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Eric Johnson's avatar

Dig Dug was fun, now I miss the arcades.

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Nick Cole's avatar

Me too

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Eric Johnson's avatar

Floride is sapping our bodily fluids, it's a commie plot Mandrake!

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Nick Cole's avatar

Nailed it!

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Eric Johnson's avatar

One of my all-time favorite movies.

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JR Handley's avatar

It's shocking, shocking I say! It's almost like they're caving to artificial market pressures.

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JR Handley's avatar

First, the athletes are also better because they hit the roids. Lets not forget that!

Now, about me... my first computer was a Commodore 64 as well. I know, nobody cares, but there it is! :P Take that, Nick!

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Single White Medusa's avatar

Ha!

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JR Handley's avatar

Also, Frogger was one heck of a game!

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JBRChiRho's avatar

They want the high performers out to keep on top of the ladder. The quickest way to get in trouble at work is for your boss to believe you are good at your job, and his

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Eric Johnson's avatar

If every go to war again, we need to go total war, that is the only way to conduct war.

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JR Handley's avatar

We need to go native, give them a war so evil they never rise up again. But that would be against our values, so we should avoid war unless there are no other options.

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idprism's avatar

it's not evil to remove commies.

evil would be torturing the poor animals.

in the long run, it's going to be much more productive to make being on the right side "cool" again, than to simply route the porpagandized idiots once.

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Eric Johnson's avatar

WOOHOO! Commadore 64 baby! YEAH! Loved that machine, wish mine hadn't die...damn mold and mildew...damn it.

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Single White Medusa's avatar

I know! I had so many fun times playing games on that when I was a kid.

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Eric Johnson's avatar

Why do they always pick the Hilton's by the airports for these uplifting meeting/things?

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JBRChiRho's avatar

Hey. I have been to those team building meetings. I can taste the doughnut and bad coffee now

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Eric Johnson's avatar

Do you mean the burnt coffee you can smell all the way by the main entrance?

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JBRChiRho's avatar

Yep. The stuff that has been there so long all joy and goodness has left the brew. But you drink it. Because coffee. Because you have sit for 8 hours in a team building exercise the purple haired crazy person demanded we all do rather than make the process run better.

Because bad horrible angry coffee matches some things.

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Eric Johnson's avatar

Rosairy

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JR Handley's avatar

I thought so too.

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idprism's avatar

iq is basically info processing speed.

it can be raised by either higher processing speed (faster thinking), or higher bandwidth (more info processed at once/pattern recognition). you can have "higher iq" by training your brain to do those, or fake it by having a really good memory (recall).

I like VD's analogy, but it's been a while so I may be butchering it. If you think of the mind as a gun, IQ is the size of bore, knowledge is where to point it, wisdom is when to pull the trigger.

it's a great measure, because it can change over time to reflect how effective a brain is at processing information, but generally about 86% heritable (meaning that over time, higher iq people produce higher iq people, generally, barring environmental factors like lead, abuse, etc destroying that 14% which is the potential of the individual to do better or worse.

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Angry Jumpmaster's avatar

This is bread and circuses to keep the unclean from seeing the butcher until it’s too late.

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