On brand for much of the corporate world.

Yeah, sorry, I meant for anyone worried about windows crash reports.

Microsoft controls your windows OS.

There’s at least one individual inside the company that was involved in that decision. They should all have liability here, as individuals.

I used to occasionally watch the all MXC channel. Brings me back to 2002.

I’ve wondered for a while if something like this is why Google allowed their bootloaders to be unlocked, because they can get at everything anyways.

And I bet that if that was the case, they’ve backed off that for future phones because of those stories about law enforcement seeing having those phones as suspicious, which could hurt sales, since I bet the majority of pixel users don’t switch operating systems.

Though iirc a system crash report can include a kernel dump, which can contain things like private keys.

Though realistically, Microsoft controls your OS. They could easily add code to allow them to grab whatever they want from your system without any logging (by your system anyways).

That actually makes me wonder if there are any apps that run on both a system and the router that system is connected to to determine if the internet traffic as reported by the system (to the user) is the same as what the router sees as a way to detect anything using network resources but bypassing the normal network stack.

Yeah, as I understand it, the elevator will refuse to move instead of collapse, and hopefully you’re not between floors when it happens because it was close and someone shifted their weight or bounced slightly or they might write a sitcom episode about what happens next (and the reality will be far more boring).

You can have fun with this by finding contexts that make their response sound silly for “what you were going to say”. Kinda like Pinky and the Brain’s “Are you thinking what I’m thinking, Pinky?” “I think so, but how will we convince the flies to put on the tiny shoes, Brain?”

What is with this art style that makes it look both really good and really bad at the same time? Is it just the poor understanding of anatomy putting the poses into the uncanny valley while shading looks good or is there more to it?

Edit: I think the facial expressions play into it, too. Everyone looks like a meloncholy neutral.

People who repeat everything you say back to you as a question and expect affirmation are the worst, especially in your line of work where you have to constantly verbally direct people?

No fucking so fucking

Look for the corner that goes on the top part of the matress and use that as the corner and treat the extra bit with the elastic like frilly trim to ignore. It’s not perfect but I’ve been able to consistently get something that resembles a rectangle out of it instead of a ball.

Reminds me of the time my GM buddy wanted lunch at school and offered me 3 capital ships in our SW RPG game if I bought him a taco salad. So I did and then promptly lost two of them in a battle that was more of a cutscene than anything else.

I was pissed but whatever the one ship ended up being fun.

So later, in another game, I did the same for a submarine. Again, same session, we found the enemy on land after searching around in the sub. So we get out and have this epic battle where our characters take out a goblin army or something. Then we go to get back in the sub. “You never said you turned it off, so it’s gone.” So what we breached the surface and all tuck and rolled to get off of it, no roll to avoid getting sucked in to the propellers or anything?

I think that’s about when I just went back to playing magic most of the time at lunch at school.

You could privately talk to your GM and say your character wants to cover all of their bases, so just like batman, spends time strategizing about how to defeat the other party members and making preparations in case they betray the group or him. Like a ring of concentration that also has an anti-magic curse activated when the correct word is spoken in its vicinity for the mage, secretly planted on the body of a mob that your character manages to get to before the party loots.

And then, of course, you’re in a position where you could betray the party and surprise even the GM.

Though a counter argument to what you’re saying is that deception games are a thing and the players knowing that there are enemies in the group doesn’t make those games trivial to figure out. A deception RPG could be interesting to play.

Final panel: Earth explodes

Would be funny if that failed star was actually an alien megaproject but we think it’s a natural explanation that means a planet teeming with ancient life is assumed to be barren like the rest of them.

Is there a name for that, when something very interesting is mistaken for something very uninteresting? Not that a failed star full of biosignature molecules sounds uninteresting, do they have any explanation for that?

But have you tried looking into the sci fi or fantasy genres?

Oh, the possibility that he knew about Colbert but ate the onion hadn’t occurred to me.

Did he (and whatever agents were involved in setting that up) really not know who Colbert was 10 years ago? Though it is hard to tell with the energy he had there, whether he was just playing along or genuinely didn’t know that Colbert’s whole thing is playing an ignorant conservative white dude.

If you didn’t intend to imply that, it’s on how you communicated, not how they interpreted it. The way you listed what each does implied you were saying that’s how their images worked.