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Inferno Squad – Penny Arcade

Last time Gabriel and his inheritors went wild on wargaming, part of the reason it fell apart was that they dug too greedily and too deep. Any one of the wargames that Games Workshop makes could be your entire life – they could certainly be your entire paycheck. They were playing Kill Team and Warhammer […]

Friday On My Mind

The most common type of submission Error’d receives are simple, stupid, data problems on Amazon. The text doesn’t match the image, the pricing is goofy, or some other mixup that are just bound to happen with a database of zillions of products uploaded by a plethora of barely-literate mountain village drop-shippers. So I don’t usually […]

Honk if you also didn’t know what this meant

So this morning I was telling Victor that I’d only recently realized that all of those “HONK IF YOU’RE HORNY” bumper stickers that everyone inexplicably had on their car when we were kids were not actually a call for other drivers to indicate they wanted to have sex, and that instead it was to keep […]

Italy Bans Overseas Surrogacy

Italy criminalized citizens going abroad to have children through surrogacy, a measure slammed by opponents as “medieval” and discriminatory to same-sex couples. What do you think? “So should I just keep this baby now?” Libby Valdez, Proprietor “Eh, I know a guy.” Ross McCrae, Synthesizer Programmer “Oh, I just assumed the newborn got lost in […]

34-year-old brother-in-law wants paid vacation after telling 30-year-old woman she’s a “gold digger” because of her high-earning husband: ‘He’s upset, and my in-laws are saying I’m making a big deal out of nothing’

In this life, you reap what you sow, though you won’t catch me out there in the fields planting any seeds or coming back with one of those things the Grim Reaper carries around months later just to cut it all down again. Still, if you go around saying things about people, don’t be surprised […]

4 Famous Songs That Are Secretly Religious

Sometimes, you’ll be listening to a pop song, and then you’ll suddenly bolt upright and ask yourself, “Hold on. Is this a hymn?” For example, you might realize the band you’re listening to is named “Creed,” and the song is talking about going “higher, to a place where blind men see.” Clearly, this about heaven. […]

Ancestry Dot Dumb

Damiano's company had more work than staff, and opted to hire a subcontractor. When hiring on a subcontractor, you could look for all sorts of things. Does their portfolio contain work similar to what you're asking them to do? What's the average experience of their team? What are the agreed upon code quality standards for […]