If it’s boring and generic, how is it also nonsense? That seems contradictory to me, but maybe I don’t understand.

I feel like there might be an emerging market for a car company that makes new, safe cars with very low tech computer systems.

Ah who am I kidding, I wish there was a market for all kinds of functional-but-not-enshittified products out there, but the complete lack of them shows the entrenched powers that be will stomp out any attempt to upset the terrible status quo.

Heck yes, I binged this game over a weekend where I didn’t see many other people and it put me in a weird headspace that was perfect for this game. I really enjoyed it, very unlike anything else I’ve played. If you’re just playing it to beat it, you might not enjoy it, is my guess. But if you’re in the mood to dig in a bit more it’s a lot of fun to learn about the characters through the different websites and messages.

I’ve recommended this game to friends and coworkers and I don’t think any of them have gone for it. Ah well. This game will always hold a special little place in my heart.

EDIT: If you weren’t alive back in the days of AOL and angelfire/geocities/Myspace websites, you might not enjoy this game as much. I think you might still enjoy it, but the nostalgia feeling for that bygone age was a big part of the appeal for me.

I am beyond stoked for this new release!

I’m gonna guess the original version of this joke said “crashed” instead of “fell over”, cause then it would actually be ambiguous enough for the premise to work.

Time to find out if someone else has access, and can make a copy and send it to you, and then you can play dumb about where/how you got your copy.

Sinking even more hours of my life into Path of Exile. Also been playing some Cobalt Core on my steam deck I got for Christmas.

Wasn’t there a study that found if you tell people you’re working on something, you get the same brain reward chemicals as if you actually did it and told everyone? So if you tell people before you’re done, you might just go “meh, I’m good, the rest sounds hard”. Or something like that.

What’s a ghost’s favorite data type? a BOOlean!

“The importance of URLs to articles.”

I’m sure they’ll get it right this next time, let’s just keep giving them do overs 🙄

The author did a good job picking the final sentence/quote: “It’s almost like they are trying to get people who are knowledgeable, and do a good job, to quit to have people who don’t know how to do the job to come in.”

The author does a good job explaining how join diagrams are more accurate than venn diagrams, but by saying that venn diagrams are bad and wrong, I feel like they completely miss the point. The venn diagrams can be understood almost instantly, whereas the join diagrams take time and thought to take in.

If someone was brand new to sql joins, sure maybe I would say a join diagram is better for them, so they can really understand what is happening. But for someone who just wants a refresher on join types they rarely use, I think the venn diagrams win. I guess ultimately I don’t like the claim that one type of diagram is simply “better”.

Okay, I know at this point I’m not going to change your mind, but since I can’t rule out that you truly don’t understand how my basketball analogy relates to the Twitter action, here’s my best attempt at an explanation

In Twitter’s actions:

Ownership: Twitter owns the platform and has control over usernames, similar to how the person with the basketball owns the ball in the game.

Unfair action: Twitter took over a specific username without any prior warning or valid reason. This can be seen as an unfair move, as it disregards the user who previously claimed the username.

Moral implication: Just because twitter has the technical power and legal authority to control usernames doesn’t necessarily mean it is morally acceptable to take away a username from someone else arbitrarily. It’s a dick move because it shows a lack of consideration for the user who may have had an attachment to that username.

In the basketball analogy:

Ownership: The person who brought the basketball to the game owns the ball, just like Twitter owns the platform.

Unfair action: If the person who owns the ball suddenly decides to cancel the game and leave when their team is losing, it would be seen as an unfair and unsportsmanlike action.

Moral implication: Although the person has the right to take their ball and leave since they own it, doing so without warning and when their team is losing disregards the other players’ interests and ruins the fun for everyone else. It shows a lack of consideration for the fairness and enjoyment of the participants.

In both cases, the common thread is the concept of fairness and respect for others. Just because someone owns something (be a basketball or Twitter) doesn’t give them a free pass to act in an insensitive or inconsiderate manner. In a moral context, it’s important to consider the impact of one’s actions on others and to treat them with fairness and empathy, even if you have the right to do otherwise. Both situations address the significance of ethical behavior and being mindful of how our actions affect others, even when we have certain ownership rights.

Dang, I thought you could do better than that 😄

If you’re playing a game of pick-up basketball, and your team is in the lead, and some guy on the other team says “Nevermind, I don’t want to lose. Give me my ball, I going home.” I’m curious how you would react. He owned the ball, and you signed no contract at the start of the game, so, what’s your take on his action?

I finally got PoE’d out a few leagues ago, after playing for 8 years or so. But after watching this trailer I think I miiiight have to get back into it again 😄. Looks awesome!

We know. Twitter had every right to perform this dick move. They did nothing technically wrong, in acting shitty to one of their users.

I’ve also found that when you ask it to show someone “drawing a bow” they end up with a strange mix of a pencil that goes up to their cheek, and another weird stick going perpendicular to whatever they’re doing, and other weird bow-related artifacts. It’s pretty funny. (At least with SD 1.5)