Captain Aggravated

Well that solves a 22 year old mystery.

And their most famous calculator runs a Zilog CPU.

What if I just…don’t? I didn’t get through the last three, why should I get through this one?

Not sure house cats count as apex predators because they are also prey animals. A tiger is an apex predator because what eats tigers? But there’s stuff that’ll eat house cats.

Nevertheless house cats are extremely effective at hunting small prey. I had a maine coon that drove my city block’s vole population extinct for a good ten years. Big dude either loved digging or hated voles.

Was the US any ally of Europe at the time? Who in Europe did the United States have mutual defense pacts with in the 1910s or 1930s? Nobody’s asking why Brazil didn’t storm the beaches of Normandy.

“Why didn’t the United States take on great national expense in lives and materiel to intervene the way I wanted them to in a war that had nothing to do with them in another hemisphere for no reason?” What are you, a woman? What do we get in return, your presence?

The United States was the primary dumping ground for refugees from European massacres for a couple of centuries. We took your poor, your downtrodden, your unwashed masses in such quantity and regularity we had to set up an industrial scale delousing factory on Ellis Island. And it wasn’t going to fucking stop with that PPK round through Hitler’s dome; Komrade Stalin.ml picked right up where the world’s shittiest Charlie Chaplain impersonator left off and started starving a city to death, and we had to save the day again and then Truman says ENOUGH OF YOUR HORSE SHIT and formed NATO.

In the 1840’s the British tried to take advantage of a potato blight as an excuse to starve an island to death, the United States took on 1.5 million hungry Irishmen. That’s whose side you want me to fight for?

Fucking hypocrite Europeans talking about how bad things were when the United States stayed in our hemisphere and didn’t start global shit.

Youtube was apparently originally started as a personals service, but pivoted to video hosting due to Janet Jackson’s “Wardrobe Malfunction.”

I hear “girlboss” and I envision someone who thinks in hashtags.

What about that doesn’t sound like a “girlboss” to you?

It’s always going to be a band-aid ripping moment, switching from MS Office to anything else.

When I switched to Linux on my personal setups, it was at a time when Windows and Office were so different to what I was used to, I’d have to retool and retrain anyway. From what I hear from some of my white collar acquaintances, that’s basically coming. I’ve been hearing things like “I wrote this spreadsheet 20 years ago, it’s worked fine for decades, and now it’s breaking because they’re disabling VBA and it can’t run from OneDrive.” So I think we’re going to enter an era when all the things that probably shouldn’t have been implemented in Excel are gonna stop working.

He’s married to justice. Because only a blind girl would marry him.

It’s a solo project I think? So in some cases yeah it has the feeling of a children’s science museum? What’s over here? What does this do? OOOOOOH! In one case there’s a room full of what I’m pretty sure was the test assets the developer used to learn how to create the shenanigans the game is made of.

For me, it’s at it’s best when it presents the player with something unfamiliar, like the layout that doesn’t spatially make sense, it has strange abstract things in it, like the hallway full of balls you have to walk slowly through. You’re unfamiliar with how this place works, you then learn, and it offers a checkpoint that relates that to some aspect of life. Then you get a cube gun and it’s a video game again.

I’ve shown the video game Antichamber to about a half dozen people and watched them bounce right off it.

You know how sometimes snobs of any particular thing tend to start liking things a general audience hates? Like, I’ve seen movie buffs express a love of stuff like Street Trash, or whiskey snobs really like whiskey that tastes like smoke, leather and iodine. I think you’ve got to be like that with video games to like Antichamber.

Antichamber is a non-euclidean 3D first person puzzle platformer. It’s set in an abstract series of stark black and white corridors that in many cases don’t make sense. It’s a strange place that doesn’t behave like the real world, it is internally consistent, but you’ll encounter all kinds of weird shit like falling a long distance only to wind up above where you started, multiple paths leading through the same doorway, things appearing and disappearing, mazes that aren’t physically possible…and somehow it makes all the bizarre little puzzles you find yourself in parables for living a human life.

I can’t fault anyone for not getting it. It’s arthouse bullshit. I’ve shaken my head mouthing “what the fuck are you doing” to modern artists, I recognize this as arthouse bullshit, but it’s arthouse bullshit that I at least partially understand.

No they were full of fruit. Thing is nothing stopped you from squeezing the bag with your hands.

IIRC the excuse for Juicero having internet access was to read QR codes on the fruit pouches that included the expiration date, and it would refuse to squeeze expired fruit. Because at it’s heart, it was a screw press. A severely over-engineered screw press. Like Jurassic Park, they spared no expense.

Sounds like a Juicero.

3 day ban for “They (here meaning men in the American southeast) hate electric vehicles almost as much as they hate black people.”

I don’t want to spend time with my kids. That’s why I didn’t have any.

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One ten millionth of a quarter of the circumference of some random ass planet somewhere isn’t either.

Given it is almost certainly the day with the highest concentration of child pedestrians by a wide margin I can only imagine.

Still, sounds like a great reason to be extra special careful on the road on the 31st.