Can we call a global moratorium on new videogame hardware being developed for 10 years? It's literally fine. The current ones are bonkers powerful. We don't need any more.
I've just heard that the US Republicans want to end green energy funding and increase the promotion of fossil fuels. You live on the same planet as us 'woke snowflakes', you dumb fucks.
@ephemeromorph most republicans think that Jesus will return during their lifetime so they literally do not care. That's something secular ppl have to understand: the vast majority of conservatives in America are christian fundies who genuinely think the end of days is at hand (and see it as a good thing) and therefore see no reason not to destroy the planet.
Random thought: if we lived in a society with multiple peopleoid species besides humans, interspecies fucking would probably be seen as good safe sex practice, because nobody could get pregnant from it.
Disadvantage: human has sex with human man for first time after practicing on cat men, is disappointed to find that human penis is not spiky.
I had an Ebuyer order estimated to be delivered on the 9th. It's the 21st. The tracking information doesn't return anything. The order is still in my basket on the Ebuyer website, although I was charged for it when I placed the order. I think some fucko has belmed my order out of existence.
@ephemeromorph not the same country not the sane company but I was complaining to UPS once because they constantly failed to deliver stuff and the customer service woman explained that the driver's software only had a few options for "not delivered" (they could not write their own headline) and "not at home" was what the closest option to what the problem was most of the time. I suggested they'd invest in modern software.
With the enshittification of search engines, please extend more grace to people asking for information. "Just fucking Google it" - yeah, we tried that already, fucko, and it told us to drink piss.
Not watching Eurovision this year. The EBU claims to be non-political but they've banned Palestinian flags from the contest. By allowing Israel (and Azerbaijan) to compete but maintaining Russia's ban, they're making a statement that some genocide is acceptable. Fuck 'em and fuck Israel.
Does anyone have a NAS enclosure/drives to recommend or warn against? I assume they're all much of a muchness but I thought I'd ask in case someone said 'Never get a Pigfuck brand, it shagged my cat and salted my crops'.
@guffo@nikki@ephemeromorph As someone who lost a huge portion of his digital life to a drive crash, I strongly recommend doing so. You may not get a warning that the drive is gonna fail; I sure didn’t.
@gregly@guffo@nikki@ephemeromorph I once thought that a SMART status change for a drive would give me a week or so to order and wait for a new one to arrive.
I have next week off work. My manager only just noticed today and got in a flap, even though she signed off on it ages ago, I'd put my stickers on the giant wall calendar, I'd sent an Outlook invite to everyone in the team, and I'd emailed a list of my tasks for my team to do.
@ephemeromorph Thanks! Obviously there's a certain amount of needing to remember when people are on holiday, what the plan is, and so on. So you do still need to be organised, or have a way to organise yourself.
But for me at least, one of the common problems I have to manage is someone who has got themselves into chaos and has no idea how to get out of it. Being able to ask the right questions or suggest things like, "use a kitchen timer to measure out focus time" helps them a lot!
@ephemeromorph Also, there's the fun that not everyone is disorganised for the same reasons as I would be.
I tend towards it because I'm easily distractible, especially if what I'm doing isn't fun. So my strategy tends to be turn off all notifications on everything for an hour so I actually work.
But I have a team member who's the opposite. They'll get stuck on a problem for hours because they find it hard to change context once they've started. There I'm like, "no, be distracted!"
Message from my mum at the zoo: "Gorillas snacking on cabbage. Smol gorilla holds his ankles and somersaults down a slope, farting like a noisome hairy catherine wheel."
Quiplash needs to replace the thriplash round with something else, because it's a bag of wank and an unfun way to round off what was otherwise a fun game session.
@ephemeromorph The problem with Thriplash is it ends up being a conflict between "set up a good three-part joke using the prompt" and "put three unconnected funny things", with the latter generally winning unless the three-parter is absolutely top tier.
Essentially, playing the game as it's meant to be played puts you at a disadvantage with one big funny vs. three normal.
I wonder if it would work better if you had to pick the first two items from a list, and only had free reign over the last.
"Elon Musk was deposed in a recent lawsuit for falsely linking a 22-year-old Jewish man to a neo-Nazi brawl. Musk, who attempted to keep the deposition from the public, admits he did no research into his false claim, among other revelations."
Holy shit. There are gold nuggets in here. Elongated Muskrat doesn't realise the lawyer isn't the one suing him.
Bankston: Mr Musk, do you think you did anything wrong to Ben Brody? [...]
Musk: I don't know Ben Brody.
Bankston: You're aware Ben Brody is somebody who's sued you, right?
Musk: I - I think you're the one suing.
Bankston: Actually, Mr Musk, I'm an attorney. Did you know that? I'm an attorney representing Mr Brody.