Malcador

Well at the time he said that he wasn't wholly wrong

https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/russian-tv-airs-doc-claiming-nazi-loving-ukrainians-are-running-canada-s-government-1.4979924 Volo was on to something...

Whoops, serves me right for just using the back button

Truly the pinnacle of voice acting

Well, if you're going to make a change to the system, you have to design it so that the worst that can happen isn't bad. Not everyone is going to be a philosopher king, after all. Then again

Dialed into a Webex and no one noticed so had a pleasant daily meeting for once. One step closer to total invisibility at work

https://www.businessinsider.com/sicko-mode-kanye-west-reportedly-playing-over-jfks-loud-speakers-2019-1?fbclid=IwAR170OUBAwI8-Qx5KBBm-q9tDKpwO99wOIHnVAT0_TeMbKtC3VdjrIgdHUE TSA agents having some fun, at least.

*snort* Story.

I predict people will hate it, anyway

Well, this is parliamenting. They say when this one fails they will try more, I guess they can try to seduce some Tories or DUP members to defect and cause the government to collapse that way ? Does look like they do have other things in the air https://services.parliament.uk/Bills/?group=date&order=desc

Most of the time anyone spends significant amounts of time deriding people who aren't hard enough, it always seems that they are the kind of "I have 'Can't be Touched' playing on loop in my head' type of paper badasses

What, is it about Jesus' time in Hell, so Gibson can show us more torture and suffering ?

That tool Stirling also commented about it, mercifully was just text so we were spared having to hear him.

Gamers are morons, pretty much.

Shame the reduction of the UK to just England and Wales is unlikely.

China-Canada spat is heating up a tad. Pretty sure the drug smuggler's going to die just due to that. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-blasts-trudeau-remarks-canadian-death-sentence-1.4978443

Reminds me that I never did see Alpha.

Well, you get a can of soup with a 'k' sound. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_C#English

Roberta Williams was probably on to something. Ah right, a source of some kind would be good. https://web.archive.org/web/19991127225719/http://www.gamersdepot.com/interview_roberta_a.htm

And I had thought it was chemtrails.

I actually enjoyed online interactions with random people back when I was still playing online games in 00s. Still remember the dude who totally whooped my and my friend's arse in Dawn of War just to let us live, build back up a bit and lead a war on two fronts against his Necron hordes (we almost got him, but ... Then he got the revive thing for his Necron Lord before it was nerfed. Damn.) 'Spose it might be just me getting old, but cool interactions like that felt increasingly sparse when I was trying to play MP with randos, all the way to me ... Well, not doing that anymore. Oh yeah, there are tonnes of good memories even playing with random people. Just that story makes me crack up when I remember it just for how outlandish it was. But for toxic behaviour, I think it's SSDY, well, at least in MP FPS games. From Quake 2 with people claiming everyone else were hacking homosexuals with prostitute mothers, to CS where I got to hear that (along with nice porn sprays mind you), to DoD with everyone thinking them playing "Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?" over voice chat was witty and so on.

Listening to people rage on Overwatch reminded me of playing Natural Selection back in 2002 or so, some guy raging at me for not giving him the gear he demanded and that culminated in him calling me a "Catholic Jew ****". Memorable for everyone falling silent and one guy asking "How is that an insult, exactly?"

Good to know the Nazgul had a side gig.

Got the tape this was on during a mission, so was a fitting soundtrack while creeping around a coca field gunning down cartel members (and that one lady I blasted with the GP25 by accident).

Was looking up the Heinlein quote about specialization (in Starship Troopers, Rico is told he needs to learn to tailor his own uniform). Came across this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competent_man The Scalzi bit gave me a good laugh.