EvilBit

Include an unprotected exhaust vent in the trench.

The humor is dry, yes, but so is the writing, which isn’t a good thing. It’s not nearly as immersive and evocative as it could be. I’m not recommending against them, just tempering expectations.

Friendly reminder that this shitstain opened a massive data center with a massively illegal number of gas turbines dumping unregulated quantities of pollutants into the already low-quality air 11 miles away from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

And then pretty soon the whole Council is just Smiths.

I just finished the first book along with the show. Honestly, the book is… fine? I would hope the writing improves with growth, because the book was weirdly monotonous and expository, partly by nature of the narrator, but that doesn’t make it less dry. So much was just stated explicitly and plainly, it made potentially exciting things feel boring. In the end it felt like a pretty good story told pretty poorly.

Knowing the Worst Timeline that we’re in, the documents will probably be littered with references to “Donald J. Biden” and the MAGAheads will all be fully convinced it was Biden all along.

It’s so hard to see Hugo Weaving as anything but Agent Smith. Elrond just looks like he’s gone undercover.

Looks like a pretty big trolley problem to me.

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I have two. The first one I can’t even believe it happened because it feels like bad writing to contrive the perfect circumstances.

I was in a tiny local comedy thing and we did these Weekend Update-style reworkings of local news. Someone was working out a skit that involved a bear and asked if anybody had a bear suit they could borrow. Turns out, they were pretty sure someone else at the comedy theater, a guy named Juan, had one. Someone asked, “Would it fit me?”

I had to say it.

“Guys, Juan size fits all!”

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The other was waaaay back, watching The Matrix at the student center in college. It had been out for a while and everybody had already seen it, but getting to rewatch it for a couple bucks on a big screen was worth it even for a poor college student. It comes to the scene where Agent Smith has Morpheus chained up and is interrogating him, then he describes the way humans consume and spread and destroy everything around them. Smith says, “Do you know what else does that?”

I call out from the crowd…

I’m not the kind to talk in movies, but again, I had to say it.

That emulation engine just runs Windows games, not Xbox games.

I think you’re right in that they highly prioritize cloud data and subscriptions, but that’s where the Game Pass road leads. Native apps on a subscription service now, bets all hedged for a possible all-cloud semi-distant future.