Whenever US players find themselves on one of the AU hosted World of Warcraft servers with 200ms latency they can’t stop complaining about how awful the game is to play.

We used to have LAN parties back in the day with dialup internet.

We’d need a dedicated machine to just dial up to the internet and share the connection, because that way it could run for a day or more at a time without crashing and kicking everyone off.

I remember the moment where I realised I could just… plug the modem into my new XP machine now. You could use a computer and share internet and it’d work! For days!

There’s a reason XP hung on for so long and the previous versions didn’t. XP was the first version of Windows that people felt was good enough and they didn’t need anything more.

Maybe it depends on how bad the representation is. A setting where everybody is deaf and always has been isn’t a good place to do the struggles of deaf people in a mostly hearing society.

Hardly anyone in WoW even has parents. Characters just turn up. Maybe they’re stitched together out of spare parts, I think the undead do that.

I get why representation is important, but I think it’s also important that it not be incredibly clumsy.

World of Warcraft does quite a bit of representation and I didn’t even notice it until I really thought about it. It’s a fairly violent setting with lots of people having terrible things done to them, so people with disabilities, people in wheelchairs, blind people, etc all just seem like they fit the setting.

There’s an issue with sexual orientation, though: WoW has basically zero romance, relationships or sexual content. Even the in-game Valentines Day event is about alchemists controlling people with drugged perfume.

So the three or four gay couples in the Dragonflight expansion were the only characters in any sort of relationship in that expansion, and made up probably half of the characters that have ever been mentioned being in a relationship in WoW’s entire 22 year run.

Warcraft is one of those settings where the creators could declare half of the characters are gay and it wouldn’t change anything. But a character has to be seen to count for representation, and sexuality in WoW isn’t seen.

As more and more of the wealth winds up in the hands of fewer and fewer people, it makes sense that they’re the ones being targeted by scams instead of the general public.

It’s the fun part of using doctors as truancy police - they have no reason not to just recommend two weeks off for everyone who walks through the door. Because honestly most people could use it.

I mean, Toyota promised their big EV push any year now for more than a decade before finally giving up and buying BYD drivetrains, so I wouldn’t hold them up as the way things should be done. There’s a downside to just endlessly polishing the same product.

Someone warn Jeremy Clarkson to make himself scarce for the duration.

Manly Death: Heterosexual Warfare looks to be full of naked men. Just saying.

This. Just put your OS and the game you’re currently playing on the SSD, it’s much easier and less likely to go wrong.

I’d pay good money for glasses that displayed a grey rectangle over real life ads.

If everything in this group sounds like normal behaviour to you, it might be time to get diagnosed.

I put two dollars into a poker machine once. I won $7.

Now I’m up by $5 so long as I never gamble again. Don’t want to break my streak.

They’d be printing millions, but they need the promise of future trillions to try and maintain their status as a growth stock.

We got faster, but what we got faster at doing was creating busy work for each other. So the volume of work is higher but the signal to noise ratio is lower.

The slop will continue until the bubble bursts.

That couldn’t possibly have become a trillion dollar business, though. That was the fantasy they were selling to investors, a future where people would be living their whole lives in Meta’s virtual corporate dystopia.

They all seem to eventually go fukin dead for no fukin reason at all.

If you’re doing 10G over copper, it’s because they cook themselves. Nothing that size with no cooling should be burning 2.5 watts of power.

Some of these turned out to be useless, some just haven’t been adequately delivered yet.

In 2040 folding phones and autonomous cars might be great, but blockchain will still be a solution in search of a problem.