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YouTube is taking me to some really weird places. Apparently this is legit with only a minor amount of EQ. WTF. (0:35+)

For those wondering WTF, the character was named after a disgraced Blizzard employee. https://www.polygon.com/22621751/overwatch-mccree-renamed-jesse-mcree-blizzard

I find myself in the market for a house. I'd forgotten how much of a pain in the ass this all is, arranging financing, viewings, etc, etc. Argh. I live in LA, and when I moved here in 2014 the rental market was low enough in relation to the purchase market that it made sense for me to lease...

$47. That's way less than I expected. https://toirokitchen.com/products/chasen The Japanese are weird, but as a rule they make great fucking tools and appreciate quality for its own sake.

The new biomes in the 1.18 snapshots are looking pretty cool. My kids are stoked and want to start a new world when it releases.

Memories at any age are broad narratives we tell ourselves about the past with the details heavily filled in by plausible fictions, and are heavily sculpted by what other people tell us or how we talk about ourselves. I was talking with my dad the other day and he told me that a favorite...

"oo" and "i" do approach each other in Bostonian spoken fast enough. In no universe is the trailing "r" audible, though.

My wife worked at a fintech startup in Atlanta and they had an open bar all day every day. Of course, that place was a dumpster fire of venture capital money and seven years later they still haven't IPO'd or made a product that works.

"Things have been quiet for three days. Let's fuck it up again!"

This is why people who know how to actually get shit done in groups become serial entrepreneurs. You're absolutely correct, but I don't think it's exclusive to the idea that they also horrifically mismanaged their culture. Plenty of companies stagnate into oblivion post-acquisition without also...

That there was drinking (edit: drunkenness) on the job is a symptom of stupid, short-sighted management that apparently thought that replicating Mad Men's office culture was a good idea. There are some obvious lines you just can't walk over these days for both ethical and business reasons, and...

My steam hours are inflated by 2-10x because I have a tendency to alt-tab out of games for hours at a time due to work calls or family stuff.

I bet they use it for the never-ending stream of testimonials that is their social media advertising.

Come on. Every reasonable manager I've ever met brings bodyguards to closed work functions with their own employees.

This hits hard. I grew up near Woostah.

The fact that they're already resorting to litigation is a big red flag.

Yeah, it's like my cousin at SpaceX. "Good luck finding another MIT MS in EE/CS with a decade experience coding aerodynamic simulation for atmospheric reentry."

Noncompetes are unenforceable in WA. https://navigatelawgroup.com/washington-non-compete/

This goes for life in general. Not to say that you should never say anything that could anger/hurt someone, but it shouldn't be a surprise when you do.

I understand the seriousness of your situation and your desire to make things work for your kids, but this is the wrong answer from your wife and is code for "I am already emotionally checked out." Never mind that the true depth her regard for the relationship (and the stability of the family!)...

How finished is this game? Is it worth waiting until release to get the "right" experience?

You can see the exact moment when that bystander realizes, "Holy fuck, I'm riding an alligator. Guys? Guys??" The balls on that dude...

Just finished the game. The style is fantastic, the controls are tight, and overall I enjoyed it, but it's very inconsistent. The last quarter of the game is almost 100% platforming, which isn't bad exactly but feels completely different from the first half. I have to wonder if it was supposed...

There are anti-5G people canvassing my neighborhood on a regular basis after a local church rented their steeple to AT&T. I think I'm going to print this to hand out. Alternatively, I may preemptively proselytize to them.

"I'm going to underperform at work until they see my value."

I really wanted to like Grim Dawn but that game was such a fucking slog.

If you like woodworking video tutorials, there's apparently a summer sale for the Maker's Mob (a collective of some of the more prominent YT personalities) where you get a month's access for $0.99. I'll probably snag it just to download a few projects...

You basically have to torch your house to the foundation, or at the very least get rid of anything with fabric. Bed bugs are the devil.

That's possible, but it'd be a different animal from what is already in motion with the Mars Sample Return mission, on which multiple teams are already committed.

There's no reason to expect any kind of character reset after the beta, correct? File still local?

My brother-in-law at JPL is legit worried that SpaceX is going to to return a physical sample from Mars before NASA can do it in 2032, just as a flex.

I remember filling up the 40-gallon tank of my dad's Suburban for under $30.

I paid $80 for FF3 in 1994. In today's dollars that's almost $150.

"character assassination"

Never mind the capital and resources. Even if you had the perfect collection of people and the library of congress it would still take decades to make the machines to mine the iron to make the machines to make the machines to make the machines to build your chip fab. The ability of a society to...

I consult in the pulp & paper industry; same deal in mills. There's always that one geriatric steam engineer who was around when the turbines were first installed in the 60's and is the only one who really knows how they interplay with the boilers in a crisis. When he dies, they're out $100-200M...

Not gonna lie. If done properly that could be fucking delicious. A good grilled octopus is spectacular.