But if they’re complete circles, where do leprechauns put their pots of gold?

Adobe changed the name of Adobe Flash Professional (the program you’re talking about) to Adobe Animate in 2015 (this is mentioned in the article we’re commenting on). It’s not going anywhere. It’s just the actual Flash file format itself that is (finally) going away now.

Silence and taketh mine gold!

in ‘87, 10 year old me wanted this bad.

Wow. Betamax, Video 8, VHS... I was there for it all. I bought it all. Man I’m old... !

Awesome, as so often there is little record of a lot of stuff like this. I grew up in this era and yet looknig back, I see just how shoddy some of the stuff that came out was, right up until the new millennium actually, tech seemed to have FAR more misses than hits. Yes that still is likely the case but we seem to get…

Even if he were to somehow get Winds of Winter out by 2019, he still has another book before he finishes ASOIAF. So what, another 5-7 years at least? The show will have been over for a decade at that point.

Aw, glad you’re enjoying.

Can’t go wrong with a rooster, I suppose.

I often feel (jokingly) like a bit of a fraud around here because, while I do like cars a lot, I’ve never driven a car, don’t have a license, have never wrenched or been to a race. My main exposure to liking cars was Burnout in the mid-2000s, Top Gear around about 2012, and Forza Horizon last year. Despite this…

Things that separate us from the animals:

Proteins on the back of the eye huh? I always thought they were the little alien worm overlords who speak with me telepathically and tell me to post stupid shit in the comments on Gizmodo articles.

The Model X-men?

Of course; how foolish of me.

That’s ridiculous! Musk has a squadron of fully automated, unmanned mechs to handle that for him.

I was under the impression that each Tesla was equipped with a special homing beacon that would automatically summon Elon Musk in his battle-mech-suit to its location if there were any sign of trouble.

I would be impressed if hackers managed to hack these remotely from home and just made them drive themselves to the destination.