This is the secret to where Roy Kent gets his power!

I still need to read the book! My main familiarity with RAMA is the 199(5?) PC game that was mind bogglingly obtuse with math puzzles but the world was SO fascinating! I need to figure out how to play it again with my grown up brain…

The soundtrack was INCREDIBLE…

LOL sounds like that game gets it right too! I’ll have to check out Vinyard Story.

In Cataclysm DDA there’s something called an “antlered horror.” Basically undead moose.

Sheer. Friggin. Terror!

Obligatory:

“A Møøse once bit my sister …”

“Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…”

“We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.”

Oh definitely! If there’s one thing I’m done with, it’s people calling on speakerphone while their phone is like, seemingly, in their gym bag in the trunk LOL.

Like bro, you’re not Jack Bauer and I’m not your handler, it can wait until you’re done going 75 on the freeway.

Maybe my work’s phone network service is just awful, even landline to landline, but yeah, for how much faster data connections have gotten, I feel like I got clearer voice quality on my cordless Vtech in 2004 LOL.

Maybe it’s me and I should get my hearing checked. 😅

Thank you so much for sharing your story.

I’m grateful to your mom, and I’m glad you’re here. <3

Anyone who’s played Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead will tell you: Moose are NOT to be messed with. Hoo boi.

In the right (wrong?) season, if you see them across the map, pray they haven’t seen you.

I imagine this models a healthy respect for real moose too lol.

HOW WAS I THINKING THIS EXACT SAME THING.

The standardized NATO phonetic alphabet

…for when you need to read alpha numeric codes or clarify spellings.

Especially with, how, inexplicably, phone connections seem to have gotten more garbly in recent years.

This code was invented to be reasonably understood as much as possible in less-than-ideal communication conditions.

As time goes on, civilian life is full of situations where you’ll need to read off serial numbers, codes, or even spelling your own name, to somebody seemingly connected to you from a million miles away via coconuts and twine.

So, learn it, and you never need to go “M as in…uh…‘Mancy’?” ever again! Your IT department might thank you.

…and let’s be honest, it sounds kinda cool. :)

It truly is amazing how an entire industry makes billions by literally avoiding delivering the most basic service it’s paid for at every possible turn.

Unless I had already reached my annual deductible, that is.

“Hey good news! After about 35% of your annual income is spent on medical bills on top of your triple digit monthly premiums… That health insurance starts to kick in!”

(Until it resets at the end of the year. Teehee!)

Either that, or maybe they don’t have diabetes there. (Lol joking)

That’s awesome. Like he was really hoping for some dismal and dark exposé on “savage human nature” a la “Lord of the Flies”, and at every turn, proven wrong by people who were happy to just get along and cooperate for mutual benefit…

… Which should come as a complete shock, social species that we are! /s

I think these desperately dark tales of people turning on each other in sociological contexts is another propaganda tool to put this idea in our heads that without “qualified leaders” we’d all just be grunting and beating each other over the head with rocks.

Nah, someone with something to gain has to motivate us to fight each other. What if we just said “lol, anyway” and kept getting along on the raft?

Indian managers are usually power tripping bastards.

In my experience, at least lol.

Well if the economic outlook is bad, everyone is strung out and desperate to keep their jobs, so they do things that would normally be considered insane just to keep that stupid check rolling in.

The ones on top still win and are taken care of.

Seems like megacorp end goals for most nations and peoples, to be honest.

parents should be put in charge of their own kids,

So convenient that governments and their corporate masters take such a keen interest in watching our kids, after making all their parents spend most of their lives at miserable jobs.

On your feet, comrade. This is no place to die.

Sounds like they were designed by a Spore player. 😂

So does our Colombian red tail boa! :D

EDIT: That’s just a little heat coil with a fan though in the cold months. Be very careful and research heavily before blasting IR light at reptiles!

Ah I see what you’re saying.

Thanks for taking the time for the clarification! I’m sure this would clear it up for some other folks as well.

I also know they’re a fraction of the size of those giants who can probably field staff specifically for FOSS contribution, but that’s still a bit disheartening. I hope things improve.

Every time they’ve seemed like a good option I find myself balking at the price though lol.

I don’t blame you. I’m even tempted to get a Quest-something unit secondhand or something, if only because I’m pretty sure they’ve cracked it a bit better on the Linux side.

They’re making some progress on WMR’s controllers right now but they’re the most troublesome. Hand tracking works now! But a lot of games expect button input.

Seriously, we just need a good code leak or something so that hobbyist VR peripherals become more commonplace. Right now everything is focused on establishing lock-in to walled gardens instead of interoperability.

VR hardware should be just like getting a monitor / keyboard / mouse / flight stick / whatever, but they want to make it closer to a smart TV / phone so they can push you to throw it out and buy a new one every 6 months.