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- Comment on Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock. 8 hours ago:
Can’t be. I was born in the 70s and I’m only what the fuck?
- Comment on Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock. 11 hours ago:
Wasn’t that long ago that people even had pet rocks.
- Comment on Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage? 1 day ago:
For many people, “drugs,” with no other qualifier, is just short-hand for “illegal drugs.” Plenty of people who say they don’t use drugs also take prescriptions or OTC medications.
It will be interesting in the next few years to see where marijuana ends up on that spectrum. Still largely illegal (federally), but if that changes, will people still consider it a “drug” in the same way they do now, or will it fall into a separate category like drugs that are mostly legal?
- Comment on You can now format text in Windows 11's Notepad 5 days ago:
What Microsoft says: We’re getting rid of Wordpad.
What Microsoft means: We’re getting rid of Notepad. - Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
IIRC James Cameron intended Terminator 2 to end the series. The monologue at the end was full of hope that everything had changed and the future wasn’t written in stone.
Then the studio saw dollar signs and shit all over the message.
- Comment on Safe to run a box fan face down? 1 week ago:
You could always build a plywood box/cube thing to duct the airflow downward, but with an opening on the side so you can use any cheap box fan.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 week ago:
See also: census designated places, a collection of people with no formal town incorporation/government. My dad grew up in a “town” (CDP) of about 250 residents. It’s about a half hour drive from the nearest real town, for things like groceries and hospitals.
- Comment on New ‘Marathon’ Info: Bungie Morale, Launch Worries And Changing Plans 2 weeks ago:
Bungie is a lot like Bioware in that regard: Some real bangers on the resume, but none very recently. It should serve as a reminder that companies don’t make games, people do. If the right people aren’t involved, or too many of the wrong people are, past successes are entirely meaningless.
- Comment on I have never met a woman named after her own mother 3 weeks ago:
Do middle names count? My grandmother’s first name became my mother’s middle name. Then my sister and her daughter also got that middle name.
- Comment on Top 10 PC exclusive platformers -- not available on console. 3 weeks ago:
Let’s not overlook the historical significance of another PC-exclusive (until some much later ports) action-platformer, the Commander Keen series.
The success of the first release inspired the creators to quit their day jobs and start their own company, id software.
- Comment on Every week has WTF in it (MTWTFSS) 4 weeks ago:
After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar is like, “WTF”.
- Comment on Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain? 4 weeks ago:
TGI Fridays stands for Thank God it’s Friday!
Lol, they can’t even decide if “Friday(s)” is singular or plural.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 5 weeks ago:
It’s harder to do insider trading if you aren’t manipulating markets by posting contradictory statements every morning from your gold-plated toilet.
- Comment on The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared. 5 weeks ago:
Always eat your veggies first. I recommend asparagus.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 1 month ago:
Yeah, I don’t remember all the details myself, so you’re probably right. I was basically trying to support your thesis that Bethesda getting nasty over mods would be something entirely new and out of character. The only example someone could even try to point to had a bunch of other (better) explanations than “mod bad, Bethesda mad.”
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 1 month ago:
For all their faults, Bethesda may be the most mod-friendly AAA studio out there right now.
I can vaguely recall a single instance where they shut someone down, and that was over re-used audio assets from an older game. That was almost certainly about contractual licensing obligations to voice actors.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 1 month ago:
On the one hand, it has to be a mistake, right?
On the other, malicious harassment of an immigration lawyer with a “foreign” sounding name is exactly the sort of thing you’d expect right now.
Absolute best case scenario for this administration is that they are prone to making stupid, dangerous, embarrassing mistakes that will end up getting someone hurt or worse. And that’s giving them way more benefit of the doubt than they’ve earned.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 1 month ago:
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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 month ago:
President Mike Johnson outlaws women going out in public alone and institutes daily Bible reading classes. Attendance is mandatory if you don’t want to end up in an El Salvador slave prison.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 2 months ago:
FH4 and 5 are effectively MMOs. There is plenty to do alone, and the other players can mostly be ignored, but it’s still a shared world.
- Comment on The world might be a whe different place if Ask Jeeves won the search engine wars 3 months ago:
I was working tech support at my university when all these search engine first started appearing. It was also the era of aggressive typo squatting domains.
AskJeebes dot com was a super hardcore porn site.
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 3 months ago:
So what I’m hearing is that we need to throw 99% of our garbage away at the north pole.
- Comment on Microsoft removes Windows 11 24H2 official support on 8th 9th 10th Gen Intel CPUs 3 months ago:
Unless I’m reading this wrong, it’s all kind of moot.
Devices with these CPUs may not be manufactured with Windows 11 pre-installed and may only be upgraded to Windows 11 by a customer.
They won’t sell OEM licenses for chips that haven’t been manufactured for a few years. Users can still update themselves, and retail licenses appear to be unaffected.
- Comment on We are becoming the first digital grandparents 3 months ago:
Shout out to my mom, who really drove us as a digital family when I was growing up.
She just turned 80 this week.
- Comment on Heroes of Might and Magic is the best Might and Magic 3 months ago:
It’s always amazing to me how consistently it’s in the top 10 best sellers on GOG.
You’d think at some point everybody would have a copy, but month after month it’s in, or near, the top of the list.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 3 months ago:
Causing a complete collapse of society to own the libs.
- Comment on what is the actual name of this type of „logic”? 3 months ago:
In addition to the others this is also an association fallacy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
For example, a fallacious arguer may claim that “bears are animals, and bears are dangerous; therefore your dog, which is also an animal, must be dangerous.”
- Comment on xkcd #3034: Features of Adulthood 4 months ago:
I go by my middle name, and the number of people this confuses is amazing.
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 5 months ago:
- Comment on If trump appointments someone that doesn't last as long as Anthony Scaramucci do we measure that in fractional moochies or do we abandon the mooch system because it failed us? 6 months ago:
I’m looking forward to a few negative moochies as his picks get dumped even before the confirmation hearings.