I think my core problem is that when I have “on-the-go” breaks I often don’t go for video anyways. I tend to go for games or reading (blogs, reddit, etc). And if I do go for video I have youtube for shorter stuff, plus all the other streaming for longer-form content.

So it seems more like they were trying to find…

I am meh on Korra and really wanted to love it but the dialogue is stilted and awkward and even things like the music cues and how often scenes end with “someone slowly walks off camera” get to me. BUT:

There is a two-episode in season two and the primary arc of season three are some of the best avatar content yet…

“Jim, you can’t just put the entire plot of the pilot episode into the theme song!”
“Watch me: ‘A little boy named Presley found a secret out this year...’”

I think think show may have been a result of that era where networks were required to have some amount “educational” programming. So things like the sourdough being…

> Now, you can purchase a case that also still allows you to wirelessly charge your device...

The curse I saw, back when I used to work in games, was that the vast majority of people believed that previous industry failures were the result of “those developers being idiots” rather than it just being a really hard problem to solve.

How many companies threw millions at MMOs despite constant failure of others?…

I feel like this is a good time to remind everyone how shitty the 4G rollout was, and continues to be. I’ll say something that is known to many, but still manages to surprise people:

LTE is a marketing term created because no initial 4G offerings in the US actually met the minimum specifications to be called 4G.

LTE…

It seems like your beef is likely going to be consistent across any used 3-5 year old phones though. You can’t buy a 10-year old used Toyota with 200,000 miles on it and say “Toyotas are dog shit”

They may be, and certainly the one you have is. But I’d argue that’s a pretty myopic attitude to take.

What really sucks is…

I completely agree, I was trying (I guess unsuccessfully) to make the point of your first paragraph. Jaden may have no career and say, for the sake of argument, winds up being a totally messed up weirdo (instead of just a bizarre kid). He’ll be fine. He may never become a star but he’ll have more money, resources, and…

I mean I feel like anyone going after her or the kids over a skirt thing is forgetting multitude of other bizarre clothing choices that had nothing to do with femininity or gender roles (I think???).

But at the end of the day she could just say, “I’m rich enough I could raise the most fucked up weirdos on the planet…

Idk how the hell you do a sequel when the main character literally gets all the money and resources in the world at the end of the book.

I mean there’s only two ways: either he’s gonna somehow lose all his money and control of the company or whatever. Or the challenge will have to be so specifically constructed that…

I was born in 88, so I hold no particular personal nostalgia for the 80's. But the thing I remember most about the book was how it made me think of my dad, because the late 70's and ear 80's was when he was cool.

He wasn’t a video game guy (unless you count pinball) but he was huge into music. I remember one of the…

I’ve got a 2700x but I’ve had it just long enough that I got it with a B450 motherboard. Meaning the mobo is just old enough I don’t get forwards compatibility but my cpu is just new enough that the current 8/16 core equivalent (5800x) wouldn’t be a huge leap.

I could go up a tier or two of course to the 5950x and as I…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflicts_involving_Critical_Mass

Different protest group but there ya go, 10+ years of evidence of what happens when bike protests happen without traffic closures. Shit was a bad mix before the country started fighting nazis.

My rule for game announcements has always been, “Ignore any announcement if it’s more than 12 months away. They don’t know; they’re guessing. Assume a delay and maybe you’ll be pleasantly surprised.”

But with covid that’s how I feel about anyone saying “Uhhh...2021??” They don’t fucking know, they’re just hoping.

The…

I suppose that’s the worst part about where we’re at now; there are so many infected people that even very strict lockdowns won’t “solve” anything unless it’s universal. They still keep deaths and hospitalization rates down of course, but the possibility of reintroduction from the millions of other infected people…

Oh the correlation is that a (sensible) government, local or otherwise, is going to react to those new cases by extending shelter-in-place or other procedures. And that those measures wouldn’t be rolled back until either at best spread is slowing/decreasing or at worst the healthcare system is managing the load…

Every time we say “let the idiots get sick” we’ve added time to the clock for how long this will take.

So people go and get sick, and sure fuck them. But we don’t have the contact tracing and testing in place to stop them from going out a spreading through LA, various airports, and back to their own communities.

I’m not…

As others have said the expense but I used to work in collectibles, the expense can be far greater than most would think. We think of plastic as cheap because the labor and raw materials are cheap, especially at scale. But the setup is actually really expensive because you have to machine the metal pieces that’ll…

They made a cinematic trailer for their lawsuit. That’s about as “publicity stunt” as you can get.

Just consider this; even with Epic’s advances in tech to make cinematic creation faster there was still a meeting where lawyers met with animators. There was probably a producer in there, I’ll bet someone from marketing…