Malgas

Right, like the guy with the negatronic brain isn't going to be evil. Come on!

It could just be a difference of the liquor, or color balance in the photo, but I think that first picture might be an Old Fashioned rather than just bourbon. It has that sort of reddish-purple tinge to it that you get from angostura bitters.

There's a running gag in archaeology that variations on "ritual purposes" actually means "I have no idea what this was for".

That said, there has historically been a connection between certain divination practices and games of chance, so this could easily be both.

That's not the half of it:

Shit in, shit out. That’s AI.

"On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864

Finally, a worthy sequel to 5nowdog5.

That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.

Don't dumb down the gameplay systems

Bethesda design challenge: impossible.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?

I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.

It wouldn't even change the difficulty, really. You'd just wind up multiplying or dividing by 9/10 instead of 9/5.