Perfectly understandable. Hope it gets sorted out.

I remember the battles over second hand smoke, and how bars and restaurants used to absolutely reek

Servers with nagging coughs they could never quite shake

Dudes exactly like Andy insisted it was fine, at great length, and with great derision as laws changed

But the servers don't cough anymore

Betting this guy has Strong Opinions on the existence of long covid and ME/CFS

Again, I'm not even pretending I know enough to judge this issue...but this all just reeks of the "masks don't work" crowd, with a side order of "second-hand smoke is harmless" and a bit of leaded gas as a treat

I've had situations where I wasn't getting a signal, my guess from a shift to/from HDR or VRR, but it got resolved by a hard reboot.

Other devices working on that TV, I'll assume...guessing it doesn't work on other displays either?

Whuh

I was gonna say "weird HDTV drm issue" but afaik TVs all flag those now

That just looks like you're standing too close to a Trinitron

I always think of the billionaire on here who seems to spend most of his time yelling at Ed Zitron

Dude why the fuck are you even here, you aren't even a CEO anymore you retired

You won the game, go party on yachts and parasail or whatever

I'd totally forgotten I was on The List but hey

Between this, the deep strikes at Russian oil facilities, and the low-cost drone interceptors, I am genuinely starting to believe again that Ukraine might win this.

I mean, even aside from this loan package, everyone on Earth is clamoring for their drone tech now. They can make some big deals.

There's a weirdly high number of c-suites that just cannot fathom the notion of a lawsuit

it will never not be funny how they thought bsky was going to be a google campus and instead they got tumblr and they absolutely h a t e it

It even has that classic Machinist question of "wait what is the flamethrower even for, exactly"

Read the tooltip carefully and I still have no clue, just looks cool I guess

Played a bit last night to reacquaint myself with Machinist and yep it sure is still Machinist

I'm an old Summoner main so it's always incredibly weird when you fire up a class after like a year and discover they didn't change shit

SMN is a different class every six months, post-HW MCH is eternal

Incredibly funny that datacenter transfer meant that I'm now on a "congested" FF14 server, when it used to be kind of a backwater.

Quick rule for MMOs: never, ever join the "preferred" server, and definitely never move off the "congested" one. Learned that one in WoW the hard way.

See now this is the kind of Pragmata Discourse I like

Not, say, articles saying "don't be weird about Pragmata" spending like four grafs being extremely weird about Pragmata

Kinda wondering why this dude thinks that Diana being a kid is "worrisome and to its detriment"

Oh cool it's That One Scene from FMA

Yeah, it's a bit like crypto

Someone talking about Bitcoin or Dogecoin might just be some kid who's looking to gamble on shitcoins, GenX dude who huffed too much leaded gas, just laugh and move on

But if that fucker mentions Ethereum, you fucking RUN

Google could have even sold it as a "openness-defending good guy" thing, part of the "don't be evil" brand they'd built at the time, maybe even get Twitter and LinkedIn to buy in

But no they thought that regulators were icky so now Zuck has his zombie network of feral boomers

One of the things that Google could have done—but didn't as they were clueless—was pressure the shit out of regulators to force some kind of export function for social platforms as an anti-monopoly thing

FB absolutely used that as a lock-in trick, likely the only reason its still around

Iiiii don't think this is gonna go the way they think

Clearly they think that CoD carries the same kind of retail draw it used to, and sorry but we just ain't there anymore

The loss of perceived value for GamePass is gonna be way bigger than the sales they get from the next CoD, imo

Things definitely going well here on the 'sky

Definitely not getting Lowtax vibes from the management

That is still the part of it that's most distinct from pre-takeover Twitter, and kinda the tipoff about the Blue MAGA issue

They're the ones most likely to pretend Biden ended covid to give him a rare W

He didn't even pay for the research he mostly hoarded doses, hence Canada having to wait

The wildest thing about this site, to this day, is the sheer weight of "lmao covid is just a cold" people who moan about the "lockdowns" and just kinda threw all the dead people in the Memory Hole

And, yes, people died of covid after Biden became president, and lots died thanks to Omicron variants

The funniest thing is when defenders start saying BUT THEIR MARGIN IS ONLY 3%

Cool now go farther along the vendor chain, which they also own because they're vertically integrated as hell

Reminder that THIS is the company that's trying to force through all those "age verification" proposals that are thinly-veiled surveillance regimes

Zuck and his zombie army will not rest until every single thing you do is recorded on their servers, attached to your whole ass Government ID

I've just spent the last half hour fiddling with my lalafell's outfit

Peak FF14

*Switches to Machinist*

Oh right thaaat's why I leveled Machinist

My little guy's cowboy fit is immaculate

But yeah for some reason I only had Viper and Machinist leveled, the two jobs that were renamed for no discernable reason

So Machinist it is I guess

Now to go back to my Extremely Complicated feelings about how Dawntrail's campaign ended, the one and only time I yelled "fuck you Yoshi" at my TV

...oh wow I had NOT leveled the classes I normally use

Getting vague memories of deciding "I'll do the MSQ as the new class!" and damn you Past Me I don't actually like Viper all that much.

(One way you can tell that CBU3 lost the sauce: dude is clearly a Corsair, c'mon "Viper" are you twelve)

DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO LALAFELLS

...back to FF14, got a lot of MSQ to cover and also pro wrestling for some reason(?)