Always, always, always. Ever since beating my first game in ‘93, Kirby’s Adventure (NES), I’ve watched the full credits every time that I finish a game. It might be the only time that I ever see the developer’s and other miscellaneous team members’ names, and I want to know who they were, having just dedicated 30-1000+ hours to their labour of love.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4HF4ELm4Q

They’ll offboard too, if they know what’s good for them.

A pox on them, both great and small.

Fucking sons of a bitches, a pox on private equity firms, I hope they all get leprosy.

Joke’s on them, I haven’t paid anything for an Xbox since late 2001.

presses bubble gum into seam of spine before closing dictionary

lol no way, I’m locked in like a tick. No way I’m switching to someplace with higher rent the way that the market’s going.

Not any specific one, no, more the variety. It’s not BO, so I don’t think that it could be the ‘dirty sock’ syndrome per se. I guess that it couldn’t hurt to crack them open and take a look at the evaporator coil, but they’re insulated with asbestos so I’ll have to be careful to not disturb it.

 * Canadians @ American made goods and services *

* real estate agent pries Crying Room door sign off wall beside walk-in closet filled with lobster tanks *

Almost as though lackluster fines as penalty aren’t effective at repairing the damage caused by corporate corruption, amirite? Better give them another slap on the wrist instead of breaking up their abusive corporate monopolies. /s We should look to Bell, and break up grocers working in collusion to artificially inflate prices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

Not so funny, not so ironic. It’s purposeful, they aren’t doing it accidentally.

Anti-Civil Engineering for helping to ensure that the Texas power grid falls to ruin?

They might face a stern ball-kicking by the Liberal & NDP parties, but my bet is that fuckall will be done legally.

It’s a laudable philosophical stance, but if you’re eligible for conscription in whatever country you call home, you’d better have a fallback plan, a cache of supplies, and place to hide out before fleeing the country in times of war. Armies don’t fuck around with that shit, they’ll either jail or execute able-bodied people refusing military service. Best of luck to you.

“How many times have the Jays won the Pennant?”

Honestly, that’s my feeling too. The good news is that not every single person applying the munitions would need to know how to manufacture them, simply to deploy and arm them. The Russian’s use of anti-tank mines against Thrid Reich railway lines comes to mind - the conscripts carrying the mines, locating the rail lines, and planting them to destroy trains and railway infrastructure weren’t homebrewing them in a shed at home. They were supplied by the state and trained on how to use them, in a way that maybe similar to how modern army forces know how to use Stingers/MANPADS but not how to build them or the components.

They seem to be proposing the sort of normal military service that used to be fairly common, although exactly universal in peacetime. The sort of marksmaship that they’re describing exists even in countries with strict gun control like South Korea, Germany and Britain. It pays off in spades in cases where war comes home and civilians must be relied upon to defend against invasion.

Some of the European countries phased their mandatory conscription programs out as recently as the 90’s-00’s, and it’s maybe not the ones you might first assume who had them in the first place - the Danes, Swedes, Finns, the Swiss, etc. Others still have conscription in case of war, but that’s not so unusual at all, and may not mean front-line posts for many who’re unfit for the duty for one reason or the other.

Many roles in a nation’s military are far from the front, everything from administrative, intelligence analysis, supplies and warehousing, medical roles - there’s a pretty wide spread of tasks beyond holding a gun and firing it at your nation’s enemies.