Today is a very "I am the Site Admin. My voice is my passport. Verify me." sort of day.

Guess it's time to rewatch Sneakers.

Never had one of his classes, but I heard him speak a few times - and even in my College Student form something definitely seemed off about that guy. My perception never matched the "popular" image of him.

I miss the time when my goddamn TV didn't need firmware updates and I could change inputs with a single button on the remote control.

Oh right: context. It's election day here in NL for the lower house. No I can't (and wouldn't try to) vote here. If I could it would probably be for Bij1. "GroenLinks/PvdA" is the massive vaguely leftist coalition which roughly translates to Green Left + Labor.

No more PVV please.

Very little is funnier than the reaction of a right-wing canvasser than telling them - in your most American accent - "I already voted for those golf boys. Goon Links."

It turns out that "Industry Leading Privacy Standards" are *way* lower than people think

None of this "Hurricane" Gundam bullshit: I support Neo New Holland's Nether Gundam

So much disrespect is going on here.

Obviously I haven't listened to or watched this video because I'm in the middle of moving and it wouldn't get active attention - but I'll admit to being curious. But again, my main experience was people hated Banding because they didn't know what it did. And green players whining about chump blocks.

Huh - "Banding: Magic: The Gathering's First Worst Mechanic" popped across my feed.

I don't know man - my memory of Banding is that no one understood what it was because, much like "Offsides" in many sports, the technical definition is miserable but what it's trying to implement made sense?

Thanks! If you ever find yourself in the area, I'll actually have some vague crash space now :D

Okay. Lets see here. They want to show my current place on Tuesday - that's gonna go well. I can't say no, but I also don't really have an obligation to make it presentable? Whatever they know I'm moving.

And oh good - my moving date is gonna be 2 days earlier than I wanted.

I hate moving so much.

Ugh - yeah, I remember helping someone navigate Drs and realizing they'd been IDed as "drug seeking". No one said anything, just everything became slow all of a sudden. So much wasted time.

And yeah. Tests are exhausting and get old fast. Hell of a dilemma :|

Was talking to some folks about Metroid Dread. Still kinda wish I played it - but the EMMI encounters just seem so tedious and annoying.

That sounds marvelous

Hollow Knight Game Completion: 100% at 17h 16m 37s - companion to Steel Soul completion

Completion Screen for Steel Soul in Hollow Knight

Le fuuuuck - Hollow Knight, Steel Soul, 100% Completion, Under 20 Hours.

Thats a handful of trophies I didn't expect to ever get O_o

Maybe I'll be able to play Silksong? XD

It continues to boggle my mind that *anyone* would demand Trump Juche. But I guess that's the path the US is going down.

Seems to be working just as well as the original too.

Speedframe YouTube video by phontomen 1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayyo... ?

My favorite was a thing a few years back - it was a system of cranes and giant concrete blocks to store power by building a tower during low demand and then dropping the blocks back down during high demand.

Still basically vaporware - I think a small scale one got built? But still a fun idea.

I'm sure just as many Helldiver players know how to set "Solo" lobbies as Warframe players.

I love watching the US exec branch wanting/trying to use demand side levers to fix supply side economic issues.

Signs I was born as an American:

Whenever I see something asking for my "burger service nummer" (i.e. my Dutch SSN equivalent) - I keep thinking that's something I find at McDonalds.

a tumblr post containing screengrabs from fallen london. "this will have consequences" ok then let me just see the other option and "this will also have consequences" oh god damnit #fallen london

fallen london core

Yaaaay - it's time to do the "my financing was approved" dance~~~

Ja: de dingen zijn heel dingen.

Nooooooooo I hate that shit so much D: What a pain. Where are the nanofabrics that size themselves automatically :P

Okay it turns out: having your parents in town for 2 weeks and then suddenly winning the bid on a home makes for a *very* exhausting time.

In other news, I'm in contract to become a home owner! ... Which I did not expect to happen this soon????

"FDA warns of radioactive contamination in some frozen shrimp sold at Walmart" was not a headline I expected to read this morning.

Okay, as someone who grew up on C++ I'm officially getting really tired of Python's lack of explicit pass-by-reference.

I truly believe there's a better way I should do this but it is *deeply* unclear. I just want to start a session and also update two objects at the same time ffs.

Hmm. In ~1 of 5 runs we exceed the default 30 second timeout on one of the 15 web calls.

Do I implement actual error handling or do I bump the timeout to 5 minutes. Probably my toughest choice of the day.

Always nice when something walks itself straight to the "not my problem" pile