Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
I bet there’s a not insignificant chunk of Win3.11 code still lurking at the heart of Windows even now. Patched and recompiled for 64 bits, but still there.
Though most of it is probably for backwards compatibility by this point. Or so we should hope.
All things considered, I think I preferred “This kills the crab”.
In British and Australian slang at the very least, “k*ddie fiddler” is a legitimate euphemism for, well, you know.
Would not be surprised if that’s somewhere at the root of the miscategorisation.
In a way we might hope that this man, placing rocks in an infinite desert for eternity, might notice if a false vacuum decays into true vacuum. The handful of misplaced rocks, perhaps, that entail an obvious, nullifying cascade such that more and more rock zeros appear in subsequent rows from the mistake, the true vacuum engulfing our reality at light speed from the apparent position of the error.
And he tuts. He spends aeons rewinding the rows like crochet or knitting after a mistake and then resumes forward again, across the desert.
Not his pet reality. Not if he can help it.
And then perhaps, one day, it occurs spontaneously anyway, as a result of the calculations. No mistake. Pure consequence. He has infinite time to think. Perhaps he can patch the simulation.
Maybe that’s all the control any creator god has.
There isn’t any point praying. Such a god can’t hear you. He’s just out there… shuffling rocks.
Which dialect of English uses “news” as a discrete noun like this? “A news” is ungrammatical to me, so this is either wrong or an innovation I’m not aware of.
What is weird here, either way, is how “new” is generally an adjective, but “news” is a specific plural noun form of it, suggesting that “a new” ought to be grammatical, and indeed perhaps a conjugation for this comic, but that doesn’t sound right to me either.
“A news item” would be the most correct here, I think.
See also: goods.