About 15 years ago there was a company I did some work for (I was at an MSP at the time) who wanted to virtualize certain systems. Great. No problem. Except those systems needed to read floppies. Ok, I can pass it through. Except they wanted to get away from floppies. Great, let’s get you a newer system from a different vendor because this one went out of business when NT4 was still the big dog. Nope, too much money and the process would change.

So I had to reregister every DLL by hand because the installation didn’t work on Server 2008 r2. And every few months it would have to be done again because one of the guys thought himself a genius and kept messing up the janky ass workflow we put together to download info from thumb drives to a virtual floppy.

So plug in the drive, janky ass script creates a virtual floppy in drive A of the server, and manually (eventually I just wrote a script because I didn’t want to get that call on a Saturday) register each DLL every so often. And they’d rather pay the company I worked for several hundred dollars a month than pay a couple of grand one time that would have paid for itself in less than a year.

To add to your point, Xiaohongshu has plenty of people on it who aren’t Chinese as well. Loads. It’s not like they’re in cultural blackout.

I’m already a cowboy skeleton, just with a few extra layers.

Plaid is great in all seasons. I have many pearl snap plaid shirts ranging from thick and warm flannel to super thin beach flannel to just the cotton shirts.

Not always true (never long enough is true, I mean the other part). I can attach to an animal but what I don’t want is to be put in charge of its wellbeing. That’s a lot of work and responsibility. I hated every second of that growing up when we got animals and suddenly I was in charge of their care and feeding even though I never asked for a pet.

So I can love your dog/cat/rat/horse/whatever. You may find us both snoring on the couch together or heading out on adventures or I may bring it a treat/toy on its birthday. But I do not want to be the guy making sure it’s alive.

I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you.

I’m a hair older than him.

I hurt pretty often. I get tired more easily. I have hangovers now. If I jump out of the bed of a pickup my knees make noises. I could go on for days about it.

And it’s great. I don’t worry about what people think and I have adventures. I do what I want outside of work. And I have stories and hobbies and old friends.

I have a memory foam Texas King. It only remembers the Alamo.

Or we can all just assume that since Steam hasn’t released the price these guys are just misleading people for views and put them on our permanently do not watch list. Couple that with someone being smarmy about the content rather than talking to people and it seems like something I wouldn’t personally enjoy.

Well, teenagers scare the living shit out of me.

My buddy has one. “To threaten someone” would be a valid response. I’ve seen him take it off after telling someone he’s going to put his foot up their ass.

That looks really cool! I’ll likely pick up a couple of the new controllers, but I’ve currently got a few mini PCs scattered around the house for gaming so I won’t need a steam machine until one of these craps out on me. But I’m very excited for the folks who will be able to get and enjoy it!

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.

I’ve got a stack of old 14.4 modems I’ll sell them if they’ll grift on that for a bit.

You’d think they learned their lesson when Starz did it to Torchwood. It strips out a lot of the charm.

I thought at the beginning they didn’t. That was the biggest complaint I heard at the time from my bartender friends. But it’s been that way for years at the least. But there’s a good possibility it wasn’t intuitive at the time and they didn’t know they could skip.

Touchtunes figured out people were doing this kind of thing and gave bars the ability to skip songs.

Absolutely not. It’s 20 minutes away from going in the freezer for 8 months with the promise of gross banana bread that will never get made, and the banana will be found and they’ll make a special trip to buy new bananas which will also go in the freezer with the promise of gross banana bread. Repeat every 8 months.

I don’t fucking get it. I love sex. I love having the extra money that comes from not having kids. I love the fact that my vasectomy means I ain’t getting anyone pregnant. I will never understand the desperate need to try to impregnate every woman you come into contact with.

I only comport myself with liquor.