For most games, the real consequence of failure in a game is being forced to repeat what just happened. And getting caught in a Groundhog Day-esque situation that repeats once every few minutes suuuuucks.

It’s even worse when a failure causes your character to lose stuff. That’s even more time wasted, in that the time and effort taken to get the thing is gone.

Paint the rainbow on my proud carebear chest if you must. I just want a place to escape to for a little while, a place that doesn’t frustrate the shit out of me.

• Shit broke
• Shit got fixed
• Shit’s working now

Tried submitting a relatively simple change to the Ansible code base once. Added an option to the telnet module to support different ports. Submitted a pull request. Was told I needed to change and update the documentation. Didn’t know how to do that, and I didn’t get any guidance, so I abandoned the pull request. Kept on using my own hack until someone else added the option.

Make contributing easy, and more people will contribute.

Tools you’re not sure you’ll need. Harbor Freight tools are super cheap and flimsy, but may be the right choice if you’re not using them often.

If you find yourself using a cheap tool all the time and hating the quality of it, then it’s time to buy something better.

The flood of ‘92

TIHI. Childhood memories of ashtrays left out in the rain are flooding back.

Anything that maximizes embarrassment or cringe. Can’t watch most Will Ferrell or Borat. Ugh, it makes me so uncomfortable.

John Wick and James Bond and superheroes and supervillains are not realistically possible. Otherwise we would have them.

Should they? Yes.

Would they? Ahhhahahaha

Sudden? That’s been declining for years my dude.

I’m lucky if people understand the first bullet point in my emails. I’m luckier still if they keep reading, never mind understand my next point.

• 50% raise
• Private 12x15 office
• Free pot gummies (for Fridays, of course;)
• Free transportation to/from office
• Every day is Bring Your Dogs To Work Day

We love our infrastructure, but we don’t want to pay for the upkeep.

This is the biggest waste of words next to a “Trump-said” article.

Laptop makers once put pop-out mice on laptops. They were horrible. Toting a wired mouse around was a pain in the ass too. There’s a reason touchpads took over. It doesn’t mean people don’t know how to work a computer.

Are bananas next? 0.1 µSv/banana is way higher than 3.9 µSv/yr 😱

Like they’ll ever become Chinese.

Such a memorable story from The Prehistory. “Someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute” sent his publisher a letter condemning the cartoon.

Shortly after receiving the letter, before Larson could reply, National Geographic reached out and wanted to reprint the article. Nat Geo was shocked to learn about all of this when Larson’s publisher declined: “That doesn’t sound like the Jane Goodall we know.” Nat Geo made their own phone calls, which is when everyone discovered that Jane loved the cartoon, and she herself was unaware the letter had gone out from her institute.

Hey hey hey, this is missing important context: Only if that rival were impeached first.

… but seriously, how did we get here as a nation

“You found a piece of metal. Take my spaceship and I’ll take your miserable mining job” wait what?

Goddamn, gamers can hold a grudge like no other asshole out there. The game has been working fine for years now. It’s time to move on.

Give them all a vision of the Earth from space. Look at that, all ya sonsa bitches.

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”

— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.