Thankfully I can move around (COVID permitting) without restrictions between Canada, Australia, NZ and the UK. Although obviously sad to have lost most of Europe as a result of Brexit.

For me the one game that knocks it off that perch is “Warhead” on the Amiga. For its time, absolutely stunning, in terms of both mechanics and atmosphere.

I always found The Empire Strikes Back to be an odd arcade game. It was one of the few games I’ve ever played in which in one of the levels (the first one) you were fighting NOT to progress to the next level. Essentially it was only by eventually failing your mission (prevent probe droid transmissions to the Empire)…

Wouldn’t “The Lord of the Flies” be the obvious comparison point with “Daybreak”? Cuh, kids these days...

Ah, BMW, the twat’s choice.

Easiest way to spot price-gouging on Amazon: live in Canada.

Yes, reminds me of that time I saw somebody post a swastika, and reposted it without thinking. Easy mistake to make. 

Lockout is one of the most entertaining movies you can watch with an RT rating below 40%. (Any other contenders people can think of?)

I appreciate the response. And, yes, I appreciate that resources and staffing levels are not what they once were.

Yeah, I dunno, I just remember learning a *shitload* of stuff in 2012-2013 from Lifehacker that got me into Linux, building my own PCs, using virtual machines, setting up Raspberry Pi-based VPNs, customizing the terminal on Mac, refitting an old netbook with Chromium etc. Stuff that I was frankly clueless on before…

> If you’ve got a fully funded retirement plan, $100k in liquid savings, no student loans, no car or home payments, and you’re putting 90% of your disposable into a savings account, then yeah, you might think about loosening up a bit

Yeah, that probably does explain it.  

I remember when Lifehacker would teach the audience how to set up a Linux-based media server on an old laptop or something. Stuff that required actual work and thinking and left you with a sense of minor accomplishment. Those days are long gone. 

This is just silly. 

Right, but there’s a theoretical risk of this leading to a tragedy of the commons, which is precisely a case of everyone taking care of themselves first. 

But doesn’t this sort of cost-cutting form part of what causes a spiral of economic depression? Basically people start getting fearful and defensive, and stop spending. Your curtailed outgoings lead to someone else’s curtailed income, and so it goes. It becomes a game theory problem to some extent, with tightening…

I once made a critical error by piloting a life in Vancouver BC by means of visiting for ten days in the summer.
I subsequently moved there, and arrived in the middle of winter.
Jesus H. Christ.
It worked out okay, as you get wise to the various tricks that get you through the constant drizzle and grey of…

Did this with my dear departed granny a couple of years before she died. That was a low-tech approach (in 2006), just copious note-taking rather than recording it on camera. Pages of notes about her childhood, the layout of her house, all her siblings (and half-siblings), the food she used to eat, friends and enemies…

To clarify: is that the same woman in all the boxes in the first screenshot?

Deadly serious.

Famously intended to be called Arac Attack until George W. Bush’s ill-conceived invasion of Saddam’s crib.