Malgas

The point is there’s no statistical difference between rolling one die an infinite number of times, rolling an infinite number of dice once, and rolling an infinite number of dice an infinite number of times.

When Pump Up the Jam was first broadcast, audiences feared it was real, and that jam would be pumped into their homes.

The lyrics give clues to the location of a buried golden hare that has never been found.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ass.

Hence error 418.

but it seems too good quality to be custom work and is definitely an official controller.

Custom official controllers are a thing.

This conversation is gastro-etymology, BTW.

Well obviously this flower is pollinated by ducks.

“3.6 violinists. Not great, not terrible.”

Right, like the guy with the negatronic brain isn’t going to be evil. Come on!

There’s a running gag in archaeology that variations on “ritual purposes” actually means “I have no idea what this was for”.

That said, there has historically been a connection between certain divination practices and games of chance, so this could easily be both.

Finally, a worthy sequel to 5nowdog5.

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.

It wouldn’t even change the difficulty, really. You’d just wind up multiplying or dividing by 9/10 instead of 9/5.

There’s a bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains of California that is nearly 5000 years old.

Depends on the distro. Some have a configuration setting to allow unfree software or not, others have separate repos.

A similar argument is what finally caused the value of the vi family of editors to click in my brain:

They are designed to be fully functional over even the shittiest possible* remote connection. You can’t always count on ctrl, alt, or even the arrow keys being transmitted in a way that is understood by the remote machine.

*Well, I guess the worst possible terminal would be something like an actual teletype, and in that case you’d probably want to fall back to ed or its descendants. To save paper, if nothing else.

Gah, you’re right. I had it that way at first, but then glanced down a list to check my count and they listed 2002’s Harem Adventures as a separate game even though it’s just the Java phone port of the original.

I’d just like to point out, for the record, that that isn’t the original trilogy. Sands of Time is the fifth Prince of Persia game.

Hell, there were still mammoths around when the pyramids at Giza were built.

Pygmy mammoths, on an island in northern Siberia, but still.