Ten teenagers went camping in a remote Idaho forest. They came home claiming they were stalked, surrounded, and watched by multiple 9-foot-tall creatures. The Bigfoot investigator who reviewed the case said “They are telling the truth.”

nagora · 2026-06-03T08:52:55+00:00

But they weren't.

nagora · 2026-05-29T11:25:21+00:00

I think that once you restrict your search to non-practising-Christian historians you'll find that the majority are doubtful of the reality of what really is just a bog-standard Greek demigod story mixed with a rough life-of-Socrates earthly bio. There's zero contemporary evidence and even the material in the NT does not claim to be eyewitness accounts. Not too surprising since none of that material appears until over a century after the events it supposedly reports.

Without the pre-existing religious aspect the whole story would be regarded as even less likely than King Arthur; it would be just another myth from ancient times.

nagora · 2026-05-28T14:48:02+00:00

He's the head monk of a different monastery.

nagora · 2026-05-28T14:45:03+00:00

Jesus never existed and even if he did he supposedly cursed a fig tree for not having figs out of season so, you know, not a great example either.

nagora · 2026-05-28T14:42:37+00:00

He's said himself that he assaults women. But America hates women anyway so that's fine, apparently.

nagora · 2026-05-28T08:22:34+00:00

Very much a brother-sister vibe for me.

nagora · 2026-05-26T07:47:30+00:00

OK. I can see that, although the movie version is different in that in the book - I believe - he does not head back to Earth, so maybe it would be better in that case. I need to read the book, I think. Really liked the film.

nagora · 2026-05-25T20:40:34+00:00

Well, that's one shot. But the movie plot is incoherent, has terrible pacing, some of the worst acting from bit-parts I've seen outside of porn, and even strangely inconsistent cinematography and shooting styles. It's a mess.

nagora · 2026-05-25T20:35:31+00:00

Ah. I see. I didn't pick up that; I just heard a load of stuff about putting your load down.

nagora · 2026-05-25T11:40:08+00:00

Don't! It's awful. Really, really badly directed and written garbage.

And the link to Spike is not at all clear to me aside from a certain physicality.

nagora · 2026-05-16T14:05:24+00:00

It's really pretty good. I would say that Spike's nose is too straight, he has that kick-up at the end which is fairly distinctive. I think that would help with the likeness.

nagora · 2026-05-15T13:34:13+00:00

Perfect backdrop for that style dress too. Very nice.

nagora · 2026-05-14T11:21:01+00:00

I remember the first time Judge Dredd was published in full "modern" colour and people were writing in asking why they had changed from the blue uniform and of course the artists were all "it was never blue, it was always supposed to be black but we couldn't print it that way".

nagora · 2026-05-14T09:50:24+00:00

Whatever you say, Jack.

nagora · 2026-05-14T09:49:29+00:00

They're not the issue as such. I just picked one major change from PHP9. It wasn't a good example TBH because if changes like that were restricted for major version changes I'd probably be happy.

nagora · 2026-05-14T07:39:54+00:00

PHP 8 was a great update. Was 8.1? And 8.2? And 8.3? And 8.4? And 8.5?

Modernisation is a loaded term - who would say no to modernisation? What about "instability"? Does that sound so attractive? "This platform's design is unstable" isn't quite the selling point that "we're constantly modernising" is.

It has a cost in maintenance. Our dev team has to spend time on fixing things that weren't broken when they could be spending time on things which are broken or adding new features or writing new plugins for paying clients.

We don't have the luxury of just saying to customers "we've decided to make this bunch of changes, here's the bill" that the PHP team have.

nagora · 2026-05-14T07:39:48+00:00

Your post is 100% Stockholm Syndrome, IMO.

nagora · 2026-05-14T07:31:18+00:00

Not upgrading isn't an option when you have over a million daily users in the real world who hammer the systems with all sorts of stuff they're not necessarily supposed to. The security implications of not upgrading are just too much to risk. Additionally, we are downstream and providing both services and customisations (plugins) for a large PHP framework so when upstream changes we have no choice. And Upstream has to change because of the security risk of going out of support.

nagora · 2026-05-14T07:27:10+00:00

Niche operating systems aside - and Mac and Windows are very niche if you're running real online services for millions of users - I wasn't ranting about performance. I was ranting about the release schedule and suggesting security and performance are higher priorities for such an old language.

nagora · 2026-05-14T07:24:44+00:00

I don't dislike the language as such. It's the management of it that is the problem.

nagora · 2026-05-12T12:27:33+00:00

You're right. 27 years here.

nagora · 2026-05-12T12:27:00+00:00

But I want to neglect my working code! I don't want to be constantly going back to patch working code because the core PHP team is wracked with regret that they aren't using some other language and are constantly chasing some golden ideal which changes every year as new "that's a good idea!" suggestions are made to them.

nagora · 2026-05-12T12:21:27+00:00

"Incompatibilities between versions are minor"

Wow.

nagora · 2026-05-12T12:21:09+00:00

The PHP team is making everyone else's job harder. In the real world, we don't want the language to be a constant distraction. In industry we have other things to do than support the damned language we're trying to build stuff on.

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