No, But I Did Think About The Ottoman Empire A Bunch. Vampire LARP Does That To You Sometimes.

I'm particularly fond of Microsoft's implementation for Windows. It feels like the conversation went "It's super easy to unlock a phone, people are happy with that level of security, we should offer it" "Great idea. We'll let people have 4-digit pins" home market: "yay, this is so much easier than remembering a whole word" corporate market: "WHAT THE FUCK NO THAT'S ILLEGAL MAKE IT LONG AGAIN" And now I have a 17-digit 'pin' with special characters and mixed cases.

weirdest cybersecurity trend of the decade has to be the idea that a "PIN" is meaningfully distinct from a "password"

Hark & Nav, leaders of the Locked Tomb gang, house Escher, and some minions

Not exactly the same thing, but in Warframe if you play too much multiplayer your Warframe will catch a parasite from other infected Warframes. You need to harvest this parasite to make a monster dog.

i fell asleep for 2 seconds and woke up with the thought still in my mind that they should let you have visible parasites in MMOs. a braincrab, for example. you have a crab on your head slowly causing more and more damage to your Focus stat or whatever but you wear it as a fashion accessory like a hat and it's sort of like a cosmetic pet if you think about it though yes you do get a debuff correponsdent with it eating your brain,.

love to get tours of architecturally award-winning buildings from the people that work there. especially libraries, for some reason. I have never seen a well-designed architectural library. highlights I have seen include:

it's mostly glass and all the panes leak (many such cases)

they forgot to account for the weight of books and now it's subsiding

it's mostly glass and therefore essentially a greenhouse. books and people studying famously love wild winter-summer temperature fluctuations

it's Round. books tend not to be

they put the radiator just under the window....which is a skylight

the only lift is for moving books, so if you can't use the stairs, you'll have to go out, use the main building lift, and come back in on another floor. doors on other floors need a special access keycard

we built this space specifically to house manuscripts but the temp/humidity control is always on the blink

the stairs/corridors are too Aesthetically Narrow and if you want to pass another person, you have to awkwardly crab shuffle past each other

there are no walls separating the library from the rest of the faculty building. no one's ever wanted a quiet study space, after all

after careful consideration, i decided that meow meow meow meow meow

something mysterious has appeared

idk i dont mean this with as much derision as might bleed out but it is exceedingly clear that some of you were never considered retard-faggots as a child and therefore never subject to the subsequent torments Pure Children would subject Retard-Faggot Children to.

[* the use of these slurs is not reclamatory but is also not pejorative. the use of these slurs is academic, technical, and descriptive.]

Next VatiCon's gonna be lit.

so you're telling me that the Catholics have a new mascot that's a cute anime-style blue-eyed teal-haired anime (girl(???) or boy, possibly???) and her name is Luce? As in latin for light, so they're a bearer of light? like... Lucifer? Okay.