Notices by Ólafur Waage (olafurw@mastodon.social)

I love the phrase "Not my circus, not my monkeys", because it implies that even though this situation isn't your problem, there is a circus out there where the monkeys are yours.

"You can try our nightly build"
-"Great, when was your last commit?"
"Yesterday"
-"And when was your last nightly build?"
"2 weeks ago"
-"And the one before that?"
"Month ago"

Chefs kiss.

MatLab is short for Matthew Labradoodle.

utföra/utför in Swedish means "to perform", like a button to pay your bills at the bank.

útför in Icelandic means funeral.

If I ever make a band, I'll name it   just to annoy websites trying to write about it.

"To book a doctors appointment, please download our app"
[goes to app store]
I guess I'll just die then?

What do you call it when two influencers want to get married? Engagement.

Her: "Oh you're cute, can you send me some more pics?"
Me: "What kind of pics?"
Her: "You know... the ones you get sent at 3am ;)"
Me: "Oh... those pics"
<Sends a picture of a server crash incident log>

"How would you like your steak sir? Rare or?"
-"Rare? This is a 5 star restaurant"
"I don't understand"
-"I was hoping for at least Epic or maybe a Legendary"
"Please leave"
-"Understandable"

Perhaps don't name your sci-fi bad guy boss Greg. I mean you can ... but why?

@olemd After talking with Karel of the Legion of Darkness handling Void Erosion Fragments at Ingris, fighting Greg is just a little ... weird.

I'm collecting a list of all the breakup movies where they only made one movie.
Like "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "The Break-Up"

Yeah, it's a non-relational no-sequel database.

I keep seeing all these incredibly talented people have imposter syndrome. So I'm seriously doubting if I'm good enough to have it.

MS-DOS is now open source, so in a time honored tradition. Lets look for curse words!

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

Descent 3 source code has been released. And as a time honored tradition, let's look for curse words.

https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3

One of these days, someone is going to rewrite this system. I hope they did for Descent 4?

I also feel dirty. So very dirty.

Also, a hack in a 13.000 line ASM file? Welcome to gamedev.

1st, they had a badword list, nice. So let's ignore that one for now.

2nd, there is quite a lot, so I'm not gonna show all.

But that fucker brent? Gotta pay.

Damn, ugly code? No, I didn't work on Descent 3, I promise.

I can relate, I also had a shitty Win95 sound card back in the day.