Don’t forget the rolling view counter and the guestbook!

I loved how they handled the concept of a feminine hero in the sequel.

Ripley is the hero, but there’s also Vasquez - the badass marine. Vasquez is what so many people tried to do to make women heroic in action films.

She’s just an action hero that happens to be a woman. And she’s great. But her character isn’t classically “feminine.”

Meanwhile Ripley is all woman. Her iconic badass moment (“Get away from her you bitch!”) is the action climax of the film, and its also when she’s being her most feminine. Her heroism didn’t carry an asterisk saying she’s a badass despite her sex.

She’s not sexy, not vulnerable, not emulating a stereotypical man’s role in combat. She’s all-woman and all-badass.

My Dad was a firefighter fpr 35 years, and his go-to line when someone wanted help gettong a cat down was, “Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree?”

I hold a weekly project review/coordination meeting via Teams where we discuss all our project statuses, due dates, etc with the relevant team members, make new assignments, etc. And while our new offices are being built I’m exiled to the conference room instead of my desk so that my talking doesn’t annoy people who aren’t in the meeting.

Everything is being tracked on a spreadsheet, and I’m sharing my screen while updating everything and I’m having to live-type in front of 20 people and my shitty laptop keyboard.

It’s the worst.

I wonder if this font would screw up ocr?

By that you mean some people run over to him, escort him away, and nobody ever saw him again or learned his identity?

I dread calls at work more than anything in life.

Just send a fucking email.

Looten Plunder is President of the United States.

My downloads folder is a fucking mess and I’d absolutely do that.

Our implosion isn’t so slow these days.

Kings off-topic, but after listening to the audio book I really want a World War Z miniseries in the style of a Ken Burns documentary.

Lots of things like grey hair, moving more slowly, injuries that I would have bounced away from before instead hurting for weeks or months.

But the one that hit hardest was a breakup I had a little while back. She was the love of my life and I fully intended to marry her, and when she ended it out of nowhere I was sad, but fine. She dumped me, and it sucked, but I also needed to finish a staff report for a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting that night. So I moved on.

The thing that upset me most was that I wasn’t that upset. There was a time in my life when I would have been a mess. But as I’ve aged, my emotions have become more regulated.

I miss being capable of that level of joy and pain.

Don’t forget getting the interview.

I’ve got the right column on lock. I’ve never had an interview that wasn’t followed by an offer. But I was still stuck in a dead-end job for years trying to get an interview.

Once I finally got an interview adjacent to my field, I was promoted within 6 months, then poached by another organization a year after that and had quadrupled my income in under 2 years.

But it took forever to get that process started.

A drink that tastes like melted churro ice cream.

There’s a point in the third game that determines the fate of 2 different species that can play out very differently based upon actions you’ve made across the series. And the “best” version depends on your completing the loyalty quests of multiple characters in ME2 before a certain trigger point.

Mass Effect trilogy.

And without the fake frame bullshit they’re using to pad their numbers, its capabilities scale linearly with the 4090. The 5090 just has more cores, Ram, and power.

If the 4000-series had had cards with the memory and core count of the 5090, they’d be just as good as the 50-series.

Directly from the comment I’m addressing:

Georgia, though not anywhere close to Ukrainian nazi vermin, was preventing regions seeking autonomy that needed Russian assistance. Still, pig fuckers aspiring to NATO government…"

Read the latest comment from that guy down the thread when the mask falls completely off. It’s a real piece of work, calling Ukrainians vermin and Georgians pig-fuckers.

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