It’s time to make some bruises, it’s time to make some welts. It’s time to get things started as I’m taking off my belt.

This isn’t “providing and opportunity”. This is exploitation. Full stop.

And yet: “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”

That has never sat well with me. It suggests that God leads the sinful into sin, and capriciously decides whether to deliver or condemn.

For some perspective, the Oracle games are unpopular in terms of Zelda games. Zelda is one of the most widely popular video game franchises in history, though. So an unpopular Zelda game is still much more well known and well received than something more obscure.

The Oracles are some of the best selling and most well regarded GBC games in the system’s library, though they are overshadowed by Link’s Awakening DX and the glut of Pokémon games the Game Boy Color had on offer.

Agreed. I am known to hum it when playing board games with friends.

I already did full backups of both cards and moved the games over to a 200gb Lexar card, along with my own ROM archives. The one thing I have found a consensus on with these systems is that the default cards are garbage.

So what makes ArkOS better? I’m looking into trying this.

What? Is this meant to be ironic or something? They’re two of the most popular GBC games.

Had a woodshop teacher steal my dad’s hat exactly like this.

Great selection

Came here to suggest this.

Yeah, some elements of Snow Crash have definitely not aged well. The pervy sex scenes with the underaged girl have definitely outlived their welcome. Stephenson has certainly come a long way as a writer since he wrote this.

I really need to read the Expanse series! I loved the show, and I’ve heard the books are significantly better.

If you’re gonna check out Gibson’s Neuromancer, maybe check out Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. Both are foundational cyberpunk.

Edit: Also, Project Hail Mary is one of my favorite novels. Can’t gush enough about that one. Reminded me a lot of Greg Bear’s Eon.

Consuela if she’s Latina.

Release them both. Unlike the sycophants choking on Trumpler’s dick, I’m quite able to declare anyone who perpetrates a hate-fueled crime as scum undeserving of pity or dignity.

The issue folks like you don’t want to confront is that for every Aiden Hale, there are hundreds of right-wing assholes shooting up gay clubs, synagogues, and entire Black communities. Take your whataboutism someplace where folks are stupid enough to mistake it for any kind of substantive argument.

Data is beautiful. And fully functional.

You assume that the majority of them live there by choice, and not because they lack the resources and opportunities to move. It’s kinda hard to pull up roots and move half way across the country when the economic and political realities of where you currently live force you to remain firmly entrenched in poverty with deliberately restricted access to any means to improve that situation.

By your logic, black people must love prison, too, because they represent a disproportionate percentage of the prison population. I’m sure it has nothing at all to do with disproportionate enforcement against them, right?

Depends. I’m dead serious when I ask this, but are you black, Latino, a woman, queer, Jewish or Muslim, trans or non-binary, liberal or any flavor of politics to the left of Right wing authoritarian fascist, or any combination of those groups? If so, then stay the hell out of any state south of Virginia and east of Illinois. They aren’t just bad. They are potentially deadly, increasingly as a matter or literal public policy. If you aren’t one of those groups, than you aren’t in physical existential danger. You’ll just be stuck in a nightmare hellhole of poverty and ignorance. But you’ll be safe. Mostly.

Honestly, I’ve been everywhere in the continental US. Been to every state, seen just about all there is to see driving over the road for fifteen years, and I can tell you that the southeast is damn near a third world country compared to everywhere else. The infrastructure is so bad it reminds me of when I stayed in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1993. And it’s only gotten worse. I have no desire to ever return now that I’m not required to for my job. Florida used to be the one shining exception, except now it’s embracing a return to 1930s Germany. Stay out of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas in particular.

I do love me some Gunpla, but I wasn’t thrilled about the computing equivalent of having to sand, glue, assemble, and paint a Master Grade kit every time my distro upgraded and everything inevitably broke. Granted, a lot of that boils down to matching the right DE for your distro, and I liked to try to make KDE fit where it wasn’t necessarily the best option. Eventually, I learned to enjoy GNOME, but then started messing with distros that weren’t a good fit with that. The freedom Linux offers is both its greatest asset, and biggest weakness. It can make just setting up a basic, decent-looking desktop environment feel like you need IT classes just to know what the heck you’re supposed to do to get things working the way Windows and MacOS do right out of the box.

It’s excellent when it works. But a frustrating, often times deliberately obtuse mess when it doesn’t.

It’s DDOS. The admins for World have explicitly said so, and even said exactly how the attacks have been perpetrated by exploiting calls that require a lot of processing time to overload the server.