That’s heartbreaking. Radio Shack was so fun, while it lasted.

Perfection.

The Halo Anniversary collection shines on SteamDeck. It was my first purchase after getting mine, I think.

I’m sure its size will have inflated beyond what I want.

I have the same problem with phones.

I assume there’s some kind of growth formula I’m supposed to have learned about and started taking, but I don’t go to the right parties. /sarcasm

I like that we don’t see a lot of defense in Goa’uld technology. They believe that the only threats to them will come through the gate network that they (until recently) control completely.

Their weapons are purpose built to oppress slaves.

Their chief forms of defense, when truly threatened, are retreat and burying a wormhole.

It makes Stargate one of the most plausible “humanity resists advanced aliens” plots - because the Goa’uld are caught on their heels, tactically by Earth’s wormhole being activated by humans who shouldn’t have found it and (the Goloa’uld thought) shouldn’t have had the wits to activate it.

“Pay no attention to any warp 10 lizard children abandoned on a rock somewhere!”

Netflix can’t do what got them to the top.

They can’t grow that way but they could easily hold on and remain profitable, popular and successful.

They were well on their way to enjoying “Kleenex” or “Oreo” stable market success, but their leadership and shareholders apparently aren’t satisfied with winning.

I’ll take “Organizations that made it to the top by doing something different, only to fall under leadership that doesn’t understand what made them successful and descend into ruins” for 200, Alex.

Seriously, Jeopardy team - this is a rich category:

• Netflix advertisements.
• Zoom mandates staff return to offices.
• Microsoft forgets what the “P” in “PC” stands for.
• Toys R Us implements a shitty holiday gift returns policy.
• Sears decides to sacrifice reputation for quarterly stock price gains.
• Walgreens decides bottom-of-the-barrel incompetent pharmacists can uphold their “get it all done in one visit” secret sauce.
• Radio Shack decides that once-every-two-years cellphone contract sales are the future for holding passionate electronics hobbyists’ loyalty.

Oh. That makes sense, I play mainly on SteamDeck, but I’ve been thinking of getting a Steam Controller for my PC, since the majority of what I’ve bought in the last year has been “SteamDeck Verified”.

It’s been tickling my brain that “SteamDeck Verified” badge also makes it a lot easier to tell how a game will act with a controller on PC.

If we’re stretching the joke further (and by all means we should, this is a delight), there’s also always “Final Fantasy TicTacs: Advance”

Yeah. That’s a big improvement from when the Christmas and New Year’s Day specials released on “the Americans probably celebrate a few days later, don’t worry about it”.

Walgreens went off the rails with shitty pharmacy practices awhile back. It was surreal.

“Your life saving medication is in another castle, Mario. Go fuck yourself.” sums up the experience.

So yeah, good riddance you Walgreens.

I thought I had “Mauerbauertraurigkeit” but then I realized Carl was just telling the same story, again.

There is no legitimate reason for this to exist.

Normally I would agree but this turned out to be the only way to protect the T800 model from the rigors of traveling via time sphere.

opens up a Pandora’s box of issues

It sure does!

The Marvel series ‘Agent X’ actually addresses some of this with Deadpool fighting to regain his skills and memories after being nearly atomized.

I’ve not worked with a marketing team where that would work, but maybe it will for some.

I’ve never been anywhere that I thought it would work, but it ultimately did, almost everywhere.

I’ve found it takes a few iterations, but the marketing folks in on it love being the ones who actually can reliably deliver on their promises.

It doesn’t work for the marketers that promise whatever they please without talking to dev, but I don’t find them to be worthwhile professional allies, so I don’t sweat it.

It doesn’t change the “massive customer will only renew if” scenario, though.

Very true. It doesn’t help with that case, and that one does happen. I’ve had the best luck saying “we don’t do that, but we’re scrambling to add it” in that situation.

The stupidly easy solution is to just give them stuff that has already been successfully delivered to production to market, 9 months from now. There’s invariably a huge backlog of years worth of successes that marketing wasn’t even aware of.

Oh, hey. I take it that season 14 is on Disney+? Neat.

No sarcasm, but as a diehard fan (who learned to wait because Doctor Who never reaches my country on time) - I imagine my (and fans like me) just learning this, now, might have something to do with the ratings…

It sucks that season 14 and Disney+ is suffering for past publishing bullshit.

“No deviations will be approved from this year’s Agile product roadmap!”

I hope they update the Molly AI to detect when this happens - and to backtrack though the hole, and to put down a sign, and to write “fuck you, haha” on the sign, and then to continue onward.