triumph @nowionlywantatriumph@shrike.club

if you’re wondering how I ended up looking at kiwifruit orchards, don’t worry about it

TIL that despite being associated with New Zealand, the kiwi (fruit) is actually native to China

it’s associated with New Zealand because that’s where the first commercially-viable plantings happened

new thread—later posts will be CWed for easy filtering

I joined the online head-to-head trivia league LearnedLeague this season! The way it works is you get 6 questions to answer (almost) every weekday, and you have to assign points to your opponent based on how likely you think they are to get each question right

there’s more info about it here, for the curious: https://learnedleague.com/thorsten/freq.php

a wise man once said "never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game"

I am not wise

I’m running today on only 40 minutes sleep

help

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pictured: Eduardo Pérez, Karl Ravech, someone who should be sent to the Hague for committing war crimes, George W. Bush

now THIS is pagliaccing

tired: "git gud"
wired: "stop playing bad"

I don’t care much for basketball, but the NBA 2K series is so far ahead of everyone else in the franchise department that it’s unreal

plus basketball video games are the most fun of the sports video games, imo, except maybe golf

NBA 2K23 is adding “MyNBA Eras” on PS5 and SeX|S

all of the features of the MyNBA mode, but with the ability to start in 1983, or 1991, or 2002

https://nba.2k.com/2k23/courtside-report/mynba/

the best part? everything that changed in the past? you can opt out of it or tell it to not happen

alternate universe in which WarnerMedia bought Homestuck instead of Viz

then the adult swim adaptation would be getting disappeared soon

for a good time, call +1 (202) 762-1401

sorry, mistyped–for THE time, call +1 (202) 762-1401