Jonas Wisser @jwisser@mastodon.social

Benefits of prescriptivism:

- Constantly BE mad when everyone else is wrong about the thing
- Constantly MAKE people mad by telling them they're wrong about the thing

You know, in retrospect, it's possible "benefits" isn't exactly the word I wanted. 🤔

We need a word for the particular flavor of frustration experienced when you go to a status page that should be showing lots of red and instead it's still lying happily all over its green face.

Reminder:

I understand that there's a technical physics reason my desktop speakers pick up a local radio station while powered on and inactive, but it still freaks me the hell out.

Proposal to introduce the phrase "lawful smug" for a certain type of insufferable paladin.

Almost without exception, D&D sessions are more fun than I expect—and I go in expecting them to be very fun!

I love this game, but more, I love the trust it builds within a group.

A Furby Chose My Gender

the newest book from chuck tingle

Listen: given that Nintendo has been making bank off a character as boring as Mario for the better part of 40 years, have we considered that the company, collectively, is a witch?

As usual, rich people can't be trusted with money.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/15/job-losses-trump-tax-cut-at-t-general-motors-wells-fargo

but what if i got a cat

Well played, Apple.

(But I maintain that 🦅 would have been the more correct emojil, since eagles are raptors and tyrannosaurs are not.)

::hammers on the table:: let me emulate old N64 Rogue Squadron games on my Switch already

I maintain that Friday the 14ths are way unluckier, and today is no exception.

The only truly important question about Pokémon Sword/Shield: will it support pro controllers like a real game, or will we be stuck in Let’s Go joycon hell again?

Happy Friday, y’all!

Congratulations to the people of Canada on their stunning athletic victory.

https://twitter.com/instagram/status/1139301916351975424

🤔

(And also because I’m still at work monitoring Instagram’s API status at almost 7pm.)

I know I’ve become The Man because I just got mad about Instagram not acknowledging a partial outage to API partners before they posted a consumer-facing tweet.