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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • TBH, I never dug into rational wiki. However the timeline is fairly accurate from what I watched what happened to my friends both in the game industry and my former friends that were gamers (hint, i worked in games when this shit was unfolding).

    Unfortunately, no other “timeline” source exists, with Wikipedia starting its paragraphs of history with Zoe Quinn creating Depression Quest, and many many other articles starting there as well. Some people like to attribute a slightly earlier event of a handful of journalists critiquing gamers over their reactions to the Mass Effect 3 ending, but that doesn’t really fit with how quickly things snowballed after “The Zoe Post”.



  • Gamergate started with “The Zoe Post”, not the removal of jailbait.

    “The Zoe Post” is a hit piece from an Ex-boyfriend of game developer Zoe Quinn that alleged that she slept with a notable game reviewer to get positive reviews for her game. Said reviewer never actually reviewed her game.

    Please don’t re-write the history of these events. Especially since jailbait had been removed for around a year when “The Zoe Post” dropped.


  • Hungarian kitchen? Wtf does this mean?

    I grew up in a 2nd generation Hungarian American family and we cooked tons of cheap, and amazing foods. Goulash, paprikash, and pierogis are all “pesant/farmer” foods and are cheap as all hell, not to mention they boast amazing flavors. Additionally you can explore regional and family variantions on the recipes and never run out fresh experiences.

    Paprika is amazing, use it, love it, live it.


  • As somebody that’s been working on computer hardware since the early-to-mid 90s, installing the drivers before connecting the printer was the norm. It was actually the norm for most peripherals. Just be glad you didn’t have to do manual irq assignment. Hell, that is probabaly the issue, is that the driver installer borked the irq assignment when the device already had a handshake agreement with the hardware.

    I digress though, this shouldn’t have been the pattern for a modern printer in 2007, when PnP had been standard for several years at that point.


  • Easiest way would be to use RFID tags. Many products have them hidden in their packaging already, and for those that don’t you can use a reusable RFID sticker

    Image recognition would be somewhat possible, but honestly, a far more intensive process and over engineered.

    All that said, this is overkill for the average home. Even me, with ADHD and forgetting what I have if I can’t see it, thinks this is a bad solution for me. I’d rather just keep my fridge at no more than 60% capacity so I can easily manage my fridge by always seeing the contents when I open it.