True story. Am a controls engineer. I program stuff like the production processes for pharmaceuticals, F&B, etc.

I come from a time where most games were single player you couldn’t pay to win. Not all games had cheat codes.

What we did have were memory/hex editors, game files, .ini stuff.

With what little instructions you could find online, you had to dig around and figure out where to find stuff and how to edit them so you got unlimited gold or super powerful equipment, etc and not crash the game at the same time.

Little did I know, this built my foundations for controls programming and troubleshooting. There are so many parallels like using memory editors is so similar to our debugging software where we want to find individual parameters that aren’t behaving or communicating properly.

I’m a bit confused as to what’s happening in the last frame?

In this case it inadvertently kept people alive

Minor addition:

In Europe, to make drinks like beer you had to boil the mash, which unknown to them sterilized the water, which made beer generally safe to drink.

In east asia, as you mentioned tea was a common drink. But before that there were numerous herbal remedies that had to be boiled and served hot as well. People who drank the herbal remedies got better (mainly because hydration and clean drinking water are important factors for well being). Other than attributing the recovery to just the herbs, they also attributed it to the temperature.

So lacking tea or herbal drinks, the ancient chinese believed drinking hot water was somehow beneficial to the body. Add that to the fact that many who drank cold untreated water fell sick, you can easily see how the myth developed.

Another side note. Hot water is expensive (fuel wise) so drinking hot water was a sign your family was comparatively well to do and something a lot of villagers emulated in an attempt to show that the family was well off.

‘* Spear volley *’

Announcer: Red starts off the match with a savage low blow. Will the ref do anything about it?

Put in there just as a cheap way to get emotional reactions from the audience, it’s the story telling equivalent of having the dog in the story die.

Just like Jesus, He didn’t even really die. He went away for a few days and on the third day he rose again so that all may follow him and enjoy everlasting life.

No it was not a bad idea my good sir.

We actually managed to drive one of the strains of the flu virus to become extinct in the wild.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-024-01010-y#%3A~%3Atext=Following+the+onset+of+the%2Cnot+been+identified+since+2020.

https://youtu.be/O4rfQSgkZOE

Baby panda sneeze

Jesus H Christ. These are oddly specific and terrifying are these actual reasons people at your company got fired for?

You expected to be the main character, but you’ve just realized you’re just one of many NPCs in a cyberpunk reality, just trying yo get by, but getting screwed at every turn by corporations, governments and fate.

Liver, Fava Beans and Chianti

This false dichotomy of all or nothing merely benefits the status quo.

A small improvement is better than no improvement and all progress has to start with a first step, somewhere, somehow.

These were some of the first sites to be enshittified. The more you scroll that more ad revenue they got. So they hid the actual recipes and steps under a back story longer than the dune books that forced you to scroll and hit ad after ad.

Yes

I think this version of the batmobile used “Atomic Batteries” whatever that is. They were never clear on how it worked but we never saw them refueling the bat mobile, so its not gas or diesel.

I’m concerned about the radiation coming out the back of that thing.

This is correct. There’s absolutely a SVP/EVP or board member ready to take up an interim role while they work their way through the process of a new CEO.

I’m in an engineering field, and I can tell you this absolutely holds true.

I’ve been very average in my own specialty of electrical engineering, but because I’ve taken the time to deep dive into mechanical engineering and controls/automation, I’ve far surpassed my peers career wise.