It got me thinking about whether intentionally or not, the rules of simple sabotage had started to flourish there. This raises the question: the field manual was written for people who were living under an oppressive regime in order to slow a genocidal war machine. Why would people in the workforce intentionally hinder systems of infrastructure by which everyone relies on each other for survival?

The answer was right there in the new Ryan Reynolds movie: Mayday.

I've been thinking about this a lot because yesterday Becky and I were talking about the fall of Communism in the USSR. She said that the biggest problems they faced were logistics. They produced enough food etc for everyone but there were frequent tales of rail frieght shipments going missing on supply lines only to be found full of rancid produce in the back of a train depot because it hadn't been properly directed or tracked.

A lot of fiction depicts heaven as being like a big bureaucracy where angels thanklessly coordinate the development of human civilisation, and increasingly I wonder what would happen if the angels got hold of a copy of the @simple_sabotage field manual, and whether the end result would look any different to the world as it currently stands.

RE: https://fediscience.org/@freyablekman/116659370911067873

Looking forward to the Fucking Colossal Collider - Enormous Edition finally yeeting the Earth out of its orbit and into a black hole.

Hot take time, games have always been good. There was never a point where they were better or worse as a whole. There has always been a wide range in quality. The sweet spot is £12-£30 If a game costs between £12 and £30 it's probably a banger in any generation. If it costs less than that it can probably still be fun but a bit basic. If it costs more than that it's probably a bit soulless and corpo.

Has it occurred to anyone else that Windows, the expensive operating system pesters you with ads and tries to invade your privacy, whereas Linux, the free operating system, doesn't do any of that shit?

I remember when paying for something meant no ads and getting the free equivalent was ad supported.

It's like the entire consumer economy has broken down.

Can someone who understands energy settle an argument?

This morning I air fried an egg, still in the shell. It took 8 minutes at 180C, and was identical to an egg boiled for 3 minutes in a pan on our electric hob.

But is it more energy efficient to boil for 3 minutes, given the inefficiency of the hob and the fact that you also need to heat up a pan full of water? My dad and I have been arguing either case and we're both making pretty solid arguments for people who dont know much.

@mcc

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#Glitch4Andi

This has already been solved but Im going to keep running it so long as people keep voting. This is day 2.

Its #sarlaccpit - hangman with Star Wars quotes.

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_Rules here: https://c.im/@darth_hideout/113631196868456567

Vote on a letter to reveal or guess the full quote behind a CW.

Refactoring is such a pain in the arse because you can spend all day coding and when you're done you've spent hours chasing down compiler errors and bugs and eventually everything works exactly the same as it did before you started.

First up, the game I squeezed in at the end of December: a Little to the Left, from Max Inferno. I actually played this years ago but I discovered a new DLC called Seeing Stars.

This game is mouse controlled and all about arranging things into patterns or orderly arrangements. Seeing Stars has a focus on levels with multiple solutions, including my favorite, the "fit everything back in the box" puzzles.

Recommended for anyone who likes jigsaws or "satisfying" videos.

So this is my roundup of games I played this year and recommend.

These weren't all released this year, and this isn't all the games I played. They're also not in any particular order.

You may notice genre gaps in this, but what can I say, I know what I like.

This will be a thread so unless there's a post at the end saying its the end, assume it will get longer.

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