I like the idea of a “where are they?!” “The motion tracker says they’re right on top of us!” scene except instead of motion trackers, it’s the dogs barking with furious terror at seemingly empty darkness while the uneasy soldiers look around everywhere in alarm… everywhere but directly above in the treetops.
They’d definitely try to lure it to chokepoints and entangle it in nets. The acid blood would eat right through those nets as soon as the Romans managed to get a few good stabs in, so Alien would take round one, I think. The soldiers would recruit some guard dogs to give them some warning in the dark as night fell. Night grants maximum surprise advantage to the xenomorph, but somebody manages to sear the beast with a brand before it gets away again with another few captives. Alien takes round two, soldiers requisition/commandeer barrels of oil and prepare for the final confrontation.
Finally, dawn breaks, and the dogs track the scent of the stolen soldiers’ bodies back to the alien’s lair, in whatever cave or hole it found to start body horroring the hapless victims. Nets and spears are thrown in great numbers, they douse it with oil and get an iron grating down on top of it to be held down by the dozen burliest survivors. They cleanse it with fire and similarly end the suffering of the xenomorph’s captives. Centurions take the final round by knockout albeit at extreme personal cost and trauma.
Can you be a little more specific? Typing questions into Google or ChatGPT can get you answers on a broad variety of topics. Quora is a well-known “question and answer” type of site. Stack Exchange is a help site network largely specialized for different kinds of computer code, programming, and a few other topics. Is there something specific or a particular kind of community you’re looking for?
But if they do that then they’ll go up to three stars and it’s even harder to get away then! When you get up to four stars they shut down the bridges and send helicopters and at five stars they start sending tanks–
I jest, but the rapid military escalation of conflict in the GTA games is reflective of the “send enough dudes until the bad guy is dead” modus operandi of American law enforcement.
What I am saying is: either use your guns or make them illegal if you don’t use them anyway.
The people clutching the guns are the same ones with the “blue line flag punisher skull” tattoos and decals. Maybe if the Black Panther party made a comeback though.
Well now I blocked them too so your post did some good in the world
It’s turtles all the way down
Echoing what others have said that it so far appears to be hallucinated/AI-coined from everything I’ve seen so far, as well as that I’ve seen a variant spelled “Arafed.”
These are all ludicrous.
Could accidentally knock people into a higher tax bracket and ruin their finances long term for short term gain.
This makes zero sense. Read up on how tax brackets actually work. Hitting higher tax brackets doesn’t mean your existing income is taxed at the higher rate. No “ruining.”
Could accidentally give someone collateral to take out a massive loan they cannot afford long term.
Wtf is this paternalistic BS. They could buy drugs or guns too!! 😱
Doing nothing and simply using it as cash reserves is better than making a foolish mistake and ruining it for themselves.
Nah. Pay people.
Lol I would if I could 😭 shit is dire.
A man of your talents would be wasted here anyway; IBM is not a technology company. It’s a financial engineering instrument with an old computer museum attached for historical reasons.
Man I still need to beat that fucking game
Anyway, fast fourier transform joke
Part of the reason I like text based better is because it gives me the power of search, literally everywhere. Too many complicated GUIs give me headaches and make me intensely frustrated as I click around seemingly at random, digging into menus or hunting around buttons with labels or icons that I don’t recognize.
On the command line, I can just start searching and jump straight to the thing I’m looking for instead of forgetting what I was doing wandering around in GUI land.
This is a really good and entertaining post and thanks for making it
As a guy who burned out super, super, super, super hard to the point that thinking about code–even though I’m good at it–just makes me feel baaaad, I still can’t help but chuckle. Like, in my case, providing what I did to the code world was literally all I could do before I stopped being able to contribute because it hurts inside my brain lol.
But at the same thing the fucking most hilarious part of it is you’re right 🤣 People do just not see software as “real” if it involves any reading and typing outside a comment box. Buttons and visualizations are truly everything if one wants to code and be taken seriously by anyone but other hackers. 😭😂 I wonder how much low hanging fruit there is out there of software that people could just make a paid GUI for and make a killing
What makes you think they’re clueless? They just don’t care.
not to touch anything IBM touches because it would be ‘unclean’ then, IBM being source of everything that is dirty in the world
Just popping in as an ibm employee to say: yes, accurate
I miss Chef
I like to use awk instead of grep wherever possible, especially for weird logic like this.
awk '!/B/ || /A.*B/' is one way to skin that cat. If you don’t care what order A and B are in on the lines containing both, then awk '!/B/ || (/A/ && /B/)' will work.
Rule of acquisition number 1,337: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
I would just use dos2unix personally
Or :%!dos2unix from in vim
This doesn’t work as a more academic term but “slam dunk” is what came to mind 😂
I was already thinking “I would definitely watch this” but if it was all in Latin I’d like… back a kickstarter about it