To add to this, if you’ve already connected to internet, you can disconnect with the same shift + F10 trick to get the command prompt open and type “ipconfig /release” to get rid of your connection.

I bought a Blahaj the other week and my god it is so soft. I’ve been cuddling with it every night since.

Sounds like the company needs to increase its bus factor. Luckily, I can help the company by not doing any of this nonsense, to pressure execs into hiring more staff so that the team is robust enough to weather a catastrophe.

You wouldn’t shutter a studio that produced a critically acclaimed game and then tell your remaining employees they need to make more games like that one.

…A sphere obeys.

I know exactly what it was for me. I used to read all the time in elementary and middle school, right up until 7th grade. To encourage kids to read, they implemented a reading requirement from 1st grade and up.

Upon completion of a quiz, every book with a length of ten pages or longer awarded a point per ten pages. Depending on the grade level, Five to twenty points a month were required for a satisfactory mark. Points did not carry over from month to month.

All the avid readers in my class quickly came up against the same issue - we were reading fucking novels like Eragon and Harry Potter, and they were individually good for one month each. After that, we had to start fishing for things to read, and what was once a treat became a chore, simply because we had to do it for a reason other than the enjoyment of the story. I remember getting chewed out for doing a quiz for an Amelia Bedilia book because it was on the list and I couldn’t be assed to read something more challenging to top up my points.

JFC. Imagine saying ‘Strike One’ out loud in person if you’re on a date or something. Someone does that to me, the date is over. I don’t have a lot of self-respect, but I have enough not to tolerate that bullshit.

No discredit to R.E.M. but my world’s been ending for over a decade and I feel like dogshit constantly. Nobody told me the apocalypse would be heralded by the dumbest fucking cryptobros and AI prompters the world’s ever seen.

Meta acquiring Oculus

As someone with industry experience working with VR, I can tell you it’s a mixed bag. I think there’s certainly no way Oculus (and consumer VR in general) takes off the way it did without Facebook’s dollars behind it, and it’s certainly paved the way to the outstanding quality of standalone HMDs that are on offer today. However, it killed the initiative for PCVR hardware with the non-consolation that Meta, Pico, and HTC offer “Link mode” on all their headsets and it’s iffy on good days, which makes B2B PCVR very difficult to facilitate without some serious legwork on lowering latency over the air connections. Would that we could revive the Rift S, that headset was perfect for our needs.

Gross. Hopefully I can regedit that shit away.

The Markiplier E is the most poignant example I’ve seen of this phenomenon.

The day the $1.50 hotdog dies is the day my membership ends. Muffins already went up $3 in the last two years.

Hell yeah

And hugs?

You can get kicked out any time you like

But you can never leave

Outta this house! Outta this house!

Excuse me, a little privacy please?

Yeah, like if you’re going to the trouble of getting a faraday bag or a lead lined case or whatever you think makes it untraceable… Just leave it at home? It’s a liability.

Don’t trust the surveillance device to turn off because you ask nicely. Leaving it at home helps sell the idea that you weren’t at the protest you were at.

Make it quirky and hang lampshades on every video game trope.