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Cake day: January 1st, 2024

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  • Anecdotal, but I’ve never once had a problem with any function of Firefox in the decade I’ve been using it. On the contrary it’s been the most stable browser I’ve had the pleasure of using, orders of magnitude more reliable in all situations than Chrome or Opera ever was.

    This post smells of astroturfing. There’s been an awful lot of “why is Firefox so shit?” posts recently, now that Google is proving itself untrustable.



  • Being cute to humans was an evolutionary advantage. That’s the look of a shrewd and calculating hunter. Cats have domesticated humans, not the other way around, they still pretty much do their own thing and are largely resistant to training, but we still keep them around and feed them because we think they’re adorable little derps. Meanwhile they’re in the back yard demolishing the local bird population.







  • Most of the EA games I buy (not all, but a significant majority) are sold for less, sometimes a lot less, than their final sale price, and I get tangible input on the design decisions before 1.0. I’m a big fan. I get to provide funding and feedback to a game I’m excited to see, get it for a good discount, get to see it grow up, and then when it blows up and everyone loves the game I’m considered a source of arcane ancient knowledge about it. It’s fun.

    Mostly I enjoy being able to go on a game forum and say “this sucks, we should consider changing A to B” and then logging in next week to find B implemented.





  • Ah, yes. “Interpretation”, of a thousands-year-old text, originally written by men to control other men, in Hebrew and translated at least three times in sequence before reaching even the predecessor of the popular King James Bible, then the apostles wrote the whole New Testament at minimum 50 years after all the alleged events contained within and possibly up to a couple hundred years later, then the whole thing was gutted, reordered and rewritten by old King James himself, then it was passed through the grubby mitts of between 10 and 30 generations of southern baptist-esque preacher before finally reaching the ears of the modern avid churchgoer.

    If you think a single word in that book still holds the original meaning that it was written with, and more so if you think any part of that book is a factual account of events, I have several bridges to sell you. If not even that is enough to spark a little bit of self reflection, I invite you to investigate the Mormons and see what happens when religious ““interpretation”” is allowed to run free without restraint.