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The Wipeout games. They got some PS4 VR love…but I’ll always play more. WipeoutXL saved my life in college.

Time to schedule a colonoscopy, eh? :P I would love to play Ultimate 7 again. Or Underworld. Or someday I’ll get 9 working!

I feel attacked.

Man tries to cheat on wife. Fails. (Applies to a sadly large number of movies.)

I'm baffled. Do they just not know what the infant mortality rates were before vaccines? How few children survived? Or do they just not believe them? Or are they just that dumb?

Which countries have deliberately targeted civilians with nuclear weapons? I find it amusing how many people get the answer wrong. And how many get really angry that the answer isn't "Iran".

PE has a lot to answer for.

It’s unbelievably stupid. Which is par for the course for these chuckleheads. Not much the citizenry can do about it on short notice. Other than point out that “Dang, that is stupid, even for Trumpian values of stupid.”

Yes Apple, that’s what I needed to know while I’m watching the game delayed 5 minutes. Popover alerts telling me what is going to happen and ask if I would like to watch the game.

It is staggering to see how hostile society has become to kids. Teens especially. Independence is not tolerated. Being in public isn’t allowed. Being online is being taken away. They have no place to be, and their future is being squandered. Or shot. Rage will come, and justly so.

Amen. Garbage in. Garbage out.

Won’t someone think of the poor benighted soul that was (briefly) a trillionaire? The level of persecution and injustice he has suffered in his life is beyond what any one person should ever have to bear! Have pity on him, and be grateful that you were not born a rich white dude.

Iran is providing a fine example of the Frank Herbert theory of power - he who can destroy a thing, controls a thing. They can destroy shipping through the Straights of Hormuz, therefore they control it. Unless that can be changed, it’s all pointless posturing.

I work across multiple industry domains, and their attitudes to their customers/users can vary a lot. The Silicon Valley/software types have a level of disdain for their users that still surprises me. Telecom looks positively cuddly by comparison.

Thinking of diving into Ursula Le Guin. Tried reading her in my teens and I bounced hard - can’t remember why. Probably because I was young and foolish. Any recommendations on where to start?

5 living writers that I’ve read 5 books by each: Charles Stross Naomi Novik Peter F Hamilton Jasper Fforde Alastair Reynolds

Minor point - When both sides are shooting at each other, a ceasefire is not “strained” or “troubled” or had “doubts cast” on it. Rather, the ceasefire is dead, over, kaput, broken, shuffled off this mortal coil, joined the choir invisible, f$&@ing snuffed it.

It’s a real pity the draw went like it did. We could have had France beating England in Philadelphia on July 4th. As it is, France beating Paraguay in a football match - that Paraguay really wanted to be fist fight - is good enough

Always amusing when the “respect tradition and authority” type people suddenly get very creative when “tradition and authority” doesn’t align with their goals.