Pure bliss.
The last time I had been floating in a pool was in 2015 in Santa Monica after some handyman work, in the middle of those wildfires that were raging on not so far away. The sky was filled with smoke and the sun was red.
Nine years later I’m in the crisp morning desert air, listening to water glistening around my body before being hit by triple-digit temperatures drying me out in an instant. Sunscreen and coffee smell.
I want to be back already.
It is now on. Pool, evening skating, music, here I come.
Meanwhile things are nice, moving well and the light in the morning is the best. Mmmhmm, August.
Very rough first costs estimate to build my Halftogon house: under $130K. Considering that I was aiming at $120K in 2013, that’s not bad. Add how I live and it’s most definitely doable. Dope.
I also realized that it can be completely made out of precast concrete, the old school 3D printing method. There are some great companies here doing that and this might be good enough for airtightness but I need to do more thinking.
I was like “hey I haven’t seen my dude Neil in my Tumblr feed in a while I used to see him all the time what is he doing probably shooting a movie or something let me sOH MY FUCKING GOD NO HE DID NOT”
Men, please shift+delete the fucking Abusive extension. WTF bro.
Women, I’m not sure girl. I’m so sorry and I’m also frustrated as hell.
There’s this car in my neighborhood and its plate is GIRL IDK.
I kind of want to get mine to say GRL SAME now!
Counter Strike, the 25-year-old game which allowed folks to play with a left hand on-screen since 1999, received a massive update last fall in which the left hand option was gone.
What on motherfucking earth is this?
The developers of the game that aims for realism, the game that added legs to the models (probably for a possible future VR version, more realistic), more realistic physics, lighting and more precision in movement and ballistic, said “in our minds, no one is left-handed in the real world”.
As a left-handed person who has always played the game with a left-handed model and who was looking forward to Counter Strike 2, I’m so confused.
After players complained for 7 months, it’s been back since April. Except for the Molotov Cocktail, which for some reason stays a right-hand only weapon. What the fuuuck?
As to why Valve would do something this ill-prepared, my guess is some game director bullshit insisting that players experience the world and maps the same way, thus optimizing everything for right-handed folks. And perhaps because of that, some corners on some maps are more advantageous to lefties. Or it could be that shadows being calculated from one point of view only, changing the model on characters doesn’t properly work with pre-baked environment. Or some technical issue in that vein.
Anyway, CS2’s launch has been a disaster (replacing a game people bought with a free-to-play one that’s missing tons of features is BAD) and this contributed to it.
Another software-as-as-service abusive relationship. I know shipping games is hard but disdain is not good for growth.
There is about 9 million developers making apps for iPhone and Android. It is very hard to get actual numbers but it’s pretty safe to say that about 1,000 are doing very well. The rest? Not so good while they submit their work for which they will give 30% to the mafia by default, and then maybe get it into the store after insane stories about requirements and what not.
It’s absolutely wild how much developers are in an abusive relationship with Apple and Google with their stores and platforms, and how they hate it so much, they cheat every second they can to get what they want.
Meanwhile the duopoly treats them as whiny nuisance and constantly ghosts them. Good vibes.
It’s fascinating because it’s been almost 15 years of this now. It’s just part of the manipulative, algo-heavy, I’m-hiding-behind-my-digital-identity zeitgeist that we are in I guess.
I was there at the start of the thread about Chris Cole being an abuser, by chance. 66 pages later, goddamn.
Meanwhile they just put a new statue of Kobe and his daughter, and all I can think is that this dude raped a woman and got away with it, unscathed.
Fuck. Them. Fuck this toxic dude mentality. Fuck the dying patriarchy. Fuck this complacency. Fuck all the yes-man men in the world.
So much work to do jfc
Let’s see: feeling weird left and right thanks to that latest variant, bitches indeed is weird, France has no government per se and is hosting the world in a week, here one dude gets shot the other dips, snapped my skateboard in half on a weak back lip yesterday, enough!
The vacation I’m too lazy to organize is going to feel real good.
Them:
Why do you spend time designing a house that fits your needs now and in the future, is ultra cost-efficient and off-grid ready, can sustain triple-digit weather, rainstorms, earthquakes, fires, tornadoes and thieves well?
Me, watching the news:
I was running to that sprinter van parked on the bank’s parking lot on Sunset and Vine. It was safe to leave it overnight, as we had a little deal with the security guards, I believe.
I am getting in, turn on the engine and it’s this Hotline Bling bullshit on, again. At that time, you can’t not hear that stupid track if you turn the radio on. If you’re entering a gas station. A restaurant. A restroom. Probably a hospital. It’s everywhere.
I’ve always disliked Drake, his nasal voice and his industry plant (his uncle is goddamn Larry Graham) manners. So seeing him getting demolished by our L.A. lyricist #1 I mean, I’m not mad.
But yeah, I’m disappointed. I’m out here designing shit for a better future. We’re learning about what powerful black men did in the music business in the 2000s and all is appalling, times 100. We’ve had the biggest protests in human history for George Floyd, and that didn’t do a-ny-thing.
Meanwhile I witness two grown millionaires talking shit while people are like “culture!!” over a quickly produced beat that is not good.
It’s annoying. I’m annoying. Let’s focus. OVer and Out.