As a lifelong gamer and and an almost lifelong enjoyer of the despair of watching humanity defile our one and only home… duh.

Video games are weapons grade copium for smart people.

Oh the delicious irony.

Well, duh. I’ve seen movies, they write with paint brushes, why would they need pens?

After 3 decades in IT let me share some wisdom.

What you describe is not ok, and it’s just letting the company walk all over you because it sounds like nobody had the experience to push back. There should be a senior guy somewhere in that team going “yo this is bullshit, we’re not doing this” and making the company define the criteria so you can say yes or no. Otherwise you just don’t comply, and everyone on the team has to be onboard with that. Gotta have boundaries in this career or they will literally own you and all your free time, and if shit hits the fan, they will scapegoat you in a heartbeat.

They need you more than you need them. Never forget that. There are lots, and lots, and lots of unfilled IT jobs out there.

One single piece from a bowl of Chex Mix? Not sure why’d you sign it though. I’m not even confident Chex Mix existed when dinosaurs were around.

You will know what it is like to feel true emptiness.

I switched from booze to weed and my life got a lot better. Very similar “I would like to escape from the hell that is humanity, ahh that’s better” effect, but without feeling like dogshit in the morning.

Never considered olive oil as an alternative. Although I think drinking a lot of that would lead to the wrong kind of ‘fucked up’.

Let me tell you about the time I ate butterfish.

More accurately, let me tell you about what happened about 3 hours after I ate butterfish.

On second thought, nobody wants to hear the details. It was bad.

Who read their old yearbooks while they’re on the toilet? You’re supposed to read them once every few years when you find them while cleaning out storage to move to a new place, bringing all activity to a halt for an hour or two while you drown in nostalgia. You know, like normal people.

I solve it by paying way too much for a block of static IPs.

What programmer in their right mind uses / instead of -?

I use the delimiter when writing out log files when I want hour or minute in the logfile name. SantaChimneyLog_20241225-0312.txt. Otherwise yeah it just gets left off.

Excellent work.

That’s the whole point of Charity Navigator though, so you can find the few that are worth giving to.

Not to mention those of us that just lived in the wrong country for a while in the 80’s.

They were going to do a page like this for Azure but realized that page would be larger than the rest of Wikipedia.

I was going to praise this guy for beating Weird Al to the punch by 4 years, but the Zoloft and phone jokes give it away as a fake (or at least not from 1995).

Me: “Huh, there’s no Trash option here.”

You ought to edit your comment above because it reads like you’re telling people those things are dangerous.

every hour was amateur hour!

lol, I am stealing this!

Enough said. You have my sympathy.