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Except this time around we are rounding up people and putting them in camps.

Sorry everyone, I opened a new branch off the 2003 release while I was researching some of the bugs in the legacy code. That wasn't supposed to get merged in...

Wait there’s new King of the Hill?

Just missing

Except this time around we are rounding up people Americans and immigrants and putting them in camps.

just a shitty corporate reboot of 2003

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base (among others)

Heroin chics are also back via ozempic from a bit earlier

Yep, Hank and Peggy move back to modern Arlen after a long time working for Strickland abroad. By all accounts its still good!

...There's new episodes of Scrubs? 😳

President George Bush the 3rd

Wait is this heroin chic? I would think she is too curvy not skinny enough for that.

If I can't see her ribcage it's not heroin chic.

Hey, did you see that episode of South Park a few months ago? Super funny.

But you made it worse!

It's not. That was the 90s, early 2000s were full of just super trashy looks and women acting dumb due to overt misogyny being a cornerstone of most popular media at the time.

and it's good

Yup, it's still good, most of the OG staff (both voice and writing) is back except of course for the dead people. The changed voices are Dale, Ted Wassonassong, Kahn, and we'll see about John Redcorn (passed after next season was already recorded, iirc, so season 16 is the first since his death..I think). The animation is more modern because the old techniques are now long dead. They did not address Luanne and Lucky, but I hope they will in S15. And they have already been renewed for S16 and S17, S15 is already in the can awaiting release this year. 15ish years (in the show) have passed since S13 ended.

I recommend it.

So, corporate is relying on AI for creativity and as such, the only option remaining is to reboot old successes.

Raises the pirate flag furiously

Diablo II also!

yep, the bug triggers when a political party overflows its buffer. The funny thing is, the system still catches the error and spams the logs with FATAL error messages, but the system has been throwing them for so long and seems to still be chugging along so we kind of ignore them. One of the original devs made a comment about how someone should fix it right before leaving the team. Anyway, the effect tends to accumulate, so if you deploy it to prod and don't fix it, eventually you get... this.

My bad.

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen just released

It’s worth noting that the actor for John Redcorn didn’t just pass, he was murdered in a hate crime by a white supremacist and then the Texas cops buried the case.

don't blame analog slop on serverside bubble slop

20 year retro rule strikes again.

RIP 90s retro, you didn't even get to exist because of the fucking 80s overstaying their already tired ass dead eyed bullshit

Yo ho

Fix it Fix it Fix it Fix it!

(I tried to find the Futurama meme of that, but my phone said No)

Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez, the man who shot him, had his pre-trial last month and has a new court date (which I just tried to find but couldn't yet) is set for the future, so the case is going forward.

For manslaughter or hate crimes?

Trying, I'm stuck on a bridge with some of the seniors right now. One of them wants to "just push through and see what happens" and roll forward with the change, the other one disapproves but clearly has no idea what else to do. Nobody seems to want to even propose a plan because then they'd be on the hook for it, so we just keep going back and forth and not. ending. the call.

This is why I've been arguing against rebase merges. If we aren't super careful with older branches, we end up with messes like this.
Maybe just squash and merge in the future?

Yes, please! That's all I need...

*re-released

Well "hate crimes" in texas isn't a separate charge, it'd be tacked on if the prosecution feels they can prove it, but he's charged with 1st degree murder.

Always have been

Wait are you saying they actually aged the characters 15 years? So Bobby is grown up?

2003? Ok, peeps, in about 13 years time there's going to be an issue at a zoo. DO NOT LET ANYONE KILL HARAMBE!
We must not go on that timeline again!!!

Yeah, he is head chef at a restaraunt in (iirc) Dallas.

How would you reboot MITM?

Is everyone old or you just recast everyone? Either way I can’t see it working. That or they use AI which would also be terrible.

Wow that’s nuts. I might have to check that out.

90s just never really left.

TV wise, providers still fight hard for Friends and Seinfeld. I still see teenagers slapping on Nirvana shirts. My clothes from back then still fit and are intact and a kid at my kids school asked me where I got my clothes because they wanted some just like them.

It's only 4 episodes and includes the original cast members showing Malcom as an adult.

I don't know, this whole situation could have been avoided if people would just check with the team before merging stuff. I think people see revisions from old releases so they just merge them because they "worked before" so they should work now. It doesn't work for the current userbase, frankly it didn't work all that well for most users back when it was released the first time. Just merging any old crap straight into main without reading it so they can brag about how many PRs they close.

Thanks seemingly to the guys celebrity status. Otherwise it would have likely stayed buried.

"Almost 20 years after the end of the original series, Malcolm now lives a happy life with his daughter Leah and girlfriend Tristan, having distanced himself from his birth family. He is forced to bring them into the family's chaos when his parents Hal and Lois demand his presence for their 40th wedding anniversary party." source

OK, but no more than stuff from other decades. Are you really claiming that there have been waves of retro focused content to the same degree as 80s dance parties, 80s aesthetic revival games and music, etc for the 90s? Kool and the Gang's "celebration" is in every animated film and advert, it doesn't mean the 70s retro scene is a cultural tour de force that is going strong and infiltrating every cultural touchstone. (god fucking damnit, that song came out in 1980 IDFK, provide your own example of an overused 70s song)

I think they are claiming there are no waves because it doesn't need it, the 90s never really left

It's a different Dewey, sadly. I think the original kid quit acting

and it is only a miniseries, 4 episodes long, more like a TV reunion special than a reboot