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Haha, I thought I was the only one!

I started doing it to annoy my wife, but now I still do it, and it's taking considerable concentration to not dab when I sneeze.

Be honest, do you think he's worked on them at all since the show started?

He may have done a chapter, maybe two since then? That's probably it, though.

He has no intention of finishing, especially now that the show is done and people are left with negativity surrounding the ending. It's the worst possible situation for him, because even if he wanted to finish the books there's just no way he can do it.

IMO, the best thing he can do is acknowledge this, and draw a line in it. Either hand it off to a protégé or writer friend that is happy to continue the story, or outright say that ASOIAF is done.

The reason he hasn't finished (or isn't even trying any more) is because he's written himself into a corner. There are a lot of loose ends and parts that don't make sense, and that's not even counting the parts that the show left out!

He probably felt dread, because he was probably hoping that they'd fix some of the mistakes he made, and make writing the book simpler.

You should set up a Kickstarter, send it to all the SovCit and Flat Earth Facebook pages, saying that you're going to create a realistic SIM of flat earth, and then release a fantasy game based on all of their ideas and watch the meltdown create the best press a game has ever received before launch.

One of the principal engineers I used to know had this as theirs:

"I don't always respond to emails on time. If you need me to respond immediately, come to my desk Mon-Wed to say hello. If I'm not there, wait until Mon. If you're in a different country, book a plane ticket the week prior and speak to me on Mon."

The funny part is that they didn't have a desk, and were almost always in a different office to where they were supposed to be.

Since becoming a father I've been absolutely amazed at just how awful the baby market is for shit like this, whether it's locking key advertised services behind subscriptions, treating staff like shit, releasing faulty products, having awful customer service, you name it.

The worst part is that there is such a strong market for "momfluencers" that you'll find that every brand has ambassadors that sign up for free, get money off of their products (sometimes not even that, just being able to get new products a day earlier), all for them to shill on social media.

I promise you, let the dust settle, and within weeks if you were to raise his in Instagram someone will reply to tell you to "drop it" or to "stop being so negative". The last time Kyte Baby went through some shit for firing an employee for being in the NICU and not in office their affiliates were commenting on "negative people's" pictures to criticise what their babies were wearing/using, because it wasn't their brand.

Snoo are big on the affiliate thing, much like Kyte are, and I promise you their affiliates will be on damage control soon.

600k losses is absolutely astonishing, if true. Wikipedia places their armed personnel numbers at ~2.5m, so to lose a fifth of your army to a war that you didn't need to start, that will ultimately leave you in a worse strategic position is ridiculous.

What is the endgame here? In two years they've lost a fifth of their army. In ten years will it be the entire army? I just don't see why they're continuing.

People were saying this 20+ years ago because goths could talk online in chat rooms, see other goths on TV, had specific nights in goth-friendly bars, etc. It was always a mixture of both - unique, but not enough.

Very unpopular opinion, but a hill I will die on.

The quality of Community dropped considerably when Pierce wasn't a part of the main cast. His criticisms of the writing were often on the money, as the payoff he'd often get from being the father figure to Jeff (e.g. the barber episode) or the unsuspecting hero (Paintball) were some of the best. When he was allowed to be human he was great, when he was a pure asshole it was lazy.

Yes, Chevy Chase is a monumental cunt...but that was close to a decade ago now. The "young" Annie is played by a woman in her forties with a 20+ year career in acting, and the entire cast is essentially a who's who of Hollywood and TV elite right now. Everyone has moved on, and Chase did an interview years ago stating that he'd learned from his isolation and wanted one more shot at work. He did some stuff for Netflix that went well, so he's not completely out of Hollywood. Let's not forget that Harmon was fired because he was a cunt too - a cunt that showed up Chase in front of his family, alongside abusing a writer that didn't want to have sex with him while he was a man in a committed relationship. He gets a pass because of his writing abilities, so why shouldn't Chase get another chance?

IMO Harmon should reach out and ask Chase to be in the movie. Have him sign a deal to say that he'll get nothing if he's abusive or racist on set, and let him end his career on a high. Having Pierce alive would almost certainly be a plot for a movie in itself.

It's a symptom of shareholder-driven development.

Many companies pushing AI have had huge layoffs, and haven't launched anything worthwhile in years. Many of these companies have a metric fuck-ton of data, and already do some kind of AI (they probably have had LLM's for years too). This way, they can spend money and make it look like they're doing groundbreaking stuff to ensure shareholders are happy.

They'll continue to do stealth layoffs of people outside of AI, until the hype dies down, and they'll move to the next grift - after laying off all of their AI folks.

Alex Kidd in Miracle World.

Such a great game, and so fucking hard!

The Pixels are probably the best high-end phone, but today the selection available is all bad enough that your choice comes down to "what features can I lose?"

Even the likes of OnePlus have been shit for years. A company that literally entered the market on releasing an affordable flagship with near-stock software. Their last great phone was the OnePlus 6, before they decided to start ditching features.

I had assumed that more companies would enter the market and take over, but that hasn't happened. You still end up with no choice, whether it's a poor screen, an awful camera, no storage, removed ports/jacks, no NFC support, or stupid little features that no one would actually give a shit about.

The strength of early Android was that you had flagship phones that had the best new features, and experimental releases that tried new things on a budget like barcode scanners, slide-out keyboards, a desktop OS, remote features, etc. This still exists, but you're paying even more for the pleasure of testing something in the wild.

IMO, the world could use a new mobile OS, and one grounded in reality.