“… And the person doesn’t even know…” This dude is bad at this.

Y’all, if you work in my field and I buy you lunch, it’s because I’m trying to hire you.

But you won’t have to wonder. I’ll start the conversation with something subtle, like “I’m buying today because I’m trying to hire you.”

It…uh…works. Really well. Stay tuned for more insightful tips, I guess.

I’ve enjoyed the whole series, and this piece is particularly cool.

That would be awesome.

I will sign up on day one to the “every ducking sports team” block list.

I love sportball as much as the next person (I don’t), but how can Paris, Illinois possibly have this many different sportball teams?

Based on my experience with venture capital, I’m not convinced venture capital has ever produced anything worthwhile.

It must have been traumatic for that Arch user to discover such rebellion in their child. /s

On a more serious note, if my kids find this post: I hope you know we can talk about closed source software if you’re curious about it - and about maintaining a proper virtual infrastructure to protect the rest of the network from it.

I’m a big fan of paying the people who make things for me.

But digital piracy is the only thing keeping archive copies of obscure media around today. Even libraries aren’t keeping up. Plenty of media creators have revived their thing that found an audience after decades forgotten - through piracy, and only successfully revived it thanks to archivist pirates, since they had thrown that thing away.

It’s not black and white.

Patronage funding, early access, streamlined delivery, and white glove support are the funding models that are working for creatives today.

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I found Obsidian good, and Markor the best, on Android.

I had curated perfect-to-me PS1 and PS2 game collections, and had the later, smaller versions of both systems. Both whole collections fit in a bread box, but I gave both away to save space. I cannot believe how much I regret that.