As I was looking at it, I was thinking it could definitely be that based on the extreme cost of housing on the west coast even with a $15 min wage. Interesting and completely unsurprising graphic, thanks for creating it!

Is this federal minimum wage, or state minimum wage?

I’ve got a pretty good hose shop in my town. I also know of one where I used to live. You could say I’ve got hose in different area codes.

Appreciate the background. That really sucks for the team working on Masks of Power, and I hope that your project doesn’t suffer the same fate.

Don’t have an answer for you unfortunately, but do you care to share more of this story about Lego burning Bionicle fans?

EXCEPT…for when your computer teammate jumps in front of you while you’re shooting and accosts you for it, then a second later they literally mow down a bunch of infected by shooting through you with no consequences.

So I have to knock it down to a 9.9/10

Zelda: Link’s Awakening on the GameBoy Color in the mid-90s. I got to the second temple, and was totally stuck - to progress I needed to learn to jump, which I inferred was in this temple, but I just couldn’t figure out where it was.

Wandered all over the available map, which of course was constrained due to lacking the jump skill and other story-driven tools. Nothing.

Finally bought a game guide, which explained to me that I needed to bomb a wall in one room in the second temple to progress. It was indicated by a small crack, a staple in Zelda games but invisible to me in my first experience with the series.

The cherry on top was that by that point, I didn’t have any bombs to break the wall, and I recall that I didn’t have the ability to buy or acquire any and had to restart the game to progress past the point where I was stuck.

After that point, Zelda: Links Awakening became one of my favorite games of my childhood. It is hilarious how much frustration it caused me before that realization.

I highly doubt that…you give me like, I dunno, let’s say 5 people, and a catapult, and I bet you I can hit a giraffe before it gets struck by lightning.

Even more confident if you give me a people-sized potato cannon.

The Onion should copy the White House and just start scribbling through the mass shooting article headline they repost each time with red crayon.

“He should have gotten a job with health insurance so he can afford therapy!”

We have a Staffy/Cattle Dog mix named Bruno who loves to sit and protect us. He started out sitting under my kid’s bassinet (contorting himself because it was an awkward height for him), then started sitting in their room facing the door while my wife was feeding her, and now will come into our room in the morning and sit facing the door until we get out of bed.

He is the sweetest dog in the world and is instantly friendly with everyone he meets, but I really enjoy his stoic defender act he puts on.

So sweet!

Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

My kiddo gifted me the opportunity to see my watch change from 1:59 to 3:00am this morning!

Gosh that sounds lovely, especially the Linux part. Actually, mostly the Linux part.

Someone should plot the price of things (eggs, gas, the Big Mac) against the (date-referenced) count of times he played golf.

Why would I spend a ton of money to go out in public and play golf, when I can stay at home keeping that Teams icon green while playing videogames and watching mid-week Europa League fixtures?

Source: currently home sick, but feeling good enough to clock a few hours of required training and data backups.

I got notified of it in the first quarter of last year.

I had already switched insurances because all my providers stopped accepting UHC because THEY WEREN’T PAYING THE FUCKING PROVIDERS

Wasn’t a very good use of $150 mil, considering I have never heard of this company.

Were they new for 2025 and I missed some drama?

Agreed. Only thing keeping me from doing it daily (in good weather at least) is that I don’t have a garage, so my bike is always difficult to get out of the shed and around the back of the house.

Good news! Currently building a garage. Just need to get a seat to take the kid to daycare, and it will become the preferred daily driver.