Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@InspectorCaracal just one stick and one orb, the other tentacles are just hanging out

maybe use one of them for knighting people with a sword or something

any time I do my "Thus spake the octopus" thing just imagine me on a really fancy chair with a little crown and holding in my tentacles that stick and that orb thing queen lizzie has

@pettancow not sure an entire article is required in order to say "it doesn't work" but yeah, probably

Notable case: all the places that think I'm in Amsterdam

Using a geoIP database to figure out where your users are is a bad idea because it never works right

If you need to know where someone is, ask them

Thus spake the octopus

@Jo they more than likely totally forgot about GPS when they wrote it and only put in the bit where it checks the geoIP database

@Jo lemme guess, it's guessing location data from your IP address?

@Jo if all your shit is hitting swap too often, yes, yes it is

@InspectorCaracal ...fair point

I am 100% convinced that Irish names were developed in order to fuck with the English

I mean come on, "Caoimhe"? Seriously? That one's apparently meant to be pronounced "KEE-va"

Or "Tadhg", which is apparently pronounced like "TIE-g"

@natecull never know, they might just really like hot sulphuric acid

@maple @trashyfins@chomp.life something like this

@maple @trashyfins@chomp.life oh yeah, I was just wondering if you could use them like some sort of warp speed trebuchet

@trashyfins@chomp.life @maple Is a naccel the star trek equivalent of a trebuchet?

@der_Jeff@mastodon.host it's the fallout term for dragons because actually calling them dragons would have made it even more obvious

I've just found out that the end-game for Fallout 76 involves fighting... "Scorch Beasts"

The end-game for Fallout 76 is literally fucking Skyrim

@balrogboogie y'know, I'm always a big proponent of trying to make your dreams come true

If you'd have told me a couple of years ago that politics today could be summed up by a large terrifying orange muppet in ice hockey gear fighting a cartoon frog I'd have assumed you were on drugs

@maple

@Jo yeah, a quick "fire in t'hole" probably would have been a good courtesy

@Jo hey, if you want a hole dug grenades'd certainly get the hole bigger faster