Sounds like Laszlo to me.

Missed a real opportunity to use the Spongebob “X Hours Later” screen in the middle.

Not now anyway, now it’s just laying in wait.

Every company does this, they put out a trial balloon, see how badly it tests, and then just wait for the right time when nobody notices. Usually during real crises in the world.

He let his dreams take hold!

Blame Harry Tuttle

Nevermind me, Brazil is just my favorite Jonathan Pryce film (and favorite Gilliam film), with his role in Adventures of Baron Munchausen coming a close second.

Hail to the king, baby.

Ash Williams > Duke Nukem

…Necktie!? Nectar!? Nickel!?

A printout with this photo and text taped to the Library front door:

THIS PERSON HAS BEEN BANNED FROM OUR ESTABLISHMENT FOR SPEAKING LATIN IN FRONT OF THE BOOKS. IF YOU SEE THEM PLEASE CALL THE APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES.

Sauceman’s!

Someone ate the onion.

What a fucking pussy.

EDIT: To expand a little -

He literally has international users in chat talking about how free trials aren’t available to them or that services literally aren’t available in their country or its going to be released there months later or what have you and this fucking corporate dick sucking idiot is just like “bUt YoU hAvE tO PaY bC tHe SuItS mIgHt bE wAtChInG!” totally not because he is personally interested in profiting handsomely (and trying to create a career other than being a loser on the internet) from a project he stars in. It’s entirely selfishly motivated. He’s a pussy and a self interested prick.

The number of people who don’t realize that half the time Valve has done anything pro-consumer is because they were forced to do so to comply with laws is too damn high. They’re definitely not doing most of it out of the kindness of their hearts.

Valve did it first, but to be fair, they had a slightly wider net of just King County courts in general.

I fucking hate Musk, but its interesting to compare and contrast the responses here:

Valve: So amazing and pro-consumer, they got rid of forced arbitration!

Xitter: Is this even legal??

I mean, what Musk is doing is arguably much more insidious because his company isn’t actually in that courts district, while Valve is firmly in King County (Bellevue). Still, curious to see such strongly different responses.

Personally, I think both of these perspectives have truth to them but neither is the whole story.

True, there are tech savvy people in every generation, and the majority of each generation isn’t necessarily tech savvy.

But it’s also true that the tech savvy people today are growing up in a world where technology has been obfuscated and simplified whereas formerly tech savvy people didn’t have a choice but to learn the ropes to be involved at all, which meant there was more need for Millennial tech savvy people to understand the basics, while there is no such equivalent need for Gen Z.

I agree, I think many are overselling the impact of that, but it has an impact nonetheless, however small.

I know this is true or I wouldn’t have such trouble explaining to crypto (specifically NFT) enthusiasts why counting bits matters and how there is limited “space” inside an NFT for nothing but a simple URL. If you grew up in the 80’s or 90’s and were learning ANY amount of networking, counting bits for subnets in IPv4 was pretty much a requirement. Now a lot of networking is obfuscated and automated with IPv6, which is finally coming into its own, and a side effect is that understanding these limitations of the technology has flown out the window for buzzwords like “smart contracts.”

Hats off for our poor German friends. It’s definitely not easy over there, but if you do the private torrent tracker + VPN combo, you can be relatively safe.

Rightsholders have seeders sitting in public torrents to grab IPs to sue about. Private trackers are essentially a “club” that only invites known users, (friends of friends) and as such, fewer (not zero) rightsholders are able to join, and as such, fewer instances of being referred to a lawfirm simply because there isn’t anyone in the swarm who is a rightsholder who only wants your IP… because they don’t invite those kind of people most of the time.

Rightsholders like how hanging fruit like public torrents. Private trackers help take a lot of the stress away.

However, I don’t know how it works in Germany so maybe rightsholders over there are more zealous.

This is a better template, and that’s a Rock Fact!

It gives me wonderful feelings, it’s X basically admitting that they’re dead in the water.

Try telling that to the guys trying to regrow their foreskin with pullies and weights.

You just can’t see the Matrix bruh. Git good like Neo.

Mmmm, I can taste the rainbow titanium dioxide!

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