WTF, indeed.

Can't remember exactly, as it's been quite a while ago.

It was either any of these, or some combination of:

0. Was frustrated w/ something tech-related.

1. Was looking for new programming-related jokes to fill the void left by devopsreactions.tumblr.com/ , which has been inactive for _some_ time.

2. Was looking for a solution for some problem.

I had been lurking for a month, maybe two before I decided to create an account, as I felt it would be worth it.

Am ! disappointed.

Damn, these look amazing.

Props.

Just leaving a comment to show my appreciation.

All hail king Lothbrok.

Definitely ! a complete list... would take me too much time to think about it, but:

- Be intelligent.

- Don't do stupid shit. /* Too often. */

- Be self-reliant.

- Don't bother me w/ bullshit.

- Whether it's good or bad news, just be straight w/ me. Never sugarcoat.

- Be truthful.

Bonus:

- Some overlap in interests. /* The more, the better. */

- 100%'ed Heavy Rain sometime in 2010.

- Detroit Become Human is in my backlog.

- After spending _a lot_ of time playing the Prince Of Persia Warrior Within, I lost the ability to wake up when I'm about to die in my sleep...

...I just rewind the time to moments before my death && continue.

@retoor You're welcome, have a nice time off away from coding.

Also - yes, having a kid from a one-night stand is fucked up.

Wouldn't want that, personally, therefore I'm not engaging in those.

W/ all the people in the world, however, there are those who are bound to disagree, as is their right.

Not sure how, because I visit the site very rarely, but somehow I've recently stumbled upon the '@whatever' channel on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/@whatever

They somewhat cover this topic.

...mostly dating-related talks, as far as I've seen - yes, but it is related.

I am not saying that one necessarily has to date to have children, though.

One-night stands can have their consequences.

Cool stats.

@Demolishun In one of my past projects on Android, when you were in the Main Menu && pressed the Back key, the game would ask whether or not you'd like to close it.

Choosing [Yes] would 'close' it...

...in reality, the game would simply minimize.

A blatant lie, to be sure.

IIRC the idea was to have 'quicker' startup of the game.

'General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.'

Some people have a problem w/ listening to reason.

...also seem to be lacking some common sense.

As a general rule, whenever I am interested in something && the other person is much better at it, than I am.

One such person is my oldest friend, whom I met at my fist job.

We've been friends for roughly 16 years && I've learned a lot from him.

@retoor Now that you mention it, quite possibly what happened there.

Either way, that timestamp made me laugh.

'Here's a message from the past for you'.

@Demolishun I'm definitely planning on getting it fixed.

Before I got a chance to unlock my old HDD in preparation for upgrading it, the console developed yet another ailment, though.

I may need to find a service that can fix it, but the console is worth it.

@Demolishun Lucky you.

Mine has died recently.

When I plugged it in to the wall socket, a bit of smoke came out.

Once I opened it up I noticed the tops of two capacitors had a convex shape.

On topic, though: yes - I love the current generation.

/s

Assassin's Creed Valhalla had a day 1 patch of roughly 100 GB, IIRC.

There are many more games like this, sadly.

@Demolishun Ah, yes - the good ol' 'Why am I in Hell? I'm a devoted Christian / Jew etc.'.

@Demolishun That's fine. South Park is definitely not for everyone.

Same for Family Guy && basically everything else.

To each their own, I say.

I do love both of them, though.

Not a terrible story, as long as you don't take it too seriously.

In the end, a brave little boy named Kyle travels to the location of the Internet && unplugs it, but forgets to plug it back in, thus saving the humanity.

Inspired by:

https://youtube.com/watch/... .

// yes... kinda joking.

Code In A Box - Pretty much the same as the Ads - intentionally produced garbage that can be sold.

@lorentz There are many approaches to this.

Yours sounds good, too.

You could even get away w/ a simple solution of committing to file when exiting the Settings Menu regardless of whether or not an actual change has been made.

But not this... not saving to file w/ each update of some value.

@Root Good choices all-around.

Especially the Gummies...

...I may have used them as cake toppings, once...

...w/ good results.

@jestdotty Losing your storage certainly sucks.

With SSDs, you should be able to check their health using programs such as CrystalDiskInfo or something similar.

SD Cards && flash drives, on the other hand, just die w/o warning.

AFAIR they switch to read-only state just before dying, so you can still recover the data, but still.

@retoor Depends on how you look at it.

Thing is, certification-wise, there are rules against such practices because this unnecessarily ages the hardware.

Breaded chicken cutlets,

Fish fingers soaked in lemon juice,

Cheesecake.

...probably there's more, but these are of the top of my head.

This sounds like Frasier's Red Balloon joke.

https://youtube.com/watch/... .

@Root As far as 0xC0FFEE goes, I love it, too.

One of my worst fears is trying to access it, but receiving Null Ref exception.

...fixable by visiting local store.

/jk

@Root Haven't known about the 0xD06F00D.

You learn something new every day.

Also, while I generally hate Apple-related things, their 0x8BADF00D is not bad, either.

Personally, I am partial to 0xDEADBEEF.

@Demolishun It is kind of cool.

I've connected a 256 GB SSD to it via an SSD <-> USB adapter && am dual booting.

Windows 10 is on the device by default, but Linux Manjaro is on the SSD.