I own Oculus Rift. I bought a Valve Index because of the requirement to replace it. I’m not /sad/ about it per se (I love the Index’s controllers more than the Rift’s), but wish they had just never said they were going to make it a requirement in the first place.

Meat Quest. Meat Portal.

It kind of makes sense if you buy into Zuckerberg’s vision of a Ready Player One style version of Facebook, not that anything remotely close to that would take off anytime within the next decade.

Facebook slowly realizing that a huge percentage of humanity despises them is very funny.

[Creepy Wendy is] like the anti-Sexy Costume

Most of these costumes are dreadful. Maybe someone who wears woman’s costumes should be doing these articles.

However, let me posit this: there is and never has been a Sexy Minion. It’s an oxymoron, as they are two utterly incompatible ideas.

“...today’s update represents the 17th zero-day patch made to Apple’s products this year alone.”

And don’t people know to use the block blade side up?

I wash my towels separately more for the drier reason than anything else. If they’re in a dryer with lighter weight fabrics the lighter fabrics dry too much and shrink a bit while the towels are still damp.

A few decades ago, I heard an old fart on the radio muse that we need gadget pantries, i.e. a walk-in closet where your appliances live.

I think overall more useful advice for the home cook would have been to carefully take stock of what you use regularly and what you like to have easy access to. For me, that’s the olive oil, salt, butter, and my knives. They live on the countertop, along with the toaster, which gets used every few days in our house.…

Oh come on. I’ve somehow managed to survive into my late ‘60s without contracting any dread skin diseases, and I only wash my towels and washcloths every few weeks. I also put them in with all my other laundry. I use hot water because we have very hard and cold well water here, but would not do so if my water was…

Full disclosure: I have diagnosed OCD.

Agreed, with the caveat that knife steels do not sharpen knives. All they do is straighten the edge.

And I’ll take this opportunity to preach that there are no simple knife sharpeners that are worth using. Send your knives to be sharpened professionally, or learn to sharpen them yourself (which involves learning about…

its almost as if there is no standard solution that will fit the home baker and the newlywed couple that put it on their registry because everyone else does.

I relate to this so hard. Too, too hard.

I’m hooked. I will never play this myself, but I’ll absolutely be watching someone else play.

Sure hope the release date doesn't get derailed. I'm on board to play this game. 

I’M CHARLES FOSTER TRAIN!!!