InPieces.RIP
2026-04-22

How did our dads do it?

It occurred to me just now that I’m less mature today than I was 10 years ago.

[a ton of really depressing reminiscing about my life in NJ removed]

Can I be honest with you? Just this one time? I haven’t been truly happy since the day I set foot in Florida. It was pretty derailing.

I’m not in a wheelchair, so it’s not a good excuse. But that’s just how I feel.

I’m too tired to do anything, I can’t even write a blog.

My father, a Boomer, has more energy than I do. Idk why. I mean I know why HE has energy, he’s a strong man. Idk why I just have nothing left in me.

I gotta go feed my dog. That’s unrelated.

I’ll try to uh…

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whatever, I’ll be fine. Or I won’t, whatever lmao. I am mortal. My body’s going to break down and one day I’m going to die, there’s just no way around it. Big deal. Where, O death, is your victory? You think I can’t FACE DEATH?

–Awkward Conversations, 2020

You know, in the end, I have to admit that Mickey was right: Breath of the Wild really is a good game.

Sry, I just need a little caffeine and I’ll feel better.

hey, I hope you’re feeling well.

I’m whatever. I’m fine.

I’m not, I’m in some kind of seething mood. You ever be in a seething mood? The kind of mood where if you stub your toe or bang your elbow on something, you’ll take vengeance on an inanimate object?

I sprained my neck. Again. Any time I’m mad, my neck just immediately gets fucked, which will last for multiple days. Which of course only makes me more mad.

EDIT: my neck’s feeling a little better and I’ve calmed down. Sorry. Beating it up with a TENS unit actually helps a lot.

I mean that btw, go—if you ever get a fucked up back/shoulders/neck from being a computer-goblin all day, go on Amazon right now, search “TENS unit” and get one, it’s life-changing. Unless you have a gf/wife or can afford to pay an asian lady to punch your back every day, this is a necessary thing to own. It’s a little iPod that you connect sticky pads to, you stick the pads where you’re tense, and it uh… like zaps you in a way that massages your muscles. You know, the pads make it—it doesn’t feel like you’re *shocking* yourself, it literally feels like it’s rubbing you. If you set it high enough, it’s going to make your muscles move around. It’s awesome. Instant and good relief. Some girl at a mall sold me a really good one 10 years ago. She slapped those pads on my shoulders, I’m like “Ooooooooooo babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy😩”. SOLD.

I’ve been using one ever since if I get a really tense neck or a freaking knot in my shoulder.

Any of the highly-rated ones are fine. If you can find a 100mA one (I think most are 80mA) then you might as well go for that.

Massages every day, bro. Genuine quality-of-life improvement. Get you a TENS unit, bro.

Anyway…

...More Gene Wolfe?

Silhouette

I read more but I’m too tired to tell you sry.

Johann started talking to the ship’s AI though, and uh…

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there’s something about it, where it’s not deleting inquiries even though it’s supposed to routinely. And it’s doing that becaaaaaaause… we don’t know yet.

Also Johann astral-projectd to the planet. And the expedition team spotted him, but they didn’t see that it was him.

And uhhhhh… there’s some invisible thing that’s been talking to Johann at night.

Ok that’s all. I’m tired.

2 more weeks.

I’ve told you this multiple times in the past, but idk if I’ll ever get tired of it:

if you try to delete old livechat messages on YouTube—like, if you’re the kind of person who just likes to routinely delete everything, YouTube doesn’t allow you to delete your livechat messages if its faggot-retard AI flags the chat as containing violent language.

So the other day I said “just 2 more weeks and ComicsGate will be dead!” which to a faggot-retard AI, programmed by retarded faggots, is obviously a threat to murder a person named ComicsGate, instead of a sarcastic “2 more weeks” joke about the resilience of the ComicsGate indie-comic movement.

I’m telling you this because 1- I’m in a bad mood and I fucking hate YouTube, excuse my language

and 2- kinda related, I finally read Shane Davis’s Annatomic last night

Different artist than Shane because it’s a side-story. I can’t remember the guy’s name… Gomez something… he’s really good, but I think I prefer Shane’s work.

