Frosty the Goat, man (December 2025 Scapegoat Blame Thread)
12Turkey time is over, and now we’re on to gift season. I hope you’ve already gotten a start on shopping so you don’t find yourself hunting right up to the last minute. If you missed out on those Black Friday sales, you’d have done well to blame @cfg83, but their time under the gun has now passed, and so you’ll need a new place to point your fingers if you miss Cyber Monday. Conveniently, @caffeineguy is a ready target. Start your blame engines.
Stay warm, or blame @caffeineguy for the cold. It’s just getting started.
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WELCOME @caffeineguy! I was a December goat too! It’s a wonderful, rich holiday season with plenty of blames!
I’ll start by blaming @cfg83 for my cats barfing on my expensive, thickly piled and padded bedroom carpet earlier on November 30th.
BUT I’ll credit YOU with an unblame as my new pet urp cleaner-upper worked magically to clean it ALL up!
So you start your reign with a point to the good!
@therealjrn Do I keep track of blames vs unblames
I always thought meh needed a @goat catch-all that’s redirected to the current goat! I guess that’s my fault now.
@caffeineguy @goat @therealjrn Yes for the entire Month You get the Blame, even though sometime you think you don’t deserver it!
So I will also Blame you for the Cold weather in the South!
/showme a goat operating a weather machine over a globe and pointing to the south east united states, directing cold weather
@caffeineguy @goat
Tip: Turn forum notifications off
I pass the scepter to you @caffeineguy …
/showme anthropomorphized goat wearing turkey cap gives white elephant holding a scepter with its trunk to another goat wearing a Santa Claus cap.
@caffeineguy And I award you with goat chocolate to help you when you are blamed :
BLAME
There has been a huge bot attack on the forum. I count 36 spam threads.
@zhicks1987 Obviously Trying to take focus away from one of the meh-ist goats of all time, me!
@zhicks1987
Looks like the meh IT staff has cleaned house…
Thanks y’all!
Best wishes for being a BAAAAAADD goat this Month of December! Please help Santa or else you will also get blamed for that too!
Oh boy, it’s a mess out there. There’s only one place for the blame. Blame @caffeineguy for a second night of spam ALL OVER!
/showme the goat buried under a mountain of spam posts
@therealjrn yep I also blame the Dec @caffeineguy for the spam Mail toi! Of course the cold rainy/ snowy weather!
@mycya4me @therealjrn spam is a comfort food for goats.
@therealjrn And if you see the goat you are no brained? Or do we just blame @caffeineguy
@caffeineguy @Kidsandliz @therealjrn
… or looking at the wrong picture.
@therealjrn What if I see dead people? Does that make me “what a tweest” brained?
@therealjrn
@cfg83 WHAT A TWIST!
Hey @caffeineguy is that you spying on us from the sky in the clouds?
Blame- I broke a porcelain dinner plate, and it shattered all across my floor. Now I’m sitting with tape in my hand to try and get the glass pieces out.
@Star2236 Oh, yikes! Do you have one of those sticky tape rollers? To keep your hand farther away from the shards?
@Star2236 maybe you should put the tape on your feet instead?
Well, well, well. :sigh: It’s just not right. It’s just not the natural order of things…
But I guess the goat gets an unblame for not having an enshitted (new word! Thanks narf!) spammy meh forum this morning. Come getcher unblame, goat.
/showme an unblame
@therealjrn You’re welcome, though I really can’t take credit for the term:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Granted, I’m not sure if the term cover when some things are just plain shit:
https://www.theautopian.com/stellantis-is-still-pushing-pop-up-ads-to-your-dashboard-but-heres-how-to-make-it-stop/
Blame- my boyfriend has been working on things in the house for the past month and it’s driving me CRAZY. It’s disrupting my sleep and personal time, I never have alone time as there’s always workers here. I’m really starting to go insaine.
@Star2236 If you can’t beat them, join them!
@Star2236 I don’t see anything with going to insaine. It’s quite nice :
/showme Pleasant rustic town with sign saying “Welcome to Insaine”.
BLAME - it took over 4.5 HOURS to drive through Baton Rouge on Sunday. People couldn’t drive their tanks just for starters. One accident resulted in a (for me) 1 hour and 41 min hold up. That is NOT a huge town. It isn’t LA, NYC or Boson just for starters. Meant I got to Houston really, really late. Of course then there was another accident with a 55 min hold up. And some other areas of stopped traffic for reasons unknown.
Where was my teletransporter when I needed it? And the helecopter blade attachments for my car is still sitting unshipped from a best not to be named website. (I only wish
)
@Kidsandliz Please to be parking not where orifices will deform your vehicle.
@Kidsandliz Meh had some hoverboards a few weeks ago… When things get really slow, abandon your 1994 Toyoto Corolla, grab the hoverboard out of your trunk and zip through the traffic!
@caffeineguy In my minivan I pack everything including the kitchen sink because there is room. Not sure I could carry it all on a hoverboard - well unless hoverboards can pull trailers since I’d then need a trailer.
Blame!!!
Shit it’s cold this morning.
This isn’t supposed to happen till January here.
@f00l apparently goats grow a nice winter coat. But if you’re not a real goat, you can try a coat from https://goatcoatshop.com/
Extending on the “not blaming the goat” from last month:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/
@narfcake WTF!?!??!? How will the bots survive?!?!?
@narfcake The irony is that I have been “sourcing” my RAM purchases from the TRW swap meet in Los Angeles. This is for legacy/thrift store laptops and such. None of that filthy “new in box” for me.
@narfcake Wow. An almost 4x jump since August :
If I was the On-truh-pen-oohr type then I could have made a fortune. I wonder if there is a RAM Coin out there … of course there is(*) :
(*) @cfg83 is indemnified from any and all damage including viruses, worms, or IRKs that may result from visiting aforementioned website.
@narfcake I forgot to mention that @caffeineguy has a LOT of explaining to do :
@cfg83 @narfcake It’s obvious to me that @cfg83’s abuse of /showme last month had skewed all the demand metrics for AI, so they’re buying up all the RAM and GPUs
@cfg83 That’s probably like the last swap meet standing nowadays, no? I used to do ACP decades ago down in Santa Ana, but that was then and I’m not sure if there are even any computer stores left in that business complex.
I miss All Electronics up in Van Nuys more, though.
The 32GB DDR5 kit I bought a little while back is $200 higher right meow.
@narfcake Yeah, I went to All Electronics when it was closing the doors. Very sad for us but they seemed ok with it.
There used to be a monthly electronics fair that was mostly at the Pomona fairgrounds, but that went under a long time ago. I can tell some of those vendors went to the TRW swap meet. The TRW is slowly dying, but it’s still worth going to when the weather is nice, or nicer than the summer inland weather we suffer nowadays.
@caffeineguy @narfcake
/showme anthropomorphised goat with evil grin and holding a basket fill of RAM Chips. Mediocrebot is begging for RAM.
@mediocrebot
/showme mediocrebot looking at us with pleading look and saying “Please, guvna, can you spare a few megabytes for Tiny Tim Cray-chit? He’s not so tiny, but he is the first super computer, and he’s not doing so well these days”.