MajorHavoc
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- Comment on Federal workers vs Elon Musk: I’ve never seen a billionaire carry the mail, put out a forest fire, make sure people get their Social Security checks, answer a phone call from a suicidal veteran 4 days ago:
Musk is going to lose a lot of legal cases as he gets older and less powerful.
I find myself hoping that part of his sentence is to spend weeks doing all of the jobs he’s unable to take seriously - and that it gets televised.
- Comment on Over 12,000 KerioControl firewalls exposed to exploited RCE flaw 1 week ago:
The Possum Lodge Volunteer Firefighters have had their first fire, and are now disbanded.
Why would…the fire was in the fire truck, wasn’t it?!
There’s a special irony when the thing meant to protect is the thing that gets compromised.
And the makers of a firewall absolutely should have been thinking about getting attacked, because that’s a big part of what their product is for. Oof.
- Comment on Seven Years Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Let Attackers Execute Remote Code 1 week ago:
Seven years old? Better leave it in for backwards community…
- Comment on Kevin Smith's Dogma getting a new release of some kind? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Violet Blue: America’s unfolding cybersecurity catastrophe 1 week ago:
Brings new meaning to the words “People centric security”. Humans with integrity are the remaining defense, when the computers fail.
- Comment on Google requires developer accounts to be verified (good) so now scammers are trying to hijack legitimate accounts (not so good) 2 weeks ago:
Deep down, aren’t we all…Charles?
- Comment on NALC members overwhelming vote NO to new contract with USPS including low cost of living increase of only 1.3% 2 weeks ago:
Good for them. 1.3% as a cost of living adjustment is some undefendable bullshit.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. 2028 is the nice friendly version, where the ruling class plays by the rules. I’m hoping for that version. There’s no reason we can’t have that version.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 weeks ago:
Yep! Peaceful legal strikes are a privilege that our ruling class currently benefits from. Everyone is better off if the ruling class remembers that.
Civil unrest needs outlets. Legal ones are a great tool.
- Comment on Day 198 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 weeks ago:
I wish i hadn’t spoiled it for myself years ago though
For what it’s worth, I read the book the game was based on, before playing the game, so I knew ::: spoiler (vague nature of a Reach spoiler) how the ending would go ::: in advance, but it still works great, even when spoiled.
But that’s why I still can’t even include it inside a spoiler tag. Feels best to let folks find it themselves, who don’t already know.
- Comment on Day 198 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 weeks ago:
Oh, yeah. Reach is worth finishing.
There’s some great stuff.
Spoilers for Reach
+ I personally found it very satisfying that the mission leading up to a space battle actually then includes participating in the space battle, and it’s fun. Most games would cutscene past what the game engine couldn’t handle, or would include a barely playable space battle. The one in Reach was a nice surprise. + The cutscene after taking down the space station is easily among the top 10 video game cutscenes, for me. It may be the most Spartan thing ever Spartan-ed. + The end fight is pretty unique. I replayed it recently with my kid, and I was amused by the respect it earned with him. I can’t even put it in a spoiler tag, though.
- Comment on What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection. 3 weeks ago:
tldr; punish the poor fuckers getting out of jail. yay capitalism!
Wow. I never caught this. Considering the game’s origin as an anti-capitalist teaching aid, I wonder if it’s intentional.
- Comment on What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection. 3 weeks ago:
My favourite board game without a doubt is diplomacy but those games go for like 6+ hours and requires 7 people. Also everybody will be yelling at everybody at some point, so yeah probably not a good pick lol
Yeah. Diplomacy is fantastic…and we can strongly recommend that OP avoid it, anyway. Lol.
- Comment on What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection. 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah. Dead of Winter is so good!
- Comment on What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection. 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I’m going to have to pick up a copy of Mists over Carcassonne. Thank you!
- Comment on What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection. 3 weeks ago:
- Tiny Epic Zombies is a cooperate, often hilarious, always satisfying zombie survival simulator. +Tiny Epic Dinosaurs is a mildly competitive, generally delightful Jurassic Park / Petting zoo simulator.
- Tiny Epic pirates is a crunchy but quick pirate simulator where most interactions are your human controlled pirates evading the automated Navy while racing for loot.
- The Fast and the Furious (board game) is a fantastic quick co-op romp.