Uhhhh… book was good. Not a lot to it, though.

Basically: Girl fights in a sport where you control monsters → girl’s ordered to take a dive by her cool & hilarious black midget mobster boss → girl agrees w/ a pinky promise → girl doesn’t take a dive and is about to win → her boss cuts the controls to her MMA-kaiju (do NOT break a pinky promise with Lil’ T) → her opponent beats her within an inch of her life → she wants a rematch

the end. It’s not a whole lot of extra lore to the main series, Inglorious Rex. There’s nothing *wrong* with that at all. Really the *only* problem is that it’s MUCH, MUCH more expensive to support indie books like this than it was for people to just buy whatever shit Marvel or DC used to throw on the shelves. You really have to do it out of love. It’s like… just off my head, at LEAST 4x as expensive… okay, literally: even up to 20x as expensive from the 90s, and over 200x as expensive since the Boomer days.

You really have to pick and choose unless you’re rich.

Still, never in my life did I ever think I’d have even a single box full of Westoid comics, but I do. And I’m mad because it’s full and I really don’t want to get another box.

It came with *another* book too though, so in this case it was only uh… about twice as expensive as non-indie comics.

Crowdfunding is cool though, isn’t it? I think it’s neato that if a guy is talented enough, he can rely on his fans instead of some corporation that will fire him over something like being too normal and sane.

TOP 10 GREATEST Vidya?

I don’t feel like thinking about it any more rn actually.

Maybe later. Iirc I still need to add 2 more games to it anyway. Maybe Mario 64? A game with such amazing controls that not even speedrunners can make it stupid to watch. The camera’s not great. It’s also not nearly as bad as people complained about.

Stop thinking.

I got Metal Slug Tactics, I’ll see how it is. Or maybe I won’t, I guess it’s possible I’ll never play it, ever, right? I still haven’t even played Rental.

“TODAY’S THE DAY I’LL PLAY HER GAME!” yeah right🐇

You know what I’m kinda in the mood for, though? I wonder if there’s any other… uh… arcadey-games like Metal Slug on Wiiware. Preferably ones where you don’t die in 1 hit though.

A while back I played a few of the PREDATOR/Alien vs Predator arcade games, and they’re sooooooooo cool lol. I used to see screenshots of them when I was a kid and I’d want to play them so bad(I really, really liked Predator, I used to draw him in school lol)

Maybe I’ll draw one later today to see if I can remember how to. “Maybe I’ll do this, maybe I’ll do that”. God help me, I used to be such a go-getter. Maybe there’s some MEDICAMENT I can take, maybe I can get back on ADDERALL, how about that? Unlike Destiny, I actually handled it well.

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well, I had a few fun explosive-rage moments lol. I’ll tell you another time.

Anything else…

Pragmata?

This isn’t the time for it, but there’s… I haven’t thought about what they are or why they’re like this, but there’s some kind of *what feels to be, I’m not positive*--maybe 20yo “leftists”(too tired to think of a better label—public-school indoctrinated brainlets with basic-bitch “whatever feels good” politics) who really, really hate anything that reminds them that women and men are distinct; either because they’re homosexual or they have a phobia of sex. Or they’re just childless femcels that are offended by/scared of children. I’m sure that just like w/ anime-haters, a portion of them are projecting paedos. And since normal people and right-wingers are currently dadding out and loving Pragmata, they're seething about it. And that’s sad because the game looks really neat. I’m probably not going to get it, because I DOUBT my PC can run it and the Switch version is just a game-key instead of the actual game. But everything I’ve seen of it just looks great. I can’t imagine hating a dadcore game. Did they hate I Am Alive, too? That was one of the best AA games I’ve ever played. It’s really mentally-ill shit if this kind of disgust for parenthood exists in someone past their teen years; no-one has ever seen a “child-free and proud!” couple that wasn’t completely FUBAR like that stupid gamer couple I posted the other day that thought they can’t own a tee-vee and Red Dead Redemption 2 if they had reproduced.

