UpperBroccoli @ UpperBroccoli @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I loved and hated Ultima VIII. It had a good story, was entertaining, had really good music, but it also had the most horrible jumping-on-moving-platforms torture of any game I have ever played. It also sent me on a quest they never implemented, a fact they forgot to tell the player.

Flashback was also a fantastic game, but I also do not ever want to play that again. I remember destroying a keyboard as a teen because I was so frustrated after missing the same stupid jump for the umpteenth time.

European here.

Lately at my work, we are actually being asked to submit a vacation plan for the next year at the end of the previous year. I basically had to sit down with my significant other and plan out exactly when we would take time off. My work demands this (and to a lesser degree, hers too) because people apparently have issues with using up their vacation days in the year they are valid for, and that is a real problem for the company, even a legal one. Theoretically, if there is a lot of work, and vacation time is not possible, the company could agree to not let the vacation days expire, but that means they have to put money on the side in case they have to pay out the vacation days, which is a lot of money uselessly bound that cannot be spent.

So yeah, 30 days every year, and when we're sick, we're sick. Some people take a vacation day to see a doctor, but most people just try to do that in the early morning or in the evening and maybe take some overtime hours for that.

I am not telling you this to gloat. I am telling you this to let you know your bosses are taking you for a ride. Demand more, demand better. If that doesn't work, there's always

Jeff Cavaliere, right?

It's fricking insane how little the insurance is covering. If they are not even paying half of the cost, then why even have an insurance at all? If shit hits the fan, you'll face financial ruin either way!

But is Elon Musk not already President of the United States? POTUS Elon Musk? President Musk? Isn't he? Isn't Trump just the secretary of making long faces?

Well, there was Andrew Tanenbaum, who AFAIR claimed that Linux was not a proper operating system, because it does not sport a microkernel or some such.

Library democracy wrings its hands and lets extremist ideologies fester, both through being too weak and placating to act at home and too weak to rein in abuses against Muslim nations abroad.

Not sure what a "library democracy" is supposed to be, but the rest of that sentence does not make sense in this context: the attacker is a rightwing nutjob who liked AfD and Musk posts, not a djihadist or anything like that.

NYPigsD must be so proud, protecting their oligarch overlords from a mild threat to their bottom lines.

and do even less against climate change

Their plan is to just skedaddle to somewhere relatively unaffected by climate change. That's something you can do when you have more money than god. That's why a lot of the richest people already have bought large tracts of land and villas in areas they think will be okay, like New Zealand.

As a European, it never fails to amaze me what Americans consider "left". Y'all had your compass shifted to the far right so much you even call something left that would pass as conservative in Europe.

That article is from december 6th. Not exactly news now.

But that’s not the way to solve the issue

So...... revolution? It worked once before!

He said in an interview that he always considered Garak to be gay as all get-out, and thought that it was perfectly obvious, and that Garak should've had an affair, preferably with Bashir.

In kindergarden, when one kid was about to hit another, the other kid would say "if you hit me, you have to pay the health insurance!". None of us had any idea what that could mean, and I have no idea where that idea came from, but it worked, because to us, that sounded bad.

Some of my class mates thought that wrestling was real, and a few of them thought there was a place in the US where it was legally possible to kill a man during a wrestling match. They were quite offended when I told them how ridiculous that notion sounded to me.

which wouldn’t be an issue if publishers stopped being so greedy and predatory

Hah. Good luck with that :)

Not to worry, they will probably come up with a near total ban on abortions and birth control, and then there'll be that many more children, so that enough of them can survive to become wage slaves for the billionaire class.

99 dead kids in the ground,

99 dead kids

Remove a vaccine, no longer to be found

999999999 dead kids in the ground

I think hell will reject her as it did Michael Myers.

Elon Musk is a certified piece of shit.

So Andrew Robinson finally got his wish. Love it.