My missus got a set of Slime VR trackers and they’re all transparent purple plastic. Very 90s.

Yep, that’s my journey as well.

Only with Jellyfin and the *arrs, because I do like a nice UI.

Hell, that was the sound of my games loading.

LOAD “”

Pour over 4 waffles.

Dinner for 4.

Clearly 2 on a plate.

Are we having fucking plate rationing now?

Nah fam, post with your real name, your real face, all your personal details, and then write your racist opinions next to them.

I’m sure nothing will go wrong with that.

I assume it’s happened with pretty much every technology at some point.

You start with a product that isn’t very reliable or user friendly. You need good knowledge of how it works to even use it, and the manual process it replaced. It breaks often enough that maintenance is done yourself. Entire manuals will be provided that tell you everything about how it works.

Then as it gets reliable, the need for the user to poke around falls away. You can still do that, but you don’t need to in order to just use it.

Eventually, they realise the reason they’re still getting failures is that people are poking around and breaking it, so they make it harder to do that.

And then you end up with an opaque black box. It just works (until it doesn’t), and people don’t concern themselves with how it works. When it breaks they get a new one, or take it to a master of the old ways.

Looking back, I don’t know why people are so surprised it happened to computers as well.

Sure, but what’s the use case at this point anyway?

“My bluetooth headset ran out of battery and my phone ran out of battery and I want to listen to music.” How often does that really happen?

Bluetooth is less cumbersome than all of these choices, but for under a tenner you can solve all these drawbacks. Whack it in a pocket of your travel bag with your earbuds and away you go. I genuinely couldn’t even tell you the last time I saw somebody in real life with wired headphones. My bluetooth AKGs actually have a headphone socket, that I’ve used exactly twice. Once to watch an in flight movie on a 480p screen on the back of a headrest, and again to use them with my Switch since for some bonkers reason it didn’t support bluetooth headphones for ages, despite having a BT receiver on board. No idea where the cable is for them now. I doubt I’ll need it again.

I’ve recently had to help the wife with some VRChat “Udon” language.

I mean I get it, all the stuff is like the underlying shit in a parser I wrote years ago to speed up execution. And looking up the name for that, it’s an abstract syntax tree.

It’s just I don’t know why you would try to write stuff in it directly. All the tutorials have this mass of on screen spaghetti for “if a=45 then b.visible=false”.

It’s like everyone gets this idea that coding is hard and a bunch of text, and then they spit it out on screen so no none of us can understand it at first glance.

The opposite of western bootlicking is not Russian bootlicking.

He got that woman pregnant once before her husband had even had a go.

From prima nocta to prima knocked-up.

Spaghetti portion measurer.

I mean it can’t be much worse than the original…

Well still see Fahrenheit used if it’s a hot sunny day. If it’s a cold day we use Celsius.

THIS GAME WILL MAKE YOU CUM IN 30 SECONDS!

I hope not mate, I’m on the bus.

That explains it I guess. Come a slow news day and it’ll be annoying as shit again.

The fuck is 196 anyway? I’ve got the original in my block list and I genuinely can’t remember why…

We had a guy at work called Fat Kyle.

This came in handy when we eventually got a second Kyle.

Street Fighter is far superior.

Everything about it is terrible, but it’s saved by Raul Julia in the same way that Tim Curry saves the Three Musketeers and Alan Rickman saves Robin Hood.

A classically trained actor treating the whole thing like a pantomime. It’s glorious.