Correction: use present perfect. You’re not witnessing it, you have witnessed it. The “Why didn’t the Germans do something about the nazis?” phase ended in November of 2024.

Something needs to fill the gaping hole left behind after Concord’s death.

Better not look at the microcode running on your CPU at a higher privilege level than the kernel, then.

Today they’d be chanting “Not My Jesus” while holding upside-down Bibles or something.

That line was stolen from Shakespeare too.

It gets fast-paced and exciting when the boss has An Idea on a Friday afternoon that must be completed before the end of the week.

I’d take a confessional booth over an open office floor.

Realistically, is that a factor for a Microsoft-sized company, though? I’d be shocked if they only had a single layer of redundancy. Whatever they store is probably replicated between high-availability hosts and datacenters several times, to the point where losing an entire RAID array (or whatever media redundancy scheme they use) is just a small inconvenience.

This is not meant for human beings. A creature that needs over 140 TB of storage in a single device can definitely afford to run them in some distributed redundancy scheme with hot swaps and just shred failed units. We know they’re not worried about being wasteful.

“You are absolutely right, ma’am. I understand why my spilling your drink in your lap has caused you some distress, and I truly sympathize with your son’s concussion from the blunt impact caused by my reckless flailing to fix my previous mistake. Please listen to this advertisement while another attendant comes to assist you.”

Standing here, I’m standing here…

Ever heard of shotgun marriages?

Hide it in a poem in a leather bound book at the end of a trap-filled dungeon.

My hypothesis:

• Someone in Epstein’s circle had to be the IT guy.
• That IT guy wanted to have the Bash documentation locally (which is sensible, I do too).
• A discovery subpoena might request “all documents referencing (something)”, which boils down to an extremely loose string search, and the documents’ relevance to the case are determined later.
• The Bash documentation was caught by the algorithm because it contained some word they were searching for.

For all we know, the lawyers might’ve been looking for the word “child” and the algorithm found “child processes”.

Hbomberguy sighs as he adds another 30 minutes of runtime to his next video.

Something about child processes, maybe?

The lesson should have been learned when Lawbreakers died: you can’t release a game that is just “good” into a saturated ecosystem and expect it to succeed. When a game has to compete with six others in the same genre, especially deeply enfranchised titles like Apex or Forkknife, it must be exceptional. Highguard falls well short of that. It’s the most average, design-by-committee, risk-averse, trend chasing, white bread, picket fence product I’ve played in a long time. It’s a glass of lukewarm tap water. It’s unsalted butter on toast. And that’s before Keighley and studio management fucked up its marketing.

If a game has to fail in order for some management type to finally engage that lump of tapioca pudding inside their cranium and let the game system designers create a better game, I won’t shed a tear for it. And if this is what the studio made up of alleged “industry veterans” can achieve, I won’t shed a tear for it either. We need better games, not more of them.

Isn’t that the Hillary Clinton wax statue that had to be turned into a pumpkin on short notice?

For context: the artist drew this on a smartphone due to a power outage, and it was not a smooth experience.

Dead Space 1 remaster. I categorically refuse to give any money to EA (even before the Saudi buyout), and that’s their only game I’m even remotely interested in that isn’t available through alternative channels.