It’s really hard for me sometimes, because I have traditionally not liked JRPG’s all that much, but DQ11 was so great, so perfectly balanced, so charming, so easy to learn and get into, and ultimately it was quite deep, and now I’m spoiled because I’m trying other JRPG’s and not finding any that are as solid as that…

How on earth French Baguette managed to go undrafted is beyond me.

That’s great. Seriously. Games have gotten too big. I like the idea of just romping through a few hours for something interesting that doesn’t wear out its welcome.

We saw it and got some immediately and it is INCREDIBLE. Very cool to see a homemade version.

I’m a pretty hardcore Christmas fan, but I also think the earliest possible place to start it is Black Friday, or perhaps the Monday after Thanksgiving.

There are more gamers in America than there are rural farmers, so why do we spend so much time talking to rural farmers and making them happy? Why not a politician who speaks to gamers and can hang with them?

I’d be interested in what Jordan would do in today’s NBA in his prime - would he have stayed with the Bulls the entire time? Would he have hopped from team to team and elevated each one like Lebron does? My sense is his career would be more like Lebron’s, and he would have spent more time in the league as well. I also…

I have always eschewed boneless wings, until I tried this recipe for General Tso’s chicken using a sous vide. I adapted the method but subbed out the rice wine with pickle juice, and then tossed with buffalo sauce, and the sous vide-cooked cornstarch batter had an amazing feel of like crispy skin. It was pretty…

All I have is a horizontal bench and a set of powerblocks customizable dumbbells. Will that program work for me?

That’s what Coke has wanted you to think, and why they downplay their ownership of Topo.

They also don’t highlight it a lot because they want to preserve the idea that TC is a somewhat local boutique brand instead of part of the Coca-cola empire. Here in Austin they bought it, then jacked up all the prices to restaurants, assuming that customers were super loyal to Topo, but then everyone started drinking…

Yeah I just couldn’t abandon the 10 key. I use it constantly for my work and such. So I got a keychron k4, which is a 104 key that’s been compacted down to a smaller form factor. It’s great.

I worked with Gabrielle Union when she filled in for Sarah Shahi on the NBC show Life and while I didn’t get to meet her I adored her performance and everyone who got to work with her said she was fantastic. She’s awesome and I really admire her push for systemic change in the film/TV world.

Be aware, it is a VERY different game on console. 4v4, maps are completely different, there are several warrior types with different pluses and minuses, and the tap/joust mechanic has been completely replaced with an attack button mechanic that is easier for consoles to deal with. KQB is pretty neat, but it is not…

Taxes are not the same as the government shoving a gun in your face and demanding your money. Taxes are a voluntary social contract we have all decided upon by an agreed-upon system of government in order to fund things in the commons. If you don’t want to pay them you have many choices as to other countries you can…

“They can survive without each other for a few hours, and if their need for each other was really that dire, they could have planned in advance and booked seats next to each other.”

If you have an immersion sous vide situation, sous vide your chicken first, then bread it and fry the shell and rejoice bc the chicken is perfectly cooked.

No he isn’t, but that’s not quite the issue. According to my wife who follows this, Charles said no to Tati’s vitamins, eschewing ALL vitamins, saying he didn’t feel comfortable pushing any vitamin supplements on his younger teen audience. And then he did it with someone else’s vitamins.

According to my wife who follows this stuff, the problem wasn’t necessarily that Charles promoted the other brand, it was that Charles refused to promote Tati’s brand because “I don’t want to market supplements to my teen audience” - a moral stance - and then went ahead with another sponsor and marketed that stuff to…

The difference is when you order pizza and the pizza delivery person does this, the company is held liable because they trained that person and hired them and that person is the representative of the company. With Doordash and other gig economy services, the person is an independent middle man and the Doordash app is…