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Ah, so you, too, grew up poor?

The money is going to disappear soon no matter what I do; might as well do something fun.

My in-laws voted for Trump because they were certain Biden was going to outlaw Catholicism.

Trump was fucking the economy well before COVID. His first-term trade war with China was doing serious damage to several different sectors of US manufacturing, pig and soy farmers, and the price of many durable goods.

The problem is that everybody has the memory of a goldfish.

The only reason to contact the police if something gets stolen is so that you can show the report to your insurance company.

My current phone is a Galaxy S9 from 2018. I bought it used three years ago for less than $100, and it does more than I’d ever need it to.

A decade? I thought it was closer to two decades.

Felt like less racism

To you. I promise you, racism has always been a huge problem.

I used to be a buyer for a manufacturing facility. We’d joke that if something went wrong in production, they would blame the scheduler, the scheduler would blame the buyer, the buyer would blame the supplier, and the supplier would blame our quality team.

As long as you’re not the last on the list, your job is secure.

(Our QA dept had incredibly high turnover.)

So WorldsAway but twenty years later?

Anything in the WAMC listening area is New England. I’ll accept no other opinions.

I just watched Anna and the Apocalypse last night. Christmas/zombie/musical. Very fun little film.

I mean, the guy who perfected drone strikes on American citizens was never going to suggest that.

There was a game a few years ago called ScreenCheat. Four-player splitscreen shooter, and everyone is invisible. So you find your target by looking at their screen to figure out where they are in the level.

The big jumps in spending on that graph started in 2012. Occupy Wallstreet protests were in the autumn of 2011.

I’ve never had a 9-to-5 that was actually 9 to 5. It always starts at 7:30 or 8.

But you guys not buying new phones is reducing productivity by a third of a percent! Think of the potential losses!

It’s blatant price-gouging. Any stock in the store has already been sold to them at an agreed price. They can set a number and make their set margin.

Updating prices after each delivery might make sense (if their procurement department is absolute dogshit at negotiating contracts), but updating prices throughout the day is just someone trying to see how hard they can push their margins to drain every cent out of their customers.

Yeah, I saw that $30k for a car and immediately dismissed everything this person said. I’ve never in my life paid more than $8k for a vehicle.

gameplay didn’t evolve

Massive understatement. The PS5’s biggest titles were remakes and direct sequels. Coupling it with the “upgraded” versions of PS4 games like Ghost of Tsushima, Last of Us Part 2, and GTA5, even the marketing seemed to boil down to “This is just a really nice PS4.”

Yeah, my wife has historically loathed JRPGs in part because the turn-based combat was too dull. She tried Expedition 33, fell in love immediately, and tried to show me the combat system like, “Look! It’s so new and innovative! This is how all those old games should’ve been!”

…So I’m putting Barkley Shut Up & Jam Gaiden on her computer next time she leaves it unattended.