Ah, my bad, I saw it decades ago, and you did say you just saw it, I was needlessly hostile.

IIRC, … I think the movie actually did inspire a number of people, in real life, to attempt to do the … fractional penny slush fund.

Yep, here’s a more recent case:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/us/office-space-inspired-washington-software-engineer-thief/index.html

While it’s a comedy film, it surprisingly touched on a lot of areas seen in David Graeber’s ‘Bullshit Jobs’ concept, 14 years earlier.

… Surprising?

Just ahead of the curve.

… Sorta like how people seemed to think Carlin was… joking.

Delivered in an entertaining, humorous way?

Yes.

Joking?

No.

all good, i guess uh, cheers m@tey, yargh, haha!

… I had this start happening around the time I hit 30.

Not graying or wrinkles really… but the ear and nose hairs.

Fortunately, yes, it is basically as simple as ‘get an ear/nose trimmer’, but also yes, it is annoying.

I have yet to approach ‘nosestache’ levels though, lol.

Embrace.

Extend.

Extinguish. Extract rent now that everyone lives in / depends on your proprietary ecosystem.

I’d say they can’t keep getting away with it!, but history shows they clearly can.

Literally monopolist strategy 101.

Horrible anti-idea this made me think of:

Mustaches… but grown out of wildly prolific nose hairs.

Conduct a Comsat Station Scan at I8 to simultaneous scan for lurkers and also let mom know its ok that you’re missing dinner.

Alternatively:

Deploy Amy Rose to chase Sonic off the board with incessant fangirling marriage proposals.

… and the tanking exchange rate.

… Basically the entire US real estate industry uses Zillow.

It would be pretty darn surprising to find a for sale house or condo that is not on Zillow, but is only on some other site, or totally listed privately, or exclusively with some RE agench that isn’t posting on Zillow.

Been that way for at least a decade, if not nearly two decades.

… You are correct though that they are always ludicrously overpriced. That’s your housing bubble.

I did, and seeing as it didn’t make much sense contextually, assumed as much, lol.

The… cascading/branching comment thing… is better than a pure, one after another forum structure, but it does have complications.

… I proposed this as well, and another thing NaN is quite close to is… Naan bread, lol.

Basically a kind of flatbread, usually associated with India, sort of kind of like pita bread.

Its pronounced like… Non, at least the way I pronounce Non, as a PNW dialect English native speaker, not like Nan, as in Nanna, or other similar words to refer to a grandmother, or sometimes mother, different vowel sound.

Thanks haha.

Always remember:

Sucking at something is the first step toward being kinda good at something.

=D

Depending on what programming language you are using, and precisely how you’ve coded a function, which exact numerical data types, and functions/methods you are using…

Actually attempting to divide something by zero will result in either NaN, Not a Number, Null, or an Unhandled Exception, as an… output value/error type.

I tried to explain ‘void’ a bit better, Im not personally familiar with any code language that’ll have ‘void’ as an output/error type when you try to divide by zero… but most people use the phrase ‘null and void’, so, my brain associated that word in as well.

As far as how those terms refer back to an anarchist mindset?

I am ‘not a number’, I am a human being, so are all others.

Null or nulled out has been a cyberpunkish slang term to refer to both an individual being seen as inherently unspecial, not unique, made into just another consumer/commodity… as well referring to actually killing or otherwise neutralizing someone or something… for decades now.

It seems you get the less programmy meaning of ‘unhandled exception’, in the ‘become ungovernable’ sense, but now hopefully you also get the math/programmer meaning, and see how these all work as double entendres or at least have somewhat esoteric meanings.

… The problem is that they don’t work as well in common speech as a replacement for common nouns… with at least one of the reasons why that is the case being that evidently the multifarious meanings are too esoteric, lol, which is why I said I was mostly proposing these as jokes.

I think the first two are… well they got more flair, more pizzazz than my suggestions!

