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[ggamer]

the best part is that it is literally always relevant

[Itnetlolor]

Lotta birthdays this month.

* Itnetlolor slowly sprinkles in a few cake flakes 'Cake-fetti' for all the Pisces.

[Orange Wizard]

Time to break this out again.

imgsnip

What worries me the most is how the cake is pixelated in the style of Japanese censorship.

[Eric Blank]

It's cake hentai. And the cake is the worst part.

[Putnam]

Time to break this out again.

imgsnip

What worries me the most is how the cake is pixelated in the style of Japanese censorship.

That's just upscaling with interpolation.

[Truean]

It's a nice day.

[EnigmaticHat]

Honestly, I kind of wish Americans would stop going to most colleges.  Tuition is so damn high because no matter how high they set it, people will still pay.

Anyway, my new happy.  A new Overwatch character has been revealed, and she's basically a female version of the Heavy.  (I mean in terms of physical build, in terms of gameplay she's nothing like the Heavy)

[Bauglir]

Honestly, I kind of wish Americans would stop going to most colleges.  Tuition is so damn high because no matter how high they set it, people will still pay.

Yeah, I mean, what are they gonna do? Work fast food for the rest of their lives? The job market has taken advantage of the whole thing so that a Bachelor's means what a High School diploma did 25 years back, so you enter the market no better off but with tens of thousands of dollars of debt. And the universities can't roll tuition back because their government funding keeps getting cut (K-12 schools get the vast majority of government financial assistance, you see), because our society doesn't want to pay the taxes on the whole scheme.

It's kind of a vast, bloated nightmare. But it keeps the private lenders rolling in cash, and we can't let that bubble burst, can we?

Sorry, this post isn't very happy.

[Flying Dice]

Eh. At least you can connect it to the happiness that sooner or later the system will fall apart.

...

Happy cakeday, Boksi!

[hector13]

Eh. At least you can connect it to the happiness that sooner or later the system will fall apart.

But it won't be the people who were involved in the system that get punished for it, just like in '08.

[Flying Dice]

Eh. At least you can connect it to the happiness that sooner or later the system will fall apart.

But it won't be the people who were involved in the system that get punished for it, just like in '08.

Sure they will. The generation that popularized the idea that everyone should go to university will be hitting retirement age, and the people who would have been paying their Social Security checks are going to be unemployed or working shit jobs for shit pay and not paying enough into the system.

[Aklyon]

Happy cakeday, Boksi.

[Putnam]

The number of legal Go positions on an 18x18 board has been computed exactly:

669723114288829212892740188841706543509937780640178732810318337696945624428547218105214326012774371397184848890970111836283470468812827907149926502347633

[Itnetlolor]

Not to be an ass, but I am oddly amused at how nice it is to have my crummy associates degree right now (I agree, degrees are mostly useless by this point, besides fancy paper to mount on the wall, that also costs an arm and a leg to get). I didn't waste as much time or resources on my education, and I also learned what I needed to learn (technique, not just the apps (I also learned the manual/non-digital techniques)). Not bad for the price. I had some good teachers. On top of that, I don't have a debt to pay off in that department (no loans or anything, though it came at a cost of pacing).

Provided my luck continues turning around, I should do fine bobbing in the middle-ground; for example, I finally got an old job invite to respond to my response (also got the job), and it's pretty straightforward, and a monthly postcard kind of thing, so I'm guaranteed monthly work easily, provided I deliver as advertised. I may have others waiting in the long-run to re-hire me as well.

[hector13]

Eh. At least you can connect it to the happiness that sooner or later the system will fall apart.

But it won't be the people who were involved in the system that get punished for it, just like in '08.

Sure they will. The generation that popularized the idea that everyone should go to university will be hitting retirement age, and the people who would have been paying their Social Security checks are going to be unemployed or working shit jobs for shit pay and not paying enough into the system.

'cept for the fact they won't really need social security, given they'd have massive amounts of coins from tax evasion avoidance ('cause they're not similes when it comes to the fucking law, apparently) or all the shares in the banks that are too big to fail. /cynicism