I’m a capitalist. And if the above quote prompted that cute little screed of yours, you’ve got a real hang-up.

While I think that’s just the way the world is (maybe that’s just how math is is a more appropriate way to put it) culturally/socially dominant groups are sensitive to stuff like that because they’re not used to being the butt of jokes that single them out. But minority groups basically have no choice to be used to it…

“The good news is that there will be one capitalist less in the world, the bad news is that he is me.”

I loved that show so much.

“Game Devs And Stadia Employees Alike Were Blindsided By The Sudden Shutdown”

Goggle has enough money to paper over their failures. I don’t say that in a pejorative sense. They also probably have enough legal might not to give refunds, tho of course I recognize in practice providing refunds is about maintaining good - or at least minimizing damage to - brand relations and trust. It makes me…

“Not necessarily”, maybe, but the canary was super dead.

Sometimes I’m glad the first thing I ever worked on was binned after months of working on it. Got me used to the reality that you can’t predict the future and software development will never not involve sometimes working on things that never see the light of day. Shit happens. Shrug.

Just to be upfront, I ain’t losing any sleep over it. ;) But I admit it’s a little gratifying that that didn’t got unnoticed. It’s not like I didn’t think somebody wouldn’t inevitably complete the reference .. but hey, out of anybody who could have cashed in on the setup, I couldn’t have picked a more deserving recipie…

“I’ve wanted to see H. R. Giger’s sex chair”

Near death makes a lot of people reckon with Pascal’s Wager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager

Wait until you hear about the elephant I shot in my pajamas!

Even the trailer for this movie made me confident that it’d probably just make me angry in its reductivism.

America’s got a problem, and this is their fleet vehicle.

it may depend a little on how far back that was, but routers generally had their admin servers bound to the internal LAN interface only (the way you’d always connect to them as a customer) not the WAN interface (ie anybody from somebody on the internet who was either trawling through blocks of ips or for whatever…

Just an observation: videogames (and movies for that matter) routinely present people who shoot other people as heroes of the story.

“My name’s Edward Hardy and I’m here to say, I’m about to Jiu-Jitsu you in a mmaaajor way!”

And didn’t he win some hiphop freestyle competition held in a football stadium a few years back?

if you didn’t have bad, nothing would be good

“If you point anything that “might be” a gun, towards me, you’ve got about three seconds before I squeeze the trigger.”