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Tom Lehrer

So code-switching for compromise?

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/publishers-distributors-in-diamond-comics-bankruptcy-seek-mediation/

Our experiences... differ.

A little bit of that, and a lot of bits of compulsive overworkers we sometimes had to chase out of the office so they would sleep. Particularly important if you are a big believer - as I am - in the diminishing returns of time expended for knowledge workers ( IME, it eventually goes negative )...

When I worked for Sun, I was stunned they didn't track sick days. They trusted you not to abuse it. Even if it was a mental health day. Never heard of anyone abusing it.

Maybe I purged the memory.. Ironwood, was it?

Theatrix. Man. There's a name I had forgotten....

The original Friday Night Firefight rules...

I am reminded of the other manuscript I had at the same time as Nobilis.. from the same author...

Then compare that with Harnmaster ( at least the 1986 edition ) which had locations and degrees of severity that had their own saves and a count-up damage system for the locations...

My earliest "Oooooooh" moments in this space were Whispering Vault and Feng Shui. I feel like Paranoia and Ghostbusters need to be considered more strongly here as well, but I did not own GB...

Tubing.

This happened well before the acquisition

You made me spit take at a formal dinner. Thanks.

This was my first immediate thought, followed by probably harder to find, Millenium's End.

I constantly remind folks.... Bad Examples are STILL examples.

A special hell...

Typically, not enough eyes that are attached to people whose brains won't gap fill in the same way the authors' did.

Could be both. I once ran into a brain-numbing uninitialized strings issue when uplifting from 32 bit to 64 bit libraries that never triggered in the previous decade because... No idea. The folks who wrote the code woulda failed a 101 class because the (&)&( compiler they used before porting to...