OK, the impromptu wedding story from Rochelle Alberts is the best thing I’ve read so far this week.

For those who think this is unrealistic, here’s a real-life reminder from just this past January.

Then there’s the guy in the pink plaid shirt (starting around 2:00) who gets hit by car after car, and keeps getting up and running. A few seconds after he disappears off the left edge of the screen, there’s another “Huuhn!”, which I suspect is him getting hit yet again.

So let’s talk again about how autonomous cars will behave in a situation like this.... ;-)

Reading these stories, we should always remember that an IQ score of 100 is the average, with a normal (bell-curve) distribution on both sides. :-)

This folks have a pretty amazing track record (I still play Endless Space and Dungeon of the Endless on a regular basis). I’m up for whatever they want to put out next.

Speaking as one of six kids growing up, and as a parent of even more kids, I have no real sympathy for parents in these stories. My own folks took us kids out for meals now and then, particularly when we were on the road moving to somewhere new (Dad was in the Navy), and you had better believe that we were all on best…

With 40 years of IT under my belt (including a commercial computer game, albeit 30 years ago), I keep going back to the sage words of my colleague and best friend, Bruce Henderson: “Start out stupid, and work up from there.” Yes, I’m aware of all the concerns and controversies at this point over DLC, and I also know…

I have a granddaughter who just turned 12. For the last year or so, when she comes over to our house to spend the night, she will usually watch one or more Studio Ghibli films (we have DVD copies of 1, 3, 6, and 9). It startled me a bit at first until I realized that the protagonists of most of these films are young…

I had been a short skinny kid for most of elementary school (and had at least one or two bullies who picked on me from time to time), turned into a short, pudgy kid in 6th grade, then into a slightly taller, slightly less pudgy kid in 7th grade, but still nothing great.

These were all great stories. The steak one reminded me of my freshman year of college, living in student housing. The housing cafeteria would occasionally serve steaks, sorted into bins by doneness; I always picked rare. One such evening I was cutting and eating when the resident assistant from my dorm floor — Ray…

You know it’s going to be a great post when you’re wheezing uncontrollably with laughter reading the very first story. Back to the rest....

Great, great article — keep this stuff up. My dad served 29 years in the Navy, but was on the ‘other side’ — among other things, he taught at the Navy anti-submarine warfare (ASW) school in San Diego while I was growing up (1960s). I did get to go on board a Navy sub once during that period and was, of course, utterly…

So say we all. :-)

Don’t discount the ‘thermocline of truth’ syndrome:

Under his shirt, where they $^@#$^@ should be.

Yes, but what you can’t do is pick a different type of room to place, or stop placing rooms altogether. It forces to you place the number of rooms it wants you to place, and it forces you to place a specific type of room each time.

Ah. Yes, that is exactly what I did; I was trying to get them reassigned as quickly as possible. Thanks.

Found another actual bug, though fortunately one with a workaround. Had a couple get busy in the living quarters, then come out of the back room with the woman pregnant. I moved the man to a production room, then tried to move the woman...and she wouldn’t budge. Every time I tried to drag her green outline elsewhere,…