tmyakal

Anything in the WAMC listening area is New England. I’ll accept no other opinions.

I just watched Anna and the Apocalypse last night. Christmas/zombie/musical. Very fun little film.

I mean, the guy who perfected drone strikes on American citizens was never going to suggest that.

There was a game a few years ago called ScreenCheat. Four-player splitscreen shooter, and everyone is invisible. So you find your target by looking at their screen to figure out where they are in the level.

The big jumps in spending on that graph started in 2012. Occupy Wallstreet protests were in the autumn of 2011.

I’ve never had a 9-to-5 that was actually 9 to 5. It always starts at 7:30 or 8.

But you guys not buying new phones is reducing productivity by a third of a percent! Think of the potential losses!

It’s blatant price-gouging. Any stock in the store has already been sold to them at an agreed price. They can set a number and make their set margin.

Updating prices after each delivery might make sense (if their procurement department is absolute dogshit at negotiating contracts), but updating prices throughout the day is just someone trying to see how hard they can push their margins to drain every cent out of their customers.

Yeah, I saw that $30k for a car and immediately dismissed everything this person said. I’ve never in my life paid more than $8k for a vehicle.

gameplay didn’t evolve

Massive understatement. The PS5’s biggest titles were remakes and direct sequels. Coupling it with the “upgraded” versions of PS4 games like Ghost of Tsushima, Last of Us Part 2, and GTA5, even the marketing seemed to boil down to “This is just a really nice PS4.”

Yeah, my wife has historically loathed JRPGs in part because the turn-based combat was too dull. She tried Expedition 33, fell in love immediately, and tried to show me the combat system like, “Look! It’s so new and innovative! This is how all those old games should’ve been!”

…So I’m putting Barkley Shut Up & Jam Gaiden on her computer next time she leaves it unattended.

I’m paying for the insurance, but the nearest in-network provider taking new patients is a 90 minute drive. Is that a cousin to “You can’t afford healthcare”?

The real move is to say your name and phone number at the start and end of the message, that way if they need to pay it again because they didn’t record the info quick enough, they don’t need to listen to the entire message again.

… for now. Trump is going to move on to white people who disapprove of him eventually.

Uh… The dude already tried to stay in office unelected. That’s what the Jan 6 riot was. He faced no consequences, and then got elected again.

Jack Welch did not singlehandedly ruin capitalism. He was a symptom of the problems capitalism is designed to create.

So what’s going to happen when Trump vetoes this?

It only matters if it makes money for him. Someone wealthy and interested in cracking nuclear fusion would need to be giving him a payout.

The Juggernaut video was 2005, and the Fenslerfilms clips were around 2003. So neither of those are '90s

reliable and familiar that won’t break the bank.

This is why car companies are not going to offer EVs that people actually want without government intervention. I remember GM leasing EVs back in the '90s to some acclaim. But they didn’t let anyone buy out their leases and they discontinued production by the end of the decade because most of their money came from service. And a bare-bones electric car has very few service requirements.

Manufacturers need the bullshit features because they need something important and breakable for consumers to come back with. Even if it’s just planned obsolescence driving another purchase, like it sounds like the article’s author is heading towards.