There’s so much in Infinite Jest, but I think my favourite would be “Blood Sister: One Tough Nun”.

And then there was the Quake 2 engine which gave us Deus Ex, American McGee’s Alice and then (through the modified GoldSrc version) Half-Life, Counter Strike and countless others! The family tree of 3D engines is really interesting.

But I thought LAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder?!

Actually I never got that. WINE isn’t an emulator, but LAME very much is an MP3 encoder

Are there are good Monster Hunter communities in the Fediverse?

OG Xbox

eboy:

egirl:

superstar DJ: HERE WE GO!

Vance faced an onslaught of bad press, as many commentators—including Harris’ step-daughter, Taylor Swift fans, Democratic officials, actor Jennifer Aniston, and several conservative women pundits—decried his comment.

My reading comprehension must be pretty bad because for a second it sounded like Taylor Swift was Kamala Harris’ step daughter.

No, the BBC is funded through the licence fee, not the budget. It’s a weird system but the idea is that the government can’t just turn on/off the funding spigot to put pressure on the BBC.

Of course, they still manage to put pressure on in other ways, by appointing board members etc

Cool I guess we’ll all just die then.

I wish my government kept companies in check a bit more than they do. I live in the UK where all the water companies are owned by hedge funds and they keep discharging raw sewage into all our waterways. I feel we could do well to take back some control from them.