There’s been some talk about Pragmata-seethers being anti-natalists, and I think even though the label probably loosely applies to everyone I just listed, I don’t think it’s their primary motivation, I kinda just think they’re immature. You see the way they talk on like Twitter, and it’s just extremely immature; the kind of completely irrational seething that is typical in uh… “fandom” shit. I guess the same people go insane over character romances. And not for anything—these people are not having sex. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, but they’re also the first one to call *you* an “incel” over literally-anything. There’s probably also a major, major overlap there with the people who want to “crack eggs”(groom impressionable autistic kids into thinking they’re transgender.) I’ve also seen a few people resent the android girl because she’s white, but that’s on top of everything else.

And even though I do think it’s largely Zoomers, I think there’s probably a lot of Millennials among them too, who are in denial about how fucked their lives are. (I’m safe, I know exactly how badly I’ve fumbled my life so far)

I think this might be the only time Gen-Xers are relatively innocent; they didn’t grow up entirely-online, so I don’t think they have this kind of online fandom brainrot.

When you don’t have a lot going on, or didn’t when you were growing up—you start to be way way way too invested in media, and it’s just not healthy. Like uhhhhh… I keep hearing about that show, The Boys, which I can tell is the very epitome of goyslop, complete trash written by the lowest rat-scum of society; I know that if I encountered the creator irl, I’d want to break their nose and throw them through a sewer grate; but it doesn’t occupy any of my mind, at any time, unless I see a post about it (or summon the thought for some example like I just did lol). Actively-seething, seeking out to get mad about games/shows/etc. Is, I think, not good for you. I think that’s youthful energy better spent elsewhere. It’s a real thing, it’s a real resource, the *ability to care* about something, the passion. Don’t waste it.

I think I wasted a LOT of my youthful energy as an atheist arguing with Christians on the Internet.

You don’t get that back.

Mil-Sim Story Readalong

We’re on Chapter 53. Don’t forget there’s a recap of the first 2 parts. If you need it.

last time, Tomio and Emi challenged each other to a duel; loser does whatever the winner says.

I thought Emi had it, but Tomio clobbered her and now she’s in a cheerleader outfit.

WAT IN TARNATION exclaims Mai.

ok. read along with me!

along comes a Hikari.

Ya like dressing up as a cheerleader for your boyfriend, dontcha Squidward?

TWO CHEERLEADERS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE

Mai’s gonna shoot herself

“You really think you’re going to outclass a striker fire pistol with that six shooter?” Ramirez taunts Tomio

Tomio’s about to outclass a striker fire pistol with his six shooter.

FIRED FROM THE HIP.

Whyyyy, Johnny Ramirez… you look like somebody just walked over yohr grave.

Fight’s not with you, Tomio!

I’ll beg to diffah, sir! We started a Mil-Sim game we never got to finish.

Emi and Chiara doing air kicks 😭 hey I didn’t know I could just type in emoji in LibreOffice, that’s pretty neat. It doesn’t give suggestions though, so you have to know the names… lemme… 😏 heh… uhhh… 👺 lmao uhh… 😂 ok im sorry…

WHO’S THIS. KILL HER MAI!

*THE* NINA MAREK?

Is she another Asura clone?

NO are YOU an Asura clone?

Poor Asura 😢

Oh no, Tomio’s about to lose isn’t he.

NINA’S TOO SMUG TOMIO, LOOK OUT

NOOOOOOOO SHE’S TIPPING HER FEDORA

SHE’S TOO POWERFUL A SHIT TALKER

TOMIO DON’T, SHE’LL JUST DO YOU AGAIN!

NnnnNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! SHE’S GOING TO TAKE EMI AND CHIARA FOR HER HAREM.

YGIG: YOUR GIRL IS GOING

TOMIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOO

YOU BETTER WATCH THE WAY YOU’RE TALKIN TO ‘MIO

nothing but an instigator lmao

Tomio still SEETHING 😂

Chiara’s mercy and Mai’s fangirling will get her on the team

starstruck Mai

autist added. Will she improve the team? Or just drive Tomio into a murderous rage?

We’ll see!

Memes and stuff to reward your suffering

Btw I do just steal 50-90% of these from @ShitpostRock2 on X, Constant vidya posts, is Catholic Christian; he’s a real cool guy worth following if you have an account. Which you shouldn’t.