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Waypoint's unapologetically hostile attitude towards Activision-Blizzard's layoffs is excellent

https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/yw83kg/activision-blizzard-reports-record-revenue-as-they-fuck-over-800-employees

Ending your function implementations with deviantart journal style "eating/drinking/watching/listening" fields

Ah, yes, the Sega Genesis. A design classic. A slickly designed console with a perfectly ergonomic controller

Of course, it's not all nostalgia. The majority of these games are going to be ones I've never heard of, and this is a really cool way to discover them. This was made 15 years ago, but if you had told me this game was just released on itch.io yesterday I'd believe you.

Oh, this thing has a full, functional Windows XP virtual machine in it. No wonder the download was so huge.

if non-relational key-value store databases are so good, why don't they have a sequel

The reason pocket computers never caught on is because women’s clothing doesn’t have pockets.

Holy shit, Facebook is paying teenagers to install a root certificate on their phones so they can snoop on all of their internet traffic

Not a joke, this is actually a thing which is happening right now

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

when your soup is hot

one of my favorite things in quake competitive is that it is actually a common strategy to make a jump noise or a rocket jump noise, then stand VERY STILL and wait for your opponent to be fooled by the sound

it's the equivalent of stomping up stairs and pretending your going to bed then sneaking back down and hoping mom doesn't notice you're still awake

the LGBT standard was refreshed to LGBTQ and most recently LGBTQIA, but you may see the following proprietary extensions in older equipment:

LGBT+
LGBT-X
mini-LGBT
LGBT-HD
LGBT 2000
LGBT for Workgroups
i.LGBT
ASUS® LGBTQ Boost™
LGBTQ.11ac
μLGBTQ (embedded only)
LGBTQ Creative Cloud

yeah i ain't no follow-back girl

Personally I think Apple’s biggest design mistake was naming their OS X versions after big cats like Tiger, Mountain Lion, Snow Leopard, but not making the window chrome in each version have a fur print styled after its corresponding cat. If only they’d had more courage

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trust no one not even yourself

From the "do you still have a job at BuzzFeed?" quiz:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsweeten/do-you-still-have-a-job-at-buzzfeed-3htxk

if you go to sams club and buy a skeleton and a blue light on sale is that sams undersale

Now that #Vermont is back to single digits F, time to share my favorite ice-related infograpic.

#LearnFromSenseiPenguin

Google is not our friend.