Maybe you could … go from diverrs to like… webdivers, or some flaired up spelling of that?

More of an old school / stereotypical cyberpunk way of saying you’re doing a big deep dive into the net to find useful info, webdivers or netdivers.

Leech my seed!

… im sorry, rofl

These are mostly joke suggestions, but:

NaNs

nulls

voids

unhandled exceptions

… common theme here is the math/programming joke, but many of them also capture elements of anarchism, or can be interpreted as adopting a self-referential moniker which mocking the systems anarchists critique.

… probably it is a bit of a reach, but a good number of people refer to black cats as ‘voids’ these days, and … pretty decent history of angry black cats as symbols of anarchism.

You could also maybe l33tsp33k them up a bit?

Use ‘z’ instead of ‘s’ to pluralize?

My FNV is through Steam… but… i think Limo does support GOG… I… would think you would, yes, have to set up your own filepaths, point it properly to where the game dir is, and it… should work?

You can launch a game from Limo, like, I do test runs of that in desktop mode on my Deck…

But the way the deployer system works is that you click deploy… and the even if you launch the game from some other way, like via Steam, in game mode on the deck, or… presumably via Heroic… it just now is the modded game. To revert, undeploy in Limo, and then either play vanilla, or swap to another modset profile and deploy that.

For NVSE, I just literally did the old school method of go into the real game dir, rename the main exe to .exe.old, and then rename the NVSE exe to the proper FONV game exe’s name.

That and manually install the dlls and other files that come with NVSE into the real dir.

This isn’t much of a problem with older games, but with newer games, that method would potentially be undone by ongoing update patches.

This is the kind of ‘some mods you just have to manually install’ thing… but in fairness… most of the time those mods are the same way on Windoes as well, unless some kind of mod manager goes far out of their way to specifically support that exact mod.

… why would you go out of your way to install a mod and then fight against what the mod does?

Like, sure, it’d be fairly nuts to make a variant of the game exe such that it basically uses a variant of the native save file format that is such an extensive rework that it builds some kind of literal self corruption mechanic into the save file itself…

… but it would not be that hard to tell the exe (provided, of course, you have succesfully decompiled it, or the relevant parts of it such that you launch mod.exe which sufficiently acts as a wrapper that then launches the actual game.exe within it, or can manipulate the vanilla game.exe/directory in realtime) to check the last update/file creation timestamp of the ironman save file itself, and check if it matches up with some kind of hash based off of that, where the decoding method/table for the hash is built into the exe itself… and then the exe deletes any save file that has been pasted into the directory manually when you run the exe, to start the game.

Kenshi doesn’t have a particularly complex DRM or AC service you’d need to actively fight against… you would just need a legit copy of the game with a valid key. It is a single player game that doesn’t even use online verification, its an old school cd key method.

I pointed to NVSE as an example because… it is similarly an exe that entirely replaces the vanilla game exe of Fallout New Vegas.

You could make a New Vegas mod that does this iron man thing trivially with NVSE, they already did the hard work of decompiling and reverse engineering the game exe, and then expanded its capabilities.

…

Imaging your entire drive would wipe out everything and reinstall the os from scratch, probably a new partition table too.

Restoring from a backup is again, fighting against a mod you have chosen to install becauae you wanted to use the mod.

Finally, the user, especially in Windows, absolutely does not have full control over the OS, unless you are literally hacking into it to defeat parts of it that it normally won’t let you remove.

Go ahead and try to entirely remove Windows ability to verify its own liscense, or hell, even fully remove advertisements from your Start menu, and then tell me how the user has full control.

Kernel level anticheats have more access to your system than you as a user do.

… Oof.

Yes, yes Kenshi fairly brutally depicts limbs being utterly crippled, as well as even amputated (look up adventures of torso on youtube)…

But I wouldn’t say fairly realistic depiction of certain kinds of disabilities… are anywhere close to the same thing as… making a game more easily playable by a real world person with varying kinds of disabilities.