The Republican party is a religion with two and only two commandments: Racism and fossil fuels.

Gotta be terrycloth, something rough enough to simulate mama cat’s tongue.

Someone deliberately chose to break with POSIX compliance?

The reason why I’m on team Vim is because it’s standard. A copy of it is installed on pretty much every Unix-like system out there. Vi is built into Busybox.

Yeah I fucked up. I flunked flank.

Paris cat: le meiouquoix

My go-to example is an inverter I got for my drill batteries. It’s a box that plugs into my 20V drill batteries with a couple USB ports and a 110V wall outlet on top. It can produce 150 watts maximum from that socket. The reviews for this device are split between 4 and 5 star reviews from people who know what that means, and 1 star reviews from people who don’t. “Won’t run my air fryer. Would rate 0 stars if I could.”

Is it a garden path sentence or a crash blossom?

Funnily enough, it was filmed in front of a live audience, and it is canned laughter. In the edit, they often replaced the audience’s genuine reactions with stock laughter for various reasons. For example, when Monica popped out from under the sheets with Chandler, the audience shouted for minutes on end, they trimmed that for broadcast.

OMFG cop procedurals. My parents watched so many of those fucking things that I sarcastically wrote an episode of one. Turns out that Federal Agent With Speaking Role IS Mr. Diddit.

Like…all shareholders?

Why shouldn’t anyone with an investment in a corporation be culpable for any criminal behavior of the company they’ve invested in? That’s a step or two away from “I didn’t rape and murder that little girl, my LLC did.”

Something something Unix Philosophy. Write small programs that do one thing and do it well and then re-use that well tested code as often as you can rather than poorly re-implementing it over and over?

Kitty is vexed.

You mean Eastern Spain? Where they speak Brazilian?

It’s my understanding that the decision to not localize SMB2 for the West was made at Nintendo of America. SMB2 isn’t merely hard, it’s unfair. They put invisible hazards in the way, warp pipes now take you back instead of forward, some of the mushrooms are poisonous now. SMB1 is beginner and child friendly, SMB2 is for serious enthusiasts. The West found a taste for that, but it kinda took Twitch streaming to explain to gamers what they’re in for. Nintendo wouldn’t have gotten any points for tricking hundreds of thousands of parents into handing a Kaizo ROMhack to all the little Joshuas and Tiffanys of 1986. So they Doki Doki Panicked.

I think the real insult came not from Nintendo but from Squaresoft. Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest for the SNES was marketed as a simplified, “Entry-level” JRPG, made specifically for Americans, written in English from the start and not translated from Japanese. Simplified combat system, no random encounters, added action elements. Because Americans might not “get it.” It’s not like Japan got the idea for RPGs from imported copies of Ultima and Wizardry, which are themselves based on DnD. Being more charitable, you could see the angle they were coming from: the Japanese do virtually all of their gaming on console, while Americans tend to play more action-oriented games on console and more cerebral games on desktop computers, so they were trying to make an RPG for the American console gamer. Which still failed miserably. After all, Final Fantasy 1 on NES sold well here. So. I don’t know, maybe try not having bad ideas?

Probably got put into a popular example and then everyone uses it because “that’s how.”

You weren’t there for the Leftpad fiasco, I take it?

The one video game movie that springs to my mind that is like the video game is Mortal Kombat. Right around then in the early 90’s, the movie industry didn’t even try to understand the games they were movieing, but they did. Compare that to, say, Super Mario Bros.

So we’ve re-derived living in a community from first principles?

It’s a Roland Emmerich film. He makes stupid but exciting movies. Stargate is hugely stupid, but it’s exciting. Made for the basis of a great TV series too.