I once worked at a place like this. An exec insisted on making this elaborate video wall room at great cost so we could "keep an eye on things' but after tons of money, effort, and time having contractors try to make it work (even though we literally had TWO in house teams that are AV experts), it got torn down!

It was a mess from start to finish and cost tens of thousands of dollars if not more. Even during the times everything WAS working, people staffing it mostly didn't use it because the screens were all highly visible to anyone walking by regardless of what they were authorized to see or do. "War room" staffers had to use their laptops anyways because of some of the information displayed, which also meant they had to sit facing AWAY from the big expensive screen array or people walking by could see THEIR laptop screens.

The whole room pretty much existed solely for this one exec to try and impress people, he would walk them by or into this room and say something like, "This is where it all happens!" (it wasn't) or "This is our nerve center, welcome to the War Room!" (it wasn't our "nerve center" either) but the guy pretty much never had a clue as to what was actually going on or what people were actually doing. He eventually got retired after the new president caught on to all the crazy bullshit he was doing, but it took YEARS to get the guy out. Everyone was thrilled when he was finally gone.

YOU DON'T SAY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn7RE8zycJQ

Ah shit, why can't everyone just relax?

I'd rather fuck than fight TBH, or maybe we could just be chill friends and do some trade?

No?

Shame.

Magnets: How do they-HRNGH!!

I didn't get the memo, my wife has the opposite spirit lol

To be fair, the memo would've gone directly into the trash because this guy sounds like a pathetic idiot. He's not even really a man at all, more like a child inhabiting an adult's body.

Hmm, fresh.

drops the bass, losing tends of thousands of dollars probably

That's the spirit!

Maybe make some smores if you know what I mean (full disclosure: I don't know what I mean).

It is a Russian spy network?

If you haven't fucked a graham cracker, are you even living?

brb, gonna go eat some graham crackers off my wife just to mock this guy

I'd be furious for multiple reasons though I am monogamous, but it kinda sounds like you're OK with having an open relationship based on what you're describing. That or you're in shock or maybe depressed?

Even if you're cool with having an open relationship, it does sound like your communication as a couple needs some work.

Yup, I'm pretty skeptical but sometimes I do only after investigating them to make sure it's not another bullshit scam like Autism Speaks or Susan G Komen that say they're rAiSiNg aWaReNeSs but really they're just a vehicle to make their executives richer and either don't help (Komen) or even manage to actively make things worse (Autism Speaks).

Seems like a very odd thing for an American to be upset about.

Somebody left that silly little guy there...

Forums themselves are the answer IMO, there's plenty of posts in tech specific places where people who are not paid journalists are posting their takes and even full on stories. They are often paid professionals in that they work a tech job, but they aren't necessarily journalists, they're just regular posters.

TIL there was a lost episode