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Moist. There, I said it.

This photo is, like, 8 million pixels of something lightyears away, and poor @Whizbang Dustyboots can't scrape together 1000 pixels from an image taken in-person... smh...

Back when I played GURPS, we did this with "Game Design," which we could justify for a truly absurd number of other skills: "Macroeconomics," "Physics," various "History" skills, etc.

I can explain that. If you're familiar with GURPS, you'll know there's a mechanism where, if you lack one skill, you can default to another skill at a penalty. So, for example, if you need to do a decryption and you don't have the "Encryption" skill (for code breaking), but you have "Tradecraft"...

Oh, if anybody else here works IT, be aware that the lead time to order some optics for some popular switch manufacturers is now approaching TWO YEARS...

Sure, I was a consultant for almost 20 years, so I have that, but it's true that a lot of IT guys don't seem to understand what it entails. Today's FAFO moment is definitely in the thread where the guy who ordered equipment did it wrong. They want to let the support contract on one switch...

I think everybody who works in IT should work for just one week in the actual Data Center, so they have an idea of how it works, so when they plan things they don't always go pear-shaped.

Me: "Thank you for this high-level Visio diagram, which looks very pretty, but I wanted to ask about the cabling matrix, and to get a list of where the devices are located in the data center, so we can make the connections. It's due December 1st, so I wanted to confirm things." Them: "Let's link...

Are you STILL arguing on the Internet? That's so Early Internet! How gauche!

Just because you have your character unalive themselves, does not mean you get to leave the vicinity of my odious personality! How dare you! My odious personality pervades all Time and Space! I'm like the Lovecraftian Demiurge of Unpleasant Persons!

"Unfortunately, your character is so bad at things due to his low stats, that the rope becomes undone and you float to the surface, unconscious. There, you are found by goblin minions of the BBEG for the next encounter, who bring you to their camp. When the rest of the PCs arrive, you have just...

You will think I have a drug problem, then, if you ever met me. I have real issues with long-term memory. I will get up early to do something, remember it perfectly upon waking up, and then lose track sometime during my morning shower and end up leisurely making coffee in the kitchen before...

Rather than calling them "cracks," I like to refer to it as "cratering." I said it survived millions of miles of space, but I didn't mean "undamaged"... Seriously speaking, I don't think non-scientists appreciate just how damaging the environmental conditions on Earth really are, cosmically...

I don't wear jewelry -- I don't care for it. That said, my wife got me a wedding ring with a band of meteorite worked into it. It's the only thing I wear. I am reasonably sure it will survive regular contact with water, but I still take it off every time I shower. I like to muse about the fact...

Well, cancer can go naughty word itself. Naughty word itself right in the other naughty word!

That's what I always say! The mob! Or, as I believe they prefer to be called nowadays, a company in the financial sector.

Came here to say this. John Reese got a new life from Harold Finch, and repaid him exactly in the end. As he said, he was dead when Harold found him, and in giving him a job, he gave him a new purpose which he was now able to fulfill in a satisfying way. And I was worried about the series...

Just @ me next time!

Six people in the industry are catering to your tastes‽‽‽ ... Tell me who they are so I may complain at them until they see the error of their ways!

First trip to Disney World done. We made it a one-day trip to Epcot, and it was still too much for my 2-year-old. She was definitely overstimulated by 2pm. But it was good, she got to be introduced to her mother's response to such things: obviously, the cure for overstimulation is just ONE MORE...