I’m really curious about watching the rest of the series, because I’m sure there’s going to be other stuff there that shows up in other films. The first thing I recognize that shows up in Spaceballs is going to blow my tiny mind.

Starting off my week with a crown on a molar that decided that chewing wasn’t really an activity it wanted to participate in. Heartened by how my team performed on last Friday when I took a day off, and there were some escalations/failures.

This is a great point that it’s more of a era or genera than a designator to be applied as the work ages. You have Rockabilly, Classic Rock, Grunge Rock, etc.

One of the things that makes music slightly different than durable goods, although I would have a hard time calling anything from the 90’s “vintage,” but it’s getting close to that age.

Epic pockets, I hope.

Growing up, the family joke was that it’s not a project until there’s blood!

I used to do this with Gentoo, and it was always a blast! Glad that you’re having fun “rolling your own!”

Thanks for sharing! I appreciate it!

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for your ideas! I appreciate it!

I kind of feel like a weirdo for not chatting a lot, I guess?

Wooo! At the game, and trying to drum up some participation, somewhere other than… the other site.

I don’t know. Windows 7 was widely considered to be the nadir.

Gosh! This takes me back! What a great game!

I bought the various flavors of Gameboy just to play the slew of those games.

I tend to play a lot of the old text-tile games that I cut my teeth on back starting with Angband. Any of those variants are enjoyable, but I pretty much stick to Zangband (Angband adding in the work of Zelazny) and frogcomposband (It’s a mouthfull, but FUN).

It’s kind of the defining line between “community as a product” and “community as a platform.” What is offered and provided is a platform for all of us to work together to build and sustain a community. What we’re used to is the other type, where there has always been a drive to monetize the experience. It’s like the fallacy that content creators owe their audience anything other than the content they’ve already provided. The people here running and moderating the community have my respect and admiration, because it’s not something I’d willingly step into, knowing the unrealistic expectations of most Internet participants.

This is some good news. I don’t have a deep or intelligent comment beyond, “nice.”

I think you hit on one of the key points. Every other time this same pattern has played out, each of those sites becomes a shadow of what they once were, but the continue because (to be blunt) running Internet sites is CHEAP.

Really, it’s totally in the category “when you’re getting something for free, you’re not the audience, but rather the product.”

When people failed to buy in very deeply to the tchotchkes to “pay” for Reddit, it was the last gasp of any effort other than wholesaling the dataset to advertisers and anyone willing to pay for the content.

My break from Reddit wasn’t driven by any one single act, but rather the continued (and organized) sanitization of the Internet to appease conservative, Christian investors who make demands on the morality of the content of a site.

There is a large enough body of people who fetishize C-level roles, and “profit uber alles” mentalities that will keep most for-profit endeavors fully staffed and running, even with volunteer labor and content creation. The risk of “everyone under one roof,” is also the strength. When the roof covers a large enough swath, the biomass itself is enough to keep the roof off the ground, and there’s enough room in the middle with people scrambling to push and shove their way in.