Ah, I almost forgot it was officially called Max, they kept the brand ‘HBO Max’ here. During the rebrand they found out we already had a public broadcaster called ‘Omroep MAX’, which is often shortened to just MAX in the names of their programs. Trying to claim that name would probably have not gone well for HBO.

Impressive that it was implemented with just Lua and, from what I could see, without completely destroying the framerate.

Fuck it, I don’t seem to have AD(H)D. That’s why I’ve spent the better part of the day recharging so I could pretend to be social in the evening while on vacation with the in-laws and a 2-year old niece. I can’t fucking filter her screams, the noise of having 7 adults around me and I’m so fucking glad of not having kids myself.

Ook getekend. Ik verwacht er niets van, maar in ieder geval is het een signaal dat niet iedere Nederlander achter dit ‘beleid’ staat.

Yeah, FO3 wasn’t perfect, but at least it had its darker edges. Feel like a slaver? Sure, no problem, you can enslave random wastelanders and sell them for profit. Screw over BoS? Broken Steel let you do that, RIP Citadel. The Pitt gave an antagonist with a motive which turned out to be a bit more nuanced than it initially seemed. You could roleplay a fat-shaming, racist PoS if you wanted to, instead of presenting only safe options.

Meanwhile a Bethesda game like Fallout 3 had its fair share of flaws, but gave you plenty of opportunity to decide if you wanted to be the good guy or not. Blow up a town? Kill off all residents of Tenpenny Tower, or whack all the ghouls that want to take up residence? Why not all of them? You decide!

It also wasn’t afraid of locking players out of quests if they behaved like an asshole. I liked that, why would somebody try to work with you after you just gave them the proverbial finger?

Far better than ‘oh golly, you just told me that I’m not a nice person. Well, that’s not very neighbourly of you, but I’ll pay you my life-long savings if you hop over to the next hub and return my package that I conveniently know is collecting dust over there, but can’t be bothered to fetch myself’.

Are you telling me we are filled with an industrial-strength solvent? 😱

Onscreen instructions unclear, pressed Shift+6+X. Still stuck in Nano.

Breaking MacOS is easy, if the fork bomb doesn’t work just create a function which recursively writes files until the disk is full. Unless they fixed it in the past 5 years, at that point even when the OS is set to delete files directly, it will still fail to delete anything. I couldn’t even remove anything with sudo rm -f, that just triggered a ‘not enough space to remove file’ error message.

Found that out the hard way when a program borked itself and filled the entire drive with log files until there was not even a single byte left. Fortunately I had a very small file in the bin, clearing that still worked and those few bytes were enough to be able to perform file deletes again. Never bothered to find out why MacOS behaved that way as I was able to ditch that OS entirely not long after, but perhaps somebody else knows.

A bit outdated, in the Netherlands small plastic drink bottles and aluminum cans are now also part of the deposit system.

The current implementation is terrible though, the collection machines are often a smelly sticky mess due to aluminum cans leaking their contents all over. 🤢

There are at least three rapists in Morrowind, although technically it isn’t really rape when somebody only wants to gently rape your corpse. So let’s keep it at two.

Anyway, it seems they were already toning it down quite a bit in Oblivion if there was only one to be found.

… but that woodwork needs to be done. 😞

But I… am not sure how circumcision would prevent anyone from touching himself, so I am highly sceptical of that claim.

The idea was, if I’m not mistaken, that without foreskin sensitivity & pleasure decreases. So that way there is less ‘risk’ of boys engaging in sexual activities, other than for reproductive purposes.

From what I understand it’s also still the standard in the US. Originally popularised because it would keep boys from fondling themselves which, of course, would make Sky Daddy angry.

But if that’s not the case, I’d happily stand corrected by someone more knowledgeable on this topic.

I know, and the ‘fuck Microsoft’ is completely warranted for that. But shouting that and then coming up with a story where somebody enabled it themselves and subsequently lost their key, that doesn’t make a lot of sense. Unless it was to illustrate the dangers of FDE, but in that case the point could have been made a bit clearer.

But how is that relevant to your ‘Fuck Microsoft’ if he knowingly encrypted his device, which is how you make it sound?

I’ve enabled FDE on one of my Linux devices, I’ve already had to mount the filesystem in a rescue environment once because a failed update caused the system to be unable to boot. I would also have been hosed if I had lost the encryption key. Ok not really, because that’s what backups are for, but you hopefully get the point.

Good point, although admittedly I’ve had my fair share of Wayland-related issues with KDE. Unless you want those few extra FPS in a game or HDR, is there really a noticeable difference from an average user’s perspective?

No, sweet potatoes here are usually about the size of a fist. Length of a forearm? That’s impressive. And way too much, I’d end up chucking most of it away.

Yeah, that’s how it usually goes when I go to the GP. Can’t express myself, mind goes blank or gets tangled in what I want to say. For my ‘I think I might have ADHD’ talk I also wrote down everything on notes, condensed them to a checklist and just worked through that. Really helped in getting a coherent story across.

Alternatively you could use a bodkin to puncture the sidewalls of the tire. A bodkin is a little tool used to make fishing flies.

For a moment I thought you wanted to suggest to go medieval on their asses tires.