My jokes tend to be terrible, so not really, but what will really get me laughing is the reaction of other people to how terrible they are.

Probably shouldn't laugh at that to be fair, what with causing suffering and all that, but as suffering goes it could be far worse.

It's far more likely to make them avoid comics in case they see another one like it and then withdraw further into their hobby.

Unfortunately, our direction at the moment is taking us ever closer to being the Borg.

Centrist government says: We've done the lefty thing. Leaving that in place is a righty thing, so no. Balance

Trump is not known for measured responses. If he feels like he needs to retaliate for something, expect the simplest, clumsiest, most damaging response.

For example, why do you think he jumped straight to the idea of tariffs? If you imagine a tariff as a wall, then it's exactly the same as "build a wall and make [the other side] pay for it".

As such, you've got to have him believe you're being nice, even if you're not, because if he thinks for one moment you're not genuine, he'll lash out like the spoiled child he is.

successful

Even your second sentence implies that he wasn't. Not in his goal anyway.

Well, there was that guy who took a pot shot at Trump, so if you count that, we're already at two...

The comic takes place at midday on the winter solstice, so it's like a beautiful spring day, just as it shouldn't be.

(I'll leave it up to someone more motivated to figure out what the shadow length and mountains indicate about what this means for latitude and longitude, but I'm pretty sure it's not impossible.)

The tens of thousands of people on YouTube and Twitch for starters.

Valve is that perfect example of being just shitty enough to be annoying without stepping over the line into complete enshittification. But this too will happen. I reckon there'd be good odds of it happening not long after Gabe retires.

If assassins started going after the guards, those guards might want more danger money.

For legal reasons, this is an observation not a suggestion.

Oh yeah. Trying to get Black Mesa - which is a HL2 mod that became a game in its own right - to look right on a modern Linux PC has been less than fun. Textures, lighting and shadows are messed up in many places, basically breaking the flashlight most of the time. The game is 99% there, but that other 1% is impossible to ignore. The game plays fine... when you can see.

Kind of glad I got the game on sale.

But anyway, yes I'm kind of surprised that the textures seem to be different in the two screenshots. The lighting is necessarily different because HDR isn't well supported (if it is at all) on Linux, but I would have thought that keeping the textures in line would be something Valve would be able to do.