- Here to There is a story driven light economy game ever the focus is on building your economy engine to unlock the next interesting story twist.
- Machi Koro lacks a co-op variant, but it’s pretty chill and it’s easy to house rule the aggressive competitive cards to pay out from the shared bank.
- The Book of Madness is a fantastic light Co-op deck builder with great positive interactions and a fantastic theme (students at Hogwarts trying to close an evil book)
- Caverna is a robust building game with chill interactions.
Already mentioned, but worth reiterating:
- The Crew
- Tokaido
- Ticket to Ride
- Forbidden Island/Skies/Dessert/Forrest
- Pandemic
And he sure to check out Rhado Runs Through for game reviews. He plays mostly with his wife, and so always reviews how the game feels to play together without backstabbing.
- Comment on What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. It’s super easy to house-rule Carcassonne as a pure co-op game. Remove the farmers (to keep your sanity, because co-op is actually much harder), keep the rules about Castle and road occupation (where a tie gets scored for each tied player), and play to maximize the combined players score. None of the strategy is lost and trying to carefully double occupy everything is sometimes a nail biting challenge.
- Comment on Crocodile Dundee | New 'Encore Cut' removes footage from original film 3 weeks ago:
but these two Crocodile Dundee scenes are just dumb gags that contribute nothing.
Yeah. I don’t disagree with folks who say “give us both and let us pick”, but as a consumer, I would probably just feel like my time was wasted with this one, after given the choice.
It’s just not a big loss to rip it out. To me, it’s not even worth the minutes I would spend deciding which version to watch. Lol.
- Comment on Crocodile Dundee | New 'Encore Cut' removes footage from original film 3 weeks ago:
Reading headline: How dare they chop up this masterpiece!
After reading details: Oh. Yeah. Probably for the best. Lol.
Hogan’ response nails it:
Hogan’s response is that people pointed out to him that “this guy is a folk hero around the world. He shouldn’t be groping people. And I thought yeah that’s right, he shouldn’t be, so take it out. I mean, he did it in all innocence, in naivety, but it’s better without it”.
- Comment on I am in the US and its gotten very political but as pretty much a peon do I just tune the stuff out thinking its fear mongering? Or should I closely pay attention to it? 3 weeks ago:
It’s okay. We can take turns at our mental health allows. Our billionaire overlords are incredibly powerful, but there’s a shit ton more of the rest of us, than there are of them, even counting their many paid cronies.
- Comment on I am in the US and its gotten very political but as pretty much a peon do I just tune the stuff out thinking its fear mongering? Or should I closely pay attention to it? 3 weeks ago:
This is a great point. If we only have bandwidth to listen to a single news source, we could all do worse than choosing the ACLU or the Electronic Frontier Foundation!
- Comment on I am in the US and its gotten very political but as pretty much a peon do I just tune the stuff out thinking its fear mongering? Or should I closely pay attention to it? 3 weeks ago:
Are you a rich, white, straight male?
Good list. Need to add “healthy” to it, too.
- Comment on Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all? 3 weeks ago:
Remember folks, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory lives on as an open source project.
- Comment on Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all? 4 weeks ago:
I would play that.
- Comment on Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning! 4 weeks ago:
Thank you. I don’t have any vacancies right now, but I’ll be happy to let you know if that changes.
- Comment on Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning! 4 weeks ago:
As a candidate, I have a couple of trusted recruiters I prefer to work through.
I found them through trial and error.
As an employer, every year I call and buy lunch for at least about a dozen potential future employees, to remind them that my team exists and that I think they could be a good fit.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 4 weeks ago:
Ooh. I like that. Ethical, and fun!
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 4 weeks ago:
Lol. I did put my money on “barely distinguishable from the Switch 1, maybe bigger”. I guess I win the betting pool.
I’m mainly happy because I didn’t want to be tempted to support Nintendo’s lawsuit happy asses, anyway.
If they ever release a Virtual Boy Mini, my conscience will never recover from my own hypocrisy, though.
- Comment on Microsoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cuts 5 weeks ago:
It’s pretty important to me to not turn to a life of crime, but I appreciate everyone laying off their security teams, and putting all their most valuable data in one place, just in case I should change my mind…
I’m not going to change my mind, but it’s awfully considerate anyway.
- Comment on Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. This is the important nuance. I would vote for necktie duck, but I’ll carry bowtie duck with me to a party.
