Hey kids, remember that episode of That’s So Raven where she couldn’t decide which boy to ask to Homecoming? Well, now it’s in theaters. Twelve dollars. Please, we need this.

Not sure race has much to do with people believing it’s a hoax.

Agree. Nobody including police believed Denise Huskins, a California woman who was kidnapped many years ago, and dropped back off close to home. She is a white woman and was accused widely of perpetrating a hoax with her boyfriend. But it turned out she was telling the truth and she subsequently sued and won. I don’t…

It has zero to do with the fact that she is black. It has to do with the obvious inconsistencies in her story, the fact that police aren’t actively looking for a kidnapped toddler, and the complete lack of any evidence this ever happened.

Can you point out Jezebel’s full-throated defense of this woman?

The benefit of an LS crate motor is that it comes with all of the electronics you need to throw it into anything and have it run. If it’s a new car, you just need a few adapters to get the speedo, tach, gas & temp gauges working.

My first thought was, “Would this fit in a ND Miata? If so, is there a solid 6MT that would work?”

They are crap track cars. One showed up locally and owner had to cut the sessions and day short because the brakes couldn’t keep up, suffered from heat soak after a few laps, and got dangerously close to overheating. For the short time it was at full tilt, it plowed like any Audi would through corners. I imagine the…

I’d prefer they added the performance bits and kept that sound deadening. If I’m paying $120k++ for a performance wagon, I want to be able to drive home from the track in total comfort and quiet.

Wait, they’re one-dimensional? Can a string be one-dimensional?

you’re pathetic if you don’t root for advancements in technology all because of one person.

Most of where we are with rockets came from the Nazis. Wernher von Braun was a Nazi and created the V2 rocket with terrorized London. He also created the Saturn 5 rocket which brought us to the Moon.

Again, you can cheer for…

You can be excited for exciting things and still dislike Musk.

I agree. I think there is some level of smugness because they think they are breaking revolutionary new ground, going where no man/no-one has gone before if you will, and as a result, failures carry this tone of “this is so hard, you could never understand so we just accept failure because we’re on the cutting edge…

Can we take a minute to admire how “rapidly unscheduled disassembly” is a one of the best euphemisms for “that thing broke into a million pieces lmao” of all recorded written language?

I read an article yesterday about how Elden Ring gets elevators right. I don’t remember which site (most likely Kotaku, RPS, or Polygon), but it’s amazing to me that it came a day after I found a small unassuming building in the woods, a building the article actually mentions, stepped on a lever, and took an elevator…

This is a phenomenal comment.

The saddest thing about the difficulty discourse regarding From games is that it inevitably buries everything beautiful about them. They are some of the most melancholic, beautiful, intricately designed and yes, hopeful games out there. Fuck the fandom and the “git gud” crowd for turning the challenge into a shitty…

I feel like the difficulty of these games has been really overstated over the years both by the fans who want to feel like they’re part of an exclusive club for beating them and by the gaming press that eventually just started reporting the discourse around the games as fact, which is a real shame because it probably…

Discussion over on Kotaku got into whether a certain tutorial design choice was a mistake, and I think that it glosses over the main point:

Yes, I really, jokingly, did.

I’ve never played any of these games. They struck me as being very much Not My Thing. This is the first one that I’ve even considered playing. I just worry it’s more darkness and frustration than I like from a game.