Here’s the raw truth, as I understand it. I’m one of the people who has used this phrase. Typically I pull it out when I absolutely lack the ability to explain and verbalize something in a way that the intended audience can understand and accept. Yes, it’s a failing on my part, but also, despite what everyone wants to believe, not everything can be distilled down to a simple easily understandable explanation without losing the message. You’ll probably understand when you get older.

Realistically, it’s not so much a guarantee that you’ll understand the exact nature of what I’m saying when you’re older. It’s more that when you’re older, you’re probably going to be more willing to accept that I have my own perfectly valid reasons, even if I can’t articulate them effectively, that the world is complicated, and sometimes it’s those complicated and difficult to articulate threads that are actually the only things holding everything together. So, when I say you’ll understand when you’re older, I might not mean that in the most literal sense, it’s very likely that I’m speaking more in a metaphorical way.

Oh yeah, Luigi definitely came up as a topic of discussion over the holidays when I was visiting the conservative side of my family. I considered it a win that they at least acknowledged that the legal system and media works differently for the rich and powerful. I mean, common ground is common ground.

Now that you mention it, this is fairly accurate in my social / familial sphere. For a lot of folks it’s more about race than politics, though.

I do the vast majority of my gaming from November through February (i.e. “winter”). Outside of that window, I rarely have time to play, and even when I have time, I usually have other things I’d rather do. I probably have another month or so of my gaming season left. Things just didn’t work out this year.

On the flip side, I managed to get about 45 minutes of down time this afternoon unexpectedly. So I fired up Doom (2016), which is the game I’ve focused on this season. I managed to make it to mission 12 out of 13, so I’m pretty close to the end as far as I can tell! It seems likely I’ll be able to finish it in a matter of days, so long as I can find the time!

Software development. I certainly didn’t coin the phrase, but it’s well-known and I agree, pretty fitting even outside of the IT industry.

In my industry, there’s a saying along the lines of “Good, fast, cheap. Pick two.”

I think the fast food industry version is “Good, fast, cheap? No, no. And believe it or not, also no.”

I don’t eat fast food very often, so this is entirely anecdotal. Of the fast food chains I’ve eaten at in recent history, Taco Bell is by far the worst. Against my better judgment, I even broke down and gave them a second chance at a different location thinking maybe my first terrible experience was a fluke. Didn’t work out. Makes me think it’s bad everywhere. Wendy’s has held up the best of the places I’ve eaten. It’s definitely not cheap anymore, fast depends on the location as well as other factors, and good is relative, but overall it hasn’t gone down hill as bad as the others.

I ain’t playin’ shit. I haven’t had any gaming time in over a week. I’m very, very sad. Perhaps tonight will be the night? Probably not, but one can hope.

Yeah. Only thing is, the “affordable” American made stuff largely consists of crap quality. I made the mistake of insisting on American made stuff when I also didn’t have the budget for premium furniture. I ended up with crappy seating that started breaking in less than a year. The stitching started coming apart in the second year. And by the third year the “genuine” leather was separating and flaking.

They have nothing better to do than store a decade’s worth of password hashes so that every 90 days I have to come up with a completely new password that’s somehow magically different enough from every other password I’ve come up with in the past 10 years and is at least 10 characters from each of the 4 holy categories.

Instead of Canada, we’re going to rename it Canamerica. Instead of Mexico, we’re going to name it Mexigoingtoamerica.

I understand this completely. Sometimes I sing songs but I’ll change the lyrics so that they’re about me and my poor deaf dog.

Is the cute little monster thing eating powdered sugar with his whole face?

You can teach his kid(s) how to catch a fish in return. And then he can teach your kid(s) how to start a fire. And then you can teach his kids a valuable lesson on how the legal system works.

I have a small number of games in my collection that I know for a fact that I have not played them at all. To be fair, 2 of the games are demos, the other is free-to-play IIRC but that’s completely irrelevant.

My actual point is, none of the games in my Steam library that I for sure have never played show “PLAY TIME 0 minutes” nor “LAST PLAYED Never.”

Is this an old UI thing, is that a made up playtime summary, or is the UI different on different platforms?

Turn around, bright eyes.

EGFR and AFATINIB

And I need you now tonight.

And I need you more than ever.

If they did it would be nuts.

Imma pound you cat. Imma schmack you in yo teefs. You gon get starched with yo’ evil ass.

I did not read the article. Nobody does anyway, right? So I figure I’d mention that Nepenthes is a pretty famous genus of carnivorous plant, they are the tropical vining pitcher plants. The more you know. Unless you didn’t read this and weren’t already aware.

A lot of people are saying that the US government banned TikTok, but from what I’m understanding, that’s not really what happened and what’s happening. Or have I misinterpreted things? From what I understand, they were told they had to divest and sell, but they fought that and now are opting to shutdown rather than comply. Is that not the case?

Either way, I’m gonna go all “I walked to school uphill both ways barefoot in a meter of snow” on this and say that my very little experience with TikTok users seems to suggest that its not much more than pure, unadulterated brain rot. So regardless of the fact(s) (i.e. shutdown / banned / etc), there’s maybe the tiniest sliver of a net positive here. Or not. It doesn’t affect me one way or the other and given where this country is politically (as well as where it is headed), I don’t give a rat poopoo.

Neck tie, but I’d love to see it comically long or at least more proportional and realistically sized. Right now it just doesn’t take up enough space, in my opinion.

That being said, if we’re “stuck” with these two options exactly as they are, the bow tie works better because it’s a more fitting size and better proportions. For me, it makes the design a little unbalanced with too much going on above the neck, too little going on below. Coincidentally, if you made it comically small, that might actually work out better, but I’d have to see it before I could be certain. However, that’s a fairly minor drawback.