I wish that Amazon would keep track of when I search for something then immediately buy it! Thanks for the ad for the thing that was delivered yesterday, Amazon, but no thanks.

Thanks, I knew you were about to be buried under a wave of “ZOMG UR SO WRONG 240 YEARS” So I thought I’d try to lighten the mood. Happy Friday!

I respect your passion.

I would love to see that island from the first reboot game in a movie. All the layers of destroyed civilizations mixed up really made that game for me.

This game was such an important part of my early adolescence. On snow days, we’d head over to BJ’s house and drink hot chocolate while passing the controller until we beat that thing. The conversation ranged from how awesome the TMNT were to which girls were cute. Glorious nostalgia.

In fact, the physics follow the opposite rule—hitting a box from the right side will cause the mushroom to fall out of the left, and vice versa. It’s a realistic scheme, albeit a hard one to expect young players to notice on their own.

I can’t remember if I loved 3 and was disappointed by the lack of innovation in 4, or loved 4 and was disappointed by 5. Seems like that says a lot.

If Kevin Johnson succeeds in getting my tax dollars to pay for a second arena in downtown Sac, I’m going to burn it down myself.

Man, if I were eavesdropping like that I would have at least gone to the railing above him instead of just standing there like a creeper.

Now, public toilets are free and either out of order or disgusting. Progress!

It’s not better in all the ways, but I think overall it’s more fun than FO3. Watch out for the DLC, a couple of them force you to finish the module outright before returning to the main game, which made me set the game down a few times. Not that they’re not fun, it’s just that they made me long for the main story…

I can confirm, user name or no. Interruptions drive me nuts, and I happen to be a bourgeois white guy. To be clear though, I find interjections like the ones in Giri’s example conversation to be the grease that makes the wheels of communication turn.

Actually, the last time I had some I bought it for my nephew at the Smithsonian Air and Space a few years ago.

It’s kind of like Lucky Charms marshmallows, but with the slight mouthfeel of a pat of butter. Oddly, it’s not terrible, until you think about how much you paid for it at the museum gift shop.

I don’t know if that’s true but I’m not going to look it up. Tune in June 4, 1994 at 12:30 AM for... Passion Captured!

I like the idea of a Mad Max convention, like a professional convention.

I’m really happy about discovering it, too.

Viceland has been my go-to, nothing-else-to-watch channel for a few weeks. I haven’t seen a show I didn’t like yet, including surprisingly the fat guy rapper does Bourdain show. All that in spite of the first impression of it being the “White People Investigate How Brown People Live All Over The World!” channel.

You could have a video series on Gawker!

I haven’t picked up XCOM 2, but in the original, I had full squads that ran together whenever possible. One of those little things you do to increase the difficulty a bit.