How dare they raise you and then spend their own money?!

30 thousand people used to live here.

Now it’s a ghost town.

Is there though? I’ve never been unable to buy an Any Time ticket on the day because a train is full.

I’ve only been unable to board a train a handful of times, and that was because people were rammed in like the Black Hole of Calcutta before the train even arrived.

Having used plenty of EMR services before I’m counting down the days until they’re renationalised…

Maintaining old code is the real drawback. Surely nobody finds that fun.

COBOL is just the turd on the shit cake.

Having dealt with a few it seems nobody really cares about specs and just implements something that returns a token.

The result is you end up doing a load of work every single time and none of that can be used for anyone else’s implementation.

I get the idea of oauth, but the implementations needed a whole lot less wiggle room, because it turns out when you’re a massive corporation every other poor bastard just has to adapt to your nonsense.

If your game relies on your servers, I won’t buy your game.

That was only in the Super FX cartridges wasn’t it? Is mode 7 really 3D, or just rotating and scaling of a single background layer?

Are our modern GPUs just mode 7 run millions of times on a much smaller scale…

If it has 3D hardware it ain’t retro.

What makes money is recognition.

Sequels are one way to do that. Another is a big name actor. Another is a big name director. What was the last thing you watched that fulfilled none of those?

Mine is probably Oddity, and I watched it on Jellyfin. It’s honestly tricky to find things like that that aren’t £2 DVD bargain bin trash from the depths of Netflix.

I enjoyed it. Very Cronenberg-esque.

Gonna guess like late 40s.

Pretty sure that’s not how they describe you.

In other news I’m considering a career as a Living Statue…

As if the truck nuts weren’t a clue.

Man, and I thought Pokemon was complicated.

Yeah, sometimes. I think Win11 fucks with scroll bars so they might be a line there.

Watching somebody scroll to the bottom of a very long list by clicking the arrow button under the scrollbar is my idea of hell.

This but sort of unironically.

Those 100 companies dig up coal, oil and gas. It’s us that apparently can’t break ourselves from it.

It’s all very well us going out and going “oh, you little poor brown people that don’t know any better: you shouldn’t be using this stuff, it’s killing the planet” when we’ve spent 150 years enriching ourselves off the back of it, and can’t even stop using it ourselves. The USA’s main export and import is still oil.

We’re completely fucked, and it’s very convenient blaming China when we’ve moved all our manufacturing there, but we were all responsible and we did precisely fuck all when it mattered. If a political party promised to stop using it all, they wouldn’t get in. We wouldn’t vote for them because we know we rely on it and costs of everything would go up in the short term.

I’m all for getting rid of fossil fuels, but I’m acutely aware that it’s just so I can breathe slightly cleaner air while the planet boils. Globally we’re still fucked.

The “source control” when I first started was all the code on a shared drive, to check out a file you copied it to your machine, and renamed the extension on the shared drive to your initials.

When somebody edited without doing this there would be full blown meltdowns over lost work.

Those are rookie numbers. I have at least a 35k one somewhere. More than one actually.

People run their businesses on this.