Yeah, I’m not hating on Spain, but I couldn’t resist mentioning the conquistador thing, especially since I was reading about the Aztecs yesterday.

Also the first to show the middle finger to the Americas =P

I have a very bad memory for faces. Apparently it’s not prosopagnosia, just “holy shit how can you even function in society?!” level bad memory.

Anyway, I get appoached by people on the street, sometimes chat a bit and then leave without knowing who it was. I figure it’s kinda like being a celebrity, just without the money.

It sucks.

Nooooo! Have mercy!

Wish they still made VR versions for these. The first one was great.

Warcraft

xkcd itself is 21 years old…

I need an Everett True-Jucika crossover comic.

English names of days are weird. You have the day of the sun and the moon, ok. Fine. Then Tuesday - Friday are norse gods (Tyr, Odin, Thor, Freya), but what’s Saturday doing there?! Saturn is a completely different pantheon!

In Czech we have it simple - Monday is “after Sunday”, then there’s Secondday, Middleday, Fourthday, Fifthday, Sabbath and Not-working-day.

Yeah, nowadays the word is used from its brutality, not the exact number. The point is not just that every 10th was killed, but that the rest of them were made to do it.

Well said, Dragonborn.

Some code responsible for flickering light that was originally a part of the Quake engine has been kept as the engine evolved through GoldSrc to the modern version of Source engine. All these games have lights that flicker in exactly the same rhythm.

Source started as a modified version of the Quake engine.

Not really. You made that up.

Ancient code being reused in new software is nothing new or specific to Microsoft.

Reminds me of the flicker.

Quake, HL, HL2, Portal:

And here’s Half Life 1 and HL: Alyx for good measure:

A crossover meme? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the internet, localized entirely within this community?

…

Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?