I was laid off and found an old paycheck I’d never deposited and got it in one day before expired, just in time to pay my mortgage

I tried for like an hour this morning, kept clicking the checkout button and it would just reload the page. One time I got to the page to enter shipping details but after that got a message saying it was no longer in stock.

We talking, like, O Brother, Where Art Thou? being based on Homer’s Odyssey?

None anymore. I’d like to get my hands on a CRT HDTV if I can find one. I saw a listing on Nextdoor a decade ago but it was old and the guy had wound up trashing it before I messaged him.

It usually doesn’t need to be perfect, good enough is often good enough and can be a lot faster where trying for perfection might not get finished in time.

Years after the fact I could make the lead developer’s eye twitch just by mentioning the guy who was supposed to maintain the backups but we discovered after the fire that he actually hadn’t been doing it. That guy was fired, but it didn’t bring back the lost code.

It’s probably been even longer since I used mine, which is a shame because it is fun; I just don’t have a good space for the more active games right now, or even Walkabout Mini Golf

Maybe this is just an Irish name?

I guess they weren’t even working on those games anymore:

However, while Red Storm is best known for its association with Tom Clancy games, for the past decade, it’s been focused on VR games, such as Werewolves Within (2016), Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017), and Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR (2023).

Modern stewardship of Tom Clancy titles has been handled by Massive Entertainment (The Division), Ubisoft Montreal (Rainbow Six Siege), Ubisoft Paris (Ghost Recon Wildlands), and Ubisoft Toronto (Splinter Cell remake).

I think a friend from middle school worked there; not sure if he’s still there, though

The tuck shops sell prisoners a range of confectionery, soft drinks, tobacco products, toiletries, magazines and other items.

In case anyone was confused, like me, as to what a tuck shop is

Adding to this, if someone gets a reputation for sparring with hecklers, more hecklers are likely to show up and take their shot. Releasing videos of yourself taking on hecklers is probably going to encourage them.

It seems significantly better now. A lot of topics, I just go straight to Wikipedia now.

Reading the article, Horizon Worlds is not shutting down, just the VR access. Apparently they’ve moved it to apps you access on iPhone and Android. I see the appeal even less; that seems like Second Life mobile.

I mean, it took almost 13 years and the product itself was discontinued six years ago

This was the top comment when the artist posted the OP comic on Imgur, so it seems like a possibility

It’s not an illegal taxi service, it’s ride sharing.

With photos like this I always wonder if they’re accurate depictions or staged by the photographer/anthropologist?

Tommy Thompson, 73, discovered millions of dollars’ worth of sunken treasure from the 1857 wreck of the SS Central America, also known as the Ship of Gold, off the coast of South Carolina in 1988.

Investors in Thompson’s venture accused him of cheating them out of promised proceeds and after years on the run he was jailed in 2015 on a criminal contempt charge.

A total of 161 investors had given Thompson $12.7m (£9.4m) to find the ship on the understanding that they would see returns on their investment.

Thompson, then an oceanic engineer at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, and his crew brought up thousands of gold bars and coins in 1988, much of them later sold to a gold marketing group in 2000 for about $50m.

He had maintained that the coins were turned over to a trust in Belize and that the profits from the sale of the first batch of gold had mostly gone toward legal fees and bank loans, according to the BBC’s US partner CBS News.

The investors sued Thompson in 2005, alleging they had not yet received any proceeds from the treasure’s sale. Later, a criminal complaint against Thompson said the gold bars and coins he recovered from the seafloor were worth up to $400m.

What do those letters in the ceiling mean? I’m especially confused by the h with a crossbar on it