What do old people that take a ton of pills do with all the empty bottles? I feel like there is something to do with them. Some art project or garage organizational system?

I love when devs on open source projects tell me something isn't a bug. The pushback is *chef's kiss*. Uh, sorry dude. That IS a bug, fix it or not, but it's a bug.

An interesting detail of advanced societies is that you'll start to quickly get a dumber population. Not something like a less intelligent society where people don't go to school, but brain power and size will actually decrease at a rapid rate. De-evolution quickly if society is successful enough.

If you're American you pronounce 'Persepolis' wrong...ask a Persian how to pronounce it, it'll blow your mind. 🤯

Reminder that I'm looking for work after being affected by layoffs at Giant Squid. 3D Environment Artist, or 3D Artist/Props; ideally a full time position. If your studio or somewhere you know has an opening, please let me know. Thank you ❤️ Portfolio: nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com

My artist friends, what's a good screen-based tablet for a beginner?

Whoever made this and added it to Android should get an award.

Explaining Christianity: No Jesus was Jewish. "What makes you a christian?" Following Jesus' teachings. "So Catholics are Essentially Jewish?" Absolutely not. "Aren't they the first Christians?" No, they're the first institution of Christianity. "What's the difference?" 350 years of woowoo.

I do think, in the end, that there is one almost perfect interview coding question: "Program an elevator." I know I'm not the only one, I've actually come across this in the wild and on the internet as a fantastic question.

*Programming interview after you've been programming for 30 years* I mean, yea - I knew A*, like...20 years ago, you want me to do that on a white board? I haven't had to write it from scratch ever. Heap sort?! Seriously? What if I write some code can't ever throw a nullreference exception?

Wh...why do elder millennial cool girls like Kurt Vonnegut so much?!

Open source is so silly broken sometimes. "We're a dynamic DNS library for cloud providers that everyone depends on." Cool! Do you support the biggest cloud provider ever, AWS? "Uh, maybe? No idea. Is it in the docs that haven't been touched in years?" You don't mention it at all. "Huh *shrug*"

I can't imagine a weaker soul than being a racist.

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This is everyone's network setup, yes?

Thinking of this dril tweet

The labyrinthian process of getting computers to do what you want is interesting sometimes. I wanted an arr stack running on my NAS, I didn't want a bunch of ports, I wanted a reverse proxy setup, nice domain names for each service... Well, I should probably rebuild my network and add an opnsen...

Rewiring the network and currently having issues... Now, I have never gone to sleep with downed internet because of me, ever. Ever ever, it's weird. As an aside, why isn't my opnsense box working!!!?!!? 🤔

Yea! Got the super hard to get special edition of the Final Fantasy Tactics remake for stupid money since it's my favorite game evar! *Game gets released* ...wait...I have to also buy the game on top of that?! I really need to read the fine print AND this is bs.

Not sure what she was doing, but I have my photo face down...

Kind of crazy that when I was a kid we didn't know how to grow orchids and chicken pox was just something kids got.

I HIGHLY recommend these two series (so far 2 books in each): The Shadow of the Leviathan and Teixcalaan series. Stellar writing from both authors. The Tainted Cup's writing made me want to start over completely in my work, the world building and how it's delivered are top notch.

She's clearly cosplaying Eva01.

Made a 35 foot ethernet cable last night while watching TV and having wine. I ended up redoing one end 4 times...to be fair, good wine.

Didn't realize I had a pro-Ukraine hat in that photo. Good. Slava Ukraini. To the heroes, glory my friends. 🌻🌻🌻🌻

Do Dodgers fans practice in the mirror being so annoying? No offense meant! Except to Dodgers fans.

I am hoping the Mariners win I guess, woo! Annnnd, got the orange cheese nachos I've been craving for a week.

I don't think there is a -need- to put (Unabridged) after every title for audiobooks. In fact, I think abridging is so rare, that you should only denote when things have been abridged.

/me: *playing a game that says wait 10 seconds* ...... "asliodufhaweliufhweai!" 😡 "No!" "Now!"

Mmmmm....my Zepbound dinner is delicious. It's 4 bites of what you're eating and a tum!

Sorry if I stopped replying on our thread...in my excitement I spilled something and that's now my life.

God the Chinese future is so much cooler than ours. Reminds me of the South African car mounted flame throwers. What a world, what a world.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on US screens 50 years ago today. Initially a major box office bomb, cult cinema outsiders and queer audiences quickly took up the film’s mantle and turned it into a unique and exciting way of engaging with the movies. Remember kids, don’t dream it—be it!!

Just in case you don't know, PM in the rest of the world is a Producer in games. Good thread on what devs need in a good Producer.

/me: *getting a free Mariners ticket for tomorrow. * /me: "Neat, thanks!" /others: "Uh, tomorrow is like a super big deal game for the M's, and you should care a lot. Like, a lot lot...super lotty lot lotlttiskittles." /me: "oh!...uh...neat, thanks!"

Instead of money or lighters, I now find these in the dryer...

♋️ No excuses today, Cancer. If you've got dreams, chase them like they owe you money because the Moon's got you grinding and Neptune's delivering divine downloads straight to your intuition.

Network people! Think it's safe to do away with a hardware router and use a Windows 11 HyperV OPNsense VM as the main switch? Not sure if safe to have Windows tech stack -> VM -> home this way; will the Windows side and my network be safe facing internet like that?

Brigand: Oaxaca is one of the coolest, jankiest imsim PC RPGs I've ever played and I never see anyone talking about it. It's been getting regular updates for 8 years, and the dev is loudly pro-trans and anti-ICE. If you like STALKER, Morrowind, Deus Ex, New Vegas, this one's a big rec from me.

"Got plans tonight?" Yup! "Oh nice, whatcha doin?" Oh, laying down, taking a few Tums, looking forward to it. "Noice."

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

Consume Me is finally out! This game blew me away when I looked at it for IGF. It deals with the real pressures of growing up as a teenage girl while telling that story through a whirlwind of delightful QWOP-like minigames. It’s charming and fun and smart and I hope everyone checks it out.

I love the core Dune series: Main character across the series dies in book 1. Manworm lives for three thousand years to break up monopolies Manworm trolls nuns 7000 years after his death No computer more complex than a Gameboy.

I know that this statement can be taken in many different ways, but those in the know, know. I really want some white people nachos right now.

I DON’T UNDERSTAND IT! WHY THE F*CK WOULD SOMEBODY BREAK INTO A HOUSE JUST TO STEAL A REMOTE CONT...Never mind, I found it.

Moved from my ridiculous 3 monitor ultra-wide setup to one ultra-wide, a wall mounted monitor to my right, and a work bench setup across the office. Feels weird, didn't realize one of the monitors blocked a light and now I'm upset. Bench desk will be nice though.

Can't believe watching Jimmy Kimmel is now an act of defiance.

I just know when I go back into the tech world I'm going to be forced to use AI somehow...I think I will have it name things for me, since I'm so bad at that. I'll call it Namerator

#arcade #retrogames #retrogaming MechWarrior Battle pods (Incredible Technologies/ VWE, 1992) Located at Cleveland Gaming Classic Expo, Berea, OH.