“keep the grey hats happy” is a strategy I wish more companies would adopt.

We got the Pokémon / Harry Potter wombo-combo.

Every time I hear a story like this I think of Robert McCloskey’s “Homer Price” books - specifically the short “Nothing New under the Sun (Hardly)“, where some old guy comes down out of the hills after 30 years and promptly gets fined $30 for having expired plates.

Lord Helix says “those are rookie numbers”

One of the times I really appreciate living in a rural community and knowing the people who are producing most of the food I eat.

sometimes you want raw spicy garlic, sometimes you want toasty crisp tangy garlic, sometimes you want slow-cooked mellow garlic. There is a garlic for everyone occasion, and there is no such thing as too much garlic.

Have you never eaten a head of roasted garlic?

She is also described as petite, which automatically disqualifies Gal Gadot.

Yeah, I was like “this just sounds like someone who switched from EVE to WoW”

I’m actually kind of wondering if this is what happened with LEGO’s new AAT set with Ahsoka which sold out online a week before it was on the market in the US (and promptly doubled in price on Amazon).

The south didn’t need to win the war.

huh.

The middle book in my dad’s (otherwise well-written) fantasy trilogy has a passage where a character leaves to go scouting, carries on a conversation around the campfire he just left, and then returns from scouting.

Harris built her career on the principle that black lives don’t matter, which is why I will never vote for her.

I live in Vermont so I’m voting 3rd party no matter what happens, but Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket was on my very short list of “would still vote 3rd party in Ohio or Florida” because fuck dirty cops.

Can you still get an adapter to use actual gamecube controllers?

Can you still get an adapter to use actual gamecube controllers?

One of my friends family’s used to have Commander Keen (I think Keen Dreams, but I’m not 100% sure) for their Windows 3.1 machine, and that was by far my favorite game to play at her house.

Multiple people in my immediate family are currently being treated for mental health issues of one kind or another. I’m just going to quote the OP from further down in this thread:

The original tweet was inane, but it also seemed pretty clear to me that it was taking a dig at healthcare providers and not patients.