Man if I had forty million bands i'd do it. Just rip off the bandaid. The world would be a better place.
Rules I wish were real
Alt text: an image of dark saber from the Fate series with the text "The term girlfriend implies the existence of a girlfoe. This is a service I am willing to provide."
I will gladly solve a reCAPTCHA for you today if you pay me for it today.
No, the fanbase is regressing, but they're also not getting products that suit their tastes. There's a lot of stuff to play that's different, and the people that removed go back to the dwindingly bad quality AAA Live Service slop. They're not for us. When the AAA bubble bursts, they'll fuck off to another form of media.
I've had lots of good pizza in the US, almost exclusively from independent places that serve NY Slice/Detroit/Neapolitan, and only one from a chain that's even close to decent: Blaze Pizza, which goes for a neapolitan-style in a fast casual setting. That's about it.
Gnome 3 was a regression of what I still believe is a perfect UX metaphor for computing. Gnome 2 was perfect in every way. I've since gone to Xfce, but it feels like Gnome 3 and beyond is trying to make using Unix fool-proof for a touchscreen paradigm, and you really can't.
You should give people the keys without difficulty, but give them everything they need to not need them. And you're never going to run Gnome on a tablet. There's no point in making everything pronounced, you'll have an input device that's not a finger on a screen. Emulating something else like Windows or macOS doesn't make you seem unique, it makes you seem similar and if the paradigms aren't the same, its confusing. Have some audacity to be different.
It's important to remember Gnome exists because KDE was in a license fiasco of its own making. And we're in a new fiasco with GTK over mismanagement.
User Experience matters. And Valve knows that very well.
Just because Article 5 is activated doesn't mean we're going to war. It was activated on 9/11.
There's a small small chance Article 4 will be activated, which could be used for some mobilization (but is clerical, to summon NATO for discussion). But I think nothing happens.
Because someone put their dick in the pizza to make a funny
Definitely not Papa John's. It is the loosest definition of pizza. Below even Chicago Deep Dish.
My favorite Papa John's memory (because if you're an American, you've been forced to eat this slop at some point) is we had an On Call shift for NCAA events (I worked at a sports site) so they ordered us pizzas, donuts, salads, the spread since we'd be there until 3am. This was three days after Papa John himself had to resign for saying gamer words. His face, prominently featured on all the boxes, had been replaced by a "Now Hiring" sticker in an inconsistent manner, which led me to believe the employees at the kitchen had some feelings about the guy...
Remember the good old days when it was just malformed text you have to solve? I miss those days. AI was complete garbage and they had to use farms of eyeballs to solve them for bots, making it a costly operation. We've now totally gotten away from all of that.
WE ARE THE EYEBALLS AND I AIN'T GETTING PAID IN WOW GOLD TO DO IT EITHER
Not going to his shithole website.
Welp, they did it. They fucking broke reddit. Again.
Its heartbreaking. I always wanted to make games as my dream job (even in my mid-30s as a devops lackey) and they're collectively fucking over my passion for a fucking percentage. And the products coming out are fucking terrible.
Don't ever have a dream, kids. You'll be disappointed.
Because without the software, we can't play online. Full stop. Valve has tried to find another way without it and VAC2, but they keep winning and Valve gave up (seriously, play CS2, they're everywhere)
Straight facts rule
alt text: An image of Frylock, Meatwad, and Master Shake from "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" with additional text at the top and bottom of the image. The text reads: "The Confederacy lasted five years. Aqua Teen Hunger Force lasted 15. Master Shake is a bigger part of our heritage than your treasonous great-great-great-great granddad"
Sticker Mule loves Donald Trump and doesn’t care if you’re mad.
tl;dr: The CEO said he was pro-Trump and he didn't like the shooting. Certainly not a smart thing to say but not entirely bad, right? Well, he said it to the all the customers via their mailing list.
"This post makes no sense" compliance to the rule
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"well, I know my life was changed forever" rule
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One thing on my mind rule
Alt text: side view of a smug person, their brain and spinal cord are replaced with a cat rolled up in the skull taking a nap
2 climate activists were arrested after spraying orange paint on Stonehenge
I seriously think "Just Stop Oil" is a Koch Industries psyop because I've never seen so many random acts of cringe backfire this badly
Wars are getting more common and militaries are building up. There’s just one thing missing.
I've been feeling this a lot lately rule
I have just had a rough week at work due to some difficult deadlines that none of my senior managers are willing to hear out, and we lost some additional developers due to a layoff. I'm really stressed
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No rule, just a photo of the HARPA in Iceland. I took it in 2018 I think, its been my wallpaper since
Get it here because of size restrictions https://imgur.com/a/ifexp0B
DONT DO THIS rule
Google's AI Overviews suggested adding glue to pizza sauce. I tried it. And ate it. Here's what all this tells us about the future of the web.
Back to the roots the good old rules the life experiences
Alt text: a meme from Spongebob Squarepants episode S03E03 "Just One Bite," where Squidward takes a bite out of a krabby patty, except its been doctored to the LimeWire logo, a notable P2P application. It doesn't end well for him: In the last frame he is choking to death (with an overlay over him resembling a Windows Blue Screen of Death)
I ruleate to the cat on a spiritual level
Alt text: A meme in two parts: Top part of the image is captioned "When you feed your dog:" with a cute doggo showing appreciation. The bottom part of the image is captured "Once you feed your cat:" with a calico cat on a skateboard skating into a wormhole with the caption: "See ya later, Dickhead." The last d in 'dickhead' is cut off.
This is a rule for help
DAE Speech 100 int 1 run
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First rule of writing your characters
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"Has this ever happened to you?" rule
Original image: https://twitter.com/HasegawaKeane2/status/1762805360635560410
Alt text: Ubel from the anime "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" delivering an empty pizza box to Marcille Donato from the anime "Delicious in Dungeon". It is evident that Ubel ate her food in transit, hence why she is wearing a uniform for "Ubel Eats."
The Supreme Court majority sounds sold on Trump's Big Lie
The extremist majority on the Supreme Court is acting as rank partisan operators — and threatening our democracy
What is the fucking point of living if everything you believed in can be taken from you by some old white fucks