I would maybe not put thermal issues right in the name.

wd40

We are all such dorks.

I assumed he was big on Macs for their own sake. It’s a thing, for music geeks - and obviously he’s a fan of iPods, specifically. Surprised to hear his objectively correct summary of Windows versions.

The comfy in-between is references that seem broadly appropriate, and blatant in-jokes that just sound interesting. Respectively: the “you go girl” shirts with Jax on them, and bumper stickers reading “stay sexy and don’t get murdered.” You don’t have to know the thing they’re from. You don’t have to know they’re from a thing.

Some skills are obnoxious to learn but grant immense advantage. It’s bad design. If a simple keyboard macro is such a big deal, the game should do it for all players, as a quality-of-life feature. It should be how the game works.

For anyone seeing this and wishing there really was a stupidly enjoyable satire of 1980s cyberpunk tropes:

It’s called Snow Crash.