ESR: “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”

Set sails, boys!

Whenever I try, I get Ravi Bhatia screaming “How can she slap?!”

Orions are demonstrably mammals, but unfortunately fictional.

I’ve spent a lot of time in RPGs, and the last time I RPed in a G was around the time George Bush’s dad was president.

Did he make you manually allocate all the space for food in your stomach before you started to eat?

I feel like I’ll probably watch that Mayfair Witches show starring Alexandra Daddario at some point, but it hasn’t happened yet.

My experience in going from C to C++ was different: if you’re not converting everything from mallocs with custom addressing systems to the collections framework, you’re not living.

They named the bill wrong - it should be Kids’ Act for Online Safety- KAOS.

Three fiddy.

My last game was exhausting. Years of cryptic lore, mediocre tie-in properties we pretended were good, pvp you could opt out of midstream by switching off your router, a sandbox that one player characterized as “as wide as the universe and one inch deep.”

So, I thought I’d try something completely different, and that different thing, god help me, is Evony.

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PEMA is technically correct. Division and subtraction are illusions.

Yes, and bring back Chase… Masterson?

My Spanish is mediocre, but typically can get me from A to B without a lot of misunderstandings. I was driving back from the Mall in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and my very British GPS decided to route me via “Calle Ajore.” Now everybody uses abbreviations for the word “street” - and in Spanish uses “C.” For “Calle” just like English uses “St.”

So, I’m battling traffic, and Lady Winifred Windsor the GPS advises me to “Turn right to see a whore.”

What’s the underwater game that came out a few years ago? Your spaceship crashes in the ocean of a cold planet, and you explore and make bases, and solve a mystery… SubZero or something?

I’d say there was a period before reddit hit its pinnacle where Quora was significantly better. Probably more than 10 years ago, though, and only for a few years. I remember when I started spending more time on Reddit than Quora.

In 1995, 1/4 of Americans started to lose their minds because TV had girls kissing girls, black people, and Mexicans. 6 years later, something bad happened, another 8% of Americans lost their minds, and turned to White Prosperity Jesus, conspiracy theories, and ultra nationalism to salve their weary souls.

Then a black guy got elected president. This, combined with 20 years or growing income inequality drove another 8-10% berserk.

In response, they found the closest thing they could find to White Prosperity Jesus, Creepy Orange Prosperity Uncle, and banded behind him, in a quivering hope that he’d send all the funny looking colored and gay people someplace far away like Mexico, the capital of Africa or something, so that good uneducated people who work 20 hours a week could afford a 4-bedroom house and a Camaro, like it was when their grandpa was growing up.

Try to train a human comedian to make jokes without ever allowing him to hear another comedian’s jokes, never watching a movie, never reading a book or magazine, never watching a TV show. I expect the jokes would be pretty weak.

Finland: Greeting each other?!?