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The Quest was never not Facebook. Meta/Facebook bought Oculus in 2014 and even the OG Rift wasn't released until 2016. Arguably only the DK1 devkit units were produced not under the Facebook umbrella.

The major difference was that they weren't playing it up at the time and they didn't yet require you to have a Facebook account just to use the damn things. That came later.

Right above Dat Boi is the Distracted Boyfriend meme.

Given the look on its face, the owl may be an O Rly?

I'm drawing a blank on the egg and its army, and the guy in the group of four with the nice hat.

Aside from the terrorism aspect, the remaining non-blown reactors were still providing power up until I think 2000 before it was finally fully shut down. Russia has obviously had a fixation on trying to destroy Ukraine's infrastructure and outside of any other potential fuckery is probably concerned that Ukraine will be able to power it back up again if they need to, especially if more of their infrastructure elsewhere is blown up.

Plus, even if the Russians lose Ukraine will still be left holding the bag for cleaning up and repairing whatever additional damage was done to the containment structures.

You, uh, didn't turn multiplayer off in your options, did you? That setting doesn't follow your account around, it's per machine.

I leave it off on my laptop because it causes the Space Anomaly to devolve into single-digit frame rates when other players are present and rendered, especially when docking.

Note that this doesn't prevent you from seeing other players' bases, nor impact the ability to see people on your friends list or their status. Your game will still connect to the servers if it can. It only prevents other players' keisters and ships from being placed in your universe.

It's also an incredibly stupid bureaucratic clusterfuck of the magnitude that only customs and border people can achieve. Surely there should be some mechanism wherein you can send a letter or something to the Russian authorities to inform them, "Hey, we're trying this stupid stunt and here is our plan, let us make our declarations now and we'll pick up all the paperwork on the way once we get there." But there probably isn't, and then you wind up with crap like this.

The tinniest of tin-pot jumped up little dictators are never to actually be found in your nation's capital. Instead they're all lined up along its borders acting like these various lines in the sand were laser-etched there by god and aren't ultimately just arbitrary and, indeed, historically much more fluid than they'd like to pretend.

Task Manager is launched by the listener in winlogon if you use the Ctrl + Shift + Esc method though, right? I'm pretty sure you can still launch Task Manager, and from there attempt to relauch Explorer, even if Explorer is borked or not running. You'd just have to know how to do that and that you can.

That's what I always do when Explorer's ears inexplicably catch fire and I'm either too lazy or too naively hopeful to reboot.

For anyone following along at home, Windows Explorer is also responsible for displaying the start menu/taskbar. In the example in the article there's something else funky going on inside Explorer, though, because the taskbar and even the desktop icons are all there, it's just not rendering correctly. (Explorer is also responsible for showing all of your desktop icons.)

I generally upvote stuff to reward engagement and effort. Anything I pass by that looks like a creative work someone is putting forth themselves I'll upvote. Also pretty much any response to anything I post or comment on. Often times comments I respond to as well.

I only downvote utter bullshit, i.e. people spouting things that are categorically not true, or bad faith arguments, or just people being argumentative in general when there's no reason to be so.

I don't give enough of a flying fuck if we hypothetically disagree, only if your position is so odious that it is in fact literally objectively wrong or intentionally misleading.

Or utterly useless bots that no one asked for. I'll downvote those, too, but I haven't seen too many of them anymore in the corners that I regularly haunt.

Who wants to be the first to martyr themselves getting turned into Swiss cheese after firing the first shot? Is it you? Why not?

That is your answer.

It doesn't even have to go that far. There is a no way that assault of an elected official is not some kind of high grade felony in Arizona.

I've never retrobrighted anything because I always had a hunch this would be the case. It turns out I was vindicated. We all know full well that oxygenation is one of the things that deteriorates many materials, including embrittling plastics, and what you're doing with this stuff is literally just oxygenating the shit out of your plastic in order to bleach it.

For stuff that I've really cared about de-yellowing, I've always just cleaned it thoroughly and painted over it. This has the added bonus of the paint being an additional protective layer rather than a destructive chemical reaction inflicted on the material itself. Sure, it sucks that you also paint over any logos printed on it or whatever, but you can recreate those with stickers if you really care. I figure that if anybody can't identify what an NES or Dreamcast or something is shaped like, even without the logos on it, they're probably not invited to any more of my parties anyway.

And the ultimate outcome of that was, at one point Google enacted some kind of API change which necessitated Samsung to push out an update to remain compatible, otherwise all of your Google enabled features such as the calendar syncing, email, etc. would stop working. Samsung claimed to be developing a patch for this, and ultimately pushed out an update to... only some of their models. For the others, their response was literally just, "We recommend you buy a newer refrigerator."

Yes, this actually happened.

But since that was going on for ten years ago now, information about it on the Internet is a trifle difficult to find because the search results have largely been overshadowed by Samsung's more recent smart fridge fuckup. Grand.

Never buy a Samsung appliance.

The space station when it was armed to the teeth. I will remind you that at the beginning of the show they were woefully undersupplied and had a single digit number of torpedoes (I believe six), all of which Sisko fired at the Cardassians in a bluff to make them go away. Once we get to the war against the Jem'hadar and they allow O'Brien to festoon all the surfaces of the station with guns, then we're really talking.