All that money and effort and he still looks like an a B-tier action film actor three months after filming wrapped and he no longer needs to maintain the comic-book physique.

Used games held the console market in balance. You knew if you didn’t like a game, you could trade it and get something back, or at least buy a cheap used copy if you weren’t sure on a title.

The PC game market is kept in balance by constant discounting and availability. You manage risk by saying “I’ll wait a few years and get it for $4.98 instead.”

The presence of secomdary sellers (Fanatical, Humble Bundle etc) and even distinct markets (GoG, itch, service games that sell through their own accounts) means Steam still doesn’t have the same market-defining power Sony will in a post-disc world.

The numbers are different but in obvious reserved ranges so people can’t cut them apart and sell them as a premium as a cutting error.

I have such a sheet on my wall.

It feels like there should be a thinly-veiled environmentalist allegory.

Does some other faction just build mobile Dyson spheres to carry around limitless solar power?

This stock photo upsets me. It’s not AI because AI would be wrong and terrible in excitingly DIFFERENT ways.

American currency is simply not printed that way.

The serial numbers are applied in a separate pass, after printing is completed. And they won’t all be the same.

The notes are printed in sheets with a flat plate, not a newspaper-style continuous roll.

Come on. Thry literally do public tours where you can see the process. It’s free. Send someone down with a Nikon if you have to. There’s no reason to be this wrong on something this trivial.

They issue some particularly weird currency.

I’m not joking. They issued brightly coloured plastic coins, including square, pentagonal, and hexagonal types.

That would explain why Risa Whatsherface could afford to send two different flyers to my family.

I saw this one a while back… https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256809753608812.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt

Is it the one you got? Is it soft and squishy?

The 120cm size one looks like it has body pillow potential for when Blahaj doesn’t make quite the statement you’re after.

Tell us what we’re supposed to be excited about?

If you’re a white-collar worker, it’s either a bludgeon your boss is using to threaten to sack you, or an excuse as to why you should generate 5x more output without any more pay.

If you’re a media consumer, it’s a fountain of endless low-quality crap. Resources you used to be able to trust are being undermined.

These might be exciting if you’re a sociopathic billionaire or wannabe-billionaire, but for the rest of use, the closest to a positive payout we have is a bunch of gacha machines that can produce mediocre graphics/music/text shaped things which might dovetail with what you’re doing, until their economic unviability causes them to go out. (I think consumer video gen is already disappearing)

Not sure I’m quite willing to undermine civilization rather than fibd stock photos for my blog posts.

I work in payments.

Remember the Superman movie scheme taking a fraction of a cent off of every transaction? Every time you dip your card, 1/30 of a cent is sent directly to Kim Jong-Il’s personal hairdresser.

Coming in 2027 is the all-new Hezbollah Rewards scheme, where 125,000 points can be exchanged for a custom-painted missile lofted towards Tel Aviv.

I keep looking for a mail-order spouse, but I’m only willing to order from the “free shipping once you spend USD10” section of Aliexpress.

I’ve been using Geany a bit lately-- it’s more of an “IDE-light” than Notepad++'s “editor-heavy”

But also notepadqq, or if you want a very ancient feel, Xnedit.

We switched from TSMC to Frito-Lay and passed the savings on to you!

Broik broik <3

You forgot NsCDE.

This seems like a joke where the punchline is “Gary, Indiana.”

They’re also tiny. I had one land on my arm recently and it was maybe 7mm in the lobgest dimension when fully stretched out.

So big “u wot mate?” energy with the tiny waving pincers.

Pudding should come in a medium size packet. The ~100ml kid-lunchbox ones are too small, but the ~500ml “family size” ones are too big for a single serving and apt to go watery before you’re done.

I wonder if having at least one eye on the ball might be their secret sauce.

I have to think right now there are people at nVidia (and also AMD) saying “gamers are a buzzing insect like distraction” when every barely-consumer-afforbable $750 “midrange” GPU they sell represents some fab capacity that could have been part of a five-digit AI component.

Where was the picture taken? The locomotives look like common North American SD70M types, but the headlights are weird and the lack of numbers is atypical.