In general, how well does Battlefield 1 portray World War One as a horrific tragedy, rather than just another war shootfest? I’ve been listening to Dan Carlin’s Blueprint for Armageddon series about the war (and having not really learned much about WWI in the 90s-00s American school system), I didn’t know much about…

New York style pizza with 2/3 (by weight) high gluten bread flour and 1/3 00 flour, made with a near 4 year old sourdough starter, 24 hours room temperature ferment and 72 hour cold ferment. Then again, I make that every weekend, so nothing particularly special. Also made a gooey butter cake with white chocolate chips…

I don’t have a problem with the article content, but just to be an ass because of the lede, it’s been in the 50s-70s for the past several days with rain in the D.C. metro area. Supposed to get back up to low 80s on Labor Day.

What is H2K’s LoL win record look like? Obviously the easiest response to their argument is “you get paid when you win, get gud.” If they are already a winning team and still are losing $1.1 million a year, then you have problems.

I’ve had good luck with the 8 and 12-inch T-fal Nonstick Professional Frypans. Together they can be had for around $60, if that, and can take a relative beating. My wife has used them practically everyday for the past two years, and while the bottoms are discolored from all the heating, the nonstick surface is still…

Possibility as Queen as a new character? Could be some flavor of defense, hopefully. Need a new defense character.

Except Eichenwalde really is tipped in the favor of defenders. I can’t remember if it was reported on Kotaku, or if I read it elsewhere, but the devs state that Eichenwalde is harder on attack than defense. Mentioned here, but it isn’t the article I was thinking of: https://www.redbull.com/us-en/blizzard-on-overwatc…

Yeah, it’s a bit TOO random honestly. Just when I feel like I’m getting in the groove of the character, I’ll die and have to play something else. I wouldn’t mind a similar mode where it is random at start and then you have to play that character the rest of the match, potentially allowing for duplicates (as long as…

More Overwatch while I think about the changes to Mercy and D.Va and reflect on how much Mystery Heroes is better than Quick Play.

I appreciate the review/preview Mike. For future mobile games, would it be possible to add a box or sidebar at the top of the article with the microtransaction/pay-to-win mechanics and how obnoxious they are? The game looks interesting, but it’s always a game of tempering expectations until you get to the part of the…

I recently purchased and set up a NAS with 4x 6TB drives in RAID 1+0 for this purpose, among other things. Won’t help me if my apartment burns down, but it’s nice to see it whiring away on my shelf. Considering how active the CloudStation software seems to be, I get the impression that it is constantly updating the…

I missed the Best Buy release (didn’t hear the Twitter notification at 1:30 am), but I wake up at 5:00 am anyway and saw the Amazon notification at 4:47 am and was able to get an order in and got a confirmation email. So the Amazon listing was available for at least 13 minutes, if that is any consolation. The Amazon…

I have the Proteus Spectrum and enjoy it quite a bit. Don’t really use many of the mappable buttons, but it works admirably in WoW and Overwatch, among other games, and the Logitech software is unoffenaive (pretty similar to the Corsair and Asus Aura software suites).

I have the Proteus Spectrum and enjoy it quite a bit. Don’t really use many of the mappable buttons, but it works…

Obviously they are completely different films, but how does it stack up against Your Name?

Sounds a lot like Crackdown meets Overwatch.

Hey Claire, my wife loved the shoes you were wearing during the “reading a book on a bench while the pig head roll is sous vide-ing” scene. Mind if I ask what the brand/style is? Thanks!

This track is adapted from a piece by Carl Orff titled Gassenhauer nach Hans Neusiedler (1536) that prominently featured in the 1973 film Badlands.

I’m obviously not the target market for these toys (though I am an amiibo collector), but the pricing strcuture on these toys seems a little insane. The $70 initial buy-in is somewhat understandable since you are basically getting the game included (though since it is free to play, this is less clear), but $10-15 for…

Yeah, I randomly stopped by my local BestBuy on a whim to see if the reports of the Majora amiibo restocks were true (they were, but I got there too late), and one of the employees told me they were getting more Switches in today.

Awesome guys, been really looking forward to this. Can’t wait to listen to it.