Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Quick calculation, but this deal is for barely 4 days worth of diesel. The commitment for 1.8M tons of diesel by November works out to 13.4M barrels -- but the US consumes 3.8M barrels a day. 1122
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So far in North America unions are one of the few entities demonstrably powerful and brave enough to rein in AI. I think a collective creature like that is deserving of the 50/50 power (not to mention the great benefits)! 200
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My Steam library is an empirical testament to the fact it's never been a better time for games under $10. 030
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Did not get to see "80s Hair Multiball". 1/10 demo. 😜 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I love all the haters. Means I get to spend more uninterrupted time on this fantastic machine! Can't wait to give it a whirl. 001
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Another great example of how successful the “human in the loop” isn’t. 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Meanwhile in Toronto, I wave to William Lyon Mackenzie King on my daily bike commute through Mount Pleasant Cemetery, and salute Jack Layton anytime I'm walking through the Cabbagetown Necropolis. Facilitating "living history" is the main reason cemeteries exist! 020
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Velocity Ball looks like a flipper on a rail that you can slide left to right to line up shots against the bank of standups / drop targets at the back of the playfield. Game play looks pretty one dimensional. 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Agreed! I was a day one SNES MarioKart kid and have loved every main console release except DD. It's been so long that all I remember about DD is the control feeling mushy and the game play just being boring. I'd have to fire it up on some old hardware to do a more detailed autopsy. 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Rogans stupid idea to replace intl relations with AI is lifted from a ST:TNG episode. The Enterprise visits a planet that replaced war with AI to project the # of people killed if the war was ongoing. Randomly selected citizens are then ritually executed & the "war" never ends. Brilliant solution. 🙄 120
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Model T is the only car therefore the best car!" WoW is great, but Blizz are resting on their laurels if what they say is sincere. Conversely, check out the tech innovation pipeline from No Mans Sky to Light No Fires. We might soon find out exactly what WoW isn't giving us as an MMO... 020
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026How do you know Microsoft is lying to you? Their lips are moving. 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026If Loblaws has the time and money to chart out and visually pollute a Bermuda Triangle of Unregulated Drone Advertising in Toronto, I'd suggest that: 1) Loblaws has too much time and money on their hands, and 2) the triangle needs to be closed. 0202
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026What's really messed up about all this is that OpenAI and Anthropic haven't even made AI that's actually intelligent. They've just made AI that's effective. They're basically building a digital apex predator and pretending they can control it or negotiate with it. Why? For who? Just turn it off. 041
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This hotel, while nice enough inside and with very spacious rooms, is a real wart on an otherwise lovely Inverness river promenade. 010
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Probably the best racing board game ever. But even the simpler rule set is a little too fiddly for kids and casuals. If you have friends who will commit to the full rules and a season it is really great. 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Civ7 feels so soulless and culture less compared Civ6 (not to mention the pointless gameplay). Crazy how badly Firaxis fumbled that game. 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The Founder Edition I bought gave me a worthless game. So in my view it was “negative DLC” and Firaxis still owes me $100. 001
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Majora's Mask for iOS confirmed but its an endless runner colab with Cookie Clicker 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The trailer / teaser has about as much honesty as DraftKings and Polymarket talking about the upcoming weekend. 070
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"Hello Vlad? Hold the pickles hold the lettuce, extra sauce. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, side door off 17th Ave., ask for Jared. 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The astro turf for this bullshit is deeper than the Titanic. 100
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I guess the Dyson brand appeals to a new cadre of consumer. But I'm one of the original supporters going back 20+ years. And I can tell you their newer vacuums are half-assed garbage. I've switched to Miele and for half the price I get twice the vacuum. 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Kleptocrats, Oligarchs and Corporatocracists are like bed bugs - it’ll take 2 or 3 sprayings before you can enjoy a good nights sleep. 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This episode brought to you by truth, justice, and the Pablo Torre way! 080
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Dripping with half-truths and about as convincing as the president's orange tan. 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Ooh, Josh Kushner somehow lucked into the Lakers while Walter tries to wriggle out of DoJ investigations. So which Trump relative is gonna fall into owning the Clippers around the same time an SEC investigation is withdrawn? Tune in next week to PTFO! 080
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The first UN IPCC report released in 1990. It stated clearly that annual human CO2 emissions would have to "immediately" fall by 60% to keep levels stable into the future. The clock would have stopped at 354ppm. Now its 428ppm and the EU and Nepal are the lead pace cars on a global highway to hell. 020
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Tickets were also widely available for her actual Tour. So at this point I think it's less a case that "reactions are split" and more "trends indicate serious floppage". 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The legit niche 90s kids know the real battle was in Wrath of the Black Manta. 010
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I remember back in 2013 when it was fun to track each Steam release and every little indy title got curious interest and attention. Like 200-300 games a year, and I could identify screen shots from any of em. Now it’s like “remind me who owns Blizzard now? And was that Witcher 4 I saw last week?” 030
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026A remake of Indy would be so great. I've played it a few times on location but all the machines I find are always worn down and inevitably have some part of the play field that isn't working. Would LOVE to enjoy this game in new condition! 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Gotta love a place where you can set fire to all the existing furnishings in situ and the house itself will be just fine. Kind of like those public toilets that rinse themselves after each use. 140
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026My relatively new Samsung - a 2024 QN55Q80 - is dumb as a brick at automatically recognizing and switching HDMI inputs. But otherwise, having never connected the TV to any network, never touching the internal software, and driving it from an attached Mac Mini, it's been terrific as a dummy screen. 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I wanted to try GTA5 after it launched, maybe 2016ish. At that time the PC version was in the (awful) Microsoft Store? Anyway, I simply could not get the weird web of MS and Rockstar accounts to register. Never got the game going. Took up Dwarf Fortress instead, it seemed much more accessible! 🤣 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Great report by the way. Very clear and comprehensive. How you pull that out of the fog of war I'll never know! 100
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Perhaps 2025 was the blip and 2024 is the norm. Yikes. 010
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Given your vast knowledge of old computer hardware, are you willing to go on record that the original iMac round puck mouse (1998, model M4848) is the worst wide-release pointing device released in history? 110
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026In counter-map-naming news, Canadian Prime Minister Carney signs order to change name of Lake America to Lake Hormuz, and indicates it is closed to export shipments of toilet paper and maple syrup. 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Nice. I can finally fulfill my life's goal and generate a magik system base on Star Trek: TNG lore. Wizard utters: "Make it so! Engage!" > Warps across map "darmok and jalad at tanagra" > Conjures mythical beast "Nightbird" > Trombone sounds play "Au contraire mon capitan" > Temporary God powers 030
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I had a bit more luck with the family mementos. My dad tended to organize odds and ends in tobacco tins from the 1930s-1960s. Each has distinctive lettering, images, and old customs stamps. They're quite charming as display pieces -- and well past any carcinogenic potential! :D 000
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Man, I didn't think Cities: Skylines could ever make up for the utterly broken debacle of CS:2. But, uhhh, this Lego adaptation looks incredibly delightful!! Click them studs directly into my veins! Hope they pull it off (and if so, earlier sins will be forgotten if not forgiven). 010
Easy Writer @easywriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I sympathize, we all face a moment of reckoning. Mine isn't here yet. But when MS finally makes it impossible for me to keep using Win10 as my all-in-one daily driver, my plan is to dedicate either a Win11 or Steam Machine to gaming, and move all my other computing needs to a Mac or Linux. 000
