Infinite Warfare Defence Squad

Eg. Not mods like "better UI/performance/etc."

For almost ten years now I've not had a Skyrim playthrough where I didnt first install a mod that makes trees GIGANTIC

background music from windows xp installation. few people actually heard it, because it was set to play before the audio drivers were configured.

This piece in particular has an interesting history: it wasn’t actually composed for Windows XP, which is why is so different from all the XP Sounds and Music (composed by Bill Brown). Instead it was composed for the Autorun Screen of the Internet Explorer 3.0 Starter Pack! Because the web was new and exciting and cool, so why not make the installer CD play music and show off that fancy sound card you bought!

Wait? CD? Yep, back in the early days of Windows (think 3.1 or 95), computers didn’t ship with a Web Browser by default - the web was too new. You had to go get one on disk or CD (assuming your computer even had a CD-ROM drive at all), often for free but sometimes for a few dollars to cover the production costs. Hell, even if you had a way to download a browser, it was still probably faster to go buy the CD: dial up is SLOW, and in 1995 few-if-anyone had anything faster than ~24kbps.

And since Stan did a ton of other music for Microsoft, they had him do this too. When Windows 98 was in production, they even had him remix it to use for Win98’s Welcome to Windows app - though they ended up going with a different (much shorter) song. Stan shared that remix a few years ago: https://youtu.be/EBp0_v81vHc

currently my white whale is the couch from this page

So like a long time ago I had a professor that I absolutely adored. She happened to be Japanese American. She grew up speaking Japanese at home but never really spent a lot of time in Japan. She mostly spoke with other Japanese Americans and read books.

So one day early in her teaching career there’s an exchange student from Japan who’s having a hard time understanding a concept so she explained it to him in Japanese and then he looked absolutely rattled. Like in shock. Pale.

This is how she learned that the way she speaks Japanese makes her sound like a gang member.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.