Accounts are made immediately on application so it’s probably you, it might not have been approved yet though

I had a uni lecturer pronounce MySQL as “my squirrel”

When I was a kid I’d play Fable The Lost Chapters as a regular villager. I’d buy a house, get married, equip a stick (because you had to equip a weapon) and just walk around interacting with the other villagers.

Eventually I’d get bored though, so I’d out-of-rp murder my wife, then “discover” the body and go on a rampage through Oakvale.

It sounds so much worse written down.

I just checked them out on Spotify and their discography is hilariously messed up

It is really great to hear this community is more open, it put me off sharing metal tastes in the past.

Also turns out I listen to way more power metal than I thought. Started a power metal playlist and recognised loads of bands.

I wasn’t but you make it really tempting. I also love how I’ve been on many a different server, and each one has been completely unique in design. It really mastered the balance between a survival exploration game and creative sandbox.

I like a lot of what I consider ‘classic’ metal, which I hope is not offensive. Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Dio, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin. I like a lot of nu metal too, I hope that doesn’t get me banned.

I’d like to try more, I think it’s just the extreme varieties I can’t really get into.

I do not usually listen to David Guetta, but Titanium was everywhere the summer of 2011. I heard it in college, on the street, in the car, and at house parties. Actually, mostly house parties.

To this day I can taste cheap vodka, amaretto and jagermeister when I hear that song.

I loved them, I miss them dearly, but no, I don’t think they’ll come back.

A lot has changed and the internet is not the same, for better and for worse. For one, it’s just a lot bigger. You’d think that’d make it easier, but it seems to make it harder. There’s too much noise for the communities to stand out, so what usually happens is one or two get huge and the others dwindle and die. Even just look at Lemmy, through no fault of your own, Beehaw is becoming one of the largest instances and it requires active work to spread the weight across the rest of the federation. People gravitate I guess.

Plus, because it’s so much bigger, there’s less of an identity in the spaces that do survive. Post in any reddit thread, then go to another. Chances are nobody’ll be the same (except for a few superusers) so there’s no real sense of belonging or community that the old forums had. Back then you trolled your friends, not strangers.

Thanks for sharing this, I love it. What a mystery though, I’m struggling to find anything else about them too.

Money For Nothing has one of the best intros of all time. Facts

Suicidal chickens. See plenty of them standing at the roadside in the UK, their favourite pastime is running into traffic.

Beautiful creatures but it’s so tense driving past them!

As a .NET developer with a strong dislike of JavaScript being able to write a frontend using C# is fantastic. The only complaints I ever hear about it is actually around Visual Studio support and not Blazor itself.

I really hope it takes off.

Kids have always had wild career dreams, it’s not new it’s just a different medium. It’s fine. I’m not sure it’s a conscious decision to escape the grind though. I grew up with kids who wanted to be movie stars or athletes. Why? Because they idolised movie stars and athletes and want to be like them. It’s what they’re exposed to the most. Now kids are exposed to influencers the most, so they wanna be one too.

I wanted to be a train driver 🚂

On a different occasion when we were selling Christmas trees his groundskeeper came to us and asked for a free tree for the Lord.

They weren’t the same of course but we found it funny because the Lord owned the woodlands behind the shop. He didn’t get a free tree.

This reminded me of an old rant I have, if legacy rants are allowed.

In a job I had many years ago I met a Lord. An actual Lordy Lord. He used one of these things frequently, but it’s not part of the rant.

Where I worked sold stone, big slabs of stone for using as big slabs of stone. He came to us on a particularly rainy day and asked me to show him around the yard. I look out the window, rain is pelting the floor and ricocheting back into the sky. We go outside. He had an umbrella, I did not. He did not offer to share.

So around the yard we go, and I show him all the stone. When we reach the last one he turns to me and says “perhaps I’ll come back when it’s not raining”.

You just reminded me of 3D Pets which might be the first game I ever played on PC…

https://oldgamesdownload.com/3d-pets-pc-pup/

I can distinctly remember the janky animations of the dog running after a ball. And the dog and cat coming out of an egg. It was weird.

Sorry if this was answered elsewhere, but does that mean Beehaw automatically federates with new instances and only the explicit Blocklist can’t? I was toying with the idea of maintaining my own single user instance for stability but don’t want to run the risk of being excluded if it goes private in the future.

I have one to add:

Programmers believe languages have a flag.

I used to work on a system that supported multiple languages and had to fight very hard not to put a country’s flag next to each language on the front end. People’s responses to the “wrong” flag being used for their language ranged from slightly annoyed to extremely volatile…

Does Blazor count? I’ve done a little with that. Mostly though, no. My job doesn’t require much frontend work and even if it did it would be jQuery at best.

I don’t think you’d really need to either unless you genuinely enjoy being at the bleeding edge. React, Angular and Vue aren’t going anywhere any time soon. That could be laziness talking…