Kinda hard to encode it in /etc/passwd, which separates entries with newlines and fields of an entry with colons.

Of course, you can activate some alternative user database in /etc/nsswitch.conf and then you can have your usernames with newlines in them, but at least half of the tools on your system that process usernames will take that personally…

ps outputs a newline after every entry. What are you trying to accomplish?

Do you have a username that contains a newline character? If so… why?!

The stations were originally built prepared for conversion into a full-blown subway (which, apart from the U6, has much higher platforms in Vienna): if you disembark at Eichenstraße, you have to walk up three steps before you reach the bottom of the escalator.

A bit odd that it has to lubricate grass, but who am I to judge?

Picard: In my defence, I was singing Live Forever.

They had the whole engine control circuitry replaced in 2010/2011, so they act and sound differently than way back when they were new (1977-1990).

I think they’re pretty well-made in general, but the high floor is certainly a relic of its time and there are no informational displays for passengers on the inside.

take a moment to consider your own mortality

I’m pretty glad that I don’t have to keep doing this forever…

He prevented WW3, fulfilling his traditionally masculine role as protector in a way many of us can only dream of. It sucks if that isn’t validation enough of his masculinity for him…

trams are called „Bim“ in the Viennese dialect of Austrian German

also awesome eyelashes

Some amount of respeccing is possible, but it takes a lot of time and experience points – and characters with the Force of Habit trait are locked out of this respeccing mechanic, so their players’ only option is to delete their character once the game stops being fun…

Kafka would have been proud!

That’s okay; I’m not generally known for Risk-seeking behavior anyway.

Only at Scrabble?

apparently it’s The First Descendant

Angesichts des Themas habe ich mich bei „Analogie“ zuerst verlesen…

If the past couple of decades is anything to go by, it’ll be somewhere between “fucking sucks” and “kinda sucks”.

Sorry, people who love and care about me very much, I’m cutting my losses.

(formerly Lehman Brothers)

“Weird-ass fucking cats” or “Weird ass-fucking cats”?

This distinction is important to me. I will not elaborate.

(My uncle didn't die.)

Then why hold a funeral for him?