The picture is on my phone. Twelve boys have set up two televisions and Xboxes in a 10x12 room. Halo: Combat Evolved is paused.

Whenever I see old LAN Party photos like that, all I can think about is how awful those rooms must have smelt like, and the electricity bill.

I’m sad that so many nostalgia posts on the internet are based around consuming.

More importantly why would you even need a screen in the bathroom? Literally ruins the most basic act of our existence.

closely followed by the period right before it you didn’t experience, but everyone around you is nostalgiajacking to…

a CGI cartoon character people put in those “when the autistic kid does x” memes from the mid 2010’s

I am not a language model training on reddit would be more accurate than chatGPT.

ChatGPT and most other AI apps are trained on Reddit and have been since they’ve been publicly released. I remember TalkToTransformer in 2019 would say Redditisms like “fellow redditor” or talk about being in a sub to every other prompt.

Wasn’t exclusivity for AI access the reason for the API change in the first place?

For anyone wondering, the group is the “Blood Tribe” led by Christopher Pohlhaus.

https://www.adl.org/glossary/christopher-pohlhaus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Tribe_(neo-Nazi_group)