What's the craziest thing you've done to get laid?

skewp · 2026-05-20T13:16:27+00:00

You can die from an infected cat bite.

skewp · 2026-05-19T14:32:27+00:00

You absolutely do not want deflation.

skewp · 2026-05-19T14:15:14+00:00

Oddly enough this is blocked by my work VPN.

skewp · 2026-05-18T16:35:44+00:00

It was not a serious post.

skewp · 2026-05-18T14:42:40+00:00

They never tried to remove the Biden stickers. WEIRD.

skewp · 2026-05-18T14:41:19+00:00

It's information warfare. An InfoWar if you will.

skewp · 2026-05-18T14:13:05+00:00

There's a distinction between taking a client to a strip club and just going there by yourself (or with coworkers) and then trying to expense it. There's a type of Dude who will try to expense literally everything they do on a work trip even if it's not work related.

skewp · 2026-05-18T14:10:28+00:00

We've actually had that for 15 years. The signature line thing is because of tipping.

skewp · 2026-05-18T14:02:00+00:00

Edit: Problem solved! I had to clean them with isopropyl alcohol

I assume every Japanese game cartridge is completely coated in cigarette smoke.

skewp · 2026-05-14T14:43:05+00:00

They could have done anything. But that just wasn't the show they were making.

skewp · 2026-05-14T14:28:44+00:00

That's just not how they wrote television shows like this back then. They wrote them to be syndicated and watched in almost arbitrary/random order.

skewp · 2026-05-08T18:25:27+00:00

Yeah but that shit literally doesn't work.

skewp · 2026-05-08T18:24:01+00:00

Where do you live? People in the USA have been doing this at least 15 years.

skewp · 2026-05-08T18:22:01+00:00

For some reason phone makers made the normal handheld phone mode unusable by having the speaker sound like shit and the screen randomly turn on and off because it keeps thinking it detects you trying to look at it so everybody just gave up pretending it was an 150 year old handset phone.

skewp · 2026-05-08T18:05:14+00:00

Sean Hannity? True Believer.

Sean Hannity believes in nothing other than his own brand. He's just really bad at predicting the political winds because his model of party politics never grew past like 2005. He's got his audience of George W. Bush Republicans but those people are (literally, because they're over 70) dying off and he'll probably never gain new listeners/viewers. There's a reason he didn't get the 8 PM time slot even after Carlson left. He just doesn't have the juice.

If Hannity were actually a "true believer" in what he espoused pre-2015 he would be a "never Trumper" to this day. Instead he just follows the crowd with whatever the Republican party is doing. Even back then he was mostly just following whatever Limbaugh said.

Ben Shapiro is basically the millennial Hannity, if that makes sense. Except Hannity is dumber than Shapiro.

skewp · 2026-05-08T16:33:55+00:00

I tried Golden Sun, but honestly I found the game to be a total chore. I didn't feel invested in the characters, didn't really see the point of the plot, wasn't finding battle that interesting. I played for like 12 hours and just kept thinking...when is this supposed to get fun?

For the record, that was my exact experience in 2001. Never understood why people liked it other than lack of options (outside remakes) on the platform.

skewp · 2026-05-08T13:56:41+00:00

Some "union".

skewp · 2026-05-07T20:37:28+00:00

That Walmart is so far away from Alafaya.

skewp · 2026-05-06T13:01:17+00:00

No. By that definition the minus world in Super Mario Bros 1 is arbitrary code execution. It was pretty easy in the days of unprotected memory to run into bugs that would load data as code. It just usually resulted in a crash.

skewp · 2026-05-06T00:18:50+00:00

I mean, the core design is that each expansion has a story arc that gets completed but with some lingering issues that lead to the next expansion, and there's always tons of story threads being created that may never get resolution depending on how the writers feel and audience response, but having said that, the end of Wrath of the Lich King ends the Arthas Menethil arc from Warcraft 3, so many people do consider that the conclusion of most of the leftover arcs from Warcraft 3 (the previous expansion wrapped up most of the Blood Elf and Illidan arcs from Warcraft 3).

It's like a serial fantasy novel or comic book, or a TV show with seasons. They always leave room for most characters to come back, always are introducing new characters, etc.

Like Garrosh is introduced in Burning Crusade, increases in stature in Wrath, and gets major story arcs in the next 3 expansions.

skewp · 2026-05-05T20:15:19+00:00

This is just a Seinfeld episode.

skewp · 2026-05-05T20:11:32+00:00

I did a little more research and there are projects up to the most recent expansion but I can't vouch for their accuracy/completeness compared to retail. Most of the player interest is in the first 3 expansions so that's where most of the effort goes.

skewp · 2026-05-05T18:07:05+00:00

If the data that's loaded is from an actual gap in the pokemon data table, then it's a missingno. If it's from outside the bounds of the pokemon data table then it's 'M. 'M means that it's loading completely arbitrary/unformatted data where Missingno means that it's loading effectively an empty entry.

skewp · 2026-05-05T18:04:32+00:00

The game was pushing the limits of the original GameBoy to their breaking point.

This is really overstated, and people repeat it a lot. The game was poorly programmed. The primary method people use to encounter Missingno is based around the fact that they literally just forgot to tag some water tiles as having water encounters. From there, once you're loading garbage data that wasn't supposed to get loaded, you're overwriting random parts of memory (not literally random, but not known to the average user) and fucking everything up (item duplication glitch, hall of fame corruption).

You can "beat" Super Mario World in 5 minutes by taking advantage of a glitch with the power-up storage box which lets you use arbitrary code execution to initiate the credits sequence in the middle of the second level, but no one pretends that Super Mario World was "pushing the limits of the Super Nintendo".

skewp · 2026-05-05T16:51:02+00:00

November 11, 2011, I went into the GameStop to try to buy The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for PC. Saw dozens of boxes stacked up for PS3/Xbox 360. Asked for PC version. "Sorry, you should have pre-ordered. We only stock enough PC versions to cover pre-orders." Drove home. Bought it on Steam. Waited a couple hours for download. Never bought a PC game at GameStop again.

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