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Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

The scariest question has to be: how many more of these exist around the world right now, that we have no idea about?

I bet that the actual number would make most people deeply uncomfortable.

Not a new scam either. I remember there was a whole bunch of games that were basically identical.

There has been a few different game makers, particularly in the early '90s, and they resulted in people releasing games that were functionally identical and yet put out there as if they were unique. The only thing that's different now and then is at the quality of the assets are a thousand times better.

I rather liked his channel in the beginning, but I don't think I've watched... I can't even think of how long it's been since I've watched.

I didn't meet the terms, haven't done a review yet. So save it for someone who follows instructions. :P

Haven't done a review yet, but I did buy the rest of the books in the series and the pre-order. It's on my to-read list, but I've been reading a lot less this year since I've been writing my next book myself. I'll leave a fair review as I read through them.

Hopefully it'll give me some good Karma when I release Future Sepsis Vol. 1 and 2 later this year.

Germany and totalitarian. Name a more iconic pairing. You can't.

(Man, we can't become the 51st state fast enough.... We obviously lack the capacity for self-rule)

Can you believe these racists in the Trump administration?

They don't even want underprivileged artificial intelligence bots to get Federal funding to go to ivy League schools.

I don't even know what country I'm living in anymore. Not America, that's for sure.

(I mean, I live in Canada where the left just put a hedge fund manager in charge)

I'd hate being dead, but I would understand.

Replaced by his protege.

Even used car salesman mendecino is back in the cabinet.

Natural selection.

I had someone trying to tell me that the dominant failure mode of SSDs is they just go read only, but I've had tons of SSDs fail on me (I've been responsible for fairly sizable fleets of computers), and the dominant failure is almost exclusively catastrophic data loss. Only one SSD has ever gone into read only mode (and thank god they did, it was the SSD hosting this website)

Older SSDs without power loss protection can not just lose all their data but become unusable in just one UPS failure.

Completed a really surprising repair today.

Someone had a dead SSD. Totally dead, not powering up, not showing up in the bios, nothing.

I did the rest where you feel for warm spots and it was painfully hot on a bank of capacitors. Caps were a dead short No way to replace them with my tools, parts, and skill, but it seemed like they could be removed without killing the drive so I removed one at a time until the short released. Drive fired back up. Was even able to boot up the original computer and removed critical files.

Surprising because I didn't think that'd actually work!

Difference between the two parties.

Imagine doing the same review show since 2007.

A kid born in 2007 is turning 18 this year.

The entire bethesda fallout series was released after this.

Assassin's Creed, BioShock, Crackdown, Crysis, Mass Effect, Portal, Rock Band, The Darkness, The Witcher, and Uncharted all born that year (and most of those franchises now long dead).

George W. Bush Jr. was the President that year.

The xbox 360 was in its second year of production.

The nintendo Wii had been in production for just a few months.

The top movie of the year was Spider-man 3, followed by Shrek 3. (Actually, there were a lot of bangers released in 2007 -- remember when the movie industry made multiple good movies in a year?)

The future must have seemed so bright. They probably were going "Wow, this stupid review show about old movies is doing great! I can't wait for all the cool things I'm definitely going to be doing over the next 18 years!"

And 18 years later you're still doing the same stupid review show about old movies.

If Stargate had been reviewed in 2007, then it would have "only" been 13 years old, meaning the review show is older than a lot of the things it reviewed at the time.

It's like being kitty pride and losing control of your powers, getting stuck in a wall and not being able to escape that wall for decades.

He tried to escape. He tried to kill the critic and move on. But he couldn't stop drinking the Dionysian wine of his one success. And when he brought it back, it was with a deep resignation. He knew what his future looked like, and he fought it, but he lost.

The one thing though -- it isn't just this one creator, Doug Walker, trapped in that wall. Looking back at 2007, the media that was produced, the video games, the movies, the TV, (not the music, that was horrible in 2007), it seems like many elements of the culture peaked that year, and this one guy getting trapped in his hit review show is just a symptom of the problem.

Zero Punctuation came out the same year, and let's be real with ourselves -- you can kind of feel that Yahtzee has been pumping the cash cow for 18 years as well, but you can feel he really wishes one of his other properties had taken off -- he's written entire science fiction universes, fantasy, social commentary wrapped in alt reality fantasy. He's done video games. His bread and butter is still that 18 year old wall his ass got stuck in.

It makes me wonder -- So many of these people went nuts with TDS in 2015 -- was it really because of Trump, or was it because the latent anger and resentment towards a world that became trapped in ice, and wouldn't let them escape? At least a one hit wonder like Vanilla Ice can go off and build houses for a living, his hit is created. But these guys need to keep on creating the same content week after week, because their content is ephemeral for nearly anyone who watches it, and falls off the algorithm in a few weeks no matter how popular it once was.
Channel Awesome Presents: Oh god please let me die why can't I escape the shadow of my one success in 2007?

https://enr.elections.ca/National.aspx?lang=e

Man, one thing that's impressive is the PPCs fall from grace. From nearly 5% to 0.7% in one election cycle.

Eh, I'm not normally the sort to use a source like that, but when it's an objective fact like a number from an official source, it isn't like Rebel news or Juno news or National Telegraph is going to show anything different.

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