I thought everyone keistered their mangoes

He’s been told his entire life he’s better than everyone else, it’s no wonder he convinces others.

He spent part of his youth benefiting from apartheid and being a German kid in an African town that literally glorified Nazism until the 1980s.

He got all of the $100,000 he first lost in bad investments from family and friends.

Celebrity billionaires, they’re just like us… lmao

Correct, in the book they have multiple groups of soldiers that run ahead (in vehicles) if there is a vanguard.

I’m reading it too because I read it over a decade ago and making it into a movie seemed stupid to me. So I wanted to know how stupid.

Which city builder? I think I have 300 hours in Cities Skylines by now

I don’t go to bars but I vaguely remember seeing bar-top digital games at some point too.

I can’t remember when this was, I just remember being flabbergasted that someone might pay to play a bejeweled knockoff or something.

It’s not just you! Forza Horizon has been the main series of video game I looked forward to. I loved 3 and 4.

It didn’t take long for 5 to concentrate fully on the weekly bullshit and making the game more about puzzles and Hot Wheels-style excitement than driving.

This is the first Horizon game in over a decade that I couldn’t care less about. It just feels like a sad shell of the previous games.

It’s such a funny example. He was so famous in the 80s!

Never Gonna Give You Up was literally #1 in 25 countries in 1988. He was nominated for a Grammy but lost to Tracy Chapman.

He’s sold 40 million albums.

During the period between his debut release and his fifth single (in 1988), Astley outsold every other artist in the world. (From his Wikipedia article)

I would argue he wasn’t accidentally famous at all, as he partnered with the Hit Factory. They produced Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” in 1985.

“I knew, though, that when I got my turn, it would be a big thing, because Stock Aitken Waterman were becoming this big hit machine.”

Having a big hit is why he started working at their production studio as a “tea boy.”

Or sometimes history if I can’t remember at all.

Oh my bad, two other people said that too I was just excited

That is absolutely incredible!

According to the Houndstooth Wikipedia article,

The oldest Bronze Age houndstooth textiles found so far are from the Hallstatt Celtic Salt Mine, Austria, 1500-1200 BC.

Mind-bending.

Edited because I forgot a word.

I aspire to use this as a reaction image to one of my friends someday

I’m trying to think what would be too much for this…

I’ve never seen anything like it, that’s for sure.

I frequently enjoy your posts, so this is a delight!

It’s such a quotable movie. “And what’s he do?”

I saw Hackers when I was a teen, around 1998. I knew that wasn’t exactly what real “hacking” was, but it still made it feel like something to belong to. I painted my beige keyboard after seeing it a few times, just to make it feel more like my own.

One of the reasons it mirrored real life in some spots is because they used “Emmanuel Goldstein” as a source for some of the hacking references or themes. He published 2600: The Hacker Quarterly for decades (I was a subscriber for one of those decades), documentaries (Freedom Downtime is good!), radio shows, etc.

If I remember correctly he thought the movie was stupid but appreciated that they still said he was a consultant in the credits.

I too have owned a fractal case and I really liked it! I eventually got rid of it because I moved cross-country and I didn’t have an immediate need for it.

I was 100% thinking that too! I saw it and immediately was like “wow, that looks like it will win a prize.”

Cool to hear you go to the press exhibition each year! You must see a lot of amazing photos there.

I’m an amateur photographer and mostly do insects.

Incredible timing, positioning, and framing. Also preparation I assume, being able to take the photo in that environment. Even the wind had to be right! Remarkable.

My company is not a place where you learn how to code, it’s a place where you learn all the stuff which you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.

This to me is actually the “secret” of software engineering: it’s frequently doing the stuff you didn’t think you’d have to do as a software engineer.

The hard part is often finding someone who can do both while also wanting to work at your company.

As mentioned in comments below, it’s a Chicago Tribune photographer, Stacey Wescott. Amazing photographer!

My lemmy client lets me filter out posts based on words or phrases.

I found my mood improving when I started filtering out the clickbait and doom.

It’s both! Though Lay’s came first. I looked it up because I couldn’t remember.

Pringles is “once you pop, you can’t stop,” in the mid 1990s.

Lay’s is “betcha can’t eat just one,” starting in the early 1960s!

Now I want chips.

If it’s not the DEA it’s the CIA. If it’s not the CIA it’s the FBI.

What a cool idea!