One of my old jobs had a pallet full of perfectly good PSUs, o-scopes, H bridges, and a bunch of miscellaneous data cables. They were all gonna be trashed either because their projects were cancelled or had a minor flaw they didn’t want to fix. My buddies and I rescued a bunch of equipment before the company padlocked it. My advice is be discreet. Companies hate it when people recover shit they throw out whether it be perfectly good equipment or food.

Indika is a fucking trippy experience. It definitely stands out from the others in this list in a very good way.

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The US uses up the entirety of the Colorado River. It’s an arid riverbed by the time it reaches the Mexican border. These water treaties need to be overhauled before wars start over them.

Short answer: it depends. I used to attend Anime Expo every year but it got so big that lines became unbearable. Most interesting panels tend to be overcrowded so good luck getting in unless you want to sacrifice time for other things and get in line really early. The vendors can be cool where you can find some unique and hard to find merch but it takes a lot of walking past booths that have a lot of the same things. That said, the bigger festivals have the most interesting things to see and do just know going in you won’t be able to do everything you want.

I’ve mostly been sticking to smaller conventions and have been having fun despite the smaller scale. Tickets are way cheaper too. Maybe try a smaller event to see if you like the vibe.

I occasionally see comments to the effect of, “Oh, really? Can you tell me more about that?”

Fuck. Am I a bot?

Gattaca theme music intensifies.

Go one step further and ask why they’re wearing clothes. What are they hiding in their pants they’re so ashamed of?

You chaebols sure are a contentious people.

Pretty sure the idiot didn’t actually cancel their membership. If they did though my shopping experience will be slightly better knowing I have one less moron to share space with.

The guy who bit Spiderman wasn’t really fat but somehow he gained weight on the fourth panel? Must be a stressful job.

Nothing in particular. I stay lying in bed lying completely still, consciously relaxing every muscle in my body and trying to focus on my heartbeat for up to an hour at a time. It doesn’t work for some reason and it’s exhausting.

Back in the early 2000s there was a Jurassic Park III-adjacent game that used the same gimmick. It was called Scan Command and the idea was the bar code scans would give you genetic parts that you could use to upgrade your dinosaurs. I very quickly found out you could use a thin blanket and rub the scanner back and forth over it to get as many parts as you want.

The design looks so solid but it’s likely not more powerful than an RX 6750XT or RTX3080 so it’s not something I’ll need sadly.

Communist centrally planned economies suck. That’s how you end up with panicking factory and farm managers exaggerating their production to the state to not end up in the gulag. A better alternative could be petitioning the government for money to start a worker-owned co-op that produce things at quantities that people would actually want. Do that and keep the government democratic composed of different parties with socialist mindsets at their heart and things should be better for all without the baggage of authoritarianism.

If there’s a game there’s always someone out there willing to preserve it.

The morality police in the UK strike again. They’re slowly turning into Saudi Arabia the longer they keep this up.

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We used to have vehicles that didn’t need over the air updates for over a century. If they had a problem then a technician could simply perform an onsite diagnostic. Why the hell are we keeping them in a network like they’re computers or no longer supported IoT dongles?

Americans mostly drink Arábica beans. The only Robusta coffee out here is in Vietnamese style coffee filled with a ton of condensed milk.