Dammit, I always forget to check…

“Just sit there and take it, we’re all friends here!”

Yes, I wanted to really bring out the simultaneous artificiality and humanity of the money. The money is unruly and spoilt, it has become wilful and uncontrolled, but the money is like our collective child, a product of the human mind, so it is part of us. I want people to say “oh, this is just like my spleen, or my tooth, or my impacted toenail, it is part of my being, but it does not control me,” you see.

12 years in QA, babyyy (please aim for my amygdala…)!

Edit: also, my standard rate is €1.5 per simple piece, €2 if you want squiggles.

This one’s a free sample of my work, I can be contacted via Lemmy.

Cash only, thank you!

Mum had a specific wish for all of those who hurt animals: “I hope they get exactly what they gave to that poor soul.”

Good point, even if, like, half of them were to be DOA, that’s still a lotta friggin’ tarantulas…

Oh, nothing strange about that, but… is the market for pet tarantulas THAT big?! Damn!

… why?

This may be a stupid question, but… is “Excellency” used in a presidential context?:| I’ve only ever known it to be used when talking about monarchy and the Pope…

On a marginally related note, has anyone noticed how frustrating all of the Darth Vader “NOOOOOO!” gifs are because they don’t include that awkward stumbling off of the operating table?

On a thoroughly related note, what happened to our version, the European one? I seem to remember we had something similar, Eutelsat, or smth?

Edit: checked, yep, Eutelsat. What gives, like? Why not use that one?

Too fucking right… I have nothing more to add, you are as painfully on-point as possible…

If the actual spending was that large, we, the citizenry, would see it. But we don’t. Our living situation has steadily degraded over time, wages have stagnated for at least a decade, our infrastructure’s essentially unchanged from the 80s… And many other such examples.

No, the country isn’t spending, the politicians are, for themselves and their families. In Romania, as long as you don’t steal from the big wigs, nobody gives a shit.

Edit: in my opinion, Brussels should lay into them like a fucking hurricane.

cough check their pockets cough

Just sayin’, pretty much everyone around here knows…

Well, that would spoil the fun, wouldn’t it! I mean, that soul-whittling existential anxiety I get whenever I pick up an online-only game is 90% of the reason why I play them in the first place!

100%! Every single developer I’ve ever met has been adamant about wanting to watch their work, hours of their life, be killed off on a financial basis! They told me so personally!

Edit: speaking seriously now, I don’t get what their fucking problem is… Nobody’s asking them to keep the servers running indefinitely. I mean, the far, far smarter choice would be to implement LAN play. Hell, not even that, give us the source code and we’ll do it on our own! The community has been aces at keeping old multiplayer games alive and kicking, just look at Battlefield 2142, custom WoW servers, custom, like… whatever servers. There are so, so many people willing to keep these games alive without any help from the publisher or anyone else.

Dammit… Wellp! Guess I’m learning how to grow my own tobacco!

I genuinely don’t understand how this hasn’t been clear as day for everyone from the start. We’ve seen Putin (I still refuse to say Russia because it’s not Russia’s war, it’s Putin’s specifically) do this many, many times before! He’s shown us his methods, he’s broadcast his intentions over and over again (especially when trying to disguise them, I’d say, because his lies are always absurd and stupid), we all know why he’s doing what he’s doing. Why are we dancing around the subject, trying to give the benefit of the doubt to the wolf who’s lounging belly-up in the middle of our empty and bloodied sheep pen?

We’d be better off if we’d switch to an all bean and cabbage diet and store the farts. No. Fuck Putin. Like, seriously.

If anyone seriously considers this, then Putin has successfully played you for a fool. You’ll end up financing the hand with which he’ll eventually (and inevitably) slap you.

Wow… and that’s still not enough of a reason for the rest of the world to roll up our sleeves and start slapping the shit out of Putin, eh? Cool, cool…