LGBT+ people have learned not to trust the police, and so will have a hard time relaxing and enjoying themselves if they are around.

Cops have motive, means and opportunity to abuse minorities they don’t “approve” of. Therefore (and because of previous form) they have made themselves unwelcome.

I don’t get how anyone can trust those mugs with a tapered base.

Are you trying to spill your drink as far as you possibly can?

You just need one finger to catch the edge of the cup, and gravity/momentum will do the rest.

Developing countries (supposedly mainly China) just keep all their livestock on them all the time.

Which is a massive petri-dish for developing antibiotic-resistant bacteria just about as fast as you can.

We’re riding this wave over in the Total War community too. Broken game, weak and overpriced DLC.

We kicked off (and then all their other games managed to flop at once, so they came crawling back) and now we’ve got a notable amount more effort into the DLC coming at the end of the month, as well as price cuts, refunds and redoing of the bad DLC.

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but I’m seeing positive movements in general on legacy resting-on-laurels games.

It’s not a condition.

It’s a word someone made up to shame people into going against their best interests.

I jump between languages so much I can never remember the structure.

for item in items? Or item of items or items as item?

Best to just have the IDE auto complete it.

And then…

There’s the Profanisaurus.

link

There were some great levels.

The abandoned ice prison was great.

And uhhhh… well no other ones are currently in my memory. That can’t be a bad sign, can it?

Man that zero-g casino could have been so cool. But it was just… nothing-y.

Have you tried… working in (non-corp) tech?

It may be for you.

Well I’m in love with this thread.

And all the sexy authority figures in it…

I also don’t want to be marketed at. If it’s good I’ll find out organically.

And I don’t want to find out about it at/before release-time. Because then I’ll want to buy it on release.

That’s the time the game is most buggy and least optimised (maybe also unbalanced too).

Complaining it didn’t sell well enough on release is some real crybaby stuff as well.

“It didn’t go exactly the best way I wanted it to go 😭😭”

This is how a lot of PR is done.

It’s how a hell of a lot of articles are written.

PR company sends in a press release, journo thinks “great, I don’t need to do any proper work today” and then turns the press release into article format.

Wow this feels like victim blaming… ;)

If it’s the same amount every day (roughly), it’s probably trying to install an update over and over and failing.

Slight variations from other usual IoT spyware behaviour and update version sizes changing between minor versions.

It’s very annoying that if an article title seems interesting, that it’s a bait-and-switch/clickbait.

I honestly don’t click the ones that seem too amazing.

This is an excellent meme

Every show or movie has to have like 2x more stormtrooper versions to sell as toys.

It really pulls me out of the immersion whenever I see it.

It’s product placement!

“the norm” part isn’t accurate, but if it could match gaming performance/compatibility I know a lot of people who would switch. Myself included.

And seeing as how 2% isn’t a very large percentage (but I think the number of gamers who are sick of windows, or have privacy concerns is quite large), I think it would be a notable increase in the userbase.

Even an increase to 2.5% market share is a 25% boost. A lot of products would be very excited indeed to boost their market share by 25%.

It might even light a tiny, tiny fire under Microsoft that they can’t just keep being shit with no consequences.

Competition (sometimes) breeds innovation.

Also, inflation.

In case they say what they want them to say.

Then they can quote them.