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Breaking Point – Murder?

November 30th, 2017 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. Langland
    Langland
    November 30, 2017 at 4:07 am | # | Reply

    Wow I called this one and I didn’t even know what the story intends to do.

  2. Moose
    Moose
    November 30, 2017 at 8:19 am | # | Reply

    I’m waiting for when they go to the police station and start to describe Terrance the police chief goes, “He sounds like someone we’ve been looking for for the past year. He escaped from a mental asylum”

    • Viktor
      Viktor
      November 30, 2017 at 12:51 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve been seeing a lot of this recently. Terrance isn’t insane. Yes, he lives in a world that is different from reality, but the only difference is that, in Terrance-world, Terrance is always right. He’s not nuts, he just never stops to double-check or reconsider, because there’s no need. He’s right, so why waste the time? Therefore, any time he seems to fail or be wrong, someone else must have sabotaged him. Probably someone he already has a low opinion of, therefore proving he was right to dislike them. And if anyone doesn’t like Terrance, clearly they’re either jealous or evil, because how could you not like Terrance? He’s great!

      • Trae Dorn
        Trae Dorn
        November 30, 2017 at 12:55 pm | # | Reply

        Exactly right.

        Terrence isn’t insane.

        Terrence is just THAT MUCH of an asshole.

        • Vorlonagent
          Vorlonagent
          November 30, 2017 at 6:09 pm | # | Reply

          Dunning-Kruger Effect…

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

      • Lax
        Lax
        November 30, 2017 at 6:05 pm | # | Reply

        I dunno… He’s pretty much dinged every box for narcissistic sociopathy. Even in your description of him.

      • EcchiKitty
        EcchiKitty
        November 30, 2017 at 7:24 pm | # | Reply

        I tend to shorthand that as ‘insane’. His brain does not work with facts, it works with some mumbo-jumbo it made up on the fly. That does not count as sanity from where I’m sitting.

      • Moose
        Moose
        December 1, 2017 at 9:10 am | # | Reply

        @Viktor: I was using the phrase ‘mental asylum’ for a comedic effect, knowing that it is an extreme and derogatory term for those who are in need of professional help.

        And yes I’ve known assholes and professional victims like Terrence. Short of electroshock therapy*, there isn’t that much one can do with them.

        *Again an exaggeration for comedic effect

  3. Ed Rhodes
    Ed Rhodes
    December 1, 2017 at 8:17 pm | # | Reply

    I’ve discovered the legal definition of actual insanity has one specific symptom that Terrance doesn’t seem to have manifested, hallucinations.

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  • Every Time I Say My Desk is 'Peak' Cyberpunk, I End Up Topping It ( November 30th 2020 )


    My current desk

    So every few years I've felt the need to make an update about my ever evolving workspace, and how I (more and more) seem to be cultivating an aesthetic that screams "secondary side character in a cyberpunk story who probably gets killed off in the third act." It's an aesthetic I've been working on on purpose (well, not the getting killed off bit), but every time I declare it's reached "peak cyberpunk" I end up outdoing it soon after anyway.

    Like that 2017 update? I exceeded it in mere months.

    Anyway, since I made some significant changes recently, I thought I'd post an update about my weird hole of many screens where I run The Nerd & Tie Podcast Network from. I'm not going to run through everything, but I will map out the biggest differences from 2017. The first is (obviously) the 32" display up top, which I now use to stream media on instead of the Kindle Fire (though the Kindle Fire is still used for audio bumpers on podcasts). An Apple TV runs that, though I also have a spare Switch dock hooked up sometimes. The Linux laptop is gone (I mean I still have it though), replaced by the late-2011 13" MacBook Pro which used to be my main personal machine. That MacBook Pro is tucked away, but displays on the relocated black monitor in the lower left.

    Of course, my new main personal machine is a brand spankin' new M1 Mac mini, which is controlled by the keyboard and trackpad that sit where my laptop used to be. I've expanded the physical desk (and retired the mini fridge) to support the monitor for the Mac mini. And don't worry, Linux isn't gone from my desk (and I mean I still use the laptop) -- as you will notice one last monitor on the lower right which is hooked up to a Raspberry Pi 400. This is notably used from a different chair, as that's my "goof around" computer, and would literally be a distraction if I was trying to use it while getting work done.

    It's funny, I bought two computers in 2020, both of which are ARM based. With a good chunk of my desk now on RISC architecture, I'm happy I can just dig out this image without context as I sign off for today...

    RISC is good


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