Tolkein-tier.

What does that even mean? There isn't anything new from Tolkein because he wrote the Hobbit, the Rings Trilogy, and a few other things. It's all out there, there isn't a lot, and it lives in our imaginations when we read it.

There are some films, I understand, but that's really not so relevant.

What are you not allowed to do with Tolkein's work that you want to do? Crappy fanfic? Thank goodness you're prohibited. We have Christopher to do that, and it's easy to just ignore the one dude than a whole fanhood.

It's even been ported to the Nintendo Switch, which didn't exist when Microsoft bought Mojang.

Most of the new ports aren't written in Java, BTW, the Java version is considered 'classic' at this point.

They are some of the worst crooks on the planet, in terms of them being pretty bad at it. The slick crooks don't go to Washington much. Just enough to make certain it's a district run by bumbling idiots.

When Bill and Hill left the White House they were loud about the fact that they were 'dirt poor.'

And since then they're now three figure millionaires?

That doesn't pass any sort of smell test.

The 'throw it away' metaphor isn't mind-blowing. It seems staggering stupid the first time you see it in play.

"Reach around to the back of the case" mini-tower design is equally, if not more stupid.

And the design was just 'project the power switch up to the front on one cable' from the users, and even the installers point-of-view there was no 'to the front then to the back.'

WTF is the 'nerd economy.'

I think you mean the hyped up bullshit that's been marketed as 'nerd' for about the last decade.

The nerd economy goes on at ham radio swapmeets. It thrives out behind the science building at universities where cool old equipment is being captured and saved by nerds instead of being thrown away. In nerd-owned labs where old 'scopes and power supplies are used to fix and build new gear. In darkened amateur observatories where people who've ground their own mirrors gaze up at night.

'Nerd' as marketed by the popular entertainment operation was always a marketing fraud operation.

If you read too many mainstream comix, you can't be a nerd. Nerds are much more likely into hard SF.

I read the whole Sandman series. Bought the issues as they were coming out, from #17 onward. That series wasn't like a lot of the stupid regular comics, though. Most mainstream comics, i.e. the 'Super Hero' ones, are tedious and two dimensional. Why anybody would read more than one or two issues is beyond me.

I was always disappointed by what happened when I dragged the 'hard drive' icon to the trash can on a classic MacOS system. There should be loose 6-32 screws rolling around on the tabletop after the dust settles.

It's not lethally dangerous to fix the defective configuration in your iGadget.

Actually, that design meant that power was isolated to that set of wires. Which, granted, sometimes meant those wire ends slid onto spade lugs on the power switch with little or no insulation.

A computer that can kill stupid fucks who open the case to meddle isn't all bad, however.

I remember when, on a Mac Plus, especially one with just one floppy drive, you could become subject to floppy-swapping hell. On an old mac, with that really derpy-stupid sound the drive made while ejecting the floppy, this could be a maddening experience. An example would be trying to run Microsoft Word off a floppy after booting the Mac system off another floppy. Triple down if you're wanting to edit a Word document on a third floppy.

Do macusers still eject media by dragging it to the trashcan? I always found that a pretty humorous metaphor about what the 'mac experience' thought of the world outside it's bondi-blue enclosure.

They probably run the 'a.out' interpreter.

They touch their computer, over and over, many times per day. Also their seven year old daughter plays Flash games on it from websites, in Internet Explorer.

Obviously, though, they should have brought their computer in so some turd roller at Best Buy could scan their drives for kiddypern.