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It's really frigging annoying when people talking about a game slowing development as "entering maintenance mode." Maintenance Mode is when there is no new content and they're just maintaining what's there. It's the entire definition of the thing! As long as they're still adding to the game it...

From https://www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/tech/headlight-brightness-cars-accidents?lid=dpe6tiyd81ev And there's a much longer response with additional relevant details about other factors from someone in the field here: https://tiggi.es/@isocat/113658262917439403

So every year I get that somewhat spooky(but also not inherently spooky) Halloween image for Speaks. I had trouble finding an artist for the idea I had this year, and then it took a while for what I wanted, but it's finally done! Just some cozy fishing in the West Weald. That ominous fog...

Not having bluetooth mike/speakers embedded in a Star Trek badge is a majorly missed merchandise opportunity, if it doesn't exist.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/us-news/unitedhealth-ceo-says-insurer-will-continue-to-prevent-unnecessary-care-in-leaked-video/

My much-belated Halloween/Autumn-related commission just got finished! Just waiting for the final files now. Also finished ALL of the annual achievements for Wintersday this year in Guild Wars 2 (which just started today) so now if I want I can mostly ignore it(except for dailies and the weekly)

It worked for Magiranger... kinda.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-preemptive-pardons-officials-trump-target-source/story?id=116481186

So this is fun: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/12/05/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-seo-shot-dead/

The article above about anesthesia happened last month so it wasn't a case of "Not reading the room" this time, just another straw on the haybale.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/12/03/trump-tells-trudeau-canada-51st-state-mar-a-lago/ So we got COVID instead of VITAS, is this how we get the UCAS and CAS? Did the Great Ghost Dance happen and no one informed us?

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/02/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-loses-bid-to-get-56-billion-pay-package-reinstated.html

It's not at the Supreme Court yet, but from the 9th Circuit Appeals court: https://open.substack.com/pub/jessica/p/idaho-will-enforce-abortion-travel

Just like the population was angry about how his admin killed the pandemic response stuff pre-COVID? The people who care will care regardless, the population at large won't, or at least won't associate it being mostly dismantled with a terrorist attack slipping through.

Found out another reason that Musk could be moving companies to Texas, besides favorable courts in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_two-step_bankruptcy

TIL that there's a top level domain of BLOCKBUSTER now. https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt

Got my next legendary weapon made in Guild Wars 2 (Frenzy, the harpoon gun), and with that my main is now fully equipped in legendary gear, minus the rebreather(which there is no legendary of yet) and some runes/sigils, which is a minor thing anyways.