If I were in a dramatic mood, I would look at the guy, my fork still in my mouth, put up one finger while putting my fork away, theatrically and exaggeratedly chew my food before swallowing it, equally exaggeratedly, before answering: “You could hardly have picked a worse time to ask that.”

Or if you’re like me and see a thread, be all like “Oh, that could be interesting, I’ll check that later,” and put your phone away for a few hours, and then, when you finally get to check the thread again, and refresh it just to be up to date, you see it’s been permanently deleted…

Throwing weapons only, and they’re all reskinned to turds. You never die, but you win if you get hit the least at the end of the timer.

This is literally the second item on my front page of subscribed communities. Did I just hit the dopamine jackpot? 😃

This. Oh no, the ice cream tub has a lock on it? Guess I’ll make another opening *grabs a kitchen knife*

Same for this. Oh no, she won’t consent? Then we’re doing it raw!

^(kids, this is a terrible excuse to fuck over your future. Don’t be a fool, wrap your tool.)^

On second thought, could be 1980s Cave Johnson, when Aperture was seriously in decline.

Initially I thought Cave Johnson, but the enumeration in the first paragraph seems more of a GLaDOS thing. The rest could go either way. If on the other hand, the enumeration was phrased without “the following regions:”, it would be more Cave Johnson.

Reading that, and you just know there’s a Linux distro that has fucking as an alias for sudo

Something something leopards eating faces

This has the same energy as the observation that the most reliable way to get an answer on the internet is to post the wrong answer.

ASCII was originally a 7-bit standard. If you type in ASCII on an 8-bit system, every leading bit is always 0.

(Edited to specify context)

At least ASCII is forward compatible with UTF-8

Still working on wrapping my mind around that.

That said, I have wrapped my mind around 10-day weeks, which in work division work as follows:
⚒️⚒️🛋️⚒️⚒️🛋️⚒️⚒️🛋️🛋️
Do this 12 times in a year, add a leap day every three months, say to start each season, plus another extra day for new year’s, and another extra according to existing leap year rules.

Related: 12-hour AM/PM time, at least in written language, is dumb compared to 24-hour time. I don’t want to have to infer from context if 8 is morning or evening. Build that disambiguation into the written time, ffs!

In a similar context, yep

Y’know, it does sound like something sweet to wish upon someone if it did not literally mean death. I can imagine someone who doesn’t have the linguistic & cultural connection with The West to wish something like that upon someone in a heartfelt manner.

It’s The United States.

With huge boats.

With guns.

(Gunboats)

And probably a deep fried snack next to it.

At least he didn’t have a chat with Marjolein Faber. Otherwise he’d have retroactively died two months ago.

There’s a thing going round Dutch media circles that the pope also spoke with Mona Keijzer, Dutch Minister of housing, appointed in the current PVV trash fire government that somehow still hasn’t collapsed, and herself fairly cringe. The running gag is that if either Keijzer or Vance met the Pope at a different moment, he might still be alive instead of having died of cringe overload.

There is an official DragonForce map though, soooooo…