The username looks like an older German brainrot meme.

Hollywood can’t possibly live up to the power of your imagination.

It’s just audio of French farting cats.

I very much don’t want some corporation to be able to just take a 9 year old’s drawing and slap it on their game because someone thought it wasn’t artsy enough to be awarded protection.

That’s why I went with DDR3.

And those games usually got really really hard beyond the first episode, so we (at least me) wouldn’t have gotten far in the full games anyways.

Shareware was big back then. Chances are good that your copy was actually legal.

The Signal Protocol.

WhatsApp uses the same encryption protocol as Signal. Theoretically they should already be interoperable.

Signal should be subject to the same law. So I hope all it takes is someone making a bridge that forces Signal to open up as well.

I have the opposite problem, my immune system is in overdrive. I should get a tattoo to reign it in.

Yes, but they crammed four seasons of story into season 2. Originally they wanted to end with season 5.

This is what happens when you plan out the whole thing ahead of time. You can pivot on the spot to meet market (or overlord) demands. Must have been too organised for Disney.

What about the power savings regulations on Imperial Star Destroyers that allowed the Death Star plans to reach Tatooine?

And even that they had to cancel.

You basically started with the worst one.

I had read almost every Star Wars novel on the planet, even the bad ones. I had played almost every Star Wars video game on the planet, even the bad ones. My understanding of Star Wars was that it’s a vast universe that enables the telling of all kinds of stories with slight magical and/or sci fi twists.

When they announced that all those stories would be thrown away to make space for new ones I was slightly perturbed but was open to seeing what they’d do with it. After all they had plenty of examples to show them what not to do.

Then they released a somewhat enjoyable movie with an imperial war lord (again) being controlled by some dark Jedi (again) using an even bigger deadlier superweapon (again). And they paired that up with an incomprehensible political landscape that makes absolutely no sense other than to press the good guys into an underdog role (again).

Still, the movie was somewhat enjoyable. So I was ready to see what they had in store to tie all of that together. And then The Last Jedi showed that they had absolutely nothing in store. Nobody had thought of anything beyond that one movie. It was just a disjointed mess of wouldn’t it be cool if.

The last one just cemented that feeling. I didn’t even bother to watch that one in theatre which turned out to be a good decision. They had thrown away thousands of pages of material to give us this mess. And they didn’t even acknowledge any wrongdoings.

I watched the side stuff. The Mandalorian season 1 could still live outside of the rest of Disney. But with season 2 ever more connections crept in.

I got so sick and tired of being reminded of what they had destroyed I couldn’t even enjoy the good stuff. I gave up on Star Wars. I’ll just play Jedi Knight, KOTOR and TIE Fighter forever.

Yeah, we already got a Far Cry movie by Uwe Boll what could a series possibly do better?

Had a programmer like this when I was still an apprentice. He was so full of himself. Was originally a Java programmer but had to program in PHP because that was what ran on the server. I never found out why he couldn’t just put Java on the server. We had full control.

All his variables were first names. Like $klaus and $grobi. Because he was afraid of clashing with reserved keywords. The thing is, in PHP all variables begin with $ exactly to prevent this issue. So he brought that habit over from Java which was far superior and not such a “Mickey Mouse language”.

I mean, he wasn’t totally wrong, especially back then PHP was awful. But he surrounded every function with <?php and ?> (PHP was designed to be combined with HTML output outside of these tags) and had plenty of whitespace between them and couldn’t fathom why all his html files had huge swaths of whitespace at the start.

His way of preventing SQL injection was to look for SQL keywords in user input and then throwing an error in the log files.

Is that not basically every MMORPG?