Cognitively and logically, I understand.

But emotionally, it's just another one of those little reminders of the passage of time that hits unexpectedly hard.

I think it's because my only memories of it are from when I was young. Quake 3 Arena was released almost a year before the PS2, but I've never really stopped playing it, and still sometimes get in-person LAN parties together to play it. It feels just as old as I am, and I associate it with good memories from every age.

But I haven't touched or even thought about a PS2 in decades. So when it suddenly jumps to the front of my mind, only old memories come with it. Then you start to think about the friends you played it with, and everything that's happened to you all between them and now. Kids, marriages, divorces, houses, bankruptcies, jobs earned and lost, deaths, etc... Some are doing great, some not so great, but most you just don't know because you've lost contact.

So yeah, it seems silly on its face, but sometimes random thing just pull you into the past unexpectedly, putting the present and the path between them both in stark contrast. This just happened to be one for me this time.

I'm more concerned with the transformations from customers to product.

"Hey, buy our expensive shit but also give us all your data so we can also sell it to other companies."

A lot of unpopular "features" and behaviors used to have DISM, policy, or registry workarounds. And MS seems to love to kill those workarounds during later updates.

If MS isn't letting people uninstall it, there's a reason for it, and I'd be willing to bet that users will one day find that it has been magically re-enabled by an update.

my sister has two children that are 7 and 5...
...and would rather watch elsa getting impregnated by spiderman.

Who is showing the kid R34 animations?

I know quite a few local FFLs and not a single one of them would risk their license and livelihood by knowingly selling to straw purchasers.

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Bitch, I did the guest checkout so I wouldn't have to make an account. It's never "faster" or "more convenient" to check out - my browser already has my details saved, I don't need my credit card and personal info stored in yet another poorly secured database just waiting for the next breach and another free year of credit monitoring.

Take your accounts and mailing lists and fuck off already.

I guess it was inevitable that my fellow millennials would carry on the age-old tradition of shitting on the younger generation's new slang, styles, and behaviors. I don't know why I thought we might break the cycle.

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Bullshit branding on point.

Yes, but choose one with a smaller beaver tail. The 75 series would be far too pokey in the clavicle.

Suppressive fire is a thing, and it does look like this would be good enough to do that.

The real limitation is magazine capacity for that role. Slap a drum mag on there instead and you've got a winner.

security experts Runa Sandvik and Michael Auger demonstrated that naive software design left the rifle's aiming computer open to remote hacking when its Wi-Fi capability was turned on

Not even "smart" weapon designers are taking embedded device security seriously enough. I wish I were surprised.

They don't care as long as they can get in, make a few bucks, and get out. Long-term stability isn't the priority anymore, just quick profits.