Let us join together in irritation.

The 90’s were even more lead-addled than that. You remember these things:

Barrel jacks and plugs. Typically used for DC power, and that’s all I can reliably say. The socket had an inner pin and and outer ring that engaged with the inner and outer surfaces of the plug. Which was positive and which was negative? BOTH! A given power brick or device could be wired either way, which is why most of them had one of these diagrams printed on them somewhere:

There was no attempt at standardizing sizes or lengths for different polarities or voltages. It was entirely possible you could own a 12V center positive power brick that would plug straight into a 6V center negative device. If you were lucky, the device had reverse current protection, maybe a self-resetting fuse. Some didn’t. Or, somehow worse, you’d find a brick with the right voltage and polarity that wouldn’t physically fit.

So the current state of USB-C charging is considerably less lead-brained than what I grew up with.

The relevant part of a long rant I once did was, a USB cable that does everything a USB-C to C cable can do has like 19 wires in it, it’s thick, stiff, and expensive. It wouldn’t make those sharp turns from the wall wart up to the night stand for charging your phone. Which is why a lot of the USB-C cables on the market carry USB 2.0 signals. A lot of the population has never used a USB cable to transfer data, it’s a power standard to them.

And manufacturers don’t do a great job of expressing in listings or on the product itself what a cable is capable of. The charging cable that came with my Galaxy phone and the CableMatters 10Gbit/s cable look interchangeable in every way except girth; there’s no markings on the CableMatters cable as to max rated bandwidth or thunderbolt capacity or power throughput. But it’s got their logo on it twice.

Funnily enough, it was filmed in front of a live audience, and it is canned laughter. In the edit, they often replaced the audience’s genuine reactions with stock laughter for various reasons. For example, when Monica popped out from under the sheets with Chandler, the audience shouted for minutes on end, they trimmed that for broadcast.

OMFG cop procedurals. My parents watched so many of those fucking things that I sarcastically wrote an episode of one. Turns out that Federal Agent With Speaking Role IS Mr. Diddit.

Like…all shareholders?

Why shouldn’t anyone with an investment in a corporation be culpable for any criminal behavior of the company they’ve invested in? That’s a step or two away from “I didn’t rape and murder that little girl, my LLC did.”

Something something Unix Philosophy. Write small programs that do one thing and do it well and then re-use that well tested code as often as you can rather than poorly re-implementing it over and over?

You mean Eastern Spain? Where they speak Brazilian?

It’s my understanding that the decision to not localize SMB2 for the West was made at Nintendo of America. SMB2 isn’t merely hard, it’s unfair. They put invisible hazards in the way, warp pipes now take you back instead of forward, some of the mushrooms are poisonous now. SMB1 is beginner and child friendly, SMB2 is for serious enthusiasts. The West found a taste for that, but it kinda took Twitch streaming to explain to gamers what they’re in for. Nintendo wouldn’t have gotten any points for tricking hundreds of thousands of parents into handing a Kaizo ROMhack to all the little Joshuas and Tiffanys of 1986. So they Doki Doki Panicked.

I think the real insult came not from Nintendo but from Squaresoft. Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest for the SNES was marketed as a simplified, “Entry-level” JRPG, made specifically for Americans, written in English from the start and not translated from Japanese. Simplified combat system, no random encounters, added action elements. Because Americans might not “get it.” It’s not like Japan got the idea for RPGs from imported copies of Ultima and Wizardry, which are themselves based on DnD. Being more charitable, you could see the angle they were coming from: the Japanese do virtually all of their gaming on console, while Americans tend to play more action-oriented games on console and more cerebral games on desktop computers, so they were trying to make an RPG for the American console gamer. Which still failed miserably. After all, Final Fantasy 1 on NES sold well here. So. I don’t know, maybe try not having bad ideas?

Probably got put into a popular example and then everyone uses it because “that’s how.”

Citrus is poisonous to cats, fortunately they hate the smell and will actively avoid citrus. Which is why it’s so strange seeing a cat sitting next to a dozen lemons.

You weren’t there for the Leftpad fiasco, I take it?

Surprised the cat is electing to stay that close to that much citrus.

I would rather saw myself in half from crotch to crown with a muzzle loading musket than go back to college.

She’s had ten songs make it onto the Hot 100 list, and all ten of them were in the top ten. None debuted at #11 or below.

The short version of the story is I was seeing a nurse, then Covid happened and she did the travel nurse thing and I never saw her again.

In fact…remember those 3D printed notebook divider face masks? I had volunteered to make a bunch of those, including one that, one spool ran out so I started another spool so it came out two-colored. Just so happens she was the point of contact between the hospital and the maker community, so she was the one tasked with the “how to correctly use” instructions, and that was the one she wore in the demo pictures. Those are the last pictures I have of her.

Where do they learn this shit?

ALL WOMEN, HEAR ME: The one enemy he will not fight against for you IS YOU. Why would he fight for you if you’re the problem in the first place?

The one video game movie that springs to my mind that is like the video game is Mortal Kombat. Right around then in the early 90’s, the movie industry didn’t even try to understand the games they were movieing, but they did. Compare that to, say, Super Mario Bros.

Kirill Basin sounds like a feeding ground for baleen whales.

There was a guy who robbed a bank like that. He put an ad out in the paper for people to show up to a certain place dressed like construction workers, ostensibly for a flash mob. So he goes into the bank in a yellow shirt and hard hat, robs the bank, and what do the cops find dozens of milling around?