I didn’t play the second of the remake games because it was a PS5 exclusive. I usually buy into one platform (it was Xbox this gen) and hop on late in a console cycle for the other side to get cheap consoles and games, but for the first time consoles are getting more expensive over time, so I still don’t have a PS5. It’s on PC now, but building a PC costs as much as a modest house right now.

Fun fact - the major cause of his felonies was that there is a conservation easement over the Trump-owned land surrounding Mar-a-Lago, which he didn’t disclose when borrowing against its value for better rates.

The land is a liability, not an asset because it can’t be developed but he’s responsible for protecting it.

Different Arkane teams in different countries made Prey and Dishonored.

Prey was Arkane Austin, which was forced to make Redfall as a Live Service game to pump up the value of the companybefore being sold to Microsoft, leading over 70% of the Prey team to leave during the development.

Redfall flopped because Arkane Austin wasn’t a Live Service developer and they had zero interest in the game, and Microsoft closed the studio.

I have a very stubborn brain that will usually do the opposite of what I want.

My method is to try and turn on a movie or something I really have to pay attention to. I’ll start struggling to stay awake to keep track, and that will knock me out.

DMCA is interpreted very widely.

It criminalizes circumventing anything that could be used to protect copywritten information. So they just add copywritten stuff where it isn’t needed to criminalize anything they don’t want you to do. It’s why washing machines now have proprietary software and circuit boards instead of mechanical switches and why printer ink cartridges have chips on board.

It’s not that I don’t have time. I have 24 hours every day.

It’s that I don’t have the time for whatever you’re asking because it’s devoted to something else. That something else can be a meeting or appointment, or it could be me sitting on the couch eating ice cream while watching a movie I’ve seen 20 times already.

The board room is more concerned with the presentation than the data, because presentations make sales.

What a lot of people fail.to understand is that for the C-Suite, the product isn’t what’s being manufactured, or the service being sold. The product is the stock, and anything that makes the number go up in the short term is good.

Lots of them have fiduciary duties, meaning they’re legally prohibited from doing anything that doesn’t maximize the value of the stock from moment to moment.

Bilbo Baggins is in the files. By conflating “in the files” with “took part in the crimes” a lot of innocent people will be falsely accused.

And that’s the point.

Trump and team want so many innocent people to be called out that it provides cover for the guilty.

The response to this mess is gonna be everyone sticking with Discord, not because there’s no alternatives, but because there’s too many alternatives.

When you drain the water from the swamp, all that’s left is the scum.

That’s not true. Packet loss is a thing. It’s the same reason some USB cables suck and others are awesome.

I’ve just changed how I eat out.

Fast-casual restaurants cost the same as fast food these days. And if I need food super fast due to time and travel constraints, the quality of gas station food in many chains like QuikTrip and Speedy Stop is better and faster than McDonalds.

So they are no longer the fastest or the cheapest, while their food remains garbage.

Of course they’re failing.

I didn’t catch that joke for decades.

Evidence of citizenship and identification are 2 different things. You can have a driver’s license or state ID without being a citizen. Proof of citizenship is more difficult - especially for married women whose names won’t match their birth certificate.

The most common reason to prove citizenship right now is when starting a new job, where they’ll ask for either a passport or a social security card and state-issued photo ID.

It matters in digital signals more than I expected.

A bad-quqlity HDMI cable over a long run will start getting a bunch of noise on some of my displays that shows up as random green specs popping off due to signal loss, whereas better cables will give a clean signal.

And back when more broadcasts were analog and I ran tech for a road show, I’d occasionally pick up random stations on poorly-shielded cables that would get amplified by powered speakers. The cables essentially became antennas. Though I haven’t run into that in over 20 years.

Poorly-shielded cables and speakers also used to have a lot of issues with cell phones. Anyone else remember the series of 3-beeps you could sometimes hear on speakers a few seconds before a phone in the room started ringing?

Europe is working on it. Notice how they’re starting to adopt open source software and are working on their own credit card processor?

Right now, their governments and economies are too reliant on US-based tech companies that can be ordered to cut them off. So they’re working on eliminating that reliance ahead of sanctions.

That’s the idea.

They openly allowed armed civilian militias like the “Minutemen” and “United Constitutional Patriots” to detain and hold migrants at gunpoint until CBP arrived.

Hell - in the 80s a militia group calling itself the “Civiliian Military Assistant” was actually making border raids into Mexico to shoot on migrants before they crossed the border.

Grand juries are different than trial juries in Texas. They’re nominated “respectable” members of society that serve terms for multiple months. It’s remnants of Jim Crow that are alive and well, where rich white guys decide who gets prosecuted for what.

And Texas made it even worse a few years back. In 2008, a white guy called 911 because police his neighbor’s house was being robbed. He indicated that the neighbor’s were not home, and also that he was gonna shoot the burglars. The dispatch told him over a dozen times not to interfere, and he repeatedly said he would shoot them. As plainclothes police were arriving on scene, dispatch told him they were arriving, but he went ahead and shot the 2 unarmed burglars in the back while.they were fleeing, killing both. They happened to be unarmed.

The grand jury refused to indict him for a crime, but the familes sued the murderer in civil court and won.

So Texas made a law that if someone is not convicted of a felony for a gun crime they can’t be sued in civil court over it.

Deficit spending has historically worked out well because the US has been able to borrow at a rate lower than inflation, making it actually cheaper to borrow money and pay it off later. The national debt isn’t much of a concern unless we tank our credit and reputation.

So it’s a huge fucking concern.