Where it burned a bridge for me was this goddamn thing. The hint says “oh the eye looks at the sword tip” and great there’s a sprial pattern on the wall.

For the ENTIRETY of 3D zelda a spiral pattern has meant “do a spin attack”. Not anymore! Not with motion controls. No instead wave your hand in an awkward circle…

I think my preference for desk lunch is based on something many office workers can’t do: For the past 7-8 years all of my jobs have allowed me to watch youtube (etc) on my computer.

No snarky, “Working hard, eh?” or covetous glances. I’ve got a sandwich in my mouth and headphones on; I’m clearly off the clock so we…

Now I want to see a mini-build inside a TMNT technodrome:

Meh, it’s also fairly low powered/inexpensive parts considering the time/energy that was put into the mod. The GPU is an RX 550, in his partpicker notes he said he tried for a 1070 mini but pulled it out due to “smelly hot plastic issues”

It’s not a “gaming” chair at all. I bought a rather high end gaming chair (Secret Lab Omega) which are well regarded and cost about $350 depending on sale prices. Holy shit in less than a week that thing got ‘donated’ to my girlfriend who doesn’t play games much; their return policy is a nightmare btw.

Then I went to a…

It’s not a “gaming” chair at all. I bought a rather high end gaming chair (Secret Lab Omega) which are well regarded…

I can only hope that like like smallpox’s variations if the new one is indeed more virulent it would be lovely if it’s less severe.

Note: nobody wants any type of smallpox or any type of coronavirus.

The first time I attended E3 was to show a game our small team had been working on. At some point we got an award. We were confused, literally none of us knew that E3 awards were a thing and the game wasn’t even out yet. And as the event went on we actually got lots of awards (at least for our genre and budget). Sure…

I feel like there were many pair-ups that had chemistry. They didn’t stick with any of them long enough to matter and when it was a group of three or more all chemistry stopped.

I even felt like Finn and Rose had chemistry, they just went on the world’s stupidest side-quest then never talked again. Finn and Poe had…

See I think you’re right about 95% of the time.

However I think there is a small subset of people who find “pick up artistry” out of pure confusion or desperation. They may or may not have issues respecting women but not ones so deep they can’t recover from it...yet.

But fill their head full of PUA shit, insulate them…

I always felt that the core issue was really simple: flirting. I’m not saying flirting is simple; decades of social progress have made it far more complex and it was always a complex social ritual. But incels and the people who sell shit to them are going off about estrogen in food and jaw muscles and it’s like: you gu…

I played it like crazy but the truth is I only had like 3 games in those days (one of the others was TIE fighter). It played better on a joystick but as racing games go it was pitifully easy. That fit my skill level of the time, but only by coincidence.

If you had a faster pod you won, unless you’d done some really…

I read it like 7-8 years ago. If you’re a history nerd there’s neat vignettes in there where they use some historical event to explain the rule.

But my actual reaction after reading it was, “Holy shit, I think if you actually did all this shit you’d be a super villain”. Like putting it in the ‘self-help’ section of the…

You can’t play games that involve keeping your had secret with cards that have color all way to the edge. Think of how unbelievably easy it is to get a glimpse of just a slight hint of “red” when someone grabs a card. You’ll probably even be able to tell just from the edge of the card once they have some wear on them. 

I’ve been looking into it myself and I think this is how it works online, idk about in-store. But online you pay full price and they deliver the new phone. They also separately ship a “return” box for your old phone with instructions.

Once the new one arrives you can transfer data etc and wipe your old phone. Then you…

Interesting, I actually struggled with the look of Tintin; I think it was the combo of the very realistic features (like eyes) with the big but isolated exaggerations (like cartoony noses) on most characters,

Good example my friend pointed out to me:

Well based on key phrases like “...ensure our prosperity” and “...not all of them share our commitment to freedom, private property, and the rule of law” I think he’s low-key implying that we need a military space force because space is about to get profitable.

Yeah the paint simplification is what takes them from what you see here to the still amazing (but definitely not as crazy-good) quality of the shipping version.

I’m not saying there isn’t slight amounts of loss/degradation in the molds and outputs but in most cases if you send your production version off for a custom…

I mean, if cities jump through hoops for sports stadiums who we have decent evidence do not profit a city overall can you blame them?

A town is going to be far more prosperous with an amazon warehouse than a sports stadium.

This has come up on kickstarter before and it will come up repeatedly: manufacturing is complex. It’s a numbers game and requires expertise.

Here’s one little example about manufacturing that a lot of people don’t know: plastic is actually very expensive in small quantities. Depending on the process, you have to tool…

Articles like this are why I recognize your work Jason.

“Hey this article doesn’t have spelling errors...and it’s more than a page long...and it has actual *research*! I’ll bet Jason wrote this!”