Chris (Dre)
@counterlash.bsky.social
He/Him Husband, father, cybersecurity guy. My thoughts/opinions are my own. Formerly Counterlash @ Twitter. Writer @ Blizzard Watch. Icon by @hearoto!
I know it's Hot Reddit Takes and I shouldn't take them personally, but getting my 7 y/o to go to bed has been an issue lately and seeing a bunch of people just going "You need to show AUTHORITY not be their friend!!!" and circlejerking to that sentiment is... frustrating to say the least.
I’m kinda proud of myself. I’ve watched two TV shows over the last like two weeks which is almost unheard of for me. Granted I started Midnight Mass when I had COVID and was loopy as fuck two years ago and didn’t finish it until last week (or the week before) but I watched Widows Bay this week
also - as I have said before and will say again - the problem with AI isn't that there's zero positive, helpful uses to which it can be put; it's that none of them, whether singly or collectively, comes remotely close to justifying the dystopian shitshow that goes into making and selling the tech
Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode)@probgobl.in · 4d ago"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.
I want to say that even though she's a minor NPC in the last few patches with scant real characterization, I adore Shale. Honestly I think she's the first NPC we've interacted with in FF14 where I go, "Yeah I think Sig would be crushing on her."
You ever just be sitting there and out of nowhere a sheer wave of anxiety washes over you for no reason? Like the pit of your stomach just drops out and your heart begins racing and you feel slightly short of breath? ... Yeah totally me neither.
Still feeling shitty about work stuff. Budget isnt approved yet which has tied up my promotion and pay raise, which I don’t even know what the new pay bands are until finance gets it together. My coworkers make literally double my salary as seniors, I’d be a Junior. I’d like to meet in the middle.
Friends, it isn't "guillotine logic" to suggest punishing people for crimes they definitely committed using a perfectly legal sentence for that crime.
Having a frustrating work day. I feel like I'm "Mr. Negative" on our team who always is pushing for things to be done in the security space to fix problems that I see. Feels like sometimes I frustrate my boss because of it, when I am just trying to make our environment more secure. I'm tired.
aaaa thank you so much @hearoto.bsky.social for drawing Sig for me! Finally, art of Signius Le'Roux of Faerie, my FF14 Warrior of Light!
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
This woman was always my "she could make me worse... if she wasn't talking about wanting to make a human centipede" (also the song is now stuck in my head)
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Kristin I don't know you but we should be besties because that's EXACTLY how I feel too. Elder Scrolls should be my JAM as it's a ton of things I love in a game but it just feels so... half baked?
Kristin 🇨🇦🤓@faierius.bsky.social · 2w agoNo hate, no dogpiling, just curious. For me, it's Skyrim. Don't know why, considering it should be exactly my kind of game, but it just didn't click for me.
In therapy today: Therapist: You've been pretty overwhelmed and underwater for a while now. Me: I've been overwhelmed and underwater since 2020. I've also been extremely depressed for a week now. I'm fucking tired, ya'll. The rest of my year is only going to get worse, too. Not sure how to do it.
Excited to get back my two commissions because I'm definitely going to turn one of them into my new avatar places. Not that I don't love The Woop, but I wish I could be no thoughts head empty right now and I really can't.
I applaud Abdul for taking the high ground and always turning the question about Israel back to his stances on local policies, but it's really frustrating to see the media trying to get a gotcha soundbyte by asking him 10 questions about Israel and nothing else.
So I take K to a place called Stemville which is a science learning place that he loves. Today they were doing hidden golden tickets and he found two — got a free one month membership and a learn to code robot toy which is AWESOME. This place is amazing and I’m so glad he likes it here.
After many, many years I finally beat Sekiro. Damn that was a good game. Kinda wonder how we never got a sequel after the True Ending (Return) set up a hook for one. Maybe one day...
Finished commission of a Viera — Warrior from Final Fantasy XIV 🐰⚔️ Had a lot of fun with the motion and the orange accents on this one — super clean glamour design to work with. Thanks again for the commission! #FFXIV #Viera #FF14 #Commission #DigitalArt #vgencommission #FFXIVArt
Pushed my painterly style further with this auri portrait commission #FFXIV #FF14 #FFXIVART #DigitalArt #AuRa #commission #vgen #vgencommission
I'm in a weird spot where I want to raid in WoW to be social with my awesome guild, but at the same time WoW just isn't doing it for me. Not thrilled with the story, feel like they're dragging it out just to get 3 xpacs out of it. In other news, I finally got past The Wall in Sekiro. Endgame time.
@donavanmckinney.bsky.social How do I get a yard sign? Need to put one up for you and Abdul for November. 👏
Sure would be nice if I could stop clenching my teeth all the time. I suddenly go "why does my jaw hurt? ... oh." Didn't realize I was *this* stressed.
Watching the primary results as they come in, but then getting notifications about the fucking SCREEN act and all I can do is silently scream because I don't know how much more of this I can take and it's only 2026.
