Malgas

Fortified with essential salts.

Love Demetri Martin.

But the real story is weirder: the color is named after the fruit. Prior to the 16th century it was “yellow-red”.

Also carrots were not commonly orange when oranges arrived in Europe. The carrots we’re used to were hybridized from the earlier yellow, red, and purple varieties in the late 18th century.

I just looked it up, and apparently it’s /ɡɛʃ/.

Never would have guessed that.

When I was growing up, the joke was “Nine months of rain, followed by three months of really wet weather.”

What’s wrong with that cat?

Then you get things like GTA or Saints Row, where whether I want to be using kb+m or controller changes based on whether I’m driving or on foot.

I’ve long thought that the ideal control scheme would somehow incorporate both a mouse for camera control, the sheer number of buttons you get from having your off-hand on a keyboard, and also analog inputs for things like movement/steering and vehicle throttle.

Off-topic, but, if that’s a real cake and the image goes all the way around, that’s actually kind of impressive.

Don’t dumb down the gameplay systems

Bethesda design challenge: impossible.

Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?

Well, it is where everybody gets off…

As Norwegian race driver Petter Solberg once said, “it’s not the fart that kills you, it’s the smell”.

“Smell”, of course, being Norwegian for crash.

Depends on the distro. Some have a configuration setting to allow unfree software or not, others have separate repos.

A similar argument is what finally caused the value of the vi family of editors to click in my brain:

They are designed to be fully functional over even the shittiest possible* remote connection. You can’t always count on ctrl, alt, or even the arrow keys being transmitted in a way that is understood by the remote machine.

*Well, I guess the worst possible terminal would be something like an actual teletype, and in that case you’d probably want to fall back to ed or its descendants. To save paper, if nothing else.

Get some of that lili p., yo!

—Jesse Frogman, Hopping Bad

There’s a board game called History of the World that does something like this, where score is tracked per player, but you play as a new civilization every turn. (And, depending on the draw, may wind up fighting against your previous civ.)

It’s a good game, but, yeah, it’s hard to imagine that working in something like Civilization.

Does anyone know how to get from Penistone to Shitterton?

To be fair, you were only off by a week.

Yeah I’ve definitely heard “up to [amount] or more” used in advertising. Which is just completely meaningless.