Wtf, Hugh Grant as a bad guy? I’m intrigued.

Hugh Grant. I’m sure he’s both a wonderful person and a great actor, but… he seems to have gotten typecast into a certain type of movie that I just cannot stand. He’s become a litmus test for movies I should just not bother watching.

That too. The entire stream was flooded with trolls. And some of them really struck a nerve. I don’t remember the exact words, but I’m sure “You can be as successful as you want, but your insecurities will never go away. That’s why you will always feel alone. It will never get better.” …hit home.

Usually: Power over Ethernet
In this context: Path of Exile

I hope it’ll be in a documentary one day.

That’s the gist of what we’re doing to Elon these days. In case you weren’t aware, read up on how his PoE livestream went.

I’m imagining the villain putting a gun to his head because of a one-star review.

Well, I work with IT, Ships, and industrial robotics, so I’m thinking that the villain gets maimed by a robot controlled by a perl script to the point where he is unable to prevent his ship from sinking.

EDIT: Oh, and don’t gets me started on the seismic source: 4000 cubic inches of compressed air at 2000psi. Seismic sources are scary. In water ut will turn anyone in yhe water into jell-o. I’ve coordinated these with simultaneous diving ops, and the divers usually call us to stop if they’re within 3-4 kilometers.

Printers. There is no excuse for (consumer) printers to be as shitty as they are.

There are reasons, but none of them are excuses: If patent hell wasn’t a main obstacle put in place by the large printer manufacturers, I am sure open source hardware alternative would’ve forced industry improvements ages ago.

Yup. My ear canals are much wider than the average q tip, so I don’t really use them as plungers, they’re more for scraping the sides.

I am terrified of losing my hearing or otherwise damaging my ears (long story, not that interesting), so I simply refuse to use them as far in as I safely could.

Yup. This has been common among politicians for the past 10 years.

And the only takeaway should be that violence is the only consequence these fuckers fear, and is a viable strategy currently only deployed by one side of the political spectrum.

Fuck the high road.

Yup, I’ve made a habit out of doing this. I want to know if it’s a new position or if I’m replacing someone. The latter isn’t necessarily problematic, but I want to know if the role has been filled by someone before who had coworkers who are used to how my predecessor did things.

I played through it recently. It is one of the few EA titles where I will concede that they did a good job and that I feel I got my moneys worth.

Obligatory butt-in from a European: I just wanted to provide a baseline for comparison.

Here in scandinavialand we watched The Wave (1981) in school to educate us on how easily a population can be convinced to support fascism.

Seconded. I tend to shed accounts from time to time, mostly for practical reasons… you will never guess my previous two account names.

Seriously though, posting with a new identity every time is what 4chan does. While it has its use cases, never being able to conjure an opinion on the person you’re talking to over time is tiresome and annoying at best. You can spend am entire year talking to people and at the end of it you haven’t gotten to know anyone even slightly better than before.

Privacy is one thing. But being a perpetual blank slate gives you no advantages.

I sometimes skim top 6 hours on All. Sometimes even 1 hour.

100% agree.

To add to this, when I’m looking up something online I want info provided by the internet in general, not just by my next door hillbilly.

EDIT: Downvoted by my next door hillbilly and his siblings

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I made some rocket fuel chili oil a while back. I add about half a teaspoon to the water while waiting for it to boil.