Zero22xx

As in "getting their shit done."

As a non-American, it's always looked to me like the Republicans manage to get their shit done whether they're in charge or not and the Democrats are just there to assure everyone they have a choice in voting and not much else.

The whole thing to me looks like a game of good cop / bad cop. Bad cop comes along beats the shit out you, and then good cop comes along to give you a cup of weak shit coffee as a consolation for your black eye and says something unconvincing about being unhappy with bad cop's behaviour, before letting bad cop back in to beat the shit out of you some more.

And for every cycle of that, bad cop achieves his goals while good cop just acts as a glorified tea lady that tries to make sure you don't have any hard feelings about bad cop.

shifted to the point where a double Sieg Heil at your president's inauguration is within normal discourse

Haha thank you. I'm not even American but to me it's pretty shocking to find out that this place, world of all instances, is too 'extreme' for people. Maybe I really am a dirty radical but I think that if people who consider themselves democrats are still fucking clutching their pearls about the left wing being too left wing while Elon Musk does open nazi salutes and trans people get their rights and dignity stripped away, then it's no wonder the USA is so fucked.

You guys clearly need a new political party because your choices are overt right wingers, or spineless right wingers that like to pretend they represent the left.

Edit: maybe the bad men will see the light if we all hold hands and sing kumbaya. I'm sure that all of the people who are already finding themselves victims to this will thank you for taking the high road and not scaring too many centrists.

Around the time I first started using this username about 7 or so years ago, I was playing through the Megaman Zero games, that take place approximately 100 years after the events of Megaman X, which take place during "year 21xx". So 'Zero22xx' specifically references the version of Zero from the Megaman Zero games.

On top of that, I also just thought it was a cool mix of letters and numbers that can look pretty random if you don't know the games, or if I'm not using a profile pic.

The only annoying thing is that at some point around the time I created this username, I started seeing an anime character called 'ZeroTwo' around. So I guess it could be mistaken that I'm referencing that too.

I've definitely not got anything against Japanese wrestling. Watched NJPW for a little while a few years ago. Although one of the main things I watch pro wrestling for is the storylines and larger than life characters, more so than workrate (although there's nothing wrong with technical masterpiece matches either). And I also appreciate women's wrestling.

If I could find both of those aspects, plus I didn't have to watch 5 shows a week and follow social media accounts, I'd be happy to try anything from any country. TNA was basically just the easiest option that offered all of this.

I'm late here but felt like sharing my goblin tendencies too. I've actually got a lot of random shit that I collect and keep in a box, thought I would take a couple of my favourites out. Sorry for potato quality picture, I have a potato quality phone.

• A plasticky spiked collar that a stripper I used to party with and had a huge crush on took off from her neck on put on mine one night. And no, I'm not the strip club type and never even watched her work, her and her colleagues and friends used to frequent the metal/alternative club that I haunted. ~~15 to 20 years ago.~~ Actually I'm not that old yet, more like 10 to 15 years ago.
• A card with a witch that I found lying on the ground probably also around 15 years ago. Says "creative child games" on the back.
• A completely washed away and blank puzzle piece that I also picked up off the ground somewhere.
• A round rock with the word "Safety" written on it that was randomly handed to me by a hippie girl at a music festival years ago.
• A very poorly cut black tourmaline (or so I was told) that I bought at a flea market for way too much money while tripping balls on ecstacy. That was while I was still in my hippie phase so very close to 20 years ago.
• Lucky beans! I've just always loved them since I was a kid and have bunch floating around. I've even put some in the linings of one of my jackets.

I've actually been a boring hermit for at least the last 10 years, so I'm running out of trinkets with cool stories attached to them though.

Wondering if I'm even looking forward to TNA at all now. Not to signal that I have virtues or anything but this Tessa business has left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.

If they had done this a year or two ago, I wouldn't have liked it but I would've been more inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt that they knew what they're doing and it's a genuine redemption arc. But the timing of this makes it look more like they're doing this because they just don't have to pretend to care anymore.

Plus, maybe I'm making false connections but with all of the wrestlers, including TNA diehards, that have just left without a word, it really does seem like something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Thinking I might take a break for a couple of weeks and reset, look for something else. Just not sure what yet.

Oh yeah that's for sure. I think the first Sonic movie especially took us all by surprise because we were all expecting something truly awful and it turned out to be pretty fun. And these movies are what got me revisiting Sonic in the first place. And I'm just gonna say, because the '90s kid in me can't help comparing the two, they're better movies than Super Mario at least, which was also fun but kinda like an extended Nintendo advert.

It's just that watching Sonic 3 now after I've spent the last 6 months to a year consuming other Sonic content, I've realised that these movies aren't actually such great adaptations.

Someone needs to start keeping a central list of all corporations and organisations that have been rolling over like they've been waiting for this moment all their lives. Just to keep around as reminders, any time they decide to do a little rainbow capitalism or black history month marketing.

If the world, and especially the USA regains its senses, please all I ask is that everyone remembers exactly who these people are when they're begging for your money and support again.

LineageOS 20 on the Nokia 4.2. The only option for this phone besides LineageOS 19 and it's one of these cases where the dev just stopped updating anything and deleted their XDA profile. Might go back to vanilla but the problem is that's a downgrade in Android version too.

This whole phone is a regret. My previous phone had just died unexpectedly and it was a spur of the moment purchase with a low budget, based on nostalgia for a 'Nokia' that doesn't actually exist anymore. Should've just gone for a cheap Samsung and I probably would've at least had more choice in custom firmwares.

All depends on which app / UI you're using I guess but it should look pretty much like Reddit almost everywhere. The only difference here is that there's no grand total at the top of your profile like a high score. But when I was signed up on world, in the app I'm using you could see separate up and down vote counts for everything.

They're really not meaningless though. For one thing, they allow moderators and admins to more easily detect trolls and bad faith actors. And on platforms or with add-ons that allow better tracking of vote history, it allows the user to more efficiently moderate their own experience, should they so choose.

Also, I think you've got to be kind of an asshole to not recognise that a little bit of validation from communities that you participate in is a nice thing to have and that downvotes can hurt to an extent, even if it's not the same as getting physically slapped. And to be clear, I'm not pointing at you or anyone, I'm just riffing here. I haven't even seen downvotes for a while now.

So yeah, I'd say they're meaningless in a video game sense. You're not going to win any prizes with them. But there's a reason they exist, plus no one is immune to the effects of positive or negative reinforcement.