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Its ok, I don’t think I will actually be running into any female pirates with actual peg legs any time soon.

Also, to reciprocate your knowledge sharing, I also remember now a video of a guy fucking a girl who … basically just had a layer of skin over the part of her skull where her eye would have been… in said psuedo eye socket.

Also a very bad idea.

Yep.

MSFT will continue to enshittify, people who point out this will happen will be poo-poo’d because switching would be complicated and costly…

… But, having to panic switch sometime down the road, because an entire class of software features or pricing models drastically alter with little warning…

… Well then, in the long run, it would have been less costly to start the migration strategy earlier.

I have seen this play out at every single company or non profit I have ever worked at, and I have learned to leave about 6 months after a planned migration/mitigation strategy gets canned as too costly and unnecessary… because usually, 6 months or so after that, every one is now in panic mode, and my workload would triple.

Including literally at MSFT itself.

The managers and corporate don’t know anything other than maximize short term profits, and have astounding levels of normalcy bias; even if you can present a well resesrched, realistic scenario with detailed costs over time for different strategies… they basically always assume things will just be fine, untill its far too late.

Yet again, I laugh, and remark ‘People still use Windows? People still use MSFT products?’

Thats a good one, got me to the point of maximal efficiency on my Laffer curve!

… Does the pirate gf… have a pegleg?

Just asking.

No particular reason why.

Beardtie.

Remember when games used to, at least sometimes… do actual internal beta testing to iron out performance bugs and such?

Now we are all alpha and beta testers, all the time.

Sometimes even AAA and ‘AAAA’ games release, and then unrelease before the alpha or beta is even done!

Yeah, patient gaming for me, haven’t preordered or gone into an early access game in almost a decade now…

I don’t disagree with you that they could have better publicized it.

I think the project got massively more popular more rapidly than the devs expected… and coder type people are rarely also PR type people at the same time.

Khajit has bathroom…

… if you have coin.

… Has anybody rewritten California Uber Alles for this piece of shit, and covered it?

I wonder if Point Roberts is … even more checkpoint fucked than usual…

https://wheninyourstate.com/washington/13-surprising-facts-about-point-roberts-washington/

Red line is the intl border, Peace Arch is just north of Blaine…

Yep, Point Roberts is a dangling peninsula.

…

Looks like the tariffs have not been fun:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/point-roberts-washington-trump-trade-war-canada-impact/

Valve has a long track record of collaborating with and sometimes even hiring very talented modder groups/individuals.

In this instance, the Black Mesa team’s work has been so high quality and very much faithful to the original work (HL1) that they were allowed to actually commercially sell their mod, originally built in the HL2 engine, as its own game, sort of making it an … officially ssnctioned, unofficial remaster/remake of HL1.

In particular… the Black Mesa team essentially completely reworked and expanded all the Xen levels of HL1… these were always seen as kind of rough, rushed, not as well executed as the rest of the levels of the original HL1, at least by many fans…

Black Mesa originally just wasn’t even going to do the Xen levels, because they were so wildly different than the others, and when it originally released as just a mod, and also I think the first commercial release… it didn’t have the Xen levels.

People generally thought that that version of Black Mesa was pretty good, but janky and rough ariund the edges… Source as an engine was undergoing some radical reworking at about that same time, as it was evolving from the HL2 source engine into the L4D2, Portal 2, etc, Source engine…

… and eventually, after a long time of figuring out exactly what feature set they’d need to portray a truly remastered ‘Xen’, and reworking the whole game to run on the required Source features and framework… Black Mesa was finally able to do the big, giant, total overhaul, with the Xen levels, in 2020.

I know much of this because I used to occasionally chat with some members of the earlier mod team way back in the day, some of them would experiment with stuff in Garry’s Mod and start threads on Facepunch, before Garry nuked the forums.

If you’re interested in other fairly high quality, but not as expansive HL2 mods, I suggest Minerva.

Very, very good level design… I think Valve actually hired the guy that made that mod at some point.

Fedi-Overflow?

Stackiverse?

Pretty much.

This is what the Republicans have wanted for decades, they’ve just also been largely lying about not being this craven or extreme for decades.

I come from a right wing household, was raised listening to Rush Limbaugh on the AM radio all the time.

The base has always been like this, the people on top, funding and puppeting the base, have also always been like this.

The mask is just off now.

Trump just gave them all permission to stop pretending they gave a fuck about making sense or pretending to give a shit about any principles.

It literally just is ‘first the Dems get a Black President, and then they ask us to wear masks in a pandemic?’

Too much, the hard core rightoid loses their mind at this point, and just wants everything to burn.

Of course it doesn’t help that neoliberal capitalism has been disenfranchising everyone for decades, but the base Republican voter is way way way too stupid, or horrendously misinformed to know what those words mean.

My head canon is that Satoshi Nakamoto…

… is Hideo Kojima.

Anyway, Satoshi is the pseudonym used on the original… white paper, design doc, whatever it was, for Bitcoin. There’s no doubt about that, I was there back before even Mt. Gox became a bitcoin exchange, on the forums discussing it.

I thought it was a neat idea, at the time… and then I realized 95% of the discussions on that forum were about ‘the ethics of fully informed ponzi schemes’ and such, very little devoted to actual technical development… realized this was probably a bad omen.

How is a legacoin different from … just being a fancy NFT?

An all inuclusive, total body mind soul detox cleanse, vacation get-away trip.

Which uh… which exact piece of media is that?

There is so much Batman and related stuff… I don’t even know if you’re referring to a comic or a tv show or an animated movie or what.

Sorry I’m late!

… What? You don’t just eat them outta the can?