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Just goes to show how useless CEOs are - they need random strangers to give them the idea to actually rerelease and sell a beloved game they own.

When I Alt-F4 with Octopath Traveler (Game Pass), I’m dumped to the desktop and the game is gone, but in reality it’s still running in the background! So, yeah, I have to go through all the stupid hoops in order to exit properly (or use task manager to kill the process afterwards). Ugh.

No fly zone means war.

Like people “filming” with their phone cameras. 

I can see how it would sound that way, but the book does a great job of going into how weird and difficult it is for Henry, so it’s not creepy. (And yes, it also goes into the sexual weirdness of knowing that you’re going to be sleeping with an age-appropriate someone even though you’re hanging out with their younger…

Yeah, I’m not saying I like Musk much.

Building a space launch company, a multi-thousand satellite constellation, and the most successful EV company is a snake-oil salesman?

Not to be one of those nerds who defends Elon musk, but here in California nearly every car is a Tesla and the folks who drive them all love them, swear by them, and say they’ll never drive another car that’s not a Tesla.   That’s some snake oil he’s got there.  

The cartoons are pretty good IMO. Clone Wars starts slow and a bit rough but eventually starts telling mini-stories over four episodes that are entertaining and add depth to characters. Rebels also starts slow but gets better and better. And Bad Batch is solid from the get-go.

Worth noting: Dukat’s skull is missing a molar. As dictated by the Cardassian government, which removes one in order to keep it on file as a genetic sample...

Check out TNG episode #146: The Chase (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Wikipedia, which establishes that this is fact.  

Eh, that’s probably for the best...he’s not half the man he used to be.

Dark City is friggin’ amazing. One of those movies that seemed to come absolutely, utterly out of nowhere and was sadly overlooked at the time of its release. I’ve been recommending that one for twenty-five years now.

And my favorite, Inspector Bumstead in Dark City, initially trying to catch Rufus Seward’s character (whom he thinks is a murderer) but who eventually comes to realize that something is very odd and wrong about the city he lives in.

I know it's different in different territories but where I'm from, Disney+ has got It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia on it so...

On the other hand imagine how much better the world would be if no corporations donated to any political parties.

HIPPA covers medical records, not death records. Death certificates are public in most, if not all states. I’ve requested them myself for non-close family members. 

Death certificates are public records, and I can kinda see why in a broad sense. If, say, Acme Corp’s drainage facilities are close to the public water supply, it’s helpful to know if your town has 15x times the national cancer rates. All of TV’s crime shows make people think of criminal proceedings in specific cases,…

What does Bill Clinton have to do with this?