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Also, "problems" that are things capitalism created for itself, and then sells you a solution. Such as services that scrub old subscriptions that you don't use, or companies that get you out of timeshares.

And they had bugs that were a direct result of limitations. The Minus World in Super Mario World, for example, comes from a combination of uninitialized values, how data structures are packed, and imperfect collision detection.

People don't talk about the problems that result from doing things that way.

STOOOPPP, you're breaking my narrative that Chrome tabs ought to fit in 8KB.

And the database layer is a separate truck sorta welded onto the outer truck with varying degrees of weld quality.

I've heard from writeups from former employees that the internal culture is a perfect reflection of Reddit as a whole. Which says a lot.

If we could get someone Trump listens to saying that the United States is falling behind Norway in dilithium mining, and state it confidently, he would 100% be demanding Norway's dilithium operations the next day.

We should find a way to do this.

Have you considered eating enough raw bushmeat that you get a brain worm?

I repartitioned the hard drive to install Linux.

Unbeknownst to me, my brother had stored the photos he took of our grandparents 50th wedding anniversary on that drive. There was no backup.

And it shouldn't be too difficult to avoid getting caught. Most won't bother checking, but if they do, you can always pick some accredited university that went defunct some years ago. It might be impossible to check if even if they wanted to. Then avoid giving details about anything from your college days, and hope a coworker doesn't show up who actually went there.

They've been doing a surprisingly good job. Like "Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society". We can debate if the prison in El Salvador counts as a concentration camp (IMO it very clearly is) or a death camp (IMO it is not, but we're probably headed there), but the fact that we're even having that debate is a very bad sign. It cuts through the "well, technically" of it all and shows what's really important.

Not sure if you're serious. Splitting the loaves and fishes was an adult Jesus story. There's not a lot about Jesus' childhood in the canonical gospels, and the non canonical ones are a bit wild.

One of the founders is a hardcore Trump guy, but he's not part of the company anymore. The company itself splits its donations between Democrats and Republicans. (That's one of the tricks of a two party system. You can split your donation in half and win either way.)

They're not overly Christian the way Jimmy Johns or Chick-fil-A are.

There's no reason the market has to do that. We've all collectively decided that every generation should have MORE, but the best games I've played in recent years are done by small teams looking to provide a good experience in a somewhat limited package.

Also, people tend not to account for manufacturing drops. Cost to produce dropped dramatically when things moved from cartridges to optical formats. Dropped somewhat in the move to digital distribution, though not as much as you might think.

Removing significant printed instruction manuals helped, too. Printing has gotten really expensive over the last 30 years. Falcon 4.0 came with a spiral bound book written by an actual F-16 pilot, and it was basically an F-16 flight manual. Nobody expects that to ever happen again. Not with a base game, anyway. That game was about $53 at launch (going by the "Chips and Bits" ad toward the back of this old CGW magazine).

There's a good $20-30 in reduced production costs that were never directly passed on to customers.

They're generally well organized for competitions. Lots of countries have them for airguns when they can't get full firearms. They emphasize safety and shooting skills.

He was specifically kicked out because he shot across lanes. That's a huge safety risk and will get you kicked out of most ranges. The club acted correctly.

Non-profit scams. You can set one up, put out a call for donations claiming you do some blah blah blah work, and give yourself most of the money in the form of a salary/bonus. Only a small percentage of the money ever needs to go to anyone in need.

This happens in all sorts of corporate and religious charities. The NFL was technically non-profit for many years, and that should say it all.

He's the only one even slightly competent over there. He'll probably burn out and leave a competence vacuum behind.

A third are in on the grift. Another third are afraid of Trump ruining them politically. Another third are afraid of the violence from his supporters.

All of these reasons are self serving, and can change if the incentives get swiped away.

There were reports of Trump being in a haze afterwards, like he had PTSD.

Also, there's specific accounts of that guy being so bad at guns that his school gun team kicked him out.

Most gun people are really bad at it. Case in point, Trump's almost assassin.