When I was younger, I’d be mortified. Now? “If into the archives you go, only pain will you find.” You didn’t have to look, so that’s on you, my dude.

There are no good guys in Borderlands. Full stop.

Optical Character Recognition. Essentially, software that “reads” an image and pulls text out of it.

Man, ZZT was great. Plus it paved the way for MegaZeux, which is still my favorite “game nobody’s heard of before”. I want that Tim Sweeney back.

Yes, in an ideal world, tolerance would be a moral standard. But in a ideal world bad actors wouldn’t take advantage of that moral standard by doing reprehensible shit and hiding behind “well you should be tolerant of my viewpoint” while simultaneously being intolerant themselves.

When we lose the latter, we can have the former - until then, we need to stop putting up with intolerant assholes who destroy lives (whether literally or metaphorically) and then say “but muh beliefs”.

It’s still way more than “none”. Let’s not let perfect be the enemy of good.

Thank you for this. I have T1D and it seems like every other day I’m hearing about a new cure for diabetes and other autoimmune diseases. Good to know that this isn’t just more clickbait. Still not getting my hopes up yet but I’ll be interested to see where this goes.

Last time I looked into it, it was closer to 4 million to “never work again” if you were in your mid-30s. Nowadays, even that figure is probably not enough. Your point still stands, however.