Bridge suffers from ludonarrative dissonance: everything in the game design points you to communicating hand contents with your partner; the rules forbid it.
New blog post on house rules for tabletop games, which is not-so-secretly a post about friendship and trust: https://push.cx/2018/house-rules
New Lobsters sister site for German-language computing, technology, and science: https://g33kz.de/
Going to be chewing on this one a long while, but this dichotomy of decouplers and contextualizers and a shift from former to latter as programming grows might help explain a lot of the cultural upheaval the last decade or so. https://quillette.com/2018/05/25/groups-groups-idw/
This sounds silly, but since it took me 20 years to internalize as a programming skill: use copy-and-paste all the time, or at least autocomplete. Do not retype things. Retyping is a constant source of preventable hassles and bugs, especially in the shell and dynlangs.
I'd like to see a Sliders reboot, but maybe that's nostalgia talking because the world feels like a mid-season-five filler episode.
p. sure the epitaph on my tombstone will not say "he was good at email"
An employee told me they had a serious problem with the D coasters in meeting rooms because young employees kept making off with The D.
(And yes, of course, I snagged myself The D.) /8
I have probably never said something in defense of Uber before, but I photographed all this ridiculous D swag at an enormous multinational company in 2014. It's a ridiculous but pre-existing tool for helping dysfunctional companies run meetings. 7/
Does Uber have The Motherfucking D Elevator Wrap?
Who among us is the D, indeed? 6/
Does Uber have The D Door Sticker, The D Floormat, The D Placemat, The D Table Stand, and The D Toddler-friendly Mobile in every God-D meeting room? 5/
Does Uber have The Matching D Stationary? 4/
I have to wonder... does Uber have The D Coaster? 3/
So Uber's getting a lot of side-eye for this nudge-nudge say-no-more
bit of ridiculous corporate jargon: https://slate.com/technology/2018/06/uber-ceo-dara-khosrowshahi-urges-employees-say-have-the-d-meetings.html 2/
Did you hear about the Uber "I have the D" thing?
I'm well acquainted with this D. Let's have The D Tootstorm. 1/
signal-boosting from birdsite:
@eruthrosish
Here's the vid I made for the @VidWisCon #WisCon42 vid party!
Straightening Up the House, Marvel comics and films.
Streaming or download at dreamwidth: https://eruthros.dreamwidth.org/343901.html
Or streaming at the AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14793695
sooooo satisfying
read a trend piece about The Youths and had never heard of what it was talking about. I am now officially old.
Try to be appreciative of the work people put into hard and important things that you want to happen, or else eventually they'll burn out and won't work on them any more.
I went to inspect a tumblr post because I wanted to download the audio (it was a shitpost) and the source of the audio tag has a awfully long link with this at the end:
"?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio""
