I don't remember what we had in elementary school, but I remember the monitor had a "color" button. It worked if the program you were running was setup for it. I remember there were a few things like "Odell Lake" and "Number Munchers" - but if you turned the color button on when using the word processor, it would turn all of your text into unicorn vomit rainbow patterns. It was awesome.
Is there a way to this with like a MAC address instead of an IP? Allowing specific devices (my parents have a Firestick that they travel with) would be pretty ideal.
I'll probably be hung for this one but Disco Elysium.
And the thing is. I like text heavy decision-based games. Like I could go on and on about Shadowrun Dragonfall. But Disco Elysium was just so drab. It just felt like a slog of memorization, and when I gave up on trying to do that I was like "okay, I'll just play and do whatever I feel like" the game punished me. Maybe people like that? I don't know... Like... Maybe I like games for escapism? So playing some peice of shit alcoholic didn't do it for me? It just felt like a depressing version of a good game. People kept telling me "you just need to keep playing it gets so good". At like 6 hours in when it's not good yet, you failed at good story telling and you failed at good game development. To each their own I guess.
Also warehouses. Also houses. Also literally any structure that already exists that isn't nature. If it is an energy consuming building, it should have solar panels on it. Parking lots count because cars are energy consuming devices.
If any of the billionaires actually cared about the planet or the human race, they would just dump money at a huge loss into making solar panels cost pennies.
I want solar panel Venetian blinds on my windows. The entire exterior of my car should be solar panels. Every roof everywhere should be solar panels.
I want the to see so much money poured into it that for $35 I could get a t-shirt with a USBC port that charges my fucking phone when I'm out in the sun.
But that doesnt make money. I guess the lives of a few hundred assholes is more important than making some super awesome shit that benefits everybody.
Ugh. My friends and I recently played through "V Rising" . It's a good game. It's like Valheim meets Diablo but you're vampires.. Because of our busy adult lives we played together once a week for usually 2-3 hours. It's took us damn near a year to get to the final boss, and it was just wipe after wipe after wipe. We weren't making any progress. Like we couldn't get him down past 75% life no matter how hard we tried. We changed our skills and equipment, same thing. We looked up some guides online and they were basically like "git good"
We never beat him, because we didn't want to waste any more of our limited adult gaming time just getting crushed by a boss for hours.
It was such a slap in the face because nothing else in the game was that difficult. There were some tough bosses that took us down maybe 3 or 4 times. But this was just hours of getting wrecked without even getting close to winning. It was truly a morale blow.
Sigh... We switched to a different game, and I guess we will just never finish that one.
I used to work IT in a hospital, and you would be surprised how many medical devices still run Windows 7 or even XP. Offline devices, of course. And behind locked doors. But stuff for scopes etc.
The most recent one followed the anti-soda and anti-sugar trend. Hard Seltzer, as far as the eye can see. I feel like it's on the way out though. What will they think of next!?
I love to shit on middle management as much as anybody else, but good managers are great. My manager worked his way up as a systems architect. He's incredibly smart, very friendly, and always has my back.
What getting rid of middle management does is build a solid wall between the workers and the upper class. There's no corporate ladder to climb. If you start at the bottom, you stay at the bottom. The people on top hire their buddies and other people in their class. This is like a drone strike on the shrinking middle class.
I do the same, but I have different colors. Like I have the same tshirt in 12 different colors. The same shorts in 5 different colors. The same shoes in 5 different colors. Etc etc. I usually just grab what's on the top, but occasionally have to grab the next thing if it's too mono-color.
My current account is 17 years, but my long lost original account would have been 22 now. When I first made it was like "What is this bullshit? Why do I need to sign up for some crap just to browse servers for Counter Strike? And it's running extra programs taking up precious system resources? This is just shittier Gamespy, and Gamespy isn't even a thing anymore, there's no way this will last"
I made an account begrudgingly and hooked it up to a "junk email" account that got lost somewhere in time.
Eventually Steam started selling games and linking them to your account and suddenly the value of the platform was apparent.
Hindsight is 20/20. Really wish I had that "22 Year" badge.
I don't remember what we had in elementary school, but I remember the monitor had a "color" button. It worked if the program you were running was setup for it. I remember there were a few things like "Odell Lake" and "Number Munchers" - but if you turned the color button on when using the word processor, it would turn all of your text into unicorn vomit rainbow patterns. It was awesome.