mdhughes

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[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm still creeped out by Furbies and even Teddy Ruxpins. A machine that looks like it's alive, repeats nonsense or repetitive questions, is a Terminator or Screamer, just doesn't have the final firmware installed yet.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the image of a fuzzy object that talks.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 6 days ago

Waterfall: Boeing/ULA does this. Their rockets cost $4B per launch, don't work, strand astronauts. Maybe the next repair/test cycle, if management's dumb enough to keep paying them.

Agile at least launches something.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

I usually freeform people through City of Terrors for Tunnels & Trolls, I have a cheat sheet to where stats and major rooms are in the book if I care, but mostly just eyeball good MR for 20 Orcs or jaguars or whatever.

"Amber Waves" in the Apocthulhu Quickstart is really nice, a little road trip, cult, bad food, human sacrifices, fun for the whole family (if by "fun" you mean "dousing in gasoline and setting on fire"). Apocthulhu's quickly become my favorite horror game, because there's so few happy endings. One-shot, then do something different.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

ed (1) is still the standard text editor.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The locked bootloader is having a lock at all. Without that, anyone can enter at any time.

In reality, home door locks are merely suggestions, they're trivially picked or broken open, windows can be entered through. But if you DID have a secure building, you wouldn't want any of the security systems to be replaced.

You get full access to operate in a secure building once you've used the key/biometrics/passwords/interrogation. You don't have access to replace the locks with tinkertoy homebrew shit, because we know that's not as competent.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Engagement!

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago

Used to be slashdot. Some people say it still is.

[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 months ago

Good news: He has always been woke (aware of racial injustice), explicitly hates racists and nativists, and has said so since the 1930s, being a space immigrant drawn by Jewish creators.

The Homelander is the one you're looking for. He's the bad guy and gets his face beaten in.