Saad ='(

Me too! I had only scorn for the initial comment, but this response was perfect

I love how the post never mentions the country, but everyone just knows.

I’ve got one of these, and I’m pretty sure I found a subreddit about people like us at some point. There are dozens of us. Dozens!

[Edit] There ya go: https://www.reddit.com/r/PencilStabbers/

Some arcade-y faves of mine:

Gradius V: a classic horizontal scrolling shooter, it gets hard quickly! (This is the game series the Konami code originates from)

Neo Contra: a twin-stick shooter inspired by B-movies, also kinda hard, and incidentally also a series that made the Konami code famous.

The Red Star: a bit obscure I think. It’s a twin-stick with both shooting and melee. I like the girl’s fast melee moves a lot, you need to use combos to juggle your enemies. I think this one got a bad reception because it arrived quite late in the life of the PS2 and was a bit underwhelming graphically.

That’s it, I’m jumping in the nearest warp storm.

It’s fine, it’s probably filled with helium

I see the paintings. This isn’t his first rodeo.

I made the switch a few months ago with a Win backup drive just in case. It sadly saved my bacon on a couple occasions. Still, I (mostly) use Arch, btw.

Relic released the Definitive Edition of Dawn of War last week. It ran with no issues until I started playing with a friend who’s on Windows. Then we encountered frequent game-breaking desync issues specific to Linux/Win crossplay. Not even a week after release, the devs pushed a hotfix for this (among other things).

It’s a good sign that gamedevs have started taking Linux compatibility seriously, and that makes me very happy!

I read the first book, and like OP found the characters bland and the writing boring. I reckon this is due to the way the original is translated into English. The style may be more appealing to a chinese audience. I guess there are cultural differences that transpire in one’s language and prose.

Unlike OP however, I found the story compelling enough to finish the first book. I struggled a lot more with the second one, until my dog did me a favor and decided to shred it to pieces while I was away =D

I did enjoy the Netflix show though, and I’ll happily watch season 2.

Can’t we just, you know, commandeer someone else’s bits?

Those damn big-milkers!

The source of all human misery? Oh man, as if I didn’t feel the pressure enough already…

At the very least spaciesist.

Boss, I can’t make it to work today. There’s a cat on my car.

Well don’t leave us hanging! Did you die?

Woohoo! Bucket list complete!

Could also be the fumes from the batteries burning and all that.

It’s a common misconception that it was even called Ev to begin with. In reality, it used to be named Mt. Eh due to how underwhelming it is.

“Constant average query time” is not that hard to understand. It means that sometimes access time is e.g. linear, and sometimes you get your content before executing the code. With a hash table large enough and full enough, this can be used to fetch content seconds, minutes, days, potentially years before the program even exists. That’s one hell of a breakthrough.

[edit] /s, oops