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[EuchreJack]

Got my friends playing The Forest.

Tell one rather particular friend that it has a katana in it. Which is like his "thing." His "bit" that he likes to do. Any game that has a katana he will use it and only it, even if it completely sucks. Because he's taken the edgy memelord weeb thing and built a whole annoying persona around it.

So he gets the game. And the first thing he does is read the wiki to find out where the katana is, and disappear for 45 minutes after hot dropping into the game to go look for it.

It's always annoyed me, ever since we were kids, how he cannot think past his own self-gratification when it comes to gaming. He has to have the best thing immediately or he won't have fun. It's so juvenile and it's the reason I quit playing most kinds of games with him, particularly table top roleplaying. But we still play video games together. And his personal ethic on video games never fails to get under my skin too. He will look at an entire game, boil it down to one thing, obsess about that one thing and then make a meme out of that one thing until he bores himself out of playing.

And god help us if the Katana is underpowered.

I suspect he's modded Kenshi a bit...

[hector13]

Elon Musk has completed his purchase of Twitter.

[Eric Blank]

And fired all of the old executives, as one does in a corporate takeover.

[JoshuaFH]

I thought he wanted to back out, like a would-be groom with cold feet?

[Frumple]

And fired all of the old executives, as one does in a corporate takeover.

Last I saw chatter his plan was to fire like 75% of twitter's workforce, so it'd make sense some of the execs got caught too.

Any case, standard reminder the healthy way to interact with twitter is "Don't." That won't change with musk taking over, ha.

I thought he wanted to back out, like a would-be groom with cold feet?

I mean he seemed to want to, but he fucked up so hard that ended up not really being an option

[hector13]

He tried to but then Twitter sued him. I imagine he over-priced it, and then his other stocks lost value so lost his bottle.

They were in the early phases of the trial when he just gave up and said he’d buy it.

[heydude6]

Perhaps Putin promised to cover some of Musk’s costs if he would give the website a Russian bias.

[Imic]

I set a pin number on my phone last night because I was making a CV with Europass but the app refused to work unless my phone had a pin.

So this morning I woke up to discover that I had forgotten this pin.

I have spent a solid two hours combing through the internet, asking the techiest person I know for help, messing with command prompt, using find my phone, and so far, nothing, absolutely nothing, has worked.

So I'm gonna have to give it to a techy friend back at home and hope he can help, since he'll have facilities and stuff I lack. Until then, I don't even have access to my college timetable because this laptop is brand new and has none of the pictures I took of my timetable stored on it.

And the worst bit is that if/when I give it to my techy friend I'm gonna have to warn him in advance of all the pictures of femboy fashion I have in my secure folder.

[King Zultan]

Why make such a big stink about pulling out of buying this thing then buy it anyway?

[MaxTheFox]

Why make such a big stink about pulling out of buying this thing then buy it anyway?

Because Musk is decidedly of average intelligence, and of far above average pettiness.

[TamerVirus]

Why make such a big stink about pulling out of buying this thing then buy it anyway?

The (stock) market forces.
The cost of acquisition vs the cost of litigation

[Great Order]

Why make such a big stink about pulling out of buying this thing then buy it anyway?

Because Musk is decidedly of average intelligence, and of far above average pettiness.

I think he's intelligent, but only in certain areas. That combined with a horde of nerds inflating his ego to the size of a balloon (And a lot of narcissism) seems to have made him think that he knows literally everything.

[Loud Whispers]

I think he's intelligent, but only in certain areas. That combined with a horde of nerds inflating his ego to the size of a balloon (And a lot of narcissism) seems to have made him think that he knows literally everything.

Every Lord needs capable advisors to guide them and capable officers to execute their orders; but look at how Elon Musk treated his personal assistant - he fired her and took on the personal workload himself; noticeably appearing more tired after doing so. It's rather akin to Napoleon Bonaparte taking on such a heavy workload himself that he ended up getting burned out to the point where he struggled to see the full picture anymore. A mediocre man who has this capable team around them will be able to do wondrous things, a talented man who is surrounded by yesmen cannot achieve very much at all

*EDIT
My suspicions are this; when you get rid of all the employees who've known you for a long time, you end up left with opportunists and people too scared of jeopardising their own career to give honest criticism when the big boss is talking about doing something foolish

[BlackFlyme]

You ever have the feeling like you want to go home, when you're already home?

[Frumple]

All the time, ha. Though it's mostly exhaustion from trying to take care of a dementia patient and my own problems in my case, not what you've been describing that sounds like persistent abuse