The comics were pretty good too.

Team Fortress was not an “extremely popular existing franchise” even among dedicated PC gamers. What the Orange Box did was let Valve experiment with marketing materials like the teaser videos for Portal and “Meet the Heavy.”

When I was in grade school we had multiple lessons on using Boolean search terms to find useful information. Google-fu used to mean something.

Aichteeteepee, colon slash slash, doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou dot…

Sometimes I like to think about what the world would look like if Columbus sank in the Atlantic. How long until another European sailed West?

Other than that it’s work that junior coders could be doing, to develop the next generation of actual good developers.

Yeah but we can’t possibly hold people accountable for the actions of their company, think of the shareholders!

Settle down Mitch Hedberg.

Proudly “fluoride free” too, which makes me immediately doubt the veracity of their dental health claims.

Don’t give the military ideas like that.

We have a pretty good idea how things work during development, it’s tricking those cells into the same process as a fully-formed organism that’s hard. Isolating and distributing the hormones in the right way. I think you’re underselling the complexity and scale of biology. We can’t just put a tiny camera and chemo-sensor inside a neuron and see what’s going on in real time and synthesize up a hundred thousand copies.

Rescue dogs and bomb dogs are cool, traffic stop K-9 units are an affront to civil rights.

This is the same reason police dogs shouldn’t be used.

Hmm. I think lane-assist probably makes people worse at driving. Anything that lets people pay less attention on the road does, it trains drivers to be less alert. Adaptive cruise and automatic braking are probably a net benefit but “car safety” is not trending in the right direction.

Hating Communists has always been an acceptable form of bigotry. You don’t have to listen to what they say, just dismiss them (and insult them!) for wanting a world that doesn’t run on money.

Stop this ecofascist shit.

We can support the current population, it’s just not profitable or popular to do so.

Birthrates naturally level off as societies develop. Many are already seeing negative growth.

Our current standard of living is mostly predicated on offshoring the suffering and waste to the global South, but even that could be comfortably leveled off if we weren’t living under Capitalism.

We don’t need large AI farms, we need empathy. The techbros will not save us.

“keikaku means plan”

Why come you don’t have a tattoo?

Probably. Reasonable storefronts are the only thing keeping the warez at bay.

They want fuckin 40 bucks for a vinyl these days and they don’t even throw in a digital download for that price, and the radio is owned by like three companies unless you live near a college station.