Most Shrikes are like this. Their genus is Lanius, Latin for “butcher”.

(Also a fun piece of trivia for FTL fans.)

“Do cheap tickets encourage public transport use?”

What kind of question is that? Obviously they do??

Subnautica

The charge rate’s pretty slow, sure, but the battery isn’t very big, so it evens out.

Related: Alt + ., to cycle through arguments used in previous commands

Could you uh… elaborate a little?

Instant sub, cheers.

STORM CLOUDS, FIRE AND STEEL

DEATH FROM ABOVE, MADE THEIR ENEMY KNEEL

SHINING ARMOR AND WINGS

DEATH FROM ABOVE, IT’S AN ARMY OF KINGS!

I’ll bet Ada Lovelace had some somewhere.

Or the original plot of The Matrix, before the studio execs decided audiences were too stupid.

“Boy, I sure wish some megacorporation would dump a massive codebase on me to maintain without any financial assistance!”

• No one, ever

I’m all for rules of engagement, but when the enemy seems to be gunning for genocide, I’m pretty sure everything’s on the table.

This reads like an ad written by an LLM, wtf is it doing here?

Cats make for pretty poor insect control. They mostly kill spiders, not “pest” insects.

I am unironically saying that, as a career software engineer, fixing bugs and adding new features to an existing product is about 80% of a programming job.

The cost of a game getting patches and updates isn’t the same as the cost of making the game in the first place.

Tell me you’ve never tried to maintain/update software without telling me…

Was not prepared for the Diablo II reference lmao

Yeah, I’d like to see a source for this. There have been many proposed theories for why cats vocalize to humans, especially because “meowing” is not common between cats except for kittens. How do we know that it isn’t a request for food or attention?

“Allow us to introduce ourselves”

San Francisco had an emperor.

(He even “decreed” the construction of a bridge or tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland on the other side of the bay, predicting the existence of the Bay Bridge and Transbay Tube!)