I used to think “change” you got from a store was just the business being nice and making sure you didn’t walk away without any money.

Die Hard and Galaxy Quest.

The pacing of these movies is great. There’s really no part of either I’d fast forward.

So many…

FF7. Got all the way to Sepiroth, lost once and never retried. That save game is long gone so I’d have to start from nothing if I wanted to finish it.

FO3. After I left the vault the direction of the game was very open ended so I just kind of sputtered about, not really getting into the main quest.

BG2. I put a lot of hours into this game but I thought my the combat was wicked hard and certain side quests took way too long so again I couldn’t really get into the main to storyline.

The chocobo race was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in a video game. I think it’s 30% skill and 70% luck. Key for me was missing the birds (or whatever those things were that hit you) one or two hits and you’re fucked.

Noita. I don’t see how a single person has beaten it. Wand building is basically a game within the game (and I don’t get it – ditto for potions), the character is squishy with barely any healing mechanism, and every playthrough is randomized so there’s not a lot to learn from your mistakes. I guess it’s not a casual game (what I usually go for). I can’t see anyone getting any better at it if they only play it a few hours a week and watching just as many tutorial videos.

I’m playing on Expert mode and I refuse to dial it down. The Twins are kicking my ass so hard.

That’s to say there are legitimate uses of the word. Most other slurs have the one meaning.

I hate writing lengthy apology letters too.

Back in the day I nearly kissed the ground Ron Paul walked on. There was also about as much conspiracy theory swirling among his followers as there is with MAGA.

It’s really astounding that Donald will lie his ass off about almost anything but can’t muster the will to lie about protecting Ukraine. No rational person could think he intends to do anything but hand over Ukraine to Russia.

Birth of my first child. It wasn’t just life-changing because “now I’m a father” and such but he had heart disease and the first few months were really rough. It doubly reinforced that my time of being a big kid is over and I have to be an actual adult because lives can easily be ruined or lost by passing the buck and letting other people make my decisions for me.

You don’t seem to like pop music in general so I don’t know why you feel the need to specifically call out what’s basically a sub-genre of pop.

I always liked, “Perfect is the enemy of good,” and a close second, “Make it work, then make it better.”

Rainbow Brite was one of my favorite cartoons growing up.

When I’ve needed permissions closer to a native package (i.e. fewer security safeguards) Flatpak was the only one between that, Snaps, and AppImage to let me do what I needed to do.

I’m not a manager but I’ve sat in on lots of interviews. I think the best candidates I’ve ever seen are the ones that are very conversational and talk like they’ve already worked there for a month. Sometimes candidates like that start an answer and we trail off, kind of shooting the shit (still talking about workb related stuff), and barely get through half the planned questions. Ones that get all the way through the questions aren’t necessarily bad but they’re very succinct and sound much more rehearsed, like it was an oral exam.

Just my 2 cents. Managers in here may totally contradict me.

The last Yarnfather

One of my uncles died from a gunshot. I say it like that because most of my family doesn’t believe he committed suicide but was killed by his girlfriend. I was really young when it happened and I know almost no details. Seems rude to ask about it now and I don’t want to retraumatize anyone but I am quite curious of the circumstances and if it really was suspicious or if his family just didn’t want to accept that he was depressed and hid it away.

A tiger.

Programming and Linux is my hobby I guess but new languages, distributions, and frameworks spring up all the time. On one hand the innovation and creativity and variety are inspiring and impressive. On the other hand it makes analytical types like me more likely to spend time researching solutions than actually implementing them. It’s also too easy to find the perfect tool for whatever your problem is or get invested in solution and before you know it the project is abandoned or flipped into a commercial product so you have to start the hunt all over again and convert all of the stuff that depends on it. I think it’s a “good problem” to have but still a bit of a problem.

It would be nice if open source software had a more reliable way to be sponsored so contributors could have some monetary support for their efforts. I say reliable because some very popular projects have little to no sponsorship so we could be one pissed off dev away from Y2K.