Bo Thompson

Time to go be a productive game dev. Wish me luck, I'll be back at the end of the weekend!

Eavesdrop originally referred to the corner of a room where the roof dropped out past the wall to help channel smoke and rain away. Eavesdropper described someone who stood there (to listen in), Eavesdrop (v) then described listening in, which became Eavesdropper as "someone who overhears"!

Oh, that's the worst part! I can find advertisements dating back a CENTURY that use "got the juice" with *different definitions*! Sometimes literal juice, sometimes alcohol, sometimes electricity!

Yesssss, Reese's ring!

I'm sorry but this is brilliant. This is no less appropriate than placing a salvation army donation collector near an alcohol store and a lot more defensible; marijuana may be regulated but so is tobacco and nobody blinks if they sell near stores that provide that.

For a person who desires to be learned, there can be few things more simultaneously humbling and informative than reaching a place where you can confidently state:

I don't know, and here is why I am not sure it is possible to know...

(And now you're seeing how I went on an hour long rabbit hole on this. 🤣)

For instance, it could be...

Juice=vitality which is 1700s!
Juice=social clout/power 1980s!
Juicy=Attractive or desirable=1600s and then again 1950s!

I thought so too initislly, but there isn't actually a good crossover to explain when or how that happened; juiced is 1940s, juice as electricity is 1890s, and got the juice is mid-2000s when there's a half dozen other equally logical formations!

There are also coralberries and multiple fruit called red berries, snowberries, a few loanworded fruit are actually color references too.

Maybe! But all of the etymology of juice is weird and disjoint like this.

Juice = Electricity? 1890s.
Juiced = Charged up? 1940s.
Juice = Alcohol? 1840s.
Juiced = Drunk? 1920s.

Nothing happens in the order or temporal proximity you'd expect! 😆

My favorite feature about Jack Dorsey is that he is eternally cursed to work on promoting technologies that end up serving people he despises. There can be no greater revenge upon a person with shitty ideas that labor all they devote themselves to turns against who they are in theory and practice.

Right?!?

You'd think, but it didn't really become popularized until the mid 2000's... which makes it hard to connect to the movie Juice, and at the turn of the 21st century "got the sauce" was more prevalent.

How much do I love etymology? Yesterday I went down an hour long a rabbit hole to investigate the phrase "got the juice" and learned how nothing in the etymological evolution of "juice" explains it very well and all of it developed and evolved in a weird order you would not guess.

The moral this friend learned is that I live for ridiculous, niche etymology stuff. Bless their heart, they're lucky they didn't hit me with a word like eavesdrop. I'd have been gabbing for hours. 🤣

Ah yes, colorblindness-test berries. 🤣

Friend: Blueberries and oranges are the only fruits named after colors.

Me: That's not true at all.

Friend: What?

Me: Firstly, there are more named after colors. Secondly, oranges were not named after a color.

Friend: Yes they were.

Me: No friend, orange the color was named after the fruit.

The bar is in hell. 🤣

I feel like we, the public, deserve to see how the AI groveled after being confronted with this mistake. They're all absurd, but there's something very schadenfreude around the whole exercise of watching grown folk who should know better try to reconcile with statistically derived apologies.

There's a particular kind of person who thinks they are better because they put away toys and other childish things, never once sparing a thought to the idea that the many toys and games they cherished as a child were lovingly crafted for them by adults who held onto childish things.

Children deserve third places. So do adults. These should rarely be the same place. If it requires adult supervision, it's not an exclusive third place for either. This means it is not unsuitable for un-kidded adults to be there. Kids still deserve their own third places. That's a different problem.

PC: I prayed to you in my time of need and I died feeling like nothing I could do mattered anyways!

God: People die every day. Death the promise at the end of every life. I answered your prayers with clarity. Sometimes that's just how a mortal life ends.

I see Ace Attorney on your list, have you tried Tyrian Cuthbert? I've been delighted to see other folks exploring that space with fun twists.

I want more judges to just start judiciously (you see that pun, right?) applying a Snitch-or-Sink response to federal civil servants giving unsatisfactory compliance to court orders. "Tell me who exactly failed to comply with my order. No? Then go to jail and they can send me someone who will."

Lemme get this straight: They can't afford the home for her to stay at, they can't make enough to be the sole breadwinner, and they can't repair or build shit without a YouTube guru and a home depot helper kit. Remind me in this lovely nuclear fantasy what these men think they're offering for this?

The best part? I imagine you could make a good case for dual sovereignty doctrine to allow states to file some charges too, making it possible to charge them with crimes against state AND federal government. This is important because if their immunity is invalidated, it'd block presidential pardon.

Oh, okay, then go to prison. Malfeasance, fraud by deception, embezzlement, a dash of contempt for having the temerity... the list is endless really. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, go directly to jail. 🤷🏿‍♂️

That's too cool!

In a surprise to nobody paying attention, Slay the Spire 2 has cemented itself as *the* rebuttal when people suggest there are no successful games made in Godot. Nearing half a million concurrent players and 97% approval rating; it's a certified hit by a known hitmaker.