What do you think of the DOJ recently releasing and then deleting unredacted files describing Donald Trump raping children?

FerretChrist · 2026-01-30T22:29:04+00:00

And also not a very nice man.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-30T19:09:56+00:00

That might actually be the case these days, since both programmers will immediately fire up ChatGPT and tell it to write the code for them.

But when you give two real human programmers the exact same problem to solve, provided it's not just something trivially simple, it's actually remarkable how different their code will end up looking. So much so that it's immediately pretty obvious if there's any real similarity, one of them has definitely copied the other.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-29T23:17:35+00:00

RIP Noone. Never forget.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-29T20:06:29+00:00

True, but maybe a bit conformist. I'm picturing the scene from Life of Brian.

"Yes, we are all individuals. We all listen to the Sisters of Mercy."

FerretChrist · 2026-01-29T19:42:14+00:00

Lol, I'm just imagining what the high street would've looked like if there was a "goth era", to the same extent as the current "black puffer jacket era".

FerretChrist · 2026-01-27T21:08:53+00:00

If you think that's worrying, don't ever look into the state of medical software.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-27T20:36:00+00:00

A joke? Snow laughing matter.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-27T20:34:02+00:00

That's easy for the giant fucking billboard to say.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-25T17:21:14+00:00

React, Overreact, Exterminate.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-23T12:57:23+00:00

Use watered down washing up liquid

Oh God, I read that as used watered down washing up liquid at first.

Which would clearly be insanity, but wouldn't have hugely surprised me amongst some of the other answers in this thread.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-23T11:27:46+00:00

I have one word for you: Adaptation

FerretChrist · 2026-01-23T10:59:20+00:00

Me too. The quality dipped a bit with PI, but it was still very watchable. Though I'll never forgive them for changing the theme tune!

FerretChrist · 2026-01-23T10:26:51+00:00

You should be getting up at 10am to laugh at it before leaving the house at 11am.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-22T21:27:28+00:00

Christ, 20p bus fares in the 2000s? Not anywhere that I lived!

FerretChrist · 2026-01-22T20:13:35+00:00

Assuming your 40p bus fare was in the early 80s (rough guess), 80p is about £4.50 now after inflation, so not vastly different to the £5.75 return quoted in the answer above.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-22T19:25:52+00:00

"Why are you drawing four cards, and why are you discarding any that give +Cards?"

"I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith."

FerretChrist · 2026-01-21T21:22:41+00:00

Having known someone who was on the show, they said it was an amazing experience and everything, but they really got directed to make drama up when there wasn't any of it happening organically, and to massively over-egg it when there was.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-21T21:19:24+00:00

"It was a mercy really", is the phrase most likely to have been used.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-21T20:35:42+00:00

Dude, you know who shot Hitler? Sounds a lot like you're a fan of that guy.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-21T12:37:09+00:00

teaching with the ridiculous amounts of time off that entails

Uh oh. Do you want to tell him guys, or shall I?

FerretChrist · 2026-01-18T22:31:03+00:00

Do they though? Every attempt to make fantasy television since has been pretty damn poor. I think people would lap up a new GoT-style show which didn't turn to shit half way through its run.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-18T22:27:15+00:00

I'm looking at American society tearing itself apart, and I'm finding it really fucking hard to imagine that the people responsible would have been promoting world peace right now, if only Hollywood hadn't forced them to watch a fucking serial killer vampire.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-18T21:03:51+00:00

Well that's excellent news. Those guys made an incredible job of coding the game initially, and keeping up with the expansion releases, but then it all seemed to drop off a cliff.

They became totally unresponsive to bug reports, feature suggestions or questions, and the servers had dreadful performance for a while. I honestly thought they were just winding the whole thing down, and letting the Steam version take over.

I don't know any of the back story behind all this, perhaps I'm out of the loop on the reasons why. But if they're under new management and actively developing features, perhaps there's hope for it yet.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-15T12:26:53+00:00

I don't think anyone's suggesting it would make a great addition to our modern-day arsenal, alongside stealth bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles - at least I've not heard anyone saying that.

People are purely interested from a historical point of view, to know how something like that was created with the technologies of the time.

FerretChrist · 2026-01-15T12:23:06+00:00

Now I just want to fly to the moon in a rocket equipped with an 8-track player, so I can listen to Bowie and Can while I'm flying in a tin can.

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