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Adam Something is a favorite of mine.

Being homeless is effectively a crime in many jurisdictions, so…

Gang, is there like a biological reason cats put their butts in your face? Based on everyone’s reaction, it’s obviously something we’ve all seen enough that we find the meme funny or at least relatable.

I wish I had seen your comment earlier. You said it better than I did just now.

I haven’t watched the show, but reading your comment about the shopkeepers, the “problem” appears to be that they MAY be lesbians and they exist. That existence and possibility might be a trigger is sad to me. The hateful folks say it’s about homosexuality being shoved in their face, but, really, it’s a total rejection at the heart of their beliefs. It’s why when activists talk about the dangers of this bigotry, we ought to listen, because the existence or mere possibility of gay people being a problem for some people is only a short step away from the solution for those people being elimination.

Making an important distinction, my friend.

Loved this game.

Fun fact, the two lead characters showed up again as soldiers in Valkyria Chronicles.

I remember the term for the fascists in Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here was corporatists. That novel was contemporaneous with the rise of fascism as I recall, and it’s a chilling look at how America might have gone fascist back then. It’s pretty relevant to what’s happening now.

You knew your favorite show had made it when it was on the cover of TV Guide. I know I was happy when Babylon 5 got a cover.

Game related - monochrome monitors

Four color CGA was amazing, right?

The top dial on the TV had the VHF (lower number) stations. The bottom had the UHF( higher number) stations. In spite of all those channels being available, many places only had three, maybe four that had a station in range to be received intelligibly.

I believe Mr. Rogers could have resisted the One Ring, Tom Bombadil-style.

Use it with pride, my friend, for you, yourself, are the bee’s knees.

I’m sorry I ever let mine go. It was a great emulation platform, and I ran all kinds of retro games on it. I also miss Skies of Arcadia, which I’ve always felt was underrated.

The high level of sheer incompetence at all levels, but especially in management. I’m lucky to work with competent folks directly, but the sheer amount of work created by stupidity outside of my department is soul-crushing. I can present definitive proof of systemic failures all day long, and no one is interested in doing a damned thing if the people or departments in question are politically powerful within the organization. Neither I nor my immediate colleagues are perfect, but we acknowledge our failures and try to create solutions. So many others, though, seem so invested in the status quo beyond all reason.