… which is ironic, since SystemD is what happens when someone comes up with a problem to fix your solution.

The squinting cat has quite a pointy face. Testosterone makes cats have ‘rounder’ faces; can be hard to tell on cats that were speyed quite young, but males capable of having children tend to have quite chubby cheeks. Plus, the black cat looks to be going for a nipple underneath; and of course, it’s actually present in the picture, whereas dad cats are all ‘wham bam thank you ma’am’ and will usually be miles away once children appear.

Far be it from me to assume pronouns, but that doesn’t really look like a dad cat to me…

Negative value would indicate “paying you to take them”, which doesn’t make any sense, unless there’s a forfeit associated with having any.

Really, share prices should be on a logarithmic graph. You care whether your shares are now worth eg. twice as much or half as much as you paid for them originally. The actual number of shares that you could buy with a given amount of money isn’t as interesting.

Well, you take the rough with the smooth with English:

Smooth:

• verb conjugation rules are straightforward
• adjective declension is trivial - don’t do it
• easy to make most plurals, only a handful of exceptions to learn
• no grammatical gender

Rough:

• can’t have too many words that mean almost-but-not-quite the same thing
• spelling is the fever dream of a madman. In particular, eighteen or so vowel sounds represented by five letters, words transliterated from other languages that may or may not have their pronunciation changed, words that have had their pronunciation changed over the centuries but spelling hasn’t been updated. Because fuck you, that’s why.
• putting two words together to make noun phrases that don’t have the meaning of either word
• a plethora, indeed a veritable abundance, of strange grammatical forms

You mostly take the rough, to be fair.

Dang. If only they had some kind of security scanning tool that could catch that kind of thing.

It was quite prone to crashing-to-desktop and certain PC configurations had bizarre graphics issues, but I did play through it on hardcore in the week of release and had a great time with it. Just needed to quicksave a lot.

The kind of bugs that it did not have a lot of were quest bugs. Bethesda’s own games are ‘wide but shallow’, and very few quests in the world seem to interlink with each other, but despite that, they’re very easy to break accidentally, or cannot be completed due to flag issues. Oblivion managed to wrangle up a complex plot with tonnes of interrelated parts, and it mostly just worked.

What F:NV could have been if it had been made in a good engine… Most of the times where it got dinged in review scores were for bugginess and instability. Trying to build a castle upon sand; there’s only so much you can do before all the cracks appear.

If Azure had an 11% downtime, then I’d consider it a blessing. 19 hours a week when you’d be free of using the damned thing. But no, it just stays up and taunts you.

The fruit was originally called a norange, from Spanish naranja, but that sounds a bit awkward in English so the n moved over to make it an orange instead.

Alas, no.

I call mine ‘little Elvis’, because that’s what Elvis called his, and it’s always struck me as a good name for it.

The database is stored encrypted on disk, but the userspace program that authenticates to access it allows any running program to hook into it, and once the user authenticates, any ride-along program has full access forever.

Don’t even need a local priv escalation, just need to be able to run code as the user, and you can exfiltrate everything. Microslop have closed this as ‘not a bug, intended behaviour’.

Only safe solution appears to be disabling Recall entirely. Which I’ve done by installing Arch btw.

Yeah. Am using Connect on my phone, which shows “comments to the same link” all in one view. That’s not quite right; would be better if it showed all of the posts that had the same link together too, but it’s a massive improvement.

Not suggesting we should have Fark-style ‘only one post per link’, because that ended up having some, eh, niche blog takes on news articles, since you couldn’t post mainstream articles. But accumulating posts with the same link or same post together would be great.

Okay - that’ll be interesting. There’s not much “the future Addams family” in that collection; there’s quite a lot of creepy-and-kooky, a fair amount of 1940s humour that’s aged really badly (misogyny and foreigners with funny ways) and also a fair amount of stuff that I just don’t understand at all. Will be pleased to see the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ for what’s actually going on in some of them.

Bit of a prototypical Far Side in a way. Addams has a fair amount more technical skill than Larson, but can be a lot meaner in his jokes; they’re very much about an ‘everyday picture with funny caption’ or vice-versa.

Been a while since I’ve had to use that piece-of-shit in anger; but doesn’t the “save as” options give you the possibility of saving it as HTML but with all of those changes baked in? It’s easier to copy-paste HTML.

Was about to recommend the same thing; I just couldn’t get anywhere on Silksong with a normal pad, had to set it up for a fight stick to have proper control.

Only got yourself to blame for diagonals with these bad boys:

https://www.8bitdo.com/arcade-controller-transparent-purple/

Of course, 8bitdo’s stuff is awesome, but Steam controllers are awesomer.

I broke my first steam controller, and an old xbox controller, beating the final boss of Sekiro. My replacement is more-or-less a shelf ornament at the moment due to its irreplaceable nature. That old man’s got a lot to answer for.

I will also be at the front of the queue for this. Hesitation is defeat, after all.

My Ryzen 9 had a default boost limit of 90 °C, which caused a lot of stress to the rest of the cooling system in my PC but it didn’t seem to have any problem running like that for a few hours. (Fortunately you can crank it down to something a bit more sensible in the BIOS.) My laptop will spike briefly over 100 °C, but only for a second or two. I can see the ‘failure’ temperature being a bit higher, but 200 °C seems unreasonably hot.

You’ve missed out the “don’t charge devs the Unreal licensing fee for games sold through Epic Store”, which would be another 10% on top of every sale. If they had any sales, of course. But yeah, an extra ten percent of nothing remains nothing, and they all go back to Steam.

I quite liked the graphics, but yeah. Lies of P started at the same price and saw discounts more quickly, and you can currently buy it and its DLC for the same price as Khazan. That’s probably the best soulslike of recent years, rave reviews across the board, and it did sell millions for a small, unknown team. You just have to measure up to that to do the same.

Haven’t played the whole game, but did play the demo when it came out. It’s a good-looking Soulslike with tight controls and a few tweaks to the normal formula. Brutally hard, and a lot of that is because it’s very parry-heavy, with many different kinds of parry. Miss a dodge or get your timing wrong, you’ll be eating shit and restarting again. Surprisingly long demo, did enjoy it.

Do have it wishlisted, but it’s always been at quite a hefty price and haven’t dipped in, yet. Would have been a yes from me at thirty quid and I’d have considered it at forty, but it seems to sit at fifty, and there’s very few games I’d pay that amount for.

Demo came out in the same week as the AI Limit demo, which is a much more traditional Soulsy, and which I bought and had a good time with. There’s a busy market for Souls games, for sure.