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> My friends and I would build CounterStrike maps that were the layout of our highschool and would then run around and shoot each other. This was very taboo at the time. We knew that this would be interpreted as threatening by the powers-that-be at highschool, but it was exciting.

I think every budding DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D map creator made their school at one point. Of course, that was years before Columbine (despite the inclusion of DOOM in the Columbine finger-pointing), and nobody thought twice about it then.

Person 1: "Here is my lived experience."

Person 2: "I don't buy it."

Internet in a nutshell.

> (oh, dear Twitter: whatever happens I’ll be there as long as possible – if you care about people that put a lot of energy in creating it, think twice before leaving the platform)

You mean the people that all just got fired?

In one of those random coincidences, I recognize OP's username because just last night I was reading their forum comments on the OpenWRT forum about the Netgear WAX202. Was trying to decide if picking one up at a $30 sale price would make sense as a replacement for an older device, the R7800.

OP did not find it to be so after their testing, and as such, my $30 remained in my pocket.

The only way to make YouTube even remotely tolerable is with liberal use of the "Not Interested" and "Don't Recommend Channel" functions.

I also set up separate YouTube viewing accounts by interest, so that I can clobber away everything not related to a specific interest in that particular account (eg. anything not sports related gets "Don't Recommend Channel"'d in my Sports YT account).

YouTube pretty much fights you tooth and nail the whole way, but eventually your blocking of irrelevant and garbage recommendations leaves them no choice but recommending things related to that interest.

This sequence of comments is the JS ecosystem in a nutshell.

Hear about something new, then immediately hear about its multiple successors/replacements.

I wonder how many, if any, original install components are still present in that Ship of Theseus.

> It also had the misfortune of trying to compete with two other huge sci-fi blockbusters in the summer of 1982: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

I miss when "summer blockbuster" meant something other than the 40th Marvel comic movie and the 20th DC comic movie.

Perhaps that's what it eventually evolves into. Probably easier to get this off the ground by developing it as a separate mode.

Silly? A Monkey Island game? That's the second craziest comment I've ever read.

Certainly beats the "you don't need so much JavaScript!" blog posts that load 10 external scripts.

Small company data point here, but we're going more remote, not less.

Previously, remote was basically for people that had been with the company before and left the area, but that we wanted to keep.

The pandemic finally wore down the last bit of resistance to embracing remote fully. We still have our (scaled down) office location, but new hires need not have ever set foot in the area.

Love SomaFM, have their 15 year anniversary channel list poster up in my office.

Been listening since the days of the original 3 channels (Groove Salad / Drone Zone / Secret Agent). I loved so much when cliqhop came out and streamed more abstract electronic music, especially since "electronic music" in streaming was always so heavily either ambient (cool) or club/dance music (ehh).

But I really want to highlight Metal Detector, the metal channel they started a few years ago. I've always found metal streaming stations underwhelming. MD is the first one I've heard that effortlessly cuts broadly across the various subgenres and eras, and doesn't fall into the traps of just playing the arena-filling stuff, or getting locked into one specific niche.

> Although I'd say nearly every game worth playing is already on there, besides a couple N64 games

I'd say it takes a very narrow view of what's "worth playing" to say that.

To me, the Switch Online emulation services are defined by what they're missing.

Once people start crossing the line from promoting an ideal to promoting an identity, that's when they lose me.

> Who are they to decide what is "disinformation". How do they know?

Making decisions about which information to rank highly vs. lowly is, you know, kind of the definition of a search engine.

I like weekly publications.

24-hour news is all about reacting first, thinking never.

Daily publications are better, but there's still not a lot of time to formulate thought.

Weekly publications allow things to breathe a bit more. Allows some context to be established, some thought to be had before taking fingers to keyboard.

This reminds me of people online who construct gigantic walls of bad faith argument text and insist that it's up to everyone else to "debate them" and spend hours deconstructing their argument.

Just possibly, dude, your argument isn't worth anyone else's time to debunk.

Premise: the author has access to many more pet creative projects than ever before.

Author's conclusion: people are spending more time on pet creative projects.

Better conclusion: the barriers to distribution have fallen so low that pet projects which existed in the past but never left the bedroom are now available to the world.

What might have just sat on a DAT cassette or floppy disk in someone's closet many years ago now becomes an upload to streaming music catalogs or game services.

I've never thought to try this.

Now I have to try this.

River Phoenix asking for Amy Benedict's phone number will always be one of the smoothest moves in cinema.

Robert Redford. Sidney Poitier. David Strathairn. River Phoenix. Mary McDonnell. Timothy Busfield. Dan Ackroyd. Donal Logue. Ben Kingsley. James Earl Jones. Stephen Tobolowsky.

There may exist movies with better casts than Sneakers, but there don't exist many.

That's what's making the Steam Deck possible. And the release of the Steam Deck is only going to bring more attention to Proton and accelerate further development.

> it's a waste of resources

I always laugh at the people that take this notion way too seriously. If their CPU is only 98% idle, it's a travesty. I imagine the same people driving around in cars stripped of all paneling and upholstery, because every little bit of unnecessary weight hurts performance!

> There's no point in not having a little fluff that makes the experience a bit more fun.

Well put. Considering how much time we spend staring at these stupid little number boxes, things that makes the experience a little more enjoyable are worthwhile, even if they're dumb and frivolous.

> A lot of ad volume problems come from failure to normalize audio between what the studio distributes and what the advertiser distributes.

Weird how this supposed lack of normalization never seems to result in overly quiet commercials...

> Reminder: VSCode, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, and Notepad++ all individually have a higher usage share among professional programmers[0].

20 years ago, this list would have had a bunch of different names on it.

20 years from now, it will be different names still.

Meanwhile, vim will still be there, and my knowledge in it built 20 years ago will be serving me still 20 years from now.

Who error checks the error checkers?

> And maybe the thing you write will be a crock of shit.

Because we definitely need more of that.

If there's one thing the Internet is not lacking, it's ideas written down before they're fully thought through.

> Unfortunately, the Node code we wrote to do this had a bug: it treated a string as if it was a number.

I'm sure plenty of people here will have thoughts on this point.

It's weird how these "free speech" social media sites always seem to have just as much moderation (if not more) than mainstream platforms, just with a big exception carved out for far-right fascist topics.