I bought a couple games on epic when they were cheaper. I don’t think I’d do so again.

• the client isn’t as good. It’s slower, the way it paginates your games (I got a lot of free ones) is annoying. It really wants to show you store stuff
• less (zero?) Linux support
• don’t think it does the game recording steam does
• I don’t think it has the remote play together steam does

There’s probably other stuff I’m not thinking of. It’s just not as good a service.

I’d say “how many people have to get hurt before they realize the republicans are dangerous?” but I don’t think anything would teach some people.

Was this aggravated by the trump administration’s cuts to government services?

If this joke was a person, it would be in 2nd grade and know how to read and write.

Democrats need to get more radical. The current system isn’t working for most people, and it’s certainly not working for the environment. Nationalized health care. Public housing. Basic income.

Conservatives will lose their mind, but some of them are assholes that want fascism, so fuck them. And a funny thing about some conservatives is they’ll defend whatever the current state is. They just don’t like change. Once you get something like nationalized health care in, some of the people who are screaming about how it’s the worst idea will scream at anyone trying to change it.

Many people have said they voted for trump because he’s “a change” or "something different’. Yes, it’s a little stupid to be like “i’m tired of eating gruel, i’m going to change it up by eating rusty nails”, but that’s people. Offer a change and get them.

But I think there’s too much rich people influence in our politics and media for that to easily get off the ground.

Anyone entering through web development. If you’re self taught or did a “coding boot camp”, it might be the only language you’ve used. A lot of places use it for backend stuff now, too

I think my cat chews on plastic because he knows I’ll come running out and interact with him. I’m like, you could just meow. If you meow I’ll come, too. He is old and set in his ways.

The right wing doesn’t care about hypocrisy. The only thing that matters is “is this good for me right now?”.

Pointing out hypocrisy to them is as effective as someone saying your geometric proof is invalid because you’re wearing a yellow shirt. It’s just not a part of their worldview or system of values.

. I’m sure there are efficiencies and they need to be enacted but we need to ask why we use the systems we use.

Yes. This is sometimes known as chesterton’s fence

https://theknowledge.io/chestertons-fence-explained/

G.K. Chesterton was an early 20th century English writer known for his clever paradoxes.

He once wrote: “There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: ‘If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.’”

In other words, don’t be so quick to tear down things you don’t understand. That fence may have been put up for a very good reason, even if that reason is not immediately obvious. To ignore that reality risks unintended and potentially negative consequences.

It would be funny if the intended read was LH96 but the viewer saw it upside down

I saw that one too and thought similarly!

I don’t know about “fine”. It has a lot of weird stuff baked in. Hoisting. Unexpected type coercion. Too many ways to loop over something and I always forget which one is which. “There’s more than one way to do it” is kind of a recurring problem, come to think of it. Several function declaration syntaxes. Dot notation AND bracket notation for objects.

Also it will forever bother me that object keys aren’t quoted.

const foo = "hello"; const bar = { foo: "world" }

That should be, in my mind, { "hello": "world" } . It’s not. It’s { "foo": "world" }

But if you want to do that, you need to do const bar = { [foo]: world }. Which looks like your key is an array with one entry, a string with a value of “foo”

You also end up learning a whole framework, with its syntax and idioms, every couple years. Angular. React. Redux. Whatever.

There’s also a lot of people who have never used anything else, and want to use javascript for everything.

Javascript is basically D&D. Wildly popular. Full of legacy jank. People try to use it for anything even though there are better or more specialized tools.

If they had to pay people for interviews they’d probably be a lot snappier about the process.

Like, sure, I’ll do nine hours of interviews if you’re paying me $100/hr.

I mean, we live in a hellscape. Even if they had given him a start date, they can still fire him at any point for no reason. Labor has almost no protections (in the US, at least). It would be only slightly less bad to accept the new job, take it, quit the old job, and then get fired.

I’d rather we have like basic income, free health care, and public housing, so people don’t need to worry about dying because some capitalist is willing to hire them.

Seems like Starbucks is wasting time with this dress code. Good on the union for fighting back.

You can always count on republicans to have a bad idea

The stories about that dude are so good. The sheer pigheadedness of some players. Like the guy who spent like 8 hours fighting that boss instead of just walking around. he eventually won, to his credit.

I gave up after a couple tries on my first dude, but when Margit kept kicking my ass I restarted as a sorcerer. Killed both of them with the trusty pew-pew magic pebble.

Zuckerberg is garbage and shouldn’t be allowed to keep living with his tremendous, ill-gotten, wealth.

It can be accurate or biting satire, but I didn’t enjoy it. It’s a long game to spend so much time annoyed at a main character.

I didn’t finish gta5 because there’s a lot of just driving around doing nothing. And then the missions are very restrictive - you pretty much do exactly what it says or you go back to the checkpoint.

I’d rather they were more like Deus Ex or Dishonored (I think those are called immersive Sims now?).

Also Trevor is just unpleasant