Ban from an arcade? No. But claw machines have a near zero chance of getting anything. They are definitely rigged. I used to toss a coin or two into one on the way out of the arcade, never got anything. I would let them experience the disappointment a few times, then suggest that maybe spending that money elsewhere will make them feel better.

DeLorean Motor Company’s Midwest sales office used to be just down the street from me, up until a few months ago. Never saw anyone in it, but I think I did see a DeLorean outside it once.

“Competent communist” stop, I can’t breathe, I’m laughing so hard. GOSPLAN coming back with new production targets! This time, you won’t run out of toilet paper, honest! Line up for your daily browbeating at your factory job!

Such a superb troll account. Thanks so much for the laugh!

worry less about closing out quests and winning fights

No worries there, can’t win a single fight after the first five

, and instead focus on exploring

Got to the end of the zone, now what?

toying with the tools & systems,

Always struggled to remember my Tincture of Whatevering and Bag Of Holding

remembering to take it slow

I’m told I’m dying in 5 days unless I find a cure

trust the dice

LOL

“whose head should be sliced like onions” That is the most Slavic thing I’ve ever read.

You’re deluded. Russia is robbing Ukraine of land and people, full stop. They are kidnapping citizens and taking land from a country that is trying its damndest to be a democracy. Ukraine look to the West for their future and Putin cannot abide that.

Putin wants the Soviet Union back together; he wants that to be his legacy. He took Crimea with barely a shot fired and now he wants more. This is similar to what Hitler did, by the way: Austria, Sudetenland, then Poland.

Putin suppresses his political enemies in the old Russian way, by jailing them. Hitler suppressed his enemies by rounding them up and killing them or putting them in concentration camps.

Fuck Putin. He is a scared, small man from the KGB who never let go of the Soviet dream, a dream that could never work.

Rancid for capturing configs, with some custom Python for grabbing changes as they happen and announcing via Slack.

• Shit broke
• Shit got fixed
• Shit’s working now