Can confirm. I'm pretty sure it's Keaton Patti's writing, "forced a bot to watch 1000 hours of..." is his shtick. It's all hand written to read like an exaggerated, comedic Markov chain output.

It is just about piracy. Sony's repeatedly demonstrated they don't care about their users' safety (see: numerous high profile data leaks), and these bootloader exploits aren't the sort of thing a virus can exploit.

> (basically Rock Band, and very latency sensitive)

I contest that rhythm games are the least latency sensitive. You'll automatically adjust to (consistent) latency and not notice it. You also don't get much feedback unless you miss a note.

Festival tells you how far off you are in milliseconds, and gives you extra points for perfect timing.

But that's still not an across the wire latency.

The “perfect” timing window in Festival is +/-5ms from gem position (10ms total afaik). Harmonix has always been exceptional with their beatmatching code. There are physical limits to the black magic of latency compensation, however. If your input has to travel over the wire before the game can see it, then it’s unavoidable without heavy compensation

There are private clinics like Medcan, which you can pay for checkups, referrals, etc., so it's not all single payer. You usually end up in the same queue for MRIs though, so it doesn't help there.

s/healthy/alive/

Even a billionaire doesn’t have many _good_ years left after 80.

Well, for 30 years he is sponsoring research to prolonging his life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellison_Medical_Foundation

It’ll likely just give him some new kind of cancer.

not yet anyway

> the ultra processed soy beans and various chemical binders wearing a meat Halloween costume.

This reads like propaganda. Take tofurkey for example, it's just seitan and tofu and the same "chemical binders" you'll see in every other product in the freezer aisle.

And tofu is only as "ultra-processed" as cheese or bread is.

Yeah, tofu is not even in the same class as the synthetic burgers. Take a second and go read their ingredient lists. I’m gonna go with the Indian or falafel meal, which happens to be delicious. Which I think is the choice consumers are making.

I assume you're talking about Impossible Burger and its ilk. Stuff like methylcellulose (non-digestible fiber) and L-Tryptophan (present in meat and eggs, added here to supplement nutrition) sound scary, but they're everywhere as boring nutritional additives.

The only odd one is soy leghemoglobin, which comes from soybeans but mimics meat hemoglobin. It's just part of the legume, though.

The only troubling thing on the ingredients list is how much oil they put into it, but you can make the same complaint with 70/30 meat burgers. The macros are bad, but most burgers are.

I hope you use fresh turmeric for your Indian meal, because the powdered stuff is sometimes adulterated with lead oxide.

I don't think this is always true; mature security teams consider their threat models. There's just a lot of Schneier groupies in the field as well...

Replace "goal" with "solution" and it makes sense. Otherwise (trite) you might solve the wrong problem.

I don't think it was just the random generation; Desktop Adventures didn't quite have the depth of a rogue game.

True. But they were still kind of addictive (at least to me)

Not etymologically related, just homophones; barb (from French) and barbarian (from Greek) have distinct roots.