In D&D, your rewards generally come from killing monsters in the form of experience points and loot.

It's a shame they moved away from the XP for treasure model. In the original editions, the game was pretty straightforward about your position as a graverobber that could easily be slaughtered by monsters.

On top of that, it turns out that OpenStack takes a *lot* of work to get up and running and a lot of work to keep it running. Sure, you can type in one command and get a single node Devstack running but going from there to a full working cloud involves large teams of engineers.

Is the anti-SJW crowd really this thin skinned?

Yes. There's vast armies of young white men who are so insecure in their identities that they must rage and rage and rage at anything that reminds them that there's other sorts of people in the world.

I don't remember being Slashdot being so fucking bitter & reactionary. Nearly every post in this thread is raging over an exchange that went like "I wanna call this shit 'BRO'" - "somebody might be offended" - "Oh, I can see that, let's do something else". This isn't protesters taking down some long-standing technical standard, it's simply somebody being slightly sensitive and empathic. I don't think MSFT ever got this much hate during their heyday as a Slashdot whipping boy.

She's really more of an interesting footnote than an influential figure in computer programming and is largely unknown outside of computing circles.

Her father, OTOH, is one of the best known authors in the English language.

This is a pants on head ridiculous idea in the age of the internet. Ignoring botnets & scripts stuffing the ballot, you can quickly rally up large numbers of people that don't even read science fiction to vote as a bloc in order to push some agenda. It's not even a popularity contest at this point but a measure of how much social media organization a group has.

If you're that hateful, go post on Stormfront.

Stormfront doesn't even really want to be associated with the more extreme, violent individuals. They want to to keep a "clean" front and not be seen as promoting criminal activity.

That's right, Reddit was harboring the racists that even Stormfront wasn't going to let inside. Their posting guidelines (archive link so your browser history is safe) prohibit obscenity, racial epithets, threats of violence, general shitposting & other crap that fills Reddit's racist subs to the brim.

It's pretty simple. If you give racists a home on your site, they will start congregating on your site (because nobody else will let them post their openly racist bullshit). The thing is, they don't just stick to the explicitly racist forums, they'll start using the whole site, as any other user. When you have a sizable number of racist users, submitting links, making comments and voting to increase the visibility of content as an organized bloc (remember, all links & comments on Reddit are pushed to the top based on user votes, not admin/moderator/editor fiat), the result is that the entire site, even the "non-racist" parts gets regular doses of white supremacist propaganda.

The core demographic of Reddit, young middle-class white males, is exactly who white supremacists want to recruit. They're naive enough to buy into the "oppression of the white race" narrative that white supremacists continually spew.

To put this in perspective, it's been estimated that Reddit's racist subs currently have more traffic than Stormfront - historically the center of online white supremacist activity.

Quake would be a better option. The original Doom had poor mouse support.

It's a very important project. If he told you the details, you'd need to sign an NDA so you don't steal his revolutionary ideas.

Selling virtual hats.

Pure. Fucking. Proffit.

More importantly, how do you stuff back doors and spyware into 10kB?

Sure. It's on the 3rd successful iteration now - there was Counter-Strike: Source in 2004 and everyone is currently playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive from 2012.

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses"

The universities that I went to had campus police, not just rent-a-cops. Real cops with real badges & real guns.

If you're just looking at resumes it's easy to say "oh, yes, let's give this woman a chance" when you know you'd never actually give her the job. Follow it up with some bullshit excuse about 'culture fit' or personality that can't really be quantified or held against you.