I’ve been snapping up DVDs of every film I care about over the last five years. Especially the holiday films since you know they’re going to hold those hostage.

Don’t let this guy watch Kangaroo Jack.

I mean there’s an entire category of animated porn involving impossibly large women.

See also: Skittles

I enjoy the joke that most mad scientists are really just mad engineers.

I think it’s really interesting to compare old iPhone ads with current smartphone ads.

iPhone in 2008: You can check the weather, get directions, take photos.

Phone in 2024: If you point your phone at a sign, it’ll google stuff about what it sees on the sign. Also, your iPhone will literally leave your hand and fly its way to the Verizon store to replace itself with an iPhone 16 because that’s all we got.

Great recs!

Played Stanley, Inside, Limbo, Everything (by David Oreilly?)

I’ll have to check out the rest!

Picked up Journey off Steam. Been meaning to check that out for a decade or so.

Ok but something that’s really bothered me about A Quiet Place (besides the writing being god awful).

When she’s giving birth in the bathtub, the lights start flickering. They provide no explanation for why the lights are flickering. It’s legit just a scary movie trope in-action.

Aw is that canon? I liked how they didn’t explain it in the show.

At my last job, every time they added or removed someone’s key card access, the system would reboot and everyone would be locked out for like two minutes.

We also had two floors that were connected by a fire stairwell, so you needed a card to re-enter the next floor.

At least twice my card stopped working in the middle of the word day while I was standing in the stairwell and I assumed that they just fired me and assumed I’d see my own way out.

Survived three layoffs at that company.

Yeah, it was a budget portable device released in 1995 running a processor from 1984. I think it was just written in straight assembly. I’ve even found some unreachable code snippets in the assembly that print debug messages which confirm that theory.

Thanks for the response!

I think the issue is that the “structured programming equivalent” is just a really, really long function that’s not any easier to read.

Has anyone in this family even seen a chicken?

Yeah, I’m working on that part. It’s just messy because a lot of portions of the code can’t be confined to functions. There’s a lot of GOTO equivalents.

Came in here for this

He must have been waiting for me to buy a copy.

What’s wrong with other sweeteners?

Meanwhile Disney is sitting on The Black Hole like “won’t somebody sue us?”

Yeah I think they needed horsepower to run some sophisticated models in Matlab, and Apple had a killer educational discount.