Magic carpet 2, the Netherworlds is one I played a ton and think of from time to time. I wonder what I modern remake would be like.

It’s the first game I remember playing with deformable terrain.

I worked at a grocery store in 2003 in California for a short time. I joined just after a major strike had ended. As always, the company was pushing for lower wages and benefits, the union wanted higher. They came to an agreement with a two tiered system, tenured employees got to stick with a pay scale and benefits slightly better than what they’d had before.

New employees got fucked.

A couple months in I was promoted to cashier from bagger and got to see the two tiers. I was starting at $18 per hour, the original tier started at more than double that and went up pretty high.

Not really related to your comment, but I’m a little drunk after a rough day and seeing those amounts just really fucking pisses me off. My numbers are not adjusted for inflation and wages have gone down for the job I did in the last 20 years. It’s fucking maddening.

Already answered more it less but:

https://www.centralcoastbrewing.com/beer/p/p-nut-butter-breakdown-stout

First time I’ve seen something from my home area pop up on Lemmy. CCB is a solid brewery.

I started off really enjoying the series, but eventually had to abandon it as he kept adding increasingly over the strawmen who’s sole purpose was to be blown away by the might of Randian Objectivism.

Absolutely. Anansi boys is my personal favorite of his, but I think highly of all his books.

GameStop bought them a couple of years ago. That was the deathknell.

I’d second all three.

Neil Gaiman is absolutely one of my favorite authors and from what I’ve seen, a pretty great human being as well.

I loved Orson Scott Card’s books when I was younger, even the later Ender books. Unfortunately he’s also a pretty terrible person much like Rowling.

I never even received an email. I haven’t touched Minecraft in years, probably never would have again, but my daughter is getting into it and I thought it would be fun to play with her. I found out about the migration when trying to troubleshoot why I couldn’t log in.

I tried to contact support and they told me that they had “widely communicated the migration through email and social media” and that because I had missed the migration window, I would simply have to buy a new copy. I double and triple checked. No emails regarding the migration and I’m not on social media.

Found out a year or two ago that a kid I was kind of friends with was convicted of a murder about three years ago. He and two others killed a guy, chopped up his body, and dumped it in a lake.

Small consolation, the only reason they know about the murder is because the guy I knew had a guilty conscience and made a full confession to the police out of the blue one day. Yes, drugs were very much involved.

One of my favorite managers once told me while I was struggling with a severe case of imposter syndrome “if you’re faking it well enough that others can’t tell, you might not be faking it as much as you think.”

They endanger more than just their own kids.

I love Takis. One of my guilty pleasure trash snacks is a bag of Takis and a couple hazys.

You just reminded me of a rental place I used to frequent. Insomniac videos. It was dark and musky, and the staff all had an encyclopedic knowledge of the weird and unknown or cult classics. Those were also the only movies they carried and they were next to the cheapest pizza place in town. My roommates and I at the time would often checkout something the staff recommended and load up on junk food on the rare occasion we all had a night off together. Good times.

Thanks for letting me know. I was able to pull out the proper link from the mess and edited my post. Please try it again and let me know.

(For ease of reference) https://epc2020.eaps.nl/uploads/201146

If anyone is interested in the actual study, I believe this is it. Only had time to give it a real quick skim. Sorry for the nasty Google link.

Edit to fix link. https://epc2020.eaps.nl/uploads/201146

I used to do penetration testing and only got to dabble in physical penetration testing a couple of times. Hell of a lot of fun.

For anyone reading this chain and interested in hearing more, this is a pretty fun interview with someone known for doing physical presentation testing.

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/134/

Try looking to see if there are any local defcon, 2600, or BSides groups near where you’re at. That might give you a good start.

One of the best bosses I ever had once told me that people will stay for the culture but leave for money. His philosophy was to try and ensure that money was not a factor in people’s decision, then build as good a culture as he could.

And to be clear, by making money not a factor, I mean he paid well.

I was looking for this one. I went into it completely blind one night and that was a ride.