evolved from the hybridization of the ancestors of tomato plants, and another potato-like plant, in South America, researchers say.
wapo.st
August 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Fallout tried to tell y’all they were related and it’s only now that your precious “science” has caught up.
Gee, how could anyone be confused by THIS?
"Sony sues Tencent for allegedly ripping off 'Horizon' video games"
Well alright but surely it can't be that blata— lmao
Well alright but surely it can't be that blata— lmao
July 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Gee, how could anyone be confused by THIS?
Maybe I wasn’t the audience for it, but Ironheart was just…bad? Stakes just so poorly defined. I’m a big fan of low-stakes superhero stuff. Daredevil S1 had low stakes, and was great in large because of them.
The biggest issue was length, I think. Nothing developed because it had zero time to do so
The biggest issue was length, I think. Nothing developed because it had zero time to do so
July 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Maybe I wasn’t the audience for it, but Ironheart was just…bad? Stakes just so poorly defined. I’m a big fan of low-stakes superhero stuff. Daredevil S1 had low stakes, and was great in large because of them.
The biggest issue was length, I think. Nothing developed because it had zero time to do so
The biggest issue was length, I think. Nothing developed because it had zero time to do so
“Sorry I can’t come to work today, boss. I’m sick.
“But you’re already here”.
“Not in my heart. Bye.”
“But you’re already here”.
“Not in my heart. Bye.”
July 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“Sorry I can’t come to work today, boss. I’m sick.
“But you’re already here”.
“Not in my heart. Bye.”
“But you’re already here”.
“Not in my heart. Bye.”
Um…
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I posted about Apache Chief and somebody said you would hate it if comics did that with gays and I said Oh wait they DID do that, in 1988, with this hairdresser who had AIDS, named "Extrano" which literally translates to "Queer."
DC comics has a scorcerer with AIDS named Queer. 😑
DC comics has a scorcerer with AIDS named Queer. 😑
July 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Um…
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If you’re ever wondering who the entertainment industry thinks are the easily-satisfied nostalgia junkies they can pump for endless money, this is the sort of thing you look for.
“Scrubs” reboot gets series order at ABC; Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke to return
‘Scrubs’ Reboot Gets Series Order at ABC; Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke to Return
ABC has picked up the reboot of "Scrubs" to series, with original stars Zach Braff, Donald Faison, and Sarah Chalke returning
variety.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
If you’re ever wondering who the entertainment industry thinks are the easily-satisfied nostalgia junkies they can pump for endless money, this is the sort of thing you look for.
Microsoft desperately needs to be torn apart.
It is one utterly shitty company as a whole and I’ve little doubt the firing of so many good game devs is in part fueled by their ridiculous pushing into more AI bullshit on the other side. Just an all-around failure of decency.
It is one utterly shitty company as a whole and I’ve little doubt the firing of so many good game devs is in part fueled by their ridiculous pushing into more AI bullshit on the other side. Just an all-around failure of decency.
July 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Microsoft desperately needs to be torn apart.
It is one utterly shitty company as a whole and I’ve little doubt the firing of so many good game devs is in part fueled by their ridiculous pushing into more AI bullshit on the other side. Just an all-around failure of decency.
It is one utterly shitty company as a whole and I’ve little doubt the firing of so many good game devs is in part fueled by their ridiculous pushing into more AI bullshit on the other side. Just an all-around failure of decency.
Finally watching Daredevil: Born Again. It’s hilarious watching Wilson Fisk win on saying how terrible New York City is, how it’s full of crime and poverty, and talking about toughness.
Because we just saw that particular strategy flame out quite spectacularly against Zohran Mamdani.
Because we just saw that particular strategy flame out quite spectacularly against Zohran Mamdani.
June 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Finally watching Daredevil: Born Again. It’s hilarious watching Wilson Fisk win on saying how terrible New York City is, how it’s full of crime and poverty, and talking about toughness.
Because we just saw that particular strategy flame out quite spectacularly against Zohran Mamdani.
Because we just saw that particular strategy flame out quite spectacularly against Zohran Mamdani.
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jesus christ krillin, put it away
May 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
jesus christ krillin, put it away
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Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.
May 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.