And then there’s the abomination known as Hawthorne Blvd that I need to cross on the regular (so uniquely stupid that you can spot it in IdiotsInCars on the regular.). I’m not sure there’s a classification for the divider also being a parking lot and turn lane combo.

It’s insane to me how many people would rather swerve around someone rather than take a second to ease into a stop together. Though, I will admit that half the time I stop behind someone, 5 to 10 seconds later they either turn on their hazards or they let someone out of their car, including on one way streets like that.

Basically everything is garbage with having to drive everywhere, all the time.

I’d take mine with chili and pure satisfaction in life, but that would be redundant so chili alone will suffice.

How’d I miss that slam dunk! Edited it in, haha.

I’ve had the song Zombie by The Cranberries stuck in my head and because of this post about cranberries I’ve changed the line stuck in my head to this:

But you see, they’re on me, they are my employee
On my head, on my head, they are fleeing
With their fangs and their bogs, and their bogs, and their legs
On your head, on your head, they are crawling~

On your head, on your he-eaya-ed,
Spi-der, spi-der, spiiiders,
What’s on your head, on your head,
Spi-der, spi-der, spi-ehya-ehya-ehya-ehya-eyoh-

I mean, if you’re a native American, you’ve been saying this for centuries!

If we’ve got an estimated surface size, could be an interesting math problem.

There’s 8 billion humans on earth, and if you assume that’s the average planet population in the empire, you’re only maybe a trillion of there’s over 100 planetary civilizations under imperial rule.

I’m not a big enough nerd to know how many there really are, but thinking back to how many reps were in the republic senate scenes, it’s probably around a trillion (they generally rep a planet, right?). But that’s being generous, plenty of those planets are noticably smaller than Earth and I don’t think they all end up imperial.

Ohhh. Great PSA to some of us who start out.

Ahh, ok that makes sense. Reading other posts, pretty sure my wifi chip is the same as OP.

This was also my first issue in Linux but it turned out my duel boot was somehow screwing things up. Windows broke WiFi for Linux, then when I booted into Windows it was broken there too. I blame Windows because it was right after a series of updates, but I have no idea why it’d impact other independent OS on other drives.

Unfortunately I forgot the solution. It was probably since bios impacting thing, like how they often say to disable fast boot and junk.

I’m just joking about beating around the bush, of course, since that’s what me and the students kept doing in class. The classroom has a zoom room camera and I kept winking at it when we talked about pirating games and music. But we’re also the only ones who see the video so it’s unlikely to get us in trouble, even if people cared.

Also instructors (and academics in general) pirate the fuck out of things. It was even mentioned in my orientation when I went to grad school, haha.

Man I’d love to see them try and fail, especially in those thin margin areas, although I’m pretty sure they’re going to also make it’s so difficult to vote blue by locating polling stations, adding even more restrictions (but only on Dems), and so on.

Given a non-zero number of reds being pissed off over tarrifs, Epstein, etc., it’s certainly possible that it still backfires even with all the cheating, though. Throw in some underdog democrat not even backed by their own party and you might even end up with a weirdly progressive rep— imagine no boomers (mail in ban), no traditional neolib Dems (no nearby polling station or motivation), and an influx of unemployed, pissed off young people willing to camp out at the polls… anything could happen.

I may or may not have advocated for the high seas during my lecture today… for comedy sake, of course.

Y’know, from a risk assessment standpoint, you can’t be too surprised they over rely on data since AAAs cost so much to make an a flop can lose millions, and sometimes even billions of dollars. Mediocre can still sell, and you and I both know they aren’t doing it for art or expression.

I do want to make one other point about survivor bias, though… there are plenty of crappy indie games, too. We focus a lot on the greats (and trust me, I hunger for the Silksong) but it makes up a pretty small percent in a world where everyone can make something. I sometimes will spin up a random game from regrettable purchases (like, indiegala bundles or those “mystery game” purchases) and some of them are really, truly horrible. I try to give is as much respect as I can, and sometimes I do find a few gems that nobody has played, but like… not every passion project is Undertale, lol.

Although tbh, I like streaming a bad game for friends because they can watch me suffer, haha, so I still appreciate the, uh, effort.

Idk why people are giving you shit on that, you’re right. Not necessarily indie-level right, but people hired to do the next Mario or Zelda are given remarkable freedom. I read up on the BotW development and they pitched their crazy idea, got green lit, and when leading their team they took suggestions from every part of the team (quite literally, artists, marketers, localization specialists, etc.). If I could remember the link I’d share it, but it’s straight up good AAA management.

Though, to be fair it’s really team by team and it’s quite possible they got lucky with some of these. There are plenty of misses, after all. I’m kinda glad I’m off the Nintendo bandwagon after the whole Yuzu/Ryujinx legal crap.

Yeah, unfortunate. Even within Cali, it’s not like they went the way of the In n Out, I see them close down more than open up. It’s too bad, they’re the OG blended ice cream, apparently making the Twister back in 1946.

Been in talks to run Star Ocean along with a friend so we could compare notes and talk about stuff. Hard to decide between the OG and the PSP remake, though.

Also kudos to starting Metroid, there’s so few misses in that series.

That’s how I felt regarding LA. There’s something profoundly upsetting seeing people lie with AI about your neighborhood being on fire.

Nah, for the obvious gas reasons. Now, is it was a Foster Freeze… still nah, but I’d certainly consider it if I had other business in that town and could get a Boss burger alongside it.