,..because its original name is the Coeurl, from the novella The Black Destroyer by A E van Vogt (it showed up later in The Voyage of the Space Beagle, which was ripped off for Alien). There's no specific public record I can find of van Vogt or his estate providing an exclusive license (or ANY license) to TSR or WotC for them to claim ownership of something derived from the Coeurl.

How are the UK news networks and papers of record doing with accurate and honest reporting on that whole "nationwide Muslim rape gang scandal" subject?

Because it kind of looks like they failed that litmus test of journalistic integrity in spectacular, disastrous fashion.

"The game received an unusual number of user reviews with a clear negative bias (including a large percentage of "zero" reviews), despite seeing acceptable review scores from reputable review sites," Wedbush analysts Michael Pachter, Alicia Reese and Kade Bar wrote in a note last week. "This is a case of a rare incel victory that led to Ubisoft having to take down its numbers," they added."

"Well of COURSE it has to be the fucking incels. We couldn't possibly make a shit game, just look at the scores in all these reviews we paid for!"

There is no OS that will fix those users.

Conversely, Linux is probably easier to properly lock down so those same users can't really break things.

Youtube can serve me ads when Youtube also takes 100% perpetual responsibility for everything their servers send to my machines.
That includes malware from compromised ads and ad servers.

Oh, they won't do that? They can't guarantee they'll never serve malicious compromised ads, like they have previously? And they won't guarantee to make me whole if they do?

Then I don't give a dry squeaky flying fuck what they whine about. I will protect my devices and my data, and they can suck it.

Statistically, it's almost guaranteed there's other sapient life somewhere.

Astrometrically, the distance between them and us is almost guaranteed to be so huge we might as well be alone.

It's really kind of heartbreaking. We're trapped on this little island in these fleeting, fragile bodies.

They put them in out of the way teams and places where they can insulate against the HR problems that inevitably result.

When one somehow slips through the hiring process and shows up on a team that's actually expected to produce or function under pressure, or one under any kind of public scrutiny, they disappear real quick.

Saw it happen several times in Microsoft country. The one exception was an old-timer who was such a terrifying savant at manual Assembler optimization that they literally couldn't get rid of him.

A ton of these microplastics are things like PFAS, pthalates, and other fun stuff. You know what almost all of those have in common? They're endocrine disruptors that mess with neurotransmitters, endocrine hormones, and sex development.

Which is probably a large chunk of why we now have a Certain Subset of Social Issues.

The HTC Vive I have hooked up to my Debian machine says SteamVR runs just fine natively on Linux.

The Valve Index my buddy has hooked up to an Arch Linux box concurs.

Like, without OpenXR? Because if it can use SteamVR natively on Linux, imma get one.

In the space of a few paragraphs we went from a potentially interesting dive into how a technology designed for one use case was adapted to a completely different one, to a not-so-veiled accusation that early dot-matrix printers (and their designers) were racist. Which is rich, considering many of the Asian countries being talked about here are *so* racist it's hard for many Westerners to even comprehend how severely racist those cultures are.

But hey, apparently designing a 1980s dot matrix printer for mainly producing latin alphabet characters makes you the goddamn KKK. Or something.

Because if there's one thing advertising agencies and corproate executives are known for, it's an unfailing sensitivity to the sublime, immersive richness of the user experience. We can totally trust them to get that right.

Seriously, can somebody just pay the dude enough to fuck all the way off already?

Thirty years. I used Windows exclusively for thirty years, and in the end it wasn't cost or programs or features that made me ditch Windows, it was Microsoft acting like this - like they owned my machine and me just because some of their software was on it.

Our entire house runs *nix flavors now, even my 8yo's PC that just does Minecraft.

You have to wonder how many people would shrug and move their stuff to something like Ubuntu or Zorin, and the only thing stopping them is they don't even know that's an option.

Because this isn't the first time the credibility of the Hugos has come under fire, and they didn't have a lot of credibility left to burn.