So does anyone have a fairly succinct explanation as to why it’s become so exceedingly difficult to make good video games anymore? Like this is a thing society used to be able to do.

There were 5 people who signed up at a NYC 2 slotter RCQ last week, and 2 of them didn't show up. Overall MTG attendance is lower here aside from Commander. The vibes feel bad when other games like Riftbound are pulling so many more players consistently across the city.

Security called me at 6:12 AM today. "Patch every PHP server immediately." I asked what happened. "Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required." Cool. How many PHP servers do we have? According to inventory: 12 According to reality: Nobody knows. We found one running WordPress. Three running old internal tools. One under someone's desk. Two inside vendor appliances. A forgotten employee directory from 2016. And a server named: PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH Naturally, that one runs payroll exports. Then we found a PHP 5.6 box. I asked who owned it. The documentation said: BRIAN. Brian left in 2019. We called Brian. He said: "Oh wow, that's still running?" Excellent. By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call. CEO: "Can hackers actually get in?" Security: "Potentially yes." CEO: "Without a password?" Security: "Yes." CEO: "Then why do WE need passwords?" Not the lesson. Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue. Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers. Finance asked for a cost comparison. At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline. Marketing refused. "Our campaign is live." So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover. We finally patched everything we could find. Then our scanner discovered another PHP server. Hostname: TEMP-PHP-2014 Uptime: 4,512 days. Nobody knows what it does. Nobody owns it. Nobody can shut it down. But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels. Security has classified it as critical infrastructure. It is running PHP 5.4. The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees. The emergency patch took four hours. Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven. The internet isn't held together with code. It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.

"twitter is just 4chan now :(" no. stop it. on 4chan, everyone knows they're a crab in a bucket. on twitter, everyone thinks they're an enlightened alpha amongst braindead cattle.

First, it was only the Chinese and Koreans who hated that pedo slave nation. Then the translation feature came along, and now it's Russians, Brazilians, the French, Spanish, Arabs, Africans. The only country left sucking up to and still licking Japan is USA 😭😭 lmaoooo

🇯🇵🇺🇸 Japanese protesters showed up outside the US embassy in Tokyo yelling “US out of Okinawa!” and “Free, free Okinawa!” They waved banners in solidarity with Iran, Palestine and Cuba against what they called US imperialist aggression.