You weren’t kidding! This is a rollercoaster ride of incredible twists and turns!

The problem, according to three former Cooler Screens executives and a former Yahoo executive, was that their clients thought of the screens as “shopper marketing,” an old-timey ad category that covered in-store promos like the balloons or cardboard displays that clerks hang over cases of beer. Spending in this area was far lower than the more lucrative digital ad rates Avakian hoped to charge. One of the former Cooler Screens execs says that Avakian wanted marketing dollars well above what the industry was willing to pay and that his lieutenants could be preposterously condescending on calls with the Yahoo sales team, which at times devolved into shouting matches. “The Yahoo people hated them!” this former exec says. “Their MO was to ride them [Yahoo] like Secretariat.” (A Cooler Screens spokesperson says that this description is inaccurate and that Avakian’s relationship with Yahoo executives remained positive.)

Condescending calls with Yahoo sales team. Fucking hilarious.

If it helps, they also lock a lot of product, requiring employees to come and help customers directly.

https://eurweb.com/2025/walgreens-theft-prevention-struggle/

It’s like they made their stores as hostile as possible to shop in.

They just keep finding interesting ways to fail!

Right? The nerd who looks at steam on their phone and then on their desktop and rages about the UI… Like dude, chill.

The UX in UX/UI stands for User Experience and it’s great.

Politics in my sci-fi? Yuck.

Gonna go enjoy my politics-free shows like Star Trek, Star Wars, Black Mirror, Westworld, and The Man In the High Castle.

I never heard of bazzite before! Thank you for the recommendation!

You’re absolutely right!

At no point did I consider it being a entertainment system.

I think this is a great party idea.

I spent a few days ago hunting for a EC2 service that I was being charged for. The AWS budget said it came from “EC2 Services” which yeah, could mean anything.

Started by typing EC2 then clicking every single tab to find what was turned on. I finally found the service because there was a region filter, that let me find out that I was using a EBS that I left activated when I was goofing around in another region.

Beer. Butter. Battlestar Galactica.

Unfortunately that’s the best part of FO76. Building your base/shelter, getting stuff for your base/shelter, etc. The story is okay. But at some point, everything revolves around you improving your base.

I can’t find that one story where a guy was having a lot of fun being kidnapped. They roleplayed for like an hour.

Nah they’re the best kinds of post

Oh man I remember how incredible Hammer was.

I built my college campus! (And never showed anybody because this was during the Columbine era)

Yep! That was the story in the book. He grabbed his wife and neighbor, and when they returned, everything was burned to the ground!

He originally wanted it to be about a game where people interacted with furniture to feel things, and it was called Dollhouse. But play testers found watching their Sims more fun.

😭

If I had a nickel for every time a 90s-2000s developer is now into Blockchain…

Do I have two nickels or three?

In before the “People still play?” Yeah. 12,000 people on average. The game was released 6 years ago. There’s been a hell of a lot of free updates since then.

We get it. You hate FO76/Bethesda/Todd Howard. Go touch grass.

I’m laughing too hard at this thank you

Ah you’re right sorry force of habit

I quit nonprofit because the salary is real bad. Like 25% of what I currently make.

They’re in a catch-22. They can’t hire quality people because they need funds but then you see things like this like, “Why are they paying this guy so much?” And continues a neverending cycle of low wages.