The loading screens were all item descriptions, I’m pretty sure.

And all of it was useless....except the thing that tells you how to survive the Abyss.  (I hate lore.)

I continue to be amazed at the recurrent “how to watch [program that is broadcast nationwide on free TV]” articles. Yes, I know, everyone’s cut the cord and also doesn’t have an antenna. They don’t even have a TV, just a monitor.  Damn, I can’t even tell if I’m being sarcastic anymore.

I cannot fucking WAIT for this to turn into The War On Christmas Only This Time They’re At Least Referring To Something In Reality.

Yeah. Go to an iPhone’s “Accessibility” settings; it’s all about visual/audio impairment or difficulty with controls. It’s just a terminology thing.

And I just the other day learned that “rogue-likes” and “rogue-lites” are two different things.

When Rabbi, and then Calamita, looked up in the sky and off-camera, I thought there was a chance a house was about to fall on Calamita.

If we’re going to be a stickler about what a cheesecake is, I’d go with “torte”.

I worked this out in college, meaning 45 years ago.  Thanks, science!

By the end of the episode it had become a matter of pride to see if I could bring the names back to my head without help.  (I could not.)

Today in “ongoing age-related cognitive decline”, I could not remember the name of either “hey, is that, uh, Starbuck, uh Kara...Thrace...no, that’s the character, not the actress”, OR “I know that guy....no, he’s not John Hannah, but he’s kind of similar looking...OK, ‘Bosch’. I can get as far as ‘Bosch’.”

Oddly, the Amazon listing doesn’t have a track listing, so I found it here:

Serving two years or less doesn’t count towards number of term, so he could be elected twice.

I was amazed when I played Super Mario Odyssey and discovered that they had actually added a piece of FromSoft’s philosophy to it -- if you get back to where you died you can pick up your coins!  (Sometimes? Always?)

The NASA thing tickled one of my personal sweet comedy spots: a bit that gets derailed by an issue of communication. Other examples:

Speaking of “looking like Oliphant”: Tim doesn’t at this point. Both here and in The Mandalorian he seems to have had “some work” done. Really smooth-faced. Am I alone on this?

Also, Deafy called Loy “boy”, so he was doomed.

It seems to be a William Gibson quote: “The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.”

I am the lunatic who thinks BTTF II is more entertaining that the first one, so thanks. (Well, less so now that we understand that they were doing Biff=Trump.)

Which raises the question: who the fuck is “Decision Desk”, aside from being the outlet that Vox used to declare Biden the winner on Friday morning?