Malgas

When public officials tamper with elections, it’s election fraud.

That’s not the half of it:

Shit in, shit out. That’s AI.

“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864

Don’t dumb down the gameplay systems

Bethesda design challenge: impossible.

Technically, what he’s doing is election fraud.

I’m under the impression that these sort of third-party warrants are often accompanied by a gag order. Which is why warrant canaries are a thing.

Gah, you’re right. I had it that way at first, but then glanced down a list to check my count and they listed 2002’s Harem Adventures as a separate game even though it’s just the Java phone port of the original.

I’d just like to point out, for the record, that that isn’t the original trilogy. Sands of Time is the fifth Prince of Persia game.

There’s a board game called History of the World that does something like this, where score is tracked per player, but you play as a new civilization every turn. (And, depending on the draw, may wind up fighting against your previous civ.)

It’s a good game, but, yeah, it’s hard to imagine that working in something like Civilization.

Yeah, same tune, originally by Samuel Barber. Homeworld used the choral version, Agnus Dei.

One thing I always liked about slashdot is the ability to tag votes with things like “funny” or “informative”.

If not, that would go some way to explaining why they seem to be so fascinated by them.

The proof that it is probably not possible ever is that metric time was already adopted during the French Revolution, during the period when they were metricising everything else, and even they decided that it wasn’t worthwhile.

Indeed, friend citizen. Would you like some Bouncy Bubble Beverage?

The Watch […] pretty grounded in Pratchett-ness

You’re literally the only person I’ve heard say anything like that. Sir Terry’s own daughter has disavowed it, saying that it “shares no DNA with my father’s Watch.”

“I once drove past some elephants in a Prius. How they got into a Prius I’ll never know.”

(Apologies to Groucho Marx.)

e.g. have a gui installer

I assume you mean a GUI for editing configuration.nix? Because the initial NixOS install is GUI-based.

Many cakes have some sort of filling between flat layers and are therefore sandwiches.

Charlotte royale is a calzone, tho.

Well, not always: Plural ‘they’ is a borrowing from Old Norse ca. 1200 AD, and the earliest attestation of singular ‘they’ is about a century later.

But, yeah, you’d think 700 years of continuous use would be enough to make it uncontroversial…