Matthew Varley

Just in time for the holidays. It's when Rudolph shines so bright.

I see the wrong lesson was learned from the rubber band incident

That was the era of gamergate and sad puppies, so it is unfortunately a pretty straight line.

Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it

comic strip at the other end of the link, click it!

10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development

www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...

I would like it if Microsoft had a commerical that explained how to turn their new AI off. Stop bothering me.

Doink!

They're the ultimate distillation of everything toxic in PvP shooters?

Type, number, and age cohort of challenged ballots from Seattle

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Officials urge WA voters to use drop boxes for Nov. 4 election Some Washington counties noticed during the August primary that ballots weren’t always postmarked the same day carriers picked them up.

An interesting quirk of this election is that we were actively warned away from mailing in our ballots by the elections department because of USPS procedural changes & the shutdown. So the day-of dropbox % is *way* higher. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Had two cuts for a knee repair. Not even two years later and you can't tell at all, not even the faintest hint of a scar. It's wild.

Watching him get more conservative while the rest of the league became very aggressive has been fascinating. He used to go for 2 all the time in the early 2010s, now he's the king of surrender punts.

I don't understand why the signs don't mention the next major station. The highway signs for I-90E don't say Boston despite that being the terminus. I've had so many people ask me which side was the right one to get downtown or to the airport.

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

It's been a weird game.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

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Yeah, but it's for tuning your Discovery feed. bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Sound Transit has had portals this entire time? They're really holding out on us.

I'm trying to think of what this could mean, and I'm only arriving at adding dailys and a premium cosmetics shop.

Hey, if you skip that $5 treat you get once a week, you could afford the 20% downpayment on a $800k starter home in *does math* 615 years!

Enron's fraud was keeping negatives off the balance sheets through arrangements with third parties to only technically change the owner of those negatives while the negatives were also sold as financial instruments by the third party.

Which sounds a heck of a lot like what's going on here.

What's the difference between this and what Enron did?

The whole "oh, but lootboxes ARE okay?" rejoinder to literally any criticism of gacha mechanics falls flat for me because, well, no, I don't play games with lootboxes either. Or daily limits, premium currencies, season passes, blindbox cosmetics, pay-to-win bullshit, or in-app purchases of any kind.

Anywhere in the NFC East. Each would be funny for its own reason.

Depends on which culture. Japanese curry is a don't mix. The rest? Either mix or over rice.

Rampage

Winning a playoff game would be nice. Tomlin hasn't done that since the Obama administration.

I think it's execs trying to wish the next hero shooter/battle royale wave into existence so they can be the next Fortnite.

We could always use the ones that have been abandoned all around the Fremont brewery.

Maltagliati. It's just floppy bits that don't hold shape or sauce.