A Small Delicatessen

I spent over $300 on Oculus games, which Oculus refuses to refund or transfer.

Facebook has literally 0 people who work in any capacity of customer service. I'm not lying. Whatever your issue is, there is no one at Facebook who can or will help you.

However, Oculus was kind enough to look in the matter. Though they refused to unban my Facebook account, they did unlink my Oculus account and allow me to link it to a new Facebook account.

This does not excuse any action by Facebook and only reinforces the fact that Facebook's bubble has burst. It is too large and it is collapsing on itself. I will not miss it when it is gone. I've resented it from the start.

- Composer: Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916) - Performer: Markus Becker (piano) - Year of recording: 1999 (?)

6 Intermezzi for Piano, Op. 45, written in 1900.

The remix culture of the early 2000s left an indelible impression on me, an enduring delight in the power of whimsy, juxtaposition, virtuosity and ingenuity - and the ability of strangers all over the world to collaborate without any explicit coordination.

The recent Bernie-mittens meme was a sterling example of this, tickling me right to my core, and I just happened on an especially delightful apex example of the form: Toasted Shoes’s video of Sanders incorporated into eight AAA video-games.

Toasted Shoes got Joe Mashups to create a 3D model of Sanders, then tapped a bunch of different mashup artists to turn the Sanders sprite into playable characters in the games, showing them off in a narrated video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tpIJx5pu4k

I’m not much of a fan of video-game streamers’ narration, and I confess that I found the video more entertaining without the narration, but to each their own - Shoes was clearly enjoying himself, as were the commenters on the video.

They had a lot to be pleased by.

Sanders as a Sith Lord in Star Wars Battlefront 2.

Two Bernie monsters in Fallout: first as a herd of trampling beasts.

And then as “King Bernie,” a looming, deadly giant of a level-boss.

Bernie gets matted into Resident Evil as every single monster, which leads to much grisly hilarity in the cut-scenes.

The everybody-is-Bernie motif carries over to Skyrim.

And he reprises his role as a giant boss in Skyrim.

Giant Bernie makes a great Fallout level boss as well.

And in Devil May Cry, Bernie becomes a Clive Barker-esque demon.

But all that violence is cleansed with a gorgeous, relaxing underwater Bernie in Abzu.