My friend, talking about hirelings: “They’re just soulless followers! They don’t have any sort of personality!”

Me: “I know.”

I got on ICQ in 97 or 98 to keep up with friends from a MUD and mine was 7 digits. I haven’t logged into it in over a decade because when I went back to see if anyone from the old game was around none ever showed up online.

I knew what this would be and still clicked on it. I’ll always watch that clip.

Came here to say this. I’ve worked on systems for a restaurant on the beach and it was corroded as hell. We had the wireless access points in cheap “weatherproof” boxes and they got corroded. We replaced them once a year or so because it was so bad.

It’s unique in it’s looks.

That’s what they said about me.

Hey, leave Drunk Steve out of this. He did nothing wrong.

Roscoe, arrest them Duke boys!

Totally get that. I did exactly that for years until I came up with a (slightly convoluted) system that works for me.

Same. If I have cash it’s because I needed it for something specific and haven’t managed to get rid of the change.

I can taste it when a restaurant isn’t cleaning their nozzles properly. It’s fucking nasty.

Just tell him the only way to mine it is with windmill power. He’ll change his tune.

No, no, they’re right. I entered my motorcycle in a soapbox derby and won. Everyone agreed we should just light all the derby cars on fire and no soapbox derby cars should ever be made again.

I’m in my 40s and I barely made it through a bunch because before playing I hadn’t gamed in a decade, this was my first souls-like, and I’m honestly just not that good.

I never summoned. I only played online long enough to do the white mask quest. I was proud of what I did and very happy with my 100% achievements.

That being said, I wouldn’t begrudge someone turning the difficulty down if it were available. I see anything that allows more people to enjoy it as a win.

She would have been a great captain and every episode would have been wrapped up in 3 minutes.

Let me start off by saying I do not disagree. Even without death it can cause nasty stomach pains (not ulcers, though, that myth was dispelled) and cause severe irritation on the way out. In addition, a LOT of folks have undiagnosed conditions. I’m just adding perspective. I see no issue with adding a warning to products seasoned with peppers in the 800k+ range the same way you’d add one for a roller coaster because it absolutely can kill you if you have a medical condition and I’m not so sure that people realize that.

For spicy food to kill an average healthy person, you’d have to consume a few pounds of super hot peppers to get that sweet infarction. Ghost peppers come in around 1,000,000 scoville units and the one chip challenge is seasoned with vipers and reapers which come in under 2m (there’s no official scoville rating that I could find on the chip itself). Some of the nastier sauces (Pure Evil and Plutonium No. 9) come in between 10m and 13m and those are eaten by heat aficionados and idiots looking to prove something with no more ill effects than shitting yourself inside out and pouring milk on your brown eye to relieve the burning.

The story about that kid is absolutely tragic. He was 14 with cardiomegaly and myocardial bridging of the left anterior descending coronary artery (enlarged heart and a congenital defect). I don’t know if he was previously diagnosed (that’s a whole discussion about our healthcare system in the US) but eating a chip like that at 14 with other conditions is a health decision. He didn’t know the risks because there was no health warning and possibly he didn’t know about his condition.

I would buy that.

How much of that is IT and how much is the damn CIO who was appointed because he’s the CEOs wife’s cousin instead of because he knows anything and refuses to change his password?

But I’m not bitter. At least I didn’t get caught in this one.

And an accountant, but yeah this is solid advice. It was definitely something I knew but didn’t realize that it’s harder than it looks back when I did it.

Yep. I’ve done exactly that. Something overlooked a lot of places is to actually start an LLC (it does cost a bit, especially if you’re strapped) if you can because that protects you. If you screw something up by accident a company can either come after you personally or the business that employs you.

At least it’s not still just Uwe Boll making adaptations.